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Salary Cap

Each team can spend a maximum of $125m per season between salaries, signing bonuses, cash exchanges and cap hits for released/bought out players.

Any transaction that would put a team over the salary cap in any season (current or future) will be deemed invalid.

The only exception to this is between the beginning of the offseason and the December arbitration deadline when non-guaranteed arb salaries may result in a team being above the cap. In order to retain these players teams must create the requisite cap space before the guarantee deadline.

Roster Settings

Roster Size: 32 man MLB, 50 man Minor League, 6 man IL
Starting Positions: C, 1B, 2B, SS, 3B, LF, CF, RF, 2 UT, 3 SP, 3 RP, 4 P

Teams are expected to field their strongest healthy lineup at all times. Failure to do so will see the commissioner set a lineup, with long term inactivity or deliberate circumvention both being grounds for removal from the league.

To be placed on the IL a player must be on the MLB 15 or 60 day injured list or the MLB suspension list. An owner can request an IL exemption preseason for any player who has been confirmed to be out for opening day.

Minors Eligibility

Hitters must have no more than 400 AB'S.

Pitchers must have no more than 100 IP.

A player that is over these limits is not eligible unless they have been demoted to the minors in real life or are not currently signed with a team (note that their salary will still count unless they are on a prospect contract). Ineligible players must be promoted to the MLB roster, traded or released.

Positional Eligibility

To qualify at a certain position a player must have played 10 games at the position in either the prior or current season to qualify (minimum of 1 inning average per appearance). Any player not qualifying at a position will maintain his fantrax default position; if this is UT then the commissioner will add a position so long as the player has played the field for a total of 5 games in the past two seasons and 10 games in his career. Players erroneously credited with C eligibility by fantrax will have this removed.

Pitchers must start/relieve 5 games in the previous season or 3 games in the current season to have SP/RP eligibility added to their fantrax default.

Minor league games for both hitters and pitchers will count towards these eligibility limits if an owner makes this request to the commissioner.