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Post by Jason (Seattle Braves) on Feb 23, 2017 16:21:29 GMT -5
For me personally I always put at least a 2 year 500K bid on all my players that I RFA so for me this rule does nothing. But if it helps someone else I'm all for it. But the rules are not even remotely clear that you can do that. Plus, I have never been in a league that uses an RFA system that allows you to bid on your own players |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2017 12:36:02 GMT -5
So wait when a player is a FA teams can't negotiate? Since this isn't real life you should have a way to determine terms. If I want a player for 4 years and the highest bid is only for 3 years why wouldn't I have the right to change the terms.
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Post by Scott (Boston Padres) on Feb 27, 2017 9:53:27 GMT -5
For me personally I always put at least a 2 year 500K bid on all my players that I RFA so for me this rule does nothing. But if it helps someone else I'm all for it. But the rules are not even remotely clear that you can do that. Plus, I have never been in a league that uses an RFA system that allows you to bid on your own players Because you've never been in a league that allows owners to bid on their own players doesn't mean we can't. It's always been allowed. I think the change we should make is an RFA goes back to previous owner for league minimum salary if there are no bids, instead of the real life MLB salary/contract. But once a player is a free agent, he's not "your own player" anymore anyway. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 10:16:57 GMT -5
Exactly Scott. Never understood the issue. RFA simply gives you the ability to match an offer even if it's my player if I'm the highest bid it allows me to set terms.
I will say I think waiting the initial 24 hours is a good idea.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 10:21:43 GMT -5
I agree, An RFA is technically not your player till under contract. why shouldn't you be able to put a bid on him?
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Post by Jason (Seattle Braves) on Feb 27, 2017 14:59:05 GMT -5
But the rules are not even remotely clear that you can do that. Plus, I have never been in a league that uses an RFA system that allows you to bid on your own players Because you've never been in a league that allows owners to bid on their own players doesn't mean we can't. It's always been allowed. I think the change we should make is an RFA goes back to previous owner for league minimum salary if there are no bids, instead of the real life MLB salary/contract. But once a player is a free agent, he's not "your own player" anymore anyway. Then you need to explicitly state it in the rules. |
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Post by Scott (Boston Padres) on Feb 27, 2017 15:00:12 GMT -5
I will work on updating our rules/Constitution for this and some other items as well.
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