NCAA ruling gives college baseball teams more flexibility

[Jeff Drummond]

Did not see this when it was initially announced...

By Teddy Cahill on June 10, 2020

The NCAA’s Division I Committee for Legislative Relief on Wednesday approved rule changes for the 2020-21 school year designed to ease college baseball’s coming roster crunch. The changes were approved just hours before the start of the draft, giving college coaches and players some last-minute clarity on roster construction rules for the 2021 season.

The rule changes were championed by the American Baseball Coaches Association and will give teams a little bit more flexibility for their rosters next year. The three-pronged changes are

• to eliminate the 35-man cap on rosters
• to allow partial scholarships of less than 25 percent
• to raise the maximum number of players who can be on scholarship from 27 to 32.

The SEC also offered up a proposal to increase the number of scholarships for next season from 11.7 to 13.7, but it was not approved by the committee.

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