Amateur Draft -- Monday Night

Game Date:  Mar 1 2027

It's time for the yearly amateur draft!  Please upload  your draft picks for the draft on Monday night.

In addition, please double check the Traded Draft Picks page and make sure that your team is credited with the draft picks it should have.  That's the sheet I'll be using when I conduct the draft.

Lastly, we have a vacancy as Frank has stepped down from the ownership of the Hickory team.  If you know someone who'd like to join us, please have them drop a line to Michael or myself.

Zev

Sim's Done

Game Date:  Mar 1 2027

Next Sim:  Thursday night.

A quick note on the change in the recent Shackamaxon/Norfolk trade -- there is a rule against trading future draft picks (beyond the upcoming year).  As a result, I asked the two owners to re-work the deal to only include draft picks from the coming draft.

Rain Delay

I'm afraid I'm going to have to delay the sim for a day or so.  I'll try to have it run by tonight.

Zev

Shackamaxon/Norfolk prospects and picks trade

Update: For clarification, ignore the 2028 pick from Shackamaxon, and Benjamin Anderson's participation in this trade. There will be a separate announcement after the upcoming 2027 draft.

On the eve of spring training, and the 2027 amateur draft, the Shackamaxon Lenape and Norfolk Tides have completed a trade that has both teams eyeing the future. In a classic prospect-and-picks trade, the teams dealt five prospects and four draft picks this afternoon.

Shackamaxon receives:

• A CL James Ferguson
• AA OF Benjamin Anderson *
• 2027 2nd round pick (#10 in round, originally from Brick)
• 2027 3rd round pick (#3 in round)
• 2027 3rd round pick (#12 in round, originally from Seattle)

Norfolk receives:

• OF Stefano Gomez
• AAA SS Angel Rodriguez
• A SS Jack Gordon
• 2028 2nd round pick *

* As the 2027 draft hasn't happened yet, Anderson and the 2028 pick will be swapped immediately after this season's draft is completed.

The Tides initiated the trade discussions, looking to get young infield help. "When Norfolk asked for both of our top shortstop prospects, we knew this was going to be a big deal," Lenape GM Michael Weintraub stated. "We think Ferguson and Anderson are both is a top-flight prospects, and were willing to part with them in exchange for Rodriguez and Gordon. Gomez was expendable since we re-acquired Juan Arroyo from Norfolk."

Tides GM Thomas Carrano plans to have Rodriguez compete for the major league second base spot in the Norfolk lineup. "We wish Angel well, he wasn't in our major league plans because of Miguel Martinez and Ieyasu Suzuki as our double-play pair," Weintraub said. "We're also going to convert James Ferguson back into a starter, where he excelled in high school."

Sim's Done! Spring Training Is Here...

Game Date:  Feb 25, 2027

Signings:
Antelope Valley:  3B Ronald Quijada (Maui) (1 yr/$1.56m)

Spring Training is here!

The Amateur Draft is coming up.  Please be sure to check the Traded Draft Picks list to make sure that your team is credited with all the traded picks it should have.

Next sim:  Monday night.

Sim's Done

Game Date:  Feb 22, 2027

Signings:
Ohio:  SP Charlie Newell (Shackamaxon) (1 yr/$600k)
Ohio:  SP Scott Loman (Shackamaxon) (1 yr/$3.3m)
Hickory:  SS Alex Alvarez (int'l free agent) (minor league contract)
Maui:  RP Mark Blur (extension) (5 yr/$4.6m)

Next sim (where we start spring training):  Saturday night

         Norfolk-Brick makes another trade

Apparently not finished Norfolk and Brick complete  another trade...Norfolk send to Brick the following players: Hector Estrada pitcher  Mccullough left fielder  Ramiro Martinez pitcher triple a
Going to Norfolk: Luis Santiago left fielder Vargas pitcher Perkins pitcher  triple a

Brick also receives Norfolk's 5th and 6th round picks in the upcoming draft


Norfolk's General Manager was totally excited to have such a good player like Santiago in left for his team, greatly improving his offense and Vargas will lend veteran leadership to a starting rotation in flux..Perkins adds depth

Brick's General Manager also was excited to add  a stud pitcher like Hector Estrada to the list of young and very good pitching to the organization . Mccullough well compete for the starting job with Swanson and Reed. Martinez replaces Perkins in triple a