First Year Players Annual Draft - Rules etc. - Please Read

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Minor League/Amateur Draft - MiLB



1. The minor league/amateur draft will consist of players with no MLB experience whatsoever. International or currently in the minor leagues is fine, players just cannot be drafted at this level if they have any time on a MLB Roster.

2. The draft will begin on November 1st each year - at this time a $25 deposit is required

3. The draft will go in order from worst to first according to the previous season standings. This will be the draft order each round - NO SNAKE DRAFT

4. The draft will be a slow draft with an 8 hour time limit per pick. After round 3 the clock will be reduced to 6 hours. The draft clock will be shut off from 11 pm Pacific to 6am Pacific. Picks may still be made during that time but the clock will not run. Also if a team does not make a pick in the alloted time they will be allowed to make the pick at the end of the round before we move on to the next one, up until round 10. After round 10 if you do not make your pick in the alloted time, you will have to wait to make that pick until the end of the draft.

5. The draft will take place on Proboards - The draft will be 20 rounds for the inaugural year to establish our minor league squad. A team may choose to stop participating after round 10. In future years the draft will consist of 10 rounds to supplement our minors, and teams can choose to not participate after round 5 and/or trade picks away if they want.

6. Salary for all players drafted will be $1. Once a player is promoted they will bump up to the MLB $2 minimum and remain at that salary moving forward. They will be subject to salary increases going into the next year regardless if they are on the teams roster at the MLB or MiLB level.

***************AMENDED - PLEASE SEE UPDATE POSTED IN THREAD***************

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2019 DUSTY DIAMOND LEAGUE 1ST INUGURAL MINOR LEAGUE/AMATUER DRAFT


1. Will start 12/29/19 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific - 20 Round Slow Draft on Proboards - No Snake, each round will go 1 to 16 - Please see section on Proboards. Players salaries will be $1 and contract will be MIN. Minors will have a seperate $100 Salary Cap, this will allow for future player movement etc.

2. 8 hour time limit per pick rounds 1 - 5, after round 5 the clock will be reduced to 6 hours, after round 10 the clock will be reduced to 4 hours and remain. If a team missed their pick they can make up the pick if it is within rounds 1 - 10 at any given time, if after round 10 and no communication from the team they will be removed from the draft. The draft clock will be shut off from 11pm to 6am Pacific, although picks can still be made in this time frame. Teams can stop participating after round 10 if they choose.

3. Players eligible to be taken - (Note: this status would be as of 11/2019 when the draft should have started)
A.Players with no MLB experience
B.Players with under 130ab/50ip at MLB
C.IFA Players signed to an MLB Team
D.Players you had on your roster that fit this criteria from last season(one time fix due to expansion)Said players are highlighted in yellow on team
roster on google sheets.
Note: Players must be signed by an MLB organization to be drafted.
Please use Baseball Reference, and/or Spotrac to find this info. If it cannot be proven the player is signed, they cannot be drafted. If said player is drafted by mistake you will be informed and allowed a make up pick.



4. If you are going to declare players already on your roster that meet the criteria to be considered draft picks you must declare this prior to the start of the draft. It does not have to be all or nothing, so if you have 5 that fit this and you only want 3 that is all you need to declare. These players will be added to the front of your draft, so if you keep 5, they will be your first 5 picks. If currently higher, their salary will be dropped to $1. If you don’t declare them to be a pick they will fall under the original keeper format for this transition.

5. No trading of picks or players taken during this draft. In the future draft pick trades will be allowed, but not players that were immediately drafted. Player trades would be a non issue anyway because if this draft was done when originally scheduled players trades would have been closed.

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*****AMENDMENT TO PREVIOUS POST*****

Starting Round 10 we will lower the OTC time to 2hrs. If you are OTC for that amount of time and fail to make a pick you will be skipped but can make up the pick at any time. You will not be dropped from the draft as previously if you don't chime in. You will only be dropped if you state you no longer want to draft. If at the end of the draft you still have picks you will be able to make them up in a reasonable time. Time will be determined once we get to this phase, if we even do.

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**Finalized for 2020 Season - 03/05/2020