Starting with picks for the 2023 Draft, any team that trades picks it does not
have, once that trade is approved and put in the file, will be subject to the
following penalties:
- At the time the error is brought to the attention
of the league admins, that team will not be allowed to trade away any other
picks for the draft, however they may do trades where they receive draft
picks;
- Once the draft file is out, the admins will review the picks -
if a team has traded a pick twice, that team will forfeit a pick earlier in the
specific round, or one round before, to the first team it traded the pick to.
EXAMPLE 1 - CLE trades its 3rd round pick to NYY on Monday and then trades
its 3rd round pick to CHW on Tuesday; at the time of the draft, CLE has only its
own picks, so CHW gets CLE 3rd and NYY gets CLE 2nd
EXAMPLE 2 - CLE trades
its 3rd round pick to NYY on Monday and then trades its 3rd round pick to CHW on
Tuesday; at the time of the draft, CLE has an extra 3rd rounder (TEX in this
example) which falls before its own, so CHW gets CLE 3rd and NYY gets TEX
3rd.
- If a team has no picks to forfeit to one of the injured teams, the
team will forfeit the pick one round earlier in the following year's draft,
unless the traded pick was a 1st, in which case the team will lose a 1st and
2nd.
EXAMPLE 3 - CLE trades its 3rd round pick to NYY on Monday and then
trades its 3rd round pick to CHW on Tuesday; at the time of the draft, CLE has
no picks, having traded them all away, so NYY gets CLE 3rd, and CHW gets CLE 2nd
in the following year
- If a team continues to violate this rule by
trading picks it does not own, the admins reserve the right to impose greater
penalties upon that GM.
