Rules changes will be considered and applied during the first part of the TRAD season to take effect after the 2003 playoff season.

Please use the discussion board to talk up your ideas. Use your imagination and act as a sponsor by starting and coordinating discussion on the discussion board.

So far the only definite change will be to make the PB cap a function of average PB value in each particular organization. The consensus so far is that the cap after the cut to 27 should be somewhere between 120-125% of average PB value in the organization. Please note that we are working on a new team PB value and hope to have it ready by the time we start playing games this spring.

Other areas discussed so far (many of these could apply to RT leagues as well):
---Changing the number of players that can be protected after the rookie draft (currently 27)
---Allowing INN players with less than 50 PA or 20 IP to appear in playoff games (this would also apply to RT leagues)
---Not allowing players with less than a certain number of PA/IP to appear in regular season games (perhaps excluding INN).
---Adding LH/RH criteria to INN status.
---Eliminating the 5.00 ERA standard for INN pitchers (I believe this has already been done but it is not in the manual. The very high offensive years of late have made the 5.00 limit irrelevant as an INN criterion).
---Possibly changing some aspects of rookie and FA draft to encourage more parity.
---Creating a waiver system similar in TRAD leagues but not including players/pitchers with value in following season. This would diminish and make more equitable the present system of awarding INN players on demand.

There are other issues I am forgetting but this is a start.

Mike Bravard (PB)