SL 2002 Winter Meetings Rules Agreements

Rules Passed at the 01.18.02 Winter Meeting

As the great Steve Swinea once scrawled, any loophole because of poor phrasing is not really a loophole at all

• New SL members shall immediately become voting members.
• If a team's final available reliever of a game is injured or ejected, the starting pitcher from 2 games previous is eligible to relieve. If the starting pitcher replacing the last available reliever gets hurt, your DH must pitch.
• Participants of each playoff series will decide who drives, with the home team having the first option.
• Starting pitchers are announced before lineups are entered in each playoff game. The visiting team announces their pitcher first.
• Free Agents pickups are limited to 75% of their MLB games played and 75% of their MLB CF games played.
• In the event of a regular season usage rule infraction that occurs for a playoff team, that team and the first round opponent will decide by gentlemen's agreement if any additional usage limitation should be placed on the offending player or players.
• Any time after a team has clinched a playoff spot, that team may add up to 2 free agent starting pitchers with at least 21 MLB games started to their rotations. Benched pitchers are ineligible until the playoffs.
• Disallow players who have used all of their alloted steal attempts to be on the back-end of a double or triple steal where no play can be made upon them.
• When teams have used up all of their eligibility at a position, they must pick up a free agent. The free agent cannot attempt to steal or be hit and run with, must be a J-0, J-1 or J-2 (if no J-0, J-1 or J-2s available, then J-3), and, if the pick-up is to play CF, the free agent must have played a minimum of 30 MLB CF games.