what is a franchise baseball player?
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The face of the team. Like Derek Jeter is the face of the Yankees and Cal Ripken was the face of the O's in his heyday.\n\nIt's the player a GM builds their team around and the go-to guy for reporters...\n\nStuff like that.
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In the NL, Pujols\n\nIn the AL, a damn Yankee ( it doesn't matter which one, they're all generic now)
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it means the player would have been a free agent, but the team "taged" him as a franchise player.  They have to pay him the average of the top 5 contracts in the league at his position or 20% of his previous years contract.  Whichever is higher.  He is under contract for only the next year.  The team still can work out a long term deal to keep him longer.
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I'm going to go a slightly different route and choose an ideal team of current players based on their current ability and long-term potential.\n\nC: Joe Mauer, Twins\n1B: Albert Pujols, Cardinals\n2B: Chase Utley, Phillies\nSS: Michael Young, Rangers\n3B: David Wright, Mets\nLF: Miguel Cabrera, Marlins\nCF: Carl Crawford, Devil Rays\nRF: Vladimir Guerrero, Angels\nDH: Travis Hafner, Indians\n\nSP: Johan Santana, Twins\nSP: Jake Peavy, Padres\nSP: Roy Halladay, Blue Jays\nSP: Felix Hernandez, Mariners\nSP: Francisco Liriano, Twins\n\nRP: B. J. Ryan, Blue Jays\nRP: Bobby Jenks, White Sox\nRP: Francisco Rodriguez, Angels
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Shortstop, abbreviated SS, is the baseball fielding position between second and third base. Shortstop is often regarded as the most dynamic defensive position in baseball, because there are more right-handed hitters in baseball than left-handed hitters, and most hitters have a tendency to pull the ball slightly, so more balls go to the shortstop than any other position. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the shortstop is assigned the number 6.\n\nShortstops are required to cover second base in double play situations when the ball is hit to the second baseman, first baseman, pitcher, or catcher. They often cover second when a runner is attempting a stolen base. They also must cover third at various times, including the rotation play; that is, when there are runners on first and second and a sacrifice bunt is attempted. Shortstops generally are given precedence on catching pop-ups in the infield as well, so they end up calling off other players many times, although on deep pop-ups they fall back when called off by an outfielder.\n\nTraditionally, players are selected as shortstops for their fielding prowess, but in recent years more shortstops with excellent hitting have entered the leagues as well.
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You could spend a lot of time trying to quantify and atriculate what defines a team player, but the definition of a team player is quite simple.  Any definitions or characteristics you might come up with will all point back to this defining characteristic...\n\nTeam Player = Someone whose primary interest lies with the success of the entire team and not his or her individual success or accomplishments.
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Hey sweetheart. That player was Don Newcombe, SP Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers\nHe was the only player that won the Rookie of the Year, Most Valuable Player, and Cy Young awards.
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It is a supplemental pick that takes place between rounds in the MLB draft (the picks are sandwiched between the first and second or second and third rounds).\n\nSandwich picks are given in compensation for losing a free agents.  The rules governing draft-pick forfeiture are byzantine at best but, essentially, a team that loses a free agent gets a draft pick from the player's new team as compensation (assuming the old team is still in position to take the player to salary arbitration). The compensation pick might be the signing team's pick, a "sandwich pick," both, and/or a later pick.\n\nThe free agent rules can lead to some bizarre results.  For example, if you lose a free agent you get the signing team's regular pick and the bonus sandwich pick; but when you sign someone else's free agent, all you lose is your regular pick.  So, if you swap your free agent for someone else's, you both swap regular picks and then everyone nets those bonus sandwich picks.  As a result, there is disincentive to re-signing their players. The Red Sox are masters at this.
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Easy.  HGH.  Baseballers do it all the time.   Just ask Jason Grimsley.
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Try a franchise option, fast moving item!!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchises\nfollow this link and you will get all the information you seek.
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I do not recall the names, but a couple of guys were having dinner in a restaurant called the Rotisserie in New York in the early 1980s and they devised the first fantasy baseball game.  In honor of the restaurant, they named it Rotisserie Baseball.  Since then, similar leagues in other major sports have developed.  They generally have similar rules, but obviously use different statistics.
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You take a pitcher's earned run, you divide it by the number of innigs he played and you multply it by 9 (a complete game).\n\nThe smaller the ERA is, the better the pitcher is.
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Check here:\nhttp://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/W/ted-williams.shtml
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Cy Young is one\nlook here\nhttp://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/youngcy01.shtml\nWalter Johnson \nhttp://www.baseball-reference.com/j/johnswa01.shtml\nGeorge Sisler \nhttp://www.baseball-reference.com/s/sislege01.shtml\nJoe Kerrigan \nhttp://www.baseball-reference.com/k/kerrijo01.shtml\nMarcel Lachemann \nhttp://www.baseball-reference.com/l/lachema01.shtml\nFred Mitchell \nhttp://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mitchfr01.shtml\nONE of the famous ones was\nBob Lemon\nhttp://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/lemonbo01.shtml
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Fantasy? or are you talking about real baseball. Fantasy. You can't go wrong with either one. In real life, what position do you need fielded. For example,  if I already have soneone like Jose Castillo at 2nd, and Jason Bay at LF (both great players), then I would take AROD to play 3rd for me. If my LF and 2nd Basemen suck, then I'd go for Soraino. It's all bout need. Also, defensively, I think AROD has the edge. Also, Arod would sell more tickets. I think I just convinced myself to take AROD.
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Try finding the answer here.\nhttp://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/features/experts/11_15_00.stm