seay00-

for your second dagger from the 1925 Robins, I looked at your hitting and decided to take away 1B Jack Fournier. Very good bat and at a valued salary.

Vilefileman second dagger from 25 Athletics

C Mickey Cochrane

Summerfield 2nd Dagger 35 Philadelphia A's
This one I went back and forth ill admit I didn't really know what to do. Your lack of cheap backups at 2b and 3b and multiple cheap options at SS showed your flexibility. I thought of daggering Jimmie Foxx almost pulled the trigger because he is a Strong Catcher but I realize that he is 11.6mil and would hamper building the rest of your team. Pinky Higgins was thought of too but you have multiple options at 3b. Even Dutch Lieber as a good cheap RP was thought of

But I am Going to Dagger Bob Johnson OF

Looks like we are down to one 1st and six 2nd daggers.

Midknight,
in the words of Carl Spackler, I felt like I needed to "get inside this guy's pelt and crawl around for a few days." In doing so, the first thing I realized was that Seay00 screwed you pretty good with the '65 Athletics. Not many assets to choose from so I assume you'll want to spend as little as possible.
The assets the A's have (most of them being of value for giving you an inexpensive backup);
- Pena ($370k) & Drabowsky ($428k) - If I dagger one you'll just use the other. I doubt you'll take them both with the Cubs also having a $328k mopup.
- Lachemann - cheap backup C - if daggered you'd just use the Cubs backup, who isn't that much more expensive and is much better.
- Gentile - cheap backup 1b - Not sure if you'll even draft him with having Harris of the Senators you might want to platoon at 1B.
- Mathews - cheap backup OF - you have other cheaper backup options
- Tartabull - very nice player, considered him but then I thought that you having to spend $2.4m on a backup OFer isn't such a bad thing.
- In the end I went with RP - JACK AKER. Decent ERC, affordable. Will force you to spend $300k more on Mossi, and he was the cheapest one I could dagger that I felt would definitely help you.
Good luck!

Posted by redcped on 3/24/2023 2:16:00 PM (view original):

Posted by redcped on 3/23/2023 12:47:00 PM (view original):

Posted by Beernoser on 3/22/2023 10:18:00 PM (view original):
Redcped loses Willie Stargell (1B) and Comiskey Park

jpeterso, for my second dagger you may have at the 1975 Atlanta Braves

jpeterso, in case you missed this earlier in the thread ...

redcped, the Braves are so awful, I honestly don't know who to dagger. Phl Niekro is the only good value but I think your 55 White Sox has several arms that are better than him. If I dagger him, you'll just have to use your scrubs but that's probably what you are going to do anyway. Whelp, I have no choice so Niekro it is.

I set up another thread in this forum for everyone to post their rosters.

Please copy the format I used, especially the exact dollar bvalue of your budget.

I will use that format to check everyone's team and once approved I'll sitemail the league number.

I hope everyone enjoyed the draft.

Weird that we really lost three people when we have such a strong set of managers.

Hello evil_twin. My sincerest apologies once again for the delay in posting these daggers.

As far as your hitting goes, you have a lot of cost-effective position player options with some nice multi-position flexibility that you can move around once you have a conforming roster. I am seeing a couple of positions where you only have one sub-million salaried player and that is always worth consideration. I did look at your most vulnerable position but decided that you would figure out a workaround so I am not going there. In fact, forcing you to spend extra on any one position player will probably not be a factor. In fact, I think you can afford a couple of position players that are typically over budget in this league so I will look a little harder here since your pitching staff should not be too expensive. Furthermore, you don't seem to have any teams where eliminating one player would cause you much distress in coming up with the mandatory 6 players.

You have several outfield options that are strong and affordable. You have a lot of affordable catching spread nicely throughout your four teams. Nothing to see here. Is there any infielder that stands out? Will your pitching be so bad that you can fit a $12 million dollar stud into the format? Maybe not, but I do think you may have a couple of players in the 6 or 7-million-dollar range that you can get in.

As an aside, I am playing in a long-running progress/regressive league that is currently using 1925 for its season. There is a player who is slashing .393/.434/.639 with 153 RBIs at the 127-game mark. It would be interesting to see if he could attain that level in this league. I wouldn't doubt it if he played against my pitching all year. However, he will not get the chance because we are daggering 1925 Jim Bottomley of the St Louis Cardinals

Also, we will go with the obvious stadium dagger of the Astrodome since the other 3 stadium choices are all +

Also, I invite just4me, who has graciously taken over for vilefileman, to dagger one of my 1955 Senators

1st Round Dagger list...

First dagger round
P - Ray Prim Shibe Park
2B Bobby Grich Dodger Stadium
C Johnny Bench Braves Field
SP Claude Osteen. Dodger Stadium
SS - Luke Appling Shea Stadium
SP Dazzy Vance Cleveland Stadium
C Roy Campanella Ebbets Field
OF Goose Goslin Shea Stadium
SP Whitey Ford Memorial Stadium
SP Dolf Luque Anaheim Stadium
1B WIllie McCovey. San Diego Stadium
SP Jim Maloney Crosley Field
RP Vern Law Astrodome
1B Willie Stargell Comiskey Park
RP Pete Richert Cleveleand Stadium
SP Watty Clark Comiskey Park
RP Bob Lee Dodger Stadium
3B Red Rolfe Oakland Coliseum
1B Jim Bottomley Astrodome
SP Bob Friend Jarry Park

jonstephen25, you may dagger from my 65 Twins

We're off to a good start.

Oldtimer's roster is legal and he can enter the league. Sitemail sent. Warning. He has two 40 homer guys.

Second dagger for jonstephen25 from the 1935 Phillies

On the hitting side, the thing that stands out is that there are only 2 position players who cost less than $2mm and they are both shortstops. Assuming you use one of them there are still at least 5 roster spots to fill. Will you use these remaining position players as starters or as expensive backups? How many spots will you fill with pitchers? You do have a lot of cheap pitchers to choose from. Five under 1.2 million. Of course, there are only so many roster spots you can fill with this type of player in a 10-man staff and you are welcome to any or all of these five in any case. Otherwise, there are only 2 pitchers on this roster that I would consider even remotely useful so:

I will dagger Pitcher Syl Johnson and leave you to figure out the rest.

Posted by calhoop on 3/25/2023 1:56:00 AM (view original):
Also, I invite just4me, who has graciously taken over for vilefileman, to dagger one of my 1955 Senators

There is a hitter who is underwhelming to look at it, but also was a key player on my old OL record 142 win team… I thought about daggering that player, but in looking at your other rosters, I feel he’s likely to be overlooked anyway, so I feel safe in going for the player that is most likely to be felt as a loss. As such, P - Pedro Ramos is getting daggered here.

Posted by Beernoser on 3/25/2023 2:34:00 PM (view original):
We're off to a good start.

Oldtimer's roster is legal and he can enter the league. Sitemail sent. Warning. He has two 40 homer guys.

No player on any of my teams hit more than 25.