[TheZenador]

2010 MC Keeper League


Introduction


This is a competitive league, and active participation is required.
League format is head-to-head with standard 5x5 scoring and two extra DL roster spots.
This is a keeper league; each owner gets to select six players to carry over from the previous season.


Rules & Guidelines


Membership is pre-reserved for returning players. Any spots that aren't claimed by the deadline will then be distributed on a first-come first-serve basis to newcomers. Unclaimed rosters will be distributed to newcomers via a re-distribution draft held in this forum. The commissioner has the final say in all memberships.


Draft order will be determined by the final standings of the previous year, with the highest seed drafting at the lowest draft position and the order reversing with each subsequent round. The official draft order will be posted in this thread no less than one week prior to the date of the live draft.


Waiver priority is determined by carrying over each manager's priority from the end of the previous season. New managers will inherit the waiver priority of the team whose draft position they receive. During the regular season, new players will be added to the waiver wire only when they are called up to the Majors. Finally, waiver priority may be traded.


Keepers must be selected and posted before the live draft. Your list of keepers must be finalized and posted in this thread (or sent to me directly) by the deadline in order to be confirmed. You must post all six of your keepers to be your first six players drafted in the league. Free selection of all remaining free agents will begin in the 7th round.


Trades may be made during both the pre-season and regular season (see league schedule for deadlines). All trades are automatic upon agreement and may only be overturned within 72 hours by the commissioner (TheZenador). If TheZenador is involved in a trade, the backup trade regulator is appointed (KingCorran). Pre-season trades that have been agreed upon by both sides must be posted in this thread in order to be confirmed. Waiver trades may be agreed upon any time during the regular season, but must be stated in this thread by one or both involved parties in order to be confirmed. When a waiver trade has been confirmed it will be instated via manual roster edits made by the commissioner. Trades involving individual draft picks are allowed only in the offseason, and only picks for the upcoming draft are allowed. KingCorran deals with draft pick trading. Any trades made after their respective deadlines will be void, unless they are waiver deals that were agreed upon earlier in the season.


League activity is required. Regular roster maintenence at least once a week is requested. Any player who goes more than two weeks with no league activity will be contacted about the issue and, if necessary, locked out of the league and replaced the next season. If, for any reason, during the course of the season you cannot maintain your roster for an extended period of time, you may contact me so that I can adjust your roster for you during that time. Please note: League activity is defined simply as logging on to the league site and/or making roster adjustments (rotating out your inactive players).


Rule changes may be proposed to the league by any player in this thread only. League participants will then vote on the proposed rule change. If the proposal receives a two-thirds majority vote in favor, it will go into effect. Non-votes count as negative votes. The commissioner retains the right to veto any proposal and may only be overruled by a three-quarter (75%) vote by the remaining members of the league.



Additional Info


The league schedule is in the game info above and will be kept up-to-date.
Click here to view the final 2009 standings and full rosters.
Any rules or settings not specified above are set to the Yahoo! defaults.
New owners might find it helpful to view last season's Keeper Redistribution draft if there are any questions regarding this process. I will make a new thread for this years draft once the new owners are chosen.



This post may be updated with any rule changes or adjustments that occur between now and the end of the season. If anybody has any questions or concerns about any of these rules or the league itself, please feel free to post them here in this thread or contact me directly via PM.

TheZenador
Yahoo ID: marinerweezel

[TheZenador]

Important Dates:

• February 20 - Last Day for Returning Managers to Claim Teams, New owners are chosen based on order of interest
  
• February 22 - Redistribution Draft Begins
  
• March 28 - Deadline to Complete Trades
  
• March 30 - Deadline to Submit Keepers (please keep an updated list in the keeper thread)
  
• April 3 - Live Draft (12:00pm)

Let's assume that all deadlines are at noon.

This post has been edited by TheZenador: 12 February 2010 - 01:41 AM

[TheZenador]

MCKL Roster:

• TheZenador - Children of the Mind
  
• KingCorran - Zeal of a Challenger
  
• 55panhead - 55pan
  
• cbo24663 -
  
• CoastieM -
  
• Hotwheelz - Hotwheelz All-Starz
  
• jaybo24663 - Jaybo's Gigolos
  
• MarinerPride -
  
• DocMilo - Vader is Still Good
  
• hdboc - hdboc
  
• MajorMajor - Swingin Syringes
  
• Dag Gummit - Gum Daggers
  
• phredmojo - espn sucks
  
• Idahomariner - idahomariner
  
• baseballbond - Yankees13
  
• kirkdog77 - The Evil Empire
  
• Gomez - 50th Round Bust
  
• Stampi -

This post has been edited by TheZenador: 29 March 2010 - 02:01 PM

[TheZenador]

Keepers:

This post will be updated to include the keeper rosters for all teams when they are submitted. Keepers must be posted by March 30th.

When posting your keepers, please use the following format:
Keeper Post Format:
Player Name (Team - Pos.)

Example:
Cliff Lee (Sea - SP)

This post has been edited by TheZenador: 12 February 2010 - 02:25 AM

[TheZenador]

KingCorran's Draft Pick Post
YOU are responsible for verifying the results of your draft pick trades. The way they appear on THIS POST is the way they will be in the draft... if there's an error, let me (KingCorran) know immediately! Thanks!

ORIGINAL DRAFT ORDER: by manager name
#1 baseballbond, Dag Gummit, Hotwheelz, CrustyJuggler, Jaybo
#6 stampi, Gomez, TheZenador, phredmojo, jj-malaysia
#11 MajorMajor, Cbo, CoastieM, DocMilo, kirkdog77
#16 MarinerPride, 55panhead, KingCorran, idahomariner, hdboc

---

Draft Pick Trades: by team name
Gum Daggers' pick [1:2] -> Zeal of a Challenger
Hotwheelz's pick [1:3] -> idahomariner
Hot Fuzz's pick [1:4] -> Jaybo's Gigolos
Jaybo's Gigolos' pick [1:5] -> Hot Fuzz
Spuds' pick [1:6] -> idahomariner
Gomez's pick [1:7] -> Zeal of a Challenger
espn sucks' pick [1:9] -> Readytobeowned?
RainbowWarrior's pick [1:10] -> Readytobeowned?
The Evil Empire's pick [1:15] -> Zeal of a Challenger
Hot Fuzz's pick [2:17] -> Jaybo's Gigolos
Hotwheelz's pick [3:3] -> Readytobeowned?
Jaybo's Gigolos' pick [3:5] -> idahomariner
50th Round Bust's pick [3:7] -> idahomariner
Zeal of a Challenger's pick [3:18] -> 55pan
idahomariner's pick [3:19] -> Readytobeowned?
idahomariner's pick [4:2] -> Spuds
Zeal of a Challenger's pick [4:3] -> The Evil Empire
55pan's pick [4:4] -> Zeal of a Challenger
Jaybo's Gigolos' pick [4:16] -> 55pan
Swingin Syringes' pick [5:11] -> idahomariner
Readytobeowned?'s pick [5:16] -> Hotwheelz
idahomariner's pick [5:19] -> Hot Fuzz
Readytobeowned?'s pick [7:16] -> idahomariner
Zeal of a Challenger's pick [8:3] -> Gum Daggers
55pan's pick [8:4] -> Jaybo's Gigolos
idahomariner's pick [9:19] -> Hotwheelz
idahomariner's pick [10:2] -> Swingin Syringes
Zeal of a Challenger's pick [10:3] -> Gomez
idahomariner's pick [13:19] -> 50th Round Bust
Readytobeowned?'s pick [14:5] -> espn sucks
Readytobeowned?'s pick [15:16] -> RainbowWarrior

This post has been edited by KingCorran: 28 March 2010 - 06:52 AM

[Idahomariner]

Trade is up:

Idahomariner trades Joe Mauer (Min - C) to 55panhead for Miguel Cabrera (Det - 1B)

55Panhead to confirm.

This post has been edited by Idahomariner: 12 February 2010 - 08:20 AM

[Idahomariner]

Trade up:

Idahomariner Trades Justin Morneau (Min - 1B) and Alfonso Soriano (CHC - OF) to Kirkdog77 for Joey Votto (Cin - 1B).

Kirkdog77 to confirm.

[Idahomariner]

I am looking to make more deals. Anyone that has interest in any of my players feel free to shoot me a message and we can try to work something out.

My players that may draw a little interest this offseason:

Miguel Cabrera (Det - 1B)
Joey Votto (Cin - 1B)
Matt Holliday (Stl - OF)
Ryan Zimmerman (Was - 3B)
Bobby Abreu (LAA - OF)

Felix Hernandez (Sea - SP)
Zach Greinke (KC - SP)

Johnathan Papelbon (Bos - Cl)
Andrew Bailey (Oak - Cl)

Players traded away (you will be missed)
Joe Mauer
Justin Morneau
Alfonso Soriano
Joe Nathan
Mark Reynolds
Nick Markakis
Adam Wainwright

This post has been edited by Idahomariner: 16 February 2010 - 10:14 AM

[KingCorran]

I complain about these trades because I didn't make them.

[KingCorran]

Rule Change Proposal:

I propose that, since Y! changed their rookie player system to include vastly more 40-man-but-not-25-man players last year... that we switch to the option that only adds players to league availability when they are actually called up to the majors. If you guy drops down to MiLB, the system would let you keep him as long as you continue to roster him... but if you dropped him, he'd disappear until he was called up again. (See Kendrick last year).

I think this would make waiver claims much more meaningful this year, as they were in the past. Last year, the waiver wire was BO-O-O-R-I-N-G... because everyone worth putting a claim on was already in the system months before they were called up (see Tillman). I strongly feel this would improve the league, and ask y'all to vote to make this change.

TZ - could you run an official league poll on this?

[55panhead]

Idahomariner, on Feb 12 2010, 09:18 AM, said:

Trade is up:

Idahomariner trades Joe Mauer (Min - C) to 55panhead for Miguel Cabrera (Det - 1B)

55Panhead to confirm.

Confirmed

[55panhead]

Panhead has more Keeper talent then they can keep. Possible trade bait includes:

Joe Mauer C
Kendry Morales 1B
Jason Bartlett SS
Stepen Drew SS
Pablo Sandoval 1B, 3B
Matt Kemp OF
Chris Coghlan OF (ROY and future 2B)

Yovanni Gallardo SP
Tommy Hanson SP
Javier Vazquez SP
Jair Jurrjens SP
Neftali Feliz SP
Francisco Liriano SP
Joakim Soria RP

[kirkdog77]

Confirming that i have moved joey votto for morneau and soriano. Still open for business

[KingCorran]

Zeal of a Challenger still has some players worth moving around. Contact me to check in on any players who interest you!
* denotes less likely to move, but serious inquiries will be considered

C Buster Posey (SF catcher of the future, #3 prospect in baseball)
*C Matt Wieters (elite catcher both now and later)
1B/OF Garrett Jones (the next Ryan Braun?)
*2B(/SS) Dustin Pedroia (2008 MVP, prepped for 2010 dominance and soon to be fully MI-eligible)
OF Rajai Davis (baseball's next speed king)
OF Shane Victorino (stud outfielder with power and speed)
SP Josh Beckett (ace pitcher in a contract year)
SP Rick Porcello (last year's RoY, and a very bright future coming now)
RP Huston Street (top quality closer who just keeps getting better)

[hdboc]

Getting down to 6 keepers is tough.

Michael Bourn (Hou-OF) 61 SB's
*Prince Fielder (Mil-1B) 46 HR's, 141 RBI's
Adam Jones (Bal-OF)
Miguel Montero (Ari-C) Ranked top 5 at the position
*Troy Tulowitzki (Col-SS)
*Chase Utley (Phi-2B)

Francisco Cordero (Cin-RP) 39 Saves
Brian Fuentes (LAA-RP) 48 Saves
J.A. Happ (Phi-SP,RP) 2.93 ERA
Jon Lester (Bos-SP)
Joe Saunders (LAA-SP)
Scott Feldman (Tex-SP)

* indicates extremely unlikely to trade.

[jaybo24663]

Here is my roster- All players are on the trading block!

Gordon Beckham (CWS - 3B,SS)
Kyle Blanks (SD - 1B,OF) (10 HR in 150 AB's!)
Julio Borbón (Tex - OF) (Batted over 300 with 30 runs and 19 SB in 150 AB's!)
Jay Bruce (Cin - OF)
Robinson Canó (NYY - 2B)
Matt Holliday (StL - OF)
James Loney (LAD - 1B)
Nolan Reimold (Bal - OF)
Geovany Soto (ChC - C)
Rickie Weeks (Mil - 2B)
Ryan Zimmerman (Was - 3B)


Brett Anderson (Oak - SP)
Carlos Carrasco (Cle - SP)
Derek Holland (Tex - SP,RP)
Phil Hughes (NYY - SP,RP)
Brian Matusz (Bal - SP,RP)
Marc Rzepczynski (Tor - SP)
Ben Sheets (Oak - SP)
Kevin Slowey (Min - SP)
Edinson Vólquez (Cin - SP)
Chien-Ming Wang (NYY - SP)

This post has been edited by jaybo24663: 14 February 2010 - 03:49 PM

[Idahomariner]

New trade up:

Jaybo24663 trades Ryan Zimmerman, Matt Holliday & his 3rd round pick to Idahomariner for Mark Reynolds, Nick Markakis, Adam Wainwright, Joe Nathan and his 5th round pick.

Jaybo to confirm. Pleasure working with you jay.

IM

[Idahomariner]

I have updated my roster to reflect my current players of interest. My door is always open for deals, so if I have a player you are interested in - more than likely we can work something out.

Cheers.

[jaybo24663]

Idahomariner, on Feb 15 2010, 09:07 PM, said:

New trade up:

Jaybo24663 trades Ryan Zimmerman, Matt Holliday & his 3rd round pick to Idahomariner for Mark Reynolds, Nick Markakis, Adam Wainwright, Joe Nathan and his 5th round pick.

Jaybo to confirm. Pleasure working with you jay.

IM

Confirmed....

[jaybo24663]

Okay... Here is my roster that people might be interested in-


Joe Nathan (RP-MIN) (Ranked between 1st and 3rd best closer on Y!)
Mark Reynolds (3B- AZ) (44 Bombs Last Season)
Nick Markakis (OF-BAL) Uh....You know this kids a stud
Jay Bruce (OF-CIN)
Adam Wainwright (STL-SP) Top 10 pitcher under 3.00 ERA with 19 wins last year
Robinson Cano (2B-NYY) .300 100/25/100 potential at a PREMIUM position.
Gordon Beckham (3B, 2B, SS- CWS) Breakout Rookie Season, plays multiple positions. The dood is $$. Ranked top 10 and above in Y! for position.
Geo Soto (C-CHC) Sophmore Season curse? I think so... The kid can rake!
Ben Sheets (P-OAK) When healthy the guy is an ace. All systems look like a go!
Kyle Blanks (SD - 1B,OF) 10 HR in 150 AB's!)
Julio Borbón (Tex - OF) Batted over 300 with 30 runs and 19 SB in 150 AB's! Battin' lead off this season! With the Rangers offense this season he should score way over 100 runs with 50+ SB

The rest of these pitchers have ACE! potential.

Brett Anderson (Oak - SP)
Carlos Carrasco (Cle - SP)
Derek Holland (Tex - SP,RP)
Phil Hughes (NYY - SP,RP)
Brian Matusz (Bal - SP,RP)
Edinson Vólquez (Cin - SP)