***ROSTER ANNOUNCEMENT***

I would like to move Franklin Morales from my minor league roster to my major league roster.

Hey, man, look at my BS karma. And my BS custom status that needs to be changed.

Keeper Rules

• Each owner may keep 5 players total.
  
• The first 5 rounds of each draft are protected and those players can not be kept.
  
• Each Keeper costs a draft pick based on where he was drafted. The pick moves up 2 rounds every season, including the first. Ex: A 13th round draftee would cost an 11th round pick in his first year as a keeper.
  
• Any Keeper not drafted is treated as a final round draftee. Ex: In a 27 round draft an undrafted Keeper will cost a 25th round pick.
  
• A player loses Keeper elligibility the season after costing a 1st round pick and reenters the draft pool (unless franchised).
  
• All rules apply regardless of owner. If a Keeper is traded or released his new owner picks up where the last left off.
  
• If the Keeper Cost occurs in a round where the owner has 2 picks (due to trade) he is penalized his original pick, not the acquired one, regardless of placement.
  
• If the Keeper Cost occurs in a round where the owner has traded out his original pick but acquired a 2nd he will be penalized that pick. Cost will not move up a round unless there are no more picks in that round. If there are 2 picks, neither original, he will lose the lowest.
  
• If the Keeper Cost occurs in a round in which the owner has no more picks then the price moves up one round, but will be considered its original round for the sake of longterm keeper cost. Ex: A 13th Round cost with no 13 round picks then costs a 12th round pick. For the purposes of next year's Keeper Cost, however, it will be considered a 13th Round pick. The next year the keeper will cost an 11th Round pick, not a 10th.

Franchise Rules

• Each owner may designate one of his 5 keepers a full Franchise Keeper (F1) and 1 a partial Franchise Keeper (F2). He does not have to do either.
  
• A F1 full Franchise Keeper may be kept without cost of any draft pick.
  
• A F2 partial Franchise Keeper may be kept at half the cost of a regular keeper. He continues to cost a draft pick but it only elevates 1 round each season.
  
• A player may be Franchised as many times as his owner wishes.
  
• Once a player has the Franchise tag taken off of him he can no longer be kept and reenters into the draft pool.
  
• All rules apply regardless of owner. If a Franchise Keeper is traded or released his new owner picks up where the last left off.

2009 Can't Keep List
These 60 players were drafted in the first 5 rounds of the 2008 draft, and thus can not be kept in 2009.

1. Alex Rodriguez (3B - NYY)
2. Johan Santana (SP - NYM)
3. Jose Reyes (SS - NYM)
4. David Wright (3B - NYM)
5. Miguel Cabrera (3B - DET)
6. Chase Utley (2B - PHI)
7. Jimmy Rollins (SS - PHI)
8. Aramis Ramirez (3B - CHN)
9. Jake Peavy (SP - SD)
10. Albert Pujols (1B - STL)
11. Carl Crawford (LF - TB)
12. Prince Fielder (1B - MIL)
13. Alfonso Soriano (LF - CHC)
14. Vladimir Guerrero (RF - LAA)
15. Carlos Beltran (CF - NYM)
16. Ichiro Suzuki (RF - SEA)
17. Mark Teixiera (1B - ATL)
18. David Ortiz (DH - BOS)
19. Victor Martinez (C - CLE)
20. Brian Roberts (2B - BAL)
21. Lance Berkman (1B, RF - HOU)
22. Carlos Lee (LF - HOU)
23. Adam Dunn (1B, LF - CIN)
24. Bobby Abreu (RF - NYY)
25. John Lackey (SP - LAA)
26. Roy Oswalt (SP - HOU)
27. Carlos Zambrano (SP - CHC)
28. Derek Jeter (SS - NYY)
29. Manny Ramirez (LF - BOS)
30. Roy Halladay (SP - TOR)
31. Garrett Atkins (3B - COL)
32. Torii Hunter (CF - LAA)
33. Chipper Jones (3B - ATL)
34. Felix Hernandez (SP - SEA)
35. Travis Hafner (DH - CLE)
36. J.J. Putz (RP - SEA)
37. Rafael Soriano (RP - ATL)
38. Derrek Lee (1B - CHC)
39. Francisco Rodriguez (RP - LAA)
40. Ian Kinsler (2B - TEX)
41. Carlos Guillen (1B, SS - DET)
42. Joe Nathan (RP - MIN)
43. John Smoltz (SP - ATL)
44. Mariano Rivera (RP - NYY)
45. Javier Vazquez (SP - CHW)
46. Takashi Saito (RP - LAD)
47. Adrian Gonzalez (1B - SD)
48. Chone Figgins (3B - LAA)
49. Jose Valverde (RP - ARI)
50. Billy Wagner (RP - NYM)
51. Michael Young (SS - TEX)
52. Brett Myers (SP - PHI)
53. Ben Sheets (SP - MIL)
54. Trevor Hoffman (RP - SD)
55. Todd Helton (1B - COL)
56. Edgar Renteria (SS - DET)
57. Hideki Matsui (LF - NYY)
58. James Shields (SP - TB)
59. Matt Cain (SP - SF)
60. Kenji Jojima (C - SEA)

2008 Can't Keep List
These 60 players were drafted in the first 5 rounds of the 2007 draft, and thus can not be kept in 2008.
POS
1. Albert Pujols (1B-STL)
2. Alex Rodriguez (3B - NYY)
3. Travis Hafner (DH - CLE)
4. Alfonso Soriano (OF - CHC)
5. Jose Reyes (SS - NYM)
6. Vladimir Guerrero (RF - LAA)
7. David Ortiz (DH - Bos)
8. Carl Crawford (OF - TB)
9. David Wright (3B - NYM)
10. Chase Utley (1B, 2B - Phi
11. Miguel Cabrera (3B - Fla)
12. Jimmy Rollins (SS - Phi)
13. Lance Berkman (1B, RF - Hou)
14. Carlos Beltran (CF - NYM)
15. Derek Jeter (SS - NYY
16. Manny Ramirez (LF - Bos)
17. Mark Teixeira (1B - Tex)
18. Miguel Tejada (SS - Bal)
19. Ichiro Suzuki (RF - Sea)
20. Jason Bay (LF - Pit)
21. Bobby Abreu (RF - NYY)
22. Derrek Lee (1B - CHC)
23. Andruw Jones (CF - ATL)
24. Paul Konerko (1B - CWS)
25. Michael Young (SS - Tex)
26. Aramis Ramirez (3B - CHC)
27. Victor Martinez (C - CLE)
28. Chone Figgins (OF - LAA)
29. Carlos Delgado (1B - NYM)
30. Nick Swisher (1B, RF - Oak)
31. Brian Roberts (2B - Bal)
32. Jorge Posada (C - NYY)
33. Ryan Zimmerman (3B - WAS)
34. Prince Fielder (1B - Mil)
35. Gary Sheffield (RF - Det)
36. Felipe Lopez (SS - WAS)
37. Julio Lugo (SS - BOS)
38. Troy Glaus (3B - Tor)
39. Delmon Young (RF - TB)

SP
40. Jake Peavy (SP - SD)
41. Brett Myers (SP - Phi)
42. Johan Santana (SP-Min)
43. Roy Oswalt (SP- Hou)
44. Roy Halladay (SP - TOR)
45. Chris Carpenter (SP - STL)
46. Carlos Zambrano (SP - CHC)
47. Felix Hernandez (SP - SEA)
48. Dontrelle Willis (SP - FLA)
49. John Smoltz (SP - ATL)
50. Jason Jennings (SP - Hou)
51. Curt Schilling (SP - Bos)
52. John Lackey (SP - LAA)
53. Ben Sheets (SP - MIL)

RP
54. Francisco Rodriguez (RP - LAA)
55. Joe Nathan (RP - MIN)
56. Billy Wagner (RP - NYM)
57. Huston Street (RP - OAK)
58. Mariano Rivera (SP - NYY)
59. Trevor Hoffman (RP - SD)
60. JJ Putz (RP - Sea)

You guys suck.


EDIT: Its Windows software so I'm pretty sure I'm out.

No apologies necessary. You got in under the deadline. I just wanted to make sure you didn't get screwed.

Yes, yes I did.

GM, I'm checking now and Callaspo is NOT eligible. 186 career ABs.

Congrats again AA - what you're doing is nothing short of remarkable.

Sorry to hear about the ankle, Gimpy. My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.

Tiebreaker in Yahoo was ERA, then batting average. I'd go for that.

I am winning the division.

Next year.

Yeah, I can manually set the waiver order in ESPN. But I didn't. I let it go based on the draft. And then I set up a 3rd minor league one based on that draft. And all along I was trying to come up with a way to combine things and I couldn't find one sane way to do it. If we went on one waiver wire then I'd have to go in and manually reset it with each board transaction, and watch the ESPN one to make sure the board transactions were right. Seemed like way too big of a pain in the ass. Even though it turns out there hasn't been one minor league waiver claim.

Here are the 3 existing waiver wires.

Minors
1 - Lucky
2 - MKid
3 - AA
4 - Dev
5 - Mike
6 - GM
7 - Pun
8 - Army
9 - Dragon
10 - Solly
11 - Moose
12 - Vols

Offseason
1 - gimmickman
2 - mooseheadjack
3 - GoVols
4 - TarheelMike
5 - ArmyofOne
6 - dragonmak
7 - attitudeadjuster
8 - fsolomon75
9 - metallikid
10 - DevilSoprano
11 - ThePunisher
12 - LuckyLopez

Regular Season
1 - Dev
2 - Dragon
3 - Mike
4 - Pun
5 - Vols
6 - GM
7 - AA
8 - MKid
9 - Army
10 - Moose
11 - Lucky
12 - Solly

The average idea would look like this:

Lucky = (1+12+11)/3 = 8
MKid = (2+9+/3 = 6.333
AA = (3+7+7)/3 = 5.666
Dev = (4+10+1)/3 = 5
Mike = (5+4+3)/3 = 4
GM = (6+1+6)/3 = 4.333
Pun = (7+11+4)/3 = 7.333
Army = (8+5+9)/3 = 7.333
Dragon = (9+6+2)/3 = 5.666
Solly = (10+8+12)/3 = 10
Moose = (11+2+10)/3 = 7.666
Vols = (12+3+5)/3 = 6.666

1 - Mike (4)
2 - GM (4.3)
3 - Dev (5)
4 - Dragon (5.6/2 Kicker)
5 - AA (5.6)
6 - MKid (6.3)
7 - Vols (6.6)
8 - Pun (7.33/4 Kicker)
9 - Army (7.33)
10 - Moose (7.66)
11 - Lucky (
12 - Solly (10)

Its not a can of worms. Its not a big deal. There's like 6 different paths and personally I don't care which one we take. And they all provide about the same amount of hassle (some simple math problems for that average idea aside). So I genuinely don't care. I just went with the simplest approach possible in the schedule. But I'm ok with any road, really. Like I said, either the average or a reset seems to make most sense to me.

There is a SUPER TOP SECRET discussion thread on the league board. Go check it out and add your input.

Yeah, it definitely screwed the stats. I had put Martin in for Barrett halfway through the week and only lost 8-6 instead of the 10-4 that they have now.

Damn, so I probably got beat 12-2 for real??? That sucks. I got swept in all the offensive categories. Bad, bad week.

So PC&BBL it is then?

Solly, Mike and I couldn't get that link to work last night. The only way we could get in was to use the invite Lucky sent us. That's why I sent an invite to everyone.