<div style="color:black;font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One exception: people can designate specific NRIs for eligibility (must be done prior to auction--don't recall if the deadline for that is defined). People have not generally taken advantage of that option, but it's there.
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<div style="color:black;font:10pt arial;">But....you cant buy at auction someone NOT on the 40-man true dat??<br clear="none">
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<div style="color:black;font:10pt Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Absolutely, anybody on the 40 or the MLB IL is eligible. It's always been that way, and lots of rookie-eligibles have been purchased at auction. And yes, the "price" for that is that their contracts are running immediately.
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<div>The literal reading of Article 4, section 3 says those players designated “minors” are still indeed eligible.
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<div>Having says that, what the Founding Fathers intended might be different ;-)</div>
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<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 clear="none"><br clear="none">
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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>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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<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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