rule 5 draft confusion

[mrDriller]

This year I lost 13 players from my team in the Rule 5 draft. Now I'm seeing some of those guys being placed on waivers, and if they don't get claimed, they are being optioned to the minors.

I was under the impression that players selected in the Rule 5 draft had to stay on the major league roster all year. Is that true?

FWIW, the players being sent down have spent 90 days on the major league roster. Is that the rule in the game then? 90 days on the ML roster, then if the player passes through waivers w/o being claimed they can be optioned down to the minors?

[bababui]

I turned off the Rule 5 draft after I had a player drafted off of my MLB roster.

[Flying Dutchmen]

Originally Posted by mrDriller

This year I lost 13 players from my team in the Rule 5 draft. Now I'm seeing some of those guys being placed on waivers, and if they don't get claimed, they are being optioned to the minors.

I was under the impression that players selected in the Rule 5 draft had to stay on the major league roster all year. Is that true?

FWIW, the players being sent down have spent 90 days on the major league roster. Is that the rule in the game then? 90 days on the ML roster, then if the player passes through waivers w/o being claimed they can be optioned down to the minors?

I assume the game is trying to mirror this rule:

Rule 5 draft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

To prevent the abuse of the Rule 5 draft, the rule also states that the draftee must be active for at least 90 days. This keeps teams from drafting players, then placing them on the disabled list for the majority of the season. For example, if a Rule 5 draftee was only active for 67 days in his first season with his new club, he must be active for an additional 23 games in his second season to satisfy the Rule 5 requirements.

One can argue they shouldn't be able to be demoted after these 90 days/games, but I'm not totally sure how that works in real life.

[BMW]

Originally Posted by Flying Dutchmen

I assume the game is trying to mirror this rule:

Rule 5 draft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


One can argue they shouldn't be able to be demoted after these 90 days/games, but I'm not totally sure how that works in real life.

That 90 day clause is specifically meant to to address a case where a Rule 5 players is injured all year.

I believe the general requirements are:
1. The player must be on the Active roster or disabled list for a full year.

2. If the player is on the DL to the point where he wasn't on the Active roster for 90 days during the drafting year, then the remaining days must be made up the following season, at which time the player has now fulfilled the Rule 5 requirements and can be sent to the minors as normal, per his service time.

3. If the player is to be taken off the roster before the obligation is fulfilled, he's waived and offered to the other teams in the league that wish to fulfill the player's Rule 5 obligation.

4. Once the player has passed through waivers, he must be offered back to the original club at 1/2 the price.

5. The original club does have the right to relinquish the Rule 5 obligations, by trade.

[tysok]

I believe this is one of those occasions where the rule in total is too hard to code so it was changed slightly for OOTP. Unlike other such rules, this one doesn't screw you out of the overall point of the rule though.

[wish7694]

It seems that the only problem is they are not being offered back to the original club after clearing waivers. It doesn't strike me as being to hard for us to understand as players, is it to hard to code such a flag?