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1. Walt Davis Posted: November 07, 2012 at 11:23 PM (#4297623)Teams would love this; I don't know that the players would. As I understand it, a big part of the reluctance to call up a whole slew of players is the need to pay those players a major league salary. So if, for example, you deactivate a rookie starting pitcher, he loses his major league salary for those four days until you reactivate him. Fixing stuff like this and closing all the loopholes seems like messy business.
No, the ML roster would still be 40 (or whatever) so you'd still be paying everybody, it's just only 25 would be eligible to play that day. No different in essence than soccer's limited subs rule.
How about something simple like having a set 30-man roster for September?
Which seems to be what Torre's talking about and, yes, this is a simple, easy solution -- almost as easy as just sticking with 25-man rosters! As long as all the teams are fine with that, that's obviously the way you go. But I assume some teams want to have lots of call-ups as rewards for good behavior, to look at players in MLB conditions or for whatever reason some teams currently carry 35-40 guys in Sept even though they don't have to. Something akin to my idea would allow all the teams to be happy.
But, yes, if everybody's cool with just dropping the Sept roster limit from 40 to 30 (or whatever) then that's the way to go.
A lot of the playing time for call-ups is unplanned - in blowouts or late in games with "safe" leads and when unlikely game situations arise. So much of that evaluation time would be lost with an advance designation of 25 or 30 active players.
If this is causing great angst amongst certain teams, then those certain teams can call up as many players as do their competitors. Simple solution, and it doesn't require any change to rules or policies.
+1. A solution that clearly demands a problem.
Yep, same here. I really enjoy seeing all the random callups playing at the end of the year, and preserving the sanctity of the minor league playoffs would seem like it ought to be a fairly low-priority goal.
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