History Progressive League is heading into Season 102 and needs an owner for the below team with the star player being Lou Gehrig.

We have been transitioning the last 10 seasons since 1923/2014 when we added 1894 but used rookies only in that era until it hit 1900 where we then used rookies and veterans but then started using rookies only in 2020 in the 21st century era.

So we are headed now into out last transitional season of 1904/1933 and rookies only for 2024 to end the 21st century and go back to being an only two season progressive league. This is the 2nd and last time we will transition as the season after this we will be in 1905/1934 with plenty of room down the road.

We do use average AAA players and my reasoning for that is so selecting players in the draft can be based on their future and not how many PA's or IP they have in the season they are being selected so building for the future is easier

Trying to get the draft started as scheduled this weekend off the clock so we can go on the clock on Monday. This is a swift moving league as the season ended today with a play in game today so the playoffs will start Saturday and we will be drafting why they are playing out and then we would be ready to start a new season right away when they end with owners expected o enter there team when done drafting with no doddling unless of course life throws you a huge curve.

We use what we call the minors in this league where an owner can stash away up to 3 players for up to 3 seasons when that player(s) would have to be activated or cut unless he went on actual IR. This team had one player in the minors and 1 on IR. Players in the minors must be tracked as shown below.

Minors - P Luis Severino 2/3

IR - BlakeTreinen (24)

The available team drafts 13th in the upcoming draft and has no traded or acquired picks.

Posted by rooskie on 2/27/2025 2:04:00 PM (view original):
History Progressive League is heading into Season 102 and needs an owner for the below team with the star player being Lou Gehrig.

We have been transitioning the last 10 seasons since 1923/2014 when we added 1894 but used rookies only in that era until it hit 1900 where we then used rookies and veterans but then started using rookies only in 2020 in the 21st century era.

So we are headed now into out last transitional season of 1904/1933 and rookies only for 2024 to end the 21st century and go back to being an only two season progressive league. This is the 2nd and last time we will transition as the season after this we will be in 1905/1934 with plenty of room down the road.

We do use average AAA players and my reasoning for that is so selecting players in the draft can be based on their future and not how many PA's or IP they have in the season they are being selected so building for the future is easier

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We do use average AAA players and my reasoning for that is so selecting players in the draft can be based on their future and not how many PA's or IP they have in the season they are being selected so building for the future is easier

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I highlighted the above part of the quote for a reason. Not only does it allow farsighted drafting but is also means that if you draft a future player that has good seasons ahead but has very few PA's or IP I don't want to see that player playing at 0% whilst you have AAA payers to play that role at a lesser fatigue value.

That is tanking and the average AAA allows the commish to warn or then penalize tankers.

We have on MIA owner in tigerrott right now and I'd still like to get the draft started but with him missing and needing an owner I would have to draft for both teams so if I could get an owner to join we could start as then I would only need to draft for tigerrott.

There would be no rush for the new owner as that pick wouldn't be on the clock until Tuesday at 10:00AM so plenty of time to prepare if needed. We use 1 hour time slots in Round 1 with 12 picks on Monday and 12 picks on Tuesday to ease into things and then we use 24 picks a day until completed.

The owner of the below team is willing to take the open team with Gehriig and rebuild it if someone is willing to take this team to help get the league an owner and ready to start drafting. The only request is that the owner taking the below team stay in the league at least 5 seasons.

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Below is the posted roster with Keepers, IR and minors, showing some future talent for this team. Take this team and the owner will take the other team to rebuild.

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Seattle
Safeco Field
1904/1933/2024 Pre Draft Roster

C Al Lopez
1B Pete Alonso
2B Andres Giminez, Stan Hack
3B Manny Machado, Wid Conroy
SS Luke Appling
OF Wally Berger, Debs Garms, Kyle Schwarber (from minors)


P Wes Farrell, Mel Harder, Huck Betts, Bump Hadley (from minors), Waite Hoyt (from minors), Ryan Pepiot Tyler Holton, Jose Butto, Tim Herrin, Dylan Lee (from IR)

Minors
Lloyd Waner 1/3, Watty Clark 1/3, Jumbo Brown 1/3

IR
None

Cut
Hughie Critz, Luis Robert, Keaton Winn, Hunter Harvey, Mitch Keller, Trevor Bauer (from IR)

Retired
None

Need
5

I will go ahead and draft for the Philly team and that way the Seattle team can remain with the present owner. I will post the once Philly roster when I load it and will post the picks in case someone is interested after they see what I can do with the roster.

The former Philly team is below after the draft and a few trades. Besides Gehrig it has Rick Ferrell, Joe Cronin, Miller Huggins and one last season from Jose Ramirez and some good pitching this season and looks to either be a contender or if not has a lot of one season players to trade from 2024 that would draw some draft picks for the next draft in 1905/1934 as 21st century players will then be a thing of the past completing the transition back to a simple two season progressive.

The owner that entered the team so we could view the roster changed the stadium and team name in case we get no interest and he has to run it this season. He plans to make a run if no one takes it and then make trades if not in contention later in the season. A good plan and a new owner could do the same.

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Name	Season	Franchise	Pos	Salary
George Blaeholder	1933	St. Louis Browns	SP	$5,423,393
Ned Garvin	1904	Brooklyn Superbas	SP	$4,551,234
Kevin Gausman	2024	Toronto Blue Jays	SP	$4,230,047
Logan Gilbert	2024	Seattle Mariners	SP	$7,259,332
Fred Glade	1904	St. Louis Browns	SP	$8,605,864
Sam Jones	1933	Chicago White Sox	SP	$3,922,005
George Kirby	2024	Seattle Mariners	SP	$4,898,790
Rhett Lowder	2024	Cincinnati Reds	SP	$863,056
Johnny Marcum	1933	Philadelphia Athletics	SP	$1,284,701
George Pipgras	1933	Boston Red Sox	SP	$3,877,880
Yuki Matsui	2024	San Diego Padres	RP	$1,627,853
Herb Pennock	1933	New York Yankees	RP	$830,843
Blake Treinen	2024	Los Angeles Dodgers	RP	$1,491,113
Rick Ferrell	1933	Boston Red Sox	C	$4,457,171
Lew Ritter	1904	Brooklyn Superbas	C	$2,055,308
Lou Gehrig	1933	New York Yankees	1B	$7,213,595
Miller Huggins	1904	Cincinnati Reds	2B	$3,935,706
Jack Dunn	1904	New York Giants	3B	$1,429,239
Jose Ramirez	2024	Cleveland Guardians	3B	$6,722,696
Joe Cronin	1933	Washington Senators	SS	$6,489,065
Jesse Burkett	1904	St. Louis Browns	OF	$4,114,548
Duff Cooley	1904	Boston Beaneaters	OF	$2,961,528
Kiki Cuyler	1933	Chicago Cubs	OF	$2,226,174
Harry Rice	1933	Cincinnati Reds	OF	$3,600,957
Daulton Varsho	2024	Toronto Blue Jays	OF	$4,037,370
Active Roster Total Salary:				$98,109,468

This team is also available as it belonged to tigerrott and he has seemed to vanish. I drafted for it and will run it if need be but it may be time to find a permanent owner. I entered the team so we could view the roster and maybe get some interest.

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The Brooklyn team will be involved in a new ad for buy one get one free very soon,