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[Greg – COU]

Disallowing the “Wrong” Middle Infielder to Cover

Add section 3.9 to the Game Rules:

On any playing situation where one of the middle infielders is covering second base:

a. Second baseman covers the bag if the throw is coming from the catcher and the batter is right-handed; if the throw is coming from a left-handed pitcher; or if the throw is coming from the shortstop, third baseman, or left fielder.

b. Shortstop covers the bag if the throw is coming from the catcher and the batter is left-handed; if the throw is coming from a right-handed pitcher; or if the throw is coming from the second baseman, first baseman, or right fielder.

c. If the throw is from the center fielder, shortstop covers if the throw is coming from right center; second baseman covers if the throw is coming from left center. If the throw is coming from straight center, shortstop covers if the center fielder throws left-handed, and second baseman covers if the center fielder throws right-handed.

[Greg – COU]

At the end of the end of the season, the maximun number players a team will be allowed to protect is 27.

[Mike – COL] A salary cap system will be used for determining free agents instead of usage. A salary cap of $4o million will be used. Salaries published on USA Today from the previous year will be used for determining player salaries. No team may go over the salary cap.

[Mike – COL] Each teams' roster will be expanded to 40 players. The five new roster spots will be allotted for five players who have yet to be carded in the MLB. The player may be retained for as long as the owner wishes.

[Greg – COU]

Add to section 8:

8.x Increased Injury to Fatigued Pitchers

A pitcher pitching while fatigued shall be considered as having one injury rating worse than his printed injury rating. Pitchers injured while fatigued will only receive usage credit (see section 4.5.3) for as many days as he would have been injured had he not been pitching fatigued.

[Greg – COU]

Change this:

4.2.2 New Owner Trading “Any owner newly appointed shall be barred from making any trades until 2 weeks after the appointment is announced in the IBL newsletter unless he, at the time of taking over the new team, was a co-owner of another IBL team and has served as such for 17 weeks consecutively.”

to this

4.2.2 New Owner Trading “Any owner newly appointed shall be barred from making any trades until 4 weeks after the appointment is announced in the IBL newsletter unless they, at the time of taking over the new team, was a co-owner of another IBL team and has served as such for 17 weeks consecutively, which then the barring shall be 2 weeks.

[Greg – COU]

If a team cuts a player, that same team must wait for 2 weeks before being able to put a claim in to sign the same player again.

[Gerard – HAG]

Add the following rule:

8.1.2 An infielder may only do one of the following actions during each at bat: Hold the runner on, play in or guard the lines.

Each of these actions require that the fielder stand in a wholely different area to start the play, and although cumulative range penalties can make up for the incentive to be all thing at all times, it is more true to baseball if only one is done at a time.

[Commissioner] Add the following procedure to league rules:

After the draft ends but before rosters are due for Opening Day, 4 players will be randomly selected off a team's 35-man roster (uncarded players are not eligible) and those 4 players will be subjected to an injury roll. Any injuries will be considered to have occured during “sprint training” and will be effective as of week 1.

The purpose of this is to simulate injuries that happen to players during spring training.

[Nelson Lu - PAD] Option 2: Same as Commissioner's proposal above, but subject 10 random players per team to injury roll.

Option 3: Same as Commissioner's proposal above, but subject 20 random players per team to injury roll.

Option 4: Same as Commissioner's proposal above, but subject all players on a roster (active or inactive) to injury roll.

Option 5: Same as Commissioner's proposal above, but subject all players (including unclaimed players) to injury roll.

[Nelson Lu - PAD]

Pitchers may not pitch while “doubly fatigued” unless no other pitchers are available. A pitcher is considered “doubly fatigued” when he has given up twice as many earned runs or twice as many runners as necessary for him to become fatigued.

The Commissioner is authorized to recraft this section should the IBL switch to a batters-faced model or another model for pitcher fatigue.

[Commissioner]

In order to erase some of the last vestiges of our Pursue The Pennant heritage, TIG should remove the existing innings-pitched fatigue system and replace it with a batters-faced model. Design team will come up with methodology for assigning fatigue ratings to pitchers.

[Andrew Selder - WMS]

The deadline for transactions will be 24 hours after the results deadline. This will allow owners to make transactions based on results that arrive immediately before the deadline (injuries, usage issues, etc), or based on the results of other teams.

[Ryan Schutt - LAW]

Introduce a new “Immune” injury category. A position player that played in all innings of all his team's games would be given the Immune injury rating. Pitchers and players who played at any time as the DH will not be eligible for this rating. A player with this rating is immune from missing any games due to injury. A player with this injury rating will still be eligible for injuries that don't prevent him from playing, such as hamstring injuries.

[Gerard - HAG]

Add a wild play chart to the bunting chart on 00 results to include the odd plays available during bunting and to prevent people from shielding their players from injuries by attempting bunts. List to be determined by Commish or by one or more of his hired goons.

Suggestions: 1. batter is hit by pitch on hand while attempting bunt, check for injury, no HBP, strike one.

           2. catcher uses mask to stop ball, automatic 1 base advancement.
           3. pitcher collides with fielder, check both for injury, 1B inf.
           4. thrown ball hits batter, out for being in baseline, check for injury.
           5. fielder watches ball hug the line EVEN = foul; ODD = fair, 1b - any runner may attempt to advance an
               extra base by subtracting 2 from his baserunning.
           6. batter misses bunt sign, roll regular at bat with hit&run in effect. If K and CS, batter is benched for
               the rest of the series.
           7. pitchout, if runner's jump is 2+, he is caught in a rundown (follow RUNDOWN rules from coach's choice
               chart).
           8. batter collides with 1B, check both for injury, EVEN = out for batter's interference, runners return to 
               base; ODD = safe.
           9. if infielder fielding is playing in, batter tries a 'slug bunt'. Resolve as HG to fielder with
               appropriate adjustments. Otherwise, successful sacrifice, batter out, all runners advance.
           10. batter slips getting out of the batter's box, check for injury. If catcher was fielding the ball, he
                trips on batter, check for injury, successful sacrifice. If any other fielder was fielding, resolve
                as DP with batter out even if bases not loaded in sqeeze situation.
           11. batter takes one for the team, HBP, check for injury. If catcher and/or pitcher are HOT, they are 
                ejected for argueing the call (if batter is ALSO hot, a fight breaks out, check other HOT player(s)
                for injury and check batter again - injuries to be served concurrently - all fighters ejected and
                suspended 3 games)