The long-running Real Life Progressive League is looking for a new owner for the Rangers. We have started the draft off the clock, with P Kurt Rueter taken in the 1st for the Rangers. The Rangers have awesome hitting (Piazza, Vinny Castilla, Biggio, Sabo, Seitzer, Gagne, Grissom, Brian McRae, Whiten), but a pitching staff in need of rebuilding. Texas has the 14th pick in a draft with 24 teams. By keeping Castilla and Gagne, this team could trade Sabo and Seitzer, and Andujar Cedeno at SS, among others (Whiten?) to improve it's pitching must faster.

This progressive league is like most, except that any player who started his career in a season is available to be drafted that season in the first round. In other words, in 1993, Chipper Jones, Carlos Delgado, Fernando Vina, Steve Trachsel, Darrin Oliver and some others started their careers -- but they are not WIS eligible (just prospects) until 1994 or later. A prospect (we keep a separate draft list to make it easy) joins any players you have on the DL/IR until he is WIS eligible. If you select a prospect in the 1st round (meaning someone who first played in MLB in 1993, but wasn't WIS eligible), you can pick up your 25th player in the supplemental draft round, which occurs after the normal draft is finished. The rest is pretty standard, with 4 AAA that you select from the 1993 season, and a DH is used in the AL.

Please sitemail if interested, and for further explanation of the rules.

Texas Rangers
C: Mike Piazza
1B: Pete OBrien
2B: Craig Biggio, Lenny Harris
3B: Chris Sabo, Kevin Seitzer
SS: Greg Gagne, Andujar Cedeno, Vinny Castilla
OF: Brian McRae, Marquis Grissom, Dave Martinez, Mark Whiten
P: Kirk McCaskill, Kevin Gross, Kurt Rueter, Hipolito Pichardo, Rick Sutcliffe, Bud Black
Pete Smith, Bob Scanlan, Al Osuna
Ret: P Cliff Brantley, C Jamie Quirk, 1B Pedro Guerrero
IR: P Jim Corsi, C Lance Parrish
Cut: P Greg Cadaret, P Matt Young, 3B Kelly Gruber