Protect Brian Dozier Andrelton Simmons Lorenzo Cain Edwin Encarnacion Mookie Betts Yan Gomes Brock Holt Marcus Stroman Jharel Cotton Luis Severino Dallas Keuchel Drew Pomeranz Edwin Diaz Matt Barnes Mychal Givens Greg Holland (NC) Darvich Blake Swihart Cut John Axford Liam Hendricks Rich Hill  Steven Wright Wade Miley Xavier Cedeno Dionner Navarro David Ortiz Gregerio Petit Jake Smolinski Yunel Escobar

GM STEINES MAKES CHANGE TO PROTECTION LIST

THE PHANTOMS WILL RELEASE TIM ANDERSON AND PROTECTS KEVIN PILLAR.

GM STEINES TRADES KEVIN PILLAR AND THIER 6TH ROUND PICK TO THE WICHITA BANDITS FOR  STARLIN CASTRO AND MIKE NAPOLI

WICHITA BANDITS Protection List

Pitchers
Matt Boyd
Brad Brach
Mike Clevinger
Danny Duffy
Will Harris
Kelvin Herrera
Ian Kennedy
Danny Salazar 
  
Batters
Yonder Alonso
 Kole Calhoun
Starlin Castro
Aaron Hicks
Alex Gordon
Mike Napoli
Dustin Pedroia
Salvador Perez

Players Cut 
Sean Doolittle
Doug Fister
Kyle Gibson 
Taylor Rogers
Drew Butera
J.J. Hardy
Trevor Plouffe
Coco Crisp (NC)
Logan Forsythe(NC)
Shawn O'Malley(NC)
Melvin Upton Jr. (NC)

 Yu Darvish Player
Carson Smith

Michigan Mammoth Protection List

Pitchers

Alex Claudio

Andrew Miller

Andrew Triggs

Chris Archer

Michael Fulmer

Hitters

Brian McCann

Devon Travis

Elvis Andrus

Eric Hosmer

Francisco Lindor

Jake Marisnick

Kevin Kiermaier

Logan Morrison

Manny Machado

Robert Perez

Whit Merrifield

Released

Joaquin Benoit

Matt Moore

Michael Feliz

Nate Jones

Ryan Dull

Chris Tillman
Yordano Ventura

Abraham Almonte
Billy Burns

Jeffry Marte

Paulo Orlando

Keeper

Zack Greinke

Some tough decisions were necessary to get the Michigan roster down to 16.   

Here are some players that did not make Michigan's roster this year and their accomplishments as a Mammoth:

• Nate Jones set the league record last year with an ERA of 0.23.  He also had 8 wins.
• Chris Tillman has 7th place on Michigan's strikeout list with 118 in 2013, but also led the team with losses that year with 12.  He is 5th all time in wins with 21 and is only behind Jered Weaver with 36 losses all time for the Mammoth.
• Paulo Orlando is 5th in Michigan's single season batting with a .316 batting average in 2016 and is 6th in the all time record book with 19 stolen bases
• Billy Burns is 9th with a .312 average in 2015 and is 5th in stolen bases on the all time Mammoth list with 32
• Jeffry Marte had 6 pinch hits last year
• Ryan Dull pitched in 36 games last year

The Mammoths would also like to pay tribute to Yordano Ventura. 

Yordano holds multiple entries in the Mammoths record book, 1st all time in in ERA (3.56),  6th in innings pitched (311), 6th in strikeouts (277) but died after the season in an accident out of the country.

Maine Loggers - Trade?

Maine,  I am willing to deal draft picks and whoever you may want for J.D. Martinez.

Please send trade offers to me or vice versa.

As Mario Says.....Welcome Back, JD!

Welcome Back, JD!

Change to the Thunder Protection List

Still waffling on the last person to save but I am currently changing my protection list to protect Biagini and dropping CC Sabathia.

Men Protection

No Darvish

Kansas City Butchers Keepers/Cuts

New unis for KC!

Protected List

Cam Bedrosian
Alex Bregman
Xander Bogaerts
Carlos Carrasco
Robinson Chironos
Alex Cobb

Khris Davis
Evan Gattis
Kevin Gausman
Craig Kimbrel
Jason Kipnis
Corey Kluber
Lance McCullers
Eduardo Rodriguez
George Springer
Mark Trumbo

Cut

Tyler Clippard
C.J. Cron
Kendall Graveman

Heath Hembree
Dan Jennings
Cameron Maybin
Jurickson Profar
Michael Saunders
Luis Valbuena
Alex Wilson

Yu Darvish Player
Wade Davis

The Carr Collusion grows in 2018!

Montgomery, Alabama  2016

Wanted to help the league put a face to the name, so that is new league member Mike Walter on the left.  The league average age is going down rapidly  :-) 

Greatly looking forward to Draft Weekend 2018!!!  Thanks again to Dave for hooking us up with the hotel!

Fremont Protection List

Las Vegas - This evening, the Las Vega$ Fremonts announced their protection list for the upcoming season.

Made Men
Chris Davis
Danny Valencia
Robinson Cano
Marcus Semien
Jose Ramirez
Kyle Seager
Jackie Bradley Jr
Teoscar Hernandez
Robbie Grossman

Marco Estrada
Masahiro Tanaka
Trevor Bauer
Miguel Gonzalez
Chris Devenski
Nick Vincent
Ryan Pressly

Wacked
Carlos Beltran
Luis Cessa
Daniel Coulombe
Brad Kintzler
Francisco Rodriguez
no card: Colby Lewis, Robbie Ross Jr, Carlos Perez, Chris Iannetta

Darvish Rule
drop: Pablo Sandoval
add: Tyler Austin

Fremont ownership group advised in a written statement:

The 'Monts bid a farewell to Carlos Beltran. Acquired at the 2014 trade deadline, Beltran hit .248/.289/.419 with 24 HRs 75 RBI and (somehow) no errors in two and a half years with the club.
Beltran is fourth all time Fremont in home runs, eight in RBIs, ninth in hits and tied for third in pinch hits.

Well wishes as well to Carlos Perez. A 2016 third round pick, Perez is second all time with 128 appearances behind the plate for the Fremonts and led the 2016 Friendship league with 14 sacrifice hits; we're going to assume that's the first time a platoon catcher has ever led the league in sacrifice hits.

Colby Lewis came to Las Vegas as a desperation innings grab in the 8th round of the 2014 draft; he leaves with a 14-15 record, 5.96 ERA and 166 strikeouts in 255 innings. Lewis is tied for fifth on the all time 'Monts wins and innings list, sixth in strikeouts, fourth in games started (43). His 8.29 ERA in 2015 is somehow only the second worst in team history.

Chris Iannetta came to Las Vegas as a 6th round pick in 2013. In five years, Iannetta caught in a team record 257 games hitting .212/.311/.336 18 HRs, 65 RBI. He's fourth in club history for games (283), third in walks (92) and tenth in home runs and RBI

Assistant Fremont GM Wes said, "The trade window is now open. There is a table. Players listed here, this year's draft picks and next year's draft picks are on that table." Then he pooped.

Keeper List for the newly relocated Philly Phog to Montreal:

Keepers:

1.) G. Sanchez
2.) J. Reddick
3.) C. Santana
4.) A. Jones
5.) J. Schoop
6.) J. Iglesias
7.) E. Longoria
8.) T. Frazier 
9.) R. Goins

Pitchers:
10.) R. Osuna
11.)  J. Musgrove
12.) A. Colome
13.) J Zimm
14.) C. Hamels
15.) M. Fiers
16.) D. Robertson

Yu darvish rule: N/A

People getting Cut: 

B. Maxwell

Adam Eaton - NL

M. Wieters - NL

F. Gutierez 

J. Rickard

M. Tonkin - Overseas

A. Miranda

J. Diekman

B. Boshers

D. Smyley - NL

C. Bucholtz - NL

    

PITTSBURGH PHANTOMS

PROTECTION LIST

                                          HITTERS

                                      1.  Jason Castro

                                      2.  Joey Gallo

                                      3.  Greg Bird

                                      4.  Tim Anderson

                                      5.  Mike Moustakas

                                      6.  Miguel Sano

                                      7.  Justin Upton

                                      8.  Andrew Benintendi

                                      9.  Byron Buxton

                                     10.  Steven Souza

                                         PITCHERS

                                     11.  James Paxton

                                     12.  Jose Berrios

                                     13.  Daniel Norris

                                     14.  J.A. Happ

                                     15.  Ken Giles

                                     16.  Yu Darvish

                                              Cuts 

                                      1.  Kevin Pillar

                                      2.  Guillermo Heredia

                                      3.  Kendrys Morales

                                      4.  Matt Shoemaker

                                      5.  Martin Perez

                                      6.  Eduardo Nunez

                                      7.  Eduardo Escobar

                                      8.  Andrew Romine

                                      9.  Bruce Rondon

                                    10.  Ubaldo Jimenez

                                    11.  Jarrod Saltalamacchia

                                        Yu Darvish Player

                           

                                           Taijuan Walker

                 

Mount Pleasant Keepers

This year was made easy as I have exactly 16 eligible players to keep for next season:

Hitters:
Mike Trout - CF
Cheslor Cuthbert - 3B, 2B
Sandy Leon - C
Roughned Odor - 2B
Eddie Rosario - OF
Albert Pujols - 1B
Yolmer (Carlos) Sanchez - 2B, 3B, SS
Carlos Correa - SS
Rajai Davis - OF
Nomar Mazara - LF/RF

Pitchers:
David Price - SP
Rick Porcello - SP
Blake Snell - SP
JC Ramirez - SP
Bryan Shaw - RP
Tony Barnette - RP

Yu Darvish Player:
Kyle Ryan - RP

No Card:
Bret Lawrie

NL:
Travis Shaw
Ian Desmond
Stephen Vogt
Edinson Volquez
RA Dickey
Zach Duke
Vance Worley
Koji Uehara
Brad Ziegler

I'm Finally IN! Welcome the Montreal Grizzlies!

This is a similar style Hat my Montreal Grizzlies will wear come baseball time. Also to correct my list and Line up before the draft:

1.) Josh Reddick -RF
2.) Carlos Santana -1B
3.) Gary Sanchez - C
4.) Adam Jones -CF
5.) Evan Longoria -3B
6.) Todd Frazier - DH
7.) Jonathan Schoop - 2B
8.) Jose Iglesias - SS
9.) TBD player in LF - as of now Ryan Goins

Pitching:

1.) Cole Hamels
2.) JZim
3.) Fiers
4.) TBD (to be drafted)
5.) TBD ( to be drafted)

Closer: Alexi Colome
SU: David Robertson
SU: Roberto Ozuna
RP: Diekman
RP: TBD

Lastly a pic of the AAA team: