Trade

Col traded Blanco, Freel, Kenp, Jinnenez, and Farsworth to St. L for Walker, Hamilton, and Wainwright.

St.l Roster is now too big and he must trade or place 3 players on waivers.

Trade

Atl traded M. Barrett (Ca), Otsuka (RP) to St.L for Turnbull (RP) and D. Miller (Ca).

Trade

Atl sent Overbay(1B) to Chi Cubs for Torribella (Ca)

Trades?

Toronto is looking to move the power swinger Giambi (1B/DH) Ozuna (IF) and speedy CF Damon, all offers welcome.

Toronto will move Norton, Garko or Kotchman (1B) for the right offer. Also Gomez (IF) a solid .300 hitter for 2006-2007 yes... both years, Mikly Cabrera (OF) and Franklin Gutierrez (OF).

Chi Cubs could move Fultz (RP next year) for a solid Reliever this year vs RH.

Waivers

If a player is on waivers no there is no trade needed (One can be made to make room on a roster.)… the team that grabs him gets him… (Worst to first) and will take over the contract from that point on.

If no one picks him up then he is still on your roster and yes you have to pay him.

IMPORTANT NOTE

Since we are on a shorter 40 game schedule this year all limitations and spot stats are divided by 4... not 3 like last year.

It makes a difference.

9 games have been played thus far in the AL and 6 in the NL. Dave and Nick have to get together...

Schedual

The schedule is made... sent to your e-mails.

AL has started...

E-mail

Please check you e-mails... I sent out the new rosters please verify them.

I also sent out the new stats sheet. (AL.. NL will follow shortly) Please chect to see if I ave everything correct... please do an activity list and a minors list. Also let me know if I have the Long/starter/shorts correct.

Thank you

Trades

Chi: Chavez (ca) and 10th for 10th from Atl.

AL: Morneau (1B) Blake (of) Hermadez (SP) Cordeo (RP) and 2nd to LAA for Guerrero and 1rst.
to Min.

NL Trades

NL:

Doug traded Bucholtz and Polanco and his first round pick to Nick (St.L) for St' L first pick. (First overall)

Mike traded Kent and Chi 3rd round pick with Nicholas for Weeks and 1rst round pick. (2nd over-all).



Chi Cubs looking to trade Ramirez, R (RP) a good righty killer with good whip. for money or higher draft pick.

We fell way behind on this blog

I blame Dave...

The 2007 season (2006) cards will start soon... Draft dates Sept 4-5.

Get roster updates in....

First Trade of 2006...

Toronto Blue Jays trade:
F. Cordero (RP) $8, R. Belliard (2B) $3, I. Rodriguez (Ca) $22 and C. Monroe (OF) $1

Minnesota Dudes trade:
A Kennedy (2B) $16, J. Rivera (OF) $3, T. Hall (Ca) $6 and B. Chen (SP) $8.


Also: Toronto would like to put Kevin Mench (OF) and Bruce Chen (SP) on Waivers...

PLAY BALL!

The 06/07 Beer Cap League season is about to begin. We had a successful draft, rosters are set, so let the games begin.

The schedule and updated rosters are available on the left. Game logs are included with the schedule.

We had a minor draft issue: I did not include Jeff Weaver and Jon Rauch on Mike's master roster list. I've signed Weaver but Rauch is now a free agent. Starting with the last place team in the NL, owner's have the opportunity to draft him as a minor leaguer ($1). If you don't have the roster space you can drop one of your minor league players to make room.

A couple of things we didn't do at the draft were to decide on league executive positions.

• We need a treasurer to keep track of money owing and expenses (game, paper, card protectors, etc.).
• Statistician for the AL and one for the NL
• League presidents and or commissioner to approve trades and manage rosters
• Webmaster / secretary to maintain webpage and league constitution.
• Scheduler
  

If anyone has other suggestions or ideas then bring them forward and if you think this is a good idea then put your name in for one or more of the positions or nominate someone.

Thin Air At Coors Field Blamed As Todd Helton Floats Out Of Ballpark

Just a little humour curtesy of The Onion.

The New Season and Draft

Just so everyone is clear... the draft will be on Monday Sept. 4th (Labour Day) I work till 2pm so it will be after that.

If possible we will try to start Sunday Sept. 3rd. (As soon as Norm is here and we can all make it.)

We will do both leagues. First the AL (Norm, Dave, Mike, Nicholas, Nick, Doug)
then the NL (Nick, Norm, Nicholas, Dave, Doug, Mike)

Prior to the draft we will vote on the new outfield rule... weather a LF can play RF and a CF can play all fields.

We will also be having our first rookie draft. (Players with no 2005 card) Order depends on draft pick tades. (Doug has a pretty little page made up for us.)

Good luck all.

Outfield Positions....

So I'm playing another demo game with my Tigers vs. Dodgers and while making out the lineup I happened to put Coco Crisp in RF (he's only listed as being able to play LF and CF) and the game doesn't alert me to anything wrong. I start the game to see what defensive rating Crisp will have paying out of position in RF. I expect him to have the F/5 range for being out of position but instead he has his defensive rating from LF. So I look up the rules to see if this is a computer game glitch or a rule we've overlooked. On page 5 of the Official Dynasty Rulebook there it is:

LF can play RF and vice versa. A player listed in CF
can play all of the OF positions.

So centerfielders can play all three outfield positions at their CF rating unless they have a specific rating for that field and corner outfielders can play the opposite field using their same defensive rating unless a different rating is specified.

So that solves my problem of how to play both Grady Sizemore and Vernon Wells at the same time on next year's team.

Final day to sign players and make drops - Friday, June 30

Tomorrow is the last day to sign contract extensions for players and make drops. After that all current player contracts are final. Trades can still be made after the deadline but you're stuck with the contract as is.

We plan to get together Friday night for one last chance at swapping players, most likely at Mike's place.

Also, if you want to see any Jays or your favourite players in the real All-Star game this year, today is the final day for voting online.

Trade #3

Cubs trade Maddux (SP), Casey (1B), Wise (RP), For N. Perez (IF) and R. Chavez (CA) with St.L.

Trade #2

Cubs trade: Lee (1B), Sanders (OF) and 8th Pick for Berkman (1B/RF), Casey (1B) $4 and Future pick from Mil.

Trade

Cubs trade Clement (SP) and a 9th Round pick for Atlanta's 6th round pick.

Toronto trades Loaiza (SP) and a 9th round pick for $1 and a 6th round pick from LAA.