The new league salary cap stipulates that, effective with the eve of the March 6, 2000, supplemental draft, no SJL roster can carry a payroll higher than 75% of the highest actual major league payroll. That top major league payroll is from the end of the season and excludes "termination" pay and so reflects "actual," not "total" payroll. This year, the top major league payroll belongs to the Yankees at $88,130,709, which means that any SJL payroll above $66,098,032 will need to cut or trade players to fit under the cap. In September, Ron calculated those teams to be, in order, Kansas City, Moline, Baltimore, Florida, and Harrisburg. Subsequent trades may have adjusted those figures slightly. Check your active roster against the player salaries list here. Rookies who retain their rookie status through the end of the 1999 season, those with 130 or fewer ABs or 50 IP, do not count against the cap.
Because Scoresheet mandates active rosters of 30 players, we had a pool of free role players to draft in March. Unlike the "one-year rentals" of last year, these players will stay on SJL rosters until released or traded. Any of these zero players not drafted in March, 2000, joined the waiver wire pool. Total roster sizes increased to 50 with the March draft.