2022 Season Opener

[Mariners GM (David)]

Hello All,

It's time! With the lockout behind us and hopefully a minimal Covid presence this season, we begin the 2022 MLB season on Thursday, April 7th.

A few reminders below, since most of you don't read or remember rules. These rules will be strictly enforced.

• Prospect fees will be adjusted to the below:
• 0-60 prospects will be free
• 61-85 prospects will cost $500K each
  85+ prospects will cost $1M each 
  
  
• AB/IP weekly minimums are raised to 40AB/10IP, A $1M cap penalty would be issued for the following year for each minimum (AB/IP) not met throughout the season. This rule will end on June 1st.
  

• Eligible waiver wire players need to accrue 30PA/10IP minimum in their career to be claimed.
  

• You can put a claim on a player on the waiver wire and if won, you can make a corresponding move to clear a roster spot and or the required salary for the claimed player. The corresponding move has to be a player release or a (1) player demotion, during the 48 hour send to minor period, you can not roster the claimed (won) player until he clears the waiver wire.
  

• ARB Scale (4-6) players can now be bid on via FA. ARB Scale (1-3) can only be claimed via Waiver Wire.

• Demoting (1)’s - If you have a (1) scale player on your 40 man roster and want to send him to your minors during the season, they will now be exposed to irrevocable waivers, any team will have the option to claim them and the highest waiver wire team will receive that player. During the offseason you’ll be able to send down (1) scale players freely without them being eligible to be claimed.  
  

• Amnesties will now cover the full contracts of players, which is raised from the $20 limit of previous amnesties.  
  

• Fantrax Roster - Make sure your Fantrax roster is fully up to date with your 26 man roster. If you are rostering a player on Fantrax that is not on your team, you will be penalized. 
  

Good luck to all.

Thank you,

ODC Team

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[Mariners GM (David)]

Hello All,

With the June 1st deadline for weekly minimums expiring and seeing that teams are already aiming to try to fully tank until the end of the regular season, we're implementing a new temporary rule to combat this issue:

Teams must play a player on their roster at every position that they have available, without leaving an open position if they have an available player on their roster who is starting/playing.

Basically, just play the best players on your roster, you can't sit your best/better players for guys who do not see the field. Example: I can't sit Giancarlo Stanton and field Brinson/Inciarte/Cano just because their on my roster. You should be fielding players who see the field on your Fantrax roster. 

LM's will be checking rosters daily and any team failing to do so will result in the below penalties. This is only for the remainder of this season.

1st Offense: Warning
2nd Offense: $3M 2023 Fine
3rd Offense: $5M 2023 Fine
4th+ Offense: $8M 2023 Fine

[Mets GM (Jack)]

Fines don't do anything...........Make it a loss of the 1st round pick