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schnoogens wrote:Schnoogens trades Kyle Lohse and the #14 pick in the spring draft to MKL for John Jay.
MKL to confirm.
I'm sure that means I just get another pick at the end of the draft
Ok I've looked at this even more closely. Couple of things for your situation.
1. You have a full roster of 40
2. you've traded your 2nd rd, 9th rd and 10th rd round picks
3. you have 4 prospects that need to be promoted or released this year.
4. you have acquired enough extra draft picks, that you have 13 picks through the first 8 rounds.
First things first;
1. You can't start the draft at anywhere over 30 active players, that means a minimum of 10 cuts, which takes care of trading away your 2nd 9th and 10th round picks.
2. Assuming you want to keep all 4 prospects, you will need to make 4 more cuts (now we're up to 14 cuts)
3. However that will only leave you with a roster of 30, or 10 picks, which you will have made by the 6th round.
4. Which means you will be forfeiting your two 7th round picks and your 8th round pick unless you make 3 more cuts which brings you to 17. I don't have a problem with the extra cuts, even though the rules currently state you can only cut 15. I am planning to revise the rules to allow for more than 15 cuts (I'll explain why, and what the rationale was for limiting it to 15, when I revise the rule) to permit you to make those picks.
5. But it does mean that you effectively get nothing for your trade of Kyle Gibson to roscodog for his 7th round pick in February of last year, which you may or may not have a problem with.
6. If you do not make the 17 cuts prior to the draft, you forfeit those 3 picks and the rights to trade them as well. If we didn't do it that way it would effectively give you a roster of 43 and that's not allowed. I just want that clear before we start making cuts.
Just want to let you know where you stand.
One thing is for sure though, you most DEFINITELY are not getting an "extra pick" at the end of the draft as a result of this trade, I'm not even sure why you thought that would be the case, given all the extra picks you've acquired.