Post by BK Dodgers GM (Man) on Oct 26, 2009 13:31:11 GMT -5
Effectively immediately, *both* the Franchise Player and RFA tags for a given year can be traded upto ~15-1/2 months ahead of their usage deadline date, ie. tags for year X (eg. to be used circa mid-Jan 2011) may be traded as earlier as the trade reopening mark in Oct of year X-2 (eg. Oct, 2009).
IOW, you will be allowed to trade your 2011 tags at this point in the offseason before using your 2010 tags (at the upcoming mid-Jan deadline) -- previously, you had to wait til after that upcoming mid-Jan deadline to trade a 2011 tag.
As mentioned before, this will effectively allow you to swap tags w/ another GM between this upcoming year (ie. 2010) and the next one after (ie. 2011). Since the tag tradability extension (of ~3-1/2 months) is effecitvely limited to the year-end offseason period (and still only allows tags to be traded a year ahead), it shouldn't pose too much extra risk that a GM would try to win now, jump ship and then leave the team crippled due to too many lost tags.
NOTE: For simplicity/clarity's sake, please refer to tags that will be applied circa mid-Jan of year X as that year X's tag, eg. 2010 RFA tag for the upcoming mid-Jan deadline. No need to qualify it by refering to "preseason" or "pre/post" when making trades, etc.
IOW, you will be allowed to trade your 2011 tags at this point in the offseason before using your 2010 tags (at the upcoming mid-Jan deadline) -- previously, you had to wait til after that upcoming mid-Jan deadline to trade a 2011 tag.
As mentioned before, this will effectively allow you to swap tags w/ another GM between this upcoming year (ie. 2010) and the next one after (ie. 2011). Since the tag tradability extension (of ~3-1/2 months) is effecitvely limited to the year-end offseason period (and still only allows tags to be traded a year ahead), it shouldn't pose too much extra risk that a GM would try to win now, jump ship and then leave the team crippled due to too many lost tags.
NOTE: For simplicity/clarity's sake, please refer to tags that will be applied circa mid-Jan of year X as that year X's tag, eg. 2010 RFA tag for the upcoming mid-Jan deadline. No need to qualify it by refering to "preseason" or "pre/post" when making trades, etc.
