Laika

5:56 am.

I'd really like to move a forward for a Dman. Just has to be better than replacement level.

rough it's like all they did were little pull ups and fades for the last 12 possessions...

How about a low-ceiling longshot, like an Izturis brother?

that's because there is!

Just sent out official announcement that we are shortening the draft windows to six (6) hours in round 2. Clock will not tick in between 2am and 7am.

I agree.

They basically use these positions to steal intellectual property from naive young students, if it works out for them. If it doesn't work out, they have a coffee fetcher who gets paid what he's worth. Several posters here have done that job in the past, including HERPDERP and TheHurl (both ended up fetching a lot of coffee. So much so that TheHurl actually manages a Tim Hortons now).

6 hour windows with 1am-7am timeout starting in round 2.

As a spending limit affected guy, he would have gone into the prospect draft anyway. I'm thinking about tabling a vote on whether or not we should just amalgamate our two drafts starting in 2016. Instead of a 5 round waiver draft in Feb and then a 6 round prospect draft in June, we would just have an 11 round new player draft in February. Any real life player owned by an MLB team could be taken. Only players in Yahoo's system that hit AA or higher OR signed an international MLB deal could be drafted directly to the MLB team. International free agents that have signed MLB deals but are not yet in Yahoo's system could be drafted as prospects. All teams would be expected to finish the new player draft with a 25 man MLB roster, and since you still have to keep 20 players, the "vanilla" draft would consist of 5 MLB guys and 6 prospects (although trading after the cutdown date and during the draft could shift that ratio, for instance if someone trades an MLB player for a pick after the cutdown). Teams would have to announce whether the drafted player is going to their farm or big team (if it's not obvious). PROS: - One list of draft picks to manage and talk about in trades - Removes the "doubling up" of high picks that s***** teams currently get - Allows researchers to draft prospects after a partial season + full offseason of rankings and scouting reports. - No more awkward delineation between international free agents depending on age. CONS: - It would take longer. - It is a bit more confusing. - Kind of levels the playing field on research, so guys who read BA/BP etc. before the MLB draft lose some advantage. - The initial amalgamated draft would be super weak on prospects, since the best will all be taken this June 2015. ...

1 GP - Yasmani Tomas 2 KK - Steven Souza 3 BOX - Jesus Montero 4 GP - Joe Smith 5 DD - Jung-Ho Kang 6 TH - Jonathan Broxton 7 SAM 8 SPK 9 SPG 10 TF 11 ZRO 12 TCA 13 NJH sammy's clock is up at 10:31am

Grand Budapest was great, but IMO it's only Wes Anderson's third best movie...

No, #1 is Player. He's the platonic ideal of a baseball athlete, and all of his projected statistics transcend the realm of real numbers.

I think the Marlins just found their 2015 motto!!! Accountability. Responsibility. Three to four hours a day.

Aside from a 42 year old Rockie, Broxton was probably the best chance at early saves.

1 GP - Yasmani Tomas 2 KK - Steven Souza 3 BOX - Jesus Montero 4 GP - Joe Smith 5 DD - Jung-Ho Kang 6 TH - Jonathan Broxton 7 SAM 8 SPK 9 SPG 10 TF 11 ZRO 12 TCA 13 NJH

I'll predict that Dinger flips Kang before day 1

It also seems like a given that in any signing period going forward, now that the strategy is firmly out of the bag, several teams will have decided to go all out, so there's no guarantee that you can simply open the wallet and bag two or three of the top five talents, or anything like that. What you can probably hope that Toronto does though is something like a simmered down version of New York from this signing period - just go crazy on a bunch of guys in the six digits bonus range. I think New York signed like 30 guys...

I think Gibbers might want to think about quitting a few of his dynasty leagues... isn't he in like, 12?

8 - Tulo 9 - Some guy that has 4 years of cheap control left and was just traded for Brett Lawrie and a backend top 100 prospect 10 - Puig ninja ninja ninja

North is right "If a prospect is cut from an MiLB roster before being promoted, that prospect can be picked up as a free agent from the Yahoo database (if at AA or higher) or drafted in the next MiLB draft (as long as they have never played an MLB game)." So yes, Naquin could be added by someone after the draft. Can't see why they would want to but they can!

Is that how we did it last year? Maybe I'm misremembering my own rules, but I thought a guy who hit AA in the previous year could be promoted or waiver drafted, but not added as a free agent unless they actually got called up.

No. Not unless he gets called up to the show. See - Rules > MLB Roster Management.

IIRC the Jays have had a domestic draft budget of around $10M in the past few seasons, but this year they only have ~$5M. If all they do is move amateur purchasing funds from one arena to the other, look for them to spend around $8M on international kids this summer/fall (they should get something like $3M in international slot money).

He wasn't available at the very start, so no.