[USML Announce] Roster Question

[Richard Robbins]

OK Brad, let me have them.

-- KR

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Brad Jansen <bljansen at gmail.com> wrote:

> You guys could have had Andrus, Upton, Lind, Danks, etc. on your teams by
> now if you weren't so distracted by Chris Carter. This is exactly the type
> of mayhem and misdirection that benefits the Berliners.
>
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Richard Robbins <rerobbins at itinker.net>wrote:
>
>> That's not correct Jim.  Take a look at the proviso to the third sentence
>> of Article XVI Section 2 of the Constitution:
>>
>>  As used in this Article XVI, a "season" is understood to be a full
>> season or any fraction thereof. Thus, a player called up from the free
>> agent pool in the middle of the 1997 season and subsequently retained at
>> the same salary without being released in the 1998 season (even though he
>> may have been traded) enters his option year in the 1999 season and must be
>> released, signed at the same salary for an option year or signed to a
>> long-term contract no later than Roster Freeze Day for the 1999 season.
>> Notwithstanding the first sentence of this Section 16.2, the first "season"
>> of a player will not be deemed to occur until that player loses major
>> league rookie status or that player appears on the Active Roster of a
>> League team,* provided, however, that if a player with major league
>> rookie status who has appeared on the Active Roster of a League team is
>> subsequently selected in the Rotation Draft, his prior appearance on the
>> Active Roster of a League team shall be disregarded*. Thus, a minor
>> league player with major league rookie status acquired in the Rotation
>> Draft in 1997 who is first activated to a major league roster in 2000
>> without being activated by his League team and without losing his major
>> league rookie status will not be considered to have played his first
>> season. If that player is activated in the 2001 season by both his major
>> league team and his League team, then 2003 will be that player's option
>> year (even if he retains rookie status and spends all of the 2002 season in
>> the minor leagues).
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Jim Barrett <chicagojab at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I drafted Carter in auction round last year so he has already been
>>> active in this league.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Apr 12, 2012, at 5:12 PM, Brad Jansen <bljansen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Concur about Hultzen, but the Subcommittee on Rookie Eligibility will
>>> have to investigate the Carter matter. That guy seems to have been around
>>> awhile.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Richard Robbins <rerobbins at itinker.net>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I believe you are correct Dennis.
>>>>
>>>> Can someone else take a look and see if they concur?
>>>>
>>>> -- KR
>>>>
>>>>  On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Dennis Adams <dadams17 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  Quick question for the Master & Commander (whomever that may
>>>>> be)......  I have 2 players on my reserve roster whose contracts are
>>>>> currently running (according to the league site) but should not be.
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) Chris Carter -  Only has 114 career at bats, and roughly
>>>>> 20-something days of MLB service during a 25-man roster period.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2) Danny Hultzen -  Has yet to play in the majors.
>>>>>
>>>>> Since both of these players were rotation draft guys, and I have never
>>>>> activated either of them, shouldnt they both still be Y0 players?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Dennis F. Adams III
>>>>> Candidate, Juris Doctor 2013
>>>>> Northwestern University School of Law
>>>>>
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