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Post by Fenway Faithful on Aug 2, 2020 22:15:16 GMT -5
Thoughts on creating a covid exempt list for this season? Players opting out is starting to rise and it's going to be hard to keep players and fill the rosters as the season progresses.
It would be a one year list, managed like the LTIR and Farm teams.
Thoughts?
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Post by hungoverheroes on Aug 4, 2020 20:18:32 GMT -5
I agree that it is going to be hard to keep the players upright. Covid seems to only last for a short period of time. Opting out is a whole other thing. But now it seems players can opt back in too.
Lets just face it, going to be a werid year of ball.
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Post by Fenway Faithful on Aug 4, 2020 22:20:49 GMT -5
I agree that it is going to be hard to keep the players upright. Covid seems to only last for a short period of time. Opting out is a whole other thing. But now it seems players can opt back in too. Lets just face it, going to be a werid year of ball. I don't think they can opt back in....not that I saw anyway. Doesn't seem like much to allow us to be able to keep the rights to these guys as the opt out. If the player is added to the covid list, he's unavailable for the rest of the season.
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Post by hungoverheroes on Aug 5, 2020 12:50:38 GMT -5
Its a fair idea. Why dont we use the LTIR. It is essentially the same thing. It allows you to store players for the rest of the year and still have he rights to them next year. We have two spots at the moment. We could increase the spots if the MLB starts to completely fall apart.
We can still use the same rules for the LTIR. Once they are one it they can not be removed for the rest of the season. And in the beginning of our draft next year the LTIR has to be completely cleared.
Thoughts?
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Post by Fenway Faithful on Aug 5, 2020 18:20:05 GMT -5
That's fair and works! Something we need to get more league thoughts and approval?
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Post by The Beanbaggers on Aug 6, 2020 15:09:24 GMT -5
Great conversation and sadly looks like we need to address this somehow. I think we may want to tackle this from 2 routes. (1) How do we handle the growing volume of IR visits that will eventually result in players coming back to play. And (2) those that choose to "opt out" and are in turn done for the season.
For the first group, it may be worth considering adding a couple extra IR spots, if espn allows.
For the second group, the LTIR model makes sense and I agree. I would only add (and I cant remember how LTIR operates here) I would prefer that teams have had the COVID opt out player for a period of time before having this option. That might eliminate any efforts to pick up players just to stack players for next year. Just a thought.
Now gotta head back to work...
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Post by Fenway Faithful on Aug 10, 2020 21:03:23 GMT -5
so would it be acceptable to put players on the LTIR who are opting out? I have 2 now that I could use the roster room!
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Post by hungoverheroes on Aug 13, 2020 8:55:52 GMT -5
Lets do it. Place Covid and opt out players on the LTIR.
Just be sure to read and understand the LTIR rules. Once a player is placed there, they are ineligible to play for the rest of this current season.
Feel free to ask any questions.
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