Minor league option is the key item for understanding the transaction rule.
This is my memorandum about option rules.
TERMS of TRANSCTION
OPTION (optional assignment)
Optional assignment is one of the two ways to send a major league reserved player (on 40-man roster) to minor leagues (Another way is outright assignment).
Optioned player is removed from active roster but remained on 40-man roster (outrighted player is removed from active and 40-man roster).
There is no risk to lose a player to another club with optional assignment (outright assignment is required irrevocable waivers, risk to lose), but not all players can be optioned.
OPTION means the assignment with right to recall, which must be exercised on or before the day following the last day of the major league championship season.
RECALL
To recall is to bring back an optioned player from minors. If a player is recalled during the championship season, he is directly put on active roster or placed on injured list.
RECALL, NOT TO REPORT
To recall, not to report is to bring back an optioned player from minors during the championship season, but not to put on active roster. If a player is recalled not to report, he would be designated for assignment, traded to another major league club, outrighted to minors, or remained inactive (after the conclusion of the championship season of the minor league club to which the player is on optional assignment).
Ten-Day Rule per Major League Rules MLR11b(1)
Optioned player may not be recalled until 10 days of the championship season have elapsed from the date of the optional assignment.
However, if a player is recalled as 27th man for doubleheader, or recalled as replacement for a player who is traded, claimed on waivers, or placed on the injured list, bereavement/family medical emergency list, paternity leave list, or restricted list due to a suspension or administrative leave, 10-day rule is not required.
OPTIONS (as status) per MLR11c
When a player is added to 40-man roster, he is given three OPTIONS.If he is optioned and remained in minors for total of 20 or more days in a single season, he loses one of his options (if less than 20 days, does not lose options).His OPTIONS are not credited with more than one in a single season regardless of the number of times he is optioned.After three options lost in three different seasons, his status become “out of options”, and he can be only sent to minors by outright assignment.
FOURTH OPTION per MLR11c
If a player has lost three OPTIONS within four (less than five) “full seasons”, he is given another (fourth) OPTION for next season.To determine “full season” services, 90 days or more on the active list during a championship season of majors or minors of National Association constitutes one “full season”. Service on the military, disqualified, restricted, voluntarily retired and ineligible lists are not credited generally, but service on injured list followed to 30 or more days on active list is credited.
VETERAN'S CONSENT per Article XIX-A of collective bargaining agreement
Players with more than five years of major league service time must consent to being optioned.
REACQUIRING PLAYER RULE per MLR11j
If a player who could be optioned (OPTIONS remaining) but outrighted during spring training or championship season and reacquired by the same club after 20 or more days of the Major League championship season have elapsed from the date of the assignment, he loses one of his OPTIONS as well as optioned player, even if he is never optioned in that season.
note:I think this rule was abolished before 2017 season...
REFERENCES
"Glossary / Transactions / Minor League Options" on mlb.com
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