BTS

Also via me, kinda Kingery + Woodruff + Rodon to Laika for Brantley + McHugh + Cahill Kingery to you for Pache shortly after

Just looked it up. Gordon and Mateo for Garrett Richards. Your classic lose-lose trade.

The only part I added to the rules today was part 5 on process for rule changes. 6 votes in now! 4-2 lead for 15-man farms. Danger might get this passed.

I'm going to be cutting Nick Gordon and Jorge Mateo. Will also trade pick 47 for a 3rd in the 2021 NPD.

The poll on MiLB roster expansion is up on Fantrax. Please take the time to vote.

That's the upside, but the downside of a ~50 game season sucks: it pretty much ruins the fantasy baseball season.

This is stupid. There’s zero incentive for the players to accept this if the alternative is that the owners force a 50-game season at 100-% pro-rated salaries. They get the same money and play 20 fewer games.

Pretty disappointed that I didn't get a chance to finish dispatching Dinger from the playoffs.

There's no more waiver draft now that we're moving to full dynasty, because we never have to trim our rosters. We're moving to a single New Player Draft every February that will replace the waiver draft and midseason prospect draft and be used to fill our farms and distribute international MLB signings (like Tsutsugo, Kikuchi, Darvish back in the day etc...). The initial NPD in February of 2021 is going to be more shallow than subsequent NPDs because we're going to pick through eligible players in our final midseason prospect draft scheduled to begin August 2nd. TCA is concerned that expansion of farms now will lead to more players being picked in the August draft, further hindering the depth of the NPD in February. I've proposed holding J2 players out of the August draft (I believe Spanky recommended this initially several months ago) to add meat to the NPD in February.

A few comments on recent posts: - I'll reiterate that I don't see eliminating a draft as a viable option. 2020 picks (on the spreadsheet) and 2021 picks (in Fantrax) have already been assigned and traded, and both sets need to be used before the 2021 season starts in Fantrax or we'll be stuck tracking everything on the sheet in perpetuity, which I absolutely don't want to do. - The plan was to vote on expanding to 26/15 from 25/12 after the 2020 season, and use the February 2021 draft to do it. I'm very confident that the vote would have passed, but it wasn't set in stone that we were changing. - I don't think we should to expand to 26-man MLB rosters until 2021. Teams passed on waiver picks with the 25-man roster in place for 2020. CD's issue would be sufficiently addressed with an expansion of farm size alone. - CD - you can move players down after promoting them if they have a green flag in Fantrax (ie. they're not on an MLB roster in real life) So to summarize, I'm planning on two polls in the next couple of weeks: 1. Are you in favour of expanding MiLB rosters from 12 to 15 before the start of the August 2nd MiLB draft? Note that if this vote does not pass, there will be a second vote on MiLB roster expansion after the conclusion of the 2020 MLB season. The second poll will happen once the first poll is decided, and the goal would be to retain talent for the 2021 NPD (which would also be used to expand MLB rosters from 25 to 26): 2. Are you in favour of restricting the August 2nd MiLB draft only to players either a) affiliated with an MLB team prior to July 1st, 2020 or selected in the 2020 MLB draft? This rule would be intended to push the J2 class to the February NPD Does everyone think this is a mostly fair and reasonable way to proceed?

Rolling the August and February drafts into one creates a problem in Fantrax. We need to use the 2020 and 2021 picks before the 2021 season to avoid tracking them on the spreadsheet again.

I tend to agree, but I also see his point that the period between the cut and the MiLB draft has typically been used as an evaluation period that didn't exist this year.

Yeah, there's not going to be a season.

Anyone else have input? I'll wait a few days and then likely put it to a poll.

Surprise!

There had been talk of expanding MiLB rosters to 15 (and MLB rosters to 26) in advance of the February 2021 draft, when the league transforms into a full dynasty. Both of these changes would have required a league vote. This would have had the added benefit of adding depth to the 2021 draft, which will be pretty shallow given that its only ~6 months after the upcoming draft. If other owners share your concerns, maybe we can vote on using the 2020 draft to expand MiLB rosters, instead of waiting for 2021. Input required from other owners.

Was planning to post about this today. We usually start our draft after the signing deadline. This year's signing deadline is August 1st. Are there any objections to an August 2nd start to the MiLB draft?

Chris Archer had TOS and looks pretty cooked

So what’s the threshold for fantasy baseball to happen this year? 50 games wouldn’t really cut it.

I hate that literally every prominent reporter and blogger is so consistently pro-MLBPA that it's hard to get a second perspective on what's going on.

NHL is coming back NBA is coming back NFL never went anywhere MLB is going to lose their entire season.

JomBoy is the best in the business at breaking down bench clearing brawls

Runner at 2B to start extra innings is a f***ing stupid idea that needs to die.

I don’t think I’ve ever hated an idea more than I hate this idea.

I trusted King so much I took this at face value without even looking at the source. Never again, King.