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

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.

Final Standings

Congratulations to the Twisted Pretzels, our new league Champion!

Congrats to all four of the top teams: Pretzels, Federals, Presleys, and Browns.

See attached for the final standings.

Thanks to everyone for playing!

Rank	Team	Owner	Batting	Pitching	Total
1.0	Twisted Pretzels	Cliff Snyder	55.0	41.5	96.5
2.0	Fort Hunt Federals	David Pfeiffer	44.0	48.0	92.0
3.0	Memphis Presleys	Mike Sampson	33.0	49.5	82.5
4.0	St. Louis Browns	John Galvin	49.0	29.0	78.0
5.0	Chili Con Carnage	Neal Pfeiffer	47.0	27.0	74.0
6.0	WizNatSkins	Tim Nell	33.0	31.0	64.0
7.0	Hong Kong Phooey	David Schlanger	44.0	16.5	60.5	(Phooeys win 7th place tie-breaker with Vagrants based on number of Categories leading in head to head, 6-4.)
8.0	Virginia Vagrants	Rob Flynn	26.5	34.0	60.5
9.0	Brave Astronauts	John Legloahec	15.0	37.0	52.0
10.0	Los Loco Gringos	Patrick McGann	18.5	28.5	47.0
11.0	MLR Mashers	Brian Tilley	14.0	30.0	44.0
12.0	Dons	Don McIlwain	11.0	18.0	29.0

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Week 25 - Transactions

This was the last transaction period of the season.

Mashers

• WAIVE Luis Montanez OF - BAL. Keep Gabe Kapler OF - TAM

Gringos

• Release Jason Giambi 1B - NL. Activate Hank Blalock 1B - TEX

Browns

• CLAIM Brett Gardner OF - NYY. WAIVE J.D. Drew OF - BOS

WizNatSkins

• Move Baldelli to OF, Reimold to UT
• Reserve Nolan Reimold UT - BAL. Activate Eric Hinske UT - NYY
  

Week 24 - Transactions

Mashers

• WAIVE Jarrod Saltalamacchia C - TEX. Keep Alex Avila C - DET
• WAIVE Brett Gardner OF - NYY. Keep Bill Hall OF - SEA
• WAIVE Jeremy Accardo P - TOR. Keep Chad Gaudin P - NYY
  

Gringos

• WAIVE Don Kelly OF - DET. Keep Carlos Quentin OF - CWS
• WAIVE David Purcey P - TOR. Keep Scott Feldman P - TEX
  

Phooeys

• Activate Jake Peavy as EXP
• Move Matt LaPorta to OF. Move Adam Jones to UT
• Reserve Adam Jones UT - BAL. Activate Josh Fields UT - CWS.
  

Vagrants

• WAIVE Dusty Brown C - BOS. Keep Dusty Ryan C - DET

Chilis

• Activate Dice-K P - BOS. WAIVE Jeremy Sowers P - CLE
• Release Aaron Poreda P - NL
  

Week 23 - Transactions

Mashers

• WAIVE George Kottaras C - BOS. Keep Brayan Pena C - KAN
• WAIVE DeWayne Wise OF - CWS. Keep Gabe Kapler OF - TAM
  

Astronauts

• WAIVE Matt Tolbert CI - MIN. Keep Brandon Wood CI - LAA
• WAIVE Armando Galarraga P - DET. Keep Paul Byrd P - BOS
• WAIVE D.J. Carasco P - CWS. Activate Jonathan Albaladejo P - NYY
• Release Vicente Padilla P - NL
  

Vagrants

• WAIVE Dennis Sarfate P - BAL. Keep Jose Mijares P - MIN
  

Phooeys

• WAIVE Ivan Rodriguez C - TEX. Keep Jose Morales C - MIN
• WAIVE Brandon McCarthy P - TEX. Keep Chris Ray P - BAL
• WAIVE C.J. Wilson P - TEX. Activate Brandon Morrow P - SEA
  

WizNatSkins

• WAIVE Francisco Cervelli C - NYY. Keep Kenji Johjima C - SEA

Chilis

• WAIVE Dana Eveland P - OAK. Keep Matt Palmer P - LAA
  

Federals

• WAIVE Josh Fields 3B - CWS. Keep Edwin Encarnacion 3B - TOR

Pretzels

• WAIVE Andy Sonnanstine P - TAM. Keep Neftali Feliz P - TEX
• Activate Matt Guerrier P - MIN as EXP
  

Week 22 - Transactions

Mashers

• Activate Joe Saunders P - LAA. Keep Randy Choate P - TAM. Move Saunders to EXP

Astronauts

• Move Sizemore to UT
• Move Murphy to OF
• Reserve Sizemore UT - CLE. Activate Cliff Pennington UT - OAK
  

Phooeys

• Activate Matt LaPorta UT - CLE. WAIVE Junichi Tazawa UT-P BOS
• Move Gordon Beckham to 3B
• Move Hank Blalock to CI
• CLAIM #3 Casey Kotchman CI - BOS, WAIVE Hank Blalock CI - TEX
• Activate Shawn Riggans C - TAM. WAIVE Rob Johnson C - SEA
  

WizNatSkins

• Release Brandon Allen OF - NL
• Release Jim Thome UT - NL
• Activate Rocco Baldelli OF - BOS. Move Baldelli to UT
  

Chilis

• Release Corky Miller C - NL

Browns

• Add Michael Brantley EXP - CLE
• Move Alberto Callaspo 3B - KAN to MI
• Move Michael Cuddyer MI - MIN to OF
• Activate Joe Crede 3B - MIN. WAIVE Wilken Ramirez OF - DET
  

Federals

• Activate Edwin Encarnacion - WAIVE Ramon Santiago
• Activate Jed Lowrie - WAIVE Jack Wilson
  

Pretzels

• Release Cliff Lee P - NL. Activate Daniel Hudson P - CWS
• Activate Mike Carp CI - SEA. WAIVE Daric Barton CI - OAK