Can someone explain to me free agency in baseball?
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Free agency happens when a contract is up. If a player  signs a three year contract with no options, at the end of the three years, they become a free agent. A 10-5 player only has a right to veto any trade because he has ten years in the pro's and five straight years with the same club. A 10-5 player has nothing to do with free agency really.\n\nThere are other situations that can happen like arbitration, mutual options, team options and player options, but basic free agency is explained above.
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First I'd check for a C upgrade. Lopez isn't bad, but I picked up Ramon Hernandez today and Willingham recently on another team. It never hurts to look. While Mueller is hot now, he's not a long term answer. You really should be getting some SBs out of this position. Check out Josh Barfield of SD or Castillo of Pittsburgh. Your team is vitually bereft of speed. SPs are weak. I'd drop Weaver and look at Bannister of the Mets.Trade Clement now before he reverts to his normal form. Andruw Jones supplies great HR?RBIs, but he's a drain on team batting average. I would be inclined to offer Thome or Jones for an SP. Keep your eyes on the free agents in your league. Use your DL slot. Always good to keep one guy on the DL, so if another goes on the DL, you can just switch them. I think your team is mid-pack talent wise. You need a couple front of the order guys for runs and SBs. Maybe Granderson or Stewart are available. Maybe package Thome or Jones plus Clement. Get an SP with era/whip and a .300+ hitter who'll replace some of the HRs you traded.
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Baseball draft - you get to pick a player between rounds. It's awarded to a team who has lost a player of a certain class.\n\n"So, a team losing a Class A gets a first-round draft choice from the team that signed him as well as a "sandwich pick" between the first and second round (rather than second and third...). If you lose a Class B, you get just the first-round pick, and if you lose a Class C, you just get the sandwich pick."
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There are many theories here, and there are also many ways to do it but the best option is a balanced team. You need to both score and not allow runs so it is best to have a balance of pithcing fielding and defense. It is also to have a cohesive team. Since the season is very long the team needs to get along or else conflicts will arise and have a negative impact on how the team performs. The exact formula of how much pitching defense and fielding is a tricky question to which there isnt one good answer. The White Sox were a good example of how to build a team, they had some very good power hitters and some real speadsters. They had some good defenders and a very good starting pitching rotation. They really didnt have many stars but were solid at all positions.
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(1) You have way too many guys injured on your team. Lopez, Alou, Lee, Griffey, Street. \n\nADVICE: cut most of them off your team in search of healthier and better guys. Only guy you might want to keep is lee, but he isnt due back anytime soon. Cut Street as i doubt he will keep his role as closer.\n\n(2) "Iffy" Players: Rios, Jenkins, Clemens, Rodriguez, etc.\n\nADVICE: i think you are trying to bank on too many players having breakout seasons. Rios is a decent player but is not an everyday player. Clemens is just Clemens. This is your true weak spot of the team.\n\n***In all, you could use some trades. Ask around for trade offers and see what happens. Also, how your team is doing also depends on how many other teams are in the league and style of play.
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The 40-Man Roster and Options\n\nNow that the player is on the 40-man roster, another clock starts ticking. He's signed to what amounts to a major-league contract, but the organization has a limited number of seasons in which to keep the player on the team for good. A player can be removed from the 40-man roster at any time, but removing a player from the 40-man roster results in the player having to pass through waivers.\n\nOnce a player is added to the 40-man roster, the parent club can send him down to the minors on "optional assignment" in 3 separate seasons. You don't need to actually be on the 25-man roster for an option year to be used; being on the 40-man roster in spring training and optioned to the minors before the season is enough to make the season count as an option year. If a player is never sent down, however, he doesn't use an option year.\n\nAlso, despite it being a major league contract, the minimum for players on the 40-man roster and not the 25-man roster is $37,000 plus collective cost of living increases since 1999.\n\nAfter the three option years are up, a player must pass through waivers to be placed on optional assignment.\n\nWhen a player is designated for assignment, the player is essentially in limbo. He doesn't count against any of the roster sizes and this is used while you either try to trade the player or get him to accept a minor league assignment.\n\nWhen a player is placed on waivers, other teams have a shot at claiming him, in order of worst record in the same league to best record in same league to worst record in opposing league to best team in opposing league. For the first month of the season, the W-L record of the previous season is used. When a team places a waiver claim on a player, the new team is subject to the same option rules. For example, if the Red Sox claim Joe Schmoe off waivers because he was out of options when the Devil Rays sent him down, the Red Sox would then have still to pass Schmo through waivers to send him down to their own minor league team.\n\nThere are two disabled lists in the majors. The 15-day disabled list forces teams to keep players out for a minimum of 15 days and does not count against the 25-man roster. The 60-day or Emergency disabled list requires a minimum of 60 days on the shelf and doesn't count against either the 25-man or 40-man roster.
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You do have a stacked team, but what I would do is offer Randy  Johnson and someone like Figgings for Berkman, Delgadoor someone that can get you both homers and RBI'S. Don't listen to anyone who sais you need pitching. You DONT! You have a great team I dont get why you would need homers and RBI's.
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It's spring training, and the teams all have "split squads" because they have enough players in camp to do it. It's a way of letting the minor league prospects and major league veterans to all get significant playing time so they can be properly evaluated during game situations.
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every team has a fixed value within which the sum of the contracts of all he players should hold called salary cap space.it is around 55 million for every team.when signing players in the resign players, teams can exceed the salary cap space.however during signing free agents it should not exceed the salary cap space.when two teams having negative salary cap are looking to trade players the salaries should have a diufference of less than 100 K (1 million=1000 K ).\nwhen a player from a team retire  or he becomes a free agent at the end of a season he salary is reduced from the given salary space.the teams with highest salary spaces are atlanta and charlotte having +23 and +21 million respectively.the teams with the lowest salary spaces are newyork and dallas with -60 and -44 million respectively
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I'm a Royals fan and I'll admit that it isn't a long stay in the minors before being called up to the majors in the Royals organization.  \n\nThe road to the majors starts with the draft or getting an invite to the club's spring traning tryouts.  If they sign you, you will be designated for assignment.  This means that they will place you on one of the teams in their organization, ranging from the parent club (MLB) down to low level affiliates such as Class A, Short-Season, or Rookie League.  If you are not signed, you could take an alternate route and play in the independent minor leagues and hope to get noticed.  But basically put, they scout/sign you then you work your way up the system.
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hamels, billingsley need to go...there are better options.  reyes (cardinals) has been pitching well.  josh johnson (marlins) has been really good too.\n\ncatcher position typically doesn't produce much offense.  so if you're going to go cheap there, try damian ross, olivo or johjima  for a little more money.\n\nyou got tons of money geared towards hitting....soriano is very streaky and right now he is ice cold.  ibanez is a solid cheaper option for OF.  if you want some MIs, you can take a look at iguchi, sanchez (pirates), and ramirez( marlins) who's starting to hit again.  if you can save some money here but still have solid hitters, you can upgrade your rookie pitchers.
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Honestly, and I don't say this much about Pujols, but yes. Does the team who offered that to you have Matt Holliday? If he/she does, then take it. Holliday will drive in 120 runs and hit 35 homers, and you know what the other guys will do. That is as very fair trade, because it is upgrading your entire team. having a poor OF sucks, and can cause lost points.However, if they can't accept a trade which would bring YOU 3 players, and they get ONLY Pujols, don't do it.
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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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as of right now, he's a free agent. he will either decide to quit or some team that is totally disperate for any success will sign him on a minor league contract and give him a non-roster invitation.
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Ok, so I'm aware of the basics of player valuation. I'm in a head to head fantasy point league...I've used some projections to determine how many fantasy points each player is projected to earn. Then I determined the useful fantasy points by subtracting the last player drafted at each position. But I still have a couple of questions about this strategy.\n\n1.) When subtracting for useful fantasy points, should I be subtracting the last player drafted at each position or the last player that will be a starter at that position? I'm in a 16 team league (23 round draft, 16 starters, 7 bench players per team). Intuitively, it would make sense for me to only subtract the fantasy points from the last player that will be a starter at each position, because only starters can earn points anyway. \n\n2.) Using this system, are you supposed to draft solely based on the useful points? Because to me it seems like this would not account for scarcity. If you were deciding between Carlos Beltran and Miguel Tejada, the numbers would indicate that Beltran is a better pick because he would earn more useful points. But the difference between Beltran and next OF is much less than the difference between Tejada and the next SS. So to me, it would seem that Tejada is actually more valuable because you stand to "lose" more by not taking him. So, is there a way to incorporate scarcity into the useful fantasy point number? My only thought was maybe by including the dropoff between the next player at that position.
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There are various places you can search to find open leagues.  Far more are draft style rather than auction, however.  (I'm confused by what you mean by money draft (snake style).  A snake draft implies a draft, I read money drfat to mean an auction.)\n\ntry Yahoo Fantasy baseball:\n\nhttp://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/\n\nYou can search for open leagues.  You could also establish your own league, with the rules you want, and invite others to join.\n\nThere are tons of fantasy baseball sites (Sportsline, Sporting News, Sandbox) and many have baords on which you could look for a league or invite others to join.  Look around.
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sign up on yahoo for fantasy baseball it has a pre-set ranking.  I make a few changes each year, players like Adrian Beltre are ranked low but he is a top 100 player easily.  Just depends on what youre looking for.