Roster Rules

* [Definition: "Carded Player" means a player who is on the official APBA disk.] * A. ROSTER SIZE AND COMPOSITION 1. Regular season rosters will be limited to 34 players plus up to 6 prospects for a total 40-man roster. 2. A team must be able to cover the season (defined as at least 1100 Play Rating or PR at each position for hitters and a total of 6500 MBF for all pitchers) with its 34 carded players or else forfeit its right to "free" emergency waiver claims for that position (see section VI, "In-Season Waiver Claims"). 3. Prospects may be minor league players, amateur players, or uncarded major league players. 4. During the offseason, there is no limit on the number of carded players a team may have; however, prospects under contract (see below) may never exceed 6. * B. REGULAR SEASON PLAYING ROSTER 1. Regular season league play rosters will consist of 27 players, including at least one backup for each position and at least nine pitchers. 2. Each team must have at least two players rated at each position, and no player can qualify as one of the two at more than two positions. 3. If during the season a team no longer has two players at a position due to injury, it will be required to obtain a new player via either trade or waiver claim. 4. Rosters may be adjusted during each weekly update cycle. 5. Transfers of players between playing roster and farm roster should take place within AD using the "transfer" command. Any player simply "dropped" off a roster may be considered part of the waiver or free agent pool at the discretion of the Commissioner. * C. FARM ROSTER Regular season farm rosters will consist of the seven carded players that can be transferred to the ACTIVE roster during the update cycle and up to six prospects (who must remain inactive). * D. PROSPECT DEFINITIONS 1. Uncarded prospects carry a three-year contract that binds them to their team until the player receives an APBA card, the three-year contract expires, or the player dies. 2. If a player does NOT receive an APBA card in three years, he is automatically waived at the completion of his third year and prior to the preseason draft and is eligible to be drafted by any team during that draft. 3. Prospects carry their three-year contracts when traded; the time does not reset with the new team. 4. A prospect can move to the regular roster ONLY if he gets rated on the data disk. He CANNOT move up to the regular roster as an uncarded player. 5. A player may become a prospect (receive a minor league contract) by being drafted as an uncarded player in the annual free agent draft or waiver draft or by being an uncarded veteran retained by his current team at roster cutdown time prior to the waiver draft.