Roster Police

[rawaction]

A quick trip around the league shows A LOT of illegal rosters. Problem seems to be guys on DL who are no longer there and guys in the minors who are no longer eligible (200 ABs, 10 starts, 25 appearances in ANY single season)

 

Alamo- Fowler and Smoak are NOT minor league eligible. Smoak has over 200ABs this year, Fowler over 200 in 2009 (3 away from 200 this year)

 

Bazingas- LEGAL, but Colvin is 9 ABs away from 200

 

Fuzzy- LEGAL

 

GHS- Porcello is in the majors now, and passed 10 starts each of the last 2 years. Not eligible for minors

 

Linesteppers- Ianetta is not eligible for minors due to over 200ABs in 08 and 09. Jordan Schaefer and Franklin Morales are eligible for the minors, but are no longer on the DL. Both have to be on the majors roster as soon as they are called up by their ML team. Brignac only 6 ABs away from being ineligible for minors.

 

HBC- Beltran and Heyward are no longer on the DL. Happ is not on the DL, but is in the minors. Also has to be on your ML roster as soon as he is called up by Phillies, lost eligibility last year.

 

Rodelo- Posada is NOT on the DL. Chris Davis is not eligible for the minors as he passed 200 ABs last year.

 

D-Block- LEGAL

 

NC Cubs- Not bad. But Volquez came off the DL yesterday.

 

NSBB- LEGAL

 

Quakers- LEGAL

 

Dealers- Ike Davis has over 200 ABs, needs to be on ML roster. Salty is not on the DL, but is minors eligible until he gets called up (lost eligibility).

 

Saber- LEGAL

 

Thome- LEGAL

 

BEVO- LEGAL

 

Tootie- Not sure of the ruling on this, but Westmoreland is on his major league DL, but is in the minors. Is it allowed for him to be on the ML DL, essentially taking away 1 DL spot but allowing an 11th minor leaguer? In the past, I believe this was allowed as long as the minor leaguer was legitimately injured. Westmoreland had brain surgery, I believe.

[Guest]

Funny. I just made the same type of list earlier this week. A few days have passed since I compiled my list, so there might have been some moves to fix things since. Here's what I came up with.....

 

Don- Same as DeShawn's comments. He isn't listed as major league DL by CBS, so not sure he should be allowed to be on the DL.

 

Shane- Good.

 

Karen- Move Baker to the reserve list as he doesn't appear to be DL eligible anymore.

 

Deven- Salty needs to go to the minors and off the DL. Ike Davis is over on AB's. Move him to the major league roster or dump him.

 

Al- Good.

 

Tim- Switch out the fake Zack Wheeler for the real one.

 

Robert- Good.

 

DeShawn- Question about Kyle Blanks minor league eligibility or major league DL.

 

Rodelo- Posada needs to be taken off the DL. Chris Davis should not be listed in the minors.

 

Chuck- Switch out the fake Donovan Tate for the real one. Clean up Heyward and Beltran from DL, although they did only recently come off. I think it's acceptable for DL guys coming off that week to not have to be taken off before the end of that scoring period. Question about Happ's DL eligibility.

 

Vick- Same exact things DeShawn already pointed out, but also add that the fake Colome and Hak-Ju Lee need to be replaced by the real Colome and Lee.

 

Adam- Good at the time I wrote up my notes.

 

Brian- Good, although Cashner will need to be watched for loss of eligibility in a handful of appearances.

 

Clint- Same notes as DeShawn.

 

Navin- Same notes as DeShawn.

 

Fake players are players who were were not in the CBS database at the time we were conducting the prospect draft and were created by me to place the player on your team when you drafted them. That player is yours, but once CBS creates that player in the database, you should drop the fake one and pick up the real one to prevent confusion and/or frustration later. You can tell who the fake players are if you see an n/a in their fields on your team roster. Not all n/a players have been created by CBS yet, but you should periodically check and replace them as soon as they are.

 

I also believe that there has been some leeway allowed for minor leaguers called up, but have never been promoted to the major leagues by their fantasy managers. For example, Chris Tillman was over on starts at the end of last year, but I never promoted him. I would have had to remove him at season's end, but no one complained about him still being on my roster after he exceeded starts and I was able to trade him during the offseason.

 

I suppose we need to clarify this particular rule. How should we handle these players? The problem with not promoting them after they exceed their numbers is that it seems like we have a lot of managers who aren't following a lot of the more basic rules, so it's kind of hard to police ourselves with a more difficult one like minor league eligibility. How do we want to treat minor leaguers?

 

Nothing really horrible from my list, but roster legality issues nonetheless.

[tadowdaddy]

Funny. I just made the same type of list earlier this week. A few days have passed since I compiled my list, so there might have been some moves to fix things since. Here's what I came up with.....

 

Don- Same as DeShawn's comments. He isn't listed as major league DL by CBS, so not sure he should be allowed to be on the DL.

 

Shane- Good.

 

Karen- Move Baker to the reserve list as he doesn't appear to be DL eligible anymore.

 

Deven- Salty needs to go to the minors and off the DL. Ike Davis is over on AB's. Move him to the major league roster or dump him.

 

Al- Good.

 

Tim- Switch out the fake Zack Wheeler for the real one.

 

Robert- Good.

 

DeShawn- Question about Kyle Blanks minor league eligibility or major league DL.

 

Rodelo- Posada needs to be taken off the DL. Chris Davis should not be listed in the minors.

 

Chuck- Switch out the fake Donovan Tate for the real one. Clean up Heyward and Beltran from DL, although they did only recently come off. I think it's acceptable for DL guys coming off that week to not have to be taken off before the end of that scoring period. Question about Happ's DL eligibility.

 

Vick- Same exact things DeShawn already pointed out, but also add that the fake Colome and Hak-Ju Lee need to be replaced by the real Colome and Lee.

 

Adam- Good at the time I wrote up my notes.

 

Brian- Good, although Cashner will need to be watched for loss of eligibility in a handful of appearances.

 

Clint- Same notes as DeShawn.

 

Navin- Same notes as DeShawn.

 

Fake players are players who were were not in the CBS database at the time we were conducting the prospect draft and were created by me to place the player on your team when you drafted them. That player is yours, but once CBS creates that player in the database, you should drop the fake one and pick up the real one to prevent confusion and/or frustration later. You can tell who the fake players are if you see an n/a in their fields on your team roster. Not all n/a players have been created by CBS yet, but you should periodically check and replace them as soon as they are.

 

I also believe that there has been some leeway allowed for minor leaguers called up, but have never been promoted to the major leagues by their fantasy managers. For example, Chris Tillman was over on starts at the end of last year, but I never promoted him. I would have had to remove him at season's end, but no one complained about him still being on my roster after he exceeded starts and I was able to trade him during the offseason.

 

I suppose we need to clarify this particular rule. How should we handle these players? The problem with not promoting them after they exceed their numbers is that it seems like we have a lot of managers who aren't following a lot of the more basic rules, so it's kind of hard to police ourselves with a more difficult one like minor league eligibility. How do we want to treat minor leaguers?

 

Nothing really horrible from my list, but roster legality issues nonetheless.

 

 

I'm not in disagreement with any of this, but say a player is in the minors in real life but is over the requirement to be allowed in the minors. You can put him there can't you if he's truly in the minors? As for Westmoreland, I thought that was allowed in past years, but if not, let me know and I'll have to figure out what I'm going to do with him.

[Guest]

I'm not in disagreement with any of this, but say a player is in the minors in real life but is over the requirement to be allowed in the minors. You can put him there can't you if he's truly in the minors? As for Westmoreland, I thought that was allowed in past years, but if not, let me know and I'll have to figure out what I'm going to do with him.

 

If they are currently in the minors, they are allowed to be there. The only time this wouldn't be allowed is in the offseason.

 

As far as Westmoreland is concerned, if he is truly on the major league DL, he is allowed to be there. If he's not, then he's simply a minor leaguer with an injury. We don't have a minor league DL, so someone in the minors that goes on the DL is still just listed as a minor leaguer.

[Guest]

One of the reasons I compiled this list, is that I'm concerned about the amount of rosters that are not legal, especially with the trade deadline looming. I don't think we should be allowing trades for teams that are not legal prior to a trade being made.

[abuck1220]

porcello was in the minors when the week started, which is why he's there on my team now. i'll have him either on my major league roster or dropped by tomorrow's roster deadline.

[Guest]

porcello was in the minors when the week started, which is why he's there on my team now. i'll have him either on my major league roster or dropped by tomorrow's roster deadline.

 

That's perfectly fine. Guys coming off the DL or promoted midweek can be left there to finish the week or a move made right away if manager wants to make a change.

[Guest]

Also have two managers going over 4 starts for the week this week. One is a first offense and the other is a second offense. I need help determining Juan's intent in regards to 2nd offense rules.

 

A) Disallow the 5th start and then take away the best points for the remaining 4 starts

B) Allow the 4 worst starts and only disallow the best start

 

If I had to guess, it would be A. Otherwise, if you had 5 good starts, there really wouldn't be much penalty at all.

[Guest]

Alright, I'll fix that by rosters tomorrow. Sorry, I always forget to check the minors.

[rawaction]

Blanks is eligible for the minors because he doens't have a 200 AB season yet.

[MembersOnlyJacket]

My roster is fixed.

[karenmac]

porcello was in the minors when the week started, which is why he's there on my team now. i'll have him either on my major league roster or dropped by tomorrow's roster deadline.

 

That's perfectly fine. Guys coming off the DL or promoted midweek can be left there to finish the week or a move made right away if manager wants to make a change.

 

This is pretty well what happened to me with Baker last week too, but I went in and fixed it yesterday, so all is right with the Thomes

[NCCubFan]

NC Cubs- Not bad. But Volquez came off the DL yesterday

If only I had reinstated and activated him for Saturday instead of waiting till this week I would have won instead of tied. And this week when I do have him active he puts up a negative start.

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Luke Scott came off the DL, I moved him to the bench and dropped Barnes.