Draft rules

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question about the drafting of older foreign players coming over (darvish, leonys martin, cespedes) - are these guys eligible for the major league portion of the draft or are they only to be drafted in the prospect draft? i assume that the rules are the same for all of these guys.

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I would think they are major league eligible - Darvish will certainly be a major leaguer out of spring training. Not sure about the other two.

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Leonys Martín was in the minors last year and got up to the big leagues with the Rangers in September.

 

Céspedes is expected to start this season at AAA but make it to the big leagues, at worst, halfway through the season.

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Leonys Martín was in the minors last year and got up to the big leagues with the Rangers in September.

 

Céspedes is expected to start this season at AAA but make it to the big leagues, at worst, halfway through the season.

 

right, but is there an official rule? tsuyoshi nishioka was drafted in the prospect draft last year and he wasn't expected to see any time in the minors. this was also written in the 2010 prospect draft thread:

 

anyone in a US major league team's system that is minor league eligible.

 

I believe the requirement is that he's officially signed with a major league team and not back on his college team or playing independent ball.

 

so it sounds to me like in the past, any player who was minor league eligible and owned by a major league organization could be drafted by a major league team. i think it should probably stay that way, and new international signees should be minor league draft eligible only, because how do you differentiate between someone like cespedes and strasburg? obviously strasburg would have gone in the major league portion of the draft if someone were allowed to take him.

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Leonys Martín was in the minors last year and got up to the big leagues with the Rangers in September.

 

Céspedes is expected to start this season at AAA but make it to the big leagues, at worst, halfway through the season.

 

right, but is there an official rule? tsuyoshi nishioka was drafted in the prospect draft last year and he wasn't expected to see any time in the minors. this was also written in the 2010 prospect draft thread:

 

anyone in a US major league team's system that is minor league eligible.

 

I believe the requirement is that he's officially signed with a major league team and not back on his college team or playing independent ball.

 

so it sounds to me like in the past, any player who was minor league eligible and owned by a major league organization could be drafted by a major league team. i think it should probably stay that way, and new international signees should be minor league draft eligible only, because how do you differentiate between someone like cespedes and strasburg? obviously strasburg would have gone in the major league portion of the draft if someone were allowed to take him.

 

 

and that was the intent of separating the drafts. the rule was any one taken in the major league draft had to start the season on a major league roster (or DL) or be forfeit. So you can take a chance.

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ah ok, got it now. so with strasburg it would have been a stupid move and you would've had to forfeit him. daisuke or kosuke or darvish, they're going to be starting with the big club so you pick them in the major league draft.

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Leonys Martín was in the minors last year and got up to the big leagues with the Rangers in September.

 

Céspedes is expected to start this season at AAA but make it to the big leagues, at worst, halfway through the season.

 

right, but is there an official rule? tsuyoshi nishioka was drafted in the prospect draft last year and he wasn't expected to see any time in the minors. this was also written in the 2010 prospect draft thread:

 

anyone in a US major league team's system that is minor league eligible.

 

I believe the requirement is that he's officially signed with a major league team and not back on his college team or playing independent ball.

 

so it sounds to me like in the past, any player who was minor league eligible and owned by a major league organization could be drafted by a major league team. i think it should probably stay that way, and new international signees should be minor league draft eligible only, because how do you differentiate between someone like cespedes and strasburg? obviously strasburg would have gone in the major league portion of the draft if someone were allowed to take him.

 

 

and that was the intent of separating the drafts. the rule was any one taken in the major league draft had to start the season on a major league roster (or DL) or be forfeit. So you can take a chance.

 

This is my memory as well.