URGENT!!! Bernie or anyone

[ROBERTLATORRE]

The auto-draft somehow only gave me 1 catcher. It was my worst ever draft, but the upside is I have the first waiver pick.

My problem is that no one in the league is willing to trade me a backup catcher of ANY value without taking one of my top players.

Am I hosed in the waivers if my first pick isn't a catcher?

Gotta love these public leagues huh?....

If anyone knows please let me know, my waivers will be a complete bust possibly.

HELP !

Rob

[ROBERTLATORRE]

HELP!!!!

[Jerlins]

Are you sure no other player on your team qualifies at catcher? Might not be his primary position, so he would not show as a catcher, for example, I believe Doumit, Biggio, and Feliz fall into that category.

[keyzick]

That happened to me once, only 1 catcher, and I did get hosed because I didn't have a catcher as my #1 waiver pick. The game wouldn't allow me to get any of my waiver choices because it said I have to have 2 catchers. I wrote to TSN Help about it, but by then I had changed my lineup through free agency (adding a second catcher), and their response was that I have 2 catchers.

I have heard of it happening at least one other time to another manager as well.

Good luck!

[ROBERTLATORRE]

Ugh, this stinks. definitely no other catcher on my team, and no quality catchers in the pool.

[keyzick]

Maybe just go with a claim on a .50 catcher, and worry about fixing that position post waivers. Then hope you can get quality wiaver picks in rounds 2+. Hopefully TSN or Bernie corrects the error before waivers though!

[Detroit-Tigers]

I have had it happen.

Lesson learned, if you try to get a catcher who isn't a catcher as his first position (I think phelps is like that), you need to draft 3 just in case.

[ROBERTLATORRE]

Yep, Lesson learned, so I get to draft a <1mil backup catcher instead of Mike Schmidt, Joe Morgan or Yaz.

A painful lesson indeed. HAL is a bum.

[RICHARDMILTER]

If you post the team, I bet one of the players qualifies as a catcher. I do not mean to doubt you, but I have seen this before where it looks like you have only one catcher, but someone else qualifies there, it is just not their primary position. If I am wrong I apologize. Also I have had some pretty bad auto drafts(like missing on more than half the players I wanted) and I have always been able to fix my teams in waivers, and free agency. Do not panic, at least you have the first waiver pick. I know it sucks though waiting for waivers to clear. You must want to fix that team so bad. I had a post about this very same thing. They need to let us make more waiver claims. I would personally like to do more frenzy leagues because I hate the waiting to fix my team, it is a constant worry when you get a bad draft and can do nothing about it for two days. Good luck!

[Jerlins]

Wow, it never even crossed my mind about drafting a non primary catcher. I just figured the computer wouldn't allow one to begin without 2 catchers on the roster and correct the problem if indeed you missed out on a Phelps type player. Something new learned each day.