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Post by Seattle Mariners (Robin) on Jul 10, 2018 20:28:58 GMT -8
Suggesting a deeper farm, from 60 to 75. I like the depth of the league, just think with the upcoming AMAT and the success of the league so far, a deeper system would be beneficial. I know a lot of teams do not even have 60 minor league players but we could potentially add more MIIB rounds or AMAT rounds in the future. I may be on an island on this one, thoughts?
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Post by Chicago Cubs (Curtis) on Jul 10, 2018 20:41:09 GMT -8
I would love this, but not everyone is as into the prospects as we are haha. I feel like this might disfavor the teams that have not filled up their minor league systems as completely. Making hard decisions on minor league waivers is no fun but unless there is overwhelming support for your proposal these decisions will remain a necessity.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2018 4:04:37 GMT -8
I think the MiLFA draft at six rounds is more than fine, there really wasn't much worth picking at the end last year. You could have the AMAT draft be longer but as it is it took a full month to finish the ten rounds last year - it's hard to have 24 people be in concert for a board draft to move it along at times (there were several autopicks each round too), I don't think most people would have the patience to do an even longer draft toward the end of the fantasy baseball season.
As far as minor league rosters, there are pros and cons both ways to increasing them - and even teams with fewer than 60 could easily get to a new max with one or two AMAT post-draft fills, but aside from the competitive questions of having the smarter teams being able to stockpile even more and there being fewer potential gems in the waivers and the MiLFA draft, it's hard as it is with a max of 60 and 23 other teams to get an idea of who's in everyone's system you might want to target in trades, increasing the rosters would only make that more daunting for everyone.
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Post by Detroit Tigers (Matt) on Jul 11, 2018 4:52:14 GMT -8
I love the prospect of picking up guys on minor league waivers.....but I too would be for a modest MLiB roster increase. After the AMAT fill period however. Perhaps at the end of the season.
I would love to see the MLiB in draft got to 8 rounds. If it was like that in the previouse draft I wouldn't be sitting here trying to think of a way I can draft one of the higher undrafted prospects today cause I was would of taken him already.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2018 23:27:18 GMT -8
I am in favor of expanding minors roster.
However, I've also noticed several teams do not have their minors close to filled. If that's because they don't have deep prospect knowledge to pick guys during the drafts, expanding puts them at a further disadvantage. If it's because they inherited a team that way and haven't had the chance to fill the spots yet, perhaps a one-time prospect waiver period after our MiLBFA draft would be beneficial?
Another idea - maybe we consider expanding the minors roster by 1/5 of the annual AMAT draft rounds each year? It's not too drastic that teams with open minors spots would fall so far behind. And it's still plus-2 for those of us that do max out our minors spots.
Sorry - one more idea. Perhaps we consider altering our Rule 5 draft to dump all unprotected players back into the player pool regardless of whether they get drafted or not. So those that reenter the player pool and actually make it on a real-life 25-man become eligible for in-season FA while those that don't can be picked up in the following MiLBFA draft.
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Post by Detroit Tigers (Matt) on Jul 29, 2018 5:15:06 GMT -8
I agree with Paul's roster expansion suggestion. And I agree that teams that are behind in they're minors rosters are at disadvantages. But I would encourage them to get creative, utilise the franchise fill period and keep an eye on the minor league waivers. Thats what I did when I inhertited a team with only like 30 minor league players, and now a season later I have tougher decisions on who to keep amd who to waive.
I definitely disagree with the Rule 5 suggestion. The draft is about deciding who to leaves exposed and who not to. A team faces the decision to risk a guy getting drafted in order to get to keep him. I don't see the need to deviate so far from how the real life rule 5 draft works. And such a decision would cause cap and roster headaches for the majority of teams because now they have less of a choice. Its either they promote a player who isn't seeing MLB time yet, or they loose him completely. All that and we would go from almost eliminating the rule 5 draft completely, allowing everyone to keep everybody, to making the draft so difficult that everyone is gonna loose a lot of talent.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2018 5:23:46 GMT -8
Yeah anyone can fill (or close to it) their minor league roster after the draft with the franchise fill, each organization has like 25 or so signed picks that don't get drafted here. True they're not close to the best prospects for the most part but you can still come out of it with a few useful pieces. Like Detroit I took over a team with basically a half-filled system midseason last year, and got to 60 immediately after the AMAT draft with the franchise fill. Making like a dozen picks in the MiLFA draft last year and trading for a few other prospects helped me cull some of the chaff.
I'm not really for expanding the rosters if only for the sheer fact it's quite difficult as it is to cull through 50-60 names when trying to work out a trade with another team. It'd be even more intimidating if you were going through 75 names. And I just think 60x24 = potentially 1440 minor leaguers rostered is more than enough, if you had a balanced draft of every prospect in baseball from scratch you'd get like the top 48 guys from each MLB organization on average. I also think it shouldn't be easy to just keep piling on and solve it with a more expanded roster, you should have to make tough decisions once a pretty fair sized roster gets filled. Some of those will probably come after this draft and help other teams fill their roster even more.
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