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BBFL 2024
By: Dave23 Date: January 28, 2024, 7:56 pm
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Since 1998…
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Re: BBFL 2024
By: Dave23 Date: January 28, 2024, 7:57 pm
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The lottery is complete.
1) Glass Onions
2) ChiTown Dojo
3) Red Hornets
4) Shadows
5) Dragons
6) Oz Busters
7) Snotnosed Brats
8) Corn Mashers
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Re: BBFL 2024
By: CUBluejays Date: January 28, 2024, 9:54 pm
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Draft order was updated on Fantrax. I’d suggest just looking
over your picks to make sure they are correct.
Thanks as always Dave.
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Re: BBFL 2024
By: wmljohn Date: January 29, 2024, 6:16 am
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[quote author=Dave23 link=topic=632.msg486500#msg486500
date=1706493363]
Since 1998…
[/quote]
Is that when we started this thing?
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Re: BBFL 2024
By: dev Date: January 29, 2024, 10:53 am
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"March 4 all keepers, MLB and Minor league keepers due. March
6 minor league draft. MLB draft to be determined."
I thought I mentioned this last year...It seems it would benefit
everyone to have the MLB draft first, then the minor league
draft after the season starts...Owners can pick up Kris
Bryant-type players who miss the opening day roster (and have to
be released by our rules)...or had impactful springs but need
seasoning in AAA...
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Re: BBFL 2024
By: CurtOne Date: January 29, 2024, 11:04 am
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Doesn't work. In the past, owners picked minor leaguers they
thought were sure things to make the major club, and then when
they didn't make it, lost them. Works better this way around.
Always has.
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Re: BBFL 2024
By: brjones Date: January 29, 2024, 6:27 pm
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Everyone has checked in, the lottery is done...now let's get the
offseason going and make some trades.
Schwarber, Springer, Gorman, Bo Naylor, Story, Eovaldi, Pfaadt,
Leclerc, Cano, and Pressly are available for draft picks.
Schwarber will cost the most, Cano or Pressly would just need to
get me out of the 12th round
I'd also be interested in trading for an SP. Berrios, Sewald, or
Josh Naylor could also be available in a trade package.
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Re: BBFL 2024
By: CurtOne Date: January 29, 2024, 7:25 pm
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[quote author=CurtOne link=topic=632.msg486526#msg486526
date=1706547855]
Doesn't work. In the past, owners picked minor leaguers they
thought were sure things to make the major club, and then when
they didn't make it, lost them. Works better this way around.
Always has.
[/quote]I need to explain this to those people who have been in
this league less than 10 years. When this league started,
there were no minor leagues. About 7-10 years in, there were
numerous requests to begin one, primarily because there were a
few owners who tried the strategy of loading up with young
talent during the draft who were not yet major leaguers. That
was legal. That was also disastrous for those who had key
players miss Opening Day. They ended up dumping the youth or
taking zero points for some time. The league passed the rule
that anyone not making the Opening Day roster, was dropped to
discourage the practice. But the league listened to the
arguments for minors and we finally created them, unfortunately
we still had some owners load up with minor leaguers and then
try to put them in their minors. It defeated the intent of
creating minors so teams could build and weakened the minor
league draft to a point it was worthless. Anyhow, about 10
years ago we moved the minor draft in front of the major and it
has worked much better. You can draft players who might make
the major this year without fear of losing them. BTW, we also
allowed minor league slots to be traded, but that was a
clusterf... I may have some of that history misstated but there
are enough old guys here to straighten it out.
So...the league has changed, many times. We are not resistant
to change, just change that the majority can't abide. BTW: The
league started with 20 teams. Imagine how finding that 2nd
Catcher worked then! Of course, I think we only had 23 roster
spots then. And, to make changes, it had to be 75% vote, not
just majority. A long way since 1998.
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Re: BBFL 2024
By: wmljohn Date: January 30, 2024, 5:47 am
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And I was king. And I was running stats by pencil and paper
from USA Today's Baseball weekly.
Ugh...
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Re: BBFL 2024
By: wmljohn Date: January 30, 2024, 5:49 am
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And I also traded Dante Bichette for Roger Clemens and Mike
Piazza. Rajiv never forgave me.
Oh and we had one year when a couple of owners in both the
football and baseball leagues that seemed to be helping each
other by making bad football trades in favor of good baseball
trades. Like I will give you Shohei for a bag of balls in the
baseball league if you give me Tom Brady for Mitch Trubisky in
the football league type deals.
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