Make your favorite franchise better by stealing some free agents!

1. When you sign up, select your franchise, choose two players to protect and three players to steal from the team selected prior to yours.
2. When making your selection you cannot select the same franchise as the one prior to yours and you must declare your protected players and free agent steals immediately. In fairness to all, those 5 named players need to occur upon franchise announcement and CANNOT be changed once the next team has been announced.
3. The first team in the league will select from the last team selected. The last team selected cannot be the same as the first team.
4. Each owner will then build their team using only player seasons with their selected franchise, no twisting, and the three selected free agents from their franchise, no twisting. You must roster your 2 protected players and the 3 free agents you selected. You cannot roster the 3 free agents you lost.

Other particulars:

• $140M cap, standard 24-team format
• ALL Seasons Available
• YES: DH
• NO: WW, AAA, Trades, Clones, Injuries
• Live play limited to next series
• Stadium = Any, does not have to be your team's home park.
• Alignment = Order of sign-ups
• Franchise = all iterations of a team as per Baseball-Reference
• Limit 2 of each franchise
• An owner can have two teams in the league but must wait until after 12 have been selected to pick another

Past Champions (Cap, Seasons, DH):

1. redwingscup - White Sox / Indians ($140M, All, Y)
2. ozomatli - Cubs / Phillies ($140M, All, Y)
3. Chisock - Astros / Twins ($110M, 1969-2015, N)
4. ozomatli **- Yankees / Cardinals ($120M, 1930-1968, N)
5. ozomatli ***- Phillies / Cardinals ($140M, All, Y)
6. charliembg - Athletics / Yankees ($120M, 1935-1984, Y)
7. redwingscup **- Giants / A's - ($120M, 1943-1992, Y)
8. ybjsports - Pirates / A's - ($120M, All, Y)
9. crazyamos - Indians / Astros - ($120M, 1969-2017, Y)
10. ybjsports ** - Pirates / A's - ($140M, All, Y)
11. schwarze - Cardinals / Dodgers - ($105M, 1936-1963, N)
12. ozomatli **** - Phillies / Giants - ($140, All, Y)
13. crazyamos ** - Phillies / Cubs - ($140, All, Y)
14. ybjsports *** - Yankees / White Sox - ($140, All, Y) MLB126297

Regular Season Top Win Totals:

1. 111 - ybjsports - Pirates / A's - Season 8
2. 107 - ybjsports - Pirates / Rays - Season 14
3. 106 - ybjsports - Pirates / A's - Season 10

Most Runs Scored:

1. 1206 - ybjsports - Pirates / Rays - Season 14
2. 1190 - ozomatli - Phillies / Cubs - Season 10
3. 1166 - ybjsports - Indians / Cardinals - Season 12

Fewest Runs Allowed:

1. 587 - pmwksw - Athletics / Mariners - Season 3
2. 610 - ozomatli - Dodgers / Cardinals - Season 3
3. 611 - alston - Braves / Cubs - Season 3

Sitemail:

alston; bheid408; bradsher; bsm7; cdhaynes00; charliembg; Chisock; cleonjones; CLWECW; crazyamos; d_rock97; dahsdebater; danidon; dcmatcheck; doctorcc; DoctorKz; doubletruck; ejstockman; elduro25; fabulous; farleyfustle; fatboydad54; finn2030; good_beef; jbar8888; jetscanes; jpccr; Jtpsops; kentol; mllama54; midknight; nocomm999; northof49; odalisgagne; 0soup4u; ozomatli; pmwksw; razorclams; redcped; redwingscup; schwarze; shysters3; sjh0825; skean; specsman; steve9955; strubros; trd3; thebubbaq; thejuice6; Tucker T's; Tyler1151; winterhawk; yanks250125; yatagon; ybjsports; zephyr1949

fabulous; fatguyrd; jmarino2; ejstockman; fatboydad54; zephyr1949; Bradsher; pmwksw; dilligafdbp; ozomatli; contrarian23; jvt87; d_rock97; Mr_Cubbie; chisock; crazyamos; nocomm999; thejuice6; midknight; cdhaynes00; ybjsports

TEAMS (Protected Players), ((Stolen Free Agents))
Off the board =

NL East
1 Pirates - (Babe Adams, Honus Wagner), ((Arky Vaughan, Ralph Kiner, Wilbur Cooper)) - ybjsports
2 Yankees - (Mickey Mantle, Lou Gehrig), ((Babe Ruth, Russ Ford, Joe DiMaggio)) - fabulous
3 Phillies - (Ed Delahanty, Pete Alexander), ((Billy Hamilton, Mike Schmidt, George McQuillan)) - ozomatli
4 Red Sox - (Babe Ruth, Pedro Martinez), ((Tris Speaker, Ted Williams, Chris Sale)) - dilligafdbp

NL Central
5 Giants - (Christy Mathewson, Barry Bonds), ((Willie Mays, Buster Posey, Juan Marichal)) - jvt87
6 Cardinals - (Stan Musial, Bob Gibson), ((Rogers Hornsby, Joe Medwick, John Tudor)) - fatguyrd
7 Indians - (Tris Speaker, Addie Joss), ((Bill Bernhard, Nap Lajoie, Joe Jackson)) - d_rock97
8 White Sox - (Ed Walsh, Luke Appling), ((Eddie Cicotte, Eddie Collins, Frank Thomas)) - contrarian23

NL West
9 Cubs - (Mordecai Brown, Hack Wilson), ((Jake Arrieta, Aroldis Chapman, Ernie Banks)) - Mr_Cubbie
10 Dodgers - (Clayton Kershaw, Zack Greinke), ((Sandy Koufax, Jackie Robinson, Mike Piazza)) - cdhaynes00
11 Twins - (Walter Johnson, Rod Carew), ((Ed Delahanty, Cecil Travis, Johnny Niggeling)) - midknight
12 A's - (Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons), ((Rickey Henderson, Frank Baker, Eddie Collins)) - thejuice6

TEAMS (Protected Players), ((Stolen Free Agents))
Off the board = A's, Dodgers, Giants, Phillies, Red Sox, White Sox, Yankees

AL East
1 Dodgers - (Zack Greinke, Mike Piazza), ((Don Sutton, Sandy Koufax, Clayton Kershaw)) - crazyamos
2 Red Sox - (Ted Williams, Pedro Martinez), ((Babe Ruth, David Ortiz, Wade Boggs)) - nocomm999
3 Tigers - (Hal Newhouser, Denny McLain), ((Ty Cobb, Harry Heilmann, Mickey Cochrane)) - fatguyrd
4 Giants - (Christy Mathewson, Carl Hubbell), ((Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Juan Marichal)) - chisock

AL Central
5 Mets - (Tom Seaver, Dwight Gooden), ((Mike Piazza, Pedro Martinez, Jacob deGrom)) - jmarino2
6 Astros - (Justin Verlander, Gerrit Cole), ((Jeff Bagwell, Lance Berkman, Cesar Cedeno)) - fatboydad54
7 Angels - (Mike Trout, Nolan Ryan), ((Dean Chance, Darren Erstad, Mark Texiera)) - Bradsher
8 Phillies - (Billy Hamilton, Pete Alexander), ((Charlie Buffinton, Charlie Ferguson, Jimmy Rollins)) - ejstockman

AL West
9 A's - (Frank Baker, Eddie Collins), ((Jimmy Foxx, Rickey Henderson, Al Simmons)) - pmwksw
10 White Sox - (Ed Walsh, Eddie Cicotte), ((Luke Appling, Doc White, Frank Smith)) - zephyr1949
11 Yankees - (Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig), ((Russ Ford, Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio)) - ybjsports
12 Rays - (Blake Snell, Fernando Rodney), ((Grant Balfour, Jake McGee, Alex Torres)) - ozomatli

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As always, I will kick this off with...

Pittsburgh Pirates, protecting Babe Adams and Honus Wagner

Posted by dilligafdbp on 11/9/2019 11:26:00 AM (view original):
Red Sox - Babe Ruth - Ted Williams

Steals TBD

You MUST announce all 5 players (2 Keeps + 3 Steals) at the time you announce you team. By not doing so, you gain an advantage by knowing who you are losing before you decide who to steal if another owner comes in before you announce. I have let things like this slide in the past but I am never happy that I did and it sometimes becomes questionable.

Therefore, dilligafdbp's pick and all subsequent picks are invalid and we are starting over.

Sitemail has been sent to the 3 affected owners.

Starting over:

Pirates are on the chopping block.

Yankees: Protecting Mickey Mantle OF and Lou Gehrig 1B
Pirates: Stealing Arky Vaughan SS, Ralph Kiner OF, and Wilbur Cooper P

Phillies

Stealing: Babe Ruth, Russ Ford, Joe Dimaggio

Protecting: Ed Delahanty, Pete Alexander

Now we're cooking, thanks

Phils on the chopping block

Red Sox - Babe Ruth - Pedro Martinez

Steal - Billy Hamilton, Mike Schmidt, George McQuillan

Giants: Mathewson, Bonds

Steal: Speaker, Williams, Sale

Cardinals: Musial, Gibson
Steals Mays, Possey, Marichal