Cutting players at the end of the season question

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I have a couple of players I'm considering releasing to get out from under contracts. they've been held all year. In looking at the chat/message box at the bottom of the front page of TPB there is a statement "Near the end of the MLB season managers dump shitty contracts as not to be stuck penalized for the following year so free agents are abound."

I read the league rules and thought I could release players in the off season with no penalty. Am I interpreting that rule incorrectly? Do I need to release any player that I'm going to release before the actual baseball season ends?

Sorry for the confusion here, still getting used to the rules in this league.

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Sept 6, 2015 11:30:46 GMT -5 @kcroyals said:

I have a couple of players I'm considering releasing to get out from under contracts. they've been held all year. In looking at the chat/message box at the bottom of the front page of TPB there is a statement "Near the end of the MLB season managers dump shitty contracts as not to be stuck penalized for the following year so free agents are abound."

I read the league rules and thought I could release players in the off season with no penalty. Am I interpreting that rule incorrectly? Do I need to release any player that I'm going to release before the actual baseball season ends?

Sorry for the confusion here, still getting used to the rules in this league.

So it's kind of a legal loophole but if you've had a player for more than 1 year (I believe calendar is what's counted but it may just be MLB season, would need to clarify with Cards and/or Tim), then you can cut them in the off-season with no penalty.

However if you made a mid-season trade for say David Ortiz and owned him from July until I'm about to eliminate you right now, then you could cut him now up until the last day of the season and absorb the 50% of contract penalty for the last day of this season and the penalty would be erased when the off-season begins.

If you cut David Ortiz in this hypothetical situation in the off-season then you would incur the 50% penalty for the entire off-season and 2016 MLB season as you did not own him for an entire year/season.

[St. Louis Cardinals (Andrew)]

Correct and it's a full season not year.

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I see, thank you for clarifying it for me. Had to throw in that "until I'm about to eliminate you right now" note, eh? LOL, that was an awesome line. Well done too as you kicked my behind.