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Originally Posted by torpidbeaver
About to show my ignorance.
I thought option years weren't in any way affected by Spring Training. I also thought option years weren't activated solely by being on the 40-man roster –*that you had to be called up to the majors in order for an option to be used.
Are either of those statements not true?
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If a player is on your 40-man roster he is automatically placed on your spring training roster. IRL there is no 25 man/active roster during the off season, there is just the 40-man roster and the whole 40-man roster is on the ST roster. When you send him back to the minors he will accrue an option used (Either after a day is simmed or more likely after a day during the minor league season...don't remember which). This is how OOTP handles it and the use of an option in this way is what happens IRL(except for the 20 day thing).
The whole point of options is so that you can't keep a player in the minors forever. First you have to add him to your 40 or risk loosing him in the Rule 5 after a period of time then once on the 40-man roster you can keep him in the minors for 3 more seasons after which he either has to be on your active roster or passed though waivers to get him to the minors again.