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Well hopefully he is forced to sell the team. Perhaps the most embarrassing owner in north american professional sports, and one of the saddest franchises.

I would imagine that it's not some small investment of time and resources to put together a formal MLB contract offer to a big free agent. If it's patently obvious that Cole would not ultimately sign in Toronto, then no, I don't think Shatkins is under some moral obligation to make him a competitive offer. In that case they should focus their time and efforts on acquisitions that are at least remotely possible. To do anything else is just PR.

You can set minor league eligibility to "any player can be put in a minors roster slot". I think that would make green flags irrelevant.

Yeah maybe. In Yahoo leagues you can’t add/drop if the dropped player has already played during the current day. I think in Fantrax if you do that it just makes the add/drop effective as of tomorrow.

So some unavoidable parts of the YEXIT would probably be: - same day transactions - the end of the waiver draft as we currently do it. this would likely change to one waiver claim day - a paid league or changes to the current way lineup locking works when DL players lose their DL status - stricter position eligibility rules in 2021, and in 2020 some sort of transition year where people can request commissioners change player eligibility Such a tough executive decision I have.

Marco Gonzales had a strong season. What a reliable, valuable SP he is.

lmao

They are dumb and creating a substrate of a false narrative in which Anthony Alford is more attractive to the organization.

No I didn't notice. You'll have to do a gif side-by-side now that you brought it up (gifs or it didn't happen) I wouldn't put any stock in it though. Inconsistent players will have inconsistent mechanics.

I have not looked at the data but Anthony Alford swings through an alarming number of pitches, particularly very hittable pitches in the zone. A swiss cheese swing from a guy with honestly, just average raw power.

So happy for future Baltimore Oriole Anthony Alford, walking off his 2020 teammates last night

So it’s waivers? Yuck

You’re both right. His main flaws are defence and running. These are his glaring talent holes. Hard to fix. His main fixable flaw is the hit trajectory. It should be easy enough to fix. So easy that you can reasonably assume it will get better. Olerud is right that the groundball rate needs to be addressed. It could be a lot of wasted effort trying to get him to be a decent defender, but some attention to lifting the ball more would have big dividends. Orgfiller is probably right that Vlad already knows he should be hitting more dingers, it’s just not something he’s overly worried about right now. Hmmmm

You have to pick the form of enforcement as "lock all transactions" and then the period delay as 0. In other words, if someone loses a red flag you can't even edit your lineup for that day unless you remove them.

I think I saw the option but I'll look again later. What we would probably do as an adaptation is just have a waiver day, where the free agent players are all on waivers set to process on a specific day. Waiver priority would be reset at the end of the season to the inverse of the final standings. At the conclusion of the waiver day, we'd just reset waiver priority to the inverse of the standings again. So in effect the 5 round waiver draft would just become one waiver period. Owners could trade their general priority but not specific picks - they could, however, negotiate in advance for specific players (ex., if you land Kikuchi Jr. 2nd in the waiver period I'll give you Nuke Laloosh for him). With multiple claims, the teams with the highest priorities might end up landing multiple players at the waiver time. The rest of the 25 man rosters would just be filled out when free agency opens, rather than with rounds 3-5 of the current waiver draft (which are pretty meaningless if we are being honest).

So no Yexit in BORED? For sure?

Failure can very quickly change people. He's never failed before. The crux of this will be whether or not he considers his rookie season to be disappointing in any real respect. It's not like .276/.345/.444 is a line that screams failure. He actually has 2.1 bWAR, which is surprising! And I speak from experience. I am off-the-charts lazy and I was once considered a child prodigy in a number of things.

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Yeah I don't imagine coming up with the money would be a chore, at least for the first few years. A few people would throw in $20 and it would be done.

No, f*** off

That's not a terrible point (we could certainly change one or two SP slots to P slots cuz 2020). But this also gets at something else. If we do move, there are a lot of evolutions we could implement. For example, we could allow demotions if players IRL get sent down. This is something we didn't allow mostly because it would have been a pain to process on the spreadsheet. There are a ton of other rules we could implement. We could nix the practice of adding injured players, for example. I agree with the above comments about bridging eligibility rules through 2020. Seems sensible. Honestly, the biggest issue for me is the DL roster locking being a premium feature. I don't care if it's only $4 a person, I do not want to have to deal with paying money every year for the league to function. It's not even really about the money, it's the principle and the hassle. And I don't love the non-solution of just not freezing rosters... I can't of want owners to have to activate players when they become healthy. If we do end up with a dumb f***ing paid league we could at least use some neat features like allowing draft pick trading 2 years out. I don't know. Maybe this is all more trouble than it's worth? #Regretxit Maybe I am just kicking up all this dust to inflate my personal brand

YAHOO: 5 starts or 10 total appearances in a position to gain eligibility that year. 3 starts to gain SP, 5 relief appearances to gain RP. If a player earned eligibility last season or would have earned it based on games played, they have it this season. Fantrax: Games needed from previous season for a player to qualify at a hitting position : 20 Games needed from current season for a player to qualify at a hitting position: 10 Starts needed from previous season for a player to qualify as a starter : 8 Starts needed from current season for a player to qualify as a starter : 4 Relief appearances needed from previous season for a player to qualify as a reliever : 8 Relief appearances needed from current season for a player to qualify as a reliever: 4 ** In Fantrax the commissioner can manually adjust any player's eligibility but the commissioner can not, apparently, adjust the general eligibility rules. NOTE THAT in fantasy history Yahoo's low eligibility rules are the exception. Most sites/places over the years have used higher thresholds than Yahoo.

Yeah, trading season is wide open. Roster restrictions are lifted. Caveat - the spreadsheet has not been populated with end of season rosters yet (and who knows what we are doing with the possible migration to Fantrax, f***ing dictator GM) so if anybody does make any trades they need to keep a record themselves, so it doesn't get lost in the shuffle.

Made a Fantrax league for people to poke around in. We are still not 100% moving. I think everybody should be getting emails soon. Two possible problems: 1) Injured reserve enforcement is a Premium option on Fantrax. So when a player is no longer injured, you can't prevent adds/trades like in Yahoo unless we are in a paid Premium Fantrax league. 2) Fantrax has different position eligibility rules - they are more strict. Commissioners can override any player's eligibility but I can't see how to change the default eligibility rules.

I could delete the Yahoo league today before the results are final... Gauche is what I am naming first baby