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| Managers may trade draft picks for the next free agent draft only. As soon as the free agent draft begins, picks for the subsequent draft may be traded. A manager may trade as many of his draft picks as he wishes, but must have at least six draft picks at all times, two of which must be in the fourth round or earlier. |
draft day trades Ponies trade Justin Verlander, Josh Hader and Pick #3 to Ungulates for Steven Matz, Robbie Ray, and Picks #5, #14, #15, #35, and #51 Blackjacks trade Kolten Wong to the Titans for Adam Eaton + Titans 2020 #4 Kids trade pick #81 to Comets for Alex Wood + pick #107 + pick #127 Mitts trade pick 50 to Bombers for pick 54 + Bombers #5 in 2020 Mitts trade Mitts #4 2020 + Yandy Diaz to Whiz Kids for Mark Canha A's trade pick 124 to Sluggers for Sluggers #6 in 2020 Ungulates send Ungulates 2020 #6 to Huskers for #133 and #153 predraft trades Puckered Penguins trade Christian Vazquez + Penguins #1 to Mitts for Mitts #1, Mitts #2 + Manny Pina Ponies trade Jason Heyward and Canes #6 to the A's for Adam Frazier, Canes #7, and Icons #7 |
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Cubs have 2 Shortstops that are available for trade offers Nick Ahmed
and Brandon Crawford. We are looking for Centerfield help.  With recent draft pick JD Davis filling DH role, Luke Voit is now available in trade market. Will trade for SP or Closer.  The Sluggers have the following players available: Melky Cabrera, Clint Fraizer, Ryon Healy and Geraldo Parra. We are looking for young players, draft picks and starting pitching.  Rogues are looking for middle relievers. Available for trade are: Inf/of - Tony Kemp, of - Willie Calhoun, Jay Bruce, Matt Joyce, Inf - Jason Kipnis, Maikel Franco Pitchers - Martin Perez, Brian Johnson, Erick Fedde, Touki Toussaint  The
recent trade of Luis Urias to Milwaukee makes him more of a shortstop
long term, it seems. We have Bogaerts and JP Crawford (nice vs
RHP) there, so Urias, who crushed LHP, is now available along
with Crawford.We are also looking to trade Brian Dozier, Jake Bauers,
Franklin Barreto, Gregory Polanco, Austin Hays, Bradley Zimmer, Lewis
Brinson for DH and 3B who hit rhp, good reliever, or draft picks.  Post-draft,
the Whiz Kids still have some nice pieces that would better fit a
contender. Eric Thames is a good option vs RHP at 1b/DH, Cameron
Maybin very good OF vs RHP. Looking for picks, relief
pitching, maybe a backup catcher or prospect/bounceback candidate to
hold in the minors.  The
Mitts came out of the draft with probably more bullpen innings than
would be needed. We can definitely trade one bullpen arm,
possibly two. The reliever we probably can't trade is the criminal
Felipe Vazquez since he's the team's closer. Also our pre-draft plan was to use Yandy Diaz or Daniel Murphy (.321 BA, 881 OPS vs LHP) as the DH against lefties. We've since traded Yandy and find that our backup utility guy Berti is good enough to do the DH chore against lefties. So Murph is on the block too. |
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EARLY REVEAL CONTAINS VERY GOOD NEWS FOR THE MITTS In
an email exchange with Eric I wrote that while the early range reveals
are fun and interesting they rarely carry much in the way of good news
for the Mitts.Naturally I was proven wrong with one of the game company's first reveals on Tuesday morning. It looked like this.  Certainly
Bregs getting a 3B-1 was preordained. This was academic however
to the Mitts since for the most part Justin Turner will be the Mitts'
3Bman this coming season. But that 2 at short is a beauty.
John Lamanna had him as a 3B-3e8 which I agreed with and would
have been fine using. Now as a ss-2 with presumably a low e number he's
even better. While the Bregman reveal was a lovely start to the day the only other Mitt revealed on Tuesday was that of Bryan Reynolds. Things did not go as well there. Where Lamanna thought Reynolds was good for 2's in the outfield corners and a 3 in CF, the game company sees it one notch worse everywhere. He'll be a 3 in LF and RF and a 4 in center. Darn it. |
FIRST MUSINGS ON THE 2020 SBA DRAFT By now you probably know that of all the Strat-O-Matic league stuff there is involved in running a franchise preparing for and participating in the annual free agent draft is my favorite. That doesn't mean I'm best at it or particularly good at it but just that it's an interesting, time consuming chore which I mostly enjoy. The Criers hold the 8th pick of the first round in the draft and it's the first time the team holds a top 10 selection. One of the techniques I use to get a gauge on the quality of player available is to look back at recent drafts to see what players were taken in an analogous spot. So this year I am looking at the 7th-8th-and-9th selections of the past five drafts. Here's how it looks. That bottom row is whom the Criers selected and where.  While
there are no notable superstars to be found in any of those guys who
went 7 to 9 there are some very nice players. In fact the best
player in the graphic (blush blush) is the guy we took at pick 15 in
our first draft, Jake deGrom. Two Cy Young awards later he
still shines. The four Crier selections consist of two starting pitchers and two shortstops. And while we're quite satisfied with the SS combo we have (Adames sharing time with Nick Ahmed) it is totally possible that when the Criers are on the clock with pick 8 we'll take another starting pitcher or another shortstop. |
HOW THE POSITION PLAYERS ARE SHAKING OUT  |
CBL's BEST INTEREST OF
THE LEAGUE
COMMITTEE Matt-
commissioner Mitch- league statistician Jordan- rules coordinator Mark - representing West division Wayne- representing Chicago division Bob- representing South division |
