Back from summer inactivity. Sorry i dropped off and didnt do any commish stuff/left it on PECOTA. Seems like he has it under control now though? I forgot, do we have a trade deadline/did it pass? If not I wanna shake some things up.

That's ok, I haven't had a chance to make those salary fixes yet, but I've got it covered.

According to the league constitution, our trade deadline is August 19 (I have extra pitchers!)

All transactions and associated salary issues have been reviewed and fixed. It ended up not being a big deal, despite my urgent announcements earlier (I forget that not everyone makes a ton of roster moves during the season like I do).

Please refer to the tracking sheet before making any future roster moves though, just in case your numbers have changed slightly. Also, some teams are at or near the $0 mark, so keep that in mind too.

Primetime sends Hunter for Sergzs' Jaime Garcia, with PT picking up Hunter's remaining salary.

We're still doing the 2 day thing right?

Also i'd like to move Ellsbury and Victor Martinez before the deadline for some young talent.

Yes, I've been going with 48 hours from the time the trade was initially posted before approving it. I'll go ahead and post an announcement on the CBS page too.

I'm in the market for a starting 2B.

I have depth at MI and other areas, but I'll be needing a 2B specifically for next season, so let me know if you'd like to unload a depth player for something more useful.

08/12/10 09:15 am ET - Pending Trade

Exitonly gets:
·Escobar, Yunel SS TOR
·Kalish, Ryan CF BOS

Coff gets:
·Martinez, Victor C BOS

-Coff eats the remainder of Martinez's salary for this year.

I'm not sure how we're planning on doing offseason free agency, but I think it would be a good idea if we did it similar to how we do it in my dynasty NBA league.

Basically it's silent auction style and we'll do 5 "weeks" of free agency. Each week is a tier of quality of player, for this league we can do it like :

Week 1 : Only bids > 100
Week 2 : Only bids > 50
Week 3 : Only bids > 20
Week 4 : Only bids > 5
Week 5: The rest

There are 2 parts to each week, and every team can bid as much as their cap space allows. After the initial bidding period, all bids are announced and the Top 3 eligible bidders will have a day to submit a rebid. These bids will either be sent to the commish or 3rd party(this can easily be done in a way to prevent anything unethical or shady)

Example :

Week 1 and 5 teams bid on Pujols

Team A bids 150 with a cap space of 220
Team B bids 190 with a cap space of 190
Team C bids 140 with a cap space of 250
Team D bids 200 with a cap space of 200
Team E bids 130 with a cap space of 300

In this scenario Teams A C and D are the top 3 bidders and are able to submit a new bid.(note that Team B, while having the 2nd highest bid, is not eligible as the most he can bid is 190)

Also note that you can only bid up to your cap space, so if you have 250 cap room and Pujols and Hanley are FA's, you will probably only be able to bid on one(you could bid, say 125 on both, but you will probably not be in the top 3)

Another thing to note is that you can retract bids during the rebid period if you are not the leading bidder. An example of this is in Week 2 and you have 250 cap space and you've bid $80 on Jeter, $80 on Cano, and $70 on Mariano Rivera and you are in the top 3 bids for each player. During the rebidding process you still have $250 to bid on these players, and you could withdraw your bid on Jeter, bid $150 on Cano and $100 on Rivera.


Here are the rules from my league that might better explain it, though it's obviously a little different with the basketball rules :

to be specific, i eat the difference in the salaries. So neither team's 2010 payroll is affected. So, i eat Victor-$20-$4

and for the offseason draft, the silent bidding thing sounds kinda cool but i'm not totally sold yet, we could just have a month long free agency, have all the free agents able to be bid on w/ our remaining capspace. i'm looking forward to it however we do it.

also lets keep the trades comin! I have atleast two more players to sell! Zach Greinke anyone? Matt Holliday?

Top 5 places pay, if you're not improving remember your competitors will be!

Don't look behind you.....

I kind of prefer an open auction format for free agency actually. It was a lot of fun for the initial draft, and i think the same format would work well for free agency.

THE TRADE DEADLINE IS TODAY (AUG 19) AT 11:59 PM. PLEASE HAVE ALL PROPOSED TRADES POSTED IN THE THREAD BY THEN.

Also, if you have the major details of a trade in place, but are still haggling over a few dollars or a minor player, I don't see why such a trade couldn't be posted and then finalized within the following 24 hours.

I made another short sighted trade fwiw.

Coff gets:
·Utley, Chase 2B PHI

Thayer gets:
·Brown, Domonic RF PHI
·Pennington, Cliff SS OAK

Thayer eats remaining 2010 salary, teams total salary do not change.

Unless anyone objects, I'm going to do away with the usual 48 hour waiting period and just approve any finalized trades at midnight, since there's a deadline and all.

Coff likey that rule.

Still willing to trade some of my higher priced guys for better contracts and prospects!

There should be some good players available in the off season auction due to me being ~350-400 over budget.

offtopic from your league posts but if there's any open spots next season, a manager leaving a team, etc, i'd be interested in taking over. just throwing it out there

The regular season trade wire is now officially closed.

Coff and Thayer's trade has been approved.

Thayer, please note that even though Dominic Brown has spent all season in Coff's minor league system, now that he's been traded to you Brown must be placed on your major league roster, thus activating his service clock. Per the rule stated below:

Exit and/or Karak, can you please confirm that I've interpreted the service time rules correctly. The way I understand it, 2010 will be equivalent to a full year of service time (1/6) for Brown, despite his spending most of it in the minors thus far.

In addition:

Also Coff, I've changed Utley's salary ON THE CBS ROSTER to $0 in order to negate any limitations you may have experienced from being over the cap (since Thayer is paying Utley's remaining salary). Pay special attention to what your actual payroll is listed as on the google doc when making additional transactions.

yep you got it, Brown can't be on Thayer's minors, and this now counts as the first of his 3 years at the rookie salary (4), same for Ryan Kalish and me.

Thanks. Yeah, I had forgotten Kalish was a rookie, too.

Thanks for that.

Actually I had meant to post that I think V-Mart's salary was wrong, and that is why I was over budget. I traded Yunel Escobar ($17) and Ryan Kalish ($4) for Victor Martinez ($47) but Exit would be eating the remaining salary, so should Martinez's salaray reflect only 21$? his 47 less the combined totals of Yunel and Ryan?

The Utley's 2010 salary should just be $9 correct? The combined salary of Pennington and D. Brown.

Am I doing this wrong? Bc both trades had the other parties eating any extra salary to keep from changing the overall payroll.

2010 Trade Review

(4/3)

Levarkin got: Nick Swisher, OF ($38)
497 PA, 73 R, 22 HR, 1 SB, .366 OBP, .518 SLG

Coff got: Jose Valverde, RP ($36)
52.2 IP, 1 W, 23 SV, 53 K, 2.73 ERA, 1.101 WHIP

(4/21)

Sergsz got: Carlos Lee, OF ($36)
480 PA, 52 R, 16 HR, 3 SB, .294 OBP, .409 SLG

$19 cash
2011 2nd Rd. Pick

Pecota got: Jonathan Sanchez, SP ($16)
145.1 IP, 9 W, 151 K, 3.47 ERA, 1.273 WHIP

Chase Headley, 3B/OF ($9)
513 PA, 66 R, 8 HR, 15 SB, .338 OBP, .394 SLG

2011 3rd Rd. Pick

(4/30)

Exitonly got: Ian Desmond, MI ($4)
408 PA, 44 R, 9 HR, 14 SB, .308 OBP, .410 SLG

Thayer got: Carlos Gomez, OF ($4)
271 PA, 33 R, 5 HR, 10 SB, .286 OBP, .350 SLG

(6/3)

Levarkin got: Hunter Pence, OF ($39)
484 PA, 74 R, 18 HR, 15 SB, .331 OBP, .469 SLG

Sergsz got: Rafael Soriano, RP ($32)
47.1 IP, 2 W, 35 SV, 40 K, 1.71 ERA, 0.824 WHIP

2011 2nd Rd. Pick

(7/25)

Coff got: Derek Jeter, SS ($68 - covered)
558 PA, 86 R, 9 HR, 14 SB, .339 OBP, .387 SLG

Kevin Youkilis, CI ($110)
435 PA, 77 R, 19 HR, 4 SB, .411 OBP, .564 SLG

Primetime got: Kendry Morales, 1B ($39)
51 PA, 29 R, 11 HR, 0 SB, .346 OBP, .487 SLG

Carlos Gonzalez, OF ($31)
473 PA, 78 R, 25 HR, 19 SB, .349 OBP, .562 SLG

Rick Porcello, SP ($25)
114.0 IP, 5 W, 57 K, 5.76 ERA, 1.570 WHIP

(8/15)

Sergsz got: Torii Hunter, OF ($41 - covered)
470 PA, 60 R, 18 HR, 9 SB, .372 OBP, .495 SLG

Primetime got: Jaime Garcia, SP ($4)
132.1 IP, 10 W, 105 K, 2.58 ERA, 1.315 WHIP

(8/15)

Coff got: Victor Martinez, C/1B ($47 - covered)
373 PA, 42 R, 10 HR, 1 SB, .332 OBP, .446 SLG

Exitonly got: Ryan Kalish, OF ($4 - covered)
160 PA, 22 R, 5 HR, 12 SB, .356 OBP, .476 SLG (Triple-A)

Yunel Escobar, SS ($17 -covered)
424 PA, 43 R, 3 HR, 5 SB, .339 OBP, .323 SLG

(8/19)

Coff got: Chase Utley, 2B ($141 - covered)
329 PA, 51 R, 11 HR, 5 SB, .380 OBP, .460 SLG

Thayer got: Domonic Brown, OF ($4 - covered)
118 PA, 15 R, 5 HR, 5 SB, .390 OBP, .561 SLG (Triple-A)

Cliff Pennington, SS ($5 - covered)
431 PA, 51 R, 3 HR, 19 SB, .336 OBP, .378 SLG