offseason schedule - 美國職棒

11/2 ---沉澱期開始
11/4 ---各類選擇權決定
11/6 ---提供QO的截止日(2018年的QO是$17.4M)
11/7 ---自由球員市場開跑、公布金手套
11/9 ---公布銀棒獎
11/13-16 GM會議(Orlando, Florida)
11/13 ---Rookie of the Year
11/14 ---Manager of the Year
11/15 ---Cy Young
11/16 ---MVP
11/16 ---接受QO的期限
12/1 ---不換約截止日
12/10-14 冬季會議
12/14 ---規則5選秀

General Manager Meetings

November 13-16 in Orlando, Florida

What are the GM Meetings, you might say? Well, they’re pretty much just your
standard-issue corporate conference. According to the New York Post, the
purpose of the GM Meetings is

To discuss the state of the game as well as build camaraderie among the clubs.

...But if that were all that transpired, then we wouldn’t care anywhere as
much about these get-togethers. When they aren’t at meetings, GMs (and
owners, in some instances) will convene with each other to exchange trade
ideas, and spend time with player representatives, most of whom will be on
site, to learn more about their free-agent clients.

But since the function of the GM Meetings is to discuss other matters, and
because it’s relatively early in the offseason, there isn’t a huge amount
of movement that happens during the meetings themselves. Rather, this is
where foundations are sometimes laid for deals that occur later in the
winter. Which brings us to...
Winter Meetings

December 10-14 in Orlando, Florida
Rule 5 Draft: December 14

Ah yes, the Winter Meetings. This is where deals really gain steam.

If the GM Meetings are a business conference, the Winter Meetings is baseball
comic-con. Executives, agents, media, job-seekers, and exhibitors will come
together for everything baseball. There are exhibitions, workshops, a job
fair, and varying banquets.

There’s even a Gala! No, really, check out this registration brochure. This
year’s Winter Meetings will celebrate the 10th anniversary of its annual
Women in Baseball Leadership Event. Which is nice and all, but maybe someone
should hire Kim Ng as a general manager? I’ll be she’ll even be there!

Capping off the Winter Meetings will be the Rule 5 Draft, a bizarre little
piece of baseball procedure. It’s meant to prevent a team from stockpiling
too many talented minor leaguers who could otherwise play in the Major
Leagues, as each team gets the chance to ‘draft’ a player from a different
team. Not all MiLB players are eligible, though, and the added twist—all
drafted players must stay on the 25-man Major League roster the entire season
or else the drafting team forfeits the player back—prevents it from becoming
a huge foofaraw.

After the Winter Meetings and the Rule 5 draft, that’s it as far as official
offseason events. It is a cold, hard two months until pitchers and catchers
report to Spring Training in mid-February. And then optimism abounds. At
least until opening day.

勇士的GM仍然未選

Moore人生還要上演多久呢?

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