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Jordan Wicks is available for a 10/11 swap if anyone wants to take a chance on a young pitcher.

I need to explain this to those people who have been in this league less than 10 years.   When this league started, there were no minor leagues.  About 7-10 years in, there were numerous requests to begin one, primarily because there were a few owners who tried the strategy of loading up with young talent during the draft who were not yet major leaguers.  That was legal.  That was also disastrous for those who had key players miss Opening Day.  They ended up dumping the youth or taking zero points for some time.  The league passed the rule that anyone not making the Opening Day roster, was dropped to discourage the practice.  But the league listened to the arguments for minors and we finally created them, unfortunately we still had some owners load up with minor leaguers and then try to put them in their minors.  It defeated the intent of creating minors so teams could build and weakened the minor league draft to a point it was worthless.  Anyhow, about 10 years ago we moved the minor draft in front of the major and it has worked much better.  You can draft players who might make the major this year without fear of losing them.  BTW, we also allowed minor league slots to be traded, but that was a clusterf...  I may have some of that history misstated but there are enough old guys here to straighten it out.

So...the league has changed, many times.  We are not resistant to change, just change that the majority can't abide.  BTW:  The league started with 20 teams.  Imagine how finding that 2nd Catcher worked then!  Of course, I think we only had 23 roster spots then.  And, to make changes, it had to be 75% vote, not just majority.  A long way since 1998.

My thinking is sort of the opposite...instead of being stuck with an 11th round no hit good glove SS, you might be able to pick up an obscure SS whom you did not know about 2 weeks earlier that just made news about how he is staying in AAA for a month to get seasoned...otherwise, you have to give up your first waiver a little early in the year...

Hi all, looking forward to the start of the 2024 season!

For anyone looking to add to the depth of talent on their roster, I'd love to connect. I'm looking either to trade players for picks, or to bundle 2 or 3 guys together to get an upgrade.

Position players on my team that are available include:

Christian Yelich
Stephen Kwan
Ha-Seong Kim
Jorge Polanco
Isaac Paredes
Alexander Canario

And for pitching, I have both enough depth and uncertainty that I'm willing to listen on basically anyone.

DDK’s are putting a heap of prime quality up for trade… looking for pick upgrades, minor leaguers or studs that you may be soon losing to FA.

Young Starting pitchers:
Cristian Javier
Edward Cabrera

Upside Guys:
Brett Baty (3B)
Zack Gelof (2B)
TJ Friedl (OF)
Daulton Varsho (OF)
Esteury ”Wheels” Ruiz (OF)

Big Guns:
Nick Castellanos (OF)

Lets gooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Boris, try Joe.  I think he might do something for Wander Franco.

Is there a fantasy equivalent of a bag of balls?

Please don't mention 'Wander" and "balls" in the same sentence...........

If anyone needs some Good-OK players to slot into their keeper I'm also looking for some upgrades in players or picks.  I'm also not interested in Wander Franco.
Details to follow...

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