2020 Corona Season Plan:

[Red Sox GM (Alex)]

For the 2020 Season:

The MLB season in real life is 9 weeks long, to match up with that we will have:

Regular Season:

-Six weeks of tripleheaders, totaling 18 total matchups
-Eight of those will be against teams in your division
-Ten will be against the remaining teams in your league (AL or NL)
-There will be NO interleague play this season to keep things as simple as possible

Playoffs:

-Will consist of the final three weeks of the season (weeks 7,8,9)
-There will be 4 teams making the playoffs from each league
-Only 1 wildcard team this year
-AL/NLDS Week 1, AL/NLCS Week 2 and World Series Week 3

**Expect a published schedule before the beginning of the year with all your matchups**


Draft:

-The draft will begin this Saturday, 7/11/20, and will be 7 rounds
    - If you forget your picks, all 7 rounds can be found on the last sheet of the master (next to Washington/Montreal)
-The clock will be 24 hours throughout, we don’t expect to begin early due to all the other things we need to do in order to get ready
-IFA will NOT be available in this year’s draft
-Instead, all drafted and SIGNED UDFA will be able to be drafted
-Players who were not signed (I.e. are going to college) will not be eligible

**IFA and Rule V will be combined together and will now consist of a 3 round draft with every team having picks.**

**Regular in-season FA will continue as will the Waiver Wire (We don’t anticipate this being used though with the 60 player pools in real MLB)**

Other Important Things:

-Scoring will remain H2H most categories this season with us having 18 expected matchups
-Player contracts WILL advance this season. To compensate for the shortened season and in addition to the new rules agreed to this offseason each time will:
        -Have 1 extension for an expiring player or a player ending his 6th YOS
        -Be able to run back 1 player’s year of service
-There will be no trade deadline this year UNTIL the playoffs begin in Week 7 (should be around the week of September 7th)
-There will be no UDFA period like the MLB had this year, all undrafted players will go to the Rule V pool this offseason

TBD: With COVID cases expected during the season, we expect to increase the IL slots from 3 to 5 OR have an unlimited amount of spaces on a COVID IL
TBD: If the MLB shuts down at any point, contracts will not advance and the league will just begin a normal offseason program
        -Only exception is if our season is over obviously
        -IF we don’t crown a champion, there will be no need to advance contracts

[Marlins GM (Andrew)]

Two follow ups on this:

1) we will vote on the elements of the plan written above considering future contracts (i.e. deferral, extension). Other options can be considered, including no unique compensation.

2) a deferred 6th and 7th round will be created following round 6 and 7 in 2021. Teams will have the option to defer 2020 6th rounders to the 2021 deferred 6th and 2020 7th rounders to the 2021 deferred 7th round.

[Marlins GM (Andrew)]

Extension plan update documentation:

Each team will get an extension they can use once per two years on any year (5) or (6) player. Teams will have the option to offer between a 0-3 year contract based on the arbitration salary calculator. The AAV of the contract offer will be 3.5x the salary that would have been offered via arbitration.

There will be a window in the offseason where all players who are extension eligible will have their potential salaries calculated in advance of free agency.