smg58

My friend took Muddy Chickens. He was planning to make his cuts today, but now it looks like he has more time. But Valley Vermin is still open?

He just took over the Muddy Chickens.

So my friend is registered in ottoneu, but he doesn't know how to join the league. Where do you click, and from what page?

So my friend is interested, though I'm not sure which team just yet. (He was intrigued by having Mike Trout, but the price tag might be a deal-breaker.) What should he do from here?

I have a friend I could ask, although he bats for the other team I mean he's a Yankees fan.

Oh and the 8 scoring categories are R, HR, OBP, SLG, K, HR/9, ERA, and WHIP.

It's a 12-team league. You will inherit a team -- I think there are openings still for this season, but I'm not the commissioner -- with a maximum total value of $400. Your first task will be to decide which of your players are worth their current salary, and which you'd be better off cutting to the free agent pool. There will be an auction draft of players in the free agent pool in March. (Major-league player salaries all go up $2 at the end of the season, plus individual salaries can be further jacked up by the "arbitration" process, in which your rivals decide which of your players deserve more money. So don't assume only bad players wind up in the free agent pool. Bryan Harper is a current free agent, for example.) You can only spend up to $400, and you can only fill 40 roster slots. Minor leaguers are eligible to be drafted as well. During the season, an owner nominates a player to be added from the free agent pool, and all owners will have two days (I think) to bid on that player. The highest bidder gets the player and pays the cost. Cutting a player during the season gets you half their salary back. Trades are allowed, and can include money as well as players, but to this point they've really been rare in our league. .

Arbitration ends in a week, so don't forget to bloat your opponents' payrolls!

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Congrats, Smiggy. Pretty much a boat race and no one really came too close. I look forward to inflating your player salaries in the offseason! Thank you. I look forward to being so inflated. (I'm glad I enjoyed having Jeff McNeil on the cheap while it lasted.)

My wife is already in bed. And my friend who's into Nordic heavy metal is attending a Nordic heavy metal concert.

That looks like fun.

smg58 wrote: Fine. I'll bet he starts the year in our pen. Serves me right for betting...

No to the first part -- I like the format as is. I'd be willing to try the $50 with prizes, but not if it's a dealbreaker for people.

Wow, you're really bumping up DeGrom. Perhaps I should have kept quiet...

Arbitration ends on Wednesday the 14th, so if you want to make your opponents pay more for their best players, now is the time to make that happen.

Fine. I'll bet he starts the year in our pen.

It's too soon to tell. He'll be a starter if he stays in the minors, but he has quite a bit more upside than the other guys who are fighting for the last (hopefully only one) bullpen spot, and I wouldn't summarily dismiss going that route with him at this stage of the offseason. And that's just for the short term. We will see how things play out.

A live arm that hasn't yet translated into big-time results. Not unlike Jake DeGrom at this stage, or Bobby Parnell. While we'd all love the former, the latter was pretty good for a while too. He's exhibit A for why I'm glad the AAA team is in Syracuse and not Las Vegas. (Exhibit B was Franklin Kilome, alas.)

Is Rougned's Odor in the CPF? And who runs the Pawnee Drunken Savages? Thanks to everybody involved (especially for letting me get Jeff McNeil for $3) and congrats to the winner. He took his lumps last year (grabbing an abandoned team, IIRC), but he took full advantage of all the unspent money he had coming into this season.

I imagine the hardest part of any minor league coach/exec's job is telling somebody like Burdick that he's done.

It would be funny if Zamora winds up being a better reliever than any of the pen prospects we've picked up in deadline deals the last two seasons. So where's the thread on SUNY Brockport players?

It's SHOWTIME!!!!

https://www.milb.com/milb/news/new-york-mets-jeff-mcneil-producing-career-best-season/c-285583806 A nice article on McNeil. It includes a lot of quotes from Peter Alonso, including this dandy: "The thing about baseball, people think age matters, but it really doesn't. You've got guys in the big leagues right now that are 19 and guys that are like 40 and have a wife and kids and stuff like that. It doesn't matter how old, big, strong and fast you are. You've just got to perform -- that's it."

3 for 5 last night, including a double and a home run. After 104 at bats at AAA, his line is .398/.452/.677. I really hope Cabrera gets dealt over the break.

McNeil had two hits yesterday -- a triple and a home run. After 77 plate appearances for Vegas, his line is .397/.455/.662.