My thoughts: 
1. I'm indifferent to this.  I'm not sure it makes a huge overall impact but if we go with it I'm not broken up about it either. 
2.  This one I think is fine.  I agree it doesn't feel like we can hit it. 
3. I'm indifferent on the Ohtani thing as well.  I would be amenable to treating him like 2 players so that if someone wanted they could drop the hitter or the pitcher portion and didn't have to commit 2 slots to him.  
4.  I wouldn't setting some sort of blocker or limit on people picking up or dropping same day.  
5.  I'd be good with a transaction limit, though I'd rather see a weekly limit than a yearly one.  I think a weekly one would add strategy to pickups, and would also likely take care of number for, as guys won't be picking up and dropping say day near as much if it will be the difference between them possibly having a guy able to go due to injury the next day.  As a start I'd set it at like 6 transactions a week.  
6.  I'm indifferent on this one too, but if we do go with a plan I think Razor's is the right idea.  
7.  I think we need a rule.  I think a month is too much time and doesn't really address the issue.  I'd say you get 2 weeks to move a guy from your minors to your majors roster, if you don't move him after 2 weeks, then anyone else has the opportunity to snag him in the majors as if he were a free agent.  I'd also say if a guy ends the year on the major league roster (unless added on the last day of the year) you must add him to your mlb roster to end the year or he enters the pool for the preseason draft.  Let's make this interesting.  
8. I would be opposed to this, but only because of the rate at which injuries happen.  Reducing the roster I think would end up leading to more teams giving up half way through the season if they get a bunch of injuries because they have less flexibility to drop guys.  
9.  I would vote to wait a year.  I don't see how it screws the new guys.  They are likely going to get the same caliber of players this year that they'd get next year, possibly better as a new crop of young'n would hit rosters and folks may not want to protect as many solid vets. I also think we need to get the rest of this cleaned up and in place and working before we bring 2 new folks in.  Plus I think we'd be trying to rush a draft this year before the preseason draft.  I say we table expansion going into 2026, and revisit mid year next year to hammer out draft/expansion rules if we want to change them and then we can go in prepared and do an expansion in December or something.  

Duchess - I think that’s the sticking point there. Currently we say September callups are exempt and don’t lock the minors squad. Champs is suggesting that we should close that gap - regardless of when a prospect is called up (other than last day of the season) you have 2 weeks to bring them up to the majors unless the season runs out before that. Then they have to be called up or they would be FAs

Codename Duchess wrote:

Ah, ok. Yeah, that situation is a bit tricky. Maybe it only seems like a possible issue because it could happen but odds are it won't.

My reasoning behind this part of the rule is:

1. Consistency, rules like this are easiest to remember and check for if they are applied consistently. If we have gaps it will lead to mistakes and then we have to do a bunch of litigation.

2. If you leave September as a free month it allows a loophole thay people will exploit.

3. Not having September seems to just be a way to protect major league rosters from hard decisions. Do you keep someone helping your roster and lose the prospect or bring him up and risk it?

4. It counts in MLB which I think we try to emulate in this league as much as possible.

Additionally now with expansion on the table, I quick counted 6 or 7 guys that should be on major league rosters but aren't, which would likely impact some folk's protected player decisions.

RacinCD wrote:

As for prospect stashing, I think we cannot include September call ups. That is one area that isn't the same. In MLB, rosters expand, which is why people get called up for a taste of coffee.  Our rosters don't expand. It would not be fair to force teams in the thick of things to have to call up minors players who may not even be playing frequently without our rosters expanding.  That would be too much of a hassle. So I would say September callups do not count as someone you can lose if you don't call them up. Now if you don't call them up to begin the next season if they make the big league club, then sure, your time starts then.

While I think this is a horrible idea that will lead to the same bullshit we run into all season now and also muddy the rule. If we do this I would argue if that in thia scenario if a player ends the year on an mlb roster, they must be added to your major league roster within 2 weeks of season end or they become eligible for the preseason draft.

Id also then argue that based on this interpretation that players called up in September should be able to be able to moved between mlb and milb rosters during September since they don't count for anything.