24 Team 80's Franchise/Mystery League Full

Reds keepers
Seaver, Tom
Nolan, Gary
Gullett, Don
Norman, Fred
Grimsley, Ross
Simpson, Wayne
Kern, Jim
Granger, Wayne
Carroll, Clay
Bair, Doug
Perez, Tony
Chaney, Darrel
Auerbach, Rick
Foster, George
Rose, Pete
Carbo, Bernie
McRae, Hal
Collins, Dave
Geronimo, Cesar
Griffey, Ken Sr.

The only players on the Reds roster that I didn't include are Bench, Correll, Morgan and Concepcion since no other team can pick them up (if I'm understanding this correctly).

Dodgers keepers:
Sutton
Hooton
Messersmith
Rau
Foster
Kekich
Brewer
Miller
Lagrow
Ferguson
Sims
Oates
Lacy
Valentine
Cey
Wills
Wynn
W. Davis
Monday
Crawford

I'm assuming that I don't have to protect Garvey, Lopes, Lefebrve and Bill Russell as they are only eligible for the Dodgers.

Cardinals Keepers

Steve Carlton
John Denny
John Curtis
Mark Littell
Joe Hoerner
Tom Hilgendorf
Frank Linzy
Rawley Eastwick
Steve Swisher
Ron Hunt
Ted Sizemore
Joe Torre
Don Kessinger
Dal Maxvill
George Hendrick
Tony Scott
Bake McBride
Jose Cardenal
Jerry Morales
Mike Anderson

If I am understanding this thread (and this page of the thread) so far, I don't need to "protect" as "keepers" players that are carded only to the Expos (for all 5 of their card seasons), which includes the following players (all of whom were on my roster for season 1 of the 1970s):

Dawson, Andre
Valentine, Ellis
Carter, Gary
Jorgensen, Mike
Bailey, Bob
Cromartie, Warren
Parrish, Larry
Rogers, Steve
Stoneman, Bill

My understanding from this thread is that these players do not count toward my limit of 20 keepers. If this is incorrect, please let me know. (commish?)

Based on this, the keepers that I have - 19 in total - all of whom were on my roster at the end of last season - are as follows:

Morton, Carl
Renko, Steve
Lee, Bill F.
Fryman, Woodie
Torrez, Mike
Marshall, Mike
Taylor, Chuck
Sosa, Elias
Garman, Mike
Foote, Barry
McCarver, Tim
Fairly, Ron
Morales, Jose
Cash, Dave
Scott, Rodney
Garrett, Wayne
Foli, Tim
Dwyer, Jim
Staub, Rusty

If my understanding is not correct, please let me know. I must say this is a bit of a head scratcher, because with this interpretation of the rules, my whole end of season roster is protected, one way or another. Is this the correct way to look at it?

In the same boat as others. The Giants would protect their final roster.

gbrookes - It probably could use some tweaking but its the current rule and you have it right. For the 80's we should consider lowering the keeper rule to account for the challenges of free agency.

Orioles keepers

Grich
Rettenmund
Garcia
Etchebarren
Singleton
Muser
Robinson, Frank
Williams, Earl
Jackson, Grant
Richard
Alexander, Doyle
Miller, Dyar
Nelson, Roger
Palmer
Cuellar
McNally
Watt

Setting up league now

League created
Mystery Franchise League 4 - 70's
PW: mystery702

Waivers: normal
Free agency drop: 10% flat
100MIL

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Expos
Yankees
Red Sox

White Sox Keepers:

Tommy John
Jim Kaat
Steve Stone
Stan Bahnsen
Dave Hamilton
Rich Hinton

Brian Downing
Dick Allen
Mike Andrews
Bobby Knoop
Ron Santo
Eric Soderholm
Luis Aparicio
Alan Bannister

Ken Kravec
Terry Forster
Lamar Johnson
Rich Morales
Bill Melton
Carlos May

gbrookes - It probably could use some tweaking but its the current rule and you have it right. For the 80's we should consider lowering the keeper rule to account for the challenges of free agency.

for the 80s we could make it a non-keeper type of rule. Going back to the 60s league for an example - if the Reds get Frank Robinson in the 1st year they cannot keep him, the Orioles get him the 2nd year. This would help mirror player movement in free agency and give each of us a chance to play with that 'one guy' that could really help your team but you lost a coin flip in year 1 so you lose him in both leagues. I know Reggie has 3 Yankee years and 2 Angel years. So if the Angels don't have a team I get him both leagues but if someone takes the Angels then at least I get Reggie once. Willie Randolph will be mine in both leagues as he has 5 Yankee cards so there is no other team that could get him even though he played with other teams in the 80s.

Just a thought. We can talk about it or forget it depending on how others feel.