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Post by Milwaukee GM (Souriyo) on Sept 19, 2017 17:24:58 GMT
I was thinking about this earlier today, and I feel like it makes more sense to do the expansion draft before free agency, which gives the expansion owners a chance to choose whether they want to keep certain players (while still giving original owners a chance to leave a player they might not extend unprotected). That would mean that the protection phase would happen after the season. Expired contracts will be placed in the bracket of their extension salary. For example, if Alex Wood (waiver wire, 500k) has an extension salary of 6 mil, he would go in that higher price bracket. The bracket setup will still be the same as projected.
After the protection and expansion draft phase, free agency will proceed as normal. We will have a re-sign phase (existing owners will have their 5 extensions, and expansion owners will get as many extensions as they would like (since they may be picking a number of expired contracts). After the re-sign phase, all 12 teams will participate in 2018 free agency in preparation for 2018 first pitch.
After the season, I will likely do an expansion draft with this new format just to confirm things. The player protection phase and expansion draft will likely take place around 12/15. I think we ran free agency a little early last year, so I'm thinking we should target player extension deadline circa 1/19 and kick off FA bidding on 2/2. The season starts on 3/29 (?).
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