Ive long been frustrated when I call a player up as an injury replacement send him down and he continues to make his minor league salary. Why dont minor leaguers revert back to their minor league salary after they are sent down. Essentially a 2way contract.

Against the cap it can work like this.

player A 55k (aaa salary) )+ 10 games @ 327k (327 divided by 162 x 10 = his prorated salary (20.1k))

player A salary would appear as 75k for the season.

Roster manipulation.

I don't really care about this, but that is the way it works in real life and so probably should in HBD.  As for roster manipulation concerns, as long as you can only promote/demote without risking a demotion hit is for DL moves, I really don't see changing this leading to more of that.

I have one player going to the DL.  I want to call up three.   I demote two nobodies along with the DL.    As the season progresses, I fall out of the race AND need a few extra dollars to transfer to prospects.  I demote all three call-ups.  Only one gets the salary reduction.  I send a ticket complaining.   Low level support reduces all three because they don't check it thoroughly.  Roster manipulated.

All 3 should have gotten the salary reduction to begin with - the proration wouldn't/shouldn't just be for DL moves, it should be for anyone making the minimum who gets optioned down.

And if you start demoting guys to save cash, you're going to take demotion penalties.  That's the deterrant for the 40 man roster games.

OK, I see where you're coming from.  I still don't like the idea.  I think it takes some of the decision-making process away from a game based on making decisions.

As it stands, I have to decide whether I want to bring up my best AAA player and increase his salary or bring up the guy already making BL money.   I'd no longer have to make that decision. 

I really don't know how often a situation like that comes up.  You'd have to be looking at A) a temporary call-up situation (if it was permanent the salary issue is obviously moot) B) having 2 different players that could fill the same role and C) one of those players having already been called up earlier in the season to be making big league money (or I guess you could have stashed a vet in AAA).

But, like I said, I don't really care either way.  My only statement is that it is how it works for guys with minimum contracts and options in real life, so it would make sense if they put it in the game.  But we're talking about a difference of 300K or less, so it's a big deal for someone, they probably have issues elsewhere.

Comes up for me almost every season.   Of course, I sign a scrap heap FA with options every season to stash in AAA for emergencies.   That way I don't have to call-up a legit prospect unless I want to.    That said, maybe I'm the only owner who plays the game that way.

It actually came up this morning.   I had a short-term injury to what I'd call "non-essential personnel".    I could put him on the DL or wait it out.  Since I'd made a big payroll transfer earlier this week, I had to have a player making BL money already or I'd be painting myself in a payroll corner.   I had one and the DL was used.

Well, to be fair, I think that's only coming up because of another part of the game that's not entirely realistic.  The rules are kind of nebulous, but I don't think in real-life you can sign a free agent to an major league contract and then option him out, and even if you can, the player has to give his consent if he's got over 5 years service time.

Pretty sure he has to go thru waivers regardless of service time but I could be wrong.   And I'm sure he'd have to be put on the 40.  But that's another story and another way to manipulate rosters.

This would be easy to implement. You would simply have to have a kicker that once started, players remain on the pro salary. Whether it is being on the 40 (players with option years remaining can be removed from the 40 without clearing waivers) or maybe after a year of service time is earned that players 2way contracts end and it becomes a pro salary all the time. I personaly would favor the 40 man situation.

Manipulation wouldnt be a factor as everyone would be in the same boat and it would be more realistic.