<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Correct!<div><br></div><div>So example: the son of the pride of Canton, MA (who is still good friends with some of my high school teammates) is not eligible for the auction draft unless the Royals officially add him to their roster by Sunday at 8 a.m.<br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 19, 2021, at 7:32 AM, bbuddhas--- via Announce <announce@usml.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
<div style="color:black;font: 10pt arial;">But....you cant buy at auction someone NOT on the 40-man true dat??<br>
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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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