Apparently Brett created one. Grr

I joined both leagues.

But I think it would be more fun if we consolidated the leagues so we can have more owners and Brett already has experience being a league commissioner.

Sounds fun.

The Padres have a horrific minor league system, and a bunch of old guys who can’t really hit. This will not be easy!

Can we use this thread for league talk or is there an official board somewhere?

I don’t see an injury/suspension screen.

I can’t promote A to AA or AAA and I don’t see anywhere that tells me what side of the plate these guys bat from.

For Brett’s league I decided to reap the rewards of the Bedard trade and picked Baltimore.
I went with the Marlins for Coach’s league.

Needless to say Wieters and Tillman have made my roster.

I’ll start mine.

Aramis Ramirez, Cody Ross, and Tim Raines jr (!!!!!) are the only players with a top rank of 100.

Also the bio for Franciso Rodriguez says “Rodriguez worked in relief in 2008, making 76 appearances on the mound. He collected 2 wins while posting a 2.24 ERA. Rodriguez is among the league’s best pitchers. Rodriguez is unhappy as the setup man for the Mets. He thinks he could be the closer with the Mariners.”

Here. Not sure how to get rid of the stupid sidebar…

I wouldn’t change contract values or anything, it would just give everyone the same amount of money at the start. I’m leaning towards no, but I’ll do it if a 3/4 majority wants to.

In as TEX, should be interesting.

Can you split up a couple of the forums?

I’d like there to be Free agent signings, Trade announcements, and Trade Discussion, if you could. Keeps everything a bit more tidy.

Also, I’d like to announce a rule, which I will put in the forum later: maximum expenses are $20 million a piece. If we keep getting higher, then people will go bankrupt and fuck up their franchises beyond belief. It’s not fun if people are constantly in debt, so I don’t want to watch that happen.

For those who were in the old LL league, perhaps you can give some insights to your experiences RE: trades with computer teams. The old rule was that if a 2/3 majority (or so, I think) approved a proposal a user made to a computer team, I would use my commissioner powers to make that swap for them. Is that good, or should we just go without CPU trading?

Also, I’d like to do a 2-4 day period after we have enough teams where I pause the league and we can have our “offseason”, basically making pre-season signings and trades. Sound fair?

We will likely have threads in the message boards bidding for said players that will close whenever we decide to be done with the “offseason”

Should we be able to trade draft picks? I liked it last time, but there should be a limit, like you can’t trade your 1st and 2nd round picks two years in a row or something. As far as trading picks, it works by agreeing to a deal for a pick mid-season, and then the team giving away the pick trading the player the CPU gives them in the draft from that round to the other player. Sound good?

And I switched to the Yanks in Coach’s league, just for a change of pace.

I’ve never played this before so does anyone feel like maybe shooting me an email to give me the basics?

Email or Facebook me at around 6 and I’ll get on it

I’m the Giants again.

Let’s try to use Coach’s forum to discuss trades.

There’s a bunch of people relatively new at this in your league so a slower pace might be helpful.

Here

Let’s sort out how this league will be run.

Seattle trades:

3B Adrian Beltre (81)
SS Yuniesky Betancourt (80)
C Kenji Johjima (77+)
RP Shawn Kelley (75+)
OF Ezequiel Carrera (65+++)
$3 million

Boston trades:

3B Mike Lowell (78+)
IF Jed Lowrie (75++)
OF Jacoby Ellsbury (81++)

Join the forum so you can talk trades, I’ve already made three fairly big deals, so get in now while you’ve got time to make your deals before the league starts on Friday.

I have no goddamn clue what I’m doing, so somebody help a brother out

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They have a solid roster. Standouts (with overall ratings in parenthesis) include:

SS Hanley Ramirez (92+)
OF Cody Ross (99) [seriously! might be a glitch, but worth taking advantage of)
2B Dan Uggla (93)
3B/1B Jorge Cantu (80)
RF Jeremy Hermida (86)

SP Ricky Nolasco (80)
SP Josh Johnson (80)
SP Andrew Miller (80)
CP Matt Lindstrom (80)

Payroll: $53 million
Budget: $38 million
Budget limit: $40 million
Cash in bank: $4.5

Someone take the reigns of Florida!

They all say they think they could be closing for the Mariners.