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Each LDB franchise has three tiers: Majors, AAA, and AA.
Each LDB franchise has three tiers: Majors, the Injured List (IL), and AA.


== Majors ==
== Majors ==


The Majors level is a 25-man roster, and represents the active players on the team whose performance may affect scoring. It closely resembles an MLB franchise. All 25 players are available for active duty, and are broken down into the following positions:
The Majors level is a 31-man roster and represents the active players on the team whose performance may affect scoring. It closely resembles an MLB franchise. All 31 players are available for active duty, and are broken down into the following positions:


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| Catcher
| Catcher
| rowspan="5" | Starting Pitchers (5)
| rowspan="4" | Starting Pitchers (Up to 5)
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| First Base
| First Base
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| Third Base
| Third Base
| rowspan="5" | Relief Pitchers (Up to 6)
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| Left Field
| Left Field
| rowspan="6" | Relief Pitchers (6)
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| Center Field
| Center Field
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| Right Field
| Right Field
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| Designated Hitters (2)
| Designated Hitters (Up to 2)
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| colspan="2" | Bench Spots (4)
| colspan="2" align="center" | Bench
|}
|}


== AAA ==
This structure changes during playoffs. See [[The_Game#Playoff_Rosters|Playoff Rosters]] for more information.


The AAA group is a 7-man roster that will be in most cases composed of a GMs professional reserves, although minor-leaguers can be stocked away on this roster at the GMs discretion.
=== Positional Eligibility ===


== AA ==
==== Hitters ====
A player is eligible for an offensive position if (1) that player made 17 appearances in that position during the previous season or (2) the player appeared at that position for 50% of games in April of the current season, or, after April, appeared at that position a total of 12 times during the season. Until a hitter meets one of these thresholds, he may bat as a designated hitter only.


The AA tier is for rookie-eligible players (those defined as prospects by Baseball America, having less than 131 MLB AB or 50 IP), and will provide a GM with a place to draft high-ceiling prospects and to hold on to them for future seasons. Each team can hold six prospects in AA at a time (in the ’10 season, this number will be larger).
==== Pitchers ====
To be eligible as a starting pitcher, a player must have appeared as a starting pitcher in one game during the previous or current season. To be eligible as a relief pitcher, a player must have appeared as a relief pitcher in one game during the previous or current season.


However, if CBS allows a team to start a pitcher in a SP or RP slot who does not have eligibility under the rules above,<ref>Occurring most often in the event of an MLB debut or if a pitcher has not pitched in the current or previous season.</ref> teams may nevertheless start those pitchers as allowed by CBS if such players are slotted in positions that correspond with their actual MLB role (i.e., SPs must be used as SPs, and RPs must be used as RPs). Any players in this situation started in positions that do not correspond to their actual MLB roles will result in those players’ stats being voided.


== Injured List and Suspended List==
In addition to its 31-man roster, each team may have up to six players on its injured list (IL). See [[Internal Transactions]] for rules related to IL transactions.


Internal Transactions
Players suspended in MLB will not count against the LDB 31-man roster. Suspended players may be placed in the LDB team's minor league without being subject to waivers. They must return to the active 31-man roster immediately upon conclusion of the MLB suspension.


• Optioning - Players who have not accumulated more than four half-seasons of “Service Time” (LDB concept, see below) are eligible to be optioned to AAA at any time. This is an internal roster move. Players cannot be moved back into the AA roster at any point once they leave that tier.
== AA ==
• Outrighting - Players who have accumulated more than two seasons of “Service Time” are considered veterans, and cannot be sent to AAA without clearing 3-day waivers. This transaction is not revokable. If a player clears waivers, then they move to AAA. If the player is claimed, they are lost.
• Purchasing a Contract - Players in AA and AAA can be promoted to the Majors at any time, so long as sufficient roster space is available. Note that promoting a AAA player may add to their Service Time, and promoting a player out of AA to AAA or the Majors starts their arbitration clock, and locks them out of demotion to AA.
• Disabled List (DL) - Players on the Majors roster can be put on the disabled list if they currently are on an MLB disabled list. There are three DL spots per organization. Minor league affiliates do not get extra roster space for DL players.
 
Service Time
To determine veteran status, LDB will use an internally tracked concept of Service Time. Each time a player is promoted from the minors to the Majors-level for the first time in a particular half-season, and at the start of each half season, the player will accumulate one half-season of Service Time. Having more than four half-seasons of Service Time qualifies a player as a veteran, and they cannot be freely optioned to AAA. Players retain their Service Time even if they are dropped, waived, or traded.
 
Keepers
In the off-season, LDB GMs will be able to designate a select five players on their Majors roster who will be keepers.
These players are retained for the next year at their current salary (Auction Value - 10% signing bonus, but no player
can be paid less than 400k.). A player can be kept for three seasons, and then they become a free agent.
 
Players in the (LDB) Majors and (LDB) AAA who are signed to long-term deals (contract status of K1/2/3) are eligible to be kept. Mid-season free agents are automatically free agents after the season ends. Starting in the offseason prior to 2010, each team will be allowed to designate one of their mid-season free agents as their “home-town hero”. The home-town hero gets a one-year contract extension at six million dollars (and a contract status of HT). The home- town hero cannot be extended beyond that one year, and must be a player who logged non-September call-up time in the Majors, and is no longer rookie-eligible.
 
“Home-grown” players do not count against the keeper total. Home-grown players are those players that a GM drafts through the amateur draft into their AA system. After their promotion to AAA or the Majors, they are subject to the following salary schedule:
 
“HOME-GROWN” SALARY
STRUCTURE
Year 1 .4 million
Year 2 .6 million
Year 3 1.2 million
Year 4 3.6 million
 
If a Home-grown player is traded, they remain on the same salary structure when they join their new team, unless they are released and not claimed on waivers.


A GM can promote a player in the second half of a the LDB season (week 11 or later) without burning a full year of eligibility. These players are “super-twos”, and are treated exactly like home-grown players for keeper purposes, but they follow an accelerated salary promotion scale. A GM can decide upon promotion whether they want they player to use up a year of eligibility or to be a super-two at promotion time through an email to the commissioner. Supertwos follow the salary structure below:
The AA tier is a roster of unlimited rookie players signed in the AA draft. See [[Internal Transactions]] for rules relating to the consequences of promoting a player out of AA.


“SUPER-TWO” SALARY STRUCTURE
<references/>
Year 0 (promotion year, only
in final half of season)
.4 million (prorated)
Year 1 .6 million
Year 2 1.8 million
Year 3 3.6 million
Year 4 3.6 million

Latest revision as of 11:42, 13 February 2024

Each LDB franchise has three tiers: Majors, the Injured List (IL), and AA.

Majors

The Majors level is a 31-man roster and represents the active players on the team whose performance may affect scoring. It closely resembles an MLB franchise. All 31 players are available for active duty, and are broken down into the following positions:

Hitters Pitchers
Catcher Starting Pitchers (Up to 5)
First Base
Second Base
Short Stop
Third Base Relief Pitchers (Up to 6)
Left Field
Center Field
Right Field
Designated Hitters (Up to 2)
Bench

This structure changes during playoffs. See Playoff Rosters for more information.

Positional Eligibility

Hitters

A player is eligible for an offensive position if (1) that player made 17 appearances in that position during the previous season or (2) the player appeared at that position for 50% of games in April of the current season, or, after April, appeared at that position a total of 12 times during the season. Until a hitter meets one of these thresholds, he may bat as a designated hitter only.

Pitchers

To be eligible as a starting pitcher, a player must have appeared as a starting pitcher in one game during the previous or current season. To be eligible as a relief pitcher, a player must have appeared as a relief pitcher in one game during the previous or current season.

However, if CBS allows a team to start a pitcher in a SP or RP slot who does not have eligibility under the rules above,[1] teams may nevertheless start those pitchers as allowed by CBS if such players are slotted in positions that correspond with their actual MLB role (i.e., SPs must be used as SPs, and RPs must be used as RPs). Any players in this situation started in positions that do not correspond to their actual MLB roles will result in those players’ stats being voided.

Injured List and Suspended List

In addition to its 31-man roster, each team may have up to six players on its injured list (IL). See Internal Transactions for rules related to IL transactions.

Players suspended in MLB will not count against the LDB 31-man roster. Suspended players may be placed in the LDB team's minor league without being subject to waivers. They must return to the active 31-man roster immediately upon conclusion of the MLB suspension.

AA

The AA tier is a roster of unlimited rookie players signed in the AA draft. See Internal Transactions for rules relating to the consequences of promoting a player out of AA.

  1. ↑ Occurring most often in the event of an MLB debut or if a pitcher has not pitched in the current or previous season.
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