TED LASSO LEAGUE 2023-2

TRADE ANNOUNCEMENT

Plaguebearers get: Aaron Civale SP
English Rays get: Austin Hays OF

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ThisisRay to confirm

Ray, please confirm this trade

Rosters updated at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... 1965337032

Hello. I will be dropping:

Erick Haase
Sam Huff
Brayan Rocchio
Henry Davis
Brock Burke
Brad Hand
Erasmo Ramirez

This team has limited talent. Any advice about how to improve will be appreciated.

Also, is there any talent available in the upcoming draft? If so, should I be more aggressive with my cuts?

Thanks!

Suggestions:

- This is a high turnover league. Drop anyone that doesn't contribute to winning this season or isn't having a noteworthy 2024. If you think you have a bad team this year, you might as well drop 10+ guys or trade good cards for picks. The biggest premium is good starting pitching. Don't drop a decent SP, but anyone else over the age of 26 with a mediocre card and a mediocre 2024, I say jettison.

- The talent availability is high at the top of the draft because salary cap is low ($110m) so some teams already have their roster set for this season before the draft. Those teams will be more speculative, not bothering as much to draft good cards but drafting young players or even a few prospects without cards.

- The talent drops off significantly in later rounds because there are 18 teams and each round gobbles so many players.

I just now emailed the list of CARDED players available for the 2023 annual draft to each manager for whom I have an address. If you did not receive it, please send me a current email address.

Teams may also carry up to 7 non-carded players, including professional, collegiate, foreign, etc. They do not need to have been signed by an MLB team.

Selections for carded players and non-carded players may be posted in any of the rounds.

{{ROUND 1}}  * * * NO CLOCK IN 1ST ROUND OF DRAFT * * *
1. tcochran/Bums - Ernie Clement SS TOR
2. Palmtana
3. KellysHeroes
4. unctarheel
5. jmlopp
6. Spider 67/Brew
7. padrenurgle1/Carjackers
8. Terry101
9. ironwill1
10. tcochran/Sugar Kings
11. thisisray
12. jflatour99
13. oldmansmith2
14. rant
15. baseball cfo
16. jodynadu
17. Spider 67/Conquest
18. padrenurgle1/Plaguemarines

Drafting this late in the MLB year means that most of the talent was scooped up in previous drafts. The Bums are desperate for pitching, however the available SPs are not very appealing. The following unicorns, with huge cards for 2023, are available for solid SPs:

Evan Carter $10.30
Ernie Clement $9.47

Let's make a deal!

I would like to add these players to my cuts please:

Kyle Hendricks
Gregory Soto
Nick Loftin
Sam Haggerty
Andrew McCutchen

Thank you

Picking 18th out of 18 every round is

I feel like I took over the White Sox on a 24 hour notice. The ship is sinking, on fire, and there is a hurricane on the horizon. LOL

{{ROUND 1}} * * * NO CLOCK IN 1ST ROUND OF DRAFT * * *
1. tcochran/Bums - Ernie Clement SS TOR
2. Palmtana - Ranger Suarez SP PHI
3. KellysHeroes
4. unctarheel
5. jmlopp
6. Spider 67/Brew
7. padrenurgle1/Carjackers
8. Terry101
9. ironwill1
10. tcochran/Sugar Kings
11. thisisray
12. jflatour99
13. oldmansmith2
14. rant
15. baseball cfo
16. jodynadu
17. Spider 67/Conquest
18. padrenurgle1/Plaguemarines