Archive of SportingNews.com's old SOM Baseball forum

......for the "Holiday 2008 Pre-card Draft" league.

Here is the draft/chat thread:

http://forums.sportingnews.com/viewtopic.php?t=498991


Here is the team:

Ludwick, H. Ramirez, Howard, M. Cabrera, Bay, Lidge, Kemp, Uggla, Nolasco, Mussina, Cantu, Y. Molina, Ziegler, Moyer, Abreu, Maholm, Weaver, Rhodes, Bradford, Loney, Pierzynski, Thome, C. Young, Beimel, Peralta, Gordon, Reynolds, Hart

Trading is allowed.


Here are the managers who would be forever grateful:

ironwill1
AF Dickie
thisisray
old_toriihunter
thisisdan26
misterg
ShaneMan1199
AeroDave10
Pennyville8
Jagman28
Palmtana

Which gordon? alex? Two DH guys (?), good pen, starters weak. Weak defense at 2 and ss but the guys can hit.

Who of any quality is in the FA pool? Can the poor sap who helps out have a couple of first picks?

If loops and rolls isn't in - I'll jump in.

Just let me know

Excellent! A nibble and a bite!

To l&r's points:

[i:978ed454cd]Looks like a $100m team in $120m league[/i:978ed454cd]
We set the cap after the draft. Some teams went over 100M and some under so 120M it is.

[i:978ed454cd]Which gordon? alex? [/i:978ed454cd]
That's the one.

[i:978ed454cd]Weak defense at 2 and ss but the guys can hit. [/i:978ed454cd]
I'm not sure how much research the previous manager put into his picks. The fielding ratings had already been out and he ended up with H. Ramirez and Uggla. Ramirez is good to go in a hitters park even with the bad D. Available second basemen include:

Hill
Ojeda
Cora (2e5; 40 ob vs. LHP and RHP)
A. Cabrera
Ellis

[i:978ed454cd]Who of any quality is in the FA pool?[/i:978ed454cd]
Here are the players taken by position.
http://forums.sportingnews.com/viewtopic.php?t=500622

[i:978ed454cd]Can the poor sap who helps out have a couple of first picks?[/i:978ed454cd]

That sounds reasonable. The other 11 managers could sit out waivers letting the new owner have their pick of any 2 players they choose. Then we will all commence with the frenzy after waivers. I'm not the commish (although I hope to play one some day on TV) so this would need league approval.

tempting, but I'll pass. I would like to see what park you end up picking.