Two replacement owners (A's and Rangers) needed in the Franchise With Farm System Progressive, going into 1978. We started with 20 franchises' actual rosters from 1977, and draft picks from the 6 unclaimed franchises. Going forward each franchise gets any rookie who really debuted with that team in his first WIS-eligible season.  Each franchise also gets one bonus pitcher from an earlier year assigned to it each season - a decent pitcher with around 100 IP who will help, but should not be a superstar. There is also a rookie draft using players from the six unclaimed franchises: Yankees, Brewers, Indians, Blue Jays, Padres, and Giants, and players who were cut. There is no system-generated AAA, but teams can fill AAA rosters with a combination of their draft picks and up to 25 keepers.

The A's look to be in great shape for the future, given their impending arrival of Rickey Henderson and eventually Tony Phillips, Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire, etc, development of guys like Dwayne Murphy and Miguel Dilone, and a great pitching staff already on hand with Dennis Eckersley, Vida Blue, and Mike Norris among others.

The Rangers roster is in pretty good shape already, with these players going into 1978:

		C	1978 Jim Sundberg	R	592	518	6	58	2-5	70-64	86.3	.278	.358	.380	A/B+	$4,666,921
		1B	1978 Sal Bando	R	629	540	17	78	3-2	52-72	31.8	.285	.371	.439	A-/A	$5,812,453
		2B	1978 Bump Wills	S	619	539	9	57	52-14	91-63	59.9	.250	.331	.347	B/A	$4,665,251
		3B	1978 Roy Howell	L	605	555	8	61	0-1	78-44	68.9	.270	.325	.376	C+/B	$3,616,980
		SS	1978 Toby Harrah	R	547	450	12	59	31-8	66-83	37.5	.229	.349	.360	B+/D-	$4,065,075
		OF	1978 Reggie Jackson	L	578	508	27	97	14-11	133-58	18.9	.274	.356	.477	B/C	$4,279,586
		OF	1978 Juan Beniquez	R	510	473	11	50	10-12	59-20	43.0	.260	.292	.378	C/B+	$3,067,374
		OF	1978 Sixto Lezcano	R	519	442	15	61	3-3	83-64	29.5	.292	.377	.459	C+/C+	$3,779,170
		1B	1978 Mike Hargrove	L	616	494	7	40	2-5	47-107	70.6	.251	.388	.346	C-/C+	$3,304,459
		OF	1978 Claudell Washington	L	336	316	6	31	5-5	57-12	52.3	.264	.290	.404	D/D+	$1,651,923
		3B	1978 Kurt Bevacqua	R	271	248	6	30	1-2	31-18	41.3	.222	.271	.343	D-/D-	$993,705
		SS	1978 Bert Campaneris	R	319	269	1	17	22-4	36-20	269.0	.186	.245	.238	C/C+	$1,325,742
		OF	1978 Al Woods	L	241	222	3	25	1-2	23-11	73.3	.241	.278	.364	C+/C	$1,171,913
		OF	1978 Jerry White	S	162	136	1	10	4-3	16-23	136.0	.272	.373	.338	B/D+	$970,609
		C	1978 John Ellis	R	104	94	3	17	0-1	20-6	31.3	.245	.282	.383	D/D+	$464,270
		2B	1978 Steve Staggs	R	97	78	0	0	2-3	17-19	78.0	.244	.392	.321	C+/D-	$485,777

Batting Totals

6745

5882

132

691

152-81

879-684

44.5

.259

.337

.383

C+/C+

$44,321,208

		SP	1978 Gaylord Perry	R	21-6-0	261	2.73	.248	1.18	5.32	2.28	0.31	154-66	$6,947,649
		SP/RP	1978 Ed Figueroa	R	20-9-0	252	2.99	.248	1.23	3.27	2.74	0.78	92-77	$5,657,284
		SP/RP	1978 Bert Blyleven	R	14-10-0	246	3.03	.235	1.16	6.72	2.44	0.63	182-66	$6,397,133
		SP/RP	1978 Doyle Alexander	R	9-10-0	191	3.86	.270	1.41	3.82	3.35	0.85	81-71	$3,549,474
		SP/RP	1978 Darold Knowles	L	3-3-6	72	2.38	.250	1.29	4.25	3.75	0.63	34-30	$1,445,792
		SP/RP	1978 Adrian Devine	R	5-4-3	66	5.92	.323	1.67	3.58	3.44	0.41	26-25	$905,751
		SP/RP	1978 Paul Lindblad	L	1-1-2	58	3.88	.281	1.47	5.28	3.57	0.93	34-23	$916,893
		SP/RP	1978 Nelson Briles	R	4-4-0	55	4.64	.279	1.45	4.97	3.48	0.99	30-21	$810,503
		SP/RP	1978 Len Barker	R	1-5-4	53	4.82	.304	1.76	5.68	4.99	1.03	33-29	$595,993
		SP/RP	1978 Victor Cruz	R	7-3-9	48	1.71	.179	1.33	9.70	6.66	0.00	51-35	$1,650,310
		SP/RP	1945 Joe Page	L	6-3-0	109	2.82	.246	1.38	4.41	4.06	0.09	50-46	$2,789,663
		SP/RP	1978 Steve Comer	R	11-5-1	118	2.30	.249	1.23	4.99	2.84	0.38	65-37	$2,939,774
		SP/RP	1978 Paul Mirabella	L	3-2-1	28	5.79	.286	1.68	7.39	5.46	0.64	23-17	$314,826
Pitching Totals					105-65-26	1,557	3.26	.255	1.31	4.98	3.16	0.58	855-543	$34,921,045

The Rangers lost the AL West title by one game in our 1977 season. (Draft order is based on how your team's winning percentage compares to real life - in our first season, the Rangers happened to exactly match their real-life 94-78 record.)

I will take the cubs please

Great, I will give you access to the forum.  (I deleted the Cubs listing above after this)

thanx

The Oakland A's owner dropped out after posting a short list of keepers and then skipping the draft (now 3 rounds in).  So its roster needs some work, but has help on the way in Rickey Henderson, Tony Phillips, Canseco, McGwire, etc.  I've revised his keepers the best I can, and made up the missing draft picks.  The roster is overloaded with pitching ($43 M), but weak in the lineup ($26 M position players). After a new owner trades a pitcher or two for some better hitters, this team could compete.  And its future looks good beyond the current season. Here is the current roster: 

		C	1978 Manny Sanguillen	R	237	222	3	16	2-2	10-9	73.3	.264	.296	.336	A+/C-	$1,148,244
		1B	1978 Dave Revering	L	553	521	16	46	0-1	55-26	32.6	.271	.303	.415	C-/D-	$2,659,105
		2B	1978 Mike Edwards	R	446	414	1	23	27-21	32-16	414.0	.273	.303	.329	D+/D-	$2,095,255
		3B	1978 Aurelio Rodriguez	R	414	385	7	43	0-1	37-19	55.0	.265	.303	.395	A+/D-	$2,023,789
		SS	1978 Tom Veryzer	R	467	429	1	32	1-2	36-13	421.0	.271	.298	.340	C+/D	$2,185,528
		OF	1978 Mitchell Page	L	579	516	17	70	23-19	95-53	30.4	.285	.355	.459	C/D+	$3,800,642
		OF	1978 Billy North	S	442	356	0	15	30-10	61-74	356.0	.230	.367	.270	C+/C+	$2,446,857
		OF	1978 Miguel Dilone	S	292	258	1	14	50-23	30-23	258.0	.229	.294	.271	B/D+	$1,367,575
		C	1978 Jeff Newman	R	291	268	9	32	0-3	40-18	29.8	.239	.288	.373	D/D+	$1,904,083
		3B	1978 Wayne Gross	L	335	285	7	23	0-2	63-40	40.7	.200	.308	.323	D/D-	$1,266,609
		SS	1978 Rob Picciolo	R	98	93	2	7	1-1	13-2	46.5	.226	.242	.301	C/D-	$326,822
		OF	1978 Tony Armas	R	258	239	2	13	1-2	62-10	119.5	.213	.250	.272	A/B+	$1,447,916
		OF	1978 Dwayne Murphy	L	62	52	0	5	0-1	14-7	52.0	.192	.279	.231	A+/D-	$200,000
		3B	1978 Taylor Duncan	R	348	319	2	37	1-2	38-19	159.5	.257	.296	.335	C+/D-	$1,423,290
		3B	1978 Rodney Scott	S	280	227	0	15	27-10	41-43	227.0	.282	.403	.313	D+/D	$1,625,402

Batting Totals

5102

4584

68

391

163-100

627-372

67.3

.255

.314

.350

C+/D+

$25,921,117

		SP	1978 Mike Torrez	R	16-13-0	249	3.96	.281	1.48	4.32	3.56	0.68	120-99	$4,552,306
		SP/RP	1978 John Henry Johnson	L	11-10-0	186	3.39	.238	1.32	4.40	3.97	0.87	91-82	$4,063,151
		SP/RP	1978 Dennis Eckersley	R	20-8-0	267	2.99	.251	1.23	5.43	2.38	1.01	162-71	$5,898,947
		SP/RP	1978 Rick Langford	R	7-13-0	176	3.43	.253	1.28	4.71	2.87	0.77	92-56	$3,858,492
		SP/RP	1978 Doug Bair	R	7-6-28	101	1.97	.236	1.25	8.16	3.41	0.54	91-38	$2,458,709
		SP/RP	1978 Bob Lacey	L	8-9-5	120	3.01	.270	1.35	4.51	2.63	0.75	60-35	$2,430,467
		SP/RP	1978 Dave Laroche	L	10-9-25	96	2.82	.215	1.26	6.59	4.52	0.66	70-48	$2,474,731
		SP/RP	1978 Doc Medich	R	9-8-2	171	3.74	.255	1.27	3.74	2.74	0.53	71-52	$3,870,547
		SP/RP	1978 Alan Wirth	R	5-6-0	82	3.43	.252	1.30	3.43	3.76	0.66	31-34	$1,579,021
		SP/RP	1978 Mike Norris	R	0-5-0	49	5.51	.249	1.65	6.61	6.43	0.37	36-35	$884,477
		SP/RP	1978 Vida Blue	L	18-10-0	258	2.79	.246	1.17	5.97	2.44	0.42	171-70	$6,836,597
		SP/RP	1978 Dave Lemanczyk	R	4-14-0	138	6.26	.313	1.72	4.08	4.28	1.05	62-65	$1,771,453
		SP/RP	1961 Jack Baldschun	R	5-3-3	105	3.88	.243	1.39	5.33	4.43	0.63	59-49	$2,335,896
Pitching Totals					120-114-63	1,998	3.52	.256	1.34	5.04	3.32	0.71	1116-734	$43,014,794

updated to list the rosters after adding draft picks.  There are still some role players available that can be drafted if a new owner wants to fill out AAA.

The A's have been taken by a new owner, so now we just need an owner for the Rangers.

I took the rangers and entered the team as well..some good rookies in the 80s and 90s