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I second everything Niners said about keepers. I'm also the commish in several different leagues and much prefer the keeper style of play. Maintaining the rosters is certainly an added level of effort, but I think it's well worth it.
There is one variation on the theme that Niners did not mention, and that's the retro keeper. I've run a number of them, with similar draft rules, etc., but starting with the oldest possible card set and then moving forward one season at a time. The longest running one started back in the Sporting News days and ran from 2001-2011, before becoming a "standard" keeper for the 2012 card set. Even just starting with SOM's oldest set now of 2007 is okay, too. I have one league right now working on season 6 of an 8-season arc.
The use of trades, draft picks and prospects to build a solid franchise for the future seems to me like the closest thing to MLB.