Draft Status of 06 Players

Giants · Post by **Giants** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 11:48 pm

AKA Farewell to the ExCo.

As my last official act as an ExCo member it is my pleasure to announce that we have decided to roll 6 players into 0 players at the end of the draft. I will be checking the rosters at the end of the draft to ensure that everyone has their players correctly classified, so the sooner you can get 6 players out of draft slots and onto your inactive/active roster the easier it'll be. Also, in case there's any confusion even though the draft start will be delayed a few hours the pick trading deadline is still midnight (or 13 minutes from now).

It's been a fun ride on the ExCo, I don't think we could have made two better choices than Aaron and Andrew, good luck guys.

Mets · Post by **Mets** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:46 am

Grace period between the end of the draft and roster status to be in compliance?

I would suggest something between 72 hours to a week (with all trades suspended). With there not being any games affected, I don't see this to be an unfair request.

Yankees · Post by **Yankees** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:49 am

Grace period? I guess that confuses me...You should be dropping players as you draft players to be compliant throughout the draft - not just at the end of it. You have until the end of the draft to do this, so about a month, so there shouldn't be too much of a problem here.

Mets · Post by **Mets** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:56 am

ah..I was referring to the draft status, not the roster limit.

At what point do we need to have all of the '06 guys protected on the 40 man? The minute the draft is over, or is there a grace period?

Sorry if my original question was unclear.

Yankees · Post by **Yankees** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:09 am

You shouldn't be looking at your 06's as draft players anymore, anyway. You should be looking at them on your 40-man, which is what I was saying. The minute the draft is over, you should be compliant factoring in the 06 players. That's why you've seen a bunch of us dropping players already. I'm waffling on whether or not to use all of my picks in the draft (I have 6 and 5 07 players). I know that come that 6th pick, I'm either going to have to drop an 07, drop a player from my 40 man (including my 06 picks), or release the pick.

Giants · Post by **Giants** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 2:43 pm

The minute the draft is over the players are on the 40-man, so if you need to trade them or some such thing do it during the draft (but obviously not for picks or drafted players)

Royals · Post by **Royals** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 8:37 pm

Grace period... man, that was funny. The draft IS the grace period!

Mets · Post by **Mets** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:41 pm

glad I could entertain you..maybe I can dress like a clown for your next birthday party and dance around for you and all your little friends.

Royals · Post by **Royals** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:51 pm

Rockies wrote:glad I could entertain you..maybe I can dress like a clown for your next birthday party and dance around for you and all your little friends.

Sounds like a good idea, I'll keep that in mind.