Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Draft Day Recap

The newly elected 2015 Executive Committee has already been in session and offered opinion on a couple of roster issues from Saturday.

During the rotation draft the DoorMatts selected Andrew Velasquez.  Arizona traded Velasquez to Tampa in November so technically Velasquez was ineligible to be acquired on Saturday.  As such, Velasquez was not awarded to the DoorMatts.

During the rotation draft the Revenge selected Brady Aiken.  Aiken was selected, but not signed by the Houston Astros in the draft.  Aiken played Independent League ball (1 game) before undergoing TJS.  Houston cannot sign Aiken to a contract prior to the next amateur draft in June.  So for now Aiken is on the Revenge roster.  Should Houston successfully sign him this summer, Aiken will be released.

On Roster Freeze Day The Swing placed Archie Bradley on their Reserve List.  Bradley made the Opening Day Roster of the Arizona Diamondbacks.  Therefore, The Swing is not allowed to activate, release or trade Bradley prior to July 1st.  It is possible, however, that Bradley's contract could move from Mx to 17x should he pitch enough innings, even if that occurs prior to July 1st.

And in non-EC news.  There has been considerable positive feedback to having a CFCL Bar-B-Que this summer.  So while we are waiting for the weather to resemble anything close to summer like conditions, we can comment amongst ourselves as to when/where/how we will put this together.

For that purpose I am thinking that we may want to bring the CFCL Message Board back to life.

I will look into that in the upcoming days, begin a new thread and everyone can weigh in on how we should coordinate the get together.