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Hi,

I am looking to run a base team league again for the 4th year. It will be whatever the lowest salary is and a DH league.

The Rules:

1. You must keep at least 20 players that played for your base team in 2005 on your roster at all times during the season (a 2 for 1 trade might change that but by game time you have to have 20 players from your base team).
2. Play in the home park of your base team.
3. You can spend up to 4 mil for a player that used to play for your base team in the Draft, Free Agent/Waivers & trading pool.
4. You can spend up to 2 mil for a player that has never played for your team in the Draft, Free Agent/Waivers & trading pool.
5. Trades work the same way if a player played for your team you can use up to 4 mil to trade for him, if he never played for your team you can only use up to 2 mil to acquire him.
6. If during the auto draft you somehow get a player that is carded with another teams’ base team you must release him asap.
7. All players carded for a base team belong to that team for the year. If someone has the A’s and there is a player that is carded to the A’s in the Free Agent list only the A’s may pick that player up. (Unless a team would like to renounce their rights to a player).
8. All players belong to the team that is listed on their card for the whole year.
9. You can only use players that played for your base team in 2005 to count towards your 20 number (ie Damon is counted as a Redsox not a Yankee).
10. You can’t have a player playing on your team that is from another base team in the league unless there has been a trade or their rights have been renounced.

I will take the Yankees.

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My guess is that you might have trouble filling the league unless you open it up to a more equitable draft-by-lottery system. I'm in either way though. :wink:

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Page--I am very interested in joining your league again but I think it would be better to wait for the cards and salaries like previously...don't you?

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When you've got the Yankees, you just HAVE to have the Sox !!
Count me in !!!

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When you've got the Yankees, you just HAVE to have the Sox !!
Count me in !!!

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I think this is a great idea, and I would be interested. However, I do have misgivings which lead to questions.

1) You say this will be the lowest salary available. If this is $60 million, how can you fit a base team under that cap? And what good is a base team like the Cards if you can't afford to keep Pujols? I would take the Phillies, but what's the point if I can't afford to keep Abreu, Burrell, Utley, Wagner, Howard, Rollins, Etc.?

2) What if your base team doesn't have 20 players that can fit under a $60 million cap? Let alone FAs.

3) Can't you have a higher salary (say $100 million) and keep the other rules intact, which would limit big FA signings? It seems to me that a lower salary would be a big hindrance and you wouldn't even be able to keep your core, let alone supplement them (but maybe that's what you want).

Sorry for all the questions, but I don't want to commit to a league, buy a team and then hate it because I feel too restricted.

Hi 7smitty7,

I thought 80 mil. was the lowest cap that was available and thats what I plan on using for this league. If the cap for this year for the lowest turns out to be 100 mil thats what we will use.

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3. Jack - Indians
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