Bluebird Banter Library: Blue Jays Options and Outrights Table

This is the ribbon-cutting post.

The Bluebird Banter staff would like to proudly introduce the Bluebird Banter Library: a place for Toronto Blue Jays fans to quickly access important information about the club. One of the highlights is a table which shows how many options a Blue Jays player has remaining, and in which years he was previously sent to the minor leagues.

To access the library click on the tab on your desktop device or the menu button on your hand-held device.

Right now our library only has a small collection, but we hope to populate it with interesting and useful resources for the Blue Jays fan. The inaugural collection includes a few things that have been posted in the past that will continue to be updated regularly:

• Blue Jays Blogroll, where we list fellow Blue Jays blogs
• Blue Jays Roster Tree, where we graphically display the origins of every player on the 40-man roster
• Posting and Commenting Guidelines, which are basically the site rules that everyone should read.

Of course, the highlight is a great new resource compiled by reader MjwW: a table showing the option and outright status of every Blue Jays player on the 40-man roster (and a few who aren't). Quite often I would not know which players can be optioned and which cannot, and it is typically not trivial to find this information online but thanks to MjwW we can just head over to the Blue Jays Option and Outright Status page of the library to check.

Since there is no commenting feature in the library (because you shouldn't talk in libraries) I have reposted MjwW's work here for your discussions, questions, and comments. Go ahead and bookmark that page for even faster access when you need to find out whether or not a player can be sent down to the minors.

CORRECT AS OF 2014-02-28 (For up-to-date information visit this page)

40-MAN ROSTER

Can option? - "Yes" means a player can be unilaterally optioned by the club. "Yes*" means optional waivers are required prior to the player being optioned. "No" means the player is either out of option years, or the player's consent is required.

Can outright? - "Yes" means the team can outright the player upon clearing waivers without the player having the right to elect free agency. "No" means the player can reject the outright assignment and elect free agency

MLB Service - Credited service time as of January 2014, from Baseball-Reference.com in date format yy.ddd. For example, 3.102 means a player has three years, 102 days of service time. 172 days are needed to qualify for a full year of service time, although a player cannot earn more than one year's service in a season.

Added to 40-man - Date the player was first added to the 40-man roster, in date format mm/yyyy.

Opt 1/2/3 - Years that the player's first / second / third option years were used, if applicable. Use of fourth option year, if applicable, is indicated in notes.

Previous outright - Year that the player was first previously outrighted off a 40-man roster, if applicable.

NON 40-MAN ROSTER

Note: All other organizational players are not believed to have ever been added to a 40-man roster, and therefore retain their full complement of options and the ability to be outrighted off the 40-man if added.

Sources: Baseball-Reference, BlueJays.com, TSN.ca.

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