TruffleShuffle

considering how many people got their hopes up that logan morrison would be coming back in the zambrano trade, i have a hard time laughing at red sox fans.

I can't imagine that you can go over the 2000 point/10 major league keeper rule just because the keeper deadline has passed. I assume that you have to be at or below 2000 points/10 keepers when the draft starts. I'm not sure what the rules are during the draft, but I'd assume that you can't, say, deal a couple of first round picks for Roy Halladay one minute after the draft starts. Probably just draft pick trades are allowed during the draft.

OT. Not impressed. if you weight it based on a 48 minute nba game, durant would've had 46 points and westbrook 36. that is damn impressive.

here are the draft pick trades... once again i am hard at work for the bureau of meteorology. 1st round Galesburg Hand Sanitizers receive Mighty D-Block's 1st round pick 2nd round Harry's Budcrew receives Northside Baseball's 2nd round pick Calvinball receives Galesburg Hand Sanitizers' 2nd round pick Tootielicious receives Alamo Stealth's 2nd round pick The Eyes of Texas receive Scioscia's Tragic Illness' 2nd round pick 3rd round Quakers receive Bazingas' 3rd round pick Scioscia's Tragic Illness receives Calvinball's 3rd round pick 4th round Theocracy receives Alamo Stealth's 4th round pick Theocracy receives Calvinball's 4th round pick Scioscia's Tragic Illness receives Habitual Linesteppers' 4th round pick Bazingas receive Kid Rodelo's 4th round pick 5th round Kid Rodelo receives Quakers' 5th round pick (through Bazingas) Alamo Stealth receives Mighty D-Block's 5th round pick Northside Baseball receives Bazingas' 5th round pick Ron Washington's Dealer receives Theocracy's 5th round pick (through Calvinball) 6th round Scioscia's Tragic Illness receives Bazingas' 6th round pick Calvinball receives Scioscia's Tragic Illness' 6th round pick 7th round Scioscia's Tragic Illness receives Ron Washington's Dealer's 7th round pick Theocracy receives Northside Baseball's 7th round pick (through Calvinball) 8th round Quakers receives Alamo Stealth's 8th round pick Bazingas receive The Eyes of Texas' 8th round pick 9th round Alamo Stealth receives Calvinball's 9th round pick 10th round Tootielicious receives Calvinball's 10th round pick 11th round Bazingas receive Galesburg Hand Sanitizers' 11th round pick Theocracy receives Calvinball's 11th round pick Prospect Draft 1st round Tim receives Alamo Stealth's 1st round pick Calvinball receives Galesburg Hand Sanitizers' 1st round pick Quakers receive Tootielicious' 1st round pick Scioscia's Tragic Illness receives Bazingas' 1st round pick 2nd round None

we've done a pretty good job of keeping elite hitters and pitchers out of the draft... better than previous years, it seems. if the first overall pick wasn't a no-brainer before it really seems like it now.

with that all but one team has a legal keeper roster. karen is over the 2000 point limit because she erroneously counted colby lewis as exempt. i sent her a message on CBS about 3 days ago.

juan hasn't posted here but his team appears to be legal: c c. santana (exempt) 1b p. fielder (595.5) ss e. andrus (exempt) lf t. colvin (exempt; also lol) sp d. haren (674.5) sp m. scherzer (376.0) rp j. walden (exempt) rp s. marshall (269.5) total: 1915.5

sounds good to me

well i'm not sure it's totally refreshing. almost all of those teams are bad and have very few players worth making a long-term commitment to.

side notes: -i was shocked to discover that kyle blanks is STILL minor league eligible. he's had fewer than 200 major league ABs in each of the last three years. but he's also had more than 50 in each of those years. let's see if he manages to lose his exempt status while still maintaining minor league eligibility. that would be quite an accomplishment. -my team's name has been changed to Scioscia's Tragic Illness.

i have messaged deven, don and karen as their rosters have minor issues that need to be addressed before they're legal, and i'm not sure if they will check this thread. once they fix their rosters, we only have jeff (who still has several days since he joined the league late) and juan (who said he will set his roster soon). should be able to get the ball rolling with the draft in early march, i would think.

you can thank the perth bureau of meteorology for not giving me enough work to do during my 9.5 hour shift. :lol: it is probably best that someone checks over the teams because it's easy to miss something, like a player getting enough at bats or starts to lose minor league eligibility. like ron washington's dealers having two players with exactly ten starts last year.

ok. from what i can figure with tootielicious: adam dunn (212.75) mike moustakas (exempt) ryan braun (612.75) curtis granderson (631.75) a-rod (317.0) desmond jennings (exempt) mitch moreland (exempt) madison bumgarner (exempt) clay buchholz (195.0) vance worley (exempt) alex white (exempt) total: 1969.25 he's fine on his total points, but he has 11 players that are not minor league eligible any more. alex white appears to be the problem - he still has white in the minors, but he made 10 starts last year. i'll add don's team to the "submitted with issues" pile.

looks like we have 11/16 done, and two teams just have minor issues to be addressed. who is tootielicious? he still needs to post his team.

there is a good chance the cubs will do something that no team has done for 20 years. right.

he doesn't count. so rick porcello (3 full seasons) can still be kept this offseason for free, but his points will count next offseason (assuming that he passes 5 starts in 2012).

please follow the format and stop cluttering up southpaw's thread. he does good work on this home run derby and it is enjoyed by many people. thank you.

here is the format you're supposed to use when replying to the original post: hope this helps.

while we're kicking the marlins, let's also kick that tribune guy in his dave van dyck

truffleshuffle yes no, not really... nothing too good and paying to ship it halfway around the world isn't really worth it

yeah, i think it would be hard for him to compete this year, but it's quite easy to turn it around within the time frame of two seasons. the 2000 point cap pretty much mandates that. obviously there are some dregs in his minor league system (like tim alderson, who was a prospect like 3 years ago), but he can drop all of those guys and get better prospects. among the prospects i added last year (for free) were zach lee, michael choice, matt harvey, randall delgado, jedd gyorko, trevor may and ryan lavarnway. i think all of those guys made BP's top 100. really all it takes is the BA prospect handbook (just pick up the highest-rated guy on some team that isn't already owned) and an eye on some of the BP or BA prospect write-ups.

this is a minor issue, but i'd petition that this isn't really balanced toward hitters: a regular position player, if he's a starter, will probably have close to 700 plate appearances over the course of a season. a starting pitcher will make somewhere close to 35 starts, and a full-time reliever might make almost 80 appearances. so i think 100 plate appearances is a more reasonable number to bring it into line with the cutoff for pitchers. (note this wouldn't help me at all - kipnis, goldschmidt, rizzo and trout all burned an exempt year in 2011 by getting between 100 and 200 plate appearances)

i'm guessing our management ranking would have been a bit lower under the previous regime.

i have no idea where the one on the eyes of texas' roster came from. from what i can tell, he was added by bazingas on 03/27/10, traded to my team (when i wasn't the owner) on 04/02/10, traded to NC Cubs on 05/30/10 for kendrys morales, traded to tim's team for josh hamilton on 10/17/10, then traded to my team last year in the halladay deal. there's no record in the transactions log of shelby miller or the eyes of texas.

to summarize where we stand with keepers... submitted with no problems: alamo stealth bazingas calvinball experiencing turbulence fuzzy logistics galesburg hand sanitizers habitual linesteppers harry's budcrew kid rodelo mighty d-block northside baseball quakers ron washington's dealers the eyes of texas tootielicious submitted with issues: sock it thome (c. lewis not exempt)