National League Spring Training Rosters Online

Showing that one can be the reigning CFCL Champion and still be a hard-working man of the people, Matt Grage has painstakingly and diligently typed up a list of all the players currently in major league camp with National League teams ... that's major leaguers, minor leaguers on the 40-man rosters, and non-roster invitees.  This listing forms the basis of that glorious document, the CFCL Draft Lists, providing the names and eligible positions for each player available on Draft Day.

The rosters are posted in the CFCL Download Center (available via the link at the top of the CFCL Internet Headquarters), and are also available via a link in the menu directly to the right of this column.

Matt will track NL roster moves all through the spring and will update the list to reflect demotions, trades, etc., so check back periodically for updates.

You'll also want to keep an eye on the list as we near Roster Freeze Day - especially if you have players on the fringe of their NL rosters.  Whether players have been officially sent down by their NL team can have a definite impact on what you're able to do with them when you submit your cuts.

Post Season Stuff

First an official Front Office congratulations to the Clowns for capturing their first ever Copperfield Trophy.  Job well done.

There is some off-season things to be aware of.  First of all . . .

Hometown Discount  Here's how it breaks done, budget-wise.

Kenndoza Line beat out the Bulls for the Sweet Spot and garnered the maximum budget of .06.  They have the rights to the following players:

Ian Desmond
Jose Tabata
Jonathon Lucroy
David Freese
Logan Morrison
Jason Motte
Ian Kennedy

Graging Bulls  .05
Pablo Sandoval
Hunter Pence
Troy Tulowitzki
Jonny Venters
Brett Myers

Twin Killers .04
Omar Infante
Angel Pagan
Carlos Zambrano

Stranger Danger .04
Ike Davis
Nick Hundley

DoorMatts .04
Chris Johnson
Carlos Ruiz

Ruffins .03
Chris Young (OF)
Drew Storen

Beatniks .03
Brandon Phillips
Andres Torres
Josh Thole

Revenge .00
Yadier Molina
Jose Reyes
Matt Cain
Mat Latos
Eric O'Flaherty
Tommy Hanson

Dem Rebels .00
Ryan Zimmerman
R.A. Dickey
Mike Minor
Cole Hamels

Candy Colored Clowns .00
Ryan Hannigan
Pedro Alvarez
Roy Halladay
Johnny Cueto

Some other resposibilities for you the owners over the next few weeks.

1)  Please contact Commissioner Bentel and let him know your intentions for next year.  If anyone isn't coming back we need to know ASAP to try and find new ownership.  Are you in or out?

2)  We need to plan the Award Banquet.  Let's assume the Line, Beatniks and Ruffins aren't coming into town for pizza and beer (although you of course are welcome to attend).  The other seven owners please e-mail Commissioner Bentel with preferable dates/days or problematic dates/days so we can find a time to celebrate.  As always majority will rule, but there is always special weight given to the newly crowned Champion's schedule.

3)  Speaking of the banquet, you will be receiving the Awards Ballot in your In Box soon (hopefully within the week).  Please take time to vote, but return it in quickly.  The Banquet cannot occur until all votes are in.  This will be repeated when the ballot is e-mailed out but "Please vote for the most deserving candidate.  Most deserving does not necessarily constitute the player on your CFCL team or your favorite National League team."

That's it for now.  See (hopefully) most of you at the banquet!

We Are Locked And Loaded

Alrighty boys! Thanks to everyone for getting their cuts in on time (and many who got them in early!) That allowed me to get a head start on putting the roster sheet together and reconciling some issues. I have posted an updated Roster that can be downloaded on the right.

Here is a synopsis of the cuts.

Long Term Contracts Signed
John Axford 2 years
Madison Bumgarner 2 years
Jordan Zimmerman 2 years
Brandon Belt 2 years
Neil Walker 2 years
Jason Heyward 2 years
Starlin Castro 4 years
Sean Marshall 2 years
Mike Morse 3 years
Tyler Clippard 2 years
Yovanni Gallardo 2 years
Gaby Sanchez 2 years

Big Names (and salaries) Cut
Chris Carpenter
Ryan Howard
Chase Utley
Jayson Werth
Rafael Furcal
Shawn Marcum
Francisco Cordero
David Wright
Heath Bell
Tim Lincecum
Chad Billingsley

X Contracts Exercised
Mike Stanton
Buster Posey
Stephen Strasburg

Winter Waivers Kept
Kenley Jansen
Nyjer Morgan
Zach Cozart
Edison Volquez

LTC Broken
Skip Schumaker (The Danger will lose .05 from their budget for voiding the last year of Schumaker's contract).

Money to Spend

Here's what you wanted to know.

Danger needs 10 players and has .62 to spend (6.2 cents per player)
DoorMatts 9 players and 1.02 to spend (11.3)
Revenge 11 players and 1.20 to spend (10.9)
Killers 9 players and 1.72 to spend (19.1) !!!
Rebels 12 players and 1.44 to spend (12.0)
Bulls 10 players and 1.49 to spend (14.9)
Clowns 8 players and 1.48 to spend (18.5)
Beatniks 13 players and 1.38 to spend (10.6)
Kenndoza Line 8 players and .91 to spend (11.3)
Ruffins 10 players and 1.06 to spend (10.6)

That's it! Thanks again for your cooperation and we'll see you at 7-7:30am on Sunday!

DRAFT DAY 2012

We are finally locked in on date, time and location for Draft Day 2012!!

Our draft will take place on Sunday, April 1st, 2012 at 8am in the plush conference room of Rich's company. I will be sending you an e-mail with address and detailed directions to the location.

Here are some details. We will have access to a fridge (no telling on how much space will be available so bringing a mini cooler might not be a bad idea) and a microwave oven.

The conference room has a table and very comfortable chairs that seat ten. If no one brought a lap top, there would be enough space to sit comfortably. If everyone (or some) brings a laptop, and papers and books then the space gets a bit tight so think ahead and plan to put some stuff on the ground around you.

There are six outlets. Four at one end of the room, two at the other. We'll power strips and extension cords.

There may or may not be internet access, but we won't use it. If there is a port, it's the building management's, not my company's so we won't have claim to using it.

If you were planning on bringing an assistant GM or co-owner or someone for moral support understand there is room for ten people to co-exist in relative comfort. Anyone else attending WILL NOT be able to sit at the table because there's simply no room. The extra people will have to hover around the perimeter of the table, looking over your shoulder.

While the above paragraph is important, here's the MOST IMPORTANT thing to plan for. Our 8am start is when the Ruffin Privilege will be invoked. So that means we have to take the league photo, vote on the Executive Committee, hand out and review roster and free agents sheets, sign the 2012 Copperfield Trophy and talk about any new business BEFORE 8am. That's a lot of stuff to accomplish. We cannot have people arriving at 7:55am. I would say all the league business should be handled starting at 7:30am at the latest.

It's January 18th. That means you have two and a half months to coordinate GPS or Mapquest to get you to our draft by 7:30am. We have three owners travelling back out of town Sunday evening and one or more could be on tight schedules, so if we are going to draft at a comfortable pace, starting on time is paramount.

7:30am at the latest. Matt, Mike B and I will be there most likely by 7am so anytime after that is fine.

Winter Waivers Complete

With no bids submitted for John Jay, the Winter Waivers have come to a close.

Currently your Executive Committee is reviewing and scouring through the Constitution in the hope of clarifying language and leaving no ambiguity. But in the spirit of 20 eyes are better than six, if you have noticed something in the Constitution that seems confusing, missing or misworded, please forward it to me so we can look into it.

Additionally I am finalizing our draft location and hope to have an announcement on the location and time soon. We have already determined that Sunday, April 1st will be Draft Day.

As owners, the next order of business will be Roster Freeze Day. I will be posting a calendar of events here shortly, so I encourage you all to check back for more details.

Prelude to Winter Waivers

Gentlemen -

It is just about that magical time of year. The calendar turns to Winter, the breeze turns cold and blustery and the good, fine people of America decorate their houses in honor of The CFCL's Winter Waiver Season!

That's right, we are T-13 days away from the beginning of Winter Waivers. Your first cuts are due to me by 3pm, Sunday, January 1st. I will be sending my cuts to the Executive Committee before opening any of your e-mails, just to keep things legal.

I have uploaded an updated roster that shows players on rosters currently in the American League and also has been purged of all expiring contract players.

Your job is to cut down to 23 players. For Winter Waivers there are no position restrictions. You may keep 15 pitchers and eight minor leaguers if you want. It does not matter.

I encourage you all to visit the Constitution to remind yourselves of the process, but certainly if you have any questions please feel free to e-mail me.

I hope you find what you're looking for under the tree this year. Personally I'm hoping Santa has a low-priced quality starter earmarked for Rebel Headquarters.

CFCL Head Into the Off-Season

Some crazy-ass ballots have been submitted. The votes have been tallied and all will be revealed at the Banquet. Right now it looks like we won't be gathering until some time in November - more details will be forthcoming. Nine of the ten owners have indicated their intentions for 2012. Here's what we know so far.

The Kenndoza Line have neither confirmed, nor denied their intention to compete next year.
Dem Rebels will be returning for their 29th season.
David's Ruffins will be returning for their 27th season.
DoorMatts will be returning for their 19th season.
Graging Bulls will be returning for their 13th season.
Morkertzuma's Revenge will be returning for their 5th season.
Candy Colored Clowns will be returning for their 5th season.
Twin Killers will be returning for their 3rd season.
Stranger Danger will be returning for their 2nd season.

It is with great sadness that we report that after six seasons, Mo's Red Hots have decided to close their doors. Something about the pressure being too great to stay ahead of Dem Rebels each season. I would like to thank Bob for six wonderful years and wish him all the best in his Non-CFCL future.

So that leads to us finding at least one more owner for 2012. If you have a neighbor, co-worker, Facebook friend, hell even a twin brother who likes the Cubs, see if they're interested in being considered for ownership. In a perfect world I would love to have everything in place before Winter Waivers so the new owner can get a feel for their team and begin building in their own way.

Let me know if you have any leads.

Wrapping Up 2011

The Ruffin captured The Copperfield Ball for the second year in a row and all that's left is handing out the awards. To that end, the ballots have been e-mailed. Here are some things we have to work on now.

Please vote for each category and get your ballots back as soon as possible. I need each owner to submit their votes. Last year there were some categories that literally came down to the final voter.

Once we have the ballots back we can then officially have our banquet. We'll do it again at Home Run Inn in Darien on 75th street. Please let me know your availability for Friday, Saturday or Sunday afternoons/evenings. So far only one owner has mentioned any possible availability.

I also need everyone to let me know their intentions of returning next year or not. As a courtesy to the league, if you know you're not returning, letting us know early is best. The league will have to consider a replacement owner(s) and with Winter Waivers looming a few months from now, having an owner in place to that is paramount.

That gets us to Winter Waivers. Certainly you don't have to submit your cuts until, as it turns out, 3pm on New Year's Day (the first Sunday in January). This is just an early reminder in case you want to start thinking about who your keepers are. I would encourage each of you to visit the Constitution and read (or re-read) the rules of Winter Waivers so you have a clear understanding on how it works.

A new roster (without expiring contract players and "S" contract players) has also been posted at the link on your right.

So to wrap up. Two very important items at this point. VOTE! And let me know if you're coming back for CFCL 2012 (We're Not Even Halfway There!)

Ruffins Repeat in 2011

Congratulations to the 2011 CFCL Champion - David's Ruffins! In an amazing final week of the season the Ruffins came out of seemingly no where to capture their second consecutive title and fourth overall.

Kenndoza Line gave a valiant effort but came up just short. And the Revenge, oh the Revenge. They captured the final money slot after leading for most of the year. Interestingly the Revenge fell behind the Line, into third, by losing a point to the Bulls in ERA on the final night. The Revenge didn't pitch on Wednesday. Stephen Strasbourg of the Bulls did and posted six scoreless innings, which was enough to push the Bulls past the Revenge in ERA and drop the Revenge to third.

As recently as September 22nd (SIX DAYS AGO, FOLKS!) the top four in the standings looked like this:

Revenge 76

Kenndoza Line 74.5

DoorMatts 71

Ruffins 67

Somehow, some way the Ruffins made up nine points in six days. We have had some amazing finishes in CFCL history, but this ranks right up there as the best.

Securing the Sweet Spot (trademark - Candy Colored Clowns) are the DoorMatts. They will have the use of the full compliment of the Home Team Discount budget. Here's a look at the HTD.

DoorMatts .06

Garrett Jones

Dan Uggla

Shane Victorino

Luke Gregerson

Josh Johnson

Carlos Marmol

Mo's Red Hots .05

Ryan Braun

Stephen Drew

Bronson Arroyo

Dem Rebels .04

Brian Wilson

Graging Bulls

No eligible players

Candy Colored Clowns

No eligible players

Twin Killers .02

Sergie Romo

Stranger Danger

No eligible players

Some other housekeeping notes:

- The 2011 Final Roster has been posted to the link on the right. Shortly I will be cleaning the roster of all 11(!) and S contracts, so make sure you download the end of year version soon.

- I have yet to hear any feedback on availability for the CFCL Banquet. Usually we like to make sure that the CFCL Champion is available, but I'm sure Dave won't be flying in to accept his trophy and money. So we'll revert to a majority rules decision.

- I will work on putting together the CFCL Awards Ballot as quickly as possible. If you have someone on your team that you feel deserves consideration for a specific award, please e-mail me. Keep in mind - THIS IS NOT THE ALL-STAR GAME! A player from each team does not need to be represented in each category. So whomever you submit for consideration, please make sure they are worthy of the award.

Once again, congratulations to the Ruffins! Looks like they are focused on surpassing the Copperfields for most championships in the shortest time possible.

CFCL Miscellaneous

An updated Roster Excel spreadsheet has finally been posted to the link on your right. I apologize for the delay (delinquency) in having it updated recently.

Since we are officially half way through September, that means two things.

1) The Cubs are officially eliminated from the Division Race and,

2) It's time to start preparing for the CFCL Banquet.

Traditionally we have met some time in fall (or winter, depending on our schedules) at the Home Run Inn in Darien. To keep things easy, we'll keep that as our location unless someone has major objections.

I will be putting together the ballot for the CFCL Awards. While I will try to do as comprehensive of a job as possible, I always welcome any suggestions from you. If there is someone on your team (or in the NL) that you feel needs to be on the ballot, please feel free to e-mail me to make sure that that player is included.

I will also need some feedback from each of you as to which dates your are available for attending the banquet. I would assume our out of town owners won't be attending, so the remaining eight, please let me know if you plan on attending and, if so, which dates work best for you. We'll work on a "majority rules" basis, showing no favoritism, though we typically like to the the current year's champion in attendance. The Ruffins thumbed their nose at that preference last year, and believe you me that was noted in their permanent file.

Usually we focus on either a Saturday or Sunday afternoon or evening but as I mentioned we can let majority rule.

E-mail me if you have any questions about the Post-Season Process.

Free Agent Bidding Reminder

Just a quick reminder that this Sunday (August 28th) is your last chance to pick up a player via FAAB and keep them going into next year should you so choose. Everyone acquired starting on September 4th will be assigned a contract of "S" which means they are immediately released at the end of the season.

Happy spending.

Recapping IFAB Day

The planets have aligned to make this years Interleague Free Agent Bid (IFAB) Day a little more complicated. On top of that, since we enter our own bids on OnRoto there's a wrinkle we need to work around.

Here's the deal. In a normal year the IFAB Day (August 1st) is the day after the Major League Trade Deadline (July 31st). Both of those are still true this year. Normally the ML Trade Deadline does not fall on our Transaction Day. This is not true this year. July 31st is this Sunday. So that means we have normal Transactions and Free Agent Bids on Sunday the 31st. THIS YEAR we have IFAB (Bids on players that have come over to the NL on the Trade Deadline Day) Day on Monday, August 1st.

Here's the wrinkle. OnRoto is set for us to make transactions on Sunday and Friday. We cannot add a Monday transaction day. Well, actually we can but not without screwing up other parts of player movement. I won't bore you with the details, but I will tell you that your EC has been hard at work weighing the options and your OnRoto Czar, M. Coulter, has been even harder at work trying to figure out how to make this all work.

Here's what we've come up with. Sunday is a normal transaction day where you can make changes to your roster and make free agent bids on any player OTHER THAN A PLAYER WHO WAS TRADED TO THE NL ON SUNDAY! I give you the Constitution:

"Interleague Free Agent Bid (IFAB) Day

On the day immediately following the MLB Interleague Trading Deadline, the CFCL will hold a special sealed bid auction. Players who were traded from the American League to the National League on the day of the trading deadline, as well as any other free agents, are eligible to be bid upon on IFAB Day.

Players who are traded from the American League to the National League on the same day as the MLB Interleague Trading Deadline (typically July 31) are not eligible to be bid upon until IFAB Day, even if the trading deadline occurs on a Sunday. In other words, if July 31 falls on a Sunday and an AL player is traded to the NL at 9:00 on Sunday morning, that player cannot be bid upon until the next day, even though he was in the NL prior to the 3:00 PM Sunday transaction deadline."

As you can see, Former Co-Commissioner and Current Owner Emeritus, David Mahlan, anticipated a year like this and has laid out in plain English how things will happen. The only thing he couldn't have anticipated is what stat service we would be using. So on Sunday you do what you always do. Make bids, don't make bids, make changes to your lineup. If a player is traded over to the NL on Sunday THEY ARE NOT ELIGIBLE TO BE BID ON.

On Monday (August 1st), here's what you need to do. Submit bids on ANY PLAYER (whether they were traded from the AL or not) to David's e-mail address. I'm not posting that information here, it has been included in an e-mail to you. You must submit your bids to David's e-mail address by 3pm Monday, August 1st.

Any e-mails David receives prior to 3pm, Monday August 1st will then be forwarded to OnRoto Czar Coulter who will sort through the bids and assign the players to the appropriate teams and e-mail the teams to let them know if they received the player.

Any e-mail getting to David's InBox after 3pm WILL NOT be forwarded to M. Coulter.

As you can see, there's a bunch of moving parts in a normal year. This year there's even more. Coupled with that, I will be heading out of town this Friday so other than updating the Excel Spreadsheet I won't be able to provide Mike much support in a timely manner.

I say all of that to say this. Please be judicious in your bidding. By that I mean, by all means place bids and contingency bids. But don't submit four e-mails saying "OK, follow the first two bids of the first e-mail, but change the third bid from the second e-mail so that I have the fourth bid in this e-mail." Mike has enough work to do without trying to decipher multi-layers of bids from one owner over several e-mails.

If you have any questions, please e-mail me before Friday. One last piece of information. Here are the remaining budgets for all the teams:

Revenge - .57; Killers - .85; Danger - .75; DoorMatts - .18; Dem Rebels - .64; Bulls - .35; Ruffins - .48; Clowns - .40; Red Hots - .40; Line - .58

The Natural Day

Celebrating the 27th anniversary of the Ryne Sandberg Game we have our 1st Annual The Natural Day wherein the team with the most TB+R+RBI on their ACTIVE roster wins a $25 gift card to mlb.com.

The evening started off slow since we had a partial slate of games. By 8:07pm (CDT) the totals were:

Ruffins - 13

Bulls - 12

Danger - 12

Red Hots (looking for a clean gift card sweep) - 10

Killers - 7

Revenge - 6

Clowns - 5

DoorMatts - 0

Rebels - 0

An hour later at 9:17 some jumbling took place:

Bulls - 17

Danger - 14

Ruffins - 13

Red Hots - 10

Revenge - 7

Killers - 7

Clowns - 7

Line - 4

DoorMatts - 2

Rebels - 0

But by the end of the night the Ruffins ran away to hide:

Ruffins - 23

Bulls - 17

Danger - 15

Revenge - 11

Red Hots - 11

Killers - 10

DoorMatts - 8

Clowns - 7

Line - 4

Rebels - 0

Congratulations to the Ruffins, winner of a $25 mlb.com gift card!

Next up, August 8th - Lights Out Loser (LOL) for the team with the lowest production from their active roster (both offense and pitching). No gift card, just the embarrassment of being on the CFCL Internet Headquarters Marquee for the rest of the season.

Happy Father's Day and stuff

First of all let me offer a big CFCL Happy Father's Day to all you daddy-o's out there. I think the greatest father's day wish was posted on Facebook earlier today by our own Mike Bentel of the Twin Killers. His post? "Hey dad, wanna have a catch?" Brilliant on so many levels.

CFCL Reminder: This Thursday is June 23rd and thus is The Natural Day. To win the $25 mlb.com gift card your team needs to amass the most TB, Runs and RBIs on its ACTIVE roster. Unfortunately Thursday is not scheduled for a full slate of NL games.

Enjoy the weekend! Go have a catch.

Correcting some Issues

Proving that it's always a good idea to check your work, the CFCL Front Office has had to make some corrections to contracts on a couple of players. The DoorMatts noticed two mistakes on their roster. Madison Bumgarner was incorrectly assigned an 11 contract. Bumgarner was acquired as a minor leaguer in the 2009 Rotation Draft. He then was activated by the DoorMatts during the 2010 season which should have given him a contract status of 12x. That's not what happened and somehow the contract ended up as 11. The correct status (which is on the current Roster Excel Spreadsheet) is 12x.

Also from the DoorMatts roster, Jair Jurrjens was assigned a contract of 12!. Jurrjens was signed to a two year deal going into the 2010 season, so his contract status should have been 11! This also has been corrected on the spreadsheet.

I deeply apologize for the errors. Fortunately they did not impact that budget of the DoorMatts on Draft Day.

I would also like to pass along a HUGE thank you to the DoorMatts for their honesty. They could have kept their mouth shut and had Jurrjens for an extra year at a discounted price.

Probably the best thing about this league above all others - the integrity of the owners.

DON'T FORGET!!! Next week, Friday May 6th, is K-Wood Day. The CFCL team with the most strikeouts from the pitchers on their ACTIVE roster will win the first $50 gift certificate to mlb.com.

2011 National League Spring Training Rosters

Here it is - my first post-retirement post at the old CFCL Front Office.

As you are probably aware, Matt G. has been tracking National League roster moves this spring - as he has done for the past couple years since taking over the task.  The results of his labors - up-to-date spring training rosters for all the National League teams - have now been posted in the Download Center. Enjoy!

2011 Pre Draft Schedule and Fun

Alrighty boys, despite all the snow on the ground progress is being made in Florida and Arizona to bring us baseball at the end of next month! That means it's almost time for the best day of the year - - DRAFT DAY!!! Below is a bunch of information regarding timelines, fees, and some new things I think you'll enjoy. Grab yourself a beverage and a snack bar and settle in. It's a long post.

Batting Leadoff - House Cleaning.
A while back I sent you your Owner Profile with new questions for 2011. If you haven't responded, please do (and if your name is Stranger Danger - a full Team Profile would be greatly appreciated).

Batting second - Timeline. Here's the timeline we're going to follow:

Roster Cut Sheets E-mailed - Monday, March 21, 2011
Roster Freeze Day - Sunday, March 27, 2011 (Cuts are due back and no more trades allowed)
Keeper/Cuts Announced - Tuesday, March 29, 2011 (Announcement probably sooner, but this will be my deadline).
Hard Freeze Day - Friday, April 1, 2011 (No joke - no more movement on the roster)
Draft Day - 1pm Saturday, April 2, 2011 (PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE plan on arriving at noon or shortly thereafter. The Ruffins will invoke their Privilege at 1pm SHARP!)

Batting third - Draft Location
We will be drafting in an opulent building in downtown Naperville. The exact address will be e-mailed at a later date. However we will have access to a fridge and microwave. The room we're drafting in has plenty of outlets for laptops though we'll need to bring extension cords/power strips. THERE IS NO INTERNET ACCESS AT THE BUILDING!!

Hitting Cleanup - Fees
This year the fees remain at $120 per team. Since OnRoto isn't making us pay until sometime in May, there is no need to send your payments in early. Please bring a check or cash to the draft. Kenn, if you want to make your brother pay for you (not unlike Tom Sawyer) feel free to do so.

Now for the fun part!!!!

Something Old
Your Executive Committee has been hard at work this off-season. We have discovered that OnRoto will allow us to have both FAAB and Waivers. All of us know what FAAB is. But only those long in the CFCL tooth know what Waivers is. I sent out an e-mail recently asking you to vote on whether to reinstate waivers [thank you to the seven owners who voted, giving us a simple majority to bring back waivers]. Here's a quick synopsis of waivers - we'll talk more in detail at the draft.

When you need to get rid of a player from your roster (due to a lopsided trade or acquiring another player via FAAB) we used to simply "release" or "drop" that player back into the Free Agent Pool. Now that we have waivers, that player will be "waived". Waiver period runs from when transactions are announced on Sunday through the following Sunday 3pm transaction deadline.

Players that are on Long Term Contracts (even in their final year) may not be waived. Players traded to the AL during the season may not be waived. If their original CFCL team doesn't want that player any longer, the player is released and cannot be reacquired unless he comes back to the National League.

Players that are acquired via waiver will retain their contract status. Their salary will be their current salary or .10 which ever is greater.

Waivers work in reverse order of the standings. As I said - We'll talk about all the details on Draft Day. The specific verbage regarding waivers will be added to the Constitution once David gets a chance.

Something New

This one come from the Creative Department of the DoorMatts.

K Wood Day - Each season, startng in 2011, the CFCL team whose active pitching staff records the most strikeouts on May 6th wins a $25 gift card to mlb.com.

The Natural Day - Each season, starting in 2011, the CFCL team whose active roster produces the highest aggregate total of total bases + runs + runs batted in on June 23rd wins a $25 gift card to mlb.com.

Lights Out Day - Each season, starting in 2011, the CFCL team whose active roster produces the lowest number of points on August 8th will be named Lights Out Loser and have that moniker posted on the CFCL Internet Headquarters marquee for the remainder of the season.

The above three dates symbolize significant dates in Chicago Cub history since the CFCL has been in existence. We've chosen to commemorate Kerry Wood's 20 strikeout performance, The Sandberg Game and lights being turned on at Wrigley Field with the above rewards.

Something Borrowed

To cover the gift cards for K Wood and The Natural Days, we will use the money we saved from switching from CBS to OnRoto. Here's a breakdown of costs.

Stat Service $99
Trophy Ball $7
Trophy $14
Prize Pool $1030
Gift Cards $50

Total $1200 ($120 per team). The cost for CBS is $160, so by spending $100 on OnRoto and $50 on gift cards we actually are able to increase our prize pool by $10 without increasing fees.

Something Blue
I've got nothing here. Cub fans, think Cubbie Blue. Reds and White Sox fans . . . look at the sky.

That's it for now. Thanks for getting to the end of the post - hope it was worth it.

Draft Day 2011 Set

Well we are a democratic group of ba***rds, I will say that. We had votes for each day and each time slot. Ultimately it came down to travel plans for the Ruffins vs. work schedules for the Clowns and Red Hots. The Clowns and Red Hots were able to coordinate things so that our Draft Day will be Saturday, April 2nd at 1pm.

I will have an exact address that will be e-mailed to you soon along with the ammenities that we do and don't have.

End of Winter Waivers - 2011

Winter Waivers 2011 came to a predictable end when Jenrry Mejia slipped into the Free Agent Pool.

Trade season is open and active (see post below).

Now we move on to Draft Preparations. I will provide all of you with specifics to the ammenities of the draft location once we lock in on a draft day and time (still waiting on one owner to respond) and once we make a decision the stat service (haven't heard back from anyone, though some of you may have contacted the Stats Czar directly which would be appropriate).

Winter Waiver 2011 - Round 3

It just won't die. THE CLOWNS just won't let it die. Guaranteeing a Round 4, the Clowns successfully submitted a claim.

Clowns
Phillipe Aumont .02M (Jenrry Mejia .05)

Anyone wanting Mejia has until Sunday, the 16th at 3pm to claim him. DUDE, DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE BEARS ARE PLAYING ON SUNDAY? AND AFTER THAT, "STRAIGHT NO CHASER" IS GOING TO BE ROCKING IT ON NBC FOR THE SKATING EXHIBITION?

This is going in your permanent file and not reflect kindly on you at Draft Day when you need a certain owner to blink.

Scott - still looking for a team name.

Everone else - please read the next post here at the Front Office and let me know what is your preferred Draft Day and time.