New Houston Owner

[MikeH_TSP]

What is the deadline for me to re-sign Beltre? There are a bunch of milb guys I want to release to free up money for Beltre. I am 500k short, but as long as there is no penalty I see multiple milb guys that should get me below.

[MikeH_TSP]

From what I understand, any player on a rookie contract can be cut at no penalty. These players are indicated by having six years of a salary on my team page of $0.5M per season. If this is true and I can in fact cut these players with no risk of penalty. The Astros would not only like to re-sign CI Adrian Beltre for 4 years/$64M, but also cut the following players:

Sam Gervacio
Ross Seaton
Rick Hague
Nick Longmire
Jordan Cooper
Matt Miller
Peter Tago

[Flash]

From what I understand, any player on a rookie contract can be cut at no penalty. These players are indicated by having six years of a salary on my team page of $0.5M per season. If this is true and I can in fact cut these players with no risk of penalty. The Astros would not only like to re-sign CI Adrian Beltre for 4 years/$64M, but also cut the following players:

Sam Gervacio
Ross Seaton
Rick Hague
Nick Longmire
Jordan Cooper
Matt Miller
Peter Tago

Players on a prospect contract can be released without penalty, but the players you have listed are all EDRs.  Our rules allow each team to carry 20 EDRs, with the stipulation that their salaries do not impact our salary caps until they are promoted to our 40 man rosters.  As such, there is no cap relief if an EDR is released.

[MikeH_TSP]

Effective immediately, I am resigning as GM of the Astros. I have found over the last two and a half months that this league is not for me. I have no problem taking over a lesser team, but the way this league has progressed, I find it would take multiple seasons of futility to have a remote chance at respectability. I'm sorry for wasting everyone's time and hopefully the next GM will have more patience and success than I did.

Thank you

Mike H.