Requiring competitive bidding to get your career minor leaguers back will use up the time that was saved by improving the re-sign process for coaches. 

For worlds which have a shortage of minor leaguers, it's because so many 6-yr FAs with 60+ ratings take up space in the ML FA pool and won't sign a minor league contract until the year after their skills have diminished into the 50s.

Posted by eeyore1959 on 11/12/2010 3:32:00 PM (view original):
Many times the losing Rule 5 players is a function of a team which uses the Rule 5 draft as their AAA development squad. They draft 10, hope a few get through on the offer back, and eat the $50,000 cost if they lose them, knowing the team getting the player back is out $272,500 to retain the player they have developed.

Posted by saintonan on 11/17/2010 1:41:00 PM (view original):

Posted by eeyore1959 on 11/12/2010 3:32:00 PM (view original):
Many times the losing Rule 5 players is a function of a team which uses the Rule 5 draft as their AAA development squad. They draft 10, hope a few get through on the offer back, and eat the $50,000 cost if they lose them, knowing the team getting the player back is out $272,500 to retain the player they have developed.

This particular "feature" annoys me greatly. The only reason the R5 schlub has a $327K contract is because some other team was braindead enough to select them. Why should I have to pay for their stupidity? If you offer back a rule 5 previously signed to a minor league contract and the return is accepted, the drafting team should be the one covering the difference, not the team minding its own business.

If you lose 10 guys in the rule 5 draft it's your own fault, nobody else's. Protect your players worth protecting and let the guys not worth protecting leave. Plain and simple. I don't see how you can argue that point. Plus if a team is selecting 10 guys in the rule 5 draft you probably have a problem with that particular owner and I'd look into why he took 10 guys. Is he tanking? Plus, there is no way one team can get 10 legitimate big leaguers in the rule 5 draft in a good world. I rarely see more than a handful of ML quality guys going in the rule 5 draft in my worlds and they are all going to different teams, rarely will one team ever get more than 1 or 2 big leaguers in the rule 5.

Posted by willsauve on 11/19/2010 5:50:00 PM (view original):
Okay, Not sure if anyone else has had this problem..  One of my current world was in the process of rolling over and then sat waiting for new owners when the update took place.  We just filled today and it looks like I will lose 1-2 KEY players that I had planned on bringing up for this new season due to the new monor league FA rule.. Has anyone had to deal with this issue? Is it wrong for me to expect support to fix this for me? 

The main player I'm worried about is http://www.whatifsports.com/HBD/Pages/Popups/PlayerProfile.aspx?pid=2458032.. in world VINSCULLY

If he's such a KEY player for the next season, you should have put him on the 40 before rollover.

Your bad.  Support should tell you to pound sand if you open a ticket.