[USML Announce] Draft Eligibility - PLEASE VOTE

[Andrew R. Klein]

I vote for #1.  My backup vote would be for #2, if that's necessary to get a majority.
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Andrew R. Klein
Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis
(317) 274-2099
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: JHWinick at aol.com 
  To: announce at usml.net 
  Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 2:19 PM
  Subject: [USML Announce] Draft Eligibility - PLEASE VOTE


  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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