Post by Chicago Cubs (Curtis) on Jun 24, 2017 11:27:46 GMT -8
All,
Throughout the season many teams have had violations of the 27 man / 40 man roster rules as written. The violations have spurred me to look closer at the intent of the rules, and I am proposing making the following changes in the name of simplicity and streamlining.
1. Do away with the 27 man roster. All players currently on teams' 27 man and 40 man rosters will be consolidated into a 40 man roster. Disabled lists and minors rosters remain unchanged.
2. This would remove the rules regarding minor league options. We would not track these, and the column would be deleted from the spreadsheets. In the league off of which this is based I have not seen minor league options play a significant role in the overall strategy of roster decisions, and frankly I believe that they are more trouble than they are worth.
3. On Fantrax, all 40 man roster players would be put in the active/reserve slots. All 40 man roster players are elligible to be moved in and out of the weekly lineup. Paid minor leaguers and "true" minor leaguers will be in the green minor league spots.
4. This will force all recently-promoted minor league players on the 40 man roster and not yet promoted to the 27 man roster to increase salaries from $100,000 to $600,000.
As a consequence this would add the following salaries to the below teams, due to increases from $100,000 to $600,000:
BAL $4 million
CHC $0.5 million
HOU $1.5 million
TOR $0.5 million
I think that the most reasonable solution would just be to add $5 million to each team's budgets. This would be slightly unfair to those teams that have managed budgets well, but isn't a big enough increase across the board to disrupt things IMO. And this would make trading slightly easier as teams would have a bit more room to swap contracts. Voice your opinions if you feel strongly against this.
I'll keep this open for discussion at the moment in case anything above needs tweaking, but hope to implement this by the end of the weekend.
Throughout the season many teams have had violations of the 27 man / 40 man roster rules as written. The violations have spurred me to look closer at the intent of the rules, and I am proposing making the following changes in the name of simplicity and streamlining.
1. Do away with the 27 man roster. All players currently on teams' 27 man and 40 man rosters will be consolidated into a 40 man roster. Disabled lists and minors rosters remain unchanged.
2. This would remove the rules regarding minor league options. We would not track these, and the column would be deleted from the spreadsheets. In the league off of which this is based I have not seen minor league options play a significant role in the overall strategy of roster decisions, and frankly I believe that they are more trouble than they are worth.
3. On Fantrax, all 40 man roster players would be put in the active/reserve slots. All 40 man roster players are elligible to be moved in and out of the weekly lineup. Paid minor leaguers and "true" minor leaguers will be in the green minor league spots.
4. This will force all recently-promoted minor league players on the 40 man roster and not yet promoted to the 27 man roster to increase salaries from $100,000 to $600,000.
As a consequence this would add the following salaries to the below teams, due to increases from $100,000 to $600,000:
BAL $4 million
CHC $0.5 million
HOU $1.5 million
TOR $0.5 million
I think that the most reasonable solution would just be to add $5 million to each team's budgets. This would be slightly unfair to those teams that have managed budgets well, but isn't a big enough increase across the board to disrupt things IMO. And this would make trading slightly easier as teams would have a bit more room to swap contracts. Voice your opinions if you feel strongly against this.
I'll keep this open for discussion at the moment in case anything above needs tweaking, but hope to implement this by the end of the weekend.