MLB transaction rules.

[Richmond Hill Phoenix]

Does everyone else feel that the MLB's rules on transactions are extremely complicated? There are multiple drafts with rules that don't seem to make sense. There are two trade-deadlines. The rosters change sizes as the year goes on. There are many, many levels of minor-leagues.

No other league has this level of complexity when it comes to transactions and drafts.

Do you think that even MLB GM's understand all the rules?

PS: I couldn't figure out which forum to put this in. Sorry if anyone feels it's in the wrong one.

[wilkerson_rulz-06]

Does everyone else feel that the MLB's rules on transactions are extremely complicated? There are multiple drafts with rules that don't seem to make sense. There are two trade-deadlines. The rosters change sizes as the year goes on. There are many, many levels of minor-leagues.

No other league has this level of complexity when it comes to transactions and drafts.

Do you think that even MLB GM's understand all the rules?

PS: I couldn't figure out which forum to put this in. Sorry if anyone feels it's in the wrong one.
Hey, I understand them fully, for me, for a GM to be part of the BBFTG, he has to understand the rules, if you have any questions, I'm your man. ;)

[Brian McKenna]

Of course the GMs understand the rules.

There are many levels of minor leagues because baseball is the most skilled sport to perform at the top level. Young men must apprentice through a tiered system in order to be successful. Baseball is by far the most complicated athletic endeavor on earth. The other sports pale in complexity and ingenuity.

The drafting rules may seem not to make sense because of the combative nature between management and the union. Everything must be negotiated and compromised on. In the end the settlement reflects neither reason or rationality. It is what it is - a tug of war that produces a hodge podge settlement.

[Richmond Hill Phoenix]

Hey, I understand them fully, for me, for a GM to be part of the BBFTG, he has to understand the rules, if you have any questions, I'm your man. ;)

Well, there was a question that I PM'ed you a while ago that you couldn't answer.



Anyways, what I was getting at was that in hockey, for example, there's one draft, and it's simple. Any hockey fan understands how the draft works. And every team has one minor-league team. I was just wondering what makes baseball so different from all the other major sports....

[Mattingly]

Just to make sure, is this thread about Fantasy transactions, or real MLB transactions? I'm seeing that this thread was started by a Fantasy forumer, and replied to by another one.

[Richmond Hill Phoenix]

Real rules. In our Fantasy Game we use real rules (at least try to). The thing that makes it tough is that the Rule Book for "front office rules" is something like 1,000 pages long, and not available to the general public.

[Brian McKenna]

I was just wondering what makes baseball so different from all the other major sports....

Because baseball is the most complex sport in the world. It involves a lot more than the relatively simple running, catching and throwing (shooting) skills of the other major sports. Even after playing baseball since the early childhood, starring in high school and college, a young man's skills and knowledge of the game are not nearly as honed as the average professional player in the minors - not to even mention the huge leap required to make the majors.

[hiddengem]

I was just wondering what makes baseball so different from all the other major sports....


Baseball is the only sport where very very few players in the history of the game were "legitimatly" good enough to go straight from college to the majors. Strawberry, Olerud and Winfield come to mind..maybe Bo Jackson not sure.