Player to be Named Later?!
by limecat on Aug 8, 2006 3:15 AM PDT
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PrintWith the non-waivers trading deadline a few days ago, I noticed a few players were traded for "a player to be named later."
I'm wondering what exactly this PTBNL is. Who exactly picks this player? Does the team sending the PTBNL grab some hopeless AA player and ship him over? Or does the other team have some say in it? How exactly does this work?
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There will be people who can explain it better,
I even think there were cases of the PTBNL being the return of the same player that went over in the first place, like a sort of play-off rental, but have no examples to back it up. Surely, someone will be able to tell us if this is true.
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When a transaction is made and the teams agree on a PTBNL, that player is often a new draftee that cannot be traded for several months.
Wikipedia
Gives good concise an explanation, and also an example of where "the PTBNL being the return of the same player that went over in the first place".
by matthias on Aug 8, 2006 7:20 AM PDT reply actions
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