The long-running Real Life Progressive League is looking for a new owner for the Philadelphia Philles. We are approaching game 120 and will be starting the draft off the clock around 14 October. The Phillies have lots of big hitters: Matt Williams with 35HRs, Juan Gonzalez with 39HRs (and several more excellent years) Fred McGriff with 32HRs, SS Mark Grudzielanek with a .326/.376/.436 split and a long career ahead, and many others with solid years. Pitching will need to be rebuilt after 1999, but they will compete in 1999 with solid years from Shane Reynolds, Jose Rosado and Mike Thurman. The Phillies have the 7th pick in the draft.
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 1999, P Ted Lilly, 2B/OF Alphonso Soriano and some others started their careers -- but they are not WIS eligible (just prospects) until 2000 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 1999, 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 1999 season, and a DH is used in the AL.
Please sitemail if interested, and for further explanation of the rules.
Philadelphia Phillies
Keepers:
C - Charles Johnson, Bill Haselman, and Javier Valentin
1B - Fred McGriff
2B - Miguel Cairo and Enrique Wilson
3B - Matt Williams
SS - Mark Grudzielanek
OF - Juan Gonzalez, Wil Cordero, Orlando Palmero and Todd Hollandsworth
P1 - Brian Meadows, Shane Reynolds, Jose Rosado, Mike Thurman, Steve Trachsel
P2- Jose Mesa, Paul Spoljaric, and Carlos Reyes
Injured Reserve: P Kerry Wood returns in 2000
Prospect: P Wade Miller starts in 2000
Likely cuts: P Mike Grace, P Mike Morgan, P Jeff Montgomery, 3B Gary Gaetti, OF Otis Nixon, DH Gregg Jefferies
Trades: None
10/14/2019 7:54 PM (edited)