Re: Prospect Draft to Begin

[roadster]

I was thinking five rounds and then free agency. I am with letting people go over ten if we agree that there will be no trades until you are down to 10 (ie so people don't hoard prospects and then try to trade them to get back to 10). I am ok with promoting to the major league roster although I again am concerned about using the tactic to hoard players, hence the rule.

 

I don't think free agency is going to work since we still have the major league phase of the draft coming up.

 

I recall in NSBB keeper league where we did the prospect draft but this was done after the June draft in order to have some sort of order since we have no idea when cbssports was going to add players to the pool...this made it a free for all.

 

My suggestion is don't have prospect draft until after the 2010 June draft. Any players on the MLB or minor league rosters are up for drafting in our major league phase of the draft whether they are on the cbssports database or not. For example, Aroldis Chapman is currently a free agent while Shelby Miller of STL is not on the database. If owners are inclined to pick these players during the major league phase of the draft then they can. However, Bryce Harper cannot be drafted since he has not been drafted by any team.

[shnsajax]

I was thinking five rounds and then free agency. I am with letting people go over ten if we agree that there will be no trades until you are down to 10 (ie so people don't hoard prospects and then try to trade them to get back to 10). I am ok with promoting to the major league roster although I again am concerned about using the tactic to hoard players, hence the rule.

 

I don't think free agency is going to work since we still have the major league phase of the draft coming up.

 

I recall in NSBB keeper league where we did the prospect draft but this was done after the June draft in order to have some sort of order since we have no idea when cbssports was going to add players to the pool...this made it a free for all.

 

My suggestion is don't have prospect draft until after the 2010 June draft. Any players on the MLB or minor league rosters are up for drafting in our major league phase of the draft whether they are on the cbssports database or not. For example, Aroldis Chapman is currently a free agent while Shelby Miller of STL is not on the database. If owners are inclined to pick these players during the major league phase of the draft then they can. However, Bryce Harper cannot be drafted since he has not been drafted by any team.

 

We didn't have a prospect draft last year, thus the reason we are now doing it at the beginning of the year. It was set up was that all players in the last years amateur draft were not available to be picked up preventing the free for all. In fact I think we had a freeze on adding players to the minor league roster at that point as well using just a draft process to add players rather than simply adding players once they became available. I think the current process works the best as we still have to take into account players signing, being added to the database, etc that waiting until June doesn't work as well as it does at the beginning of the season. Plus it really doesn't matter if you add a recently drafted player until now anyways as he won't attribute any points a couple of months after being drafted.

[Guest]

Not surprisingly, I liked it best when I was able to have 5-6 of BA's top 10 prospects every year.

[roadster]

I was thinking five rounds and then free agency. I am with letting people go over ten if we agree that there will be no trades until you are down to 10 (ie so people don't hoard prospects and then try to trade them to get back to 10). I am ok with promoting to the major league roster although I again am concerned about using the tactic to hoard players, hence the rule.

 

I don't think free agency is going to work since we still have the major league phase of the draft coming up.

 

I recall in NSBB keeper league where we did the prospect draft but this was done after the June draft in order to have some sort of order since we have no idea when cbssports was going to add players to the pool...this made it a free for all.

 

My suggestion is don't have prospect draft until after the 2010 June draft. Any players on the MLB or minor league rosters are up for drafting in our major league phase of the draft whether they are on the cbssports database or not. For example, Aroldis Chapman is currently a free agent while Shelby Miller of STL is not on the database. If owners are inclined to pick these players during the major league phase of the draft then they can. However, Bryce Harper cannot be drafted since he has not been drafted by any team.

 

We didn't have a prospect draft last year, thus the reason we are now doing it at the beginning of the year. It was set up was that all players in the last years amateur draft were not available to be picked up preventing the free for all. In fact I think we had a freeze on adding players to the minor league roster at that point as well using just a draft process to add players rather than simply adding players once they became available. I think the current process works the best as we still have to take into account players signing, being added to the database, etc that waiting until June doesn't work as well as it does at the beginning of the season. Plus it really doesn't matter if you add a recently drafted player until now anyways as he won't attribute any points a couple of months after being drafted.

 

Ok, makes sense.

 

So is it ok to draft a minor leaguer even though he is not in the cbssports database (i.e. Shelby Miller)?

[Guest]

I was thinking five rounds and then free agency. I am with letting people go over ten if we agree that there will be no trades until you are down to 10 (ie so people don't hoard prospects and then try to trade them to get back to 10). I am ok with promoting to the major league roster although I again am concerned about using the tactic to hoard players, hence the rule.

 

I'm in complete agreement with this, Juan.

[bukie]

I was thinking five rounds and then free agency. I am with letting people go over ten if we agree that there will be no trades until you are down to 10 (ie so people don't hoard prospects and then try to trade them to get back to 10). I am ok with promoting to the major league roster although I again am concerned about using the tactic to hoard players, hence the rule.

 

I don't think free agency is going to work since we still have the major league phase of the draft coming up.

 

I recall in NSBB keeper league where we did the prospect draft but this was done after the June draft in order to have some sort of order since we have no idea when cbssports was going to add players to the pool...this made it a free for all.

 

My suggestion is don't have prospect draft until after the 2010 June draft. Any players on the MLB or minor league rosters are up for drafting in our major league phase of the draft whether they are on the cbssports database or not. For example, Aroldis Chapman is currently a free agent while Shelby Miller of STL is not on the database. If owners are inclined to pick these players during the major league phase of the draft then they can. However, Bryce Harper cannot be drafted since he has not been drafted by any team.

 

We didn't have a prospect draft last year, thus the reason we are now doing it at the beginning of the year. It was set up was that all players in the last years amateur draft were not available to be picked up preventing the free for all. In fact I think we had a freeze on adding players to the minor league roster at that point as well using just a draft process to add players rather than simply adding players once they became available. I think the current process works the best as we still have to take into account players signing, being added to the database, etc that waiting until June doesn't work as well as it does at the beginning of the season. Plus it really doesn't matter if you add a recently drafted player until now anyways as he won't attribute any points a couple of months after being drafted.

 

Ok, makes sense.

 

So is it ok to draft a minor leaguer even though he is not in the cbssports database (i.e. Shelby Miller)?

Anyone that is in a major league system, yes (i.e. no indy or overseas league guys).

[Guest]

I was thinking five rounds and then free agency. I am with letting people go over ten if we agree that there will be no trades until you are down to 10 (ie so people don't hoard prospects and then try to trade them to get back to 10). I am ok with promoting to the major league roster although I again am concerned about using the tactic to hoard players, hence the rule.

 

I don't think free agency is going to work since we still have the major league phase of the draft coming up.

 

I recall in NSBB keeper league where we did the prospect draft but this was done after the June draft in order to have some sort of order since we have no idea when cbssports was going to add players to the pool...this made it a free for all.

 

My suggestion is don't have prospect draft until after the 2010 June draft. Any players on the MLB or minor league rosters are up for drafting in our major league phase of the draft whether they are on the cbssports database or not. For example, Aroldis Chapman is currently a free agent while Shelby Miller of STL is not on the database. If owners are inclined to pick these players during the major league phase of the draft then they can. However, Bryce Harper cannot be drafted since he has not been drafted by any team.

 

We didn't have a prospect draft last year, thus the reason we are now doing it at the beginning of the year. It was set up was that all players in the last years amateur draft were not available to be picked up preventing the free for all. In fact I think we had a freeze on adding players to the minor league roster at that point as well using just a draft process to add players rather than simply adding players once they became available. I think the current process works the best as we still have to take into account players signing, being added to the database, etc that waiting until June doesn't work as well as it does at the beginning of the season. Plus it really doesn't matter if you add a recently drafted player until now anyways as he won't attribute any points a couple of months after being drafted.

 

Ok, makes sense.

 

So is it ok to draft a minor leaguer even though he is not in the cbssports database (i.e. Shelby Miller)?

 

I believe the requirement is that he's officially signed with a major league team and not back on his college team or playing independent ball.

[Guest]

yes, that's ok Rodelo. Just make sure he isn't on someone's roster yet.