General Description - From this page you may negotiate with prospects. You may only reach this page by clicking 'Negotiate' on the Amateur Draft Results page.

Player Information - The top half of the page includes the player's information including a link to his picture, player profile and all of his status info. If the player notes that he is looking to sign for slot money, these will be his demands.

Budget Information, Prospect Payroll Budget - This captures your current prospect payroll status, helping you make decisions about prospects. The prospect payroll figure represents the amount that you have allocated to bonuses for prospects in the current season. You may never offer more than the prospect payroll available.

Budget Information, Player Payroll Budget - This captures your current budget status, helping you make decisions about long-term negotiations with prospects. Only prospects asking for big league contracts will want long-term contracts. The player payroll figure represents the amount that you have allocated to your player payroll for the current season. Future seasons are reduced by 80%, 70%, 50% and 50% in order to prevent trashing a franchise for the future.

Previous Correspondence - This will return the results from previous negotiations and offers. You will know whether your offer contract has been accepted, rejected or does not meet the player's demands. Anyone looking for slot money should sign by the end of the next negotiation cycle. If a player rejects an offer, he will never sign that contract, but you may offer him another contract without penalty.

Contract Demands - These are the contract demands of the player. They are a good starting point for prospects. Generally, players will sign for slot money, but some prospects have special demands and those will be reflected here.

Agent - At this time the agent does not play a significant role in negotiations.

Type - Players can either sign big league or Minor League contracts. Those willing to sign for slot money will be asking for their slot money bonuses and a minor league contract for the Rookie league minimum. If a prospect signs a big league contract, he will be placed on the 40-Man roster and earn the 40-Man roster minimum plus bonus. The current season will also mark the player's first of three consecutive option years.

Years - Prospects will demand between 1-5 years on their contracts. Only players who have special demands beyond slot money will ask for longer contracts. If a prospect signs a minor league contract for this season, his contract will automatically be renewed next season at the minimum for the level at which he finishes the season.

Bonus - This is the amount that the player would like to earn in guaranteed money. The prospect will usually not sign for less bonus.

Contract Offer - After finalizing an offer in this box, please click 'Submit Offer.' After your offer is submitted, it will be reviewed and responded to by the player with an inbox message by the end of the negotiations cycle. To go back to the Amateur Draft Results page, please click 'Cancel.'

Type - Players can either sign big league or minor league contracts. Those willing to sign for slot money will be asking for their slot money bonuses and a minor league contract for the Rookie league minimum. If a prospect signs a big league contract, he will be placed on the 40-Man roster and earn the 40-Man roster minimum plus bonus. The current season will also mark the player's first of three consecutive option years.

Bonus - Bonuses are guaranteed money that comes out of the player payroll upon signing. Bonuses cannot be transferred through trades or waiver moves.

Season - This is the actual season salary that you would like to offer the player. The values in the boxes for the seasons will default to his demands. For minor league contracts, this will be the Rookie league minimum of $7,650. For big league contracts, this will be the 40-Man minimum of $54,000. After a player signs a contract, you must assign him to a team from the Edit Rosters page in the GM's Office. If a prospect is signed to a minor league contract and then assigned to any team but the rookie league, his salary will be increased to the minimum for that level. If a player signs a big league contract for $54,000 and is assigned to the big leagues, his salary will increase to the big league minimum, because this contract type only places the player on the 40-Man roster, not the ML roster. There is a maximum allowable offer of $327,000 for any season. The total value of the contract will appear at the bottom of the page. A prospect will not accept a big league contract for more than 3 years unless specifically requesting it.

Holdouts - Some players will take longer to sign than others. Be patient. At some point, they will get back with you and either raise their demands, accept your offer, or let you know that the will not be signing to pursue other endeavors.

Compensation - If a franchise is unable to sign their first, second, or third round draft pick, they are compensated with a supplemental pick in the following season's draft. For any unsigned 1st or 2nd round pick who had 100% of his initial demands offered and refused to sign the contract without it ever being withdrawn the negotiating franchise will receive a pick in next seasons amateur draft at the same slot as the current season plus one. For any unsigned third round draft pick who had 100% of his initial demands offered and refused to sign the contract without it ever being withdrawn will entitle the negotiating franchise to a compensation pick at the end of the third round the following season.

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