From: kirsch@epx.cis.umn.edu (Dave Nobody Kirsch)
Subject: Re: 1992 r.s.bb Mock Expansion Draft - Update #2  
Keywords: expansion, draft, new info  
Organization: Paul Spoljaric mean-and-nasty club
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 17:57:50 GMT

  One quick note .. apparently I accidentally deleted the line for the
Phillies among the owners list; you can add this to the others and it'll show
up in the next post. Here goes: 

	Phillies	Neal Traven	traven@unix.cis.pitt.edu 

  I also thought I'd post an abbreviated list of the draft mechanics/rules 
for those that didn't want to read through my entire previous post: 

    Rules of the draft: 

  The real-life expansion draft will happen Tuesday, November 17th at New
York's Marriott Marquis Hotel. Teams will have to turn in their 'protected'
lists within several days after the World Series are finished (does anyone 
know the exact # of days? I've heard conflicting reports). 

  Each current MLB team will be allowed to protect 15 players within their 
organizations. 10/5 players (players with 10 years MLB service/5 years with 
the same team) and players with no-trade clauses in their contracts *must* 
be protected, unless they waive their rights that allow them to restrict 
their own movement. Each current team's entire organization is susceptible 
to the draft, with two exceptions (1) Players that were signed at age 19 or 
older and have less than three years of professional experience are
implicitly protected and (2) Players signed at age 18 or younger with less
than four years of professional experience are implicitly protected. Players
eligible for free agency do not have to be protected by *any* team unless
they are signed before the expansion draft.  

    Mechanics of the draft: 

  After each current team has submitted their list of 15 protected players, 
the expansion clubs will alternate picks until one player has been selected 
from each of the current 26 teams. (The first pick overall will be determined
by a coin flip.) No more than one player may be selected from any of the 26
teams during any one round. (i.e. if the Marlins picked David Howard from the
Royals' system and the Rockies wanted Terry Shumpert, the Rockies would have
to wait until the next round to draft Shumpert) 

  After each expansion team has drafted 13 players, the first round will 
conclude and the 26 current teams can expand their protected rosters. Each AL
team will be able to add 4 players to their protected list and each NL team
will be able to add 3 players to their protected list. The second round will
commence in the same fashion as the first, until each expansion team has
drafted another 13 players each, for a total of 26 players per expansion team
after two rounds. After the second round, AL teams will once again be able to
protect 4 additional players and NL teams 3 additional players. 

  The third round will work a little bit differently in that once 8 players
have been selected from AL teams, the rosters of the non-expansion AL teams 
will be frozen and only NL players will be eligible for selection from that 
point forward. This will allow the AL and NL to contribute 36 players each 
to the expansion teams (AL - 14+14+8=36 and NL - 12+12+12=36). The expansion
draft will end with the completion of the third round. Each NL team and 8 of
the AL teams will have given up 3 players, while the remaining 6 AL teams
will have given up 2 players each. Each of the expansion teams will have
drafted 36 players. 
 
-- 
Dave Hung Like a Jim Acker Slider Kirsch       "Blue Jays all the way in '92"
kirsch@epx.cis.umn.edu                                      Jeff Kent for ROY
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