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Title: 2011 Draft Date
Post by: rcankosy on June 07, 2011, 03:45:45 PM

Has there been any thought about when the next draft date will be.  I believe that the signing deadline for draft picks is mid-August.  I would suggest that we start our draft right after that.  I thought that last year's draft date was too late because part of it occurred after the season and did not factor into out salary caps for the year.

Title: Re: 2011 Draft Date
Post by: Colby on June 07, 2011, 04:17:35 PM

I agree Roy.  We can set the date to be August 15th or so... a day after MLB's deadline.

Title: Re: 2011 Draft Date
Post by: Canada8999 on June 07, 2011, 08:10:28 PM

Given that many teams will try to make transactions to clear space, we should get this decided on soon.  I'm in favor of making the rule be our draft starts the day after the deadline.

Title: Re: 2011 Draft Date
Post by: h4cheng on June 07, 2011, 08:24:41 PM

i support it.

Title: Re: 2011 Draft Date
Post by: MOLI643 on June 08, 2011, 08:02:21 AM

 :iatp:

Quote from: h4cheng on June 07, 2011, 08:24:41 PM

i support it.

  :iatp:

Title: Re: 2011 Draft Date
Post by: Colby on June 08, 2011, 10:14:03 AM

:iatp:

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/schedule/important_dates.jsp

Let's make August 16th the start of the draft.  This even gives two weeks of waivers for teams desperate to clear cap space.  I updated the deadlines to reflect this and our playoff schedule.

Title: Re: 2011 Draft Date
Post by: rcankosy on June 08, 2011, 10:54:49 AM

I don't see anything specific in the EDR rules about when cap space must be cleared for the draft so I would suggest that teams free up the funds within 24 hours of drafting a player.  I picked 24 hours, because that is the time frame for freeing up cap space for signing free agents.

Could we display the full draft order including which first round picks were exchanged via RFA?  I believe that the first 15 picks were protected.

Title: Re: 2011 Draft Date
Post by: Colby on June 08, 2011, 11:01:00 AM

Cap space must be cleared by the pick.

Title: Re: 2011 Draft Date
Post by: Canada8999 on June 08, 2011, 08:01:30 PM

Quote from: rcankosy on June 08, 2011, 10:54:49 AM

I don't see anything specific in the EDR rules about when cap space must be cleared for the draft so I would suggest that teams free up the funds within 24 hours of drafting a player.  I picked 24 hours, because that is the time frame for freeing up cap space for signing free agents.

Could we display the full draft order including which first round picks were exchanged via RFA?  I believe that the first 15 picks were protected.

 :iatp:

I think the above was implied, but it would be good to have it explicitly stated in the rules.

Title: Re: 2011 Draft Date
Post by: Dan Wood on June 08, 2011, 08:09:40 PM

I thought we did away with RFA's and were just going with type A and B from now on?

Title: Re: 2011 Draft Date
Post by: Canada8999 on June 08, 2011, 08:13:57 PM

Quote from: Dan Wood on June 08, 2011, 08:09:40 PM

I thought we did away with RFA's and were just going with type A and B from now on?

We did moving forward, but we still had them during the past offseason and have had picks change hands because of them (see Ty Wigginton, where MIL now has CHW's 1st rounder and a supplemental pick)

Title: Re: 2011 Draft Date
Post by: Dan Wood on June 08, 2011, 08:37:14 PM

No, I knew about the picks, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't making up the whole "no more RFA" thing