Free Shoeless Joe.4

UPDATE 2008.04.26 8:02 pm EST / Rookie Reserves and '09 All-Star Break RR Draft order update.
UPDATE 2008.04.17 4:58 pm EST / Blakesville trades DANNY HAREN and RR MATT LaPORTA to Birdman for GRADY SIZEMORE. Birdman activates Billy Butler and moves LaPorta to empty RR slot.

Roster size ::: 30 + 3 / ::: Minimum 5 SP ::: 3 ROOKIE RESERVE ::: 5 DL

--5 Starters minimum... Pitching staff should resemble a real major league staff.

SETTINGS :::

League Name: Free Shoeless Joe [.4]
Draft Type: Yahoo Live Draft
Keeper Rounds and Rookie Reserve Draft by e-mail

Draft Time: Between Mar 1-20 / Date & time TBA
Teams: 10 [ + 1 Rookie Reserve Roster ]
Scoring Type: Rotisserie
Player Universe: All baseball
Max Moves: 60
Max Trades: No maximum
Trade Reject Time: 2 days
Trade End Date: August 29, 2007
Waiver Time: 2 days
Can't Cut List Provider: Yahoo! Sports
Trade Review: Commissioner +
Post Draft Players: Free Agents
Max Games Played: 162
Max Innings Pitched: 1500
Weekly Deadline: Daily - Tomorrow
Start Scoring on: Opening Day!

Roster Positions [30]

C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, MI, IF
LF, CF, RF, OF / Util
SP, SP / RP, RP, RP, RP, RP / P, P
10 Bench / 5 DL / 3 Rookie Reserve

Stat Categories:
R, HR, RBI, SB, AVG, OPS
W, SV, K, HLD, ERA, WHIP

Shoeless Joe Image above is graciously provided by Cleveland artist Jeff Suntala, whose web-site has, among many other beautiful renderings, several works on Cleveland Baseball and on The Negro Leagues, as well as a selection of POSTER ART available for sale.

RULES

CALENDAR :::

Early February / Notice will be sent that FINAL KEEPER LISTs are required by midnight on Sunday, February 3rd, 2008.
Week of February 4th / Final Keeper Lists will be posted. Any teams choosing to leave any of their Keeper slots empty will be contacted by the Commissioner, and will be required to choose the corresponding number of Early Draft Picks in a private e-mail draft. --(See RULE #7)-- Results will be announced upon completion.
Mid February / Commissioner will announce League Pre-ranking instructions. Rookie Reserve Draft participants will need to inform the commissioner of their intentions.
LIVE Draft Date will be selected by an on-line RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR.

Time will be set for 8:00pm EST if a weeknight; 2:00pm EST if a weekend.
Pre-Season Rookie Reserve Draft will be held the week after completion of the Live Draft. Any team owners participating will make RR Draft Picks in a private e-mail draft. Results will be announced upon completion.
Pre All-Star Break / Rookie Reserve Draft participants will need to inform the Commissioner of their intentions to participate by July 1st.
All-Star Break / Rookie Reserve private e-mail Draft commences. Results will be announced.
September 15th / Preliminary 2008 Keeper Lists deadline.

Rick Lopez, Commissioner

FSJ

The 2006 Free-Shoeless-Joe.4 League page on Yahoo.

Draft Order: 10th place team first through 1st place team last; then reverse: SNAKE.

Rookie Reserve Draft Order: As posted below.

Free-Shoeless-Joe.4 / Rosters 2008

#	Berea Mountaineers James Adams ASB '08 RR #4 '09 Draft Pick #	Blakesville Doug Depinet ASB '08 RR #10 '09 Draft Pick #	Brookline Dodgers Rick Lopez ASB '08 RR #8 '09 Draft Pick #	Greeley Greasers Steven Kahla ASB '08 RR #2 '09 Draft Pick #	Homer Hankies Brad Rodgers ASB '08 RR #1 '09 Draft Pick #	Wrath of Khan Kevin Hansbrough ASB '08 RR #9 '09 Draft Pick #	Hillsboro Jonathan Butler ASB '08 RR #6 '09 Draft Pick #	The Birdman Brad Dillman ASB '08 RR #5 '09 Draft Pick #	Swabian Pockets Patrick Röhrle ASB '08 RR #3 '09 Draft Pick #	Let's Play Ball Jerrod H. ASB '08 RR #7 '09 Draft Pick #
1	Ortiz	Teixeira	C.B. Young	Ca. Lee	A. Soriano	A. Rodriguez	R. Martin	M. Cabrera	V. Guerrero	Pujols
2	D. Wright	H. Ramirez	Howard	Rios	Beltran	Utley	BJ Upton	Sizemore	D. Jeter	A. Jones
3	Crawford	Bay	C. Pena	OPEN	V-Mart	Ichiro	B. Phillips	J. Reyes	A. Ramirez	B Roberts
4	M. Holliday	Haren	Zimmerman	OPEN	Hafner	Rollins	Cano	Fielder	Granderson	C Jones
5	OPEN	J. Santana	McCann	CC Sabathia	J. Morneau	OPEN	OPEN	Halladay	Berkman	Mauer
6	Webb	Billingsley	Peavy	Bedard	King Felix	F Liriano	Shields	Kazmir	Hill	Beckett
7	Lackey	Jer. Weaver	Lincecum	C Zambrano	Oswalt	JJ Putz	Corpas	OPEN	C. Young	Hamels
8	Papelbon	OPEN	Broxton	OPEN	Cain	Nathan	OPEN	OPEN	Marmol	Fr. Rodriguez
RR 1	Brandon Wood SS (Ana) [33 AB]	Rick Porcello RHP (Det) [---]	Clay Buchholz RHP (Bos) [---]	M. Pelfrey SP (NYM) [ '08 ]	M. Garza RHP (Min) [ '08 ]	David Price RHP (TB) [---]	Ad. Miller RHP (Clv) [---]	M. LaPorta OF (KC) [ '08 ]	Luke Hochevar RHP (KC) [12.2 IP]	Ian Stewart 3B (Col) [43 AB]
RR 2	H. Bailey RHP (Cin) [45.1 IP]	OPEN OF (Mil) [---]	C. Kershaw LHP (LAD) [---]	Ad. Jones OF (Sea) [139 AB]	E. Longoria 3B (TB) [---]	Matt Wieters C (Balt) [ '08 ]	E. Aybar SS (Ana) [ '08 ]	J. Bruce OFG (Cin) [---]	Carlos Carrasco RHP (Phi) [---]	G. Gonzalez SP (CWS) [---]
RR 3	Josh Fields 3B (ChA) [ '08 ]	C. Rasmus OF StL)) [---]	JR Towles C (Hou) [---]	J. Niemann RHP (TB) [---]	A. Miller LHP (Det) [ '08 ]	C. Maybin OF (Det) [49 AB]	Travis Snider OF (Tor) [---]	Johnny Cueto RHP (Cin) [---]	Y. Petit RHP (NYM) [ '08 ]	Geovany Soto C (ChA) [---]
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