I know some individuals on the boards are very knowledgeable in the area of ML contracts. I am doing a report on the current CBA for school and I have a few questions dealing with contracts and how they work.

 

When a player is drafted out of high school, JUCO or Div I Institution he signs a minor league deal correct...so if this player (we will call him x) X, gets called up does he instantly sign a major league contract or does his minor league deal just carry over into the majors? On the flip side if "X" goes back down what happens to his minor league contract??

 

According to the CBA, the club has control of a player (X) for the first 6 years he is in the majors before player X can officially file for free agency, so if player X's contract is up before the initial 6 season he is in the big leagues what are his options? Is he forced to resign with his current club?

 

The CBA also states that any player who has five years of service at the time of the assignment of his contract and whose contract was executed prior to October 23, 2006, may elect to require that his contract be assigned to another club. How does this "reassignment" of player X's contract work exactly.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated as the current CBA reads like a legal document and some of it is very unclear to me.

They call it the Collective Bargaining AGREEMENT because it IS a legal document, a contract between two parties, MLB and the MLBPA.

 

Read it about 8 or 10 times and you'll be able to answer your own questions.