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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2016 4:02:24 GMT
Do we have to acquire 25 players in the auction? I ask this because I have a prospect (seager) I know I will promote for the entire season and I don't want to get a 25th person I will cut the next day.
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Post by East Bay Rats on Feb 13, 2016 5:18:28 GMT
Maybe you can promote Seager now?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2016 14:38:17 GMT
I remember somebody else asked this question, but I can't find the thread for it. I believe the answer was that you could promote the minor league player before the draft started and he would count towards your 25 players. Then you would only have to draft 24 players and distribute 72 contract years after the draft.
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Post by Madison Billygoats on Feb 13, 2016 14:59:43 GMT
I may be wrong. If you enter the draft having not promoted any of your minors you need to draft 25 players. I know this to be true for future auctions. You are not able to get into the draft to see how it goes and decide you want to draft less players once it starts.
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Post by Oregon Three Lions of Madison on Feb 13, 2016 15:38:55 GMT
You do have to declare call ups before the auction. Once the auction starts all rosters lock. This is more important in future season, but there is no trading, dropping of players and moving guys up and down from the minor leagues. We must have things this way because allowing any of these things during the auction will make it impossible to monitor rosters. Basically, we would have a circus that even the best of ringmasters wouldn't be able to control.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2016 17:37:13 GMT
You do have to declare call ups before the auction. Once the auction starts all rosters lock. This is more important in future season, but there is no trading, dropping of players and moving guys up and down from the minor leagues. We must have things this way because allowing any of these things during the auction will make it impossible to monitor rosters. Basically, we would have a circus that even the best of ringmasters wouldn't be able to control. Ah I had no idea we were using the fantrax site. I guess I have to get someone to cut them then. Thanks |
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Post by Ft. Myers Marauders on Feb 13, 2016 18:14:56 GMT
You'll be able to move players to the DL after the auction (we use rosterresource.com as our reference point), so just grab someone who's going to start the season on the DL and you won't have to cut anyone.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2016 18:30:23 GMT
Good tip! And if not the cap hit won't be terrible regardless
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Post by Oregon Three Lions of Madison on Feb 13, 2016 19:59:04 GMT
Right, 100k if you do end up dropping someone and to echo Ryan it may actually come to be useful.
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Post by Turkish Claw on Feb 18, 2016 17:05:10 GMT
Can you buy a guy who will be out for the entire season and theoretically give him a 5 year deal thus having a guy whos coming back at pretty cheap value or is that illegal?
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Post by Ft. Myers Marauders on Feb 18, 2016 17:25:13 GMT
Yup, it's legal
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Post by Oregon Three Lions of Madison on Feb 18, 2016 18:29:24 GMT
It hasn't been asked, but I am sure it will. We haven't needed to put any rules in place for guys who have announced they are playing their last year. If a guy has announced he is in his last year, or if he is 42 we ask that you do the right thing and not give him a 5 year contract to save yourself some money but we can't force you to at this time. If you want to add a year or something in case he changes his mind that's alright, but 5 years isn't real cool.
Bartolo Colon is one exception to this. That big boy may pitch until he's 50...or at least end up in the AL as a DH for awhile.
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