{"id":14693,"date":"2018-03-12T15:17:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T19:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=14693"},"modified":"2018-03-12T15:17:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T19:17:40","slug":"how-does-sammy-solis-still-have-an-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=14693","title":{"rendered":"How does Sammy Solis still have an option?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3939\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/solisknuckler-natsinsider-blog.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3939\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3939\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3939\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/solisknuckler-natsinsider-blog-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Solis may have another option year that I didn't know about.  Photo via Natsinsider blog\/Mark Zuckerman\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/solisknuckler-natsinsider-blog-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/solisknuckler-natsinsider-blog.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3939\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Solis may have another option year that I didn&#8217;t know about. Photo via Natsinsider blog\/Mark Zuckerman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My internal notes have\u00a0<strong>Sammy Solis<\/strong> as being a lock for the 2018 roster because he was Out of Options.\u00a0 In fact, this topic came up again recently in the comments when I posted quickie predictions of the opening day roster.<\/p>\n<p>But, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2018\/03\/mlb-players-out-of-options-2018.html\">posting today from MLB Trade Rumors<\/a> doesn&#8217;t list him as being one of the Nationals&#8217; &#8220;out of options&#8221; players, and a quick glance over at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rosterresource.com\/mlb-washington-nationals\">BP&#8217;s Roster Resource<\/a> currently has Solis in the AAA team with an option remaining.<\/p>\n<p>So, how did I have this wrong for so long?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the relevant transactions for Solis in his career related to options:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drafted in 2010<\/li>\n<li>Added to 40-man in Nov 2013 ahead of the 2013 Rule-5 draft.<\/li>\n<li>Spent the entire 2014 season in the Minors; option #1.<\/li>\n<li>Was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.milb.com\/player\/index.jsp?sid=milb&amp;player_id=519301#\/gamelogs\/R\/pitching\/2015\/MINORS\">up and down several times in 2015 season<\/a>, including the entire month of June and again in August.\u00a0 Option #2.<\/li>\n<li>2016; this is the iffy year because the first two option years are pretty clear.\u00a0 So Lets look at his 2016 movement. I use ESPN\u2019s transaction list as reference:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/transactions\/_\/name\/wsh\/year\/2016\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/transactions\/_\/name\/wsh\/year\/2016<\/a><br \/>\n\u2013 March 14th: Solis optioned to AAA<br \/>\n\u2013 April 27th: Solis recalled from AAASo. A Minor league option is burned as per this quote: \u201c<em>When a player is optioned to the Minors for a span of more than 20 days, he loses an option<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 This quote is as per\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/glossary\/transactions\/minor-league-options\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/glossary\/transactions\/minor-league-options<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3\/14 to 4\/27 is definitely more than 20 days, but honestly its about when the season starts. So in 2016, the Nats played their first game on\u00a0April 4th.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a04\/4 to 4\/27 is STILL more than 20 days.<\/p>\n<p>So therefore, I had thought he burned an option in 2016. Just barely \u2026 but he did.\u00a0 Is &#8220;20 days&#8221; actually &#8220;20 GAMES?&#8221;\u00a0 Is that the distinction?\u00a0 I also know an option can be cancelled if a player is called back up for injury purposes; I notice that on that same day 4\/27\/16 the nats assigned\u00a0<strong>Matt Belisle<\/strong> to the D\/L &#8230; is this what cancelled Solis&#8217; 2016 option?\u00a0 It might very well be.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Either that or he got a 4th option granted for some reason (his TJ surgery?).<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, this options situation is great for the team in terms of roster flexibility &#8230; not so great for Solis, because he may very well be one of the 7 best relievers but now may be odd man out in April thanks to this roster quirk.\u00a0 But it does give us a bit of context to help do roster prediction analysis the rest of this spring&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My internal notes have\u00a0Sammy Solis as being a lock for the 2018 roster because he was Out of Options.\u00a0 In fact, this topic came up again recently in the comments when I posted quickie predictions of the opening day roster. But, a posting today from MLB Trade Rumors doesn&#8217;t list him as being one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlbpitching","category-minorspitching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14693"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14696,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14693\/revisions\/14696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}