ermo asked me to double check his roster. It is legal.

Putting up 58 Athletics for dagger

New York Raiders Shea Stadium
79,839,517
39,993,947 hitters
39,845,570 pitchers

78 Chicago White Sox (6)
C Bill Nahorodny 1,918,677
2B Jorge Orta 3,114,304
3B Eric Soderholm 3,305,087
OF Wayne Nordhagen 1,222,779
P Ken Kravec 4,090,385
P Lerrin Lagrow 1,521,077

88 Houston Astros (7)
1B Glenn Davis 5,293,595
SS Rafael Ramirez 3,386,778
SS Craig Reynolds 669,508
C Alan Ashby 1,174,026
3B Denny Walling 884,665
P Mike Scott 6,962,701
P Juan Augosto 2,348,719

78 New York Mets (6)
OF Lee Mazzilli 5,432,310
2B Bobby Valentine 827,546
OF Bruce Boisclair 976,955
P Craig Swan 6,162,536
P Skip Lockwood 2,018,608
P Tom Hausman 748,658

88 New York Mets (6)
OF Kevin McReynolds 4,506,613
OF Darryl Strawberry 5,276,558
1B Dave Magadan 2,004,546
P David Cone 7,280,933
P Sid Fernandez 6,268,548
P Randy Myers 2,443,405

88 Mets as a base team gave me a whole staff I could have taken. Cone and Fernandez give me 2 power arms and Myers will close. Strawberry and McReynolds will be my corner outfielders with power. Had to take Magadan at 2 million as backup 1b because my cheapest 1b Squires from 78 Chisox was daggered. He will mostly ph and spell Soderholm at 3b.

78 Mets gave us Mazzilli who will play cf with an A- range. Valenine will platoon at 2b with Orta. Boisclair was my cheapest of backup option, but pricey at almost 1 million. Swan was a no brainer as a starter and Lockwood will set up Myers. Hausman will mop up.

78 White Sox were a challenge. Lost Squires and Proly to daggers. Definitely would have rostered both of them. Orta and Soderholm make up half my infield. Nordhagen is a power bat off the bench who can also catch. I took Kravec over Ojeda as fifth starter to save some money. It's a big downgrade but ultimately couldn't afford a fifth starter with a 1.00 WHIP. I Wanted Stearns from 78 Mets to catch but couldn't afford him so went with Nahorodny and Ashby from 88 Astros. They don't hit much but did combine for 15 homers.

88 Astros were my final team selection. I had wanted the 38 Reds but they were taken early in round 4. I needed a team with a backup SS as I didn't have one yet. Another team loaded with pitching options. Ryan, Scott, Deshaies, Darwin all good starters. Davis was my best 1b. Ramirez was my best SS, my weakest position by far. Reynolds will backup ss, Walling 3b. Ashby will share catching duties. Scott gives me 2 aces with Cone and Agosto is a valuable bullpen asset.

I chose Shea to play in over the Astrodome. It's still a pitchers park, but not as restrictive to homers as the Dome would be. We will rely on starting pitching and power hitting. Team BA is a little low at .267 and OBP is .332. Little too heavy on PA but my lack of cheap bench players forced my hand.

Hitters 6141 PA, 179 HR, .267, .332, .422
Pitchers 1450 IP, 3.01 ERA, .221 BAA, 1.14 WHIP, 1103 K

NebHusker, you can dagger my 38 Phillies.

Preeves22

From your 58 Cubs, I am going to take out P Bill Henry as your 2nd dagger. Why? Just because.

Having lost Ron Guidry to the dagger, this team has taken on a more offensive direction, built around Mel Ott as its centerpiece. Looking at my division mates, both kentol and Ribbentrop figure to have excellent pitching staffs, but neither one has much in the way of power (no players with more than 25 HRs). So I’ll be rolling the dice and going with fire against ice: Mel Ott (36 HRs), Hank Sauer (35 HRs), Reggie Jackson (27 HRs), and Jeff Burroughs (23 HRs), playing in the hitter’s haven known as Atlanta Fulton County Stadium.

We may not have enough innings to get through the season—and Gene Garber and Larry McWilliams are likely to get lit up with dingers at home—but without Guidry, there was really only one way to build this team.

And if nothing else, putting a $9.2M Mel Ott (.311/.442/.583) in Fulton County Stadium in a league like this one should make for some interesting box scores.

1978 NYY

2B	1978 Willie Randolph	$4,540,591
SS	1978 Fred Stanley	$665,310
OF	1978 Reggie Jackson	$4,284,836
OF	1978 Roy White	$2,148,421
P	1978 Ed Figueroa	$5,670,880
P	1978 Rich Gossage	$4,512,741

1948 CIN

C	1948 Dewey Williams	$236,137
1B	1948 Babe Young	$587,125
OF	1948 Hank Sauer	$4,142,652
OF	1948 Augie Galan	$859,107
P	1948 Jim Blackburn	$498,792
P	1948 Tommy Hughes	$200,618

1978 ATL

1B	1978 Bob Beall	$993,973
2B	1978 Glenn Hubbard	$925,915
OF	1978 Jeff Burroughs	$5,121,163
P	1978 Phil Niekro	$9,446,168
P	1978 Gene Garber	$2,350,616
P	1978 Larry McWilliams	$2,203,883

1938 NYG

C	1938 Harry Danning	$3,584,309
3B	1938 Mel Ott	$9,243,589
3B	1938 Mickey Haslin	$716,549
SS	1938 Dick Bartell	$4,146,733
P	1938 Carl Hubbell	$4,755,518
P	1938 Hal Schumacher	$5,102,297
P	1938 Jumbo Brown	$3,057,127

TOTAL SALARY: $79,995,050

lennyistall - it took me a while to find a dagger target from your 38 Phillies -they are not very good! I honestly could not find a good target from any of the starting offense or pitching. You've only got 4 possible choices at 2B with the lowest two being $2.4M and $2.9M so you've already got problems there without my help. The pitching is just plain bad.

I will go with addition by subtraction. You MUST roster 6 players from this team so I'll take away an obvious low cost option and let you figure it out.

Say goodbye to your $423K option OF Tuck Stainback.

Dagger Luke Hamlin for jbar8888 from the 38 dodgers

Interesting team build for me as I am lucky to have kept Eddie Murray in the 1st dagger round as he can play 3B and solves my two expensive 1B options. He has a terrible glove there so please don't hit it to him! I think Sportsman Park would have been interesting with this team and Medwick but will have to go another route. Have some poor hitting players at C and SS but the lineup is anchored by Johnny Mike, Joe Medwick, Eddie Murray and Ken Singleton and that I can work with!

Saving the $$$ at C, SS, and 2B has allowed me to have a decent staff. I like having Seaver, Palmer, Koosman, and McGregor as my 4-man rotation and the 68 Mets have helped the Pen!

The Chesapeake Crab Cakes are now presented for review!

Home Park: Memorial Stadium

1978 Baltimore Orioles (6)

1B - Eddie Murray - $6,456,440
OF - Ken Singleton - $4,232,527
SS - Kiko Garcia - $899,836
SP - Jim Palmer - $8,012,748
SP - Scott McGregor - $5,770,573
P - Nelson Briles - $805,970

1938 Brooklyn Dodgers (6)

2B - Johnny Hudson - $2,886,411
SS - Leo Durocher - $2,504,615
OF - Goody Rosen - $4,526,555
2B - Pete Coscarart - $223,767
3B - Woody English - $301,891
OF - Tuck Stainback - $879,069

1938 St. Louis Cardinals (6)

C - Mickey Owen - $2,833,696
1B - Johnny Mize - $6,933,296
OF - Joe Medwick - $5,999,145
C - Herb Brenner - $983,761
OF - Frenchy Bordagaray - $888,254
P - Paul Dean - $425,735

1968 New York Mets (7)

3B - Jerry Buchek - $611,938
SP - Tom Seaver - $8,012,196
SP - Jerry Koosman - $6,693,560
P - Ron Taylor - $2,007,752
P - Jim McAndrew - $1,901,079
P - Cal Koonce - $2,341,191
P - Al Jackson - $2,083,546

Total Salary $79,676,551

LA Psychedelics
Forbes Field

'88 Los Angeles Dodgers (6)
P Orel Hershiser - $8,140,557
P Tim Leary - $6,809,679
P Alejandro Pena - $2,860,217
P Brian Holton - $2,766,550
P Jay Howell - $2,758,973
SS - Dave Anderson $1,986,727

'88 Baltimore Orioles (6)
SS Cal Ripken - $5,485,516
1B Eddie Murphy - $4,596,944
OF Fred Lynn - $2,668,736
C Mickey Tettleton - $1,867,508
1B Jim Traber - $1,390,729
P Mike Morgan - $1,385,858

'58 Philadelphia Phillies (7)
2B Solly Hemus - $2,619,216
P Jack Meyer - $2,427,495
C Stan Lopata - $2,212,818
OF Dave Philley - $1,381,528
2B Ted Kazanski - $1,302,302
OF Bob Bowman - $1,286,208
3B Granny Hamner - $922,130

'38 Pittsburgh Pirates (6)
P Russ Bauers - $7,500,033
P Bob Klinger - $4,125,817
OF Lloyd Waner - $5,504,876
OF Johnny Rizzo - $4,698,842
P Ed Brandt - $2,410,706
3B Bill Brubaker - $870,431

Total Salary - $79,980,396

Two messages from mavioric12 this morning.

1. ermocito can hit 78 Mariners with dagger #2 (oh, I will....)

2 For Beernoser, the 2nd dagger will hit SS Alvin Dark - the best SS option by far.

mavioric12 has a tough challenge figuring out which 6 of these terrible Mariners to roster. I tried - it was hard. It will be harder without Leon Roberts, who was actually one of the top 3 OFin your entire player pool. For your 6 slots you have a decent RP and a bunch of bench riders, not all of whom will be cheap.

I would have hit a SP but Seattle actually has NO pitchers with 200 IP at all.

Budget won't be as big a concern for you as player quality.

These are the "final four three one" dagger to be thrown before rosters can be finalized. I hope we get all four today so we can get this league align and play some games! Obviously the dagger recipients will need some time to finalize rosters after the dagger 2 hits. More details on page 1.
lennyistall
C_Burns04
BeAllEndAAll
vilefileman

Another long driving day - hopefully we have all the daggers and more of the rosters by Wed morning. We are making decent progress to start this week.

Team name tb. Yankee Stadium
Salary: $79,821,368

38 Yankees (7)
C Bill Dickey $5,628,799
1B Lou Gehrig $5,915,858
2B Joe Gordon $4,046,981
2B Bill Knickerbocker $655,983
SS Frankie Crosetti $5,460,788
OF Joe DiMaggio $6,560,433
OF Tommy Henrich $4,190,772

48 Senators (6)
SS John Sullivan $685,118
3B Eddie Yost $4,042,585
OF Tom McBride $1,212,179
OF Sherry Robertson $1,090,685
P Ray Scarborough $5,368,772
P Dick Welteroth $866,581

68 Astros (6)
C Dave Adlesh $316,049
3B Doug Rader $2,079,145
P Dave Giusti $6,184,246
P Mike Cuellar $4,535,437
P Wade Blasingame $379,710
P Jim Ray $2,132,193

68 A's (6)
1B Danny Cater $3,135,297
OF Joe Rudi $603,923
P Jim Nash $6,151,177
P Lew Krauss Jr. $4,732,676
P Diego Segui $2,673,951
P Paul Lindblad $1,172,030

C_Burns04 is daggering Hector Lopez.