Photos from Draft Weekend!

Big thanks to all for a great time and another successful Draft Weekend!!   Special thanks to Dave for hooking us up at the hotel and getting us the very sweet suite that we enjoyed both days!  We saw the birth of the Springfield Isotopes, the first appearance of wine at the Draft, the first Salmon-flavored beer, MSU beating #2 Virginia, and numerous other amazing things.  Great times, wish all the best of luck for a fun and exciting season!!!

2014 Simulation Results!

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lineups and processing games for the simulation

Click away to see how the full-season simulation went.  Agree or disagree with HAL's usage of your players...


Link to stats and reports

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Fitting morning for the Phog protection list

Revealed with the Phog Lamps

Anibal Sanchez            
Clay Buchholz
David Robertson
Derek Holland
Drew Smyly          
Scott Kazmir
Carlos Santana
Matt Wieters
Coco Crisp
Dustin Ackley
Eric Hosmer
Evan Longoria
Jose Iglesias - NC
Josh Reddick
Michael Brantley
Prince Fielder

Lost in The Pea Soup

Andrew Albers - NC
Casey Fien
Dane De La Rosa - NC
Scott Feldman
Jesse Chavez
Tom Wilhelmsen
Will Smith - NC
David Dejesus
Jhonny Peralta
Nick Franklin

NL

Matt Garza

Mammoths Announce Protection List

                                                     

 

Potential 2015 Mammoth
Chris Archer
John Lackey
Aaron Loup
Andrew Miller
Jake Peavy
Bryan Shaw
Chris Tillman
Jered Weaver
Elvis Andrus
Adam Jones
Howie Kendrick
Jed Lowrie
Manny Machado
Jose Molina
Brandon Moss
Daniel Nava

NL

Zack Greinke

Released

Jerry Blevins
Neal Cotts
Jessie Crain
Jason Frasor
Joel Peralta
J.P. Arencibia
Franklin Gutierrez
David Lough
Justin Morneau
Wilkin Ramirez
Geovany Soto


Mammoths are now open for trading...   

2015 Bandit
Brett Oberholtzer (P)
Danny Salazar (P)
Joe Smith (P)
Kelvin Herrera (P)
Sean Doolittle (P)
Wei-Yin Chen (P)
Salvador Perez(C)
Aaron Hicks (CF)
Alex Gordon (LF)
Alexis Rios(RF)
Austin Jackson(CF)
Brett Lawrie (3B)
Erick Aybar (SS)
Kole Calhoun (RF)
Mike Napoli (1B)
Trevor Plouffe (3B)


Released
Brad Peacock (P)
Andy Pettitte (NC)
Ernesto Frieri (P)
Jared Burton(P)
Louis Coleman (P)
Ubaldo Jimenez (P)
Josmil Pinto(C)
Eric Sogard (2B)
Moises Sierra (OF)
Munenori Kawasaki (2B)


NL -- Doug Fister

Kansas City Butchers announce their 2015 Protected List!

Kept

Alex Cobb

Corey Kluber

KC's Jurickson Profar continues his off-season training,
we look forward to his contributions for the 2017 season

Kevin Gausman

Hank Conger 

Jurickson Profar  (no card) 

Craig Gentry

Jason Kipnis

Josh Hamilton

Matt Dominguez

Xander Bogaerts

Yoenis Cespedes

Nick Swisher

Tommy Milone

Junichi Tazawa

Charlie Furbush

Zach McAllister

 

Cut

Joaquin Benoit

Ryan Doumit

Mike Pelfrey

Mark Trumbo

Pedro Flormon 

Raul Ibanez  

Josh Willingham

David Phelps

Kevin Corriea

Mike Carp 

Aaron Crow

 

 

NL Protected List 

Mark Trumbo

Loggers Announce Protection List

2015 Protections
Mitch "Find me some" More Land
"The old" Billy "Barue" Butler
Alex "Corn Chowder" Avila
Ben "Zobrilla" Zobrist
Anthony (use Scooby Voice) GOSE?!
Asdrubal "Ass-Double-Dribble" Cabrera
Omar "Enriquo Pallazzo" Infante
Michael "Jason" Bourn "Supremacy"
Avisail "Little Miggy" Garcia
Jose "Joey Bats" Bautista
Sonny, Sonny, Sonny Gray
Jose Quintana (end of Jaws....Quint?  No.....)
Jeremy "little gust of wind, Holmes" Guthrie
Michael "Pinata" Pineda
Nick "Tepid" Tepesh
"He went to" Jarrod Parker (no card)
NL: Cliff "Clavin" Lee

Cut like a fart in the breeze:
Jason "Mike, Mike, Mike, what day is it?!" Hammel
Samuel "DeStinko" Deduno
Nate "But you're a free man" Freiman
Sergio Santos "Claus"
Jarred "Loan Co-signer" Cosart
Ryan "15 pieces of Flair" Flaherty

Stan, Chotchkie's Manager: We need to talk about your flair.
Joanna: Really? I... I have fifteen pieces on. I, also...
Stan, Chotchkie's Manager: Well, okay. Fifteen is the minimum, okay?
Joanna: Okay.
Stan, Chotchkie's Manager: Now, you know it's up to you whether or not you want to just do the bare minimum. Or... well, like Brian, for example, has thirty seven pieces of flair, okay. And a terrific smile.
Joanna: Okay. So you... you want me to wear more?
Stan, Chotchkie's Manager: Look. Joanna.
Joanna: Yeah.
Stan, Chotchkie's Manager: People can get a cheeseburger anywhere, okay? They come to Chotchkie's for the atmosphere and the attitude. Okay? That's what the flair's about. It's about fun.
Joanna: Yeah. Okay. So more then, yeah?
Stan, Chotchkie's Manager: Look, we want you to express yourself, okay? Now if you feel that the bare minimum is enough, then okay. But some people choose to wear more and we encourage that, okay? You do want to express yourself, don't you?
Joanna: Yeah, yeah.
Stan, Chotchkie's Manager: Okay. Great. Great. That's all I ask.
LOGGERMANIA!!!

Boston Bobcats Protection List

 

 

 

 

J. Masterson
T. Hunter
F. Rodney
G. Holland
C. Wilson
D. Keuchel
P. Hughes
J. Vargas
D. Viciedo
S. Drew
Y. Gomes
D. Murphy
D. Ortiz
E. Encarnacion
B. Dozier
L. Cain

NL
D. Span

Cut

A. Presley
K. Johnson
R. Ross
J. Hellickson
A. Dunn
A. Soriano

 

AND THE DEALS KEEP GOING!!!!!!!

Not content to have any member of his protection list still on his team come draft day, Jimmy worked around the schedule of hard workin', fast playin', problem eradicatin' and the sumbitch, who for some reason who uses the San Diego ballpark for his South of the Border team......Bill Marx to secure this:




To Monterrey: Markakis, Davis
To San Diego: Martin, 3rd Round Pick


Why haven't we done a deal yet? Oh yeah, YOU haven't done your protection list.






HOMO.

Jimmy is working the off season trade phones HARD!

After the Brandon McCarthy for a 5th round pick trade, Jimmy not content to wait for protection lists or stare at the same cards pulls off another pre-draft deal!




San Diego is sending Shin Soo Choo (he of the back from the NL list) to Pittsburgh for John Jaso. Both teams relayed to the other tales of outdoor snow fun then got down to business and finalized the deal. The deal benefits both teams as Pittsburgh inches its way toward ABs and Jimmy pulls himself out of the sweepstakes to see just how many catchers are needed to make up 540 ABs.




Are there more deals creeping out there? Hmmmmmmmmmm.