Roster violation - Kansas City - 2023 - 1st offense

[Detroit]

KC has not had 3 RPs who are active the whole season. More than 2 bidding periods have passed and he has had ample time to add a player.

Kansas City is being assigned RP - Matt Barnes - 1/325k

Kansas City is our 1st roster violator of 2023 and is also being fined $250k in 2024 salary as a 1st offense in 2023.


I am taking this very serious this season. There were too many violations for legal lineups last year and I did not pound on this cause we had a lot of new managers in the league. However, rules are rules and every other manager is fielding a legal roster ATM, except Boston - who has until Sunday to fix his roster.

[Minnesota Twins]

I thought as long as you make the min innings limit how you handle your pitching staff was up to you. I don't think we have ever put any enforcement on number of pitchers or classification of pitchers.

[Detroit]

Every team needs an active player in each daily lineup position. If you only have 1 catcher on your roster and he gets injured, you would need to pick up another catcher to field a legal daily lineup.

If you want to pick and choose when to put a player into your lineup, so be it. That is completely your choice. But, everyone needs to be able to field a daily lineup of all 18 positions at all time. Someone who is "NA" designation does not count toward filling your daily active lineup.

[Detroit]

doincashmansjob.proboards.com/thread/13174/rules-implemented-starting-cashman-season

This was posted back in October 2021. See #4.

[Detroit]

To be clear, fielding a daily, active lineup keeps every team honest and active. This is meant to discourage tanking, or at least blatant tanking. This is a ROTO league, so accumulation of stats matters to every team as it comes to seeding.

[Deleted]

Yeah, but if I have 2 3B batting .100 why should have to start them? Why can’t it pull them out for a day or two until they start hitting a little without killing my lineup…..I think the enforcement is unfair.

[Detroit]

Boston, you can do that as you wish. There is no rule against sitting a player.

ROTO leagues are all about compiling stats. If you are trying to win, it’s kinda dumb to have no active player on your roster to fill each daily lineup submission.

You cannot go without a player on your active roster that is Catcher eligible. Every other team has an active roster of players that can fill all 18 daily lineup positions. Not doing this daily adds up to a lot of missed stats and sque’s the standings. It defeats the purpose of ROTO.

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I never heard of an mlb squad going out onto a field w/o a 3Bman. Sitting players can also be used for tanking. Imo either way its a problem.

[Detroit]

I also agree Brew. But, even MLB teams sit a player for a day, two, three if they are in a slump. We should have the same right to do so, only catch is we would need a “back-up” player at that position while we sit someone.

I don’t wanna beat this subject to death.

League is now on notice. We are watching. Fines will be levied for non-compliance.