Baseball Elias rankings revealed

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I'm not going to explain it, because you either know or don't care. Here are this year's type A and type B Free Agents...

Type A's:

A Gonzalez, Mike RP AT
A Soriano, Rafael RP AT
A Bay, Jay OF BO
A Martinez, Victor C BO
A Wagner, Billy RP BO
A Grabow, John RP CC
A Gregg, Kevin RP CC
A Betancourt, Rafael RP CO
A Dotel, Octavio E. RP CWS
A Dye, Jermaine OF CWS
A Polanco, Placido 2B DE
A Hawkins, LaTroy RP HO
A Tejada, Miguel O. SS HO
A Valverde, Jose RP HO
A Figgins, Chone 3B LAA
A Lackey, John SP LAA
A Oliver, Darren RP LAA
A Hudson, Orlando 2B LAD
A Ramirez, Manny OF LAD
A Wolf, Randy SP LAD
A Cabrera, Orlando L. SS MN
A Damon, Johnny OF NYY
A Lee, Cliff SP PH
A Molina, Bengie C SF
A Holliday, Matt OF SL
A Scutaro, Marco 2B/SS TO

Type B's:

B Pineiro, Joel SP SL
B Crawford, Carl OF TB
B Shouse, Brian RP TB
B Springer, Russ RP TB
B Zaun, Gregg C TB
B Byrd, Marlon OF TE
B Rodriguez, Ivan T. C TE
B Barajas, Rod C TO
B Anderson, Garret OF AT
B LaRoche, Adam 1B AT
B Davis, Doug SP AZ
B Mora, Melvin 3B BA
B Varitek, Jason A. C BO
B Wakefield, Tim SP BO
B Harden, Rich SP CC
B Hernandez, Ramon J. C CI
B Beimel, Joe RP CO
B Marquis, Jason SP CO
B Torrealba, Yorvit C CO
B Lyon, Brandon RP DE
B Rodney, Fernando RP DE
B Calero, Kiko RP FL
B Johnson, Nick 1B FL
B Brocail, Doug RP HO
B Olivo, Miguel C KC
B Belliard, Ron 2B LAD
B Garland, Jon SP LAD
B Mota, Guillermo RP LAD
B Ohman, Will RP LAD
B Padilla, Vicente SP LAD
B Cameron, Michael OF MI
B Kendall, Jason C MI
B Looper, Braden L. RP MI
B Lopez, Felipe 2B/3B/SS/OF MI
B Weathers, Dave RP MI
B Pavano, Carl SP MN
B Delgado, Carlos 1B NYM
B Tatis, Fernando 1B/3B/OF NYM
B Nady, Xavier OF NYY
B Pettitte, Andy SP NYY
B Duchscherer, Justin SP OA
B Eyre, Scott RP PH
B Guerrero, Vladimir OF/DH LAA
B Park, Chan Ho SP PH
B Giles, Brian S. OF SD
B Bedard, Erik SP SE
B Beltre, Adrian 3B SE
B Howry, Bob RP SF
B Johnson, Randy SP SF
B Winn, Randy OF SF
B De Rosa, Mark 3B SL
B Glaus, Troy 3B SL

(All other free agents are unranked)
 
Free agents are classified as Type A, Type B or not at all. The compensation applies to free agents offered arbitration by their former club by the Dec. 1 deadline or to those who sign before then.

If a team signs a Type A free agent, its first-round pick goes to the former team -- unless that pick is in the top 15, in which case a second-round pick goes to the former team. The former team also gets an extra pick between the first and second rounds.

If a team loses a Type B free agent, it gets an extra "sandwich" pick.

The types are calculated based on statistics over the 2008-09 seasons.
 
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