Post by Dodgers GM on Sept 2, 2015 13:19:01 GMT -5
Each team will receive $20M at the start of each offseason to bid on posting fees for international prospects & players. Bids must increase by 100K and are a posting fee so simply biggest bid wins. To sign a international prospect a posting fee must stand unchallenged for 24 hours. International money is tradable whenever league trading is open, and unlike the salary cap unused money carries forward year to year. To start bidding on a international prospect start a thread the same as you would a free agent.
Teams are limited to signing players that have a contract with an MLB team - no signing Japanese players who haven't been posted yet, for example.
If a player has been signed to an MLB level contract (Rusney Castillo, Jorge Soler, Masahiro Tanaka, etc) teams who win the bidding assume the real-life contract that was signed by the player. If not, players receive the typical 0.3/0.5/1/Arbitration contract that all prospects receive. No matter what the contract is, players can be called up/demoted like any prospect so long as they meet the prospect thresholds for their position.
Tiebreaker for equal bids is the reverse of last year's standings. AKA teams who finished last get the tiebreaker over the league champs.
Teams are limited to signing players that have a contract with an MLB team - no signing Japanese players who haven't been posted yet, for example.
If a player has been signed to an MLB level contract (Rusney Castillo, Jorge Soler, Masahiro Tanaka, etc) teams who win the bidding assume the real-life contract that was signed by the player. If not, players receive the typical 0.3/0.5/1/Arbitration contract that all prospects receive. No matter what the contract is, players can be called up/demoted like any prospect so long as they meet the prospect thresholds for their position.
Tiebreaker for equal bids is the reverse of last year's standings. AKA teams who finished last get the tiebreaker over the league champs.