Potential Changes For Next Season

[Brian R (Rangers)]

Please respond to this thread as soon as possible if you can think of anything else and have any input as far as voting choices. See all corresponding threads in this area and vote on them. A rule cannot be changed unless at least half the teams (16) have voted on something and has more than 50% of the votes. When the MLB minor league draft starts on 10/15 (9 days from today), all votes lock.

Proposals to Adjust to Rule 3: Salary Cap(Effective 2013)

(1) Salary Structure
• Same as now (Tier 1: $160M Tier 2: $130M Tier 3: $110M, 2 Franchise Tags for everyone)
• Same salary tiers as now, but tags move slightly..Tier 1: 1 Franchise Tags, Tier 2: 2 tags, Tier 3: $110M, 3 tags
• Tier 1: $160M 1 Tag Tier 2: $140M 2 Tags Tier 3: $120M 3 Tags
• $140M / 2 Franchise Tags for everyone (you have a full 2 offseasons and a full season to prepare for it)
• $130M / 2 Franchise Tags for everyone


(2) Awards going to Salary Cap
• $ added to the salary cap for all team playoff appearances, pennants, and World Series wins AND individual awards won (posted in trophy area)
• $ added to the salary cap for all team playoff appearances, pennants, and World Series wins, NO money for individual awards
• Nothing for awards


Proposals to Adjust to Rule 4: CBS Roster-Scoring-Playoffs(Effective 2012)

(1) Infield position Options
• Keep it as current, 3 IF
• Make it 1 CI/1 MI/1 IF in 2012, 2 CI/2 MI in 2013, 1B/2B/SS/3B in 2014
• Make it 1 CI/1 MI/1 IF in 2012, 2 CI/2 MI in 2013
• Make it 1 CI/1 MI/1 IF in 2012, 1B/2B/SS/3B in 2013
• Make it 1 CI/1 MI/I IF for infinity


Proposals to Adjust to Rule 5: Trading(Effective 2012)

(1) Trade Deadline (currently 8/31 - pretty sure it was a typo since it's during the playoffs)
• Make it 7/31
• Make it 6/30


Proposals to Adjust to Rule 6: Free Agency and Contracts(Effective 2012)

(1) Trading a newly signed Free Agent
• You are able to trade a player you just signed after 2 weeks rather than the current rule which says 1 month

(2) Max Free Agent Contracts
• Make it a 5 year max contract (currently no max years)

(3) Release Penalties
• You are obligated to pay 50% of the player's salary for 2 seasons rather than just 50% the current year's salary as it is now

[metsgl]

So we aren't going to do non-flat AAS

[darren]

Was wondering the samething?

[Brian R (Rangers)]

Oct 6, 2011 20:28:17 GMT -5 @metsgl said:

So we aren't going to do non-flat AAS

I'm not very much in favor of changing it, no.

It'd be again, much harder to track and makes the release penalties all the more confusing. I'm learning from the football league how annoying it is going to be

[darren]

I respect that no biggie just wanted to put it out there.