New rule: must have a 25-man roster thru-out the year

[Admin]

Texas has been playing with 21 players and 2 of them are inactive leaving him playing only 19 for some time now. He has sunk to last place, and a R1 overall draft pick. This is not fair. We need to adjust this rule.

[Deleted]

he's down 275 innings and has kept cosart on waivers, who has won 13 games.

[Minnesota Twins]

I vote no as sometimes a guy could get sent to minors and your WW is already full, but you don't want to cut him.

[torontobluejays]

I vote no also. If he has a 25 man roster does not an owner will use all 25 men.

[Deleted]

If you truly believe he is tanking on purpose, drop him from the league. You cannot force anyone to be competitive by use of rules - they will always find a loop hole.

[ex-Pittsburgh Pirates]

The Rangers issue is separate from the rule suggestion. We need another thread for that.

As for the rule, I think 25 is too restrictive. I've been cruising along with 24 most of the last month and nobody would accuse me of tanking. I think we should set the limit at 22 or 23. Whatever the rule is, if you drop below that for more than 1 bid period then you will be automatically assigned a couple of players. Sound reasonable?

[Deleted]

22 or 23 seems fair to me. I know I have had a few times when multiple players on the dl were close to coming back soon so I chose not to replace them and cut that player a couple days later

[Deleted]

Honestly I've been trying to tank with a proper roster but you probably wouldn't know it because these damn scrubs are having good years. I agree about tanking on purpose if you are just benching players, not fielding a legal roster, on the other hand....in a dynasty league it's tough to draw the line between tanking and playing for the future. When you know you are done for this year and playing for the future or even next year. You end up trading for draft picks then you want to be in the best position to maximize the use of those picks. I guess I think "trying" to finish last/play for next year is fine as long as you field a proper/legal roster. Ultimately it hurts me this particular year when I choose Steve Pearce to be my scrub 1B to finish out the season and he goes off for a career year.

[Deleted]

looks like i'm coming back slowly but as bittchy as b4
ok cut some slack to texas for being a noobie
what about players not on dl (pedroia) who are not playing but are installed in a starting position on a roster?

[ex-Pittsburgh Pirates]

that's always been a no no

[Deleted]

I can reach out to Texas if you guys want me to. I'm in a few other leagues with him.

[torontobluejays]

I'd prefer to keep the roster sizes at 25 unless we are going to expand the size of the DL or WW. If we had the small rosters this year, I would have been forced to cut players like Fielder and Medlan and put them immediately into the FA pool rather than wait until the end of the season when everyone would have a better chance to bid on them.

[Deleted]

Maybe I am confused, but I was talking about a rule that you have to keep your roster at 22 or 23. Not lowering the roster spots.

[torontobluejays]

My misunderstanding.

[Deleted]

Not really sure how to address this. Chicago has a good point having a full 25 man roster, guys can be signed cheap throughout the year. Toronto also has a good point that having to many injuries you shouldn't have to release a player, that you may want to keep, in order to fill an active roster. So how about this. Set a threshold for AB & IP. I think there is a thread already posted on minimum innings pitched (but I don't think the league set one in place). We already have a rule in place for playing players who are DL or OUT which should always be enforced.

Currently Texas is -158 total games played & -288 innings pitched
Currently Phillies are -29 total games played & -44 innings pitched (and I've been trying to keep an active lineup just to show how fast you can get down)

so how about setting a threshold of -100 games & -125 innings pitched for each team. Failure to do this will result in losing draft picks or moving down in the drafts (ie down 5 spots or 7 (half the league) or even last for failure to meet both)??

I know Texas is a newbie, should be cut some slack as the previous owner may not have been setting a line up. What to do? Maybe prorate games/innings when the new owner has taking over.

Chicago is right, why is Jared Cosart still on waviers and something does need to be done. The threshold does need to be set at a decently high number but down -288 innings is just way to much.