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Here’s a glossary of what MLB transaction terms really mean.
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Now that the 2017 World Series is over, Major League Baseball teams are wasting no time in making moves to adjust their rosters for the 2018 season.
Andrew Romine was placed on waivers and claimed by the Seattle Mariners . Jim Adduci cleared waivers and was outrighted to the minor leagues. Alex Presley cleared waivers, was outrighted, and elected free agency. Tyler Collins cleared waivers, was outrighted, and might elect free agency. Kyle Ryan, Myles Jaye , Bryan Holaday , and Efren Navarro were also placed on outright waivers. Eight players, all placed on waivers, with different situations.
Here is how they work.
What are waivers?
Waivers are a way for a major league team to take a player off its 40-man roster in order to send him outright to the minor leagues, or release him and let him become a free agent. A player cannot be removed from the 40-man roster without first clearing waivers, where all 29 other teams have a chance to claim that player, and his existing contract, for a modest waiver fee.
What are MLB options?
An option (optional assignment) allows a club to move a player on its 40-man roster to and from the minor leagues without exposing him to other teams.
Once a player is added to a team’s 40-man roster, his team has three options, or three different seasons in which the club may to send him to the minor leagues without having to clear waivers. A player on the 40-man roster playing in the minors is on optional assignment. There is no limit on the number of times a club may promote and demote a player during one option season.
A player must spend at least 20 days total in the minor leagues during one season (not including rehabilitation assignments) in order to be charged with an option. John Hicks was sent up and down a half dozen times during the 2017 season, but used just one option.
When a player is out of options, he cannot be sent to the minors without first clearing waivers. Also, a player who has accrued at least five years of major league service time may not be optioned to the minors without his consent. Hicks , as well as Bruce Rondon , Drew VerHagen , Matt Boyd and Buck Farmer are now out of options, so they will have to go on waivers if they don’t make the team in the spring.
There are three types of waivers.
Outright waivers
Outright waivers are used when a team wants to send a player to the minors but he is out of options. If the player clears waivers, he may be outrighted to the minor leagues.
However, a player may only be outrighted once during his career without his consent. When a player is outrighted for the second time or more, he may elect to become a free agent either immediately, if during the season, or as soon as the season is over, unless he is added back to the 40-man roster. This is why Tyler Collins can — and probably will — elect free agency.
A player with three years of major league service may also refuse an outright assignment and choose to become a free agent immediately or at the end of the season. Alex Presley, who has over four years of service time in the majors, rejected his outright assignment and chose free agency.
Release waivers
Release waivers are requested when a team wants to give a player his unconditional release.
Special waivers
Special Waivers , also known as revocable waivers or major league waivers, are used only between July 31 and the end of each season. These waivers are required in order to trade a player who is on the 40-man roster to another major league team after the trade deadline. Justin Verlander cleared waivers and was traded to the Houston Astros on August 31 in one of the most famous post-deadline trades ever.
What does it mean for a player to be designated for assignment?
A player may be designated for assignment (DFA) , giving the team 10 days to either trade him, or send him to the minor leagues, provided he clears waivers.
Romine and Presley were eligible for arbitration this offseason, and the Tigers were not prepared to risk going through that process with them. The same fate may await Bruce Rondon or Blaine Hardy, who are also eligible for arbitration this winter. BYB posted the projected salaries for the Tigers’ arbitration eligible players here .
Hardy still has an option year remaining, whereas Presley, Romine, and Rondon are all out of options.
The Tigers have until December 1 to offer a contract to their arbitration-eligible players. If they don’t make an offer, the player is said to be “non-tendered” and becomes a free agent.
Teams have until November 20 to submit their reserve lists of up to 40 players to the MLB office in advance of the Rule 5 draft. The Tigers will be adding some young players to the roster by that date, and will want to keep a spot or two open so that they may make a selection with their first pick in the draft on December 14.
Thursday was the day that players who are eligible for free agency became free agents, but the Tigers had no such players, having traded any would-be free agents during the season. Detroit formally declined their $16 million option on Anibal Sanchez on Thursday, paying him a $5 million buyout and making him a free agent.
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The term designated for assignment, frequently abbreviated as "DFA," is a classification for players that are temporarily not on any roster in a team's organization.In OOTP, the DFA area comes into play in numerous situations, but only in leagues that have affiliated minor leagues: When you have acquired a new player, by draft, trade, waiver claim, or free agency
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When you sign a guy to a major league contract or trade for one on one you have 10 days to sign him to the active roster or 40 man. If the player is eligible for IR you are able to place them on 10/60 day (60 day doesn't count against 40 man spot). You can always bring up guys that were DFA'd back to normal roster if you don't want to ...
So, it's also important to understand how OOTP works in these regards. This section of the manual will walk you through some of the more important aspects of roster rules and management, including the following: Different roster types in OOTP; Waivers; Minor League Options; Designated for Assignment (DFA) Injured Lists
There are two ways to waive a player in OOTP: 1. Go to the Waivers & DFA sub-screen of the Transactions page, and drag the player to the Waivers box, usually located in the lower left. 2. Right-click on any player, select Transaction, then select Waive Player or Waive & Designate for Assignment.
The number of days a player must be designated for assignment before the assignment is completed. This time can be between 2 and 30 days, or DFA can be disabled entirely. Minor League Option Years: ... If enabled, OOTP will implement a number of rules designed to reflect the recent 2012 Collective Bargaining Agreement. The changes that will go ...
Designated for assignment means just that: they are just waiting for you to assign them. If you acquire someone that is on a minor-league contract, they are automatically assigned to your lowest minor-league team. You can just place him on your active roster from DFA.
I'm new to OOTP and baseball in general. The online manual says there are two ways to waive a player: select waive player or waive & designate for assignment. I think I understand the basics of why you would want to waive and designate for assignment. For example, to make room on your 40 man roster.
The reason Alex Rodriguez is down in AAA is that he was designated for assignment and passed through waivers. He didn't accept the assignment, every other team passed on him. edit. Only person that takes the time to try to help and respond and gets downvoted. ... Looks like OOTP thinks A Rod is the kind of guy that would willingly go down to ...
Out-of-options players must be designated for assignment -- which removes them from the 40-man roster -- and passed through outright waivers before being eligible to be sent to the Minors. Players typically have three option years, but those who have accrued less than five full seasons (including both the Major and Minors) are eligible for a ...
Definition. The 40-man roster includes a combination of players on the 26-man roster, the 7-, 10-, and 15-day injured lists, the bereavement/family medical emergency list and the paternity leave list, as well as some Minor Leaguers. In order for a club to add a player to the 26-man roster, the player must be on the 40-man roster. If a club with ...
Designate for Assignment (DFA) Definition. When a player's contract is designated for assignment -- often abbreviated "DFA" -- that player is immediately removed from his club's 40-man roster. Within seven days of the transaction (had been 10 days under the 2012-16 Collective Bargaining Agreement), the player can either be traded or placed on ...
An option (optional assignment) allows a club to move a player on its 40-man roster to and from the minor leagues without exposing him to other teams. Once a player is added to a team's 40-man ...
If a team claims a player that has been designated for assignment, and that player still has minor league options left, the team can choose to use one to send the player to the minors, so long as ...
In OOTP 20, it's under Game->Game Settings->League Settings->Rules, lower part of the left-hand side. Reply reply More replies. More replies. ... then released him 7 days later when he presumably refused demotion and ran out of time on the designated for assignment list.
Designated for assignment (DFA) is a contractual term used in Major League Baseball (MLB). A player who is designated for assignment is immediately removed from the team's 40-man roster, after which the team must, within seven days, return the player to the 40-man roster, place the player on waivers, trade the player, release the player, or " ...
5. 번역 논란 [편집] 본래 우리나라에서는 DFA를 '지명할당' (指名割當)이라는 단어로 번역했다. designate가 '지명하다, 지정하다'라는 의미고 'assignment'가 '할당'이라는 의미이므로 이를 그대로 직역한 것인데, 문제는 이게 오역 이라는 것. 사실 영어 원문 자체를 ...