We're Back - Winter Meeting Tomorrow!

Pitchers and catchers have all reported for their spring training and it's time for all of us to begin thinking about our fantasy baseball season. Tomorrow night, owners will meet online through the CBS Sportsline website for our winter meeting. An agenda may be found below.

First, here's some trade news:

• WizNatSkins trade their 2010 #1 minor league pick to the Phooeys for Jason Bartlett, Phooeys #2 (#6 in Round 2) and Phooeys #3

And, from Mashers new owner-to-be (Tom Haughton):

The commish is allowing me to seek out potential trades prior to my approval with the understanding that none are official until I have been confirmed. So consider everyone on the Mashers available.

This announcement resulted in the following trade:

• Federals trade Vernon Wells and Justin Masterson to the Mashers for Joe Nathan and Mashers 2010 #1 minor league pick.

Here is the agenda for tomorrow night:
Guys,

Here is the Agenda for tomorrow's meeting. Please let me know if I missed anything for the agenda. If so, please re-send to me. Thanks!

NARA Baseball Winter Meeting 2010 - February 23rd, 7PM
Agenda

I. Draft Date and Draft Location

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

II. Fees (Website and 2009 Transactions)

• Owe David Pfeiffer for CBS Sportsline Web payment
• 2009 Transaction Fees TBD.
  

III. New Owner (Tom Haughton) Vote

• Tom Haughton would like to take over ownership of the Mashers - League Vote
• New Team Name?
  

IV. Protect Lists / Due Date

• Protected Lists due with Roster Extensions?

V. League Blog

• Reminder about League Blog
  
• Do people need to be re-invited? Good substitute for access to league website from work.
  

VI. Proposed Changes, Questions, Concerns

• Presleys raises concern that a number of players get locked up for the max 3 years with their extensions, thus draining the available talent come draft day. Possibly raising the salary to .5 per year as opposed to .3 per year might result in shorter contracts and thereby put more players into each upcoming draft. [DISCUSS]

• Federals would like to propose that we return our minor leagues to 2 rounds (draft) and 5 slots, the way it used to be. [Commissioner's Note: We used to have 4 minor league slots, not 5]. There are not enough players available for in-season pickups and in drafts of future years. [DISCUSS]

VI. Open Discussion

From the Commissioner:

Hope to see you guys online tomorrow night! If you have trouble accessing the league chatroom from our league website, call me at 410-379-5041 and I will help you try to get the problem resolved.

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.

Week 17 - Transactions

Note from the Commissioner:

Just a heads up that I will be out of town with little internet access for the next week. So, send me transactions next week but expect the response to be a bit slow since I won't be back until Friday or Saturday. Please send multiple players. If you send just one, I will assume you are only interested in that one. That will help me get the moves turned around quickly.

Dons

• Activate Josh Reddick OF – BOS [from minors], Release Wladimir Balentien OF – NL

Astronauts

• Reserve Brandon Wood CI – LAA, Activate Casey Kotchman CI – BOS
• Activate Fausto Carmona P – CLE, WAIVE Doug Mathis P – TEX
  

Gringos

• Activate Carlos Quentin OF – CWS, Reserve Don Kelly OF – DET
• Release Matt Holliday OF – NL, Activate Clete Thomas OF – DET
  

Vagrants

• Reserve Dane Sandinha C - DET, Activate Dusty Ryan C – DET
• WAIVE Jack Hannahan 3B - OAK, Activate Alex Gordon 3B – KAN
• Reserve Brad Bergesen P – BAL, Activate Rowland Smith P – SEA
• Activate Cesar Izturis SS – BAL, WAIVE Ramiro Pena SS – NYY
  

WizNatSkins

• Release Scott Rolen 3B – NL, Activate Andy Marte 3B – CLE

Phooeys

• Trade Scott Kazmir P – TAM and BJ Upton OF – TAM to Presleys for Luke Hochevar P – KAN / Chris Ray P – BAL, David Murphy OF – TEX, and Presleys 2011 #1 minor league pick
• Reserve Sean O’Sullivan P – LAA, Activate Ian Snell P – SEA
• Release B.J. Ryan P – NL. Keep Michael Wuertz P – OAK
  

Federals

• Reserve Josh Fields 3B – CWS, Activate Edwin Encarnacion 3B – DET
• Reserve Ian Kinsler 2B – TEX, Activate Omar Vizquel 2B – TEX
• Reserve Scott Downs P – TOR, Activate Brandon Lyon P – DET
  

Presleys

• Trade Luke Hochevar P – KAN / Chris Ray P – BAL, David Murphy OF – TEX, and Presleys 2011 #1 minor league pick for Scott Kazmir P – TAM and BJ Upton OF – TAM
• Release Ronny Cedeno SS – NL, Activate Jerry Hairston SS - NYY
• Release Julio Lugo MI – NL, Activate Nick Green MI – BOS

Browns

• Activate Scott Richmond P – TOR, WAIVE Anthony Swarzek P - MIN
• Activate Frank Francisco P – TEX, WAIVE Marc Rzepcyzinski P – TOR
  

Pretzels

• WAIVE Matt Guerrier P - MIN - Activate Ryan Perry P - DET
• WAIVE Sean Rodriguez MI – LAA - Keep Howie Kendrick MI LAA
• Reserve Andy Sonnanstine P – TAM, Activate Neftali Perez P – TEX [from minors]
  

Week 13 - Transactions

Welcome to the All-Star Break . . .

Mashers

• Activate DeWayne Wise OF - CWS, Reserve Luis Montenez OF - BAL
• Reserve Wilson Betemit 3B - CWS, Activate Willy Aybar 3B - TAM
• Activate Jose Contraras P - CWS, WAIVE Jason Frasor P - TOR
• Reserve Bartolo Colon P - CWS
• Activate Jeremy Accardo P - TOR. Move Accordo to Colon. Keep Zach Miner P - DET
  

Phooeys

• Trade Sean O’Sullivan P - LAA / Roy Halladay P - TOR to Pretzels for Lance Cormier P - TAM / Sean Gallagher P - OAK and Jesus Montero NYY [minors]

Chilis

• Trade Carl Crawford OF - TAM to Federals for Coco Crisp OF - KAN / RyanRaburn OF - DET, Federals 2010 #1, and Federals 2011 #2

Pretzels

• Trade Lance Cormier P - TAM / Sean Gallagher P - OAK and Jesus Montero NYY [minors] to Phooeys for Sean O’Sullivan P - LAA / Roy Halladay P - TOR

Federals

• Trade Coco Crisp OF - KAN / Ryan Raburn OF, Federals 2010 #1, and Federals 2011 #2 to Chilis for Carl Crawford OF - TAM
• CLAIM #1 Ramon Ramirez P - BOS, WAIVE Jeremy Guthrie P - BAL
  

Browns

• Reserve Scott Richmond P - TOR, Activate Anthony Swarzek P - MIN

Trades

• Pretzels trade A.J. Burnett (TOR) to Dons for Dons 2009 #1 minor league pick

• Astronauts trade Astronauts 2009 #1 minor league pick and 2009 #3 pick to Phooeys for Mashers 2009 #1 pick and Marcus Thames (DET)

• Gringos trade Gringos 2009 #1 minor league pick and Phooeys 2009 #3 pick to Phooeys for Phooeys 2009 #1 pick, Gringos #2 pick and Jason Giambi (OAK)

Trade Announcement

The Phooeys and Mashers have reached an agreement on a trade:

• Phooeys trade Joe Saunders ANA to Mashers for Mashers 2009 #1 minor league pick

First Trade of 2009

The Federals trade Howie Kendrick 2B LAA to the Pretzels for the Astronauts 2009 #2 minor league pick.

Trade Announced

Hong Kong Phooey trade Sean Gallagher and Dustin Moseley to Los Loco Gringos for Kazuo Fukumori and Jason Hammel.

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.

Week 21 - Transactions

Astronauts

• Reserve Kyle Davies UT-P (KAN) - Activate Jason Ruggiano UT (TAM)
• Reserve Melky Cabrera OF (NYY) - Activate Franklin Guitierrez (CLE)
  

Gringos

• Reserve Dan Meyer P (OAK) - Activate Dan Wheeler (TAM)
• Activate Hideki Matsui OF (NYY) - WAIVE Matt Joyce (DET)
• Trade: Jason Hammel/Kazuo Fukumori and Gringos 2010 #2 minor league pick to Phooeys for Sean Gallagher/Dustin Mosely and Phooeys 2009 #3 minor league pick
  

Vagrants

• Reserve Matt Albers P (BAL) - Activate Ryan Feierabend (SEA)

Pretzels

• WAIVE Brian Buscher (MIN) - Keep Daric Barton (OAK)
• Reserve Scott Linebrink P (CWS) - Activate Sean Green (SEA)
  

Federals

• Reserve George Sherrill P (BAL)
• Activate Brian Bruney P (NYY) - Move Bruney to Sherrill
  

Phooeys

• CLAIM #2 Rod Barajas C (TOR) - WAIVE Jose Molina (NYY)
• Trade: Sean Gallagher/Dustin Mosely and Phooeys 2009 #3 minor league pick to the Gringos for Jason Hammel/Kazuo Fukumori and Gringos 2010 #2 minor league pick
  

Trade Announced

Hong Kong Phooey trade Nick Blackburn (P-MIN) to St. Louis Browns for Dustin Moseley (P-ANA).

Transactions

• Phooeys trade Jose Guillen and Andy Marte to the Gringos for their 2008 #1 and 2009 #2 minor league picks
• Phooeys trade Jack Hannahan 3B OAK to the Gringos for Marcus Thames OF DET

Transactions

• Hot-N-Spicys will be renamed the Brave Astronauts and will be under full control of John LeGloahec at the beginning of the draft. I will remain co-owner until the draft and will then become full time commissioner for this season.
• Pretzels trade Chien-Ming Wang and a 2008 #2 (from the Federals) to the Dons for their 2008 #1Minor League pick.
• Brave Astronauts trade Hank Blalock to the Phooeys for Jamie Walker, Adam Lind, and the Phooeys 2010 #2 Minor League pick