Well everyone, hopefully the offseason is treating you all well. We've got the newbies settled in with rosters and prospects and I'm pretty confident that everyone will be active. Right now I'm involved in the slow tedious process of transferring all the league data into the first two pages of this thread. I haven't had much time because of how busy I've been at college but it should all get on here eventually. My apologies to the new guys because this is sort of hindering your trade options (since you can't really view the league on Yahoo!) but like I said, I'll try to get it all up pretty soon. I'm thinking about squaring away the prospect draft order pretty soon, but I'm not quite sure how to handle the ROOK/FA draft and the spots held by the old managers. Since the old guys were inactive, they all had good waiver positions and they're not too far apart from each other. It's an inexact science but I'm thinking maybe it would be fair to take the opposite order of whatever the prospect draft order is for these guys. Let's say in the prospect draft Stud gets the 3rd pick, Mauve gets the 6th pick and Kaz gets the 9th pick (just random examples), then for the ROOK/FA draft Kaz would take over pick #3, Mauve would take pick #4 and Stud would take pick #7. I'm still up in the air about that but it's the best I can think of off the top of my head. We'll deal with that when it becomes necessary though. Anyways, take a couple weeks off and spend some time down in the Bahamas, but don't come to spring training looking like Josh Beckett.
Best wishes,
Your Commissioner.
Edit - January 12th: Tonight at 10 p.m. I will be doing the lottery for the Prospect Draft. Not having a first round pick myself (via the Jimmy Rollins trade) I hope you'll consider me impartial enough to do the number sequence. As usual, I will be using this website: http://www.random.org/sequences and will immediately post the number sequence on the thread. Each person will have an assigned number value that relates to their final finishing place last season. I've given the new guys numbers that relate to the previous managers. We will have a sequence from 1-13 which puts into play Bleeding Green's 1st and 2nd round picks, which he traded away. Bleeding Green will be assigned number 13. After rounds one and two the number 13 will then be eliminated from the draft order and we will have the regular 12 pick rounds. These are the numbers that will be associated with each manager:
1 - Bove310
2 - TyCobb
3 - Setterlund
4 - Benny Blanco
5 - SSK99
6 - sosafan70
7 - Basketball Jesus
8 - Chach
9 - Studcrackers
10 - Kazanovicz
11 - Bigboy1234
12 - MauveAvenger
13 - Bleeding Green
Edit - January 13th: Sorry guys! I'm doing an internship right now that requires me to get up at 6 a.m. and went to bed early and the prospect draft slipped from my mind. It hit me today that I'd forgotten so here's the sequence that just came up:
Here is your sequence:
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Timestamp: 2009-01-14 01:32:37 UTC
2009 Prospect Draft:
Round 1:
1. TyCobb - Justin Smoak
2. Chach - Trevor Cahill
3. SSK99 - Yonder Alonso
4. Basketball Jesus - Gordon Beckham
5. MauveAvenger - Pedro Alvarez
6. bigboy1234 - Michael Stanton
7. Benny Blanco - Tim Beckham
8. Chach (via Bleeding Green) - Derek Holland
9. Studcrackers - Michael Main
10. bove310 (via sosafan70) - Alcides Escobar
11. bove310 - Tim Alderson
12. bove310 (via Setterlund) - Logan Morrison
13. Setterlund (via Kazanovicz)(1) - Eric Hosmer
Round 2:
14. Setterlund (via Kazanovicz)(1) - Tommy Hanson
15. Setterlund - Buster Posey
16. bove310 - Brett Wallace
17. Kazanovicz (via Setterlund, via sosafan70)(1) - Brian Matusz
18. Studcrackers - Matt Dominguez
19. Setterlund (via Bleeding Green) - Freddie Freeman
20. Benny Blanco - Lou Marson
21. bigboy1234 - Michel Inoa
22. MauveAvenger - Jeremy Hellickson
23. Basketball Jesus - Jhoulys Chacin
24. SSK99 - Carlos Santana
25. Chach - Greg Halman
26. TyCobb - Aaron Hicks
Round 3:
27. TyCobb - Kyle Skipworth
28. Chach - Jake Arrieta
29. SSK99 - Wilmer Flores
30. Basketball Jesus - Jordan Zimmerman
31. MauveAvenger - Chris Carter
32. bigboy1234 - Dayan Viciedo
33. Benny Blanco - Jordan Lyles
34. Studcrackers - Martin Perez
35. TyCobb (via sosafan70) - Jordan Walden
36. bove310 - Ike Davis
37. bove310 (via Setterlund) - Dominic Brown
38. Kazanovicz - Engel Beltre
Round 4:
39. Kazanovicz - James McDonald
40. Kazanovicz (via Setterlund)(1) - Brett Cecil
41. bove310 - Yorman Rodriguez
42. sosafan70 - Matt Moore
43. Studcrackers - Wilin Rosario
44. Benny Blanco - Jason Castro
45. bigboy1234 - Brett Lawrie
46. MauveAvenger - Aaron Poreda
47. Basketball Jesus - Michael Saunders
48. SSK99 - Andrew Lambo
49. Chach - forfeited
50. TyCobb - Ethan Martin
Supplementary picks:
51. Studcrackers - Julio Borbon
52. MauveAvenger - Kyle Blanks
53. Kazanovicz - Joshua Fields
54. Studcrackers - Nick Weglarz
55. MauveAvenger - Tyler Flowers
56. MauveAvenger - Brad Holt
57. Studcrackers - Jason Donald
58. Kazanovicz - Daniel Bard
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2009 ROOK/FA Draft:
1. Sunshinekids99 - Nelson Cruz
2. Kazanovicz (via Setterlund)(1) - Shin-Soo Choo
3. Kazanovicz - Tim Hudson
4. Studcrackers - Bengie Molina
5. Basketball Jesus - Joel Hanrahan
6. Sosafan70 - Anthony Reyes
7. MauveAvenger - Elijah Dukes
8. Bove310 - Khalil Greene
9. TyCobb - Dustin McGowan
10. BennyBlanco - Chad Qualls
11. Chach - Jed Lowrie
12. bigboy1234 - Jason Motte
Trade #1:
Kazanovicz receives prospect picks #17 and #40; ROOK/FA pick #2 from Setterlund
Setterlund receives prospect picks #13 and #14 from Kazanovicz
