The entire thing is a farce if for no other reason than both parties drawing up these rules ignore them fundamentally. Of all the laughable rules, this one takes the cake: "As a reminder, no Club may contact a player's advisor directly unless the player first has expressly granted the Club permission to do so."
Some of the rules' intentions have no place in reality. It's not like they prevent a player from doing all he can to end up in one place or another. If Joe Ballplayer wants to play for the Yankees, he can tell every team he's not close to signable at $X and tell the Yankees he is. At the same time, the idea of barring teams from using pressure tactics against players strikes against an elementary idea of business: competition creates better value
Ideal world, all of this would be moot and the draft as currently constituted wouldn't exist. Amateur players are every bit as deserving of the free market as their professional counterparts, and the fact that their rights are bargained for by a union to which they don't even belong makes the draft ripe for potential litigation. Until a brave soul plays crusader, chaos will reign and lip service will do nothing to stop it.
