Bill Thompson at Beyond the Boxscore joins the end the MLB draft movement. It is very difficult for me to pick out my favorite paragraph, but here is a sample:

This system doesn’t exist anywhere else in the professional world outside of team sports. Professors don’t get their PhD’s and then enter a draft to see which university will get their services. I didn’t become a Paramedic and enter a draft among fire departments to hopefully get to practice medicine. Name your career, there is no draft involved unless it is a team sport. These players should have the ability to ply their trade where they so choose. There’s no reason Spencer Torkelson shouldn’t be able to say, “you know what, I’ve decided I want to play for the Los Angeles Angels, sorry every other team that was interested.”

BeyondTheBoxscore.com

Baseball Musings held this position since 2007. I hope Bill gets on the universal free agency bandwagon as well.