The Powers have Beed Peavy to SanMan's team.

Minor League Keepers are updated to show removal of all ineligible keepers and the AA/DevSop trade.

What the infantry officer yells right before he yells "FIRE"?

See the draft thread. I think you guys are right on this one, though I was always under the assumption that you couldn't have the second without the first.

For SanMan's first round pick, I offer the 2016 version of James Loney and my AARP discount at Golden Corral.

Only until?

I don't think anyone ever paid for 2010 because Lucky had never worked out 2009. If you wound up sending Lucky a check for 2010 as well, then that's lost in the ether. But as far as I know, when I started collecting the money for 2010 no one had paid. Once everyone did pay I used that money to pay for 2009. 2010 has still never been paid out, but I do hold strong that at some point it will be.

Thanks for this.

Totally agree that we shouldn't change it now. Just making sure that we didn't agree to changing it either end of last year or before the season.

Agree.

2012 Draft Trades

Army owns Solly's 9th rounder
Army owns Dev Sop's 5th rounder

Dev Sop owns Army's 13th rounder
Dev Sop owns Sports Guys 19th rounder

Pun owns Gimmicks 2nd and 3rd round rounder

Confirmed

Mikey just informed me that I didn't have Rick Porcello at the end of the year, so I can't Keeper him. Instead, I'm Keeper-ing JP Arencibia (C-Tor) off my Minor League roster for a 25-round pick.

[15:52] Pun: Did you get a chance to read that Deadspin article I sent you? "The Mets are a Walking IOU."
[15:52] Solly: read it
[15:52] Pun: Did I hear they have to give back like $300 million?
[15:53] Solly: that's not confirmed yet
[15:54] Pun: You guys are so fucked.....
[15:54] Solly: that IS confirmed

Updating Lucky's 2011 Notes thread. Pleas review and tell me if there's anything missing.

2011 Minor League Draft
Dev gets...
- 1st Rd Pick (GM)
- 3rd Rd Pick (AA)

2011 Draft
AA gets...
- 5th Rd Pick (Army)
- 8th Rd Pick (Solly)
- 25th Rd Pick (Dev)
Moose gets...
- 10th Rd Pick (Dev)
- 14th Rd Pick (Lucky)
- 18th Rd Pick (Lucky)
- 18th Rd Pick (Solly)
Dev gets...
- 6th Rd Pick (GM)
- 12th Rd Pick (GM)
- 14th Rd Pick (GM)
- 15th Rd Pick (Solly)
- 15th Rd Pick (Pun)
- 20th Rd Pick (Solly)
- 21st Rd Pick (AA)
Lucky (VACANT) gets...
- 23rd Rd Pick (Moose)
Pun gets...
- James Loney (GM)
- 2nd Rd Pick (GM)

It was the only redeeming feature about by commute this morning. I'm sick, traffic was hell, but I got to laugh my ass off for a good 5 minutes.

kinky

Okay, kid can play.

Jason Heyward called up to the big club.

The work is the reason I've never adopted any kind of X days/weeks timetable that's been suggested. It requires constant managing of the minor leaguers and a lot of hands on commissioning mid season, including situations where I'll end up removing a player from a guy's roster mid season and really hurting him. The once a year evaluation has always been a perfectly manageable deal and adding a 2nd yearly evaluation is pretty manageable. But that level of hands on managing requires more than I'm able to give and I wouldn't think Mike would jump at it either.

Every month also requires a good deal of work. Not a TON by 6x what I currently have a 3x what is being suggested with the summer evaluation.

As far as minor leagues I like the idea we have proposed. A June evaluation of the minor leaguers followed by an All Star Break deadline to call them up. And probably sticking to the rookie eligibility numbers we've been using. If no one has any more opinions or objections I'll put that up for a vote sometime next week.

As far as the longevity of keepers I think putting some kind of limit on years or escalator is perfectly reasonable. Its just a little bit more of an involved debate because I'm better there's guys not reading this who are going to be pretty against the notion. Plus it would mean some drastic changes since a great deal of our keepers are in their 4th season.

Just saw that beginning April 6th, MLB Network will have a fantasy show every night at 5:00.