2020 Rule Change Voting Results

Code

Team

Manager

1

2

3

4

MLB # games needed to not cancel replay

no shortage when cutting player

post-season usage

roster size

AAR

Aarlington Aardvarks

Steve Linke

20

Y

M

Y

BUR

Burbank Tigers

Wes Davies

40

Y

Y

Y

CAL

California Luv

Greg Edens

80

N

N

N

CHI

Chicago Colts

Rich Domovic

80

M

M

Y

COL

Columbus Crowd

Frank Lopeman

40

Y

N

Y

CRC

Caracas Leones

Alan Dyche & Glenn Panner

54

Y

N

Y

CUB

Palatine Cubs

Tony Calabrese

80

N

M

Y

DUB

Dublin Pubcrawlers

Adam Smith

35

Y

Y

Y

DYE

Dyersville Jurassics

Jim Aldrich

40

Y

M

Y

GGG

Gotham Gold Gloves

Mike Wilson

20

Y

N

Y

HOH

Holland Heffalumps

Steve Seydell

40

Y

Y

Y

HMA

Hollywood Marines

Brian Anderson

50

Y

N

Y

HUC

Tombstone Huckleberries

Doug Salzwedel

40

M

M

M

NYY

The Yanks

Jim Calabrese

20

Y

N

Y

OAK

Oakland Athletics

Joe Ingraffia

81

N

N

Y

SRD

Streator Reds

Ralph Madara

162

M

N

N

SYI

San Ybel Islanders

Craig Ahrndt

36

Y

Y

Y

TAM

Tampico Stogies

Mike Aldrich

40

Y

N

Y

VRN

Vernon Hillbillies

John Stryker

2

M

N

Y

WRK

Woodfield Roadkyll

Mike Gahalla

20

N

Y

Y

YES

12

5

17

NO

4

10

2

MAJORITY

4

5

1

Votes Cast

20

20

20

Results

40

Pass

Fail

Pass

Proposals 1 goes into effect immediately, Proposals 2 and 4 goes into effect next year.

Proposal 1:  Starting in 2020, if MLB has a season with fewer than x number of games, the GCSL replay for the following year will be cancelled. The 11th smallest vote will determine the number of games that will be required. For example, if 4 managers vote for 20, 4 for 40, 2 for 60, 1 for 65 and the remaining vote for higher values, the winning value would be 65. Then in this scenario if the average MLB team plays less than 65 games, the subsequent GCSL season would be cancelled.  The average MLB team number of games played will be calculated by adding all completed games for all MLB teams and then dividing by the number of MLB teams.

For Proposal 1, if MLB has fewer than 40 games in a season, the subsequent strat season will be cancelled.

Proposal 2: Starting in 2021, when cutting a player due to not meeting a usage check, you may not create a shortage at another position. If you are unable to cut a player without creating another shortage, you shall be required to cut a player from your taxi squad. This requirement applies to the trade deadline check and to the start of season check.

Proposal 2 passes by a vote of 16-4.

Proposal 3: Starting in 2021, should we lower the post season per series usage from 10 to 7% of the full-season AB/PA/IP?

Proposal 3 fails by a vote of 5-15.

Proposal 4: Starting in 2021, should we increase our March to August ML roster size limit from 25 to 26 players? This will not change the current unlimited call up for September.

Proposal 4 passes by a vote of 18-2.

Executive Committee Results: Tony Calabrese has been elected to replace Wes Davies on the executive committee at the end of this season.

New Committee (Year term expires):

Tony Calabrese (2023)

Steven Seydell (2022)

Brian Anderson (2021)