2016 Prospect Draft - Candyland Rejects

1.       Teams will be allowed to draft and place two prospects, who have yet to see significant Major League service time, in their “farm system”.

2.       Players considered to be prospects are those who have yet to surrender their rookie status.

3.       Once a prospect’s eligibility status as a rookie has passed, the owner must pick him up or the player will be considered a free agent.

4.       An owner will be allowed to add a prospect from their farm system at any point in time, but once added the prospect slot from which they came will no longer be able to be filled, by neither the added player nor any other prospect in the player universe, until the following year’s prospect draft.

5.       If an owner chooses to call up a prospect, the player will not be eligible to return to the prospect slot. If the called-up player is dropped, he will be considered a free agent.

Future Considerations

6.       Prospects may be kept in their respective slot year-to-year regardless of promotion to their realistic MLB team, assuming they have yet to reach veteran status.

7.       A prospect draft will be held each year prior to the season to refill any open spots left by promotions the previous year. The number of open slots will determine the amount of picks each team will receive in the two round draft. A team that did not call up any prospects the previous year has the choice to drop prospect(s) in order to clear room for new selections, or keep both the previous year’s prospects and forfeit any picks in the draft.

• ex. JP Crawford is called up by the Phillies mid-2016. He is called on to fill the spot of a player on the DL. JP plays like shit, and is sent down. He joins the big league team again in September with the expansion of rosters and makes the playoff roster as a pinch runner. Steve Maher of Tristan and the Boys will be allowed to keep him in a prospect slot the entire year, and at next year’s prospect draft he can elect to keep JP in that slot, but relinquish a pick.

8.       Prospects drafted in the inaugural 2016 Candyland Rejects draft (held on Saturday, March 26^th) will be allowed to be sent to a team’s designated prospects slots, but will be subject to the loss of picks in the upcoming prospect draft. If a team with more than 2 prospects elects to keep the players on the team bench, they will be treated as any other normal player, and if dropped, will become free agents.
 

9.       The 2016 prospect draft will be held ASAP in an offline text-based selection process. The snake draft picks will be ordered in reverse in reference to the league draft, meaning the 12^th overall pick in the original draft will select first and 1^st will draft 12^th.