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Minor League Option Years
Minor league option years are a part of baseball designed to give minor league players some relief from being jerked around by callous general managers. In OOTPB, minor league options can be enabled or disabled in the League Setup. When a player is placed on the secondary roster but doesn't end up on the active roster, he is considered to be on 'optional assignment.' This optional assignment, or 'option,' gives the team the right to freely move the player from the minors to the active roster and back again, as many times as desired, for the remainder of the current season.
The first time a player is sent from the active roster to the minors, he is 'optioned' to the minors. This option to send the player back to the minors stays in effect all season and can be used as many times as necessary. However, each player has only three 'option years,' meaning that once a player is placed on the secondary roster, the team has three seasons to send that player up and down from the majors to the minors without any restriction. After the third season, the player is considered to be out of options and cannot be sent down without first sending the player through waivers.
However, options are not as simple as just counting forward three years from the first time a player is sent to the minors from the secondary roster. When spring training begins and players report to camp, options haven't been used yet. Generally, every player on that secondary roster is in major league camp for the beginning of spring training. It's basically an open invitation?all those players, in the opinion of the scouts and management, have some shot at ending spring training on the active roster. As camp moves on, players get cut and reassigned. If a player on the secondary roster gets optioned to the minor league camp, only then does that player use an option year. So, if a team used its first option year on a player in the previous season, but the player made the opening day active roster this season, he would still have two option years remaining, because he has not been optioned to the minors this season.
Additionally, players with at least three years of major league service time must still clear waivers before being optioned.
Note: In real life, a player who spends less than 20 days in the minors before being called back up isn't technically optioned. This is not the case in OOTPB.
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Minor league option years are a part of baseball designed to give minor league players some relief from being jerked around by callous general managers. In OOTPB, minor league options can be enabled or disabled in the League Setup. When a player is placed on the secondary roster but doesn't end up on the active roster, he is considered to be on 'optional assignment.' This optional assignment, or 'option,' gives the team the right to freely move the player from the minors to the active roster and back again, as many times as desired, for the remainder of the current season.
The first time a player is sent from the active roster to the minors, he is 'optioned' to the minors. This option to send the player back to the minors stays in effect all season and can be used as many times as necessary. However, each player has only three 'option years,' meaning that once a player is placed on the secondary roster, the team has three seasons to send that player up and down from the majors to the minors without any restriction. After the third season, the player is considered to be out of options and cannot be sent down without first sending the player through waivers.
However, options are not as simple as just counting forward three years from the first time a player is sent to the minors from the secondary roster. When spring training begins and players report to camp, options haven't been used yet. Generally, every player on that secondary roster is in major league camp for the beginning of spring training. It's basically an open invitation?all those players, in the opinion of the scouts and management, have some shot at ending spring training on the active roster. As camp moves on, players get cut and reassigned. If a player on the secondary roster gets optioned to the minor league camp, only then does that player use an option year. So, if a team used its first option year on a player in the previous season, but the player made the opening day active roster this season, he would still have two option years remaining, because he has not been optioned to the minors this season.
Additionally, players with at least three years of major league service time must still clear waivers before being optioned.
Note: In real life, a player who spends less than 20 days in the minors before being called back up isn't technically optioned. This is not the case in OOTPB.
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