re: FSBDL Championship: 8th Seed RDR wins Ship

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Can only add guys to DL from your team

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I like the in-season strategy of being able to trade for injured players which is why I brought it up. It's a solid way for a non-playoff contending team to strengthen their roster for future seasons quicker than going through the young prospects route (assuming injured player recovers completely - but that gamble is part of the strategy). It's also a way for playoff contending teams to strengthen their chances during the season without having to move players from their active roster. If they have a valuable guy sitting on the DL, say a TJ pitcher who wont pitch for them the rest of the season, now they have an option to make a trade without affecting their active roster. Trading for/away injured players is a win-win for both of those types of teams in the above scenarios.

That is clearly different than stockpiling guys from the waiver wire that are on the DL.

If we end up with a rule in place saying you cant add injured players to the DL that you traded for (even if you have the DL space open), then why would teams take on a TJ guy in a trade if he will just take an active roster spot from you for 12 months or however long? Now we are limiting potential trades being done and I am against any rules that hurts trading.

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Why would I not like that

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because it made his team less competitive.


ETA: Had he had another IR slot, he could have picked someone up off the wire and had an active player playing in an active slot on his roster.

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ETA: Had he had another IR slot, he could have picked someone up off the wire and had an active player playing in an active slot on his roster.

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Probably more competitive with the DL guy in there than waiver wire fodder.

I retract my previous stance after clarifying some stuff with redd.

I support unlimited IR spots and banning adds of players currently on the DL. You can still trade for someone on the DL.

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banning adds of players currently on the DL.

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I thought that you could add them but not put them on DL?

Which was a bullshite move

For a team that was effectively tanking, you could seemingly load your whole MLB active roster with injured and minor league guys with MLB service time

In earls case he was allowed to stash those guys and get the #1 overall pick. For a team that wasn't winning anytime soon that's a sweet deal

There is no reason teams cannot field an active roster given the roster requirements set forth

How about we vote on that

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For a team that was effectively tanking, you could seemingly load your whole MLB active roster with injured and minor league guys with MLB service time

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Under my proposal, you wouldn't be allowed to add anyone that was injured off the wire. In fact, theres even an option on fantrax to prevent anyone from adding an injured player, so it wouldnt even have to be policed. No chance in hell of anyone circumventing the system.

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In earls case he was allowed to stash those guys and get the #1 overall pick.

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Earl got the #1 pick because he sucks at fantasy baseball.

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How about we vote on that

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Lets focus on one discussion at a time.

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Under my proposal, you wouldn't be allowed to add anyone that was injured off the wire. In fact, theres even an option on fantrax to prevent anyone from adding an injured player, so it wouldnt even have to be policed. No chance in hell of anyone circumventing the system.

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Great, I'd vote yes.

I don't think it should Apply to traded guys though


And we should still address guys starting minor and injured players on their active roster

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what kinds of premium talent do you think is gonna be in the FA pool that is injured.

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That point works both ways. That should be a reason why we shouldn't disallow picking up injured players. I would rather expand IR by maybe 1 or 2 and keep the rules as is.