Krankor

Just so everyone knows, I'm throwing the noon weekly deadline out the window this week for trades since the last day to complete a trade is Sunday. I'm going to be quite busy during the day Saturday and Sunday but I will be online during the evenings so any trades that comes through should get processed very quickly. So, if you think you have a deal that might get accepted you better check your teams lineup well before the Midnight PST roster set deadline. Also, I seem to have three 2nd basemen. Rickie Weeks and Freddy Sanchez are up for trade. I'd like some sort of starting pitcher. EDIT on 8/9/08 Trade number twenty-six of the season, Team Random Hero acquires Brad Penny SP The Cellar acquires Rickie Weeks 2B

As of right now there is one confirmed vacancy for next season. So obviously, the new incoming team would have the first pick like the 3 new teams this season. Trade number twenty-five of the season, Team Random Hero acquires BJ Upton 2B/OF Mighty Quails acquires Justin Duchscherer SP/RP and Francisco Rodriguez RP Rickie Weeks is on the trading block for any interested teams.

I'm probably not done making roster moves yet. I finally had to just say enough is enough with Ian Snell. He has been a huge disappointment this year. I think everyone down to and including Pawtucket Red Sox has an outside shot at the playoffs. Pawtucket is only 6.5 games back from 6th. So there's about 8 teams battling for that 6th playoff spot. If Band of Broheims and Layden Express happen to get destroyed a few weeks in a row then it could potentially be a 10 team battle for 3 playoff spots. Things have also gotten fairly tight between the top 3 teams also. Things are beginning to get very very interesting...

Trade deadline deal days have begun! Six days left! Trade number twenty-four of the season, Team Random Hero acquires Matt Holliday OF Team DL acquires Jason Bay OF and Carlos Lee OF

Trade number twenty-three of the season, DIABEETUS acquires Andre Ethier OF Band of Broheims acquires Vernon Wells OF and Ken Griffey Jr. OF

No, I don't believe so. Waiver claims continue throughout the remainder of the season. I believe it is 1 day from the time a guy is dropped or added to yahoo database. You can put a claim on any listed as on waiviers up to the minute that they are about to come off of waivers. Unfortunately, Yahoo is not anywhere consistent with the time that guys come off waivers. I've seen it very from 4am to 7am CST.

I think it'd be better to vote for the Weekly/Daily changes first thing at the start of next season. That way it includes the 1 to 2 new incoming managers. I know Stephen told me he's taking a year off and possibly will be back in 2 years. Never know who else might disappear as well. We usually propose that question each year to start things off so I think it'd be best to do it that way again. Also, the trade deadline is fast approaching.

I vote B! B! B! B! Normally I don't vote right away unless it is something I feel I need to. This is one of those cases. This post is lengthy and I'm going to post all my reasons for my vote one time so I'm just getting it over now. First off, I think if we implemented this rule it would put teams at a disadvantage that keep a large number of players that they drafted. The rule change would give teams that drafted poorly and picked up a large number of mid-level type players from the free agent list that were originally drafted a bigger advantage. I think that Round 20 designation should be reserved only for the players picked up that weren't drafted. That round 20 value is a huge reward for managing to find a guy that all 20 teams didn't have on their radar during the draft. It’s not a small draft either, we draft 400 players... I don't think a team should get rewarded for simply scooping up some other team's mistake the same way a team currently gets rewarded now for finding that gem player that flew under the radar like Josh Hamilton or Edison Volquez. Teams would essentially be getting quality players, which in reality had no business being dropped in the first place, for dirt cheap. I've already seen quite a few damn good productive players this season get dropped that had absolutely nothing wrong with them. They weren't injured and weren't slumping. On really good fantasy teams you sometimes tend to run out of room at points in the season and have to make a tough choice and drop someone just so you can get a guy off the DL. I do not think that because a guy gets dropped, his original draft value should be negated. Thus, causing him to be grouped in the category of undrafted players and mid-season prospects entering the big leagues. A perfect example is, just a few weeks ago I saw Adam LaRoche get dropped as part of a trade. LaRoche was perfectly healthy and wasn't even slumping at the time. He got picked up by another team. I think it is quite stupid for him to be considered a round 20 value just because he was picked up out of the free agent pool. By him getting released does that mean he has zero value? Hell no it doesn't. He got picked right up and found a new team. If he had no value, one he wouldn't have been drafted and two after he was dropped he would have remained in the free agent pool the rest of the season without anyone ever considering picking his ass up. It’s completely unrealistic that a player would lose his draft value. It's the same as in real life, if a player gets cut by a team the team still has to pay his contract or another team has to pick up his contract. Hell, if I drop my 2nd round pick for no reason at all or even accidentally does that just negate him having value? Hell no. If we get rid of the draft values when a guy is dropped it would be almost pointless to keep our same system of how we do our draft with teams not getting draft picks during the rounds in which they kept a keeper with that designated draft value. I can guarantee for the most part a ton of teams are just going to keep players that got dropped because they'll be basically free and not many guys that aren't legit superstars will be kept. We might as well revert to the boring system that we use in the NBA Keeper league where if you keep 6 players you lose your first 6 picks. If you keep for keepers you lose your first 4 picks. No strategy there. Keep your best 4 guys. Never keep a prospect unless you think he'd be drafted in the first couple rounds the following season. I don't even want to think of how much a pain in the ass it would be to go back and determine who was picked up out of the free agent list and who wasn't at the end of the year to designate who was drafted by a team, traded, and picked up. It takes enough time the way we currently do it. It would take hours to determine all the other shit. Way too much work for something that wouldn't even make the league set up better. I think we've finally gotten all the kinks out of our system and it is darn near perfect.

I choose C as well. Option C is the winner by a landslide. All keepers must be turned in by November 1st or 1 day after the World Series is over at midnight Pacific Standard Time. That brings us to our final thing that I'm aware of that we need to vote on. A few people wanted this voted on earlier in the season so we'll vote on it. I for one am very very very much against it and I will explain the numerous reason in the next post. Dropped Players Draft Round Value If enacted, it would absolutely not be put into effect until the start of next season. Option A: Dropped players do not keep draft value If a player is dropped he automatically loses his original draft value and would than be equivalent to undrafted players such as a prospect or someone that was not a part of the 400 players drafted. Example: Alex Rodriguez was drafted in the first round. He is dropped for whatever reason. Alex Rodriguez is subsquently picked up by a different team that did not draft him. Alex Rodriguez, if tagged as a keeper, would have a Round 20 draft value. Option B: Leave it the way it is We keep the same system that we've had. If a player is dropped he retains his draft value. Example:Alex Rodriguez was drafted in the first round. He is dropped for whatever reason. Alex Rodriguez is subsquently picked up by a different team that did not draft him. Alex Rodriguez, if tagged as a keeper, would retain his original Round 1 draft value. Tally: A: 3 B: 14 Yet to vote: MJ, Roy, Bored

The free agent list is usually a pretty frightening place... I think that's one of the reasons we've had so many trades this season.

Daily rosters are extremely necessary in the NBA league. NBA has more games off during the week by far than the MLB so you've got to be rotating guys in off your bench constantly to rack up the stats. Sometimes NBA teams play 4 games a week and sometimes they play as few as 2 games a week. Weekly NBA rosters would be a nightmare in trying to determine how many games certain players were playing a week that I wouldn't want any part of. If daily rosters were implemented here, it would actually have a larger effect on pitching staffs. I know for me my biggest thing each week is making sure I have at least a couple pitchers throwing two games in my lineup. With daily changes, you could then load up your staff with closers and middle relievers and eat up even more saves and holds and rotate starting pitchers in to the SP slots for the days that they are scheduled to start. I do like the idea with weekly rosters that I have to make a decision Sunday night of what set of guys I want to roll out for the following week. It makes me more aware of exactly what guys are doing and I can be more patient with slumping players and give them a week off to get there game back up to par. That is without a doubt on the slate of things to do right away next season once we get 20 teams signed up.

That trade got processed like the middle of Saturday afternoon... That's why I always set my roster Sunday night to make sure I have a full healthy lineup for the following week. Trades get processed instantly or as soon as I see it since we already decided that the only purpose for the trade review is to avoid trades from being processed on Sunday. We voted at the start of the season to not allow any trades on Sunday after noon. That is why the trade wasn't put through. Your trade had a time stamp of 10 pm of Sunday in my inbox. I'm not putting that shit through because it goes against league rules. When we did that last year teams got fucked up and had players on their bench because they did not check back and edit there rosters. That's why the rule went into effect. Also, for weekly roster changes, Yahoo forces rosters be in at midnight pacific time. They do not have an option for first pitch thrown on Monday. If they did we'd already would be using it. We'll vote next year on the league settings, weekly/daily changes are included in that. Trade number twenty-two of the season, Landfall Jacobites acquires Carlos Gomez OF Portland Wet Sox acquires Yadier Molina C Also I'm going to send out pm's to the remaining managers that haven't voted on when to have keeper lists due. Lets try and get that poll finished by noon eastern on Wednesday. It clearly looks like C will win.

Trade number twenty-one of the season, Toronto Dirtbags acquires Miguel Tejada SS and Vladimir Guerrero OF Serenity acquires Derek Jeter SS and Carlos Villanueva SP/RP

Trade number twenty of the season, NuclearHD acquires Carl Crawford OF and Aaron Cook SP Rebels of Oakland acquires Corey Hart OF and Eric Hurley SP

The Packers are idiots if they don't trade Favre. They've stated that Rodgers is going to be the starter. That's fine. It makes no sense to keep Favre when other teams will give you draft picks for him that will help your team for many years in the future as opposed to Favre just helping this season. Favre would obviously make a great backup but there is no point in keeping a 12 million dollar backup QB when you could trade him to a team like the Redskins with an owner that would be more than happy to overpay for him.

I think the general sentiment was that a lot of people were switching up keepers right before the draft because either they picked a guy that was blatantly going to be hurt and they shouldn't have or they picked a very old player that is more than likely going to retire and then they found out he retired and wanted rid of him. Off-season hooplah shouldn't be necessary to help a team decide upon keepers. We also didn't have any definitive date and time when things could kind of be officially packed in for the season and this will give us that. I mean obviously an exception to the rule could be made if something ridiculously tragic happened and someone was seriously injured or killed via non-baseball activities. But I mean if you kept a pitcher with a history of shoulder problems and he felt a twinge in winter ball... Absolutely not. Also, the trade deadline is August 10th. If things continue to sputter with my team, in the next week, some starting pitching might become available along with guys like Carlos Lee and Jason Bay. If the Rockbirds shell me this week, which looks possible and probable that might be it.

Option B is the big winner for number of keepers. The wording to league rules A and B has been slightly modified to implement the new rule change. That leads us to the next poll, keeper due date. In the past, we've pretty much had no rule when keepers needed to be in by and in some cases the keepers were selected almost right before the start of the draft. There was discussion earlier in the thread of wanting a due date after the season is over for keepers to be in by. We definitely do need a definitive date for keepers to be in and finalized by. So here's some logical options I've come up with that we can vote upon. I tried to pick easy dates that are fairly simple to remember. For all of these options it doesn't mean wait until the last minute to select keepers. You can literally post keepers at any point during the year. This is just the absolute date they are finalized by. Anyone that doesn't have some form of keeper list turned in 2 weeks before the due date I'll send a pm to informing them that if they intend on keeping anyone they need to turn in a list by the due date. Keepers would be due at Midnight PST on the dates listed below. Option A: October 1st - End of Fantasy Playoffs This is a few days after the end of the fantasy playoffs and the MLB regular season. Option B: October 14th This is about 2 weeks after the fantasy playoffs should be done. It's right in the middle of the MLB Playoffs. Gives teams in the fantasy playoffs some time to digest how there teams performed. Option C: November 1st - End of the MLB World Series Last year the World Series ended in 4 games. So it probably would have gone past the 1st. If that happens we'll push it back to something like the November 7th. Tally: A: 1 B: 1 C: 14 Didn't vote: Will, Roy, Bored, Cheech

Ya, I didn't understand that trade either. I guess Corpas is what interested him. Who Knows. I still vote the Bannister for Francis trade that I was involved in as the most pointless trade of the year since it hasn't worked out well for either team.

Trade number nineteen of the season, Team Jefferson Darcy acquires Bengie Molina C The Young Familia acquires Jayson Werth OF and Manny Corpas RP

Trade number eighteen of the season, Landfall Jacobites acquires Wily Taveras OF and Ryan Zimmerman 3B The Portland Wet Sox acquires Alex Gordon 3B That ties VX and SteakGrowsOnDmitri with 6 trades each. Yeah it looks like Option B is going to win. I'm going to pm the last 3 league members that they have until Thursday to vote and then we're closing voting down and moving on. Also, I vote B. I'm still on the fence right now if I'm going to become a buyer or a seller in the trade market. I'm giving my team 2 weeks to show that I can make a run for the playoffs or I'm going to start making appropriate trade moves. I finally have gotten a lot of pitchers healthy so conceivably, I might be able to put some wins together. Maybe...

Trade number seventeen of the season, Team Jefferson Darcy acquires Paul Konerko 1B and Armando Galaragga SP The Young Familia (formerly known as Reinsdrof Gang) acquires Joe Crede 3B Also, here is some news from Yahoo! Fantasy Sports... Due to the reduced number of games played during All Star week, innings-pitched requirements are waived from Monday, Jul 14 through Sunday, Jul 20. Active pitchers will be credited with all stats earned during this period regardless of total innings pitched, although at least one pitching appearance is required to win ERA and/or WHIP. Please note that on Monday, July 14th the Yahoo! Fantasy Sports team will perform a scheduled site upgrade which is expected to last for up to twenty-four hours. During this time access to all fantasy games will be temporarily blocked. We appreciate your understanding.

So it looks like Option C is the big winner. It's officially been added to the league rules as Rule G. The rule is effective immediately and this year will count as year 1 of the player eligibility. At the end of the season, in the first post I'll keep an updated list of each team's keepers. I'll put the player name round value and note Year 1 after that so that it is well known that in fact that player has been kept for 1 season at that draft value. We'll keep using the same format that way it is easy to see where certain players are at in their draft value & how many years they've been at that value. Example: Albert Pujols - Round 1 - Year 1 Next up to vote upon is the number of keepers being kept. Currently we allow teams to keep 6 players, no more and no less. There seemed to be interest in altering the rule to make it more flexible. Option A: Current Rule Keep the current rule where each team is required to keep 6 players of any position. They are allowed 6 players, no more and no less to keep. Option B: Flex Rule Each team can keep up to 6 players of any position. The team can not exceed the 6 player maximum, however the manager can choose to keep less than the 6 player maximum. Tally: A: 4 B: 14 Didn't Vote: MJ, Precious Roy

Trade number sixteen of the season, Layden Express acquires Placido Polanco 2B Reinsdorf's Gang acquires Freddy Sanchez 2B and Ken Griffey Jr. OF

BTW, I messaged members that haven't voted yet. The last 6 people have until the end of Wednesday then we're moving on. Also, I choose choice C.

Trade number fifteen of the season, Mighty Quails acquires Troy Glaus 3B, Bobby Abreu OF, and Mark Buehrle SP Reinsdorf's Gang acquires Brad Hawpe OF and Dana Eveland SP