calbatross wrote:Unless I completely misunderstood what you were saying in July...
What I thought you said in July was that before our FA draft in spring, our rosters needed to have between 20 (minimum) and 25 (maximum) players. I tried to get clarification on that back then.
Of course, if half your roster is traded to the AL in 2013, that would make it hard to meet the minimum of 20, so that is what's making me think I misunderstood something.
What did you mean in July with the "25" number?
Michael had originally set forth a 35 man roster limit plus 5 round prospect draft (we've since changed that to 2 rounds each year) so I was going off of that. I don't think the roster size is going to matter as much as available players to draft will. There are 472 eligible hitters and pitchers in the NL online set this year. If each owner gets roster to 35 that's 420 of those players taken of which 93 (approximately 20%) of those players carry a $500,000 salary and 180 players (38%) under 1 million
I think transitioning at some point to 30 man rosters is the way to go or even just SOM roster requirements if an owner chooses to keep less than 30...just my opinion, but this isn't a dictatorship, I just keep track of stuff for us and make sure we adhere to the rules that were set forth. We can do whatever we want!