New OwnersEvery new owner
gets 1, and only 1, free amnesty, regardless of whether an amnesty was used from the previous owner of said team.Note: Please see Amnesty and Cash Obligations.
Roster Limits-Active rosters are limited to
25 players maximum and 15 players minimum from Active MLB Roster (excluding Disabled List).
-The only players who are eligible to be sent to the minors are players in Years 0-2 according to the Master, or players in the minors IRL (regardless of year).-All teams must be back within the Minimum Roster Limits roster limits by the night before Week 1 begins. Reminders will be sent via PM to every owner the night before the deadline.
-It is the owner's responsibility to stay under the limit at all times.
-Any transaction they make that violates the roster limit
will be reversed if the roster is not made legal within 24 hours of the trade.Position Eligibility is 10 games played during the season and 20 games played to be carried over into the next season.
Salary CapThere is a
hard $120M salary cap and a $60M salary floor. This will increase by $2M every 3 seasons.
You may not go over the cap through FA bidding. You
are allowed to go over the cap in trades during the offseason, up to $140M. All players will stay off the IL until March.
Once March 1st hits, players are allowed to be placed on the IL again. Players on the IL do NOT count against your active roster OR your salary cap.
Players must be on IL irl to go on IL in here.If you are not under cap by the time the season starts you will be subject to the following penalties:
Week 1: Loss of the right to sign FAs the following offseason
Week 2: Loss of all draft picks in rounds 3-5
Week 3: Loss of all draft picks in rounds 1-2
Week 4: Banned from league.Additionally, if your team is over the cap at the start of the season you will
lose the right to the $140M hard cap the following offseason, and will be confined to an $120M hard cap.Cash ObligationsCash obligation can only be moved one way:
1- You must have been directly involved in the deal, for the cap.
Starting in 2020 and moving forward, cap can be traded, but teams have to stay within $20m of the salary cap (so between $100m-$140m). For example: I trade away $20m, my salary cap is now $100m. Now I can trade for up to $40m which would bring my cap to $140m.
ALL SALARY CAPS NEED TO STAY BETWEEN $100m-$140m. Salary cap will NOT be applied to players' contracts starting in 2020.We will have a
soft limit of 50 prospects, but you will be able to go over that cap at .25M per prospect. The hard limit is set at 150 prospects.
Contracts (Years 1-6)We will be using a scale for players in their 1st-6th years.
A player's first year begins when they reach 130 AB, 50 IP, 12 Games Started, OR 25 Relief Appearances. Next season will be his second and so on. This is the scale we will use for 1st-3rd:
1st year: $0.3M
2nd year: $0.5M
3rd year: $1.0M
The minimum salary for 4th-6th year players is 1M.
Please view the arbitration scale on ProBoards under General -> League Info -> Arbitration Scale.
If an MLB team calls up a prospect, but you wish to leave them in your minors, you will not owe them their contract until they pass the
130 AB, 50 IP, 12 Games Started, OR 25 Relief Appearances barrier. If you do call the player up to your MLB team,
you will not owe them anything until they reach the minimum barrier mentioned above.Contracts (Years 7+)For all other players we will use a site called:
www.spotrac.com/mlb/. We will use the salary of the year that the player is in, not a yearly average of the entire salary.
All options and opt-out clauses will become team options. You will be able to exercise or decline the option.
Minor Leaguers are not owed salary, but they will cost you .25m for every prospect over the total amount of 50 prospects.
After a player's 6th year is over you will have the option of picking up their new contract extension (if applicable), on Spotrac, tagging them, or letting them go to Free Agency.
Note: As long as the player never becomes a free agent in MLBSD, you can continue to extend them, including if they are still on their IRL contract.
If you wish to pick up a player's contract or an option, you must announce your decision by January 1 after that season.If a player retires on a real-life contract, then you will not owe him money. However, if you signed the player in free agency in the league, you will owe 50% of the contract each year for the remainder of the contract.
You can pick up any player’s extension as long as they weren’t signed as a FA in this league. That extension needs to be picked up before the WS prior to them becoming a FA. Extensions can be picked up at any point throughout the contract, as long as it is picked up in last season before player becomes a FA.Restricted TagStarting in the 2018 season/offseason, the Restricted Tag will be the only tag in MLB Sim going forward.
The bidding will be done
as its own, separate week from all other UFA bidding. It will occur
before all UFA bidding in the offseason. The bidding will be open, as usual, and all normal bidding rules will apply. When a high bid stands for 24 hours, there is a decision to be made.
The tagging team has 2 options once a contract is signed: Match the contract and keep the player, or let the player walk to the winning team. The tagging team will have
48 hours to make a decision.
You must have enough cap space to tag your RFA, you cannot exceed your cap limit to sign ANY free agent.Each team will receive 2 Restricted Tags per season. Only players coming off of their
6th year can be tagged.
The player(s) that your team designates for a Restricted Tag
MUST be acquired by your team no later than that season's MLB trade deadline.
If you are using 2 Restricted Tags, one will be designated as the Primary Restricted Tag (PRT) and you will receive a
20% yearly discount on whatever contract the player signs. The second player will get the Secondary Restricted Tag (SRT) and receive no discount. If you are using only one Restricted Tag, you must pay the full amount that the player agrees to; this rule is designed to give a slight financial break to those GMs who have 2 players on the market, not one.
