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Post by Royals GM (Bill) on Jul 8, 2020 16:22:05 GMT -5
I’m all for easy and fair. You’ve cherry picked 4 examples out of 30 teams so for the vast majority it would make sense to mirror the draft orders. I also believe combining the two drafts is a mistake. 2020 draft order is already set. 2021 is the only issue and we have plenty of time to figure that out.
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Post by D'backs GM (Kyle) on Jul 8, 2020 17:28:45 GMT -5
I’m pretty sure the AL East and Jacob in particular wouldn’t be happy with rehashing the 2020 draft order. I’m also pretty sure the NL East also wouldn’t be. But you’re right I just took a few clear issues.
We could continue to kick the can or we can just make a decision so everyone in the league knows what we’re doing and can continue to build their teams based on that knowledge.
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Post by Padres GM (Denver) on Jul 8, 2020 17:46:48 GMT -5
I vote to continue to kick the can.
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Post by Rockies GM (Alex) on Jul 8, 2020 17:51:52 GMT -5
Possible 2021-2022 timeline January 2, 2021- Start of Free Agency March 1 - Start of 2020 Amateur Draft (2021 draft picks become available to trade) March 26 ish - MLB season begins (hopefully) August 1 - Trade Deadline October 1 - Offseason Trading Opens October 25 - Trading Closes October 31- Team Off-season Decisions are due (Tags, ARB Decisions, Options, etc.) November 1 - Rosters rolled over to 2022 November 15 - Start of 2021 Am/MiLB draft January 2, 2022- Start of Free Agency I'm going to tentatively make a call on this. We all want the same thing, to continue to play high-level, fun dynasty fantasy baseball and not ruin what we have. Thanks for taking the time to each express your good thoughts. I think that Tim's solution satisfies what most of us are wanting for the following reasons: 1. It keeps the 2021 Draft Order tied to the actual 2021 season by moving the 2020 draft and the 2021 draft to the winters. 2. We pause our "league" until next March. Nothing should change outside of the addition of some International Free Agents this winter. 3. If we combine drafts, teams lose out on their drafting of the 2021 player pool, which is not what team's signed up for when they traded their 2020 Amateur Draft picks. This keeps the draft years separate. 4. It combines our Amateur/MiLB Draft into one larger draft, something I've actually been wanting to do for awhile. This would push the J2 guys into a new "First Year Player Draft" and increase the value further of draft picks. 5. We won't do anything that affects this fantasy league for the 2020 season. If we do a "fun" league, it'll just be for fun. There's clearly not enough support for that, and you guys brought up great points for why that shouldn't be the case. The winning team can just get a (*winner of 2020 fun league on their team board) or something. No one would be required to participate obviously. Still thinking through a couple things, but let's just move forward in this direction. Thoughts?
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Post by Padres GM (Denver) on Jul 8, 2020 17:53:51 GMT -5
Possible 2021-2022 timeline January 2, 2021- Start of Free Agency March 1 - Start of 2020 Amateur Draft (2021 draft picks become available to trade) March 26 ish - MLB season begins (hopefully) August 1 - Trade Deadline October 1 - Offseason Trading Opens October 25 - Trading Closes October 31- Team Off-season Decisions are due (Tags, ARB Decisions, Options, etc.) November 1 - Rosters rolled over to 2022 November 15 - Start of 2021 Am/MiLB draft January 2, 2022- Start of Free Agency I'm going to tentatively make a call on this. We all want the same thing, to continue to play high-level, fun dynasty fantasy baseball and not ruin what we have. Thanks for taking the time to each express your good thoughts. I think that Tim's solution satisfies what most of us are wanting for the following reasons: 1. It keeps the 2021 Draft Order tied to the actual 2021 season by moving the 2020 draft and the 2021 draft to the winters. 2. We pause our "league" until next March. Nothing should change outside of the addition of some International Free Agents this winter. 3. If we combine drafts, teams lose out on their drafting of the 2021 player pool, which is not what team's signed up for when they traded their 2020 Amateur Draft picks. This keeps the draft years separate. 4. It combines our Amateur/MiLB Draft into one larger draft, something I've actually been wanting to do for awhile. This would push the J2 guys into a new "First Year Player Draft" and increase the value further of draft picks. 5. We won't do anything that affects this fantasy league for the 2020 season. If we do a "fun" league, it'll just be for fun. There's clearly not enough support for that, and you guys brought up great points for why that shouldn't be the case. The winning team can just get a (*winner of 2020 fun league on their team board) or something. No one would be required to participate obviously. Still thinking through a couple things, but let's just move forward in this direction. Thoughts? I’m here for it. That’s in line with what I’m wanting/arguing for.
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Post by Yankees GM (Jacob) on Jul 9, 2020 10:23:14 GMT -5
I'm going to tentatively make a call on this. We all want the same thing, to continue to play high-level, fun dynasty fantasy baseball and not ruin what we have. Thanks for taking the time to each express your good thoughts. I think that Tim's solution satisfies what most of us are wanting for the following reasons: 1. It keeps the 2021 Draft Order tied to the actual 2021 season by moving the 2020 draft and the 2021 draft to the winters. 2. We pause our "league" until next March. Nothing should change outside of the addition of some International Free Agents this winter. 3. If we combine drafts, teams lose out on their drafting of the 2021 player pool, which is not what team's signed up for when they traded their 2020 Amateur Draft picks. This keeps the draft years separate. 4. It combines our Amateur/MiLB Draft into one larger draft, something I've actually been wanting to do for awhile. This would push the J2 guys into a new "First Year Player Draft" and increase the value further of draft picks. 5. We won't do anything that affects this fantasy league for the 2020 season. If we do a "fun" league, it'll just be for fun. There's clearly not enough support for that, and you guys brought up great points for why that shouldn't be the case. The winning team can just get a (*winner of 2020 fun league on their team board) or something. No one would be required to participate obviously. Still thinking through a couple things, but let's just move forward in this direction. Thoughts? I’m here for it. That’s in line with what I’m wanting/arguing for. Does this mean you are re-joining the chat Denver???
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Post by Marlins GM (Travis) on Jul 15, 2020 15:38:33 GMT -5
🙋♂️ I could read every comment, but I don't wanna. My only concern, what about 1 year deals? These players are older or declining, so what if we don't want them for another year? Only change I'd say is on 1 year deals, give teams the choice whether they wanna keep them or cut them at no cost.
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Post by Rockies GM (Alex) on Jul 21, 2020 12:34:58 GMT -5
Just to clarify. We will not be having a 2020 season. I'm disappointed as I'm sure some of the rest of you are as well, but we will look forward to the 2021 season next year! Further finalized plans for how we will handle drafts/off-season/ etc. will come out in the coming weeks.
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Post by Cardinals GM (Nik) on Jul 26, 2020 23:43:10 GMT -5
🙋♂️ I could read every comment, but I don't wanna. My only concern, what about 1 year deals? These players are older or declining, so what if we don't want them for another year? Only change I'd say is on 1 year deals, give teams the choice whether they wanna keep them or cut them at no cost. This is a valid point. I think players signed to a 1 year contract during this past year’s free agency should be handled with exception with the understanding that most of these 1 year contracts were meant to be only one year. My proposal would be to allow each 1 year contact signed in the off season to now be treated as if it had a 2nd year option where the owner has to pick up the “imaginary” second year at the same price per year as the original 1 year contract or if you don’t pick up the imaginary second yea, the player becomes a free agent heading into this upcoming free agency. This way if a guy had a good year and is worth keeping, the owner will likely have to pay a premium because most 1 year contracts are at a much higher cost per year. But those guys that Travis mentioned that are on the tail end of their careers can still be free agents at the end of the 2020 calendar year.
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Post by Nationals GM (Tim) on Sept 28, 2020 17:26:45 GMT -5
Just a friendly reminder of the future timeline that was discussed
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