Post by Commish on Oct 12, 2011 13:49:35 GMT -6
The salary cap for the first year will be $115 million.
Salary cap may increase over time due to salaries increasing.
For the inaugural season and draft, contracts will be taken from Cot's website. mlbcontracts.blogspot.com/
For younger players, they will not have a contract. (ex: arbitration eligible players), find the year they passes the threshold (150ab/50ip), then add 3 years to that year.
For example:
Eric Hosmer - 1st year of MLB status - 2011
He would have 3 more years with the following contract:
2012: $500,000
2013: $1,000,000
2014: $1,500,000
For the first inaugural season, if a player signs a contract during the year, the GM may option to pick up that contract or keep this contract. This will ONLY apply to the first year.
No-trade clauses will not apply.
Player options will not apply.
Team options can only be used in inaugural contracts and if they are listed on Cot's website.
Contract reconstruction:
Each GM will be able to reconstruct 1 contract per year. This can only be contracts that were made thru the league and not obtained via Cot's. How a GM will do this is that he will post how much he wants to defer into the next year, and that contract will change. However, you still must stay within the +/- 30% rule. Here is an example: Player X makes 18M this year and 15M next year. You can choose to defer 3M of the 18M this year into next year. The maximum amount you can defer will be $5M. Teams will not be allowed to restructure real life contracts, minor league contracts, or rookie contracts.
Salary cap may increase over time due to salaries increasing.
For the inaugural season and draft, contracts will be taken from Cot's website. mlbcontracts.blogspot.com/
For younger players, they will not have a contract. (ex: arbitration eligible players), find the year they passes the threshold (150ab/50ip), then add 3 years to that year.
For example:
Eric Hosmer - 1st year of MLB status - 2011
He would have 3 more years with the following contract:
2012: $500,000
2013: $1,000,000
2014: $1,500,000
For the first inaugural season, if a player signs a contract during the year, the GM may option to pick up that contract or keep this contract. This will ONLY apply to the first year.
No-trade clauses will not apply.
Player options will not apply.
Team options can only be used in inaugural contracts and if they are listed on Cot's website.
Contract reconstruction:
Each GM will be able to reconstruct 1 contract per year. This can only be contracts that were made thru the league and not obtained via Cot's. How a GM will do this is that he will post how much he wants to defer into the next year, and that contract will change. However, you still must stay within the +/- 30% rule. Here is an example: Player X makes 18M this year and 15M next year. You can choose to defer 3M of the 18M this year into next year. The maximum amount you can defer will be $5M. Teams will not be allowed to restructure real life contracts, minor league contracts, or rookie contracts.