As the Yankees and Red Sox fly over to London, it got me thinking about the United Kingdom’s favorite sport, soccer, and how their player loan system could effect MLB during the hectic trade season. Essentially, if you have a player you deem important to your organization, but know you have a very low possibility of winning enough games to make it to the playoffs, you can loan a player to another team, receive some form of compensation, and then get your player back at season’s end. Tons of rules and fees underline this system in soccer, and the same would go if such a system were enacted in MLB.
What if MLB introduced a loan system?
