General Free Agency Rules1) Winning bids must stand for 48 hours to sign player.
2) Maximum of 6 winnings bids allowed at a time.
3) No editing of bids.
4) A major league contract automatically trumps a minor league contract regardless of value.
5) No minor leaguer under the age of 23 may be offered a major league contract.
6) Any opening PC bid must be doubled. PC contract bids must be coupled with a bonus $ bid. If they are not, they will be assumed to be PC + 50k.
Bidding GuidelinesMajors Minimum salary: $500k
Majors Minimum raise: $500k
Majors Minimum raise over $50m: $2m
Majors Max Contract Years: 5
Minors Minimum Veterans Contract: VC + 500k
Minors Minimum Veterans Raise: $100k
*Any player with six or more years of arbitration*
Minors Minimum Bid: PC + $50k
Minors Minimum Raise: $50k
Minors Minimum Raise over $5m: $200k
*Any opening PC bid must be doubled*
In Minors bidding, PC stands for prospect contract. It is a guaranteed bonus paid from your current year's salary cap to acquire a player.
Free Agent thread titles should be posted with the player name and position. Minor league free agent threads should include a link to the player at baseball-reference or milb.com.
Any player with real life service time may be signed to a minor league contract.
Free agents signed with
0-3 years of service time will operate on a prospect contract.
3-6 years of service time will be limited to 2 year contract. (If placed on the 40 man roster normal ARB rules will take over.
6+ years of service time will be a 1 year contract.
International Free Agency has a different set of rules that can be found at the link below.http://www.profsl.com/smf/index.php?topic=159576.0Offseason Free Agency PeriodWe're going to open different positions each week for free agency. Once the week is up for each position, no opening bids may be placed. So, for example, on day 7 an opening bid is placed for a position. Bidding on that player will continue until the player is won however no more opening bids past day 7 of that position. Once all positions have been opened and closed for their period, all positions will re-open until the free agency period closes for the year on the final day of the World Series.
There's no strategy in which positions open at what time. If it is clear there aren't many players being bid on for the current position we reserve the right to open the next week's position early in order to expedite free agency. We will give the league 24 hours notice if we open a new position ahead of time.
Week 1 - Catchers
Week 2 - 1B & 3B
Week 3 - SS & 2B
Week 4 - Outfield
Week 5 - Starting Pitchers
Week 6 - Relief Pitchers
You can structure your bids however you like but the contract amount per year must be constant. You cannot offer $20 million in the first season and $3million in the second season or vice versa. There is no restructuring of deals at this point.
International free agents under age 23 are NOT eligible for this free agent period. These international free agents will be part of the international free agency period beginning in July. While a major league contract automatically trumps a minor league contract regardless of value, no minor leaguer under the age of 23 may be offered a major league contract.
There are no more than 6 winning bids allowed at one time for any one owner regardless of major or minor league bidding. Anyone who oversteps the maximum bid guideline will receive a warning via private message however if you overstep the guideline a second time you'll be restricted from bidding for 48 hours or until some combination of your six bids being outbid or your six bids having won their players.
Posts in free agency threads should not be edited for any reason. Posts in free agency threads are binding and considered final. Make absolutely certain what you are posting is what you've intended to post. If anyone edits a post in a free agent thread they'll receive a warning via private message however if you edit a post a second time you'll be restricted from bidding on that player for 48 hours. Thanks.
