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Originally Posted by beorn
In our online league Extra Innings Baseball, we are running into trouble where players on the 40 man roster optioned to the minors prior to spring training are ending up with major league contracts.
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WAD. All players on the 40 man roster must have a major league contract by MLB rules.
Major League Baseball rosters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Also called the expanded roster, the 40-man is composed of all the players in a Major League club's organization who are signed to a major-league contract.
Baseball Rosters: 25-Man Roster and 40-Man Roster, A History
Also called the expanded roster, the 40-man is composed of all the players in a Major League club's organization who are signed to a major-league contract. These are the players who are able to be called up to the 25-man roster at any given time.
Also on the 40-man are any players on the 15-day disabled list and minor league players who are signed to a major-league contract but are on an "optional assignment" to the minors. (Each player has three "option years" to be sent to the minors once on the 40-man before they must be placed on waivers to be sent there.)