Recruitment Thread Posted

I posted a thread on the SDMB to look for a new owner for the Barstow franchise.  Please keep an eye on it and feel free to answer any questions that may come up.

Zev

Welcome To Spring Training!

Game Date:  3/2/2022

The First-Year Player Draft has been completed and Spring Training has begun.

The first sim of Spring Training (covering one week) will be done on Saturday night.

Signings:
Antelope Valley signed C Lewis Bell (Monck's Corner) 3 yrs/$5.2
Seattle signed C Steve Jones to a contract extension 4 yrs/$27m

The owner of the Barstow franchise has not sent in an update for a long time.  In addition, I have twice tried to contact him, to no avail.  I think it may be time to find a new owner for the franchise.  I will be opening up a thread on the SDMB for a new owner tomorrow.  If we don't find an owner from there, then we will see if the current owners have anyone who might be interested in joining.

Zev

Note concerning the draft and the Atlanta-Antelope Valley trade -- apparently you cannot trade draft picks in the game on draft day.  As a result, I manually changed the two draft picks from Antelope Valley to Atlanta.  I then traded Richardson to Antelope Valley.  Since you can't trade a player for nothing, I added $1 to both sides of the deal.

FREE (Almost) to a good home

I don't have too many good things in Atlanta, but I have too many ML catchers so I would like to trade one of them.  So if you want to give up something (not much) for either John Dash or Gerardo Herrera I will be willing to trade them.  If you need a starter or a back up Atlanta is where you want to go shoot me an e-mail and we will deal.

Draft Delay

We have one owner who is having password problems.  Since the sim with the amateur draft is a very important one, I want to give everyone every reasonable opportunity to participate.  So, we're going to reschedule the draft for Tuesday evening.

Zev

Antelope Valley and Atlanta Announce Trade.

Fresh on the heels of signing FA C Lewis Bell, the Raptors have completed a trade for the Atlanta Hurricanes' 24 year old, future superstar C Lawrence Richardson.  AV gives up their 1st Round pick (#5 overall) and a 5th rounder this year.  With these 2 moves the Raptors have taken a preseason weakness and turned it into a strength, speeding up the rebuilding process just a little bit more.

Sim's Done. Amateur Draft is Next

Game Date:  3/1/2022

Please make sure to have your draft picks uploaded by Saturday Monday night.  I'll run the draft either Saturday night or Sunday morning (depending on my schedule). 

UPDATE:  The amateur draft will be held on Monday night.  After the draft, I will sim straight to the beginning of Spring Training (the day after the draft).

Zev

Sim's Done

Game Date:  2/28/2022

Signings:
Atlanta signed SP Danny Andrews (Hickory) 3 yrs/$12.75m
Maui signed SP Jeffrey Brunton (New York) 2 yrs/$7.2m
Seattle signed P Pat Carmichael (no prev team) 1 yr/$4m
Hickory signed 3B Carlos Pais to a three year extension for $3 million

Next sim:  Thursday night -- one day will be simmed, bringing us to 3/1.  The amateur draft will be held on Saturday night/Sunday morning.

Zev