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#8090	06/07/2014 1:02:03 pm
Schlim Joined: 05/30/2014 Posts: 2 Inactive	So if I release a guy, his salary is off the books, right? So what's to stop you from picking a pricey guy up the day after finances are run, then dropping him the day before the next finances are run. He would never show up on the books and would essentially be playing for free, right?

#8091	06/07/2014 3:56:22 pm
newtman Joined: 11/02/2013 Posts: 3343 Inactive	Except if he is actually good, then everyone would put a waiver claim on him... or at least someone would at some point. Theoretically, yes, you could get away with a salary for players of very little (not allowed to drop below the minimum roster size at any time), but your team would suck because someone would put in waiver claims on your good players and you would lose some of them. Waiver period is also random up to 5 days meaning they could be unavailable to anybody for 5 out of the 7 real life days of the week. All around what you describe isn't done because it would be stupid to do.

#8099	06/07/2014 6:09:10 pm
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator	There is nothing to prevent that...but I doubt you could put together a winning team that way. Steve

#8104	06/07/2014 9:20:05 pm
Geech Joined: 01/12/2014 Posts: 545 San Luis Obispo Turtles IV.8	I tried to do something like this with a decentish pitching prospect who was probably too old for the minors and lost him on the waiver wire. There's no certainty in it. (My one consolation is that he hasn't pitched well for his new team at all)

#8107	06/08/2014 8:30:02 am
yanksfan13 Joined: 04/25/2014 Posts: 83 Inactive	You could use players short term that way, but with the current financial climate in the game, you shouldn't be in the position to have to do that for very long, even with the most bankrupt of teams. So use it as a short term stopgap strategy and not a long term plan, that's my advice.

#8108	06/08/2014 2:38:20 pm
Schlim Joined: 05/30/2014 Posts: 2 Inactive	Got ya, that makes sense. Good, that wouldn't be fun if that worked. Thanks everybody for helping me understand how the salaries and timing works.