Official Thread for Position Eligibility Questions

[bdmorris.jr]

Can we get Tomoyuki Sugano SP eligibility?

[nivshah]

Tomoyuki Sugano will have SP eligibility tomorrow.

[tkimble]

A quick list of guys that may need SP eligibility after not accumulating enough GS due to injury last year: Shane McClanahan, Jacob DeGrom, Eury Perez, Kodai Senga, Brandon Woodruff, Lucas Giolito, Shane Bieber, and Drew Rasmussen (likely SP/RP tag).

[nivshah]

Players who have RP eligibility do not need SP eligibility. Every single one of those players has RP eligibility.

Pitchers and SP/RP eligibility

The example to start the season is Lance Lynn. An owner in my league is wondering if he/she simply has to forego 5 starts worth of Lynn points because Lynn is currently only RP eligible, and thus cannot accrue points if he starts games. I sympathize with him on this complaint. What’s the verdict? Lynn likely isn’t the only example.

This is also covered on the lineup page and in the rules.

[underwig]

Matt McLain is only until. I feel like he’s never not been a second baseman. Just an injury last year.

[nivshah]

Whole conversation in this very thread about him:

Official Thread for Position Eligibility Questions

Can we do the same with Matt Mclain (update his positional eligibility from UTIL to 2B/SS)? He was injured in 2024 but had 33 MLB starts at 2B and 52 MLB starts at SS in 2023.

[legendaryan]

I haven’t seen position eligibility questions as they relate to Hyeseong Kim, so forgive me if this has already been addressed by other foreign players.

Since he had no professional US baseball experience until this year, he is still UTIL only. Despite playing professionally in Korea last year, where he started 118 games at 2B.

Thus far, the Dodgers have played him almost equally between 2B (4 GS), SS (5 GS) and CF (6 GS) in AAA. At this rate, he would need to play close to 60 games before gaining any position other than UTIL.

Could consideration for his professional play in Korea last year at least grant him 2B eligibility? A player in High A with 20 games would get eligibility but because he played in a foreign league he is being limited.

It feels ironic that a superior/flexible defender would see a delay in usability vs a poor defender who was limited to say, 3B or 1B only.

[nivshah]

Well, there are a few things here:

1. No one asked for any position consideration for him, in the way that people asked for Seiya Suzuki in 2022. Instead of making an assumption, this simply could have been asked for.

2. Your math really only holds up if he needs to hit a 20-game threshold, which is a minor league threshold. If he plays 60 games in the minors without making the majors, then it wouldn’t really matter that he didn’t have eligibility yet. So your math and the argument that follows feels a little disingenuous.

For international players, I’m more than happy to give consideration to past play, but none of that is done by the site automatically and that is exactly the purpose of this thread..

Kim will have 2B tomorrow.

[legendaryan]

Thanks, Niv. I appreciate the consideration for international players. I did not mean to come across, nor do I think I was being disingenuous.

I can just ask next time.

[nivshah]

It raised a greater question of considering FG’s KBO and NPB data fo players who played in those leagues in the previous season when giving them initial position eligibility. I will mull that over and see what’s available to me.