[USML Announce] FAAB Question

[Doug Shabelman]

Add Jason Hammell to this same scenario as he was traded to Colorado.

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From: announce-bounces at usml.net [mailto:announce-bounces at usml.net] On
Behalf Of Richard E. Robbins
Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2009 11:32 AM
To: 'USML Announcements'
Subject: [USML Announce] FAAB Question



Ross Gload was traded from the Royals to the Marlins on April 1. 

When I release him, do I get $2 added to my FAAB budget? 

I can't think of another time when we had a pre-opening day draft with
an interleague trade prior to opening day. 

Here's the text of Rule 14.6. 

If a player who is traded to the National League during the course of a
season is on the Active Roster or the Reserve Roster of any team in the
League, that team may elect to waive the player at any time during that
season while the player remains in the National League. Upon any such
waiver, the salary of the waived player shall be immediately added (as
opposed to waiting until the commencement of the next succeeding
Reporting Period) to the waiving team's FAAB; provided, however, that in
the case of a player acquired in the most recent Rotation Draft or
retained on a Reserve Roster without having his salary deducted from the
team's $260 expenditure limit for the most recent Auction, $2 shall be
added to the waiving team's FAAB. The right to have funds added to a
team's FAAB is limited to the League team on whose roster the player
appears when the player is traded to the National League, provided, that
for the limited purpose of this Section 14.6, a trade between League
teams shall be given effect as of the time that the trade is generally
announced to the League. This Section 14.6 shall not apply to off-season
major league trades.

Do we treat this as an "in-season" trade because we had our draft or
should we treat it as an "off-season" trade (for obvious reasons)?

I really don't care, but this will set some kind of precedent either
way. 

Oh exaulted committee of the whole, please advise. 

-- Rich 

We're coming up on the first game of the season and I'm worried about
Ross Gload going from the Royals to the Marlins on April Fool's day.
It's going to be a very long season for the Red-Hots.  

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