Death of a player

[Deleted]

I think that we should discuss in the offseason about whether death of a player should release you of the contract

[Deleted]

I feel like this rule covers it though. (I'd consider it involuntary retirement)

64 – a player who has officially retired, for whatever reason, either voluntarily or involuntarily, may be dropped from your active roster at any time for zero cap hit, regardless of that player’s remaining contract length and salary. If a manager drops such a player, and that player then reverses his decision to retire and carries on playing, then the manager who dropped the player is not liable for any backdated cap penalty, providing the drop was made before the player announced his intention to continue playing.

[Baltimore Orioles]

Yep that pretty much explains it.

[Deleted]

Yet KC must pay for Skaggs this year, though

[Oakland Athletics]

Yes I believe it’s pretty clear Skaggs was an involuntary retirement.So TOR will not be penalized. It was my mistake for adding a penalty, I did it just out of habit. But I will remove it now. As KC said Rule 64 pretty much covers the death of a player.

[Oakland Athletics]

Hey guys so once scenario I would like to discuss to see what y’all think. Felipe Vasquez looks like he has thrown his last baseball as he faces criminal charges and possible deportation. I would believe this falls under the category of Involuntary retirement such as Rule 64 points out therefore the owner would be allowed to drop him for no penalty. We don’t necessarily have something concrete for this because it’s a little different than the death of a player.

What’s your opinion on this? Should the owner be able to drop Vasquez if he’s convicted and/or deported?

[Deleted]

I feel like that’s a fine rule, and that it would be fair for league staff to make a case by case judgment call on these situations

[Baltimore Orioles]

It's no way anyone could have predicted him to forced out of baseball like this.

[Deleted]

I think in these cases by all means the team shouldn't be forced to lose money it's bad enough they are losing the player

[Deleted]

They should be able to drop him free of charge

[Deleted]

I'd consider him an involuntary retirement.

[Deleted]

The free agent penalty is bad enough a passing should be free of charge

[LA Dodgers]

So what is the final decision on the child molester Felipe Vazquez? With 21 felony counts against him, I think he's done with baseball.

[Oakland Athletics]

Dec 4, 2019 9:02:16 GMT -5 LA Dodgers said:

So what is the final decision on the child molester Felipe Vazquez? With 21 felony counts against him, I think he's done with baseball.

Don't think he's ever going to play in the mlb again. I believe this falls in line with an involuntary retirement, everyone seems to be in agreement on that so if you would like to drop him you can for no penalty.

[Cleveland Indians]

I would agree with that ruling. The spirit of the rule is to protect the owner against these type of situations even if the situation isn't verbatim written out.