Draft Date and Protected Lists

From the Commissioner:

Just a reminder that we have settled on the following:

• Draft -Friday April 9th 6PM - Cliff Snyder's House
  

Protected List with Roster Extensions and Protected Minor Leaguers is due to me by Noon on Monday April 5th. Please send it to buckynduke@gmail.com or my NARA address.

Thanks,
David

Note from the Commish - Trading Deadline

From the Commissioner:

The League trade deadline is midnight August 31st. If you want to make a trade before the deadline, please submit the details before 12:01AM September 1st.

Details regarding September roster expansion will be coming with the August 19 Transactions.

Draft . . . The Aftermath

From the Commissioner:

Dear Owners,

I just wanted to thank everyone for an enjoyable draft this year. It was nice to see everyone laughing and having a good time with it. There were a few moments in particular that I will remember for a long time.

Anyway, special thanks to Cliff and Colleen for hosting - Colleen's cooking was delicious and their new great room was a perfect fit for our large group. Cliff, please pass on a special thanks to your wife from all of us.

Also, thanks to Tom for filling in for Don on short notice. It is good to know that we can always count on Tom! Don, I couldn't properly convey how hard Tom worked to do a good job for you. His bidding war with Pfeiffer for Lyle Overbay's services was particularly noteworthy... and amusing.

Okay, so where do we stand now? We will have our first transaction deadline on Tuesday April 14th at 11PM Eastern. Current standings will determine the replacement priority. The only exception being for three players acquired during the auction on Saturday (Joe Koshansky, Dusty Brown and Chad Cordero). These three players did not make an American League Major League roster, and will receive the lowest priority for replacements during the first two transaction periods (regardless of their owner's place in the standings). Please send me several players of interest in priority order if at all possible, as I am sure we will have many requests for the same players.

Please see the attached rosters and let me know if you see any errors. I am in the process of loading the teams onto the website (approx 40% done), and will hopefully finish tonight or tomorrow night.

That's all. Good luck to everyone!

DS

Protected Lists Due Today

It's no April Fool's Joke! Get your protected lists to the Commissioner by midnight tonight.

From the Commissioner - Winter Meeting

Hello everyone,

Hope you all are enjoying the off season. I've updated the rosters to include the 29 man version. I also added a worksheet tab to show the current minor league draft order and auction throw order for 2009. I don't think we have anything else to worry about for another 2-3 months.

Given our recent struggles with scheduling and attending a Winter Meeting in addition to the draft, I'd like to try for a virtual Winter Meeting in 2009. I believe there is a chat room feature on the website that I think might work nicely. More info on that later after I check it out more closely.

Have a great Thanksgiving holiday!

Trading Deadline and Roster Expansion

The Commissioner wanted to remind everyone that the trade deadline for our league is August 31st. If you are working on a trade and want to get it in for this season, please submit it to the Commissioner before midnight on Sunday August 31st.

Secondly, roster expansion starts Monday, September 1st at 7AM. I have included the rules for roster expansion here, let me know if you have any questions about it.

XIII. SEPTEMBER ROSTER EXPANSION
If it chooses, a team may expand its roster for the pennant drive by calling up one additional player after September 1 from the free agent pool, its own reserve list, or its own farm system.

If the player to be added is already part of your roster this will be treated as a regular move. If the player to be acquired is unowned the players' salary will be $.25.

The order in which players may be acquired will be as follows:
September 1: Players may be acquired starting this date from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. During this time the lowest team in the standings wishing to acquire an unowned player will receive that player if a conflict arises.
September 2 on: After 10:00 a.m. Sept. 1 player acquisition will once again be first come, first served.

Please Note: Players called up from your minors after Sept. 1 do not NEED to be activated.

Federals Roster Change

Ryan Sweeney made the A's Opening Day Roster. As a result, the Federals had to either activate him and release a player or waive him. The Federals released Ryan Sweeney, so he is available for week two transactions.

Roster Replacements

To square way two unresolved issues and to make all our rosters legal, the following 2 moves will take immediate effect while any other moves will wait until next week:

• Chilis release Clay Rapada (did not make Tigers Opening Day Roster) - Replacement Brian Burres
• Presleys release Jay Gibbons (did not make Orioles Opening Day Roster) - Replacement David Murphy - TEX

New Proposed Protected List Date

From the Commissioner:

It has been proposed that we move up the due date of the protected list from noon [Thursday] March 27th to sometime on [Wednesday] March 26th.

If there are no objections I'll change the due date to 5:00 pm on the 26th.