I received this question today on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/Travis_R_Laver/status/846776090555301892
I think @chy924 asked me this before the Experts League drafted as well, and I didn’t have an answer then and I didn’t have a good answer on Twitter. I know this may not ever become fantasy relevant, but having a good answer for a player who both regularly pitches and regularly bats is something that I’ll eventually have to deal with. Right now, once Bethancourt gets RP eligibility (assuming he does), he will not be usable as a hitter. That is just the way the site works now, since it didn’t consider this kind of scenario.
So, a proposal and then two questions.
First, a proposal:
A player who has both positional player and pitcher eligibility can be used in one slot per day (or per week, in the case of a weekly league), and if that slot if hitting, then his hitting stats will accrue for that day (or week), and if that stat is pitching, then his pitching stats will accrue for that day (or week).
Now, the questions:
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I think that proposal is pretty fair, but does anyone have any thoughts on it?
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Does anyone have a memory of how other league managers handled Micah Owings or Brooks Kieschnick? Is there any precedent we can work off of?