Gerrit Cole (Read 703 times)

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2/5/3

[hawkeye5]

Astros claim

[Bobby]

cannot claim players waived after the deadline

[bosox]

Although the rules say no player can be claimed after the regular season they do say a player can be bid before the season ends and signed.

Therefore i would say that means the players waived for the signing are technically still alive as open to claim because the player signed was after the season ended but the transaction combined makes it before the playoffs started.

The loophole of waiting the extra day to sign and waive should not be to advantage of one team when the grey area in the rules is present.

I think it can be easily read as until the final transaction of the regular season is past the 48 hours the players are still alive and open to claim.

[Deleted]

Maybe something to look at for next year but this player will remain my responsibility.

[hawkeye5]

There was plenty of time to claim lee and waive cole before the deadline. If you can wait to waive, I should be able to claim. This is just downright a one sided decision.

I think there should be some sort of vote or committee to decide this. I think I should get him

[Deleted]

"Re: Thread Deadline
« Reply #1 on Sept 7, 2009, 2:04pm »
any player waived before the deadline may be claimed
any player waived after the deadline may NOT be claimed (his waiver period will begin in January)
any active bidding thread is treated as if they were started during the season.
no new bidding threads"

The rule has been there for two years.

You are more than welcome to trade for Cole in the offseason. I obviously had no intention of exposing him to another team, which is why I had to log on today before Lee's 5 days were up and make sure I waived Cole after the deadline.

[hawkeye5]

Sept 5, 2011 15:07:25 GMT -8 @gouldcjr said:

"Re: Thread Deadline
« Reply #1 on Sept 7, 2009, 2:04pm »
any player waived before the deadline may be claimed
any player waived after the deadline may NOT be claimed (his waiver period will begin in January)
any active bidding thread is treated as if they were started during the season.
no new bidding threads"

The rule has been there for two years.

No but you played games with the rule by delaying signing lee . That in itself should make cole available. This league is supposed to be about making decisions about baseball, not seeing who is best at finding ways to get around the intention of rules

You are more than welcome to trade for Cole in the offseason. I obviously had no intention of exposing him to another team, which is why I had to log on today before Lee's 5 days were up and make sure I waived Cole after the deadline.

[hawkeye5]

The rule states waiving after deadline allowed if needed to make roster room. You had time to do that before the deadline, so either I should get Cole or you should lose Lee.

[bosox]

i agree the claim should be valid.

the rule does have a grey area between signing a player and waiving a player past the season that continues the clock.

it it was just a straight waive without a signing that would be different and the player would not be claimable but since it was a waive to sign another player it should be on the clock and not some cheap ass trick to try and get around rules.

[Deleted]

It isn't really a discussion here boys.

To clear the air...

A. I had 5 days to sign Lee and I took those 5 days.

B. What part of "cannot claim players waived after the deadline" don't you understand?

C. BoSox, you think claim should be valid but what do you know? You the commish now?

[hawkeye5]

The five days is fine, but if the deadline is the deadline then you either claim your bid before or the claim against you should be open.

You seem to want all the rules to favor your slippery way of dealing

[hawkeye5]

Commish, you need to step up and stop this sleazy way of gaming the rules

[Deleted]

What slippery ways dude?

What makes you think you can claim Cole when it SIMPLY states... "cannot claim players waived after the deadline" What is so hard to understand about that?

FYI, I am not naming names but I learned about this rule the same way you did. Put a claim on a guy in the same EXACT situation and was denied because said player was waived after the deadline.

Get over it bro, because if I wasn't playing within the rules, I would have just waived Rod Barajas instead of a guy that I signed before he was even in pro ball.

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Sept 5, 2011 9:42:20 GMT -8 Bobby said:

cannot claim players waived after the deadline

^^

The last that I checked he did step in and made a ruling.