The ReWrite History League needs one new owner for the Athletics for the 1948 season. The Athletics currently hold the #2 Draft Pick in the 1948 Rookie Draft.

The Rules to the draft are as follows:
1) In the first 4 rounds of the drafts, players who played for more than one team may only be drafted by teams they played for at least one game in their career. This is to be decided by their franchises in baseball-reference.com regardless of their WiS seasons. So someone like P Lefty Gomez will be available to both the Yankees and Senators even though he only has WiS seasons for the Yankees (He played in one game for the Senators in 1943)

2) Exclusives (players who only played for one team their entire career (Walter Johnson, Lou Gehrig, etc.)) will be assigned to either the First or Second Round using the following method.
a) All players with an Average WiS Salary of at least $3.5million and at least 5 WiS Seasons OR an average WiS Salary of at least $3.0million and at least 10 WiS seasons will be Round 1 Exclusives.
b) Anyone who does not fall into either of those two categories will be a Round 2 Exclusive and then open to all teams starting in Round 3.

So, for example, Lou Gehrig is a Round 1 Exclusive. If the Yankees don't take him in the first round he is available to all teams starting with the first pick of the Second Round. If you have multiple rookies that are in the same round you need to have multiple picks in that round or risk losing the players to another team starting with the next round. You make pick a player before their voted round if you wanted to. (For example, if you have two players as Round 2 Exclusives, but only have one Second Round Pick, you can pick one player with your First Round Pick and the next with your Second Round Pick.)

3) Any exclusive with only 1 WiS season (no matter what his salary is that one season) or less than $5 million in total WIS salary will be a Round 2 Exclusive. After that they will be open to all teams.

4) Any player who only played for defunct teams (currently BSN, CHC, SLB, WSH) can be drafted by any team during any round.

5) Any player who was undrafted from previous seasons or cut before this draft is available to all teams during any round.

1948 Philadelphia Athletics
20 Keepers
5 Picks Needed

C Buddy Rosar
C Bob Scheffing
1B Ferris Fain
2B Ralph Lapointe
SS Dick Culler
SS Cass Michaels
3B Bob Dillinger
OF George Binks
OF Jeff Heath
OF Mike McCormick
OF Dave Philley
OF Enos Slaughter

P Tom Ferrick
P Kirby Higbe
P Dutch Leonard
P Phil Marchildon
P Bill McCahan
P Bobo Newsom
P Vic Raschi
P Sam Zoldak

IR
P Jesse Flores IR Until 1950

Retired
2B Mickey Witek
3B Cecil Travis
SS Lennie Merullo
P Bob Klinger

The two defunct teams in the AL are the Browns and Senators. If you wish to move your team to those teams you may do so. The only change would be that you would get St. Louis or Washington's player eligibility instead of the Philadelphia's going forward. No changes would need to be made with your current roster.

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