Post by Reds GM (Pat H.) on Mar 25, 2022 5:03:59 GMT -8
Last season the upkeep of the spreadsheet fell behind. While Jeff was still here, he worked on getting the spreadsheet up to date. When he was done, it was found that the White Sox were over the cap at the end of the season. We looked at which transactions caused him to be over the cap. Then went back to see if removing those players made any difference to the outcomes of any games. After analyzing all of the match-ups, removing those players stats did not change any of the outcomes. Therefore, since this was well after the season, we decided to make the White Sox drop the remaining two players involved that were signed to contracts longer than one year, and penalized the White Sox by docking his 2022 cap by the same amount he was over the previous season. This should serve as a reminder that even though we try to track your salary caps, the spreadsheet may not be up to date and it is still your responsibility to monitor your own cap.
As usual, if any of your Franchise tagged or PP players agree to a contract, or sign an extension prior to first pitch of the season, that will be their salary.
The posting window for all free agents will now start each Monday at 2pm PST and end at 11:59:59PM PST Wednesday each week. Up until now, during the off-season any player who hasn't had a qualifying season was ineligible for free agency until after our draft. If the draft happened to end during a FA posting window, the MiLBers were immediately able to be posted and bid upon. From this point going forward, they will not be immediately eligible to be posted. If our draft ends 24 hours before or any time during a posting window, then MiLBers are not eligible to be posted until the next posting window.
Salary Cap:
This season $144M. Next seasons salary cap will be $145M. The salary cap will remain at $145 for the 2023-2026 seasons. The CO reserves the right to review this each off-season.
Minimum Salary:
The minimum salary for this season has been adjusted to $600k. Next season the minimum will become $700k. It will remain $700k thru 2026. It will become $800k in 2027.
PP Salaries:
We will no longer be trying to find real life pre-arb players (without defined contracts) salaries and adjusting them (sometimes in season). This season, PP players who've had a qualifying season who are real life pre-arb (without a defined real life contract) will be paid $600k. After this season, once a PP has a qualifying season, he will be paid his real life defined contract salary or the real life minimum. Real life minimums will be $720k next season and go up $20k each season after that. As usual, PP players without a qualifying season but have made an appearance in the MLB fall into two categories. These players are no longer eligible for the exempt list, the year following making their debut in MLB. Those signed for $1.0M or less convert to our minimum. Those signed for more than $1.0M continue to be paid what they signed for until the year after having a qualifying season.
There will be a poll posted to permanently increase our MiLB draft from 3 rounds to 5 rounds. Please respond to the poll. Everyone must respond. Simple majority will determine if this gets adopted.
For 2022 only:
The MLB schedule is one week less this season, therefore we have removed one week of inter-league match-ups from our schedule.
MLB real life arbitration hearings have two figures submitted before going to the hearing. The team submits a salary and the player submits a salary. That players salary is then set by whoever wins at the hearing. It's either the number the player submitted or the one the team submitted. Since arb hearings will be taking place after the beginning of this season, the CO has a proposal for setting the salaries of the players going to hearings. Each team will have the ability to set the salary for a player going to arb. You may choose to set the salary of that player anywhere in between where the players and the team filed for arb or the published MLBTR Projected Arbitration Salary. Once set, you will be responsible for any shortfall as a cap reduction in 2023. You are deferring the difference to next season. If you set the salary too high you will get the difference returned immediately after the outcome of the hearing is public. Some teams have prepared for this eventual outcome, some have not. This will be locked in place at first pitch and sticks with the player. Whoever owns the player when the hearing is settled will deal with the outcome. This way everyone may do what's best for their situation and everyone will pay the actual salary awarded. There will be a new board in the off-seson section to post the salary you have decided upon.
For example:
Lucas Giolito: MLBTR projected 7.9M. He is going to a hearing. He submitted 7.5M, the club 7.3M. If you own Giolito you can declare you are paying him anywhere between 7.3M and 7.5M. You could also declare 7.9M if you want. If you were to declare 7.5M, that's what you pay him for this season unless he loses arbitration and at that point you get to change his salary to 7.3M. If you were to declare 7.3M and he happened to win his hearing then you would owe 0.2M in 2023, but his salary for 2022 would remain 7.3M
Adam Duvall: MLBRTR Projected 9.1M. He filed for 9.275, Braves 10.275. If you declare at 9.1 you will owe a difference next season no matter the outcome. It will just be more or less depending on the hearing.
