The Re-write History Progressive League needs three new owners for the 1943 Season. The league is a pretty standard Progressive but with a slight change to the Rookie Draft that will allow some of the best players to start with teams that they played for in their career.

These are the Draft Rules:
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 CHC, NYG, PHA, SLB) 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.

6) Franchises own the rights to their picks even if they are unneeded. You may trade those picks if you can find a taker, or if you make a mid draft trade and need a pick that is upcoming in a future round that you didn't need before, you will get that pick (you don't have to wait until the end of the draft to make up the pick)

Other Rules
- Once drafted players can be traded to any team without restrictions.
- Traded picks are allowed to be dealt in the current draft + 2 seasons ahead. For example, if we're in the 1920 draft, only picks up to the 1922 draft will be allowed.

8) Draft Order Tiebreakers will be the lower expected win % gets the better pick

After a player is drafted they can be traded to any team.

The open team is the Brooklyn Dodgers. They have the #1 Pick in all rounds of the Draft. They also own the Tigers Pick (#8) from a previous trade. So you will have two Top 10 picks to restock the team for the War Years. Here is their roster.

1943 Brooklyn Dodgers
16 Keepers

C Mickey Livingston
C Mickey Owen
1B Bert Haas
SS John Sullivan
3B Ellis Clary
OF Mel Ott
OF Tommy Holmes
OF Debs Garms

P Carl Hubbell
P Bill Lohrman
P Max Macon
P Van Mungo
P Ed Head
P Rube Melton
P Dick Newsome

IR:
1B Jack Bolling IR until ‘44
3B Oscar Grimes IR until '44
SS Pee Wee Reese IR until '46
OF Hank Edwards IR until '44
P Joe Bowman IR until '44
3B Cookie Lavagetto IR until '46
OF Mike McCormick IR until '46
OF Bama Rowell IR until '46
P Hugh Casey IR until '46
P Johnny Hutchings IR until '44
P Sam Nahem IR until '48

Retired
C Babe Phelps
1B Buddy Hassett
OF Ernie Koy
P Vern Olsen
P Tot Pressnell

Here are the Offensive Rookies available to them:

C Dee Moore (PHI, CIN, BRO)
1B Howie Schultz (BRO, PHI, CIN)
1B Frank Skaff (BRO, PHA)
2B George Fallon (BRO, STL)
2B Eddie Stanky (BRO, NYG, BSN, STL, CHC)
OF Gene Hermanski (BRO, CHC, PIT)
OF Luis Olmo (BRO, BSN)
OF Andy Pafko (CHC, BSN, BRO)
OF Jim Russell (PIT, BSN, BRO)

I am currently finishing up the Pitchers and will have them posted shortly.

I will take the Dodgers

that stinks as I've been waiting.