Claiming players

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1) The rule on claiming versus bidding is determined by CAREER number of at bats or innings pitched. Any player with 125 or more career ABs in the major leagues must be bid on and any pitcher with 50 or more innings pitched (again in the major leagues) must be bid on. Otherwise they can be claimed. One exception to this are international free agents, these are guys that a)were not drafted and b) signed by a major league team within the last 365 days. Examples of these kind of guys are Cubans like Leonys Martin (just signed by the Rangers and subsequently bidded on here at triple play) or Tsiyoshi or whatever his name is that the Twins signed this offseason.

2) No rule against completely overhauling your minors, you can drop as many as you like. We do have a rule that you can only claim 2 minor leaguers per day however so keep that in mind. Also keep in mind that on the day of the All-Star game our milb rosters will increase by 10 slots. This is to put your rookie roster guys on your milb roster, although you can choose not to add them and instead pick up 10 minor leaguers that are not currently owned.

Hope this answers your questions, ask here or PM me if that was confusing.



Reference: tripleplaybaseball.proboards.com/thread/5801/milb-rosters-claims

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One caveat to this, I believe our milb rosters are NOT expanding this year? I think it was decided we are staying at 60 slots so basically when all-star game hits you have to make room for the guys on your rookie roster. Lots of cuts to go down then.

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Next question/point and I hope someone remembers this former situation.

It came up tonight White Sox might drop Luis Heredia who was an IFA that makes 7 million. We had another player sort of along these lines, a high-talent prospect that was dropped because he made too much and instead of being available for straight claim he was put back up for bidding. Anyone else remember this?

I think we may have amended the rule to say that any IFA that made 2 million or more if released technically went back up for bid rather than available for straight claim. We haven't been enforcing this because frankly most guys released are guys no one would pay 2 million or more for.

The rationale is it could be a loophole. Team X could big on the hottest IFA ever and pay 10 million but then drop them at 4 am to someone who happens to be online and they would get the player for league minimum. Not saying anyone would do this but a high-caliber player shouldn't just be able to be claimed by luck of the draw being online at the right time or fastest to type in the players name in a claim thread in my opinion.

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He went straight up for bidding. It was gerardo concepcion

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Is there a time limit on this?