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Unread postSun Jan 10, 2021 6:19 pm

Trade Announcement

Salary Cap Mismanagers trade:

Justin Turner
Scott Kingery
Austin Allen

to Mount Joy Bobcats for:

Masahiro Tanaka
Austin Nola
Chance Sisco

mykrb1 to confirm

mykbr1 confirms trade.

pm'd ya baseball cfo

Might be interested in moving Turner if I could do a package and get a little salary cap relief.

The Cape Bear Cubbies would like to announce the signing of CL Richard Rodriguez from the Pittsburg Pirates MLB. Rodriguez (3-2/2.70/4) will be the Closer for the Cubbies while Ken Giles recovers from Tommy John surgery. The Cubbies signed him to a 3 year deal at 3 million per season.

Managers are reminded that 1B/3B Jeimer Candelario is on the trading block

I'm not sure about the rest of you, but I am quite enjoying this free agency signing period. It's easy to get caught up in the bidding for emerging stars like Swanson, Arozarena, Tucker, and May, but I wanted to remind you all that you need to save salary cap space for your arbitration decisions as well. Here is the arbitration rule as a reminder:

Section 9.11    ARBITRATION: A player with an expiring contract who has more than 3 years and up to 6 years of service time qualifies for arbitration if the owner declines to release the player, offer a contract extension, or to renew the player at the Major League Minimum Salary. If the owner chooses arbitration the player will be renewed at the salary established for his SOMO card price for the following season. If the player does not have a SOM card to settle the arbitration decision, the player is awarded the league minimum salary based on years of service (i.e. $2 mil for arb1, $3 mil for arb 2, etc). The owner must decline to offer a contract extension prior to the release of the SOM card set for the upcoming season or the player will be automatically renewed for one year at their qualified major league minimum salary as determined in Sections 9.05 and 9.06 above.

Unfortunately this means I am on the hook for $4 million for Joe Ross despite the fact that he didn't play this year. COVID really screwed me on that one. If you have a player on your cut list who is up for arbitration, and who did not play in 2020, I have taken the liberty of entering his arb contract into the spreadsheet in order to limit your chances of going over budget during the FA signing period.

If you have a player on your roster who is up for arbitration and who did not play in 2020, let me know and I will settle his contract now to minimize your risk of going over budget as well.

sociophil

Domingo German rostered but did not play

phil, check your pm. money/salary problem for ya.

I'm not sure about the rest of you, but I am quite enjoying this free agency signing period. It's easy to get caught up in the bidding for emerging stars like Swanson, Arozarena, Tucker, and May, but I wanted to remind you all that you need to save salary cap space for your arbitration decisions as well. Here is the arbitration rule as a reminder:

Section 9.11    ARBITRATION: A player with an expiring contract who has more than 3 years and up to 6 years of service time qualifies for arbitration if the owner declines to release the player, offer a contract extension, or to renew the player at the Major League Minimum Salary. If the owner chooses arbitration the player will be renewed at the salary established for his SOMO card price for the following season. If the player does not have a SOM card to settle the arbitration decision, the player is awarded the league minimum salary based on years of service (i.e. $2 mil for arb1, $3 mil for arb 2, etc). The owner must decline to offer a contract extension prior to the release of the SOM card set for the upcoming season or the player will be automatically renewed for one year at their qualified major league minimum salary as determined in Sections 9.05 and 9.06 above.

Unfortunately this means I am on the hook for $4 million for Joe Ross despite the fact that he didn't play this year. COVID really screwed me on that one. If you have a player on your cut list who is up for arbitration, and who did not play in 2020, I have taken the liberty of entering his arb contract into the spreadsheet in order to limit your chances of going over budget during the FA signing period.

If you have a player on your roster who is up for arbitration and who did not play in 2020, let me know and I will settle his contract now to minimize your risk of going over budget as well.

sociophil

Quick question on this. If a card comes out for the player but it is unleashed, does that still qualify as being carded? Thinking that might be a larger contingent of guys this year that are unleashed or in some sort of limbo for this set.

Quick question on this. If a card comes out for the player but it is unleashed, does that still qualify as being carded? Thinking that might be a larger contingent of guys this year that are unleashed or in some sort of limbo for this set.

Carded is carded. The unleashed card price will be used to settle the arbitration decision, but the player will be unusable during the season.

Welcome to the league BEESORE.....i think you will find this league very challenging

Thanks. Looking forward to the challenge.

Appreciate the attention to detail you guys put into this league, based on the rules, answers Phil gave in DM, and reviewing how the free agent draft had played out so far. Excited that it will be a league that is designed to keep our interest all year (and not just for 2-3 months), with room to build for present and future.