You don’t necessarily need
to e-mail the Excel file back to me with your cuts – if you want to just send
me an e-mail listing your cuts and keepers and any salary/contract information,
that’s fine.You should
definitely check the roster cut sheet for the official salary and contract
status of each of your players though.
NOTE:If you send the information in an e-mail, be sure to include both a
keeper list AND a cut list – that will reduce the possibility of a player
getting lost in the shuffle.
If you’re using the worksheet, place
an ‘X’ in either the Keep or Release column for each player.For players you are keeping, be sure to fill out the last two columns
(Position and Salary).Make
sure that the players you keep qualify at the positions you assign them to and
that your roster meets the position distribution requirements specified in the
Constitution.The Spring
Training Rosters in the Download Center list position eligibilities for each
player.
Disabled List / American League Players
If a player you are
keeping has been placed on the disabled list by his NL team, you have the option
of leaving him on your active roster for the Draft or placing him on your
Reserve List.The player must have
already been placed on the DL by his NL team.Injured players who are not on the NL disabled list must be placed on the
active roster.
If you are keeping a player who is in
the American League you must place him
on the Reserve List.
To assign a player to the Reserve
List, enter R for his position.All these players count against your limit of 15 major league keepers and
their salaries do
count against your $2.60 spending limit, so be sure to fill in the salary
column.
M-Contract Players
You can keep up to
four M-contract players on your Reserve List without penalty.You can keep more than four if you wish, but each M-contract player after
the first four counts against your limit of 15 major league players you can
keep.
For minor league players
you're keeping on your Reserve List, enter R
for their position and leave
their salary column blank.Minor
league salaries do not count against your $2.60 spending limit.
NOTE:If
you put an M-contract player on your Reserve List, and he subsequently makes his
NL team's Opening Day roster, you
will not be able to activate or trade that player until June 30.Be sure to review the topic Protecting M
Contract Players in Article XIX.Roster
Protection in the Constitution for more details.
Asterisk-Contract Players
Any players who are marked with an
asterisk next to their contract are players who were acquired via a free agent
bid of .25 or more last season.If
you have one of these players and decide to cut him, half of his salary (rounded
up) will be deducted from your $2.60 spending limit.Players who ended up in the American League are exempt from this penalty.
Contract
Decisions
You have additional decisions
to make about any players you keep who are currently on C or X contracts:
C-Contract Players
The player is entering his
option year and is eligible for a long-term contract.You have these three choices:
1.Released player into the Free Agent Pool
2.Sign player for option year at his same salary (he will be
automatically released at the end of the season)
3.Sign player to a long-term contract
If you sign a player to a long
term contract, his salary will increase by .05 for each year of the
contract BEYOND the option year (the option year is the current
year).In other words, a
player signed to a 2 year long-term contract would be signed for the
current season and the following season, and will receive a .05 increase
in salary.The chart on the roster cut sheet can be used in determining
the salary increase.The full
amount of the increase goes into effect immediately (it’s not .05 this
year, .05 more next year, etc.)
You should be
well-aware of the penalty for releasing long-term contract players before
their contract is up, but to refresh your memory, .05 will be deducted
from your $2.60 spending limit on Draft Day for each of the years
remaining on the contract.
X-Contract Players
Owners who have players with X
contracts have two options, and
only two options for what to do with them:
Sign
the player to a long-term contract, with a base salary of .03 more than
his current salary
Release
the player
Note that for players under an X contract you
do NOT have the option of signing them for just one more year at the
current salary, like you would with an option year (C contract)
player.The option year for X
contract players would have been the previous year, not this year.
For more information, see the topic X Contracts
Explained, which appeared in a previous report.