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<p class="MsoNormal">I think we’re saying the same thing. You get to choose your keepers off of the full 2020 roster and no one on the 2020 roster’s contracts will have been advanced a year.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Frank Luby <zachfehsvater@yahoo.com> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 27, 2020 1:09 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> USML Announcements <announce@usml.net>; Jeffrey Winick <jwinick@hwhlegal.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [USML Announce] USML - FAAB bidding issue<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Except I'm going a step further: either the entire current roster is the keeper roster, or we at at least make a significantly larger allowance for keepers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="ydp4a15d837yiv9053945623msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A">That’s exactly what I was suggesting. We start with this year’s rosters, we don’t roll contracts, and we choose our keeper rosters from there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Cc:</b> Frank Luby <<a href="mailto:zachfehsvater@yahoo.com">zachfehsvater@yahoo.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [USML Announce] USML - FAAB bidding issue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="ydp4a15d837yiv9053945623msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A">My initial idea would be that we carry everything over as if 2020 never happened. This year's free agents, Y2, Y1 players etc. will have the
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<p class="ydp4a15d837yiv9053945623msonormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A">On Jul 27, 2020, at 11:54 AM, Blocker, Mark B. via Announce <<a href="mailto:announce@usml.net" target="_blank">announce@usml.net</a>>
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<p class="ydp4a15d837yiv9053945623ydp63fdcaf2yiv2781255355msonormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#26282A">1. Some but not all teams submitted FAAB bids yesterday, apparently because some forgot that there was no
FAAB bidding this past week (see my email with the schedule of dates). I am going to work with Onroto to reverse all of those transactions, but let me know what corrective actions the affected teams want to take that involved the same players that were waived
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