Take somebody off the team's roster

Start with the thing people are afraid of, because it is the reason rosters go stale: removing somebody deletes nothing. Not their at-bats, not the games they played in, not a single number in the team's totals. The team's season table reads exactly the same after the removal as before it. What changes is access — they can no longer open the team — and who the app offers you when you are recording.

In the team's stats their row stays where it was, greyed out and tagged Former. It is still counted in the team's totals, because they really did get those hits for this team, and it is still clickable if you want to read their line. The one case where a removed member vanishes from the table is when they never batted at all: a row of zeroes is noise, so a former member with no plate appearances is dropped.

What they stop being is an option. They are not in the batter picker, so nobody can record an at-bat for them by accident; they are off the bench in both batting-order editors, unless an existing slot already names them; and in box-score entry their line is read-only rather than gone, so their totals stay standing while nobody can type over them. Their name still resolves everywhere it already appears, including on a teammate's phone that joins the team months later and pulls the old games down.

Only the person who created the team can do it, and never to themselves — a creator who wants out leaves the team instead, which the app treats as exactly the same soft removal. The removal reaches every other member's device on the next sync, so nobody has to be told to refresh.

It is not a ban and it is not final. Give them the invite code again and joining puts them straight back — the removal is cleared, their old at-bats were never anywhere else, and the team asks them the player-or-coach question afresh for the new stint. That makes this the right tool for a roster that has drifted, and a mistaken removal a thirty-second fix rather than a disaster.

One thing to keep apart from it. Taking a roster-only name off the roster — one of the placeholders somebody has been keeping score for, rather than a teammate with an account — is a different action, and that one does take the at-bats recorded under the name with it. So if the person you want gone is a real member of the team, use the button on their own page rather than tidying up from the roster list.