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======================================================== ========================================================== ========================================================== CBL Rulebook Feb 2023 edition========================================================== Rolz.org dice room used for drafts ====================================================== CBL Waiver draft - March 20, 2024 |
| 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. |
| Whiz Kids trade Nolan Arenado to Huskers for the Huskers' #4 Rogues trade Luis Severino, Rogues #4 , and Rogues #7 to Huskers for Huskers #2 and Huskers #3 Comets trade Jose Ramirez to Splash for Garrett Crochet, Jarred Kelenic, Splash #1 and Sluggers #5 Splash trades K'Brian Hayes and Bryan Rocchio to Bombers for Taylor Ward A's trade Ryan Jeffers for Ponies #4 Titans trade Gavin Lux and the Titans #2 to the Furnituremen for Lourdes Gurriel Jr and the Legends #2 DRAFT DAY TRADES
Red Legends trade Nestor Cortes Jr. and the Red Legends #8 to the Huskers for the Huskers #2To Cubs: pick #62
To Splash: Cubs 2025 2nd round pick Cubs trade J.Candelario and pick #122 to the Furnituremen for T, d'Arnaud and pick #142. Mitts trade pick 153 + Mitts #8 (2025) to Ungulates for Ungulates #6 in 2025 To Ungulates: pick #128, Splash '25 #8 To Splash: Ungulates '25 #5 Mavs trade Amed Rosario to the Red Legends for Tylor Megill. POST DRAFT TRADES
Mitts trade Nick Martinez + Mitts #7 to Cubs
for Jonathan India + Cubs #6A's trade A's #6 to Canes for Kyle Gibson Rogues trade Rogues #5 to Mitts for Jose Alvarado A's trade Josh Bell to Huskers for Huskers #4 Huskers trade Edmundo Sosa + Huskers #8 to Mitts for Andrew Nardi + Kyle Farmer To Sluggers: David Festa, Splash 2025 #3 To Splash: Ozzie Albies webmaster request : please use the traditional format for reporting trades Sluggers trade... .... to Splash for..... thank you. Sluggers trade Patrick Corbin and the Sluggers #8 to the Red Legends for the Red Legends #7 Ponies trade Ponies #7 to the Mitts for Christian Vazquez + Huskers #8 Blackjacks trade the Blackjacks #1, Blackjacks #5, and Jeff McNeil to the Red Legends for Jake McCarthy Mitts trade Jake Meyers + Mark Canha to the Huskers for Jon Singleton + Adam Duvall |
 Need pitching and bats vs LHP in OF,and C. Lots of depth for a
rebuilder: Josh Jung, Leodys Taveras, Harrison Bader, Walker Buehler,
Griffin Canning, Shane Bieber, Yoan Moncada
Hurricanes have the following players available for trade:Starting pitchers Lance Lynn (older but useable this year) and Domingo German (only 22 ip) Hitters Ryan Noda, Joey Meneses (decent OB vs RH), Stone Garrett and Cavan Biggio. Looking for picks and good bullpen help / closer 
A's have some extra pitchers. Available pitchers are: S/R Landon Knack
69IP and SP Yariel Rodriguez 87IP. Looking for LH RP, OF vs LH or draft
pick. Combination of Knack/Rodriguez would be adequate 5th SP.  DH Giancarlo
Stanton, one of these 2bmen Gimenez or L.Garcia, Looking
for help at CF and catcher.
The Sluggers have available Charlie Blackmon. Sluggers
are looking for young proven players, especially at pitching and center
field.
 Gavin Sheets 1b/RF along with M. Mikolas SP 172 innings available in trade. Available in trade OF Robbie Grossman
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- here you can place ads for players who have some value. If you
want more than the equivalent of a 7th round pick then the ad should be
in the regular TRADEWINDS SECTION. This is NOT the place for you
to list all of the guys you plan to cut. SPLASH - Ezequiel Duran - provides positional coverage at 3B/SS/2B/1B/LF/CF/RF
Jack Suwinski - bounceback candidate
SLUGGERS - Sluggers have available Harold Ramirez and Jose Trevino.
CUBS- Javier Baez SS 7th round and Drew Smyly LHRP 59 innings 8th round
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by Mike Mc C
I currently play in 7 Strat o Matic leagues - retirement makes a
difference. Except for the CBL, all leagues are Retro leagues as I like
playing the Old Timers. In the past month I have won 3 championships -
the CBL (4th in 5 seasons), my 1930 team won, and then last Friday
night I won in my 1972 league.
The 1972
league win was particularly enjoyable, because I took over an awful team
in August of the 1966 season. The team was abandoned mid season and
ended the 1966 season with a 61-101 record. The team was littered with
mediocrity as cf was manned by Jim Gosger, 1b Ed Kranepool, c shared by
Mike Ryan, Jesse Gonder and Hawk Taylor. The team hit .229 and the team
ERA was 4.15 (in the era of the pitcher). Pitchers included Tommy Sisk
and Bob Veale. But they did have 1 good hitter (Dick Allen) and a good
defensive shortstop in Ed Brinkman. The closer was 37 year old Al
Worthington. 2 future good pitchers were on hand (a young Catfish
Hunter and Dave McNally).
Through drafting and
a couple of good trades I was able to build a strong team that won 110
games in 1972 before sweeping through the playoffs and World Series.
The biggest development game at the end of the 1966 season when I won
the draft lottery and rights to the first pick in the draft. It so
happened to be the same season Johnny Bench, Tom Seaver, Reggie Jackson
and Rod Carew were making their MLB debuts. I had numerous offers for
the first pick because almost everyone wanted Bench. Finally I decided
to trade down to a team that wanted Tom Terrific and I accepted an offer
of 2 first rounders (picks #3 and #9) for the first pick. My thinking
was that Seaver would go first and Bench probably second and I would
have the rights to Reggie. Even though Reggie's breakout year was not
until 1969, I loved the idea of Reggie and Dick Allen batting back to
back for several years to come. With the 9th pick in the draft I
grabbed Mike Andrews who had several good seasons for Boston.
The
team won 76 in 1967, then made the big jump in 1968 to 103 wins, but a
second place finish to Seaver's team that won 117, losing in the second
round of the playoffs. In 1969 I won 113 games and lost in the World
Series, again to Seaver's team that won 123 games. In 1970 I fell back
to second with 96 wins and lost in the LCS to the team that won my
division. 1971 saw us move back into first with 103 wins but again we
fell short losing in the LCS. Finally in 1972 we broke through and won
it all.
The final game of the 1972 World Series was one of the oddest games I have ever played in SOM. Game 6:
GM6-Dave McNally vs. Juan Marichal In
a game that saw 40 players participate (23 by Washington (my team), 17
by Virginia) excitement and tension reigned in this extra inning
affair. Virginia took an early 2-0 lead with runs in the first and
second. Bert Campaneris led off the game with a homer in the first. In
the second, Marichal doubled Cookie Rojas to 3rd, who scored on Campy's
squeeze bunt. Washington took the lead with solo runs in the 3rd, 4th
and 5th innings. Back to back singles by Ed Brinkman and pinch hitter
Jack Hiatt set the stage for a Richie Scheinblum grounder to score the
first run. Dick Allen led off the 4th with a triple and scored on
Reggie Jackson's grounder. In the 5th base hits from Dave Nelson and
Scheinblum put the runners at the corners and Ralph Garr's SF made it
3-2 after 5. The Virginia nine roared back to take the lead with 2 runs
in the top of the 6th when pinch hitter Dwain Anderson beat out a
grounder and moved to second when Nelson uncorked a wild throw to
first. Jim Northrup came through with a pinch hit single up the middle
and went to 3rd on Reggie's errant throw to the plate. Bobby Tolan
followed with a double to give the Gentlemen the lead 4-3. Virginia
added what they thought would be an insurance run in the top of the 8th
on another Tolan double after a 2 out error by Steve Barber. In the
bottom of the 8th Terry Harmon drew a walk with one out and Reggie
stepped to the plate and promptly deposited a blast into the right field
bleechers to tie the score. In the 9th with one out Bob Heise reached
on a Doug Griffin error and moved to second on a walk. Jim Brewer got
Rojas to pop out and Dave Rader on a grounder back to the mound. In the
bottom of the 9th Tug McGraw INTENTIONALLY walked Dick Allen with 2
outs and no one on. He retired Harmon to end the inning. Brewer had a
123 10th. In the bottom of the 10th, McGraw threw more caution to the
wind and INTENTIONALLY walked Reggie Jackson with no one on and NO
outs. Reggie moved to second on a grounder. Washington was out of
pinch hitters with the 8th and 9th slots in the order coming up. Fran
Healy popped out, bringing to the plate with 2 outs and Jackson on
second Jim Brewer to face Tug McGraw. Brewer, a 1wl hitter drove the
ball into deep right center field for a walk off double winning in 10
innings the EGML 1972 World Series 6-5. By
the way, I really wanted to end the series there because in game 7 I
would have been facing real life 27 game winner Steve Carlton.
As
for my other leagues: 1914 team lost in the first round of the
playoffs. 1951 team currently playing mid July in the season. I am 1
game out of first. In the 1958 season, despite having an 80-74 record, I
made the playoffs, which have not started. Despite winning the 1982
championship, my 1984 team was mediocre and ended the season, 3rd in a 5
team division with 74 wins.
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ASSESSING THE 2025 MITTS
This all makes me feel like the Mitts, more so than usual, are built well enough to have a run in the playoffs. We know that the playoffs are a crapshoot but those five pitchers just named figure to give the MidHudsonites a reasonable shot in a short series. |
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MITTS SWAP SOME D FOR SOME O
After a goodly amount of back and forth the Mitts and Huskers hooked up on a two-for-two swap. The key players in the deal were unlimited (in at bats) CF-1 Jake Meyers and LH'd DH-type Jon Singleton. The Huskers' CF situation was not one to write home about and even though Meyers does not carry an impressive stick vs righties he definitely upgrades the position for Chris' team. The Mitts were likely stuck with using Justin Turner as the DH vs both lefties and righties. Against lefties Justin has an acceptable card, vs righties it is mostly walks and singles. Singleton, while no kind of elite hitter, would be an upgrade. The Mitts have not had enough lefty bats the past few years so getting one here is not that dissimilar from last year when the team snagged stop gap Mike Ford to be a part time DH during the waiver draft. And when the Mitts face a backwards righty then Turner can cover the DH slot. The other two pieces (Canha to Huskers, Duvall to Mitts) are there mostly because Duvall got rf/lf 3 range. Were those two vets not in the deal then the Mitts would have ended up with an OF featuring two 4's whenever a lefty was the opposing starter. Duvall hits lefties better than Canha but Mark offers high on base and is not a give up when facing a righty.
I think this is a deal which benefits both teams.
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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 |
The
members of the CBL will never forget our friend
and charter member Mac McConchie. |
In
October of 2022 the league also lost
long time member Eric Johns to ALS. |
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