NLD 65 - The Big Maple Takes the Mound

Rules
$80m
2023 season player set
5/10/20 waivers
DH
Advanced
No frenzy

Live draft: 20 rounds, 19 players + one stadium

* No clock 1st round. Three (3) hours thereafter.
* Clock is 0700 to 1900 PDT
* No clock on weekends
* Waivers guys go at the top of the draft list
* You MUST put the players that you draft on your initial team when we load the league. You can cut them waivers if you desire, but they have to be on the initial team submitted.
* You can ONLY select 25 players going into the Auto Draft. After waivers you can carry as many as you want.

A Reminder: this is a live draft, During the "clock hours", it is expected that you'll either be on the site or have proxies. Of course, sometimes proxies run out or things come up. This is understood. If and when this happens, please check on the site afterwards so that we can understand what happened. Thank you.

Draft Order/DivisionsEast
BigAlric
dalekeener
milleram
klx22

Central
Jeepdriver
nythawk
RandyW64
Semper Gumby

West
stevep107
Stoney18
joethejet
Spider 67

Ok, James Paxton has been number 65 for most of his career. His nickname, evidently, is "The Big Maple" so there ya go. You learned something new today!

What's behind the nickname? Well, according to The Seattle Times' Sean Quinton, it started with Paxton's tattoo and Mariners bench coach Tim Bogard.

From Quinton:

The name stems from the big maple leaf tattoo Paxton has on his right forearm, representing his Canadian roots.

Paxton's take? Whatever works.

"I guess. Bogey (Bogar) started that one. They call me Big Canuck or Big Maple. One of the two."

My favorite kind of syrup!

Is there any Big Sorghum out there???

Draft is set up and invites have been sent out.

As always with a new set there is some manual manipulation to get the online players into the draft site. Please double check salaries and unleashed players (should not be in the first draft) and let me know if there needs to be any corrections.

At a quick glance it looks fine...I'm not seeing unleashed Carter or Clement.

Yay Canada!

Beauty eh?

Let's go!

Milleram is up. Maybe people haven't noticed yet we've started. I sent him an email to remind...

I didn't know Paxton was from "The Great White North" until creating this thread!