OK, let's run through this. Here's a list of considerations:
1. Players are only eligible to be drafted if they've played 0 MLB games. This is how things have always been done. The only difference between this draft and previous drafts is that players like Kim, who signed MLB deals, are now also eligible for the NPD instead of being distributed in the now-defunct waiver draft. Rule 3.3 wasn't clear enough on this, so I've edited it to say the following:
2. The promotion thresholds are something entirely different. Players who exceed these thresholds might be on someone's farm, either because they drafted them (when they had 0 mlb games) or because they added them previously from free agency (if they had played at least 1 MLB game) and then moved them down. Anyone who exceeds these thresholds must be removed from people's farms prior to the start of the NPD. Narcs are encouraged. This is rule 2.2. I've made two changes: I've updated the stated farm size to 2.2 and added a clause where owners will add a player to a team's farm if they draft someone in the NPD with no green flag.
3. The draft room will allow you to draft players with no green flags. If the pick is legal, commishes can move the player down. There might be a draft room issue here, as owners with full 26-man MLB rosters won't have the space to draft a non-green flag. There are a couple of possible workarounds here:
a) commishes just add the player directly to the owner's farm, outside of the draft room
we expand pro rosters temporarily to 28 or something to allow these players to be drafted, then reduce them back to 26 once commishes have moved any non-green flags to farms at the owners' request.