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#10812	10/14/2014 3:00:07 pm		Ignore
dwindacatcher Joined: 04/03/2014 Posts: 633 Inactive	I know I'd love to have him, but I could use anyone with a pulse and a cheap salary to eat innings in the bullpen. I really don't want to have to overpay for mediocre bullpen again this year.
#10816	10/14/2014 5:30:59 pm		Ignore
Holmes Joined: 11/07/2013 Posts: 1175 Inactive	While I don't understand what the Bronx Yankees are up to (it's definitely not salary reduction; the guy is at the league minimum), I think every manager has the right to ruin his team any way he wants. If someone acquires a team purely for manipulation, to throw its players on the market for another team to pick them up, the waiver system would still make sure everyone else has the same chances to get them. I just don't see any harm for anyone else. Why regulate something that does no harm?
#10817	10/14/2014 6:14:47 pm		Ignore
TheBaconator Joined: 08/03/2014 Posts: 70 Inactive	That moment when you realized you bid on three products of the Bronx fire sale without even realizing it. It's kind of like a reverse New York Yankees situation...
#10825	10/15/2014 3:43:10 am		Ignore
Haselrig Joined: 04/13/2014 Posts: 2790 Novi Doubledays III.4	Another possibility would to have a limit on total claims each club could win each season. Maybe twenty or twenty-five? I say win because, under this system, I think a team should be able to withdraw any claim as long as the deadline hadn't passed. In the case of our 131 claim pitcher, you'd be able to withdraw your claim once it got ridiculously high like that. Under that sort of system, a team owner would have to make shrewder decisions about who to target and it would also spawn some interesting "chicken" style confrontations where you'd have to hope everybody else withdraws while you stay in to the bitter end.
#10826	10/15/2014 3:44:02 am		Ignore
Holmes Joined: 11/07/2013 Posts: 1175 Inactive	And he ends up with a Legends league team... well, probably, there, he distorts the competition the least.
#10830	10/15/2014 7:21:49 am		Ignore
Meccanodonte Joined: 04/21/2014 Posts: 370 Inactive	A problem is that claiming someone "costs" nothing, even if you cut him 5 minutes after the claim.
#10842	10/15/2014 2:10:07 pm		Ignore
Holmes Joined: 11/07/2013 Posts: 1175 Inactive	And why is that a problem?
#10859	10/16/2014 2:35:47 am		Ignore
Meccanodonte Joined: 04/21/2014 Posts: 370 Inactive	Problem is that you can put 100 speculative claims, because you don't risk nothing* even if you win and then release them as a whole. An owner who has fewer needs/slots, maybe puts 1 or 2 claims and in most cases lost them, because of small % of success. Little penalty => less claims Less claims => more % success *: even in terms of fan mood, for instance. I'm not talking about direct economical penalties.
#10861	10/16/2014 3:40:48 am		Ignore
Holmes Joined: 11/07/2013 Posts: 1175 Inactive	Everyone else can put in 100 speculative claims as well, and if you release a player again, he's back on the market. What's the problem?
#10862	10/16/2014 5:19:09 am		Ignore
Meccanodonte Joined: 04/21/2014 Posts: 370 Inactive	It's just my opinion. What's the problem?

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