I'm not getting close to 100M with either Padres or White Sox.  Any chance we want to consider 90 or 95M ??

Yeah I'd be flexible on the salary cap.  I'm going to put together a couple teams I'm thinking about using and see where those salaries come in.  I think using the DH is appropriate for this league don't you?

been waiting for a league like this.

in..StL for now but that night change

def need lower cap than 100 to make sure everyone can compete

Maybe even a few manual AAA spots to draft depth. There will definitely be some teams with PA or IP shortages

Maybe 2 hitter slots and 2 pitcher slots to draft a few fringe guys from our rosters.

My Mariners team comes in around $85 million

		C	2014 Mike Zunino	R	476	438	22	60	0-3	158-17	19.9	.199	.254	.404	A/A+	$2,433,576
		1B	2014 Logan Morrison	L	365	336	11	38	5-2	59-24	30.5	.262	.315	.420	A-/B	$2,551,161
		2B	2010 Robinson Cano	L	696	626	29	109	3-2	77-57	21.6	.319	.381	.534	A+/A	$8,342,458
		3B	2014 Kyle Seager	L	654	590	25	96	7-5	118-52	23.6	.268	.334	.454	A/A	$5,888,757
		SS	2011 Willie Bloomquist	R	381	350	4	26	20-10	51-23	87.5	.266	.317	.340	A-/C-	$2,336,192
		OF	2014 Dustin Ackley	L	542	502	14	65	8-4	90-32	35.9	.245	.293	.398	A/C	$3,358,740
		OF	2009 Seth Smith	L	387	335	15	55	4-1	67-46	22.3	.293	.378	.510	A/D-	$2,717,551
		OF	2012 Austin Jackson	R	617	543	16	66	12-9	134-67	33.9	.300	.377	.479	A/A-	$6,348,029
		Util	2014 Nelson Cruz	R	678	613	40	108	4-5	140-55	15.3	.271	.333	.525	D-/D-	$5,536,894
		Util	2011 Jesus Montero	R	69	61	4	12	0-0	17-7	15.3	.328	.406	.590	D-/D-	$562,852
		SS	2014 Chris Taylor	R	151	136	0	9	5-2	39-11	0.0	.287	.347	.346	C/B-	$936,997
		OF	2012 Justin Ruggiano	R	320	288	13	36	14-8	84-29	22.2	.313	.374	.535	B-/C+	$2,962,181
		OF	2002 Endy Chavez	L	138	125	1	9	3-5	16-5	125.0	.296	.321	.464	B+/B+	$1,223,547
		Util	optional
		Util	optional
		Util	optional
		Util	optional
		Util	optional
		Util	optional
Batting Totals					5474	4943	194	689	85-56	1050-425	25.5	.276	.338	.463	B/B-	$45,198,935

Pitching Staff
		Role	Player	T	W-L-S	IP/ 162	ERA	OAV	WHIP	K/ 9	BB/ 9	HR/ 9	K-BB	Salary
		SP	2014 Felix Hernandez	R	15-6-0	236	2.14	.200	0.92	9.46	1.75	0.61	248-46	$8,748,308
		SP/RP	2014 Roenis Elias	L	10-12-0	164	3.85	.248	1.31	7.86	3.52	0.88	143-64	$3,359,683
		SP/RP	2007 Rafael Perez	L	1-2-1	60	1.78	.187	0.92	9.20	2.23	0.74	62-15	$2,394,531
		SP/RP	2013 Hisashi Iwakuma	R	14-6-0	220	2.66	.220	1.01	7.58	1.72	1.02	185-42	$6,597,116
		SP/RP	2014 Tom Wilhelmsen	R	3-2-1	79	2.27	.171	1.05	8.17	4.08	0.68	72-36	$2,646,005
		SP/RP	2012 Fernando Rodney	R	2-2-48	75	0.60	.167	0.78	9.16	1.81	0.24	76-15	$3,784,806
		SP/RP	2014 Taijuan Walker	R	2-3-0	38	2.61	.223	1.29	8.05	4.26	0.47	34-18	$798,949
		SP/RP	2014 Danny Farquhar	R	3-1-1	71	2.66	.221	1.13	10.27	2.79	0.63	81-22	$1,883,873
		SP/RP	2014 Yoervis Medina	R	5-3-0	57	2.68	.229	1.33	9.47	4.42	0.47	60-28	$1,296,334
		SP/RP	2014 Dominic Leone	R	8-2-0	66	2.17	.217	1.16	9.50	3.39	0.54	70-25	$1,791,554
		SP/RP	2008 Joe Saunders	L	17-7-0	198	3.41	.252	1.21	4.68	2.41	0.95	103-53	$4,508,659
		SP/RP	2014 James Paxton	L	6-4-0	74	3.04	.223	1.20	7.18	3.53	0.36	59-29	$2,015,483
		SP/RP	2009 J.A. Happ	L	12-4-0	166	2.93	.244	1.23	6.45	3.04	1.08	119-56	$3,756,469
Pitching Totals					98-54-51	1,504	2.67	.221	1.11	7.85	2.69	0.77	1312-449	$43,581,770

Really cool theme - try out the teams before they play the season! We'll take the Toronto Blue Jays.

Posted by hoopsrus on 3/3/2015 7:02:00 PM (view original):
Really cool theme - try out the teams before they play the season! We'll take the Toronto Blue Jays.

Toronto can be great.  Santana, Buehrle, Dickey....makings of good staff there

Got you down for the Blue Jays hoopsrus.  They could end their playoff drought this year.  Looking good!

Posted by cpdpoet on 3/2/2015 7:03:00 PM (view original):
I can put together a decent Phillies team except for the GAPING hole at ss.
When (believe it or not) Ronny Cedeno signed w/ the Giants it killed my Phillies build...
Crap...

If you could manually draft an average AAA shortstop would you want the Phillies?

I'll take the Royal's as a second team also

Good choice!

I'll take Detroit as a 2nd team unless someone else wants them

put me down for the nationals

I'm going to take the Mariners and get the league setup tonight!

Decision on manual AAA?

Example. StL has a lot of 30-40 ip young guys. As a group they can help. But no room for all on 25. With 1-2 of them I come up very light on total ip. These are low salary guys


Also wonder how many can get near $90m. StL is consistent power and I am not really coming close. The few teams near $90 might dominate

Wonder if part of that 90 can be aaa

I think AAA would be appropriate for this theme considering most of those guys are in camp with the big club anyways.  The spirit of the theme would be to use the major league seasons, but as cpdpoet pointed out, the Phillies don't even have a SS making the Jimmy Rollins trade look even worse!