We will use this thread for the Blue Jays/Royals draft. thebubbaq will be running this one, and we'll get started once I have the drafts all set up.

Draft rules are simple:
-- 25 round serpentine draft
-- You may draft any player in the WIS database who played for the Blue Jays or Royals franchise (no twisting - you must roster a version of the player from your franchise. If you draft Zack Greinke, you must roster one of this Royals seasons.)
-- Partial/full/combined seasons are all ok.
-- Franchises are defined by www.baseball-reference.com. Please make sure you know your franchise history. These two teams are very straightforward, both expansion clubs who have never changed cities or names. You will see a number of other Kansas City teams in the WIS database, but only the Royals (1969-2020) are part of the current franchise.
-- Players are exclusive. There will be only 1 version of Zack Greinke, one Roy Halladay, etc. Note that even if a player appeared for both of these teams (like David Cone), he can still only be drafted ONCE.

This draft will be untimed provided things move along efficiently. I see no reason we shouldn't be able to get through at least 3 rounds on average each day. If any of our six drafts are consistently lagging behind that goal, or if one draft is way behind the others, I reserve the right to put any such draft on a timed schedule.


The rest of the league rules are also simple:
100M cap.
24 teams, standard WIS format
No WW, AAA, trades, clones, DH.
Injuries will be on. Please make sure you roster enough PA and IP to make it through the season. Themes like this really suffer – and are less fun for everyone – if one or more teams go into a fatigue death spiral.
Park: Any that the Blue Jays or Royals franchise called home

And please remember: if at the end of the draft, any owner is unable to make a team from his 25 players that fits within the cap, they will be allowed to swap out players – replacing them with undrafted players from the franchise – but they will take a 2M cap hit for EACH swap. So if you replace 1 player, your new cap is 98M. 2 players, 96M, etc.

These are the Blue Jays/Royals owners:
1. SAKABAKBRG
2. normy17
3. thebubbaq (DRAFT OWNER)
4. ff09

That is NOT the draft order. I will generate a random draft order and will post it here after I have done so.

bagchucker generated the following order for us:

Here is your sequence:

1 2 3 4

Timestamp: 2021-03-09 00:58:19 UTC

So the draft order for round 1, and all odd numbered rounds, will be:
1. SAKABAKBRG
2. normy17
3. thebubbaq
4. ff09

Even numbered rounds will be the reverse

thebubbaq has not opened my most recent sitemail, from 8:30 last night when I contacted the owners who are running the drafts.

Hopefully he will get this kicked off soon. If we don't hear from him by this evening, I will open the draft. Meanwhile, I assume everyone has been doing their research so that once it starts, this draft can keep moving at a brisk pace.

I have my draft board ready

Sorry guys was very busy family stuff today I am good now

Order Sitemailed

Let's get this party started with P Roger Clemens

glad I got one of the top two picks

P Bret Saberhagen

P Jimmy Key

P Dennis Leonard

“There’s more people to ignore in New York or Boston than there are in Milwaukee, but I would still ignore them, probably.”

P Zack Greinke

In work meetings. Will make my pick before lunch