The change no one has discussed here yet is the one resulting in pitchers having to spend 15 days in the minors on option before they can be recalled whereas position players will continue to have a 10-day limit. That's an interesting change, given how it interacts with the provision in the CBA which states any player spending less than 20 days on option during a season isn't charged an option.
Two full stints on option under the 10-day limit means the player will expend an option year. But now there is a 15-day limit. The math of that does not coincide well with the CBA provision. I wonder if perhaps the minimum number of days to expend an option will be raised for pitchers to less than 30 days.
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Originally Posted by a5ehren
The truly dumb change they keep testing is the "runner on 2nd in extra innings" one.
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For the purposes the rule was adopted in the minor leagues last year — reducing game lengths in extra inning affairs — it apparently was a big success.
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Originally Posted by daves
Increasing the roster size to 26 from 25 is significant.
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For a very long time it has been 25 players on the active roster and 15 on option to the minors. Now that ratio is changing to 26 and 14. That's one less player on option to develop. I wonder if there'll be discussions to increase the reserve limit to 41 so as to allow 15 players on option again.