Originally posted by Greg Ambrosius:
quote:Originally posted by JohnZ:
He's available in every league I play in but this one. 
So many problems caused by this stupid rule.
If someone wants to have 7 ML's on their team, I don't care. The bench is too thin with no IR and whatever you try to stack your bench with (ML/SP/CL in waiting, backups for all) in this game leaves you short somewhere else. It would ADD to the strategy. John, was he available because of the rules of those games or because those companies got the same feed from STATS and had him available?
I assume by your post above you are referring to our rule about not allowing all minor-leaguers to be picked up at any time during the season. That is a different issue entirely. Again, you believe that creating a free agent pool of every available player is good and allowing owners to hoard minor-leaguers as long as they want is good. I understand that. Some people agree, some don't. But that's a different discussion. I feel strongly that in a no-trade league giving everyone equal access to an undrafted player is a big part of our game. In fact, that is why everyone wants Mike Minor in the pool today because he is so special and nobody had the foresight to draft him and keep him during the season.
Again, I have no problem with that discussion, but as Mark is asking, if you think STATS had him eligible in those games by 7 am ET today and not in ours, then we really have to issue an apology. Was that the case? [/QUOTE]I'm not sure if Stats is the provider in all the other games or not.
Because I'm not healthy enough at the moment to risk getting too upset, I try to stay off this site as much as possible. I missed out on a FA three weeks ago because I could not out wait the IT dept at the deadline due to a dinner obligation.
Because I read on mlb.com transactions that he was officailly called up Saturday, and I have seen you post links from that site, I figured he would be available today.
The gist of my response was a solution to the problem.
Everyone would have equal access to him if he was available to all, all the time. He would have already been picked up and waived several times, just like Brett Wallace has been picked up three times in my main event.
And if someone picks him up two weeks ago for a $1, then kudos to him for doing more homework than myself. There is a huge risk in carrying any ML'ers if they don't get called up due to only seven non-active slots.
let's see what Greg's investigation shows. i'm guessing Fanball forgot to manually add Minor back into the FAAB pool. [/QUOTE]I don't think that happened, but again I'll get our time log too after FAAB is done and make this official. I've asked for that, but haven't heard back from our guys yet.
