Compensation Picks

For everyone who reads this a month or two from now, I would like to make a proposal.

I believe that we should have compensation picks for unexpected events. A couple years ago I lost Nick Adenhart to the tragic car accident. Furthermore, there have been other deaths that have occurred, and I think all of which deserve a compensation pick. With the kidnapping of Wilson Ramos, I believe this is an event that should also trigger a compensation pick. My thinking is during the offseason draft, the person with the compensation would make their automatic pick between rounds 2 and 3.

If anyone has any other thoughts (how structure this proposal, oppose this proposal, or support this proposal) I would be all ears.

Three-team trade

I am pleased to announce a three-team trade in which I am probably getting my ass kicked.

Jonathan gets: Ben Revere, Chris Archer
Andy gets: Jason Kipnis, Kyle Gibson, 100% Gregor's 2012 DD
Gregor gets: Mike Minor

This post will serve as a pending trade, with Jonathan and Andy to soon confirm. After the standard pending period, Steve will manually adjust rosters in accordance with the trade.

This post can also be seen on the Yahoo league message board.

Predictions

NL East: Braves
NL Central: Reds
NL West: Giants
Wild Card: Phillies

AL East: Red Sox
AL Central: White Sox
AL West: Rangers
Wild Card: Yankees

Division:
Braves over Reds
Phillies over Giants
Red Sox over White Sox
Yankees over Rangers

Championship Series:
Phillies over Braves
Red Sox over Yankees

World Series
Phillies over Red Sox

Trade

Andy S gets $250. Nick and Gregor get Travis Snider.

Sale for DD

Mark Buehrle, Tanner Scheppers and Chris Coghlan can be had for DD.

Trade Completed

Andrew S trades Rzepczynski to Jonathan for $35 draft dollars

Trade

Lance trades Neil Walker and Wandy Rodriguez for Elliot's draft dollars

Round 1 Nominations

Are Nick and I the only ones who haven't received every team's Round 1 nominations?

Trade Proposal

The first person in the league to father a child has to give their best player to the team in last place.

Draft

Draft schedule is in the e-mail I sent out moments ago. If the spreadsheet has any errors, please let me know ASAP.

...

If we start the draft today and let each round last a week like always, we will barely get 3 rounds in by the first game. Then, we have to hope rosters are entered in right away so we can start players on the 31st.

...I assume this means the draft rounds will be shorter? Come on, Mr Smith. Lets get this rolling.

Draft Time

If the draft starts next Monday, we only have 3 full weeks of draft time....when are we getting started?

What happens if Tokarz and Bick never join the league?

I'm starting to worry that this is a real possibility. For fuck's sake, we've even already got Markham in the league, who usually only logs in to take Carlos Beltran on and off of the disabled list.

Ellsbury Available

If anyone is looking for steals, Ellsbury is available. I am looking for DD's and young prospect OF's.

E-mail me if you are interested: zcjett@gmail.com

JOIN THE LEAGUE!!!!!!!!1111!!!!!!!!!!

GAH!

My Dump is Bigger Than Lance's Dump

I emailed this to Steve Monday afternoon, but since I see that people are sharing via the blog - I thought I'd post my roster purge:

Yonder Alonso
Jon Jay
Scott Baker
Felix Doubront
Jason Motte
Felipe Paulino
Tyson Ross

Looking forward to Opening Day!

Ted

Draft Format

Lance asked this earlier and nobody responded, so I will re-ask multiple questions concerning the draft format. I know we will all bid on players like last year. Will there be 3 rounds, more or less? Will there be a snake draft FA thing after the last round like a few years ago, or does everyone go to waivers and we go from there? When does the draft start? Are we implementing rules like bids in on Friday, results out on Sunday so that anyone who opposes last minute trades has a day to complain about conspiracies and not getting the players he wants? Will the deadline be in EST? How do you handle rosters above 27 in the draft? Are players who are dropped in the draft eligible to be drafted? How to handle trades within the draft?

My votes are:

* 3 Rounds
* No snake draft. Everyone falls to waivers and you go from there.
* Draft starts the first week of March
* No rules about 1 day to complain about trades.
* Deadline is in EST
* Roster above 27: You must include who you would drop in your bid. If you dont, you have 24 hours from the time results are released to post who you are dropping. If you dont, players are dropped in order of the lowest ranked player per Yahoo's rankings.
* Players dropped in the draft are not eligible to be drafted.
* Trades within the draft: If both players do not confirm a trade by the imposed deadline for a certain round, the trade does not take effect until the next round. ie: if Connor and I do a last minute trade, but I confirm at 12:01 and the round deadline is 12:00, it doesn't count until the next round. Also, in this scenario, Connor should post that this trade is null and void if not accepted by 12:00, if infact that is what he wants (I could easily see this scenario happening). Otherwise, it is a legal trade even though Connor didn't exactly get what he wanted.

If anyone else thinks of anything, ask away. Commissioner Smith, what say you about all of this?

My huge dump

Kerry Wood
Grant Balfour

Ryan Doumit
Mat Gamel
Marco Scutaro
David Murphy

So....

Do I get some sort of bonus for being the only person not in violation of the roster size restrictions? I think I should. 10 points added to my final results at the end of the season? Sounds fair.

Droppings

Chad LOLZ drops:

Takashi Saito
Andres Torres

Hey motherfuckers. Join my mixed league, deep-ass, auction style fantasy fucking baseball league

http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/12075/invitation?key=c5ec7aa2cd923d69

Password: knuckleball

Auction Keepers?

I was wondering if you guys would be interested in doing a keepers league live auction draft. Yahoo has settings that allow you to assign keepers per team as well as values per keeper now, so we wouldn't have to track any of that stuff. Is anyone interested?

The only thing we would have to do is figure out how to inflate/deflate player values, and I would vote to make the system as simple as possible:

1) We decide on 1 or 2 independent player evaluation systems and agree to use their player prices based on our league settings.
2) Change player values based on the following at the end of each season:
* If the player is not on a team, auction draft for him.
* If the player is on a team, inflate or deflate their value at 50% (negotiable) of the difference in prices.
- Example 1: I get Hanley young and cheap for $10 and our system values him @ $40 for the next 3 years. I get to benefit from him @ $25 in year 1, then $32 in year 2, then $36 in year 3.
- Example 2: I have Jake Peavy @ $40, but now he sucks and is only worth $15 the next 3 years. I can either drop him, or suck it up and pay him $28 next year, then $21, etc.

Obviously, this is just an idea and would be open for criticism, but before everyone starts posting their ideas on how to fix the league (Connor), I was wondering if there was any interest from the current keepers league. I dont want to go get random people to fill out this league. If this works out well, I would even be in favor of making this the only Keepers league (because lets face it, my avg SP age is 26 (not counting Matusz and Porcello) and my avg starting offensive player is 27....my team is gonna be really good for a while, even if I dont pick up any prospects for the next 3 years. A new league would be fun).

The thing I really like about the keepers auction is that everyone has the same salary. If you are in last and you want to invest in prospects, you can make your own salary by dropping players, trading, etc. We will have teams that have 1 or 2 great years, then are destroyed by high salaries the next year. I think it would be a lot of fun.

Thoughts?

Yahoo League is up

Steve, we can create leagues in Yahoo again. Lets get it started!

Players Available

The following players are available in a trade:

Yonder Alonso
Michael Cuddyer
Jon Jay
Garrett Jones
Scott Baker
Johnny Cueto
Felix Doubront
Jason Motte
Felipe Paulino
Tyson Ross

Please let me know if you are interested in any of these players. I am specifically looking for an established closer. I would be willing to trade multiple players for one of your pitchers. I am also looking for an improved waiver spot or draft dollars.

Another Trade

Gregor and Nick get $57 draft dollars.

Ted gets Anibal Sanchez.

Draft Format

Just wondering what the specifics of the draft are - I know "Nomar" said it would work as it has before, but we havent had the exact same format each year. Essentially, I wanted to know if there will be a set number of rounds and will be a snake draft after everyone has used all their draft dollars?

Trade

Ben Revere to Gregor and Nick.

Jon Lackey to Ted.

$57 Draft Dollars to the Highest Bidder

So after my trade with Andy this evening, I have $57 draft dollars remaining. I don't want them. I'd like pitching and an increase to my waiver spot for the start of the season.

If anyone is interested, please let me know. I may be willing to trade a position player as well to upgrade pitching and/or waiver spot.

Ted

Completed Trade

Ted receives Adam Lind

Andy S receives $180 draft dollars

Trade Completed

Zach trades Gio Gonzalez and Jenrry Meija to Andy S for $165 DD's.

...yes it is a great bargain, but I was going to have to drop them anyway. And on that note, I am dropping 1 more player, so if anyone wants to bid on a player for cheap, let me know before the deadline for dropping to 24.

Trades

Hi Everyone,

Very excited for the season to start - happy to see some offseason activity starting as well.

I got all of your emails regarding possible trades. Please give me some time to go through them (like this weekend). I started a new job this week and probably won't have time to go through everything until then.

Sorry for the delay.

Ted

Trade Completed

Connor gets: Roy Oswalt and one new or like new copy of "Goodnight, Moon"

Elliot gets: Chris Carter (1B/OF, OAK), Kris Medlen, Brandon Webb, and one bedtime reading of "Goodnight, Moon" every night that the Braves are in first place or tied for first place

Completed Trade

JRBombers trades Jonathan Broxton to Zach in exchange for Hunter Pence.

Trade Completed

Chad LOLZ (Connor) trades Mike Minor (ATL), Travis Snider (TOR), 125 2011 draft dollars, and 30 2012 draft dollars to Andy Strniste's team for Zack Greinke (MIL)

Lame

This offseason has been lame....