40 man roster questions

[Pinktermite]

In my ongoing quest to understand more about this stuff, can someone please tell me the signifigance of the 40 man roster?

 

Does it protect players from drafts? From being traded? What's it mean when a man is "taken off the 40 man roster".?

 

Does a guy have to be on the 40 man roster to be called up to the Show?

 

Thanks

[Dirt Dog Sparly]

In my ongoing quest to understand more about this stuff, can someone please tell me the signifigance of the 40 man roster?

 

The 40 man roster is the 25 man roster and 15 additional players that the team wants to protect from the Rule 5 Draft and gain an additional year before a player could file for Minor League Free Agency if they are not on the 25 man roster. There is usually also some additional pay built in to contracts for minor leaguers who make the 40.

 

Does it protect players from drafts? From being traded? What's it mean when a man is "taken off the 40 man roster".?

 

The real effect of a player being on the 40 man roster is the time between the trading deadline and the end of the World Series. A player traded at that time must go through waivers. The fact that most teams will place the best prospects on the 40 man means that when you see one on a waiver wire at this time it usually means trade. That is a whole can of worms in itself right there.

To be removed from the 40 man is a player is placed on "waivers with the purpose of removing the player from the 40 man roster" If another team wants that player they then make a "claim", pay a small fee, and the player is theirs. The hitch being that the player must be placed on their 40 man roster. If the player clears the waiver process they are removed from the 40 man roster, can be added again at a later time, ect, ect, ect.

 

Does a guy have to be on the 40 man roster to be called up to the Show?

Actually to be called up to the show means the player has to be on the 25 man roster. Adding a player to the 25 man roster automaticly adds the player to the 40. Does a player have to be on the 40 before they are called up? No. See O'Malley, Ryan

 

Thanks

 

NP

[Pinktermite]

Thanks for the lowdown. So any player that's not on a 40 man roster, can be drafted in the rule 5 draft?

 

I don't understand the rule 5 draft either...care to explain that, too?

[Guest]

Thanks for the lowdown. So any player that's not on a 40 man roster, can be drafted in the rule 5 draft?

 

I don't understand the rule 5 draft either...care to explain that, too?

 

 

no, they have to have played in the minors for a certain number of years. also, a player on the 40 man starts to use up options - once added to the 40 man roster, a player has three option years where they can play in the minors without being exposed to waivers.

[Outshined_One]

Thanks for the lowdown. So any player that's not on a 40 man roster, can be drafted in the rule 5 draft?

 

I don't understand the rule 5 draft either...care to explain that, too?

 

 

no, they have to have played in the minors for a certain number of years. also, a player on the 40 man starts to use up options - once added to the 40 man roster, a player has three option years where they can play in the minors without being exposed to waivers.

 

Also, this has the added benefit of allowing a team to send a player back and forth between the majors and minors during those three option years.

 

The Rule V draft is relatively simple. After being drafted and signed, a team has a certain number of years before they are required to add that player to the 40 man roster (I can't remember how long exactly since the new Collective Bargaining Agreement changed it). If that team does not add that player within that time period, that player is exposed to the Rule V draft, where other teams follow a draft format and can pick up any players put in this pool.

 

In order for a player to remain with his new team, that team has to keep him on the 25 man roster for the length of an entire season. If the player is put on the DL, he has to make up those days with the team. If the team decides to remove the player from the 25 man roster, he is sent back to his old team.