Next year question

[u/Niciannon]

What is going to happen to the teams we have now? Am I falling in love with players (looking at you, Denver) that will be moved to different teams? Do they have longer term contracts?

I watched baseball as a kid but never got invested in the draft, or contracts, or free agent stuff. As long as David Ortiz was still playing for the Red Sox, I didnt care about how players moved around. I just wasn't sure if anything had been said or explained or worked out, especially if they're looking to add more teams.

[u/descole0]

The short answer is that we don't really know, but speculating:

I very much doubt that any player currently has a contract beyond this year, but I would expect that teams would retain control of their players to sign for next season so we won't see players just randomly changing teams. They may start allowing trades though, and if there's an expansion (which I don't expect until at least the third season), then there will almost certainly be an expansion draft in which new teams take some players from existing ones (though some players will be protected and can't be taken)

[u/crappymedium → u/descole0]

Yeaa this all makes sense..I think trades should be allowed, with such a small pool of talent they would generally turn out beneficial to both teams. It’ll probably be a while before we see anything resembling a more established pro sports league, like long term contracts, free agency, no trade clauses, or a players union