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Originally Posted by hefalumps
Yep - agreed ideally the player should be put through waivers before getting returned, but that still doesn't address the issue with the contract that is popping up here. If he goes on waivers and gets claimed - fine, he and his contract are someone else's problem and he has to stay on the 25-man roster with the claiming team. But if he goes unclaimed, gets released, and OOTP returns him to his original team, the waiver process won't change the fact that he still has a ML contract and has to be on the 40-man roster.
Like I said, not sure how a returned player's compensation works in real life, but since OOTP requires players with a ML contract be on the 40-man, they need to put it back to the way they did it in 19 - resetting to a minor league contract.
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Yes, understood and agreed.
I just got to the Rule 5 draft in my fictional league and this is the wording of the rules in the news report:
So nothing there about waivers, just says if you don't keep him on the major league roster the entire season he must be returned to his original team.
So with that in mind, again I totally agree that something is amiss if that puts the original team on the hook for a contract they otherwise wouldn't have agreed to/chosen.
I haven't personally run into this problem as I rarely draft Rule 5 guys (and when I do I intend to keep them) and though at least one of my guys get drafted most years, and they often return to me during the season, I've never had any problems assigning them to minor league teams and I've never noticed a financial hit.
But certainly there is a problem since this is happening to others.
At the very least the original team should have the option of rejecting the player with the drafting team then having the flexibility of removing them from the active roster and placing them in the minors.