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We are getting a lot of emails and questions today about a certain minor-leaguer who was called up on Friday and still isn't part of NFBC leagues' free agent pool. Remember, a player gets added to the FAAB pool once he's played one game in the majors. We made this change prior to the 2012 season so that there is no confusion on when a player should be available for pickup. Now it's not just when he's officially called up, it's AFTER he's appeared in one MLB game.

In this case, if a player is called up from the minors on Friday and plays on Saturday he should be in the FAAB pool prior to Sunday's 7 am deadline. So be ready all in cases like that.

Here's the section from the rules that describes this situation:

12. Free Agents

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.

Greg Ambrosius wrote:We are getting a lot of emails and questions today about a certain minor-leaguer who was called up on Friday and still isn't part of NFBC leagues' free agent pool. Remember, a player gets added to the FAAB pool once he's played one game in the majors. We made this change prior to the 2012 season so that there is no confusion on when a player should be available for pickup. Now it's not just when he's officially called up, it's AFTER he's appeared in one MLB game.

In this case, if a player is called up from the minors on Friday and plays on Saturday he should be in the FAAB pool prior to Sunday's 7 am deadline. So be ready all in cases like that.

Here's the section from the rules that describes this situation:

12. Free Agents

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.

Greg the sentence in red is saying something different?

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.

Nelson, the highlighted area means that if he's on an MLB roster now or was drafted in your NFBC league at some point then he is considered a free agent for the league and can be bid on. Those are the two criteria to be in your FAAB pool:

1. On an MLB roster (like Grandal is now)
2. Or he was originally drafted by an NFBC team and was cut. He then always remains in your league's free agent pool

That's the criteria and that's what it says above, albeit in my Wisconsin English.