PSULions

We will continue the league as a pay league. I can accept the following three options for the League Fees: Venmo - @Dave-Stoner-2 Zelle - 7047857922 (thru Bank of America) Cash App - $psulions4 Buy-in remains at $25. Winner: $200, 2nd: $75, 3rd: $25 PAID: PSU Vargapugh Isotope Disturbed Fan HappyHarry Torn Talent Scout Kysar Ghost RetiredDoc Godfather Strombn

KEEPER LEAGUE RULES Current Rules: * Roster Size : 30 round snaking draft with 6 IL spots available. See Yahoo league site for lineup configurations and scoring stats used. * You can keep up to 5 players from your prior year's final roster. You do not have to keep 5, but that is the maximum. * Contract length is 4 years max (draft year + 3). Keeper service time and round status will follow a player if traded or if picked up from the WW. Be aware of this when trading for another team's keepers. * Players drafted in rounds 1 through 5 cannot be kept the following year. Note that if a keeper's round value moves them into the first 5 rounds, they become ineligible to keep the next year regardless of the number of years you've had them. * For each player you keep, you must give up a draft pick 3 rounds higher than the player's draft position the year before. If you have two players at the same draft round value that you wish to keep, then the next earlier draft round must be given up as well to retain both. For example, in order to keep two 15th round picks, you would have to use your 12th AND 11th rounders to keep both OR acquire an additional 12th round pick before the draft begins to prevent this from happening. Be aware of this when trading for another team's keepers. * Players acquired via free agency cannot be kept unless they were drafted during that year. * Only players in the Yahoo database can be drafted. * Future draft picks cannot be traded. * Determine waiver priority by - FAB w/ Continual rolling list tiebreak. * Weekly limits - min IP of 30 - min AB of 150 (via gentleman's agreement). * Season transaction limit is 80. For playoffs, counter is reset and 20 transactions are allowed for the playoffs.

If is would suggest 3/3 to start on Monday, I know this league well enough that people would get too anxious to get it started before that, so I thought Saturday would be a good start.

You know the drill. Winner of the Toilet Bowl gets the first selection for picking their draft order through the Non-Playoff teams from last season. Playoff teams will select their draft position in reverse order of their finish. Please confirm that your slot per my list below: DRAFT SELECTION DRAFT SLOT 1) WisComedy 1st 2) Isotope 2nd 3) Ghost 3rd 4) Blink - 162 4th 5) Torn 10th 6) The Usual Suspects 12th 7) Godfather 5th 8 Harrys 11th 9) Summertinkers 8th 10) Sticks 'n Stones 6th 11) Warhawks 7th 12) Talent Scout 9th Owner Order WisComedy 1st Isotope 2nd Ghost 3rd Blink - 162 4th Godfather 5th Sticks n' Stones 6th Warhawks 7th Summertinkers 8th Talent Scout 9th Torn 10th Harrys 11th The Usual Suspects 12th

Proxy for Talent Scout 9th

Proxy for Warhawks 7th

6th

Proxy for Godfather 5th

Proxy for Torn: 10th

Proxy for Ghost: 3rd

Looks like we have everyone back for the 2025 season so I will kick things off with starting the Draft Process. Green Monsters - IN - Access Baltimore Heefees - IN - Access Harrys - IN - Access Isotope - IN - Access Miltown Mafia - IN - Access Sticks N' Stones (Commish) - IN - Access Summertinker - IN - Access Talent Scout - IN - Access The Usual Suspects - IN - Access Blink - 162 - IN - Access Warhawks - IN - Access WisComedy - IN

Talked to Joe this morning and Morgan has offered to Co-Commish with me so we will take over for Joe while he is dealing with his new life as a single dad.

I am so sorry to hear about your wife's passing Joe. My mother-in-law passed away very suddenly last May so we have experienced losing a loved one this past year. Please know that we will be praying for your and your daughter and the rest of the family as you go through this. I am at a good point with my job as I changed banks about 2 months ago and things are going well for me, so I will step up and offer to be the Commish for this year and beyond if necessary. Hope that you feel like you can manage your team as we would had to lose you as an owner, but we all would certainly understand.

I am IN!

Baseball is right around the corner, so I thought I would start the 2024 discussion to see if the owners are coming back for the upcoming season and see if we want to make any tweaks in our league rules and free agent selections, etc. I am in for 2024. Dave

Yes, it has been a crazy FB season this year with more injuries to top players that I can ever remember. I shared of this with Torn about having 4 guys go on the IL between our draft and the start of the season and I propose that we possibly increase the transaction number north of 70 since we has had a rash of injuries for everyone's squad and also possibly increase the IL spots to 6 or 7 as I had times where my 5 spots were taken up by players and I needed to keep an IL guy on my active roster. Something to consider for next season in 2025.

I have never owned Gerrit Cole and sitting at #8 in our recent draft, I thought, what the heck, he has been very durable and been very consistent over the past 5-6 years, so I picked in my for my 1st round pick. So, of course he made one start in ST and doesn't feel right recovering and now he may be miss the first 1-2 months of the season or with my luck the full season with any potential surgery he may need. Last year, I picked deGrom in my 2nd round pick, but at least that was a riskier pick due to his constant injury issues over his career and he made 6 starts before he was shut down for the rest of the season. Lesson learned.... no more pitchers in the first two rounds of a draft as they are ticking time bombs. Great way to start the season and Yahoo doesn't even have him listed Out so I can pick up a replacement while he is on IL.

I real like getting sniped has become a fun game to play during the draft, as well it is fun to know you sniped some of our other owners/friends I also got sniped plenty of times during the draft too. Round 3 - wanted Yamamoto badly because of his first start and saw the research on him and of course Varga takes him one spot before my pick. Harris isn't bad consolation prize, but this was the first of many snipes during the draft. Round 5 - wanted Jazz Chisholm to make sure I had other OF with power and speed and was looking at napping here and of course Varga grabs him one spot again! Had to change gears and Kim had more SBs that I didn't realize doing my research and with multiple position flexibility opted for him only to snipe Mike. Round 7 - wanted to add Cole Ragans as I got in off the WW last year and he was great at the end of the season after his trade and believe he is going to be a stud again this year, but at lease the snipe was a few spots in front of me, so I was able to get Carter who I also got of the WW and was happy with getting him. Round 9 - as an O's fan I was hoping to get Jackson Holliday the O's prize prospect and this time it was Nate that sniped him. Was driving to PA that day and was looking at Lee from the Giants or Langford from the Rangers, and opted for Wyatt as I knew he wouldn't make it back to me. Round 24 - as a Phillies fan was wanting to grab Matt Strahm and Mike grabbed him 4 spots in front of me so opted for the other Phillies RP in Kirkering so was OK with that pick. We will see which guy has a better season. It was a fun and competitive draft as always now the bad part! We have to wait about 3 weeks before you get to see your guys in your lineup!

30.05 - JP Sears, SP, OAK

Proxy for Kysar: 30.04 - Will Benson, OF, CIN

29.08 - Tim Mayza, RP, TOR

26.05 - Joe Boyle, SP, OAK

24.05 - Orion Kerkering, RP, PHI

23.08 - Colton Cowser, OF, BAL

Proxy for Ghost: 23.03 - Jordan Westburg, 2B/3B, BAL