[nfbwatlk] Out of Options?

[Lauren Merryfield]

Hi,
Thanks you guys!  Jim probably told me the answers to that but there are 
still some things I don't understand about baseball so I will probably ask 
more questions!
Thanks
Lauren
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Prows, Bennett (HHS/OCR)" <Bennett.Prows at HHS.GOV>
To: "NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List" <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 8:09 AM
Subject: [nfbwatlk] Out of Options?


> Loren and all,
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> Well, I'll take a shot at answering your question.  Each player can only
> be sent out (or down as it were) to a baseball team's minor league
> system a certain number of times.  If the team wants to do that, they
> exercise an "option" not to keep the player on the 25 man roster, and
> send that person to the minors for experience and whatever other reason
> they have.  This keeps the team from having to trade the player or put
> him/her on waivers. Once the team has used all the "options", probably 5
> for each player, they can't do that anymore. At that point, they have a
> limited number of choices.  They can trade the player, or put him/her on
> waivers.  If the player is put on waivers, another team can pick him up
> (I guess for the same amount of money he's being paid now) without any
> remuneration to the team he's on.  If he gets "through waivers" without
> being picked up, then the team can pick him up with a new minor league
> contract and put him in the minors if they want to do that.  However, in
> Ian Snell's case, he's too good, and certainly another team would snap
> him up if he were put on waivers.
>
>
>
> I think I have these things right.
>
>
>
> B. P.
>
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