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Choices for Drew: Play 2B in the big leagues for millions of dollars, or play SS at home on your Playstation for nothing. Seriously, if someone was going to give Drew a one year deal to play short, I think they would have already. The draft pick cost makes signing someone for a single season pretty impossible for most non-competitive teams to stomach, and most competitive teams don't have SS holes that Drew can plug.

If the M's outbid Toronto, hard to really blame AA. Even on a 1 year deal there's a price where it starts to not make sense. If you go much higher than 14M, then you start paying for more production than you're likely to get. He's probably a 2 win pitcher. That's even money at 15M. Factoring in the draft pick, and the market price for one year of Ervin is probably closer to $10M or $8M. If Jack Z wants to drop 14M+ a draft pick for a league average starter, f*** it. Let him.

Just rank them however you want to balance that s*** out.

Ervin is the new Josh. My offer to Ervin would be 3/25 and you shave your f***ing face before showing up to work.

It's also not a huge deal. You figure out the $ value of that pick, drop it into the calculus, and make an appropriate offer. But for some reason I feel like I'd rather try to get him to sign something like 3/27 or 2/22 before offering him the QO amount of 1/14. I think there's more value in trying to entice him into signing a still short term deal at a lower AAV by giving him that extra year or two. 2 wins in 2014 at $14M = $1M in surplus 3.5 wins in 2014+15 at $22M = $5.2625M in surplus 4.5 wins in 2014+15+16 at $27M = $9.17325M in surplus 5 wins in 2014+15+16+17 at $32M = $9.xxxxM in surplus You get the illustration.

But guys, Ricky Romero looked really good today...

Bronson Arroyo got 2/22, lmao @ Kevin Towers

A 2-3 win (projected) pitcher on a one year deal would be excellent. It would also mean that AA's #despair tactics were extremely effective. Don't get your hopes up though.

Just to be clear, we were mostly just messing with you. You weren't being an ******* at all. Maybe a bit of a dildo s***, but there's nothing wrong with being creative. Thanks for clearing up the Micah Johnson situation.

There was something in the waiver draft rules about that, but I don't think we ever had anything like that in writing regarding the rule 4.

Because it starts with a Z and it sounds the coolest

So much need. They just invested a couple of yachts on winning and this is their SP depth chart: Felix Iwakuma - hurt right now Walker - hurt right now; rookie Paxton - rookie; RP profile Ramirez - ZiPS 4.35 FIP Baker - hasn't really pitched since 2011 Maurer - probably sucks; ZiPS 4.64 FIP Beaven - absolutely sucks Noesi - absolutely sucks

You'll notice that I did make a rule change, lol.

Looks like he's not getting 4/50 anymore. Not anywhere close. 3/30 would be my guess. Could land anywhere at that price. I could see a team like the Cubs or Mets signing him now, but the best bet would probably be the Mariners.

I was being facetious, but we've received a highly qualified serious applicant. I might have to sleep on it, North. Sorry to leave you flapping in the wind like this. If we cut you loose, maybe you can just start your own 17 team NL West only roto points 23.5-man-keeper auction salary league with 50 man minor league rosters, or something like that.

The DDL is looking for a new owner. You'd be taking over a playoff team that currently owns Cutch, Mauer, Kipnis, Fielder, and Price, among others. Shoot me a message with your credentials if interested. I'm serious.

I'm guessing drafting his own MLB player and then arguing that it's within the rules?

You know damn right that we'd probably just close said loophole, thank you for exposing it, and then negate your move.

Rossell Herrerra is probably 2 full years away from the big leagues, and 3 or 4 years away from being fantasy relevant (if he ever is). The only guy with a timeline like that is Boxy. So you would have a very limited group of buyers! And Boxcar8 might have different ideas about what to do with his draft picks (essentially all he has to trade).

And really, everyone would rather have these types of guys on their minor league team anyway, where you can stash them for a couple of years in case they turn into fantasy relevant players by some stroke of luck.

Sorry, actually meant to edit out your addy on here

I typed up an official email but proboards won't let me send another league-wide one until tomorrow. Here is the text: "There have been some questions about how we should handle unowned prospects that hit AA during the season. Last year this wasn't an issue because Yahoo didn't have a lot of prospects in the system, they only had the top tier guys. When an out of system got called up he got added to the system and automatically hit waivers, usually after his first MLB game. This took care of the issue itself and their was no gap in our rules. This year they have hundreds of prospects of all different significances though. One notable example is CJ Edwards, who is currently unowned and has not hit AA, but he might start the season in AA (or hit the level at some point soon). Here is the official rule: The status of unowned prospects is determined by what minor league level they maxed out at last season. If an unowned prospect only hit A+ (or lower) last year, then they can't be added in Yahoo even if they hit AA during the year. They can, however, be added if they get called up to the MLB. This can happen as soon as the MLB team officially calls them up, adding them to the 25 man roster. If an unowned prospect hit AA last year then they can be added to your big league roster at any time. So if a player did not hit AA last year then the only way to add him to your roster is through the rule 4 draft in June! This line in the sand makes guys who have hit AA last year like Eddie Butler available in the rule 5 draft in the spring, and it keeps guys who haven't hit AA like CJ Edwards as June draft bait. Due to Yahoo's new player database depth, we had to implement this rule. And since it is a necessary new rule and not a rule change, we've decided not to vote on it. I also think that it's fairly inconsequential but in a minor way, for the best interest of the league, which is why I'm just making it so. If you have any questions please direct your emails to Northof49, owner of BALCO Pharm Team, blank@rogers.com"

Last year this wasn't an issue because Yahoo didn't have a lot of prospects in the system, only had the top tier guys. When a guy got called up he got added to the system and automatically hit waivers. This took care of itself and their was no gap in our rules. This year they have hundreds of prospects of all different significances though. So anyone talking about deep seeded strategy being perturbed by a minor rule addition is full of it! Their strategy could only have even existed since Yahoo opened up a month ago. I like z3r0s rule. Prospect status between season start and the June draft is determined by what level they finished at last year. If an unowned prospect gets added to a major league 25 man, then they are addable add-bait as soon as that officially happens. z3r0s' rule is superior to the one I previously made up because it removes a kind of stupid process of tracking AA games and racing to add fringey prospects at 6 in the morning. It also makes the June draft a tiny, tiny bit more interesting which is good!

Basically, he's just being a little dildo s***.

"@MikeDiGiovanna #Angels RHP Dane De La Rosa left today's game because of right forearm tightness. That doesn't sound good at all."