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Post by Nationals GM on Jun 27, 2013 13:27:16 GMT -5
No limit on number of paid minors guys, just the dollars limit of your salary cap (paid minors league salary is counted towards cap limit).
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Post by racingnation on Jun 27, 2013 15:24:17 GMT -5
So, you have an player on your roster, but (over the course of time) in real life he is out of baseball (cut, retired), playing in Japan or Mexico, accepts a perpetual demotion to the minors, etc. Maybe he's highly paid, Like Alex Rodriguez. Maybe he spends the last 5 years of his career pinch-hitting 2 ab's per week, ala Rusty Staub with the Mets back in the day. Is there a way to get him off your roster without any contract $ hit? Must you put a hit on him to remove him via the death clause?
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Post by Nationals GM on Jun 27, 2013 15:48:50 GMT -5
So, you have an player on your roster, but (over the course of time) in real life he is out of baseball (cut, retired), playing in Japan or Mexico, accepts a perpetual demotion to the minors, etc. Maybe he's highly paid, Like Alex Rodriguez. Maybe he spends the last 5 years of his career pinch-hitting 2 ab's per week, ala Rusty Staub with the Mets back in the day. Is there a way to get him off your roster without any contract $ hit? Must you put a hit on him to remove him via the death clause? Haha, taking a hit out on him would be one option. You can waive unproductive players from your majors, but of course you'll still be on the hook for the salary. Other than that, the only way to get rid of a bad contract is to use one of your franchise tags on the player and then cut him. If you cut a franchise player before his tag turns 3 (see franchise player rules in the transactions rules thread) you will not be able to use that specific tag on another player for one year. So, that's essentially using up 2 years of one of your tags to cut a bum. Pretty steep price to pay, so bid on free agents wisely! Oh, and when you guys are setting your initial official rosters you can keep or cut any of those players on the starter rosters. No penalties for cutting bums in this initial phase, but after September 1 bums will kill us like always.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2013 15:51:38 GMT -5
How many players from the current roster are we required to keep? I'm the twins, so there are alot of players I would like to cut ties with.
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Post by Nationals GM on Jun 27, 2013 15:57:31 GMT -5
How many players from the current roster are we required to keep? I'm the twins, so there are alot of players I would like to cut ties with. No minimum requirement to keep for your initial rosters. At the beginning of the season, teams are required to have at least 19 active players on their roster or they will lose their first round pick in the NFAD for that season. You can add players through the NFAD and Free Agency though, so that shouldn't be a problem for any team.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2013 16:00:35 GMT -5
Thanks. Lets say we don't pick up a guy and he doesn't get drafted. So he would be eligible for free agency. Can we bid on him? I have a couple of players who I don't mid having but have very large contracts
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Post by Nationals GM on Jun 27, 2013 16:09:42 GMT -5
Yes, any guy on your starter roster who you cut will be put into the free agency pool and you can bid on him. You can also use the home-town preference rule once each off-season to match the final price on one of your departing free agents and keep him for that price.
The Non-free agent draft (NFAD) will only include 2013 signings from all teams, the starter rosters of unused teams (there will be 6 unused teams), and all the prospects owned by those unused teams. The only other type of players available to be drafted this way are 20xx prospects that are dropped by teams (which will be rare). Over time, the NFAD will be basically a draft of the top MLB draft picks and of the better prospects in the systems of the unused teams. This first year, there will be a lot of major league guys to choose from but in future years there won't be very many non-prospects available.
Players cut a franchise players and players cut from initial rosters won't be eligible to be drafted during the NFAD. Once the season starts, the players who are still in the free agency pool can also be signed using in-season free agency, which is just like the off-season free agency except the maximum length of a contract is limited to the current season. So, in-season additions will always be back in the pool for the off-season free agency period.
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Post by Cubs GM on Jun 27, 2013 18:55:19 GMT -5
Nats, if I use a franchise tag on a player will it age this off-season even though we didn't keep stats for this year?
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Post by Nationals GM on Jun 27, 2013 19:35:34 GMT -5
Hadn't thought of that. I'm thinking no, since we're getting everything started for 2014 it wouldn't make sense to have the franchise tags age a year early. So any franchise tags used between now and the end of the 2014 season will turn 2 on the day after the 2014 regular season ends.
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Post by Braves GM on Jun 29, 2013 8:14:28 GMT -5
So this draft/FA set up is a bit new to me and I am confused on who ends up in the draft that starts Sept 1. A couple of examples: Brian McCann is a free agent after 2013 and I decide not to put a franchise tag on him. Dan Uggla makes more money than I want to pay him and I decide not to roster him. They are both included in the draft, right?
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Post by Nationals GM on Jun 29, 2013 8:28:51 GMT -5
Actually neither are in the draft, they both go to the free agent pool. You can think of the NFAD as the way we distribute new draft picks and guys from unowned teams. Free agency is how we distribute guys whose contracts have run out (and in the case of this first year, guys who we're cutting).
Teams that are owned: when we cut players from our rosters they'll go straight into the free agency pool.
Draft pool: -2013 signings from all teams (everyone that was signed from the June MLB draft is fair game, 2013 international signings are fair game too) -Unowned team starter rosters -Unowned team minor league rosters
So if the Braves (who are owned) cut Uggla, he'd go into the free agency pool. The Braves 2013 June draft picks can be chosen in the draft. When our NFAD is complete, any of the Braves 2013 June draft picks that were not chosen become the property of the Braves. This way, you always end up with a high percentage of the real-life Braves draft picks.
Say the Tigers are unowned. All of the Tigers players are put into the draft pool, including all the guys from their starter roster. If any of the Tigers guys aren't drafted in the NFAD they just stay in the draft pool for the next year's NFAD. The players in unowned team's rosters are in the draft pool until they are selected out.
Hope that helps! Let me know if something doesn't make sense
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Post by Old Astros GM on Jun 30, 2013 2:59:26 GMT -5
How are options in real life contracts dealt with in the league? Salvador Perez, as an example, is an interesting case. Using the rookie scale his contract would be $300,000 (2017). His real life contract: 2014: $1,500,000, 2015: $1,750,000, 2016: $2,000,000 with club options from 2017-2019, is more expensive but would provide control of him for a longer period. Would the owner have the option of accepting/declining his real life contract in those option years?
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Post by Nationals GM on Jun 30, 2013 13:12:14 GMT -5
Good question. When we're making our initial rosters, you can choose to use the real life contracts for any or all of your guys. However, this league doesn't use options. We looked at incorporating options, but it quickly became a bigger headache than it was worth with trying to distinguish between team and mutual contracts and figuring out a way to notate each of those. So for Perez, you could take the real life contract but it would be $1.75M 2016.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2013 21:39:07 GMT -5
Can prospects from non-joined teams be picked up if they were not drafted?
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Post by Nationals GM on Jul 2, 2013 23:44:21 GMT -5
Yes, you can draft the prospects owned by non-joined teams. If non-joined team prospect isn't drafted in our 2013 NFAD, then he just stays in the draft pool until the next year's NFAD. The non-joined teams' players who are not drafted in the NFAD will not be available in free agency. Free agents are only the guys who we cut in making our initial rosters and guys whose contracts expire in 2013 (example: Tyler Clippard $300,000 (2013)).
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