Player Availability?

[VegasVandals]

I was hoping to get some clarification on why major league players who started the year on the DL are not available to be picked up (i.e. Kipnis, Ervin Santana). Shouldn't they be available since they were in the majors last year?

[Greg Ambrosius]

I was hoping to get some clarification on why major league players who started the year on the DL are not available to be picked up (i.e. Kipnis, Ervin Santana). Shouldn't they be available since they were in the majors last year?

The DL players were not applied correctly during this most recent FAAB period. As you know, during the first two FAAB periods ALL PLAYERS were available to be picked up, including all DL players, unsigned free agents and minor-leaguers. This week was the first week where the free agent pool was limited to those players on the MLB 25-man roster, which is how the pool was comprised.

However, DL players SHOULD have been included according to our rules. They read:

"Free agent pickups during the season will include players who are on major-league rosters at the time or players who were selected on Draft Day and later dropped. Even players who were originally selected on Draft Day, cut and then sent to the minors are eligible during the regular season FAAB bidding period as once they are a part of that league they continue to be part of the free agent listing. If the players were good enough to be selected on Draft Day, they are then good enough to remain in that league's free agent pool.

Any player who is not on a team roster within your league and is on a major league roster or once was on an NFBC team in your league is considered a free agent for that league. Even players on the MLB disabled list are eligible to be picked up during the FAAB bidding process. The player pool is deemed closed of new free agents each Sunday at 7 AM ET before the FAAB bidding deadline and a player must have played at least 1 MLB game to be added to the pool at that time. Once a minor-leaguer plays his first game in the majors, he remains in every NFBC FAAB pool whether he returns to the minors or not. Once in the majors, he remains in all FAAB pools. Participants should also note that MLB unsigned veteran free agents at the time of Draft Day are eligible to be drafted in all NFBC leagues. However, after Draft Day they can only be added via free agency once they are added to an MLB 25-man roster."

We will correct for this week's FAAB.

One other note, NEW THIS YEAR: Unsigned free agents going forward -- like Dallas Keuchel and Craig Kimbrel -- now will only be included in FAAB if they are available once they are added to an MLB 25-man roster. This is different than past years, so note accordingly. Thanks all and sorry for missing on the DL players this week.

[Greg Ambrosius]

All players on DL have been added to FAAB for Week 4. Good luck all.