We need 2 owners for a Diamond Legends or Career Progressive League which started in 1961 and will soon be advancing to the 1967 (it's 7th) season. Details on the 2 teams available will be provided in the following posts.

In the Diamond Legends (or Career) WIS leagues, players use their average career statistics. In this specific league, that will mean using their average career statistics in a progressive from their first year of eligibility starting in 1961 through their last year of WIS eligibility. In this league, Don Sutton (whose rookie season of WIS eligibility was 1966) will be eligible every season from 1966-1988-no IR seasons !!

The league has 16 teams, Alternate WIS format E (4 teams make playoffs) No DH,No WW, No AAA, No injuries. Salary Cap $80 million. Owners must use the actual ballpark used by their franchise in 1966. 

Annual drafts will be in inverse order of finish except that for the first round only there will be a random weighted lottery among the 4 teams with the worst record (4 chances for the team with the worst record, 3 chance for 2nd worst etc.). The tiebreaker will be run differential (runs scored less runs allowed) with the team with the worst run differential drafting higher.

The first team available is the Cincinnati Reds. The Reds had the best record in the league in 1966, 97-65.

The Reds had 2 players retire after the 1966 season, pitchers Robin Roberts and Terry Fox. If the Reds kept all of their other players, there would be $6,571,362 available to replace the 2 retired players. Any players cut will increase the amount available (but will also increase the number of players needed) by the amount of their salary shown below.Since the Reds had the best record in the league, they will be drafting last (16th) for the 1967 draft.

Following are the batting statistics for the Reds 13 hitters for the 1967 season:

FIRST	LAST			Last		Annual										Total
NAME	NAME			Year	Years	Salary	Bats	PA	HR	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	SPD	FLDG	Salary
Smoky	Burgess	C		1967	1	$3,031	L	400	10	0.294	0.361	0.445	0.806	42	B/C+/B-	$3,031
Dave	Duncan	C		1976	10	$1,396	R	296	10	0.213	0.276	0.352	0.628	42	B-/B/B+	$13,963
Norm	Cash	1B		1974	8	$4,548	L	617	29	0.272	0.374	0.486	0.860	53	B/D	$36,380
Deron	Johnson	1B		1975	9	$3,141	R	619	23	0.245	0.312	0.421	0.733	54	B/D-	$28,265
Fred	Whitfield	1B		1969	3	$1,198	L	199	9	0.254	0.296	0.454	0.750	53	B-/D-	$3,593
Davey	Johnson	2B		1978	12	$4,531	R	557	14	0.262	0.341	0.407	0.748	62	B/B+	$54,367
Jim	Lefebvre	2B		1972	6	$1,991	B	342	7	0.252	0.322	0.377	0.699	60	B/C-	$11,945
Ron	Hansen	SS		1971	5	$3,441	R	479	10	0.236	0.322	0.353	0.675	61	B/A-	$17,206
Denis	Menke	SS		1973	7	$3,350	R	599	10	0.252	0.345	0.371	0.716	63	B/D-	$23,453
Hank	Aaron	OF		1976	10	$7,318	R	685	37	0.305	0.374	0.555	0.929	69	B/B-	$73,184
Bob	Allison	OF		1970	4	$4,455	R	611	27	0.254	0.358	0.476	0.834	71	C+/C+	$17,822
Jim	King	OF		1967	1	$1,638	L	267	10	0.239	0.326	0.423	0.749	64	B/C-	$1,638
Lee	Maye	OF		1970	4	$2,476	L	404	9	0.275	0.324	0.417	0.741	74	C/C-	$9,904

And following are the pitching statistics for the Reds 10 pitchers for the 1967 season:

FIRST	LAST			Last		Annual											Total
NAME	NAME			Year	Years	Salary	Throws	IP	G	GS	W	L	SV	ERA	WHIP	OAV	Salary
Pat	Jarvis	P		1973	7	$3,988	R	162	31	21	11	9	0	3.57	1.21	0.243	$27,915
Bob	Lee	P		1968	2	$1,833	R	71	38	1	4	3	9	2.68	1.21	0.224	$3,665
Rudy	May	P		1982	16	$3,988	L	158	31	22	9	9	1	3.44	1.24	0.237	$63,803
Claude	Passeau	P		1947	-19	$5,123	R	221	36	27	13	12	2	3.30	1.32	0.267	-$97,335
Orlando	Pena	P		1974	8	$1,915	R	96	33	8	5	6	3	3.77	1.28	0.257	$15,316
Ray	Sadecki	P		1976	10	$2,998	L	146	31	19	8	8	0	3.83	1.34	0.257	$29,978
Sonny	Siebert	P		1975	9	$4,071	R	165	30	24	11	9	1	3.22	1.21	0.238	$36,637
Ron	Taylor	P		1971	5	$1,540	R	73	44	2	4	4	7	3.86	1.24	0.260	$7,701
Luis	Tiant	P		1982	16	$4,680	R	188	30	26	12	9	1	3.30	1.20	0.237	$74,885
Dooley	Womack	P		1969	3	$779	R	35	22	0	2	2	3	2.83	1.20	0.23	$2,338

Note-in season 1, due to a shortage of IP, all teams were allowed to draft one 1941 pitcher, with the stipulation that all such pitchers would retire at the earlier of their actual retirement date or 1949. The Reds drafted Claude Passeau, who will retire in 1947

Interested owners will be given immediate access to the league's private forum, which will shortly have a preliminary list of available players. The final available players and the draft schedule will be posted as soon as all keepers have been posted.

The first task of new owners will be to post keeper lists using the lists of 1967 players posted above.

I like to take on the Yankees job....

The team is yours-will send site mail.

I will take the Reds

Posted by jeff4noles on 11/23/2014 9:36:00 AM (view original):
I will take the Reds

thanks-site mail sent.

We may have one more opening via an absentee owner-details will be provided to anyone interested.

I'll take it if available.

Posted by poppapomp on 11/23/2014 1:03:00 PM (view original):
I'll take it if available.

If the team becomes available, it will be yours-thanks for your interest.

I'd like to take the Pirates.

The Cincinnati Reds are available again-jeff4noles decided at the last moment that the Career League format was too complicated for him.

The draft is underway and the Reds took Pat Dobson as the 1st round draft choice.

Posted by kallison1 on 12/7/2014 1:51:00 AM (view original):
I would like to take the Team... Cincinnati Reds...

The team is yours