To best overlap 3dayrotation's previous squads of '72 OAK and '52 WAS, I will pile on the '72 Cleveland Indians.

You can have Gaylord Perry to go with your Catfish Hunter. It's an either/or at those 8-digit salaries. The rest of the staff is pretty much a carbon copy of things you've already got. Except 200 inning pitchers. It's Perry and Tidrow and middle relief.

Offensively, I guess you're getting a bunch of bargains, in that there's nobody above $5m. And there isn't a one of them with even a .400 slg. Or a .350 obp. I'm saying they're cheap because they're bad, if you're not picking that up. Your cheapest 3B is still $4.5m, and your cheapest SS is still $1.3m. Second base is still really bad. I guess Ray Fosse is a slight upgrade on Dave Duncan? Maybe?

Anyway, have fun with that. Here's Wonderwall.

Remember the slot is for the person screwing the owner listed.

National League East

1. CRTYonker …………………………………...…..42 Phillies (from redcped)
2. tkcronin ………………………………………….. 32 Red Sox (from CRTYonker)
3. Bigscungil ………………………………………..52 Braves (from tkcronin)
4. redcped …………………………………………..72 Rangers (from Bigscungil)

NL Central

1. 3dayrotation ……………………………………….52 Senators (from kentol)
2. Chazzzzzz …………………………………………..22 Phillies (from Peekay)
3. kentol ……………………………………………….62 Mets (from 3dayrotation)
4. Peekay ……………………………………...………22 A's (from Chazzzzzz)

NL West

1. spid24 3-6...………………………………………...32 White Sox (from brygold)
2. brygold 6-9...……………………………………….22 Braves (from beernoser)
3. Beernoser ………………………………………….52 Tigers (from soxyanks)
4. soxyanks …………………………………………..82 Mets (from spid)

AL East

1. DodgerDon ……………………………………………….72 Padres (from toddcommish)
2. garbageman8 ……………………………………………..82 Twins (from DodgerDon)
3. jpeterso …………………………………………………...42 Senators (from garbageman8)
4. toddcommish …………………………………………….42 A's (from jpeterso)

AL Central

1. eman7400 …………………………………………….32 Reds (from farleyfustle)
2. evil_twin ……………………………………………….62 Colt 45's (from fatguyrd)
3. farleyfustle …………………………………………...52 Pirates (from eman7400)
4. fatguyrd ……………………………………………...62 Senators (from evil_twin)

AL West

1. jonstephen24 ………………………………………..72 Phillies (from szscubelek)
2. szczubelek 6-9...……………………………………..82 A's (from vilefileman)
3. vilefileman …………………………………………...32 Browns (from Contrarian)
4. contrarian23 ………………………………………..82 Rangers (from jonstephen)
Round Three
Round Three

Again these are the teams being screwed

1. Contrarian ………………………………………………….82 Mariners (from vilefileman) 3
2. Vilefileman …………………………………………………22 Red Sox (from szscubelek)
3. szscubelek ……………………………………………….42 Pirates (from jonstephen25)
4. Jonstephen25 …………………………………………….52 Browns (from Contrarian)
5. fatguyrd ……………………………………...…………….42 Boston Braves (from eman7400)
6. farleyfustle ………...……………………………………..22 Cardinals (from fatguyrd)
7. evil_twin ……………………………...…………………..72 Expos (from farleyfustle)
8. eman7400 ………………………………………………..82 Reds (from evil_twin)
9. toddcommish …………………………………………...22 White Sox (from garbageman8)
10 jpeterso ………………………………………………….82 Cubs (from DodgerDon)
11garbageman8 …………………………………………...52 Red Sox (from Toddcommish)
12 DodgerDon ………...……………………...…………...42 White Sox (from jpeterso)
13 soxyanks ……………………………………………….82 Blue Jays (from beernoser)
14 beernoser ……………………………………………...52 Reds (from brygold)
15 brygold ………………………………………………...22 Robins (from spid)
16 spid24 …………………………………………………..72 Brewers (from soxyanks)
17 Peekay ………………………………………………….62 Red Sox (from 3dayrotation)
18 kentol …………………………………………………..72 Angels (from Peekay)
19 Chazzzzzz ……………………………………………..62 Cubs (from kentol)
20 3dayrotation ………………………………………….72 Indians (from Chazzzzzz)
21redcped ………………………………………………..42 Reds (from tkcronin)
22 Bigscungil …………………………………………….32 Cards (from CRTYonker)
23 tkcronin ………………………………………………..32 Indians (from redcped)
24 CRTYonker …………………………………………….42 Tigers (from Bigscungil)

Round Four -- You finish your team picking for yourself. Skipping is allowed this round.

After this round comes the dagger round. Please wait to post your daggers until the fourth round is over. To know which team you are to dagger, just figure out which team in your division you didn't screw yet. That's who you dagger. Two daggers. One stadium and one player.

1. Contrarian …………………………………………...……………...42 Red Sox
2. vilefileman ...........................................................................72 Twins
3. szscubelek …………………………………………………………...22 Browns
4. jonstephen25 ………………………………………………………..82 Royals
5.fatguyrd ……………………………………………………………….62 Reds
6. farleyfustle …………………………………………………………..62 Angels
7. evil_twin ……………………………………………………………...32 Cubs
8.eman7400 ……………………………………………………………..82 Astros
9. Toddcommish Thursday 9-midnight
10 jpeterso midnight - 9 am Friday
11 garbageman8 9-noon
12 DodgerDon noon-3
13 soxyanks 3-6
14 beernoser 6-9
15 brygold 9-midnight
16 spid24 midnight - 9 am Saturday
17 Peekay 9-noon
18 kentol noon - 3
19 Chazzzzzz 3-6
20 3dayrotation 6-9
21 redcped 9-midnight
22 Bigscungil midnight - 9 am Sunday
23 tkcronin 9-noon
24 CRTYonker noon-3

Bigscungil, your first pick of the 82 Dodgers is very strong with quality players at almost every positon (a bit weak at Catcher) and strong pitching. You even managed to snag a few cheap backups. Well done. Your second pick of the 52 Braves seems to have given you much of the same albeit generally worse.

For your 3rd team, I am going to employ the Anti-Hippocratic Oath: "First, Do No Good". Welcome, the 32 Cardinals. Some decent players although no position players over $4M; no one better than you have now; still no real Catcher; and, perhaps most importantly, only 1 cheap backup under $1M. The pitching staff does give you Dizzy Dean to go with Fernando Valenzuela and Warren Spahn if you can find the budget to roster them all.

tkcronin, your gift of the Reds is more of what I have (pitching) and none of what I need (hitting). For you, it will be the flip side. I'm actually gifting you a team that did quite well, but I don't think it's going to help you as much as you might think.

The 62 Giants have Mays, Cepeda, Alou, McCovey and some other nice bats. Your 32 Red Sox have a couple hitters if you can figure out what to do with them. Both teams distinctly lack anyone really good at the old mound game, though. Not a single guy with a sub-3 ERC# to be found between those two rosters, in fact.

The 1932 Cleveland Indians have a few very fine hitters too. A pair of nice $7M outfielders I'm pretty certain you have no way to afford or anywhere to play either because your other teams are pretty good there already. A solid 1B, but you already have two of those. They actually have a solid guy everywhere in the infield, but I can't figure out how you can afford to use them on an $80M cap with all the dead weight. They only have 2 players who cost under $1.9M.

And then there's the pitching side. They have 7 pitchers, all over $2M. None are what you'd actually call good. Maybe not awful, but certainly not anyone you'd use voluntarily. The nice thing is you get plenty of innings to choose from, and you'll need them because you're gonna give up a lot of runs (except to me, of course, because I have no hitting).

Only 18 players qualify for their roster, too. So you'll be spending quite a lot rostering these guys and probably chucking some of your favorite Giants aside in the process.

CRT, without much sound and fury, I gift you the '42 Tigers.

Guys if I am reading the schedule right we are 24 hours ahead. I hope no one minds but I am going to take some time to think through this pick. In my opinion the 4th round is by far the most important round of this draft.

Round four has begun. Start putting the pieces together for your team and which fourth team would be the best fit for you.

You can also start looking at your dagger possibilities.

Remember you must roster 6 from 3 teams and 7 from one.

Remember to check secondary positions. You have to roster two guys who are primarily first basemen, but once the season starts you don't have to play them at 1B. Particularly important when considering daggers.

If anyone doesn't know who they're daggering, let me know. It's easy. It's the team in your division that you didn't screw in rounds two or three.

Please don't post daggers until round four is finished just to keep the thread unpolluted.

1972 Minnesota Twins

1962 Cinn Reds

By proxy, farleyfustle picks the

62 LA Angels

I'll take the 1932 Chicago Cubs