Winter Waiver 2010 - Round 2

Very quiet second round. Players in parentheses are available for Round 3.

Mo's Red Hots
Kris Medlin .05 (Danny Herrera .05)
John Smoltz .06 (Chris Dickerson .16)

Dem Rebels
Aaron Cook .01 (Ryan Spilborghs .01)
Andrew Lambo .05M (John Lannan .12)

Candy Colored Clowns
Kevin Kouzmanoff .12 (Emelio Bonafacio .05)

Round 3 claims must be submitted no later than 3pm Thursday, January 14th. Again, for every player claimed, a player must be waived.

Mo's Red Hots
Kris Medlin .05
*John Smoltz .06

Twin Killers
None

Revenge
None

Dem Rebels
Aaron Cook .01
*John Smoltz .06
*Kevin Kouzmanoff .12
Andrew Lambo .05M

Ruffins
None

Clowns
*Kevin Kouzmanoff .12

Bulls
*Aaron Cook

Copperfields
*Kevin Kouzmanoff .12

DoorMatts
None

Kenndoza Line
None

First Trade of 2010

Only 44 hours and 30 minutes into the new trade season the Candy Colored Clowns and Dem Rebels completed a deal addressing each other's needs.

Dem Rebels traded young pitching phenom Mat Latos (.02 11+) and their 2nd round rotation pick to the Clowns for Rebel fan favorite Derrek Lee (.19 11+) and their 6th round rotation pick.

The Clowns immediately met with their Salary Capologist Cookie to see how best to spend the extra .17.

Rebels Management tearfully awaited at Fort Payne Internation Airport for the arrival of Lee. Upon touchdown, the Rebel limo (a rusted pickup truck with 323,417 miles on it) sped Lee to Confederate Park so that Lee could organize his locker, held in vacant honor of his previous five years of service.

Constitutional Updates

As CFCL action ramps up with Winter Waivers and the opening of the trade market, the Executive Committee is undertaking a review of the CFCL Constitution. It's been a few years since the online version of the Constitution was updated - which is unfortunate because we've undergone a few significant changes (including a new contract identification structure) that aren't reflected in the currently-available Constitution.

We are making sure that we're bringing it up to date, simplifying things where we can, closing loopholes, and adding clarifications to head off any potential Constitutional crisises.

If there is anything you feel is missing from the Constitution or is particularly confusing or cumbersome, please let us know so we can address it now as we're going through this process.

Winter Waiver 2010 - Round 1

Suprisingly quiet claiming considering it's the First Round. Only five team submitted claims. Here are the results.

Mo's Red Hots
Dan Haren .33W (Waive Micah Hoffpauir .10)
Dan Murphy .05W (Ryan Garko .15)
James MacDonald .05W (Scott Rolen .24)
Sean Marshall .01W (Carlos Delgado .17)
Jose Ceda .02M (Kevin Kouzmanoff .12)

Revenge
Carlos Zambrano .08W (Aaron Cook .01)
Jose Valverde .20W (John Smoltz .06)

Dem Rebels
Angel Guzman .05W (Mike MacDougal .06)
Raul Ibanez .26W (John Mayberry .06)
LaTroy Hawkins .10W (Angel Pagan .05)
John Lannan .12W (Adam Rosales .05)
Casey McGehee .11W (Allen Craig .05)
Gorkys Hernandez .02M (Ben Francisco .08)

Bulls
Matt Diaz .06W (Isaac Davis .05)
Dan Meyer .05W (Kris Medlin .05)
Mike Pelfrey .01W (Zach Duke .05)
Arthur Rhodes .05W (Andrew Lambo .05M)

Copperfields
Clayton Richard .06W (Jason Kendall .01)
Eric Young Jr. .12W (Scott Hairtson .02)
Kevin Correia .10W (Willie Harris .05)
Carlos Lee .36W (Chris Sampson .05)
Mitch Stetter .05 (Manny Parra .03)

The players waived in parenthesis can be claimed by Sunday, January 10th at 3pm. The Trade Season is officially open!! Keep in mind, regardless of trades made, any claims made MUST INCLUDE a concurrent player to waive. That applies even if you've made a trade and have fewer than 23 players on your roster.

The Roster Excel Sheet will be udpated and ready for download later tonight.

Red Hots (only 5)
*Haren .33
*Murphy .05
*Jose Valverde .20
James MacDonald .05
*Sean Marshall .01
Jose Ceda .02M

Twin Killers
None

Revenge
*Haren .33
*Carlos Zambrano .08
*Jose Valverde .20

Dem Rebels
*Dan Haren .33
*Angel Guzman .05
Raul Ibanez .26
*LaTroy Hawkins .10
John Lannan .12
Casey McGehee .11
Gorkys Hernandez .02M

Ruffins
None

Clowns
None

Bulls (only 4)
*Carlos Zambrano .08
*Matt Diaz .06
*Angel Guzman .05
Dan Meyer .05
Mike Pelfrey .01
Arthur Rhodes .05
*Sean Marshall .01

Copperfields (only 6)
*Dan Haren .33
Clayton Richard .06
Eric Young .12
Kevin Correia .10
*Dan Murphy .05
*Matt Diaz .06
*Sean Marshall .01
Carlos Lee .36
*LaTroy Hawkins .10
Mitch Stetter .05



DoorMatts
None

Kenndoza Line
None

Winter Waiver List 2010

Below are the players and salaries for those cut during the Winter Waiver Cuts. If you select a player you MUST provide a subsequent player to cut from your final 23. All claims must be submitted by 3pm on Thursday, January 7th. At that time (3pm on Thursday) the Trade Season officially opens.


Church, Ryan .08; Kotchman, Casey .07; Greene, Khalil .12; Johnson, Kelly .22;

Bard, Josh .01; Moylan, Peter .10; Parnell, Bobby .06; Rhodes, Arthur .05;

Coste, Chris .10; Burke, Greg .05; Ceda, Jose .02M; Harden, Rich .37; Johnson, Reed .15;

Samardzija, Jeff .05; Weathers, David .05; Miller, Andrew .05; Lee, Carlos .36;

Soriano, Alfonso .27; Fox, Jake .08; Rodriguez, Ivan .05; Snyder, Chris .07;

Stauffer, Tim .07; Infante, Omar .10; Miller, Trever .07; Oeltjen, Trent .06;

Pearce, Steve .06; Petit, Yus .05; Anderson, Garret .04; Ankiel, Rick .10;

Lewis, Fred .23; Johnson, Nick .05; Martin, Russell .19;

Encarnacion, Edwin .21; Gonzalez, Mike .01; Mock, Garrett .05; O'Flaherty, Eric .06;

Belliard, Ronnie .04; Burnett, Sean .05; Detwiler, Ross .05M; Hinske, Eric .01;


Gonzalez, Alex .15; Miles, Aaron .01; Gonzalez, Alberto .05; Castro, Ramon .01;


Eyre, Scott .10; Rauch, Jon .05; Castro, Juan .05; Conrad, Brooks .05;


Correia, Kevin .10; Gaudin, Chad .05; Giles, Brian .09; Loretta, Mark .02;


Meredith, Cla .04; Schlereth, Dan .05; Diaz, Matt .06; Haeger, Charlie .05;


Ryan, Brendan .10; Winn, Randy .12; Guzman, Christian .11; Santos, Omir .06;


Ibanez, Raul .26; DeFelice, Mark .05; Haren, Dan .33; Marshall, Sean .01;


Donelly, Brendan .05; Atkins, Garrett .23; Daley, Matt .07; Hawkins, LaTroy .10;



Lannan, John .12; Pierre, Juan .06; Uribe, Juan .07; Young, Jr., Eric .12;


Taylor, Michael .05; Beimel, Joe .07; Bush, Dave .06; Dobbs, Greg .10;


Hall, Bill .01; Lee, Cliff .33; Lugo, Julio .24; Vazquez, Javier .24;



Wilson, Jack .15; Renteria, Edgar .08; McGehee, Casey .11; Paulino, Ronny .01;



Looper, Braden .05; McDonald, James .05; Norris, Bud .16; Scherzer, Max .10;


Zito, Barry .02; Allen, Brandon .08; Valaika, Chris .02M; Kearns, Austin .01;


Pelfrey, Mike .01; Tracy, Chad .04; Nix, Lance .05; Ishikawa, Travis .01;


Byrnes, Eric .05; Hanigan, Ryan .05; Balentien, Wladmir .06; Rowand, Aaron .06;


Richard, Clayton .06; Romero, J.C. .05; Hermida, Jeremy .14; Morales, Franklin .15;


Cueto, Johnny .17; West, Sean .02; Clement, Jeff .06; Zambrano, Carlos .08;

Hernandez, Gorkys .02M; Murphy, Danny .05; Tatis, Fernando .05; Counsell, Craig .02


Lopez, Felipe .23; Drabek, Kyle .05; Gallagher, Sean .05; Grabow, John .10;


Green, Sean .02; Meyer, Dan .05; Park, Chan Ho .05; Putz, JJ .05; Reyes, Dennys .05;


Valverde, Jose .20; Cedeno, Ronny .05; Bradley, Milton .26; Cameron, Mike .15;

Eckstein, David .10; Hill, Koyie .05; Condrey, Clay .05; Durbin, Chad .06

Guzman, Angel .05; Stetter, Mitch .05; Donald Jason .05M; Ojeda, Augie .10

Peavy, Jake .28; Snell, Ian .05; Wade, Cory .05, Wallace, Brett .10M; Wellemeyer, Todd .15

Winter Waiver Process

Gentlemen -

Winter Waivers are due to me no later than 3pm on Sunday, January 3rd. Below I have pasted the Article in the Constitution that deals with the process and the claims. It's pretty self-explanatory, but if there are any questions, feel free to e-mail me. Thank you to the Kenndoza Line and Ruffins who have already submitted their cuts. The Rebels have submitted their cuts to the Executive Committee.

ARTICLE XVII. Winter Rosters and Winter WaiversBy 3:00 PM Central time on the first Sunday in January, each owner is required to submit to the League Secretary a list of 23 players, irrespective of position, taken from its combined Active and Reserve Rosters, but not including any players who have concluded their current contract (B or S contract players). This group of players becomes the winter roster.
NOTE: The date on which 23-man protected lists are due may be adjusted at the discretion of the Executive Committee if the New Year holiday falls on or near the first Sunday in January.
Immediately after the submission of winter rosters, a waiver period concluding at at 3:00 PM Central time on the following Thursday begins. Teams may select players who were waived. On claiming such a player, the claiming team must, in turn, waive a player from its own winter roster. Players thus waived become eligible for a second round of waiver claims, lasting until 3:00 PM Central time on the following Sunday, that are conducted in the same fashion. (unclaimed players from the first waiver period are no longer eligible.) The process continues on a Thursday-Sunday schedule until there is a period in which no one is claimed.
Players currently in the American League can be waived and claimed during Winter Waivers. American Leaguers claimed on Winter Waivers must be released if they are still in the American League in Roster Freeze Day.
Players on X contracts or long- term contracts cannot be waived during Winter Waivers. If, in special circumstances, an X or long-term contract player appears on the Winter Waiver list (for example, when the players remaining following a new owner draft are included in the waiver pool), the player's current contract status and obligations will remain in effect for the new team.
There is no limit to the number of players a team may claim in any given round of Winter Waivers. To claim more than one player, a team must submit a prioritized list of the players they want to claim. There should also be an accompanying list of the players the team will waive from their current roster should they receive any of the players they claimed.
Priority for claims will be in reverse order of the standings (the team that waived the player gets lowest priority), with the lowest-ranked team getting the first player on their list, the next lowest team getting the highest player on their list who is still available, and so on up through the standings. Selection then returns to the lowest-ranked team who still has players remaining on their list, and the process is repeated.
The salary of a player claimed on winter waivers stays the same as it had been before he was waived. His contract status becomes W, which will change to D if the player is kept by his CFCL team on the following Draft Day. The contracts of minor leaguers (M-contract players), as well as X and long-term contract players who are claimed on Winter Waivers remain unchanged.
After the first round of winter waivers, winter rosters may exceed or fall below 23 players through trading action. Whatever size the roster, however, any successful claim of a player on waivers must be accompanied by the placing of another player from the claiming team on waivers.

The Team Has A Name!

Just in time for the holiday rush on team paraphernalia, Mike Bentel (owner of the former Moore Better) and his twin brother Matt (GM and Special Assistant to the owner) have released the name of their franchise.

The Twin Killers are now in business.