Warning!! It's Baaaaaack!! Off-topic Baseball Thread '08 !!

[mick]

http://espn.go.com/mlb/s/transanctionsprimer.html

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by mick

http://espn.go.com/mlb/s/transanctionsprimer.html

Good find, mick. I guess that's why you get paid the big bucks on this forum.

It would be interesting to read the entire binder they mention, because I've always wondered about some of the little-known rules. I know there was a mention one time during a game about a player that couldn't be sent back down to the minors because they had used up their "allotment" of trips. I don't know if that's per season, or per contract. But since he had, the club was now limited in what they can do with him. I guess that might explain a lot of the deals that happen - it's probably a lot to do with specific contracts, number of times a player has been sent to the minors, whether they are on a team's 40-man roster or not, whether they have a certain number of years in the league, etc. and not a simple "this player has the specific talent we need". I guess that's why GM's get paid almost as much as mick - they have to understand all the rules involved, as well as the talent involved.