The 2017 Icon progressive is need of a new owner to take over the Minnesota Twins for our 49th season. The main premise of the league is that you may only roster players who played for your franchise in real life.

Basic Rules:

Salary Cap - None

AAA - 12/10 Below Average. Ten round AAA draft concludes the regular rookie/free agent draft. AAA selections must meet league eligibility rules and must be cut at the end of the season.

DH – AL only

Trades - Always. The most successful teams are those that learn to leverage draft picks in lean years and accumulate picks in their stronger years. Teams can only trade for eligible players though. Draft picks may be traded 2 years in advance.

IR - Unlimited. Restricted to any player without a WIS season.

WW - No

Keepers - 25 Max. Any players who were assigned to your roster as career keepers must be kept for the duration of their career or until they gain eligibility for a new team.

Draft Order - Will be determined at the end of the season. 54 wins are needed to qualify for a top 3 pick.*** Teams that do not reach 54 wins will be slotted from the 4th spot on by most wins. The rest of the draft (including top 3 picks) is inverse order of record. The first pick in rounds 2-4 belongs to the team with the fewest wins and continues in inverse order.

Divisions – As close to real life as possible

Team Names and Stadiums - Same as real life. If your team changes names or moves parks, then you must do the same.

Specific League Rules:

CAREER KEEPERS - Any player who has every season in WIS for one team will belong to that team. They cannot be cut, but may be put in AAA if they meet eligibility:

- Any Career Keeper/Team Icon with fewer than 60 IP/ 150 PA may be placed in AAA or on the MLB roster to start the season.
- Career keepers with fewer than 100 IP and an ERA greater than 6. and batters with OPS less than .600 and fewer than 300 PA may also be placed in AAA to begin the season.

Draft Eligibility - Any player not assigned as a career keeper may be drafted by any franchise for which he appeared in a single game. Eligibility locks at the start of the draft.

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Ready to draft.

The Giants are a solid team, will be among the top 6 in our 24 team league this coming season. Icon is a great format, lots of trading happens, particularly around the draft.

The above roster seems to have 26 players plus 4 AAA and 1 IR ??

Posted by dspahlinger on 1/10/2023 5:04:00 PM (view original):
The above roster seems to have 26 players plus 4 AAA and 1 IR ??

We are still posting rosters, so you can make cuts. Also, in this league, you often start with AAA guys(must be career keepers or team icons).

San Francisco Giants (2017)
Ready to play

C Buster Posey
C Nick Hundley
1B Brandon Belt
2B Yangervis Solarte
2B Kelby Tomlinson
3B Pablo Sandoval - drafted
SS Brandon Crawford
OF Norichika Aoki
OF Adam Duvall - Drafted
OF Austin Jackson
OF Hunter Pence
OF Kevin Pillar
DH Carlos Beltran

P Madison Bumgarner
P Jeff Samardzija
P Aaron Sanchez
P Matt Cain
P Alex Wood
P John Brebbia - drafted
P Jarlin Garcia - drafted
P Cory Gearrin
P Dan Otero
P Wandy Peralta - drafted
P Yusmeiro Petit
P Nick Vincent

AAA

1B Ryder Jones
3B Jae-gyun Hwang
SS Ehire Adrianza -AAA draft
OF Jarett Parker
OF Austin Slater
P Albert Suarez
P Jose Alvarez -AAA draft
P Heath Hembree - AAA draft
P Andrew Triggs - AAA draft


IR

3B Matt Duffy
P Anthony DeSclafani
P Will Smith

Free team. We are likely contracting to 20 teams after this season and the Giants are first on the chopping block. But we have 23 other owners already in. Let me know.