What's with the fat girls?

IDK, they are German or something. Was the funniest picture I could find involving Paul Goldschlager.

Can we please get someone to pay $100 for Paul Golds Gym?

Haha.. I mean come on. He's at least half as good as Hanley right??

BLOCKBUSTER TRADE ANNOUNCEMENT

AR and danvh were going to trade Buerhle for Kelly Johnson

Karak counter offered, the counter was accepted and this trade was agreed to:

Karak receives:

Beltre, Kubel, Kelly Johnson + AR's 3rd round pick next year

Another_Rack receives:

Teix, Garza and Ethier.

Sabean says . . .




. . . confirmed

Bastards. Anyone looking to move a 2b?

TRADE

I send:
Edwin Encarnacion (I am paying his salary this year)
Banhammer sends:
Doug Fister and Chris Davis

Confirm

Pecota, Karak:

Two things need rulings

- Coff traded Wil Myers (minor leaguer) mid rookie draft w/o getting another minors guy/draft pick in return; does he get a pick at the end of the draft to replace him? I defaulted to thinking he didn't, but now reconsidering.
- Overlooked Mike Minor needing promotion on Sergz's team, so he should have Minor on active roster and another pick, he's offered to either just let it stand as is or promote him and allow sergz to cut an active roster player+take draft pick now. both seem reasonable to me.

I remember this happening, but for some reason I thought Myers was a 2012 pick, so I thought the initial ruling was ok. This is a bit different though. My thinking is that since teams can trade players mid-auction, thus freeing up space to bid on a new player, we should allow a similar rule for the draft. So if a team trades a prospect mid-draft (assuming they didn't draft that prospect in the current offseason), they should have the chance to fill that slot on their farm team.

I think giving Coff a supplemental pick at the end of the draft would be a good solution. If there are multiple supplemental picks tacked on at the end, should we go with the reverse snake order or use the 1st round order/prior year rank to decide?


Well, leaving Minor on the farm would violate the rookie status rule and potentially throw off Minor's normal service clock if he were to stay there all season. I would say provide sergsz with a free roster cut, promote Minor, and award him a supplemental pick for this year.

I agree with Pecota on all points but the rookie draft. I think cutting or trading rookies mid draft should not result in extra draft picks. That opens up too many freeroll possibilities.

$4 cut: Hong-Chih Kuo

another $4 cut: Brian Duensing

for precedent when levarkin traded a pick of his and didnt get one back, we gave him the last pick in the draft. not sure if trading a pick is the same as trading a player you already had.

How is getting a worse pick than what I would have gotten two weeks ago free-rolling? No significant new information came out since we did the rookie draft, so I am really not benefiting in any way, just paying a penalty by getting a later pick than what I would have otherwise.

Anyway, in case this gets resolved while I am not on, the player I would choose to cut is P. Humber.

Karak - by $4 cut, do you mean that we can cut players now as long as we eat their salaries for the year?

that is what he meant, we hadn't really had it come up before this year where someone wanted to cut some post deadline, but pre (or mid in karak's case) auction.. but i've put a few through for a few teams so far this year (dan, myself and now karak), so yea if you want to cut anyone additional now i can do that. you pay anything >$4 and lose out on x many of your 4 '$4 cuts'. don't cut anyone substantial that would have affected anyone's free agency plans please.


edit: also sergz, karak's point about the rookie pick was for Coff's situation, not yours. you definitely are owed a picked if Minor has to be promoted.

so you can do that when you're ready, i'll cut Humber.

Im open to whatever you guys want to do really. Id probably just use that $4 cap space to on a MLB player anyway but if I get a supplemental pick Im in for that to.

yup and im fine with letting coff get whatever the precedent is this year and then before next year we finalize a rule

lyin in bed this morning when suddenly i hear over my speaker system

GOING TWICE

...

SOLD

had my volume up loud. woke me up real fast. hud.

this can be put through

this happened to me while i was napping a few days ago