Pre-All Star Jibba Jabba Rule Change Talk

[Minnesota Twins]

With a hard cap you cant trade money so that eliminates like half deals at least plus at ton of guys become untradable. Remember when we talked about having cf, rf, lf and people needed 5 yrs to implement the rule. Would be same thing

[torontobluejays]

I am looking at the hard cap from a different angle. If you can get the money and be under $90, I have no objection. However, you have to be under $90m in future years as well. You can't make a trade and get money in 2019 to fall under the $90, but be over $90m in future seasons.

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Guys, maybe we're just going about this all wrong. We're getting into Alan Greenspan territory.

I propose this:

-Eliminate last year's 50% pre-all star break/100% post-all star break rule

-Disallow money transfers in trades where a player was signed to a 1 year deal at x-amount, where x=any amount. Period. You can trade the player signed to 1 yr 30 mil, but there is no money in that deal at all. And there is no gaming the system either. No '2-days later trade for Joe Schmoe to somebody for 15 mil in year cash'. Godfathers intervene and they veto that trade.

-We still allow that '1yr 30 mil player' to be traded to any team, no money, and the return on players can be theoretically player(s) of equal value in money.  We make teams work for the return in money value, but NO CASH.

I dont know if this has been proposed before. If so, apologies. Just trying to offer more ideas.

I thought I was for the Hard Cap, but Minny brings up an excellent point on trading cash-would be eliminated.

Eh, not for that either. Another idea maybe is a semi-hard cap, maybe? You can never be negative-ever, but you're allowed to be over the 90 mil? Is that doable? If so, Im not sure that fixes anything tho. So playing with the cap seems to be a deal breaker in this league for so many good reasons by all of you. I defer to my top proposal as a potential replacement idea of last year's rule.

And I will admit last year's rule made it difficult to continue the behavior we all wanted fixed.  So you can say it worked.  But admittedly it gets a trite complicated when trying to work out a deal.  I'm trying to get a deal done with someone right now, and this rule is playing havoc on any proposal I make to this person b/c of last year's rule.  And we're not into the season yet, rather only in FAAB right now.  So this rule is hurting me you could say (more like tickling me, where I'm laughing to exhaustion).

Brew

[New York Yankees]

Just go back to my original post...if u r trading a MLB player, u r ONLY allowed to include up to 50% of his salary, period! It shouldn’t even matter pre ASB or after, it should just b the MAX amt cash allowed. That way even towards the end of the season, a team is not getting Goldy, Kluber, n Kershaw to change the last month of the Championship run! It didn’t change anything last season but it could have w all the money being returned after the ASB. This way if u have a prospect, Pick, or a MLB player on his rookie contract, u could trade them for quick cash, but it would not allow u to load up on huge expiring contracts!!

In summary, my proposed rule would only prevent teams from trading a player AND paying more than 50% of his salary. U could still “buy” a player without issues, but the only restriction would b on “selling” a player n paying their contract!

[Minnesota Twins]

I would be for removing the half rule but I do think it worked restricting dumping early and created a kind of exciting trade deadline atmosphere.

I think things Are good right now

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Could we amend the current rule to allow for trades with no limitsafter all star break AND preseason?

[Minnesota Twins]

I'd be fine with it not starting til season starts

[New York Yankees]

Was a decision/ruling ever made?

[ex-Pittsburgh Pirates]

No. No reason to decide anything right now. The rules for 2019 are set. Any change would be for 2020 anyway.
But I like the discussion.