Player Extensions

[Dodgers GM]

Any player who is under an MLB contract may be extended, but each player may only be extended once. Players who are in pre-arbitration (years zero-three in service time according to league rules, NOT actual MLB service time) may not be extended. Every team may extended no more than 3 players per year. We will be using a scale based on the player's ranking in total points scored in the previous year for the extensions. The scale is as follows:

Scale for Extensions:
1-5= $6M Added
6-15= $5M Added
16-25= $4M Added
26-50= $3M Added
51-100= $2M Added
101-200= $1M Added
201- 300= $.5M Added
301+= $.3M Added

Each year a player is extended for results in an increase in salary dependent on the scale. Team options may only be added to the final year of an extension.

If a player has an existing MLB contract, the extension will be added on to the end of the contract. All players must have at least 3 years of league service time before they are eligible for extension. This means that 3 years after they've reached the AB/IP threshold for their position (including the year they reach the threshold and no longer become a prospect), they are eligible to be extended if they have an MLB contract or are arbitration eligible. An extension will replace arbitration years.

Once a player is eligible for arbitration, the player is eligible for extension. The player's salary would be 1M + the scale for the next year.

All Extensions must be posted and approved by a League Manager. Once approved, the contract of the player will be updated on the master roster.

[Deleted]

Whats the max extension again?

[Dodgers GM]

Max Extension length is 6 years

[Dodgers GM]

This link is to the post that has the points rankings for extensions for the 2015 offseason. Thanks to the Royals for the huge help on this.

mlbdynastymanager.proboards.com/post/254

[Deleted]

What about the rules on extending a player signed through free agency?

[Dodgers GM]

Rules for extending a player signed through free agency remain the same - if they would have been normally available for extension under the 0.5M/1M/ARB format (so after their 1M season would have finished) then they can be extended. If they're signed as a free agent but would have otherwise been in their 0.5M/1M season this year, they can't be.

[Deleted]

We also made the clarification during last year that extensions can be made based on the previous years rating scale up until the All Star break of the next year. That is unless a player is in the final year of his contract. Those players must be extended prior to Opening Day or they will be free agents at the end of the year.


IF a player who is eligible for an extension is not extended before the All Star break then the owner must wait until the next off-season to extend that player, with that extension being based on that next years players scale.


Am I remembering all that correctly? I'm pretty sure we all decided that was a good idea.

[Dodgers GM]

Yeah we set the All Star break as the deadline for extensions. After that, no extensions until the next offseason as you said. I don't think we ever made any distinction about players in their final year of their contract though that they had to be extended before the season's start, think they can be extended under the same rules.

[Deleted]

i'll make this pitch again.... if we never made a distinction about players in the last year of their contract, only that they had to be extended before the season's start, when does the season officially start? once games begin or at the start of free agency or minor league draft?
i would argue that this year is unique in that we are contracting and things are kind of on hold until the contraction draft begins. with that in mind, i would say the 2016 season starts with the contract draft on saturday. thus, players on rosters right now in the final year of their contract (2015) should be able to be extended up until the start of the contract draft.

[Dodgers GM]

official start/end dates from my understanding is the start/end dates of games. So the 2015 season's games obviously finished in october, so that season was done at that time and we move into the offseason.