Most guys drafted are well less than 29 years old and are typically in the first year of eligibility to be drafted. Not sure what you are referring to would eliminate the need for this draft. However, I'm not surprised if the owners do want to eliminate it.
If the clock starts at time of initial signing instead of when a player is added to the 40, than the Rule V (which forces teams to add their better prospects to the 40) loses its point.
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Each organization has a "38 man roster" for AAA and puts their players on that roster that they want to protect from the minor league portion. Obviously, this 38 man roster is on top of the 40 man roster for the parent clubs. That roster, to my knowledge, does not get published, at least not for the general public. I checked the RiverCats' website and they don't list nearly close to 38 players on their roster. I assume eligibility to be drafted in the minor league portion is the same as in the major league portion (not on 40 man roster, at least 4 to 5 years of service since signing, depending on age at time of signing), with the added rule that the players eligible are not on that 2nd roster as well.
You have questioned in the past if the Giants are making some roster “mistakes” with some of the odd things that have happened in the last few years. I have had a hard time believing that was possible, even though the things that have happened have been beyond explanation (by little, ol’ ignorant me, at least). But losing Duplantier like this screams “FUCK UP”. Not that it is a franchise-altering fuck up by any means, but I just don’t see how it is possible.
And let me be direct on this - all organizations make mistakes, even world championship caliber organizations. I'm not advocating that FZ and Co don't know what they are doing or that they should be fired. I just don't understand the reasons why some things happen (or don't happen). I acknowledge that I don't have access to everything that they do but there are times that it looks dumb from the beginning and then the ending is exactly as I thought it would be at the beginning and I just shake my head and think "what was the point?" But, there are probably more where I'm the idiot in what I thought would happen doesn't happen. That's probably why I'm not a GM, but I can only guess. I mean, why else wouldn't the Pirates not hire me to run their organization?
Like the Jeff Samardzija contract. #stillbitter
I bent myself into a pretzel to like that signing. He was a #3 (at best) coming off a one-off season as a #1, and was paid like a lower-end #1.
He was no Barry Zito.
Maybe FZ missed the dfa carousel from previous offseasons and wanted to get and gamble losing a player within a week's time.
