2008 Off-Season SIM 5 Complete - Next SIM Mon 08/25

[Matt]

Next SIM: Monday 08/25

- Files due by Midnight pm ET | 9 pm PT (sorry...last two-a-day)
- HTML and utility in a bit
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- WATCH YOUR DFA's please! If you trade for someone make sure you have room on the 40 man or I will have to find someone to DFA.
- Also if you want someone released then release them. I still go by the principle of trying to find room on your roster for DFA players as I do during the season.
- Please double check all trades.

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DFA: Toronto, Morg, Dallas
Roster:

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Mon 8/25 - Free Agency 5 - Feb 1 to March 6 (ST)
Wed 8/27 - Spring Training 1
Thurs 8/28- Spring Training 2
Sat 8/30 - Opening Day

[Spear]

Geez, some of you are savages jumping all over my waiver players like that. Enjoy your crap!

[Z]

Ivan Bojorquez joins the Guides' bullpen on a one-year $800,000 deal.

Jerry Brown leaves to get paid by Indianapolis with $18 million of real money and $33 million of Monopoly money.

[Matt]

Jerry Brown leaves to get paid by Indianapolis with $18 million of real money and $33 million of Monopoly money.

FA signings for multiple years w/ Team Option

Hebert - Mor
Brown - Ind
Koenemann -Ind
Tammany - Paw
Marlin - Ind
Romero - Phi
Dunlap - LAD
Curtis - Sea
Canudo - Dal
Memmoli - Mai
Reed - Dal

FA signings for multiple years w/o Team Option

Kisselburg - Den
Sanchez - Paw
Ramirez - Paw
Herrera - Phi
Quinn - Tor
Trujillo - Ind

IMO we should have to add a buyout clause...at least 1/4 of each option year salary.

[Z]

IMO we should have to add a buyout clause...at least 1/4 of each option year salary.

I'm down. I typically give 10-20% buyouts.

Memmoli got a $550K buyout on his $5.5 million option year salary, with two years guaranteed. Not sure that contract belongs on the same list as a guy getting two $16.7 million option years with no buyout and only one guaranteed year.

[BradZ]

I always try to do 10% buyout (and did so with Romero).

[funclown]

Furys contract even though technically one year is still 18.7 mil this season. Basically he's almost untradeable. If a team without any pitching to speak of wants to roll the dice I say let him do it.

[funclown]

Hey when is PD and Scouting locked down, spring training or exhibition ?

[Ryan]

Sounds like someone needs to propose a rule change!

EDIT: If that Brown contract is unfair, go ahead an edit it to include a 20% buyout to each option year, no worries. Same for Marlin and Koenemann.

[umd]

Sounds like someone needs to propose a rule change!

EDIT: If that Brown contract is unfair, go ahead an edit it to include a 20% buyout to each option year, no worries. Same for Marlin and Koenemann.

As long as those garbage pre-arby deals are on the books, what is really the definition of unfair? I say just keep them. The payrolls have been unbalanced since the day we banned pre-arby deals but grandfathered all those other ones in for certain teams.

[Sully]

As long as those garbage pre-arby deals are on the books, what is really the definition of unfair? I say just keep them. The payrolls have been unbalanced since the day we banned pre-arby deals but grandfathered all those other ones in for certain teams.

Pretty much how I feel. Once those deals clear the books, then make tweaks. Until then, it's a little unfair to the teams that don't have any pre-arby stars playing under ridiculously cheap contracts on their team.

[Pat]

Agreed.

[funclown]

Agreed.

The system is never going to be perfect. I fear the more we "tweak" it anyway the more screwed up its gonna get.

[Carlos]

And with the signings of Kisselburg and Garcia, our scout doesn't think we have any weaknesses in the rotation. First time I've seen that in a decade.

Our only weaknesses are at 2B and SS and the bullpen with a slight weakness at catcher.

I'll take it. Let's go Spring Training.

[funclown]

We have a "slight weakness" at every position. Ooops, forgot about starting rotation. Thats just weak.

Good times.