New Rule: Projected Arb Salaries Locked Once Announced
Oct 23, 2024 13:14:33 GMT
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Post by Oakland Athletics on Oct 23, 2024 13:14:33 GMT
We always use www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/10/projected-arbitration-salaries-for-2025.html to get projected arb salaries for the next season so owners can budget.
If they OVER-project you can message an admin and get the actual # on the spreadsheet once thats finalized...if they under-project then just keep the projected number.
The new rule is regarding real life contract extensions that are given to arbitration eligible guys. For example, last year the Royals gave Bobby Witt Jr a 11 year extension in February. That's pretty deep into our offseason. We will not apply the extension until the season AFTER it's announced now. In the past this has been done in our league inconsistently. In real life, someone may get extended immediately after the world series and another guy may get extended in spring training. If a guy is set right now to make 500k in 2025 then he will make 500k in 2025 and we will apply the extension to 2026 and beyond (you will have choice to accept or decline).
This allows everyone to budget properly with trades, draft, free agency, and not have a random 500k to 20M per year surprise in March.
I'll update the rules & constitution and try to word more clearly once done with the spreadsheet transfer to 2025 and then we'll likely open up trades at that point. I'd shoot for around November 1st probably to look for that.
Most all of our rule updates will be voted on but this was more urgent since I'm currently doing the spreadsheets and it's more or less clarifying how this was executed in the past.
If they OVER-project you can message an admin and get the actual # on the spreadsheet once thats finalized...if they under-project then just keep the projected number.
The new rule is regarding real life contract extensions that are given to arbitration eligible guys. For example, last year the Royals gave Bobby Witt Jr a 11 year extension in February. That's pretty deep into our offseason. We will not apply the extension until the season AFTER it's announced now. In the past this has been done in our league inconsistently. In real life, someone may get extended immediately after the world series and another guy may get extended in spring training. If a guy is set right now to make 500k in 2025 then he will make 500k in 2025 and we will apply the extension to 2026 and beyond (you will have choice to accept or decline).
This allows everyone to budget properly with trades, draft, free agency, and not have a random 500k to 20M per year surprise in March.
I'll update the rules & constitution and try to word more clearly once done with the spreadsheet transfer to 2025 and then we'll likely open up trades at that point. I'd shoot for around November 1st probably to look for that.
Most all of our rule updates will be voted on but this was more urgent since I'm currently doing the spreadsheets and it's more or less clarifying how this was executed in the past.
