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POSITION ELIGIBILITY
Because of these minimum roster requirements, position eligibility is an important part of the game. Changes in position eligibility will be posted weekly, every Monday morning. We insist on actual playing time before we move guys.
A player must play at least 5 games at a designated position for even being considered for a position switch.
The Player List link serves as the official Position Eligibility List. The Position Eligibility List shows all players who are eligible for the preseason draft and the position at which they can be drafted. Players are eligible to play only at the position under which they are listed on the Player List until STATS makes official position eligibility changes. Position eligibility changes are announced weekly every Monday morning.
Some position eligibility changes make certain players (those playing a significant amount of time at two or more positions) eligible to play two or more positions rather than one. However, These multi-position players play only one of those positions at a time, not both simultaneously. Your roster will display all of player's eligible positions, but that player is currently playing only the first position shown. You are free to decide which of the positions a multi-position player will play on any given day (see Position Changes).
In the event of a trade, a multi-position player remains at the position he is playing at the time of the trade, provided he is still eligible at that position. The owner who acquires the player may, after s/he aqquires that player, change the player's position.
There is also flexibility among your outfielders. If the Braves wanted their left fielder to play right, he could probably do it, although it may take him some time to master the fine points. For that reason, there are penalties for playing an outfielder out of position. If you wish to play an outfielder out of position, you can move him to a different outfield spot in accordance with the following:
Left fielders or right fielders cannot be switched to play center field. These are one-time penalties, meaning you only lose the points once, not daily or weekly. However, if you move Bernie Williams to left, then back to center, and then back to left, you will be penalized again for the second move. When a team trades away an outfielder playing out of position, the outfielder will revert to his original position. If the team that acquires him in the trade wishes to continue to play him out of position, the new owner must request a position change and also pay the point penalty. During the season, a player's eligible position can change if he stops playing his present position and starts playing a significant amount of time at a different position. In this situation, your player would actually lose his eligibility at his present position once you shifted him to his new position. But, you would have no obligation to move the player to his new position. Once he is moved to his new position, however, he may not be moved back to his old position. If a multi-position player has one of his positions changed, or removed, you may not subsequently play him at the old position unless you were playing him at that position on the Monday before his new position became effective; if, at any time thereafter, you move him out of that old position, you may not move him back. If you need to shift the player to his old position in order to preserve his eligibility there, you must submit the shift by the Sunday before his new position becomes effective. If a team signs a free agent after his position has been changed, the player will only be eligible at his new position. Similarly, if a team trades for a player whose position has been changed, the player will only be eligible at his new position. This rule also applies to position changes for multi-position players; if a multi-position player has his position changed from 2B/3B to 3B/SS, and is subsequently traded from a team that is still playing him at 2B, he will not be eligible to play 2B on his new team, but only 3B/SS, and the new team will receive him at either 3B or SS. A position player generally becomes eligible to play a new position after he has played there for at least 20% of his defensive innings in the past two weeks. Starting pitchers and middle relievers generally get switched if their last two appearances were in a different capacity. To get switched to closer, a pitcher generally must have earned a couple of saves in closer-type situations (one or less innings and a narrow lead) during the past two weeks.
Players called up for the first time by a major league team are added to the Position Eligibility List the day after they make their first appearance in a major league game. Position eligibility will be determined by the player's most common position(s) in the minors and his expected position(s) in the majors.
 
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