Minor League Options

[AshBats48]

This may be real simple, but I don't understand how the computer controlled teams can call up a minor leaguer and send them down and the player still keeps a minor league contract. Now, I know in "real life" this is what happens as long as the player doesn't play to many games ect... But where i run into trouble is that no matter what, when i call up a player from the farm system they get a major league contract and can't EVER go back to a minor league one.

Am i making this up or is it a simple problem i can fix.

And Should sending players up and down during spring training cost options? I'm not sure about the real life implacations of that, but it seems like it shouldn't.

And any way to not be forced to have the computer automaticaly adjust my spring training roster with all the players on my 40 man roster?

Lots of questions, but these are the main problems i've run into over the past few months.

[Le Grande Orange]

Originally Posted by AshBats48

And Should sending players up and down during spring training cost options? I'm not sure about the real life implacations of that, but it seems like it shouldn't.

Players are optioned down during spring training in real life. If you check the transaction listings at MLB's web site, you'll find plenty of examples. In some cases players are optioned down just a few days into spring training. It's part of the process by which MLB clubs trim their 40-man squads down to the 25 they want for opening day.

Also, options aren't charged until the season is over. If the player was in the minors for 20 or more days during the regular season, he used up an option year. (OOTP doesn't recreate this 20 day window, so if a player spends even one day in the minors in OOTP he's used up an option year.)

Originally Posted by AshBats48

And any way to not be forced to have the computer automaticaly adjust my spring training roster with all the players on my 40 man roster?

That's actually realistic, in that MLB clubs bring all 40 players on their 40-man roster to spring training. So OOTP requires all 40 players be in spring training too.

It could be handled better though by the game.