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Originally Posted by Solonor
In OOTP, you still only have the ability to send him down to the minors for two more seasons before he has to go through waivers. PLUS, if you try and take him off your 40-man roster, he will have to clear waivers. The difference, I think, is that you're saying every player on the 40-man roster that is not on the active roster should be forced to should go through waivers every year and lose an option year every year. Am I right?
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I'll clarify. My issues are when options are actually used by the team. In the scenario you quoted from my previous post, I was talking about a situation where a player could technically be out of options after just three years of professional baseball if he was added to the 40-man roster in his first year, but in the game he could also be kept longer than that without being exposed to waivers.
Here's where the game and real life appear to be in sync: Every player has three options (or, more accurately, option years) where they can be recalled and sent to the minors freely while on the 40-man roster. If they are sent to the minors one year, that uses up one of their option years. If they're not sent to the minors in a year, they don't use an option. After a player has used all three options, he needs to clear waivers before he can be sent to the minors again.
Real life and the game appear to diverge after that. In real life in spring training, the team has its entire 40-man roster with them. To get the roster down to 25, teams will option their players with options remaining down to the minors, and players who are out of options will have to clear waivers before being sent down. The key thing here is that an option is used when a player is sent to the minors during spring training.
In 6.5 (and 2007 as well, apparently), a team's roster never expands to the full 40 players in the offseason as it does in real life, so players are never optioned to the minors in spring training. As a result, as long as you don't recall a player who is out of options, he never has to clear waivers because technically he hasn't been sent down. This leads to the scenario the original poster was talking about
: players who can stay in the minors an extended amount of time even though they're out of options.
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I completely disagree with the notion that the game is unplayable because of either of these issues. But that's just my opinion.
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I wouldn't say the game is unplayable, but it certainly lessens my enjoyment of the game when rosters are not dealt with properly. The ability to keep a player who is out of options down in the minors indefinitely is almost like a cheat. It's definitely an issue that needs to be fixed.