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Expansion Discussion
Now the expansion is a reality, time to address concerns the ones that were opposed to this. Copied from another area to foster discussion and tweaks etc. Busy right now, I'll chime in later.
1. Do we freeze minor league rosters before the expansion draft
2. What do we do with the minors league players that are on guys rosters that ended the season on major league rosters?
3. Not every team has a full minors roster, one team has 11 guys which means they can only lose one guy in the draft, how do we go about evening this up?
4. Should we even do a minors draft based on the above? There are plenty of prospects out there new teams can scout from and I'd argue we should just give them additional FYPD picks instead to fatten up their minors rosters.
5. How long are we giving folks to respond to protect players in either draft?
6. What is the penalty for owners that don't respond in that time frame? And are they able to answer late to protect guys before a player is taken from their team?
7. Is there any consideration to having teams protect an even number of pitchers and position players so that some teams are not simply dumping their biggest weakness on others?
8. How long do we give each team to pick?
9. When would we start these drafts? My guess is we'd want to wait for mlb's FA period to end so everyone knows what guys still have teams and such, but what do we do if that runs into when we need to have the preseason draft?
10. Would teams be able to bring up guys from their minors roster who are on major league teams to replace open spots on their major league roster during the majors expansion draft?
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- Stepping Razor
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Re: Expansion Discussion
Bird said:
1. I'm pretty firmly in the camp that we should never freeze the minor league rosters. So no, they wouldn't be locked before or during the draft. This would allow a team to immediately replace a player that is drafted, and maybe we work it out so that the player you select to replace the drafted player is automatically protected.
2. My proposal would be to freeze the Yahoo roster, so if you have a minor leaguer on your Yahoo roster, they're eligible to be drafted from there.
3. Everyone would lose two guys from their MiLB roster. If you only have 11, then you lose 2. There's no reason to only have 11 guys on your MiLB roster at this point.
4. That's a good point that we could discuss.
5-10. We'd need to work through some of these details once we decide if and when we want to do this.
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Re: Expansion Discussion
1. Bird makes sense.
2. Eligible for the draft
3. Rock they talking about you lolol! Agreed, everyone loses two......unless they want less.
4. I'm cool with sacrifice. I'm not a hoarder, my two lower guys I lose won't kill me....I hope lol
5. Once the dates have been established I think two weeks is sufficient?
6. Nope. IMO Bird then decides their protected.
7. Nope. I plan on being Castro and opening up my jails lol. Our mantra, a GM can fuck up his (and eventually her) roster in anyway they see fit.
8. Only two teams, we can mandate a shorter time. That can be fleshed out.
9. Y'all can set a schedule that we have to follow.
10. See what I mean lmao.....inventing ways to protect minor league assets, because you will return them to the farm after the draft. Fuck it, I don't care. Break the new GM right by letting them know this is chess, not checkers. Nothing but sharks here!
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Re: Expansion Discussion
Stepping Razor wrote:
1. Bird makes sense.
2. Eligible for the draft
3. Rock they talking about you lolol! Agreed, everyone loses two......unless they want less.
4. I'm cool with sacrifice. I'm not a hoarder, my two lower guys I lose won't kill me....I hope lol
5. Once the dates have been established I think two weeks is sufficient?
6. Nope. IMO Bird then decides their protected.
7. Nope. I plan on being Castro and opening up my jails lol. Our mantra, a GM can fuck up his (and eventually her) roster in anyway they see fit.
8. Only two teams, we can mandate a shorter time. That can be fleshed out.
9. Y'all can set a schedule that we have to follow.
10. See what I mean lmao.....inventing ways to protect minor league assets, because you will return them to the farm after the draft. Fuck it, I don't care. Break the new GM right by letting them know this is chess, not checkers. Nothing but sharks here!
For number 10 how would you send the guys back down? I specifically called out guys who are on major league rosters but are still stashed on minor league rosters. You wouldn't be able to send them down after the draft they wouldn't be eligible. They shouldn't be on minor rosters to begin with, but most folks want to protect their major league rosters from tough decisions, especially down the stretch.