Rule 5 Fee

aewin · 06-08-2009, 12:38 AM

A simple change would be implementing the fee involved in drafting a Rule 5 player (used to be $50,000 a while back, not sure what it is now).

Le Grande Orange · 06-08-2009, 03:25 AM

To be honest, I don't see the benefit from doing so. The fee for current-day teams is trivial—it's just one-eigth of the minimum major league salary. In other words, pocket change to a major league club.

That said, if you go back to earlier years, then yes, the fee paid for drafting a player was more substantial in terms of its proportion to the minimum major league salary.

06-08-2009, 12:38 AM	#1 (permalink)
aewin Major Leagues Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Perth, Western Australia Posts: 374 Thanks: 1 Thanked 2x in 2 posts	Rule 5 Fee A simple change would be implementing the fee involved in drafting a Rule 5 player (used to be $50,000 a while back, not sure what it is now).

06-08-2009, 03:25 AM	#2 (permalink)
Le Grande Orange Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Scheduleslovakia Posts: 9,849 Thanks: 2 Thanked 1,010x in 586 posts	To be honest, I don't see the benefit from doing so. The fee for current-day teams is trivial—it's just one-eigth of the minimum major league salary. In other words, pocket change to a major league club. That said, if you go back to earlier years, then yes, the fee paid for drafting a player was more substantial in terms of its proportion to the minimum major league salary. __________________ . "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our abilities and skills, because that challenge is one we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win." .

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