2021 PROPOSALS

PROPOSAL #1	One Week, Post Draft, Pre Cut Trading Period
PROPOSAL REASON:	Allow a one-week trading period after the draft for trading before roster cuts are due. This will allow teams to ensure they have proper coverage after the draft before other teams are forced to cut coverage players. Example: A team with four catchers could assist a team that needs coverage in return for the 6th starter. Rebuilding teams also wouldn’t be forced to waste draft picks on .930 players.
NAME / FRANCHISE	Chris Douglass – Tempe Tempers

PROPOSAL #1

One Week, Post Draft, Pre Cut Trading Period

PROPOSAL REASON:

Allow a one-week trading period after the draft for trading before roster cuts are due. This will allow teams to ensure they have proper coverage after the draft before other teams are forced to cut coverage players. Example: A team with four catchers could assist a team that needs coverage in return for the 6th starter. Rebuilding teams also wouldn’t be forced to waste draft picks on .930 players.

NAME / FRANCHISE

Chris Douglass – Tempe Tempers

PROPOSAL #2	Bottom Eight (8) Get a Break
PROPOSAL REASON:	At the end of the season, during the disk building process, allow the 8 teams with the worst Win-Loss %, in the season that just completed, to extend (1) of their own pending Uncarded Free Agents an additional year. (SEE GUIDELINES in PROPOSAL REASON) GUIDELINES: > The player extended canNOT be extended as a BONUS BABY player. > Player must have been drafted, never traded & has been on that team’s roster for all 3 years. >Team must relinquish their own 6th round pick to extend. If they don’t have that pick, they relinquish the next highest pick they own (“highest” = the next pick closest to #1). If they do not have a pick, they cannot extend. Being at the bottom of the standings year-in-and-year-out can be taxing on owners. It’s difficult enough for an owner to rebuild their team already, so this would allow the owner to keep a potentially valuable asset without having to worry about them re-entering the Annual Rookie Draft.
NAME / FRANCHISE	Steve Cutler – Hollywood Werewolves

PROPOSAL #2

Bottom Eight (8) Get a Break

PROPOSAL REASON:

At the end of the season, during the disk building process, allow the 8 teams with the worst Win-Loss %, in the season that just completed, to extend (1) of their own pending Uncarded Free Agents an additional year. (SEE GUIDELINES in PROPOSAL REASON)

GUIDELINES:
> The player extended canNOT be extended as a BONUS BABY player.
> Player must have been drafted, never traded & has been on that team’s roster for all 3 years.
>Team must relinquish their own 6th round pick to extend. If they don’t have that pick, they relinquish the next highest pick they own (“highest” = the next pick closest to #1). If they do not have a pick, they cannot extend.

Being at the bottom of the standings year-in-and-year-out can be taxing on owners. It’s difficult enough for an owner to rebuild their team already, so this would allow the owner to keep a potentially valuable asset without having to worry about them re-entering the Annual Rookie Draft.

NAME / FRANCHISE

Steve Cutler – Hollywood Werewolves

PROPOSAL #3	Top 100 Pick buys an extra year of Hope!
PROPOSAL REASON:	Rule: Any team will be allowed to surrender a top 100 pick (#1 – #100) in return for extending one of their uncarded prospects for an additional year. The pick doesn’t have to be an original pick, but it must be 100 or lower when the final draft order is established. This can be done once per year prior to the draft. This is a relatively steep price to pay for just one more year and a team will really need to consider it before taking action. A team is allowed to do this with any of their prospects. They can also extend the same player multiple times in future years, but that would be quite costly. Rationale: Kind of fun, but isn’t cheap. Season-ending injuries seem to be skyrocketing and this keeps hope alive after a TJ in year two. Should also lead to some good stories when someone throws away five years on a 4A player. We might also get to see Sergio draft the MVP from the Little League World Series.
NAME / FRANCHISE	Chris Douglass – Tempe Tempers

PROPOSAL #3

Top 100 Pick buys an extra year of Hope!

PROPOSAL REASON:

Rule: Any team will be allowed to surrender a top 100 pick (#1 – #100) in return for extending one of their uncarded prospects for an additional year. The pick doesn’t have to be an original pick, but it must be 100 or lower when the final draft order is established. This can be done once per year prior to the draft. This is a relatively steep price to pay for just one more year and a team will really need to consider it before taking action. A team is allowed to do this with any of their prospects. They can also extend the same player multiple times in future years, but that would be quite costly.

Rationale: Kind of fun, but isn’t cheap. Season-ending injuries seem to be skyrocketing and this keeps hope alive after a TJ in year two. Should also lead to some good stories when someone throws away five years on a 4A player. We might also get to see Sergio draft the MVP from the Little League World Series.

NAME / FRANCHISE

Chris Douglass – Tempe Tempers

PROPOSAL #4	Expanded Playoffs
PROPOSAL REASON:	Playoffs would be expanded to the best eight (8) teams in each League. 1st & 2nd place finishers in each division plus the next 2 best records would qualify in each league. The division winners will be ranked in the top three (3) spots based on their winning percentage, followed by the next five (5) teams, based on winning percentage. A non-division winner can never be in the top 3 spots. Expanding the playoffs allows for more engagement towards the end of the year. Including the Trade Deadline as more value could be attached to pieces being moved at the deadline.
NAME / FRANCHISE	Stay Corrado – Chicago Mobsters & Steve Cutler – Hollywood Werewolves

PROPOSAL #4

Expanded Playoffs

PROPOSAL REASON:

Playoffs would be expanded to the best eight (8) teams in each League. 1st & 2nd place finishers in each division plus the next 2 best records would qualify in each league. The division winners will be ranked in the top three (3) spots based on their winning percentage, followed by the next five (5) teams, based on winning percentage. A non-division winner can never be in the top 3 spots.

Expanding the playoffs allows for more engagement towards the end of the year. Including the Trade Deadline as more value could be attached to pieces being moved at the deadline.

NAME / FRANCHISE

Stay Corrado – Chicago Mobsters & Steve Cutler – Hollywood Werewolves

PROPOSAL #5	Do Away with Injuries
PROPOSAL REASON:	We already restrict players to their actual PA’s or BF’s, so why restrict them further. In MLB, a player only accrues Plate Appearances or Batters Faced when he is in a game. If it doesn’t play he doesn’t accrue either PA’s or BF’s. If he is injured in MLB, he doesn’t play. Therefore his actual playing time is already accounted for in the PA’s and BF’s we are already restricted to. Why add further to a players’ inability to play. We are basically making injuries count twice,…the real injuries in MLB, which are already accounted for in PA and BF restrictions, and the ones that occur in MWBL. So why have injuries count twice? Seems like double jeopardy. Besides, it would relieve Stray from dealing with injury lists and keeping track of all the injuries,…freeing up the time he could use elsewhere. And it would allow owners the opportunity to use their players without worrying about scurrying around for coverage.
NAME / FRANCHISE	Paul Roe – Virginia Sluggers

PROPOSAL #5

Do Away with Injuries

PROPOSAL REASON:

We already restrict players to their actual PA’s or BF’s, so why restrict them further. In MLB, a player only accrues Plate Appearances or Batters Faced when he is in a game. If it doesn’t play he doesn’t accrue either PA’s or BF’s. If he is injured in MLB, he doesn’t play. Therefore his actual playing time is already accounted for in the PA’s and BF’s we are already restricted to. Why add further to a players’ inability to play. We are basically making injuries count twice,…the real injuries in MLB, which are already accounted for in PA and BF restrictions, and the ones that occur in MWBL. So why have injuries count twice? Seems like double jeopardy. Besides, it would relieve Stray from dealing with injury lists and keeping track of all the injuries,…freeing up the time he could use elsewhere. And it would allow owners the opportunity to use their players without worrying about scurrying around for coverage.

NAME / FRANCHISE

Paul Roe – Virginia Sluggers

2021 PROPOSALS

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