New minor league system idea

joekramer5510 · 02-14-2024, 06:00 PM

I have a new 🆕 sea for a minor league system and I’d like to try it out on ootp but I’m not sure it’s possible. It aims to recreate the minor leagues glory days from the pre-branch Rickey era.

The system works by mlb teams drafting out of the minor leagues and every American-born player needs to accrue 4 years of minor league service time to be drafted.

There’s 60 top-level teams (basically triple-a) teams that operate all around the country. Each team has territorial priority to sign a player from their region and the minimum age a player can sign with a minor league team is 16 years old. Until the player is 18 years old, he’s put at a playing time ceiling of around 40-45 games.

Each triple-a team is an affiliate of a major league team, so each triple-a team has around five players on it from a major league teams 40 man roster, who’s been optioned.

The rest of the roster construction is entirely in the hands of the minor league team but they’re given a salary ceiling of around 10 percent of the highest paid mlb player or something like that.

Each triple-a team has two affiliate teams of their own. Single-A is the rookie ball equivalent for players ages 16-19 who aren’t quite ready for triple-a yet. That said, rare talents like Harper, arod-calibers will likely start playing with the triple-a team at 17 years old.

After four years of service time is completed, the players become eligible for the mlb draft and are presumed to be major league ready right away.

I think this is similar to how nhl does things, let me know what y’all think of my idea and if it’s possible.

It aims to create a system with mlb players ready to go from day one. The part I’m concerned about is having these teams be both a landing spot for 40 man players and they also construct their own roster outside of those players.

02-14-2024, 06:00 PM	#1
joekramer5510 Bat Boy Join Date: Sep 2019 Posts: 5	New minor league system idea I have a new 🆕 sea for a minor league system and I’d like to try it out on ootp but I’m not sure it’s possible. It aims to recreate the minor leagues glory days from the pre-branch Rickey era. The system works by mlb teams drafting out of the minor leagues and every American-born player needs to accrue 4 years of minor league service time to be drafted. There’s 60 top-level teams (basically triple-a) teams that operate all around the country. Each team has territorial priority to sign a player from their region and the minimum age a player can sign with a minor league team is 16 years old. Until the player is 18 years old, he’s put at a playing time ceiling of around 40-45 games. Each triple-a team is an affiliate of a major league team, so each triple-a team has around five players on it from a major league teams 40 man roster, who’s been optioned. The rest of the roster construction is entirely in the hands of the minor league team but they’re given a salary ceiling of around 10 percent of the highest paid mlb player or something like that. Each triple-a team has two affiliate teams of their own. Single-A is the rookie ball equivalent for players ages 16-19 who aren’t quite ready for triple-a yet. That said, rare talents like Harper, arod-calibers will likely start playing with the triple-a team at 17 years old. After four years of service time is completed, the players become eligible for the mlb draft and are presumed to be major league ready right away. I think this is similar to how nhl does things, let me know what y’all think of my idea and if it’s possible. It aims to create a system with mlb players ready to go from day one. The part I’m concerned about is having these teams be both a landing spot for 40 man players and they also construct their own roster outside of those players.