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I still need 1 more owner to send me their info for the invite

Wow this league has 8 DL spots; why so many?

I thought this was going to be about cooking.

We voted to have unlimited rsoter spots for players put on the DL and 8 was ESPNs max. Teams should not be penalized by having to cut an injured player. If a team goes over 8, then I'll have to commissioner-enforce the rule.

Also, no team can add a player on the DL to their team via waivers

So was a normal snake draft the consensus then (as opposed to auction)?

yessir - it was 6-5 for the draft, and one of the auction voters pulled out.

Rockin'

Mmmmmmm...Boston Market

I want chicken now.

See? Now you guys know how I feel.

I haven't seen an invite for the league. Also...I'm going to have to scramble a bit to make an 11:30 AM draft. I should be able to pull it off though.

Glen - I've sent it 4 or 5 times - make sure they aren't ending up in your spam folder. Otherwise I'll need a different email address to use.

Also, Chief Rum has yet to accept the invite.

Right now, ESPN is telling me the draft is not scheduled - please accept invitations as soon as you can!

All Right,

I'm in. Only had the one invite though.. In any case, I'm in.

Whoops, forgot to get that set when I was home. I'll get in tonight.

The Fukushima Isotopes are ready for the draft.

The draft time is going to be rough for me too. I get out of church at 11:15, so I'll have to haul it it home fast. Hopefully I won't miss my first or second pick.

i can move the draft forward to 3 or 3:30 PM edt if that'll help - what say the east coasters?

Anytime Sunday afternoon is great for me (I am CST) so I am happy with bumping it out a bit if it helps others.

The bump of half an hour or hour would be a great help. If it doesn't hurt anyone's plans us west coasters with church would appreciate it.

Prefer 3 to 3:30 but i'm cool with either.

I'm good.

/tk

I am finally in. All good on the draft.

3 would be awesome

I bumped the draft 30 minutes to 3PM EDT to help the west coasters and the church goers.

Can we drop the pick time limit to 30 or 45 seconds?

30 seconds is not enough time. I like it the way it is. Minimum i'd go for would be 60 seconds.

Even at 90 seconds, things will move fast.

Looking forward to embarrassing myself tomorrow. I've never been in a keeper league, and am not as familiar with the NL as the AL. I hope i'm not drafting first, as i really have no idea how the 1st round will play out.

Just some advise, but with our system, I wouldn't worry too much about the keeper aspect, especially early in the draft

Are we drafting our minor leaguers today or later in the season? I personally think a June draft just like MLB would be cool. It would give the season an added dimension of following prospects as the season goes on.

+1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

/tk

I'm just hoping that whenever the minor league draft is, we get to pick from a list. I have no idea who the prospects are. Last year I knew of two...and they are both in the major leagues today...so no help there.

draft order

Chris Gerheart
TerpKristen
scott
danny
steve mcclure
schmidty
Andrew Belonger
John Naumoff
Eric Joseph
Chief Rum
me
Toddzilla

I don't think a date has been decided yet, but it's today for sure - I would guess we will vote on that at some point.

I hate drafting 7th...arg

I'm picking at the turn - sucks to have to wait 22 picks between selections, but I get to decide who's 1st round and 2nd round in order to have the best keeper.

oh,

DRAFT STARTS IN 15 MINUTES

Any player that was drafted that was not on a major league roster will be dropped and eligible to be replaced via waivers and FAAB. I'll try to cut them before the 11PM deadline tonight.

Oh my...

I'm terrible. I mean really terrible.

:)

So....the week starts with Monday (i.e. assignments need to be locked before an hour before the first game Monday?)? Or...?

/tk

Good draft everyone! Steals went faster then I thought they would, and the 1B/3B sure dried up quick, but overall I am happy with my team.

I got caught sleeping on 1b/3b. When I saw it was thin...I didn't want to have to reach down to pick someone up. Then the next three or four options were gone before it came back to me.

Yeah, I ended up with Miguel Cairo as my 1B/3B which is the weakest spot in my lineup. At least I got Mora at 3B who will get at bats.

Last year I was in a 10 team NL only, and those two extra teams makes a huge difference.

You dropped Mike Minor from my roster. He was called up today about 3 hours before our draft and is on a ML roster.

Two important notes:

First - Minor league players that were drafted have been released. You can fill those holes by picking up any eligible free agents - players on the major league roster of an NL team, not on the DL. Waivers run on Sundays and Thursdays at 11PM EDT.

Second - it looks like stats are indeed retroactive.

Ha! I didn't see that - I'll add him back

thanks

fixed.

and for any other owners than need roster voodoo, ESPN now gives the commissioner full roster control, so if I screwed something up, I can fix it pretty easily.

You dropped several guys off of my roster who had a bunch of MLB time. I'd probably drop them anyways, but none of the guys were really prospects. Eric Young had 200+MLB AB's for instance. JD Martin has thrown 125 big league innings.

Minor is also still in AAA until Wednesday

Braves | Mike Minor recalled from Triple-A - MLB Hot off the Wire

http://rotoworld.com/player/mlb/5925/mike-minor

Mike Minor recalled - MLB- nbcsports.msnbc.com

Okay. So all the corner players are drafted and I can't pick up any from FA. Do I just not get to play 3 or 4 guys all year? I'm pretty excited if that's the case. Maybe we drafted a few too many players if that is the case? I understand I can trade if I want to get 20 cents on the dollar.

There's a couple part time catchers, you could grab one and slide Posey over to 1B to fill one of the spots.

Also, go to free agents and click the AB column, you can get some guys who will get some at bats, though I don't think there are any regulars in free agency.

yeah, i saw that. but i'm still coming up several players short.

We should iron out minor league rules as quick as possible.

Just spitballin some ideas. I am drunk so grain of salt and all that.

1. 5 Man Minor League draft. Only players in the minors.

2. No addition or subtraction from minor league rosters after the minor league draft, only promotion.

3. Prior to the 2012 regular draft each team can announce promotion or release of any of their minor leaguers. Players promoted at this point or who were promoted after August 1st of the previous season are exempt from keeper rules for 1 season.

4. If a player is called up from the minor league roster before August 1st of the previous season and the owner wishes to use a keeper spot on him the draft pick lost will correlate to ESPN's player rater. Ie, if the player was rated 60th overall that becomes a 5th round pick lost.

5. If a player was traded from your team to the AL during the offseason or last season you can use one of your keeper spots and get a compensatory draft pick for him. Ie, you drafted Cliff Lee in round 2 and he gets traded to Kansas City, you can use one of your 6 keeper spots, keep nobody, but get a 1st round pick in the regular draft.

I don't like number 5.

Just seems to me there should be some sort of compensation for losing a stud. But again, i'm just throwing ideas out there.

He was doing it based on their current status, regardless of how much previous major league experience they have had - only players currently on major league rosters are eligible for our rosters. Both Young and Martin are currently in the minors (in AAA)

Are we allowing in-season promotion from the minor league roster (as long as we have an open spot on our roster, of course)?

And yeah, I don't really like #5 either - sure, it sucks to lose a stud like that, but I'd say tough luck. Not much you can do (at least you'd keep that pick and not have to keep him? heh)

You get to use him for the rest of the season, so it's not losing much. We only keep 6 players, so losing a player or two to trade is not a big deal in regards to keepers.

I don't like how they were able to be auto drafted by the AI then. I think it took Young in the 18th round maybe.

Just sucks that ESPN couldn't remove them from their system (or at least move them down) once they got designated for assignment.

Yeah, but any pre-draft ranking has issues. I think in a league that goes so deep, it's important to be there for every pick.

It's been too quiet. How do people feel about their teams? I know I wasn't quite prepared for the difference going from 10 to 12 teams would make but I'm excited for the challenge.

I'm unhappy with the lack of corner players available.

What team are you steve?

Dick Pole's Vaulters.

Well Miranda will be 1b eligible soon and then barmes comes back and you've got a solid starting lineup. Everyone is living with having to do some maneuvering the first couple of weeks.

Does he need to get a minimum of starts or something?

I'm not finding anything in our league section but i'm positive he'll be 1b eligible at some point soon. Probably 10 starts or 15 appearances, something like that.

Ahh, here we go.

Positional Eligibility for Batters
Additional positional eligibility for Batters occurs when one of the following conditions is met:

• Games played at a position during last season: 20
• Games played at a position during current season: 10 (The eligibility will take place on the 11th day, even if no game is played that day)

I'm going to fix that - current season eligibility should happen on day one.

CRAP - its not an editiable setting