Winter Waivers

Happy Holidays to all!

With Hanukkah, Christmas and New Year's dominating our attention, I just wanted to throw out a quick reminder that Winter Waivers will take place at 3pm on Sunday, January 7th.

So that means you need to submit to the Commissioner your list of keepers (and preferably your cuts so I can do a proper accounting).  You are required to keep 23 players.  There are no position restrictions, no salary cap, no minor leaguer cap.  You are allowed to keep players on your roster that are currently with American League teams.  You keep 23 players and jettison everyone else.

When you submit your list DO NOT list expired contracts among your cuts.  They are not yours to cut as they technically left your roster when the last out was recorded for the 2017 season.

I will do my best to post a list of available players that evening and you will have until Thursday, January 11th at 3pm to submit your claims.

Sombreros are the champions

The weekend stage was set for excitement.  Four teams, two points and plenty of movement potential.  But the Sombreros saved just enough games and stole enough bases to thwart any potential surge from the Ruffins or Line.

Still having four teams finish with over 70 points and within three points of each other is amazing.

For those of you taking advantage of the next four days before Nationals/Cubs ramps up, here are the HTD discounts for Draft Day 2018.

Revenge - .06
Lucas Duda
Gregory Polanco

Rebels - .05
Cesar Hernandez
Giancarlo Stanton
Joe Panik
Randal Grichuk

Beatniks - .04
Yasmani Grandal
Brandon Phillips
Pedro Strop
Max Scherzer

DoorMatts - .03
Yangervis Solarte
John Lackey

Killers - .02
Adeiny Hechavarria
Yadier Molina
Matt Harvey

Swing - .02
None

Clowns - .02
Yasmany Tomas

Final Day

One day, a point and a half, three teams.

Heading into the final day the Sombreros hold a half point lead over the Ruffins.  To trigger the tie breaking rules, the DoorMatts would need to steal two bases OR the Ruffins would need a QS (without the DoorMatts getting one) OR the Rebels would need 3 Holds/Saves (without the Sombreros getting one).  This may not seem as impossible as it sounds since the Rebels have Corey Knebel and THREE Arizona Diamondbacks active.  So if Arizona had a lead in the 6th, and we know managers are not letting starters go much beyond the 5th inning, all it would take is for the D-Backs to run out DeLarosa, Hernandez and Bradley to secure the win and give the Ruffins half a point.

If only one of these scenarios plays out, we have a tie, so we go to the tie breaker - head to head categories.  The Ruffins lead the Sombreros in 5 categories and the Sombreros lead the Ruffins in 5 categories.  So we go to tie-breaker #2.

AB+BB+(3xIP)  Team with the highest number wins.

Heading into Sunday:

Sombreros = 11,327.1

Ruffins = 11,202

Sombreros lead by 110.1 which has actually increased since the games started on Friday.

Three Days, Four Teams, Three Points

With 33 previous seasons in the CFCL books, it's hard to identify if this weekend is completely unprecedented.  It may be.  If not, it doesn't have many roommates.

Heading into the final weekend, four teams are separated by three points for the championship (and one point separates the top three teams).

Doing a quick eyeball of the standings, there is plenty of opportunity for movement, so almost anything can happen, but adding to the equation is that many NL teams out of the hunt and those already locked into playoff slots, may not be playing their regulars.  So there's just as good a chance that nothing will change in three days.

Here's what could happen.

Sombreros (76 points) have the opportunity to get a point in the standings, but could also lose a point.
Ruffins (75 points) have the opportunity to gain a point, but could lose as many as three.
Kenndoza Line (75 points) have the opportunity to gain two points, but could lose one.
Revenge (73 points) could lose a point.

None of the above numbers are official - more just an educated guess.  What is almost certain is that the Live Scoring link could crash from massive refreshing.

Good luck to all involved!

More Trades

Trying to break the trade wires, the Clowns offer up two more trades.

They trade Stephen Strasburg (.33 19+) and their 9th pick to the Ruffins for Jose Urena (.05 19+) and Yadier Alvarez (.05 Mx).

Then they worked with the Revenge sending AJ Pollock (.29 19+) and Paul DeJong (.05 19+) in exchange for Stephen Piscotty (.07 X), Zack Cosart (.04 19+), Anthony DiSclafani (.10 19+) and Corey Ray (.10 Mx).

Busy Trade Day Continues

The Kenndoza Line see the top of the mountain and are making their charge, completing two trades less than two hours before the deadline.

The Line traded Tyler Flowers (.02 19+) to the Ruffins for Ender Inciarte (.15 17) and then.....


.....traded Andrew Chafin (.01 19+), Aaron Altherr (.01 19+) and the 6th round pick they acquired from the Clowns to the Swing for Jake Arrieta (.10 17!) and Hernan Perez (.06 18+)

Clowns Rebels Deal

With mere hours until the trade deadline, the Clowns and Rebels made a deal.

The Rebels send Alen Hanson (.10 19+) and Tyler Anderson (.05 18+) to the Clowns in exchange for Kyle Freeland (.06 19+).