The long-running Real Life Progressive league is looking for a new Atlanta Braves' owner, with the draft just ending and the season likely to start around 9 January. This is a very easy progressive team to pick up. The Braves' pitching staff is solid to excellent for the next 5 seasons, so you can focus future draft picks just on hitting. They have a solid lineup for 1983, meaning the team should compete for the postseason. The 1984 starting staff looks really good.

This progressive league is like most, except that any player who started his career in a season is available to be drafted that season in the first round. In other words, in 1983, P Orel Hershiser, P Sid Fernandez, SS Tony Fernandez and other "Prospects" could be drafted -- they started their careers in 1983, but were not WIS eligible. A prospect (we keep a separate draft list to make it easy) joins any players you have on the DL/IR until he is WIS eligible. If you select a prospect in the 1st round (meaning someone who played in 1983, but wasn't WIS eligible), you can pick up your 25th player in the supplemental draft round, which occurs after the normal draft is finished. The rest is pretty standard, with 4 AAA that you select from the 1983 season, and a DH is used in the AL.

Please sitemail if interested, and for further explanation of the rules.

1983 Atlanta Braves
C Ted Simmons, Glenn Brummer
1B Ray Knight
2B Ron Oester
3B Buddy Bell
SS Alfredo Griffin, Bryan Little
OF Dave Parker, Omar Moreno, Lee Lacy, Bob Dernier, Warren Cromartie, Bake McBride

P Ron Darling, Mike Flanagan, Bruce Kison, John Candelaria, Bud Black, Dave LaPoint, Rick Camp, Joe Beckwith, Luis Sanchez, Victor Cruz, Larry Christenson, Dave Von Ohlen, Jeff Heathcock, Jeff Russell

DL P Bob Lacey (1984), Steve Crawford (1984)

We are wrapping up the draft, and expect to start the week of the 9th. Join us! New to progressive leagues? I'll be happy to coach you through the process.