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What if transactions were not allowed in Major League Baseball?
For one thing, it would make for a boring baseball offseason. The winter leagues in Latin America are great and keep our anticipation for spring training somewhat at bay, but it's the trades and free agent signings that serve as our MLB touchstones until Opening Day.
Still, let's try to imagine a more severe landscape -- an even more extreme version of the reserve clause era -- in which once an organization acquires a player, both he and the team are stuck.