2022 Friendship League Draft was a blast!

Wow, we actually pulled it off, the first live draft in three years!!!  What a great time, thanks to everybody for your help setting things up, running things, and just being great fun to hang out with. It is an exciting new chapter for the league with the addition of Mike,Matt,and Aaron!  The league is fully staffed with great guys that make this league strong and fun.  Great to have all the new people aboard! 

Randy and Mike, was great to have you attend virtually but you were both missed.  Hope to have the whole gang together in person for next year!  Been way too long since we had a  full group hot tub :-)

Big thanks to Dave, who continues to set us up with amazing (and affordable!) digs for our weekend.  The hotel in Novi was a fantastic home base, and had the largest board room we have ever had.  We had champagne toasts, bingo ball betting, a crazy amount of craft beer, and an endless amount of snacks.  Who could ask for anything more?!  

Bingo Ball action heating up!

Kansas City was somehow the beneficiary of  a Bingo Ball miracle, beating 75 to 1 odds to land the first overall pick, Wander Franco.  143 picks later, Boston closed the festivities by selecting Mr. Irrelevant 2021, Dustin Garneau.  In between was a mix of players ranging from sure things to long shots, from prospects to suspects.  I know it is a cliche, but I have a feeling we won't know who won this particular draft for a couple years.  

The league file is now out there to be downloaded and restored, and season play can being.  I still urge everyone to double and triple check their roster in the computer file before playing.  I THINK I got the right people for each time, but there was some chaos during the draft so I am not 100% sure of that.  It's difficult to fix that after the season begins, so please make sure your team roster is right before playing.  With that, two words to leave you all with....PLAY BALL!!!!

Super Villain

Just found out my lineage is that of a Super Villain in the Avengers.  So I got that going for me.

Typhoid Mary Fisk (née Walker), also known as Bloody Mary and Mutant Zero, is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was initially depicted as an enemy of Daredevil suffering from dissociative identity disorder, but has also come into conflict with Spider-Man and Deadpool, ultimately marrying the crime boss the Kingpin (Wilson Fisk), as his second wife.

The character was portrayed in the film Elektra by Natassia Malthe. Alice Eve portrayed the character in the second season of the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series Iron Fist.

Typhoid Mary first appeared in Daredevil #254 (May 1988), and was created by writer Ann Nocenti and artist John Romita Jr.^[1] Her name comes from early 20th-century Irish-American cook and typhoid fever carrier "Typhoid Mary" Mallon.^[2]

The character first appeared as Mutant Zero in Avengers: The Initiative #4

Typhoid Mary first appeared in Daredevil #254 (May 1988), and was created by writer Ann Nocenti and artist John Romita Jr.^[1] Her name comes from early 20th-century Irish-American cook and typhoid fever carrier "Typhoid Mary" Mallon.^[2]

The character first appeared as Mutant Zero in Avengers: The Initiative #4.

Mammoths protected from extinction

 

Protected:

Hunter Dozier
Aledmys Diaz
Nathan Eovaldi
Michael Fulmer
Mitch Garver
Mitch Haniger
Tanner Houck
Kevin Kiermaier
Nate Lowe
Manuel Margot
Reese McGuire
Oscar Mercado
Mike Minor
Ryan Mountcastle
Justin Upton
Framber Valdez
Joey Wendle

Darvish:

Nate Pearson

Throw ‘em in the tar pit:

Jalen Beeks
Miguel Castro
Jake Cave
Maikel Franco
Bryan Garcia
Francisco Lindor
Jeff Mathis
Tommy Milone
Michael Perez
Roberto Perez
Adam Plutko
Andre Scrubb
Jacob Waguespack
Kyle Zimmer

MEN KEEPERS

Darvish:  Omar Narvaez

 

Protected:

Hitters 

T. Kemp

T. France

J. Candelario

S. Perez

B. Bichette

Y. Diaz

R. Laureano

I. Kiner-Falefa

M. Olson

B. Phillips

F. Reyes

Pitchers

F. Montas

L. Lynn

A. Civale

M. Barnes

D. Keuchel

M. Gonzales

The Yu

L. Severino

Cut

J. Soler

A. Simmons

C. Heuer

A. Slegers

AJ Cole

J. Merryweather

B. Martin

G. Greiner

J. Lamb

DJ Stewart

S. Haggerty

M. Givens

J. Panik

Mount Pleasant Train Wreck Keepers

 

Batters:

Carlos Correa

Vlad Guerrero Jr.

Kyle Higashioka 

Nick Madrigal

Whit Merrifield

Eddie Rosario

Kyle Seager

Pedro Severino

Myles Straw

Mike Trout

Pitchers:

Jaime Barria

Kris Bubic

Lucas Giolito

Brad Keller

Triston McKenzie

Hansel Robles

Jordan Romano

Yu Darvish: Justus Sheffield

Cuts:

Clint Frazier

Niko Goodrum

Nomar Mazara

Stephen Piscotty

Albert Pujols

Randy Dobnak

Thomas Eshelman

Joakim Soria

Cesar Valdez

 PROTECTING                                                                                                BYE BYE 

Bobby Dalbec                                                                                                 Miguel Cabrera

Danny Jansen                                                                                                  Tyler Naquin - N/C   
David Fletcher                                                                                                Todd Frazier - N/C
Hunter Renfroe                                                                                               Alex Gordon- N/C 
J.P Crawford                                                                                                   Braden Bishop - N/C    
Luis Roberts                                                                                                   Brooks Haley 
Matt Chapman                                                                                                Danny Duffy
Sean Murphy                                                                                                  Rafael Dolis 
Tim Anderson                                                                                                Anthony Bass N/C   

Tyler Wade                                                                                                     Thomas Hatch N/C   
Yordan Alvarez                                                                                               Aaron Loup N/C 

                                                                                                                        Wes Benjamin N/C

Domingo German                                                                                           

Dylan Cease

Jose Suarez

Matt Boyd

Matt Foster

Yusei Kikuchi

Yu Darvish

Deivi Garcia

Bandit News -   A lot is going on in the Bandits organization this year and it looks like the Bandits will be drafting from their home office.   

Fremont Protected List

 

Keep

Mark Canha
Luis Garcia
Yasmani Grandal
Robbie Grossman
Nicky Lopez
Trey Mancini (from Darvish)
Jose Ramirez
Marcus Semien
Luis Torrens
Tyler Ward
Shohei Ohtani
Dane Dunning
Zack Greinke
Andrew Heaney
Ryan Pressley
Tyler Rodgers
Lou Trivino

Can't Keep

Cavan Biggio
John Naylor
Leody Taveras
Peter Fairbanks
Joe Jimenez
Travis Lakins
Jesus Lauzardo
Rafael Montero

Cameron Maybin (NC)
Ty Buttrey (NC)
Jace Fry (NC)
Jonathan Hernandez (NC)
Masahiro Tanaka (NC)
Trevor Bauer (Darvish)

Darvish

Jackie Bradley Jr

The Fremont organization bids a fond arigatou gozaimasu to Masahiro Tanaka. The seventh overall pick in the 2014 draft, Tanaka was a stalwart in the Fremont rotation for seven years finishing his career at 41-37, 4.62 ERA. He leaves as the franchise’s all-time leader in wins, innings pitched (672), starts (105), and complete games (5).  

Loggers Announce 2022 Protected List

     Loggers 2022 Protection List

2022 Protections

Christian "Bale" Vasquez
J.D. "Salinger" Martinez

"Radio" D.J. LeMahieu
Adalberto "Not my Brother or Dad Raul" Mondesi
Luke "I am your father" Voit

Gio "Ursula The Sea Witch" Urshela

Victor "Victoria" Reyes

Edward "Popeye &" Olivares

Carlos "Rodan - CAW!" Rodon

Tyler Glasnow "Slipper"

Tyler "We Need More Tyler's on this team" Duffey

Diego "Rivera Mural" Castillo

Martin "Scorsese" Perez

Jose "Squidward" Urquidy

Michael "Pinata" Pineda

Yusmeiro "Taco Bell" Petit

"I'm" Tanner "Than You" Scott

DARVISH/NL Protected:

A-Aron Hicks "From French Lick"

Man up and vanished, like a fart in the wind:

Mitch "Find me some" More Land

"Take Him To the Wood" Shed Long

Buck "Rogers" Farmer "In The Dell"

Pat "Carr is better than" Valaika

Burch "Burchie" Smith

Jonathan "Put some gauze on that" Arauz

"Jolly" Joely Rodriguez

Matt "Foot in" Shoemaker 

Felix "The Cat" Pena (no card) 

We bid adieu to longtime Logger Mitch More-land after a near decade of being the Loggers 14th, 15th, or 16th protected player.  Mitch arrived at spring training to find his locker cleaned out of cleats, gloves, land contracts, and grass seed.  The only thing he found was a one-way train ticket to the end of some other team's bench.  Good luck, Mitch.  We'll miss you.       

Saying hello to Avisail "Well hello, Mrs, Cabrera" Garcia, and Ryan "15 pieces of Flair" Flaherty.  

Stan, Chotchkie's Manager: "JoAnna....We need to talk about your flair".

MAINE LOGGERS, 1907 Team Photo

Montreal Grizzlies Protected List

 PROTECTED

Shane Barlow

Michael Brantley

Harold Castro

Josh Fleming

Kyle Gibson

Cristian Javier

Casey Mize

Jordan Montgomery

Cal Quantrill

Anthony Rendon

Gary Sanchez

Carlos Santana

Jonathan Schoop

Tarik Skubal

Josh Staumont

Gleyber Torres

Alex Verdugo

CUT

Cam Bedrosian 

Michael Chavis  

Alex Colome

Justin Dunn

Mike Fiers

Jonah Heim

Jacoby Jones

Jose Marmolejas

Rougned Odor

Josh Reddick

Austin Romine

Jonathan Villar

Nick Wittgren

YU DARVISH

Mallex Smith

 

  

Pittsburgh Protected Players

Pitchers

Shane  Bieber

Jose Berrios

Brady Singer

Robbie Ray

Hitters

Rafael Devers

Eloy Jimemez

Kyle Tucker

Byron Buxton

Miguel Sano

Luis Arraez

Kyle Lewis

Joey Gallo

Brandon Lowe

Elvis Andrus

Andrew Benintendi

Tom Murphy

JOSE  IGLESIASIS IS PROTECTED 

YU Darvish

Jo Adell

Cuts

Hanser  Alberto

Travis Shaw

Chance Sisco

Greg Holland

Daz Cameron

Adam Ottavino

CALEB THIELBAR IS CUT

Dillon Tate

No Cards

James Paxton

Mike Freeman

Brad Hand ?

Charlie Morton

Taiuan Walker

Kansas City Butchers cut list

 

PROTECTED

Christian Arroyo

Xander Bogaerts

Alex Bregman

Jason Castro

Yuli Gurriel

Austin Hays

Corey Kluber

Lance McCullers

Yoan Moncada

Dylan Moore

Zach Plesac

Eduardo Rodriguez

Hyun-Jin Ryu

George Springer

Giancarlo Stanton

Max Stassi

Jared Walsh

CHOPPED

Shawn Armstrong

Ryan Borucki (no card)

Mike Brosseau

Carlos Carrasco (no card)

Cam Gallagher

Luis Cessa

John Curtiss (no card)

Adam Engel

JA Happ 

Jordan Luplow

Evan Marshall

Oliver Perez (no card)

Yohan Ramirez

Matt Wisler

YU DARVISH

Mike Clevinger (no card)