There are so many unusual things happening, including an entirely new postseason system agreed upon and put in place on Opening Day (!!!) so I thought we could use a thread where people could ask questions they can't find the answers to.
My first one is if a team needs a 40 man spot and they need to drop someone (the David Hale annual tradition), in a normal season that would be a DFA and all other 29 teams would get to claim him if they would put him on their 40 man, and only if he makes it through that can he be sent down. But is that still the case this season, or can someone like David Hale (yet again) just be sent straight down to NY's hopeful crew waiting in Scranton, and remain a part of the 60 man list? Or is is a claim/quarantine/report situation?
The brand new postseason also brings up lots of questions, I know how the 8 qualify (all 3 1st and 2nd places plus two WCs past that) but I am not sure how they are seeded, strictly 1-8 on record? Or the 3 1sts in order, then the 3 2nds, then the last two? I would prefer the first one although the entirely non-overlapping schedules make it confusing.
Also at one point there was something about the top 3 teams being allowed to pick their first-round opponents, but maybe that didn't make the final cut? That sounds bad but otherwise you are going to end up with way too many first round same division matchups in a year where they already played 10 of 60 against each other, so hopefully that is still in there. I liked the playoffs better when the wild card winner couldn't play a team from the same division in the first round.
Sorry if any of these answers are easy to find, I have looked periodically for all of them.
My first one is if a team needs a 40 man spot and they need to drop someone (the David Hale annual tradition), in a normal season that would be a DFA and all other 29 teams would get to claim him if they would put him on their 40 man, and only if he makes it through that can he be sent down. But is that still the case this season, or can someone like David Hale (yet again) just be sent straight down to NY's hopeful crew waiting in Scranton, and remain a part of the 60 man list? Or is is a claim/quarantine/report situation?
The brand new postseason also brings up lots of questions, I know how the 8 qualify (all 3 1st and 2nd places plus two WCs past that) but I am not sure how they are seeded, strictly 1-8 on record? Or the 3 1sts in order, then the 3 2nds, then the last two? I would prefer the first one although the entirely non-overlapping schedules make it confusing.
Also at one point there was something about the top 3 teams being allowed to pick their first-round opponents, but maybe that didn't make the final cut? That sounds bad but otherwise you are going to end up with way too many first round same division matchups in a year where they already played 10 of 60 against each other, so hopefully that is still in there. I liked the playoffs better when the wild card winner couldn't play a team from the same division in the first round.
Sorry if any of these answers are easy to find, I have looked periodically for all of them.