USKL 3 Chat & Trades:

Just checking in here to let all know that I am finally emerging from under the crush resulting from my move back from Japan and the start of the new term here in the East. Unfortunately, we are being buried here this weekend under a good ole Nor'easter, so no promises of easy communications now, but I wanted to at least show signs of life.

GREAT!! So does that mean you can answer one of the 5 e-mail trade offers I've sent you in USKL2???

Just a reminder:

League offices will be closed from Wednesday February 13th 5:00pm until Friday February 22 as the commissioner will be on vacation.

What's that mean?

All trades posted during this time will not be considered final or official until the league office reopens and has time to review the trades. If you do post a trade, make my life easier, please check the latesst roster and see if it will put you over teh 40 man limit, if it does post a drop wehn posting the trade.

It also means I personally won't be able to answer any trade inquiries during the same time period.

League office is reopened. I hope you all are getting pumped up for the upcoming season.

All,
I've sent the latest up to date version of the roster sheet in preparation for our upcoming draft. There are a couple of things we need to do:

1. Rosters must be set to no more then 30 prior to the start of the draft
2. Prospects drafted in 2011 must be promoted to the active roster or released

With that, here is a list of your roster size and how many 2011 prospects you must account for. If you want to keep the prospects you will have to make enough cuts to accommodate the promotions yet still leave your roster with no more than 30 prior to the draft. I will list the number of cuts you need to make assuming you will keep all prospects. If you chose to cut prospects your cuts would be adjusted accordingly.

Name Roster Prospects Max Cut

Bigmahon 40, 4, 14
ehlekev 40, 2, 12
Cubit 40, 4, 14
nythawk 40, 4, 14
qksilver 39, 3, 12
theTurtle 40, 1, 11
7smitty7 40, 3, 13
Cubs48 40, 4, 14
hkmossy 40, 4, 14
terry101 40, 4, 14
palmtana 38, 6, 14


My cuts and promotions are already posted in the cuts thread. Please post yours there as well using the format I established.

http://forum.onlinegames.strat-o-matic.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=632113&sid=168ab96f3a06705f7d2cc9268b6e48e6

I hope the new cards will be released sometime next week, once they are I'll post a schedule for cuts to be final and the draft to start.

If there are any questions, please ask.

CUTS:
1. Hayes, Brett C KC
2. Lee, Derek 1B BALT
3. Blake, Casey 3B
4. Paredes, Jimmy 3B HOU
5. Andino, Robert 2B SEA
6. Bay, Jason OF NYM
7. Arrietta, Jake SP BALT
8. Nova, Ivan SP NYY
9. Wolf, Randy SP BALT
10. Acosta, Manny RP NYM
11. Pena, Carlos 1B TB

PROSPECT PROMOTIONS
1. Aoki, Norichika OF MIL
2. Marte, Starling OF PIT
3. Darvish, Yu SP TEX
4. Herrera, Elian 2B LAD

PROSPECT RELEASES:
1. Hultzen, Danny SP
2. Bradley, Jed SP

40 - 11 + 4 = 7 DRAFT PICKS

Kev, you need to make 3 more cuts if you are making that many promotions. I listed your minimum cuts needed if you only promoted the 2 prospect you had to promote as 12, if you are promoting 4, you need to cut 14.

Your roster has to be at a maximum of 30 prior to the start of the draft.

No prob, I updated my list.

No prob, I updated my list.

Saw that, Thanks

I have some movable pieces if anyone is interested, all can be had for prospect picks or FA picks. And of course, everything is negotiable so don't hold the picks I list in stone.

1. Geovany Soto (9th round FA pick or prospect pick)
2. John Jay (2nd round FA pick or 1st round prospect pick)
3. Jose Iglesias (9th round FA pick or prospect pick)
4. Jed Lowrie (9th round FA pick or prospect pick)
5. Josh Rutledege (9th round FA pick or prospect pick)
6. Ryan Kalish (9th round FA pick or prospect pick)

I could also use a LF who hits RHP or some SP or RP.

Well, my starting rotation is gonna be sick. But they may need to toss a shutout every game!

I have the #1 FA pick. Just checking to see what that might be worth in a trade. Message me if you have any offers. Given who I can take there, it'll have to be an interesting offer.

Bill, FYI, I made one change to my drop list in case you had already recorded my drops on the master. I had to promote Darvish as Lilly is an unleashed man!

Kev