{"id":9929,"date":"2014-10-30T17:12:08","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T21:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=9929"},"modified":"2014-10-30T17:12:08","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T21:12:08","slug":"baseballs-off-season-calendar-of-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=9929","title":{"rendered":"Baseball’s Off-Season Calendar of Events"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the off-season.\u00a0 Here’s data pulled from my 2014-15 off-season calendar<\/a>, available in spreadsheet form on the Links to the right-hand side of the blog.<\/p>\n

I don’t know all the exact dates right now (some of the events slightly move from year to year), and I havn’t dug up the exact dates for the 2015 events yet, but these are good approximations.\u00a0 In the google doc, the approximated dates are color coded.<\/p>\n

We’re into the very critical time period immediately following the end of the World Series, and we’re already seeing player decisions.\u00a0 Stay tuned!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/td>\nEvent<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/28\/2014<\/td>\nLast day of regular season<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/30\/2014<\/td>\nBeginning of 2014 Post season (NL WC game)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/30\/2014<\/td>\nEnd of Year BBWAA award ballots due (prior to beginning of post season)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/20\/2014<\/td>\nSporting News Comeback Players of the Year AL and NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/20\/2014<\/td>\nSporting News Rookies of the Year AL and NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/21\/2014<\/td>\nSporting News Managers of the Year AL and NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/22\/2014<\/td>\nSporting News All Star Teams of the year<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/23\/2014<\/td>\nSporting News Player of the Year, MLB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/23\/2014<\/td>\nGold Glove finalists announced<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/24\/2014<\/td>\nRoberto Clemente Award given<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/25\/2014<\/td>\nHank Aaron Awards given<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 28th, 2014<\/td>\nFielding Bible Awards given<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/30\/14<\/td>\nHall of Fame “Veterans Committee” releases ballot.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/29\/2014<\/td>\nLast actual day of 2014 World Series; official end of 2014 season<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/30\/2014 (WS end + 1)<\/td>\nMLB Coaches contracts expire<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/30\/14 (WS end + 1)<\/td>\nMLB announces nominees for GIBBYs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/30\/14 (WS end + 1)<\/td>\nOfficial start of FA period (8am CST the day after the last game of the WS)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/1\/14 (WS end + 3)<\/td>\nTeam and player options must be decided three days after the end of the World Series.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/3\/2014 (WS end + 5)<\/td>\nClubs have to re-set their 40-man rosters, moving all 60-day DL players back to active.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/3\/2014 (WS end + 5)<\/td>\n5pm: Deadline to make Qualifying offers for your own FAs (average of top 125 salaries or $15.3M for 2014).\u00a0 5 days after end of WS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/3\/2014 (WS end + 5)<\/td>\nEnd of “Quiet Period.”\u00a0 Teams have “exclusive” negotiating rights with their own free agents during this period.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/3\/2014 (WS end + 5)<\/td>\n5 days after WS ends: Free agent filing period and exclusive negotiating window ends at 12:01 a.m. ET. Free agents can sign with any team.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/3\/2014 (WS end + 5)<\/td>\nFree Agency granted to all eligible Minor League free agents (5 days after the end of the WS).\u00a0 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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/4\/2014<\/td>\nRawlings AL & NL Gold Glove Announcements<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 5th 2014<\/td>\nMLB Comeback Players of the Year AL and NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 4th, 2014<\/td>\nMLBPA announces “Players Choice” awards: Player of the year, Comeback Player of the year, etc<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 5th, 2014<\/td>\nBBWAA Award Nominees announced on MLB networks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 6th, 2014<\/td>\nLouisville Slugger Silver Slugger Awards<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 7th, 2014<\/td>\nWilson Defensive Player of the Year awards, given by MLB to best defensive player on each club.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/10\/14 – 11\/13\/14<\/td>\nGM Meetings, Phoenix, AZ for 2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/10\/14 (WS end + 12)<\/td>\n12 Days after WS ends: Players must accept or reject Qualifying Options<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/12\/14 – 11\/18\/14<\/td>\nNPB Japan World Series<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 11th, 2014<\/td>\nSporting News Executive of the Year announced<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/10\/2014<\/td>\nAL, NL Jackie Robinson Rookie of the Year Awards<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/11\/2014<\/td>\nAL and NL Manager of the Year<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/12\/2014<\/td>\nAL and NL Cy Young<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 13-14th, 2014<\/td>\nOwner Meetings, ?? Location for 2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/13\/2014<\/td>\nAL and NL Most Valuable Player<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/19\/2014<\/td>\nDay to file reserve lists for all Major and Minor League levels.\u00a0 In other words, Last day to add players to 40-man to protect them from the Rule5 Draft<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 26th, 2014<\/td>\nHall of Fame Ballot for 2014 class officially released<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov ?, 2014<\/td>\nRolaids Relief Man Announced<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/2\/14<\/td>\nMidnight: Deadline for teams to Tender contracts to arbitration eligible players and\/or unsigned players.\u00a0 If not tendered, those players immediately become free agents.\u00a0\u00a0 This is the non-tender deadline for arbitration eligible players<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 3rd, 2014<\/td>\nBaseball America announces its Executive of the Year<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 5th, 2014<\/td>\nLast date to request outright waivers to assign player prior to Rule 5 Draft<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/8\/14 – 12\/11\/14<\/td>\nWinter Meetings, San Diego, CA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/8\/14<\/td>\nHall of Fame “Golden Era” (1947-1972) vote announced, San diego<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 9th, 2014<\/td>\nLast date to outright a player prior to Rule 5 Draft<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 9th, 2014<\/td>\nHall of Fame “Veterans Committee” officially announces the results of its voting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 9th, 2014<\/td>\nMLB announces winners of 21 “GIBBY” awards (greatness in Baseball yearly awards)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 10th, 2014<\/td>\nJ.G. Taylor Spink Award voting results announced<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/11\/2014<\/td>\nRule 5 Draft.\u00a0 Occurs at Winter meetings<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 13th, 2014<\/td>\nMLB Balloting results announced for Hall of Fame Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in baseball broadcasting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 31st, 2014<\/td>\nDeadline for BBWAA ballots for Hall of Fame voting.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 8th, 2015<\/td>\nHall of Fame BBWAA voting announced; the Hall of Fame class of 2015<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/13\/2015<\/td>\nSalary arbitration filing Date<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/16\/2015<\/td>\nSalary arbitration figures exchanged (1pm)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/1\/15 – 2\/21\/15<\/td>\nSalary arbitration hearings (actual hearing date per player picked at random), Phoenix AZ<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 13th, 2015<\/td>\nNats Mandatory Spring Training reporting date for Pitchers, Catchers, Injured players<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 20th, 2015<\/td>\nMandatory Spring Training reporting date for position players<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 28th, 2015<\/td>\nFirst Spring Training Game for the Nats<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 2-11th, 2015<\/td>\nContracts of unsigned players who are not yet eligible for Arbitration may be renewed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
March 13th, 2015<\/td>\nLast day to place a player on unconditional release waivers and pay 30 days termination pay instead of 45 days.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
March 27th, 2015<\/td>\nDeadline to request unconditional release waivers without having to pay the player’s full salary or $100k bonus for certain types of veterans<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
March 31st, 2015<\/td>\n2015 Season Opener; Opening Day 2015; active rosters must be reduced to 25 players and 40-man rosters must be established<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/5\/2015<\/td>\nOpening Night 2015: Teams tbd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/6\/2015<\/td>\nNats Opening Day 2015<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the off-season.\u00a0 Here’s data pulled from my 2014-15 off-season calendar, available in spreadsheet form on the Links to the right-hand side of the blog. I don’t know all the exact dates right now (some of the events slightly move from year to year), and I havn’t dug up the exact dates for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1016],"class_list":["post-9929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonnatsbaseball","tag-todd-boss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9929","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=9929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9930,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9929\/revisions\/9930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}