<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">The literal reading of Article 4, section 3 says those players designated “minors” are still indeed eligible.<div><br></div><div>Having says that, what the Founding Fathers intended might be different ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>In any event, the caveat is that any player signed in the auction gets a Y1 contract, so you may end up with a bean that spends most or all of his Y1 in the minors (as Eloy did on the Lubeasts)<br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 19, 2021, at 7:05 AM, JOHN FRUIT <jtfruit@msn.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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so on mlb.com for each team you can go to "rosters" and then "40-man," however some players on that 40-man roster are designated "Minors." Is it safe to assume those players are not eligible?</div>
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<div dir="auto">That is correct. Looked it up in the Constitution the other day.
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<div>It’s how I got Eloy Jimenez in the auction draft a few years ago (and thanks to you bidding him up with money you didn’t need, he wasn’t as cheap as planned)</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Mar 18, 2021, at 9:22 PM, bbuddhas--- via Announce <announce@usml.net> wrote:<br>
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<div style="color:black; font:10pt arial">Am I correct that for auction only players on the 40 man roster can be purchased....but all on the 40 man roster are eligible...
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