2019 Rule Change Proposals

[Justin]

1. Changing all pitching slots to "P" slots. This wouldn't require tag changes, but still keep the 1 SP 3 RP starting requirements. Owner's responsibility to monitor their opponent and report violations.

2. MiLB players on active rosters not counting towards 25 man roster.
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2. Imposing a minimum of 10 MLB players on roster, and allowing the other 10 ( to get to 20 min ) being MiLB players.

More to come as season moves forward.

[Justin]

The following have been decided to be implemented in the 2019 Winter Meetings Rules Amendments:

1. Trading draft picks (Rd 1, Rd 2, Rd 3, Rd 4) in deals only involving MiLB players (at the time of the trade).

2. Following real life TC/ARB salaries. If a player signs an extension (see Kris Bryant, Scott Kingery) teams may opt to accept the extension or let the player walk and receive a Compensatory Round B draft selection.

3. Allocating compensatory draft picks for Competitive Balance Round A, Round B, Round C. These draft picks are not able to be traded.
--Round A would be the bottom 3 teams from the previous season (ordered 1-3 based off of Regular Season record). Round A will be between the 1st and 2nd round of the FYPD.
--Round B would be teams who deny ARB salaries who sign real life multi year extensions. Round B will be between the 2nd and 3rd round of the FYPD.
--Round C will be teams who lose Qualifying Offer players). Round C will be between the 3rd and 4th Round of the FYPD.

4. Starting in 2019, international players will be eligible to be won under international signing free agency. Teams will receive a base lump sum of 2m dollars to use towards international signing players.

Teams who receive a competitive balance Round A/B pick will be awarded 0.5m extra for each pick they receive.

This money does not roll over, players are eligible to be signed that are only from the current year of international signings (i.e. 2019 international signees are eligible for 2019 signing period, 2020 in 2020, etc.).

This pool money may be traded. No restrictions on how much you can trade.

The amount you win a player for will be their minor league salary. We will follow their real life contract when promoted to the majors.

The minimum amount you can bid on a player is $200,000 , or 0.2m.

The minimum increment you may increase a previous teams bid is 0.01m. Be mindful of you minor league salary cap. Players will be awarded after 24 hours.

To break a tie for a player (two teams bid the maximum amount of money (2.0m) we will use the team with the worst record the season before. Once you win a player via the tie breaker, you move to the bottom of the list. The order will reset each offseason (think of a waiver claim order in other fantasy leagues). 

[Justin]

Things to be voted on:

Possibly creating a schedule with two day matchups with only one lineup change.

This would allow a two day period to field a starting pitcher.

[New York Yankees]

Rule Change Proposal:
I would like to have a vote on having matchups on every weekday in which at least 10 MLB teams play. This would lower the amount of double headers and mean less skipped starts for SPs.

[Baltimore Orioles]

I have a few rule change proposals of my own. Let me know what you think.

1) A tiered offseason free agency system. By this, I mean the first week of free agency will be players that scored 500 points or more. Week two will be players that scored between 400-499. Week three will be players between 300-399. You get the idea. This will allow teams to have a plan B in case their primary target gets outbid.

2) With the possible implementation of Competitive Balance rounds in the rookie draft, I think we should tie that in with qualifying offers. I believe we should now follow the real life model of teams that sign a qualifying offer player lose their 2nd round pick, and teams that lose the player will receive a Competitive Balance Round A compensation pick.

3) Speaking of the rookie draft, I think we should go back to 5 rounds. Teams can drop out after 3 or 4 rounds if they choose, but teams can go up to 5 rounds if they want to stick with it.

4) This one is very simple, mandatory monthly check ins via a Proboards poll. This way we can better identify who is still active.

5) Increase the Disabled List limit. Having a six player max for the DL is a bit low (I know from experience). I don't think there should be any limit for the DL. There isn't in real life. At the very least, an increase in the number of players on the DL.

6) This last one may be controversial, but I proposal some sort of limit to in season minor league adds. I've noticed the same few teams are always the ones adding minor leaguers throughout the season (I'm guilty of this). This may hurt the league in the long run if the same few teams always have the best minor league systems. I think there should be a limit of 10-20 adds during the season or 3-5 adds per month. Unlimited drops are still fine and offseason adds can be unlimited.

[New York Mets]

Question on TC/ARB salaries … Are we going with IRL increases or is this still controlled by LM's

[Milwaukee Brewers]

Aug 23, 2018 15:41:49 GMT -5 New York Mets said:

Question on TC/ARB salaries … Are we going with IRL increases or is this still controlled by LM's

Real life

[New York Mets]

Ok so how does this change affect last year results as in my case Degrom was voted well over the IRL increase ?

[Justin]

It wouldn’t change anything besides this comings years salary for him.

There is no reason to go back and change his old salary. It does us no good.

Question. Is he in arbitration next year? Or UFA? I have not checked.

[New York Mets]

Ok np thanks I understand. So how will his IRL salary awarded ARB $$$ reflect on my payroll going forward? IRL salary if it is lower will be adjusted in our league to match say ?

[Baltimore Orioles]

In addition to the six rule change proposals I have listed above (which I think should be voted on this offseason), I have a seventh to propose.

7) After the failed 40 man roster/Rule 5 Draft flirtation, I have an idea to fix it. What if instead of having 40 man rosters, we have instead (wait for it........) 50 MAN ROSTERS!!! This allows teams to protect their 25 man roster, plus 25 minor leaguers (or more if they have under 25 players on their major league roster), instead of just 15. The common compliant with the Rule 5 Draft was it hurts teams with good farm systems, which is true. But with the addition of 10 more minor league players that can be protected, it lessens the pool of which you can lose prospects of value.

The original idea behind the Rule 5 Draft was that teams get a chance to take unprotected players from other teams, which I am in favor of since it can help disperse talent from teams that stockpile it to teams that may need a boost. This is healthy for the longevity of the league. I think with the right rule set, this can be something that works.

First off, the 50 man roster can be constructed however you want. Other than the players on your major league roster, you can protect whoever you want, regardless of minor league service time. Its your choice whether you want to protect a newly drafted player (although probably a smart idea to protect 1st and 2nd round draft picks).

Secondly, having one of your players taken in the Rule 5 Draft gets you a compensation pick. You can only participate in the Rule 5 Draft if you do not have a full 50 man roster. If you have one player selected, you get a Competitive Balance Round C pick (between 3rd and 4th round). Two players selected gets you a Competitive Balance Round B pick (between 2nd and 3rd round). If you get the max of three players taken, you get both a Competitive Balance Round B and C pick.

The final new wrinkle I propose, if you remove anybody from your 50 man roster, then just like in real life, that player automatically has to clear waivers to remain on your team. This will force teams to be selective with who they chose to add and remove. If another team claims a waived player, then they must also remain on their new team's 50 man roster.

Feel free to give suggestions or tweaks to this, or any of my proposals. I hope they will be something that will be considered and voted on in the near future.

[Deleted]

I think 40 man can work with revised rules.
1. Players taken in previous 3 years draft are excluded from having R5 and having to be protected
2. Teams can be taken on and off during the season, but to take a guy off he must be run through waivers (just like IRL)
3. All MLB players must be on 40 man regardless if they are on our active roster or minors. If a team does not want to protect an MLB player then that player is released with the appropriate cap hit
4. Teams get to pick the minor the league guys they want to protect (again, players taken in last 3 drafts do not need to be protected).

[Justin]

Nov 19, 2018 14:55:04 GMT -5 @dannymq said:

I think 40 man can work with revised rules.
1. Players taken in previous 3 years draft are excluded from having R5 and having to be protected
2. Teams can be taken on and off during the season, but to take a guy off he must be run through waivers (just like IRL)
3. All MLB players must be on 40 man regardless if they are on our active roster or minors. If a team does not want to protect an MLB player then that player is released with the appropriate cap hit
4. Teams get to pick the minor the league guys they want to protect (again, players taken in last 3 drafts do not need to be protected).

Under your proposal, we would start this next season. A couple things from your post.

1. I like the idea that any active mlb player must be protected regardless of organizational placement. And if you dont, they get waived.

2. I also like the idea of 3 previous drafts.

One thing, in the rare circumstance this happens, what would you do if a player goes to the majors in their first 3 years? Are they automatically protected under the draft picks? Or are they required to be protected because they are an active mlb player?

[Baltimore Orioles]

I just remembered I have an eighth rule change proposal I wanted to bring up.

8) The five teams that finish the season with the lowest payrolls will receive a Competitive Balance Round A pick, regardless of what your record is. My thinking here is simple. In real life, a number of small market teams are given Competitive Balance Round A compensation picks every year. I figure this is something we can tie into our rookie draft by giving the five teams with the lowest payrolls a compensation pick. Even if you are a winning team, if you have a bottom five payroll (in our case, a small market team per say) then you can receive a compensation pick. This will be a way to help boost struggling teams and will reward savvy owners who can still win on the cheap.

[Deleted]

Any player that a team wants to have on their 25 man roster (their MLB) they will have to add them to the 40 man if they are not on there. If they need to make room they have to waive a guy to remove from 40 man roster

[Deleted]

Replying to the post from 8/20:
Things to be voted on:

Possibly creating a schedule with two day matchups with only one lineup change.

This would allow a two day period to field a starting pitcher.

I am not sure this solves the SP issue and there are a couple of reasons I do not like this:
1. Would prefer to lose one game rather than 2 when my team struggles. The missed SP evens out for teams over the season so it is not an issue to me.

2. making that change helps teams that don't work as hard to put a pitching staff together. Now a team can have 3 SP and be just as competitive as a team with 6SP. Seems to take away a bit of strategy for putting a team together. Making it easier for the lazy owners.

3. Most of the SP issues from last year can be fixed with less days off. Last year we basically had every Monday and Thursday off. In other league we schedule games everyday that MLB has 8 or more games scheduled. Only had 2 days off and helped a lot with SP issue.