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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 Titans trade the Titans #4 to the Splash for Casey Mize A's trade Landon Knack + A's #8 to Mitts for Robbie Grossman + Cubs #6 Rogues trade Rogues #4 to the Cubs for Jorge Soler and Cubs #7 |
 Looking for 3B vs RHP, good pitching, and picks. Lots of
OF-1 including Mike Yastrzemski, Leodys Taveras, and Harrison Bader.
Could look at Nolan Gorman or Josh Jung for right 3B. Lots of pitching
bounce back guys like Walker Buehler, Shane Bieber, Griffin
Canning. Yoan Moncada and young starting SD catcher Luis
Campusano also available. Next year's picks also available in the right
deal.
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 SP Yariel Rodriguez 87IP. Looking for LH RP, OF vs LH or draft
pick.  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. 
Looks like 1B will be handled by a Spencer platoon of
Horwitz/Torkelson. That frees up Andrew Vaughn for anyone in need
of an unlimited first baseman. Maybe when the stench of the 121
loss White Sox shakes off, he lives up to his potential. Would
accept a draft pick and can send one back. Or a pitcher and can
send one back.Similarly, it looks like both Ryne Nelson and Casey Mize will be squeezed out of any meaningful playing time for the Splash. I could use an upgrade over the aforementioned Spencer platoon at first or a longer-term CF as it sounds as if Jazz is moving to 2B for the Yankees. Finally, if a rebuilder has interest in either Kodai Senga or Dustin May for current season value, I'd entertain the discussion.  Available for trade: Trent Grisham (CF)Solid depth piece (1(-1) in OF) who should be seeing some ABs in New York as Jasson Dominguez tries to ease into an injury free season. Looking for a mid-round draft pick and a player that’ll give me some options in the waiver draft. |
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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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On September 7 I wrote that after playing Strat o Matic since 1964,
I had only one No Hitter that I can recall, until recently. However,
the dice/computer rolls have been with my pitchers over the past year.
In a Dice and Card league a few years ago, Spencer Turnbull pitched a No
Hitter for me. Last Summer within a few weeks my pitchers hurled 3 No
Hitters, 2 within 5 days. None of these were in the CBL. Since I
currently play in 7 leagues, I play over 500 games in a year which
affords me better chances for these unique results. The three NO-NOs
played this past Summer were tossed by Billy Loes - 1958 season, Danny
MacFayden - 1930 season, and Pat Dobson - 1972 season. By the way, I
won the league championships in the 1930 and 1972 seasons. My 1915
league finished their draft last week and our season just started. In
my very first game of the season, Tom Hughes fired a No Hitter for me in
a 6-0 win in which he walked 3 and struck out 2. During the actual
1915 season, Hughes was 16-14 with a 2.12 ERA in 280 innings with a WHIP
of 0.95 for the Boston Braves. For his career he was 56-39 over 9
seasons with a 2.56 ERA and 1.087 Whip for Boston and the New York
Yankees.
There is no doubt that he was
probably greatly aided by 4 players with high error ratings (no errors
in this game) that are rated as 1's in 1915 (HOF lf - Duffy Lewis, ss -
Ray Chapman (only player killed playing MLB), 2b - Luke Boone and 3b -
Ossie Vitt). Other positions were manned by 4's at 1b, rf, 2's at cf
and c. Late inning defensive replacements put a 1 at 1b and a 2 in
rf.
I reviewed the play by play account of
the game and there were only 6 X chances in the game (2 at ss, 2 at 3b, 1
at 2b, 1 p) I also noted that the closest anyone came to getting hits
were on back to back plays in the 5th inning on a 1-4 chance with the
split being a 5 and a 1-14 chance with the split being 15. Also of note
is that Hughes retired the final 18 batters he faced, as the 3 walks
allowed were in the 1st, 3rd, and 4th innings. Amazing!
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  The Best Remaining Free Agent Position Players |
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  How Do Prospect Grades Translate to Future Outcomes? |
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WHO WE WILL BE CUTTING
As of this writing the Mitts roster stands at 40. When we ask for cuts (and we’re not asking now) the team will have to cut four players to get down to 36. Here is who will likely get the axe and why. First off the boat will be Patrick Wisdom. This is a guy I had high hopes for when he first hit the majors. I recall he was one of the few players in his draft that had an OPS over 800 vs both righties and lefties. When I drafted him late (not recalling whether it was in the CBL or SBA) I thought I had a value steal. I traded him away within a week or two of drafting him but still had hopes for him when I made a CBL swap with Mitch. Unfortunately he didn’t hit at all for the Cubs in 2024. His card will look awful AND he has signed to play in 2025 in Korea. So he’s useless. Next out has to be Andrew Knizner. My first Francisco Alvarez card did not have enough ABs to face all RHP. I got Kniz from Mike late in the offseason and he was able to face the righties Cisco couldn’t but I never expected him to stay rostered more than a year. He’s just another catcher who can’t be relied on to hit. There are lots of those types of guys. With fondess we say “ta ta” to Mike Ford. He was our #1 waiver pick last time and did a great job as DH vs RHP for two of the league’s four blocks. He hit with great power and got his walks. No regrets that he’s a one and done. And not to leave out the pitchers, we’ll be parting ways with late draft pick Chris Stratton. Just another fungible RHRP. I rarely house relief pitchers in the minors since they tend to be easy to find in the November draft and even in waiver drafts. We have two more pretty easy cuts we’ll use when we snag a couple of guys in the waiver draft. |
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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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