[USML Announce] Draft Eligibility - PLEASE VOTE

[JHWinick at aol.com]

Gentlemen,

After a long discussion with Rich Robbins, it seems that there is a need to 
lock this issue down.  Therefore, I put the following issue to the league for a 
vote.  There are three options:

1.    Only players on 40 man rosters (plus Joe Mauer) are eligible to be 
drafted.
2.    Only players on 40 man rosters or on the Non Roster Invitee List are 
eligible to be                 drafted.
3.    Only players on the 40 man rosters plus those players identified and 
agreed upon by             the league membership will be eligible to the drafted.

As you may have seen with my prior email, there are a number of major league 
veterans that are on the NRI list (Helling, McLemore) as well as a few 
prospects that may break camp with the team (Blanton, Crain, Reed, etc.).  It is 
worth noting that there are also quite a few pure prospects on the 40 man 
rotations (Delmon Young, Bobby Jenks, etc.).  I think this is an imperfect situation 
where we ought to let the market work - i.e. let everyone have an equal crack 
at all of these players knowing full well that they may be worthless this year 
and will have contracts already starting to run.

Lets see if we can get this resolved today.

Jeff Winick
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