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1 | MLB 2011-12 Off season Key Dates | |||||
2 | red = estimated | blue == event occurred | ||||
3 | Date | Event | Nats Specific Impact | |||
4 | Oct 22nd, 2011 | Sporting News Comeback Players of the Year AL and NL | none this year. | |||
5 | Oct 28th, 2011 | Final Game of the World Series; official end of the 2011 season | ||||
6 | Oct 30th 2011 | Official start of FA period (12:01am 10/30/11) (2 days after end of WS) | ||||
7 | Oct 31st, 2011 | Team and player options must be decided three days after the end of the World Series. 10/31/11 at midnight | Nats have no 2011 player options to consider. | |||
8 | Oct 31st, 2011 | Clubs have to re-set their 40-man rosters, moving all 60-day DL players back to active. Happened about 11/9/09 | The Nats have enough FA's to easily re-set their rosters and re-add all 60-day DL candidates. Stealth deadline; not even the mlb pages are updated. | |||
9 | Nov 1st, 2011 | Rawlings AL & NL Gold Glove Announcements | Our best GG candidate (Zimmerman) missed 1/3 of the season, so we may be missing out. Espinosa is a great fielder, but is probably too young to win. 11/1/11 announcement that no Nats made any of the finalists lists for any position. | |||
10 | Nov 2nd, 2011 | Free Agency granted to all eligible Minor League free agents (5 days after the end of the WS). Eligibility done on service time; 6 years ML service for college draftees or 7 years ML service for HS draftees or free agents under the age of 18. | Many well known names in the Nats system declared Fas on 11/2/11. Martis, Mock, Martin all have started games for the Nats in the past few years. | |||
11 | Nov 2nd, 2011 | Louisville Slugger Silver Slugger Awards | The Nats likely have no SS candidates this year. Maybe Michael Morse gets a sniff. Zimmerman needs to play a full season to get back into the SS voter graces | |||
12 | Nov 3th, 2011 | 7 day Free agent filing period and exclusive negotiating window ends at 12:01 a.m. ET. Free agents can sign with any team. | Exclusive period to negotiate and sign our Free Agents. Wang, Ankiel, Nix are probably most important to consider. | |||
13 | Nov 3rd, 2011 | HoF "Veterans Committee" releases ballot. Officially announced 12/5/11 | ||||
14 | Nov 3rd-4th, 2011 | MLBPA announces "Players Choice" awards: Player of the year, Comeback Player of the year, etc | No nats really in the discussion this year. | |||
15 | Nov 14, 2011 | AL, NL Jackie Robinson Rookie of the Year Awards | Espinosa and Ramos may get some votes but Craig Kimbrell seems to be a lock for the NL roy | |||
16 | Nov 15-16, 2011 | GM Meetings, Milwaukee, WI for 2011 | Not Nats related, but Astros sale/switch to NL could be on the table. | |||
17 | Nov 15, 2011 | AL Cy Young | ||||
18 | Nov 16, 2011 | AL and NL Manager of the Year | ||||
19 | Nov 16, 2011 | Sporting News Executive of the Year announced | ||||
20 | Nov 17, 2011 | NL Cy Young | ||||
21 | Nov 16-17, 2011 | Owners Meetings, Milwaukee, WI for 2011 | Announcement of the new CBA. | |||
22 | Nov 18th, 2011 | Day to file reserve lists for all Major and Minor League levels. In other words, Last day to add players to 40-man to protect them from the Rule5 Draft | Lots of intruiging Nats players are rule-5 eligible this year and may need protecting. Subject of a separate blog post. | |||
23 | Nov 21, 2011 | AL Most Valuable Player | ||||
24 | Nov 22, 2011 | NL Most Valuable Player | ||||
25 | Nov 23, 2011 | Last day for teams to offer salary arbitration to type-A or type-B free agents in order to preserve their right to draft-pick compensation | We don't have any Type-A or Type-B free agents. | |||
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28 | Dec 1st, 2011 | Last day to request outright waivers to assign player prior to Rule 5 Draft | ||||
29 | Dec 1st, 2011 | Last day for teams to offer salary arbitration to their former players who became free agents. | No type-A/B Fas for the Nats, so no need. Plus new CBA gutted the FA compensation rules | |||
30 | Dec 5th-8th, 2011 | Winter Meetings, Dallas, TX | ||||
31 | Dec 5th, 2011 | HoF "Veterans Committee" officially releases ballot that was made public 11/3/11. | Ron Santo elected posthumously. | |||
32 | Dec 6th, 2011 | Baseball America announces its Executives of the Year | Doug Melvin wins. | |||
33 | Dec 6th, 2011 | MLB Balloting results announced for Hall of Fame Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in baseball broadcasting | Tim McCarver, inexplicably, wins the award | |||
34 | Dec 7th, 2011 | Last day for free agents to accept salary-arbitration offers made by 12/1/11 | No type-A/B Fas for the Nats | |||
35 | Dec 8, 2011 | Rule 5 Draft. Occurs at Winter meetings | Nats lose Komatsu, Meyers, draft no one in MLB phase | |||
36 | Dec 11, 2011 | Current Collective Bargaining agreement between MLB Owners and the Players Union expires. | New CBA signed weeks prior to this deadline | |||
37 | Dec 12th, 2011 | Non-Tender Deadline: Last day for teams to tender 2012 contracts to players under reserve. | The Nats have several non-tender candidates. Slaten, Gorzelanny head the list. | |||
38 | Dec 31st, 2011 | Deadline for BBWAA ballots for HoF voting. | ||||
39 | Jan 9th, 2012 | Hall of Fame BBWAA voting announced; the HoF class of 2012. | ||||
40 | Jan 5-15, 2012 | Salary arbitration filing period | ||||
41 | Jan 18, 2012 | Salary arbitration figures exchanged | ||||
42 | Feb 1-21, 2012 | Salary arbitration hearings (actual hearing date per player picked at random) | The Nats have many players in arbitration this year; lets hope we don't have any cases. | |||
43 | Feb 19th, 2012 | Mandatory Spring Training reporting date for Pitchers and Catchers | ||||
44 | Feb 23, 2012 | Voluntary Spring Training reporting date for non-pitchers and catchers | ||||
45 | Mar 2-11, 2012 | Contracts of unsigned players who are not yet eligible for Arbitration may be renewed | ||||
46 | Mar 3rd, 2012 | First Spring Training Game for the Nats | ||||
47 | Mar 14, 2012 | Last day to place a player on unconditional release waivers and pay 30 days termination pay instead of 45 days. | The "Shawn Hill" rule, where we cut a player mid spring training so as not to have to pay much more salary. | |||
48 | Mar 28, 2012 | Deadline to request unconditional release waivers without having to pay the player's full 2011 salary | ||||
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50 | In season calendar | |||||
51 | Mar 28th-29th, 2012 | Japan Opening Series, Mariners vs. A's, Tokyo | ||||
52 | April 4th, 2012 | Opening Day 2012; active rosters must be reduced to 25 players and 40-man rosters must be established | ||||
53 | April 15th, 2012 | Jackie Robinson Day | ||||
54 | June 4-6th, 2012 | Rule4/Amateur Draft | ||||
55 | June 16, 2012 | Before June 16th, teams can't deal newly-signed free agents without their permission. | ||||
56 | July 2, 2012 | The International Signing Period begins. | ||||
57 | July 10th, 2012 | 2012 All Star Game, Kaufmann Stadium, Kansas City | ||||
58 | July 22nd, 2012 | Hall of Fame induction ceremony for HoF class of 2012, Cooperstown, NY | ||||
59 | July 31, 2012 | Non-Waiver Trade Deadline. Teams have to put players on waivers to deal them after July 31st. | ||||
60 | Aug 15, 2012 | Deadline to sign rule4/Amateur draft picks | ||||
61 | Aug 31, 2012 | Post Season Roster eligilibty deadline. The last day for teams to acquire players through waiver trades if they want to have them for the postseason. | ||||
62 | Sep 1, 2012 | Roster expansion from 25 to 40. | ||||
63 | Sep 15, 2012 | (approx) Next year's schedule announced. | ||||
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65 | Dec 3-6th, 2012 | Winter Meetings, Nashville, TN | ||||
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73 | http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?page=mlb_calendar | |||||
74 | http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2011/10/free-agency-period-will-begin-october-30th-1.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MlbTradeRumors+%28MLB+Trade+Rumors%29&utm_content=Google+Reader | |||||
75 | http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/schedule/important_dates.jsp | |||||
76 | http://bbwaa.com/ | |||||
77 | http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/MLB-offseason-important-dates-2011-to-2012-102411 |