Laika

Not much left. I wonder if Porcello, Hamels, and Leake will even play this year. Franco probably takes a minor league deal soon. Who knows with Puig.

Still do it. Pillar is replacement level even in a 30 team league and Knebel and Abreu are worth owning but can be replaced at some point from the free agent pile

That's basically just Edwards for Veen. Gimme Veen all day - he has franchise player upside. Edwards is okay

Hurl tried to auto-draft his last pick but it didn't work because he never demoted his previous picks. I am going to give him whoever his selection was meant to be once he tells me.

I've thought of this and it's a possibility. Only downside I see is people would use all their picks and then end up dropping prospects. So guys would get taken in the 4th round and end up dropped. May not be a big deal

Palacios is interesting mostly because it is clear at this point that the organization really likes him. His numbers have always been solid but not attention catching; good AVG and OBP and age vs. level but just average power numbers and an honest amount of swipes. Scouts also never seem to say that he's a sure CF. Sometimes those kinds of minor league performers turn into solid MLB players. Maybe the hit tool is legit and can carry him, maybe he adds strength, maybe the defense is better than scouts think.

Here are my initial thoughts for next NPD: - We will use the draft room - Windows will be somewhere between 3 and 6 hours. No overnight pause. The expectation is that people will use auto-draft if they have a pick upcoming or will just be ready to pop in. - At the start of the draft you should have a maximum of 26 MLB players and as many open spots on the MiLB roster as picks you want to use. It is legal to draft a prospect straight to your MLB roster so you may go into the draft with less than 26 MLB players. - If you might trade for draft picks during the draft you might want to go into the draft with even more open spots. Fantrax locks all add/drops during the draft and commissioners won't force a drop for you because you want to make a trade. - If someone comes off the IL in real life during the draft, just leave them on your IL. You can fix your roster after the draft. - We temporarily expand rosters to 27 so you have one flex spot in which to draft your prospects. You should then demote them immediately. Commissioners will force demote actual prospects (no MLB experience) who have no green flag. - It is legal to draft a player with MLB experience during the draft. Not sure why you would, but you can. - If you draft an MLB player and that clogs up your roster (i.e., they fill your 27th spot) you are s*** out of luck. The commissioners won't drop someone for you so you can draft prospects with your next picks. - If your clock starts to run and you have a full farm + 26 MLB players there is no official trade window for the pick and a commissioner may skip the pick as soon as your clock starts. - If you do not have a full roster there is a 30 minute trade window on picks.

Yeah we are doing fine. We could have 3, 12, or 24 hour windows and it would not have a massive effect on total draft time. It's mostly the annoyance of watching someone burn 7 prime time hours in a prospect draft when they could have just added a few guys to their queue and clicked the button to auto-draft exactly one pick.

I am thinking of 3 hour windows next year too. The expectation is that people will either set up a queue or be available within three hours after their email notification.

I think using the Draft Room next year will be fine. We will be able to use some of the technical quirks we discovered this year to create a simple set of rules and avoid most of the hassle that happened this year (which wasn't even that bad).

Not many picks left. Let me know if any of you guys won't be using these and I'll delete them: Seniors Circuit 93 Saskatchewan 54's 96 Speedy 97 WAR Pigs 98 The True Cardinals 100 Greenwood 102 Mike's Bikes 104 The EZe 107 Real Baseball Guys 109 Seniors Circuit 113 Saskatchewan 54's 116 Speedy 117 WAR Pigs 118

20% chance he's in the BP in the playoffs? I think he still has some real development to do as far as pitch #3 is concerned. That might keep him down all season. He could probably be a good reliever right now but that's not the goal.

Yeah but it would have been like, JBJ + Wong + Bauer + Paxton instead of Springer + Semien + Yates + trading for Matz (or whatever, you get the point)

Yeah. Hits, blocks and shots. I guess that makes Tkachuk quite good and Pettersson not a full category contributor.

50% gas, 50% glass, 50% ass

Speedy requested that I cut Yimi Garcia for him. He did not realize that it would take him to 27 players and that would prevent him from drafting prospects. He has six open minors spots and three more picks. I cut Yimi because we are all figuring this out and there is no harm. He effectively just threw away his earlier pick.

no? i dunno. maybe. depends on what i had for lunch.

Correct. Add/drops are prevented by Fantrax while the Draft Room is running. We are only doing commissioner add/drops to help people if someone has come of the IL and needs to be activated, but those drops don't open up additional roster space. They also aren't even necessary now that I think of it, you can just leave the guy on the IL and activate them once the draft is over.

BTS up for two

System won't auto draft onto an MiLB roster so it skips the pick.

If we stick with the Draft Room next year we will reduce windows significantly. There's really no excuse for not just pre-ranking players. 12 hour windows suck.

Manoah did not throw a changeup. Just fastballs and sliders. Statcast says there were 4 seamers and 2 seamers though - I wonder if that's true and he is throwing two different fastballs.

The amateur catcher algorithm that North has written must be pretty good.

Well none of the current crop were high profile. Kirk signed for three hot dogs, Moreno was $25k, and I don't even think there are reported bonuses for Javier D'Orazio (2018) and Victor Mesia (2019). The most expensive Catcher in the entire organization in terms of signing bonus was Reese McGuire by far ($2.6M). The next highest might be Riley Adams at like $550k. You might need to ask some of the older fans.