Rules
1) Keeper Rules-All players that fall in to the 3 keeper categories below will be forced on their respected franchise. They can not be traded or cut.
  • CAREER KEEPERS-Any player who has played his entire career for one team (or entire WiS career) will belong to that team. If a player has played for several teams but has only racked up 50 AB or 25 IP in a season for one team, he will also belong to the team for which he played the bulk of his career. So if Player A plays four full seasons for the Dodgers, then goes to the Cubs where he only nets 30 ABs and is traded to the Mets where he gets another 30, he will still be considered a Dodgers Career Keeper.
  • TEAM ICONS-Any player whose first ten or more eligible WIS seasons are with the same team, and who has had no more than 3 full WIS seasons with other teams (including defunct teams) will be designated a Team Icon and belong to the team whom he played 10 years for.
  • Any player who played his entire career with a defunct franchise will be prohibited from league play.
  • Every other player who does not fall into one of these rules will be eligible to be drafted by any team he appeared in 1 game for (any team that shows up on his B-R page at the time of the draft).
2) AAA-12/6 Below Average
  • Placement of Career Keepers in AAA will be optional.
  • Any Career Keeper/Team Icon with fewer than 60 IP/150 PA may be placed in AAA.
  • Any Career Keeper/Team Icon with ERA over 6.00 and hitters with OPS under .600 may be placed in AAA, if they have fewer than 100 IP or 300 PA.
  • Call up deadline will be game # 159(the latest possible).
  • All 1 year CK's are AAA eligible.
3) IR-Unlimited. Restricted to any player without a WIS season, or any CK/TI that did not play for your franchise at all during that season(at owner’s discretion).

4) Trade Deadline-It will be at game # 120.

5) Draft Order-Will be determined at the transaction deadline(game # 162).
  • 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 & beyond belongs to the team with the fewest wins and continues in inverse order.
  • For recruitment purposes, teams that do not own a 1st round pick and change ownership will receive a supplemental pick at the end of 1st round.
6) Draft Order Tiebreakers-In case of a tie(no matter the # of teams):
  • 1) Head-to-head(more wins gets the better pick)
  • 2) I will compute the average salary of each team that is tied(I will use game 40, 80, 120, & end of the season salaries). The team with the lower salary gets the better pick.
  • 3) Exp win %(higher % gets the better pick)
  • 4) If somehow you are still tied, then it will be decided by Random.org
7) AAA Draft-We will do a 5 round draft
  • All players drafted in the AAA draft will be 1 year players. They must be cut the next offseason.
  • These players are optional(unlike the CK's/TI's). You do not need to participate in this draft
  • Only players eligible for your team may be drafted
  • No trading of these picks is allowed
8) Trades-Allowed and almost needed.
  • Teams can only trade for eligible players though.
  • Draft picks may be traded 2 years in advance.
  • Players to be named later may not be traded(future random AAA players are allowed to be traded as players to named later though).
9) Relocation-It will be a 3 year process
  • 3 years before team is going to move, you will only be allowed up to 20 players that don't play for your new team
  • 2 years before team is going to move, you will only be allowed up to 15 players that don't play for your new team
  • 1 year before team is going to move, you will only be allowed up to 8 players that don't play for your new team
  • Once you move to the city, you may not have any ineligible players left on your team & you will then gain any CK/TI's your team is supposed to receive
  • You can not move to your new stadium early
10) Clones-Clones are not allowed. Also, any player(i.e. Shohei Ohtani) that gets drafted by a team gets both his pitcher years & hitter years. If there is a player that is listed as a pitcher & hitter in the same season, he can only be on your team once. You must pick whether he is a pitcher or hitter. Once the season is over you may switch to the opposite if you want.

11) DH–None

12) Divisions–As close to real life as possible

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

14) Salary Cap-None

15) Waiver Wire-No

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1/19/2026 10:38 PM
Here are the teams:

Montreal Expos
Stadium: Olympic Stadium

C: Einar Diaz-StL/LA
C: Robert Fick-Det/Atl/TB
C: Wiki Gonzalez(CK)(I.R. eligible)
1B: Andres Galarraga-StL/Atl/SF/Ana
1B: Lee Stevens-Ana
2B: Marlon Anderson-TB/StL/NY(N)/LA
2B: Mark Grudzielanek-LA/StL/KC
2B: Junior Spivey(CK)(I.R. eligible)
2B: Jose Vidro(TI)
3B: Andy Tracy(CK)(AAA eligible)
SS: Alex S. Gonzalez-Tor/TB
SS: Cristian Guzman(CK)(I.R. eligible)
OF: Pete Bergeron(CK)
OF: Milton Bradley-LA/Oak
OF: Vladimir Guerrero-Ana/Bal
OF: Wilton Guerrero-Cin/KC/LA
OF: Terry Jones(CK)(AAA eligible)
OF: Fernando Seguignol(CK)(AAA eligible)
OF: Larry Walker-StL

P: Pedro Astacio-LA/Hou/NY(N)/Bos
P: Miguel Batista-Pit/Flo/KC/Tor/StL/NY(N)/Atl
P: Rheal Cormier-Bos/Cin/StL
P: Darwin Cubillan(CK)(AAA eligible)
P: Omar Daal-LA/Tor/Phi/Bal
P: Ryan Drese(CK)(AAA or I.R. eligible)
P: Dustin Hermanson-StL/Bos/SF/Chi
P: Randy Johnson-Hou/NY(A)/SF
P: Pedro Martinez-LA/Bos/NY(N)
P: Troy Mattes(CK)(AAA eligible)
P: Guillermo Mota-SF/LA/Flo/NY(N)
P: Felix Rodriguez-LA/Cin/SF/NY(A)
P: Ugueth Urbina-Bos/Det/Flo

IR: Matt LeCroy-C(CK)~Chris Widger-C-NY(A)/StL/Chi/Bal~Carlos Baerga-DH-NY(N)/Bos~Dan Smith-P(CK)

AAA:

1 YEAR AAA:

AQUIRED PICKS: None

TRADED PICKS: None

Oakland A's
Stadium: Oakland Coliseum

C: Damian Miller(CK)(I.R. eligible)
C: Mike Piazza-LA/NY(N)/Flo
1B: Erubiel Durazo-(CK)(I.R. eligible)
1B: Jason Giambi-NY(A)
1B: David McCarty-SF/KC/Bos/TB
2B: Jose Ortiz(CK)(I.R. eligible)
2B: Randy Velarde-NY(A)/Ana
3B: Scott Brosius-NY(A)
3B: Eric Chavez-NY(A)
3B: Scott Sheldon(CK)(AAA or I.R. eligible)
SS: Mike Bordick-Bal/NY(N)/Tor
SS: Nomar Garciaparra-Bos/LA
OF: Ben Grieve-TB
OF: Rickey Henderson-Ana/NY(A)/Tor/NY(N)/Bos/LA
OF: Stan Javier-NY(A)/SF/Hou/Cal/LA
OF: Jay Payton-NY(N)/Bos/Bal
OF: Adam Piatt(CK)(AAA eligible)
OF: Bo Porter(CK)(AAA or I.R. eligible)
DH: Olmedo Saenz-Chi/LA

P: Chad Bradford-Chi/Bos/NY(N)/Bal/TB
P: Bartolo Colon-Mon/Chi/Ana/Bos/NY(A)/NY(N)/Atl
P: Erik Hiljus(CK)
P: Tim Hudson-Atl/SF
P: Kevin Jarvis-Det/StL/Cin/Bos
P: Cory Lidle-NY(N)/Cin/NY(A)/TB/Tor
P: Estaban Loaiza-Pit/Tor/Chi/NY(A)/Mon/LA
P: Steve Sparks-Ana/Det
P: Tim Worrell-Det/SF/Bal
P: Barry Zito-SF

IR: Ryan Christenson-OF(CK)

AAA:

1 YEAR AAA:

AQUIRED PICKS: Blue Jays 2001 1st rounder/Red Sox 2001 2nd rounder/Dodgers 2002 1st rounder/Red Sox 2002 2nd rounder

TRADED PICKS: Royals own their 2001 1st rounder/Dodgers own their 2001 2nd rounder/Royals own their 2002 2nd rounder

Pittsburgh Pirates
Stadium: Three Rivers Stadium

C: Jason Kendall-Oak/KC
1B: Doug Mientkiewicz-Bos/NY(N)/KC/NY(A)/LA
2B: Jay Bell-NY(N)/KC
2B: Luis Rivas(CK)(I.R. eligible)
3B: Aramis Ramirez(CK)
3B: Chris Stynes-KC/Cin/Bos
SS: Pat Meares(CK)(AAA eligible)
SS: Jack Wilson(TI)
SS: Tony Womack-NY(A)/StL/Cin
OF: Barry Bonds-SF
OF: Brian Giles(CK)
OF: Adam Hyzdu(CK)(AAA eligible)
OF: Kenny Lofton-Hou/Atl/Chi/SF/NY(A)/LA
OF: Raul Mondesi-LA/Tor/NY(A)/Ana/Atl

P: Jason Johnson-TB/Bal/Det/Bos/Cin/LA
P: Jon Lieber-NY(A)
P: Denny Neagle-Atl/Cin/NY(A)
P: Chan Ho Park-LA/NY(N)/NY(A)
P: Rick Reed-KC/Cin/NY(N)
P: Jason Schmidt-Atl/SF/LA
P: Jose Silva(CK)(AAA eligible)
P: Tim Wakefield-Bos
P: Kip Wells-Chi/StL/KC/Mon/Cin

IR: Adrian Brown-OF(CK)~Chad Hermansen-OF(CK)~Kris Benson-P-NY(N)/Bal~Jason Boyd-P(CK)~Francisco Cordova-P(CK)

AAA:

1 YEAR AAA:

AQUIRED PICKS: Mets 2001 1st rounder/Yankees 2002 1st rounder

TRADED PICKS: Mets own their 2001 3rd rounder/Yankees own their 2002 2nd rounder
1/19/2026 10:45 PM
We are currently in the off-season, about to start the 2001 draft. The Expos draft at #6. The A's draft at #11(Blue Jays pick is at #8). The Pirates draft at #14(Mets draft #20). Here are some of the players each team has a chance of drafting in 2001:

Expos
Johnny Estrada-C
Nick Johnson-1B
Felipe Lopez-3B
Mark DeRosa-SS
Adam Dunn-OF
Brad Wilkerson-OF
Ted Lilly-P
Masato Yoshii-P

A's
Adam Dunn-OF
Jeremy Giambi-DH
Ruben Sierra-DH
Juan Cruz-P
Joe Kennedy-P
Ted Lilly-P
Ben Sheets-P

Pirates
Rod Barajas-C
Randall Simon-1B
Craig Wilson-1B
Emil Brown-OF
Craig Monroe-OF
Tike Redman-OF
Shawn Chacon-P
Juan Cruz-P
Damaso Marte-P
Ryan Vogelsong-P
1/19/2026 11:14 PM

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