SP/RP ELIGIBILTY for STARTING LINEUPS
(2016) 5 Appearances to qualify at either SP, RP or Both.
(2017) 3 Appearances to qualify at either SP RP, or Both.
All Pitchers are designated P.
Each P. is eligible to start at SP, RP or SP/RP (choose).
Pitcher eligibility guidelines
More Details on eligibility Guidelines for Pitchers and Hitters (Below)
THE OUTLIERS - 20 ELIGIBLE PITCHERS, MOSTLY MISFITS, WHO OFFER THE FLEXIBILITY TO START AT EITHER SP or RP.
Most players are eligible for this years draft at the one position you would expect. Only about 20 Pitchers in this year's draft can fill either SP or RP lineup slot in a series.
Most are marginal veterans, some are promising youngsters, and only a few are likely to prosper in 2017.
*Raisel Iglesias, Ivan Nova, David Phelps, ,
*Scott Feldman, Luis Perdomo Albert Suarez SFJordan Lyles, Clay Buchholz,
*Patt Corbin, Jeff Locke, Juan Nicasio, Jhoylis Chacin,
*Mike Montgomery, Clayton Richard, Jose Urena, Ross Stripling, Tommy Milone. Wade LeBlanc.
Players of Note
David Phelps made 5 starts last August for the Phish and that technically makes him eligible at SP this year. Phelps is one of the few effective players who begin 2017 with Fasano eligiblity at both SP and RP... Last year Phelps crushed it in 59 relief appearances, but prior to that he was mainly a Starting Pitcher for 4 years. In my opinion, Phelps may be the epitome of what we are looking for in a dual eligiblity pitcher. Statistically, he is just barely worthy of the dual designation, but based on his sustained success at both positions in MLB, he is a beacon.
On the reverse side, we have Ian Nova, who has been a 7-year starting pitcher only. Last April, while waiting for the schedule to demand a 5th starter, he was the longman in a half dozen games. By May he started nonstop,as he's always done. and is projected to do for the Pirates this year. The stats/eligibility requirements says his 6 RP/26 GS make him 2017 eligible at both RP or SP for Basically Nova's eligiblity is kind of a freak occurrence and worthy of exploiting if he can contiue his return to form.
Iglesias Cincy, made the Stat minimum of 5 GS last April, and then pitched nothing but relief the rest of the year. Iglesias projects to be nothing but a RP in 2017, but that pre-injury run in April makes him probably the most notable benificiary of having 2017 eligibility at SP and RP from the get-go. Iglesias is an outlier but more deservingly so that Nova. He was a proven stater for a season and is not far removed from that.
How about that Luis Perdomo, he's worthy of the SP/RP status and a notable candidate to toil in the Pardres rotation all year. He logged 15 relief appearances over the first couple months of his rookie campaign before being "promoted" to the rotation.
---------------------------------- New MLB Pitchers Eligibiltiy Guidlines- ----------------------------
New MLB players initially qualify at just their previous primary position. Once a pitcher makes 3 appearances at either SP or RP in the 2017 season, that becomes his position. A minor league SP, with no mlb experience, qualifies at SP in your starting lineup. But if his first 3 mlb appearances are at RP, he immediately becomes RP only.
Ty Blach SF is interesting. He played 4 games last year, 2 at SP and 2 at RP. Even though his primary position in the past and projected forward is SP, 2016, cup of coffee stats make him RP only. Should he pitch only as a Starter in 2017,, he would be SP only as soon as he makes 3 starts.
Pitchers who appeared in only 1-4 games at SP and/or RP in 2016 will initially qualify in 2017 at the one spot that had the most appearance. If tied, RP is the default. If Blach, above, had been 3 sp and 2 sp, then SP would be his default position.
This is the case with Brett Anderson, who pitched in 4 games last season, with 3 as an SP. Tyler Glasnow had 4 starts and 3 relief appearances only. He begins 2017 qualified at SP only.
One bug in the system is that it sometimes sorts players over zealously to RP in his first few weeks in the league and this needs to be corrected manually, as was with anderson and glasnow.
