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sounds reasonable and let's look out for this in future years as some of these front-half of the league guys start to come to an end in their careers. gonna be tough for those of us who geared up for the front 1/2 of the league.

Ironwill1 and willmurr24 did not pay attention in the 2007 draft and got skipped too often to pick up long-term players, so they focused on the first 1 or 2 years. ironwill1 bailed, but lferenti123 took on the rebuilding job -- and willmurr24 has successfully rebuilt over a few seasons in other leagues, so I expect he can here, too.

My hope is that everybody else has at least a core group on which to build their franchises for the long haul.

willmurr dropped 8 players prior to the draft, so he could have dropped 2 more and still be following the rules.

Of the 8 who were dropped, there are 5 who are not carded in 2009. That leaves 3 who could go back on his roster:
Josh Fields, 3B/1B
Wes Helms, 3B/1B
Darin Erstad, 1B/LF/RF

With 13 position players on his roster, including the uncarded Grudzialanek, that leaves 12 carded, so 2 of the 3 above need to be reinstated.

The 15 pitchers on the roster included 4 uncarded, so the total of 11 carded is okay, but the mix is wrong. There are only 3 pure RP and a 4th one is needed. None of willmurr's previously dropped players qualify, so one more draft pick is
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So, to revise my "simple" solution:

I propose that willmurr
- increase his original drop total from 8 to 10, by letting go of 2 of the 5 uncarded ones
- bring back 2 position players who were dropped inappropriately, to get to 14 carded ones

- drop Bruce Chen, his most recently drafted SP
- draft 1 more pure RP, instead

IMHO this is fine but I feel he should be required to keep Westbrook and Neshek who have some value in the future.

IMHO this is fine but I feel he should be required to keep Westbrook and maybe Neshek as well. Westbook especially has the most future value and would certainly have been drafted this year.

Neshek and Westbrook are uncarded in 2009 and therefore not eligible for this draft

Sorry my mistake.

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ok I dropped Chen
dropped McGowan and Westbrook added Erstad and draft Jamie McDonald .
I have a legal roster

ok I dropped Chen
dropped McGowan and Westbrook added Erstad and draft Jamie McDonald .
I have a legal roster

Grudzialanek is not carded -- you still need to drop one more of the uncarded and bring back either Field or Helms

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EDIT: This was written at same time as Dr.P's post, with similar content

Thanks to Dr.P for the catch on Grudzielanek -- in taking another look, I also see there are 4 uncarded pitchers, not 3. So this means that the original drop list was faulty. A 28-player team can only have a max of 3 uncarded players and still be eligible to load 25.

CARDED
12 position players, including at least 2 catchers
11 pitchers, including 3 "pure" RP
2 more position players needed

UNCARDED
Grudzielanek
Logan
McGowan
Neshek
Westbrook

I propose that willmurr
- keep all 23 of his carded players
- correct his drops by letting go of 2 of the 5 uncarded ones
- bring back 2 position players who were dropped inappropriately

looks good