TREX league, entering its 15th year, has never needed more than 1-2 replacement teams, often none. This year we need four. The draft is wrapping up and most of these teams are ready to enter -- all have many strengths!

We're entering the 15th year of a progressive that started as a 51/91 league, and has gradually phased in players from the 1920s.The draft has now entered the 1925/1965 season. Below is an explaination of the transition to the current progressive: 

Seasons Fourteen-Twenty: The Transition Era
From seasons 1924/64/2004-1930/70/2010, we'll open up the draft pool to all eligible 20s era players ('24 in season 14, '25 in season 15, etc.) except those that were already picked. But we'll stop drafting modern players in these years, so the drafts will be players from 24/64 in season 14, 25/65 in season 15, etc. Modern players previously drafted may be used through their 2010 seasons

120 million cap, no DH, no AAA, worst to first draft with a minimum of 40 wins by game 120 to be eligible for the top 4 picks in the 1st round.

OAKLAND (Network Coll)
Salary Cap: $80,000,000 Available Cash: ($39,868,099) o
o Current Payroll: $119,868,099 Draft Picks Remaining: 0 o
o Position Salaries: $76,884,070 Required Plate Appearances Remaining (PA/162): 0 o
o Pitcher Salaries: $42,984,029 Required Innings Pitched Remaining (IP/162): 0 o

Position Players

  C 1925 Mike Gonzalez R 314 282 3 22 3-3 17-19 89.3 .276 .333 .377 B/D+ $2,456,012
1B 1925 Jim Bottomley L 722 656 21 128 3-4 36-47 29.5 .367 .413 .578 C-/B $6,888,508
  2B 1965 Glenn Beckert R 653 614 3 30 6-8 52-28 204.7 .239 .275 .298 C/B+ $3,358,154
  3B 1925 Willie Kamm R 674 536 6 83 11-13 36-90 84.8 .279 .391 .393 B/A- $5,059,997
  SS 2005 Miguel Tejada R 704 654 26 98 5-1 83-40 25.2 .304 .349 .515 B/A- $6,508,864
  OF 1965 Willie Davis L 595 558 10 57 25-9 81-14 55.8 .238 .263 .346 C-/A+ $3,406,286
OF 2005 Carlos Beltran S 650 582 16 78 17-6 96-56 36.4 .266 .330 .414 B+/A $5,300,901
OF 2005 Miguel Cabrera R 685 613 33 116 1-0 125-64 18.6 .323 .385 .561 C/D- $5,751,032
  3B 2005 Morgan Ensberg R 624 526 36 101 6-7 119-85 14.6 .283 .388 .557 B/B+ $5,954,183
  Util 2005 Raul Ibanez L 690 614 20 89 9-4 99-71 30.7 .280 .355 .436 D-/D- $4,280,208
  OF 1925 Chick Hafey R 398 380 5 57 3-7 29-10 71.6 .302 .321 .425 D+/C $2,175,383
  OF 1925 Harry Rice L 445 375 11 47 8-7 15-54 32.2 .359 .450 .568 B+/C- $4,693,791
  OF 2005 Brian Giles L 674 545 15 83 13-5 64-119 36.3 .301 .423 .483 B+/C+ $5,957,317
1B 1925 Jack Fournier L 688 578 22 130 4-6 39-86 24.8 .350 .446 .569 C+/D $6,334,931
  Util 2005 Travis Hafner L 578 486 33 108 0-0 123-79 14.7 .305 .408 .595 D-/D- $4,667,258
  C 1965 Gene Oliver R 432 392 21 58 5-4 61-36 18.7 .270 .336 .482 D+/A $4,091,245

Batting Totals 9526 8391 281 1285 119-84 1075-898 29.3 .296 .368 .476 C+/C+ $76,884,070
Pitching Staff

SP 1965 Fred Newman R 14-16-0 261 2.93 .234 1.11 3.76 2.21 0.52 109-64 $7,045,748
  SP/RP 2005 Roger Clemens R 13-8-0 212 1.87 .198 1.01 7.88 2.64 0.47 185-62 $8,473,214
SP/RP 2005 Josh Beckett R 15-8-0 179 3.38 .234 1.18 8.36 2.92 0.71 166-58 $5,069,611
  SP/RP 1965 Bobby Bolin R 14-6-2 163 2.76 .214 1.11 7.45 3.09 0.94 135-56 $4,332,673
  SP/RP 1965 Camilo Pascual R 9-3-0 156 3.35 .217 1.21 5.54 3.63 0.69 96-63 $4,137,994
SP/RP 1965 John Buzhardt R 13-8-1 189 3.01 .242 1.18 5.15 2.67 0.57 108-56 $4,531,455
  SP/RP 2005 Tom Gordon R 5-4-2 81 2.57 .203 1.09 7.70 3.24 0.89 69-29 $2,459,022
  SP/RP 1965 Jim Palmer R 5-4-1 92 3.72 .229 1.42 7.34 5.48 0.59 75-56 $1,888,534
SP/RP 1925 Vic Aldridge R 15-7-0 226 3.63 .269 1.37 3.71 3.12 0.63 88-74 $5,045,778

Pitching Totals 103-64-6 1,559 3.00 .230 1.18 6.01 3.02 0.64 1031-518 $42,984,029

I;ll take my old team back {Chicago} if you guys will have me

3 more, the best two are the ones posted.

All of these teams could make playoffs this year and could be really good long-term too....

I'll take Montreal

Yours, shawbigred!