Virtual Reality 12 team league-25 man lists-FA Draft

Houston available players

Bregman, Alex
Altuve, Jose
White, Tyler
Springer, George
Reddick, Josh
Stassi, Max
Correa, Carlos
Gonzalez, Marwin
Gurriel, Yuli
Kemp, Tony
Marisnick, Jake
McCann, Brian
Gattis, Evan
Tucker, Kyle
Fisher, Derek
Davis, J.D.

Verlander, Justin
Cole, Gerrit
McHugh, Collin
Morton, Charlie
Valdez, Framber
Osuna, Roberto
McCullers Jr., Lance
Harris, Will
Sipp, Tony
Smith, Joe
Keuchel, Dallas
Rondon, Hector
Devenski, Chris
Peacock, Brad
*Giles, Ken

Cleveland available players:

Ramirez, Jose
Lindor, Francisco
Brantley, Michael
Diaz, Yandy
Encarnacion, Edwin
Gomes, Yan
Chisenhall, Lonnie
Allen, Greg
Alonso, Yonder
Gonzalez, Erik
Cabrera, Melky
Guyer, Brandon
Zimmer, Bradley
Kipnis, Jason
Davis, Rajai
Naquin, Tyler
Perez, Roberto

Kluber, Corey
Bauer, Trevor
Perez, Oliver
Clevinger, Mike
Carrasco, Carlos
Miller, Andrew
Allen, Cody
Bieber, Shane
Ramirez, Neil
Otero, Dan
Tomlin, Josh
Plutko, Adam
*McAllister, Zach

NY Mets available players

Nimmo, Brandon
McNeil, Jeff
Conforto, Michael
Lagares, Juan
Cespedes, Yoenis
Flores, Wilmer
Mesoraco, Devin
Plawecki, Kevin
Frazier, Todd
Bruce, Jay
Gonzalez, Adrian
Rosario, Amed
Smith, Dominic
Jackson, Austin
Guillorme, Luis
Reyes, Jose
Nido, Tomas
*Bautista, Jose
*Cabrera, Asdrubal

deGrom, Jacob
Wheeler, Zack
Syndergaard, Noah
Lugo, Seth
Matz, Steven
Gsellman, Robert
Bashlor, Tyler
Blevins, Jerry
Oswalt, Corey
Vargas, Jason
Rhame, Jacob
Sewald, Paul
*Familia, Jeurys

Reposting this to bring it forward to this page (please see available players lists by franchise over this and the previous page):

1. Oldmansmith2 - Oakland Athletics
2. ycbill - Milwaukee Brewers
3. Eddie E - Los Angeles Dodgers
4. carlerik - Washington Nationals
5. Paul j kiggins- Cubbies
6. STEVENHOLMAN - Houston Astros
7. unclerouser - Cleveland Injuns
8. FAaron - NY Mets
9. Spider67
10. GBrookes
11. LMBombers
12. Sam Hoff

Bringing this post forward to this page:

Paul - thanks for posting this early in the process!

However, the following players are not being treated as Cubs for this league, because they were players acquired later in the season, and played more (PA or IP) for their other franchise in 2018:

Daniel Murphy [Washington]
Jesse Chavez [Texas]
Cole Hamels [Texas]

Please note that the following other players who are Cubs in Strat generally are *not* for this league, for the same reason:

Jorge De La Rosa [Arizona]
Jaime Garcia [Toronto]

In theory, there could be players that are carded to other strat teams but who actually played more for the Cubs, but there aren't any - probably because the Cubs were loading up, and didn't let any significant players leave the Cubs organization.

The idea behind this roster rule was to "play out the season" on the basis of the rosters that were in effect throughout most of the year, without regard to trade deadline roster changes.

Sorry Paul.

A recap post - I will amend the opening post on the thread to reflect this:

Process:
1. Draft franchises
2. Declare a 25 man protected list on the boards here. (Watch out for players traded in real life - they belong to the franchise for whom they had the most PA or IP).
3. Do *2* round FA draft on the thread here. The FA pool is every player not on one of the 25 man protected lists, including all players on other (non-drafted) franchises. As each Free Agent is drafted, that player must cut one of his 25 protected franchise players, who then is added back into the FA pool. This is a strictly optional FA draft - you can choose not to pick if you don't want to.
4. Autodraft teams using additional Free Agents if desired. More than 5 FA's can be used provided that 20 franchsie players are maintained at all times (i.e. you can carry more than 25 players if you want, as long as 20 are franchise players), and within the $75 M salary cap.
5. The rules allow for trading at any time after all teams have declared their 25 man initial roster. (After that point, any unclaimed players are added to the FA pool anyway). Up until the declaration of 25 man rosters, managers have exclusive rights to the players from the franchise that they draft.

Other points:
1. Up to 28 players are allowed on the final roster. The limits are the salary cap and the 20 man franchise player requirements
2. Managers must select the real life ballparks that belong to their selected franchise.

Remember, if you cut franchise players at any time, they become free agents available to any other team. The only sense in which they retain their identity as belonging to your selected franchise is that if they are still free agents after you initial roster declarations at any time during league play, you can choose to re-acquire them, and those reacquired "franchise players" can be used towards meeting your 20 franchise player roster requirement at that later time.

***Note*** - for those of us who are also in “Paul’s Franchise League” - this is a rule difference in this league - franchise players do not *remain* unavailable to other teams if they are not on your designated or active roster.

Please note that paul may want to do a repick for the cubs - he wasn't expecting the loss of some of those players. he's going to think it over.

Spider is also away from his spreadsheets until later during the day.

In general, I would prefer that everyone feels like they have the time they need to work through this (interesting? frustrating?) concept league. Best case, everyone understands how it works, and gets the maximum enjoyment out of it.

So, I'm not wanting people to feel rushed. I'd like everyone to have lots of fun with this.

People should not be posting their protected list before all teams are drafted because it gives the teams that are drafting free agents first an advantage when protecting their players with exact knowledge of who will be available in the free agent draft.

1. Oldmansmith2 - Oakland Athletics
2. ycbill - Milwaukee Brewers
3. Eddie E - Los Angeles Dodgers
4. carlerik - Washington Nationals
5. Paul j kiggins- Cubbies
6. STEVENHOLMAN - Houston Astros
7. unclerouser - Cleveland Injuns
8. FAaron - NY Mets (proxy)
9. Spider67
10. GBrookes
11. LMBombers
12. Sam Hoff

People should not be posting their protected list before all teams are drafted because it gives the teams that are drafting free agents first an advantage when protecting their players with exact knowledge of who will be available in the free agent draft.

Good point! Please refrain from posting your 25 man lists until after the franchise draft is completed.