Grays / Monarchs Trade

To Grays: LHP Tyler Skaggs

To Monarchs: RHP Jhoulys Chacin and 10K

Highlanders / River Dogs Trade

To Highlanders: RHP Oscar de la Cruz

To River Dogs: 20K

Pilots / River Dogs Trade

To Pilots: RHP Kyle Funkhouser

To River Dogs: 10K

River Dogs' Cuts

The River Dogs have cut left handed pitchers Zach Duke and Gregory Soto.

Both will be added to the Waiver List.

Gypsies / Pilots Trade

To Gypsies: 20K

To Pilots: C  Willians Astudillo

Pilots / TinCaps Trade

To Pilots: C Raudy Read

To TinCaps: 10K

Roster Cuts

The Twins have cut OF Carlos Gonzalez and the Expos have cut RHP Hector Velazquez.

Both will be added to the Waiver List.

Added to Waiver List

The Twins have cut Justin Bour (1B) and his name has been added to the Waiver Availables list.

Pilots / River Dogs Trade

To Pilots: OF Michael Siani

To River Dogs: 28K

Pilots / Twins Trade

To Pilots: C Tomas Nido

To Twins: LHP Jose Suarez

TinCaps / Twins Trade

To TinCaps: SS Gabriel Arias, LHP Alex Wells, RHP Luis Frias, SS Termarr Johnson and 50K

To Twins: 3B Justin Turner

Pilots / TinCaps Trade

To Pilots: LHP Taylor Rogers

To TinCaps: OF Tyler Naquin, OF Kameron Misner, 3B Wyatt Mathisen, and 75K

Colt .45s / Yellow Jackets Trade

To Colt .45s: 90K

To Yellow Jackets: 2B Harold Castro and OF Griffin Conine

Grays / Pilots Trade

To Grays: 10K

To Pilots: LHP Tim Mayza

Browns /Twins Trade

To Twins: 22K

To Browns: OF Austin Dean

The post-Draft Report

The Unowned Player Draft went fairly smoothly this afternoon. The results are posted on the Message Board (Unowned Player Draft forum, 2020 Unowned Player Draft topic).

All in all, 124 players were selected for a total of 9,443K. The biggest spenders were the Expos and Dodgers... doling out 946K and 878K respectively. The TinCaps nabbed 13 players.. most of any team.

Coincidentally, there was a tie at the co-highest bid... made on Luis Arraez at 303K... by the Captains and the TinCaps. The Captains narrowly edged out the TinCaps in the tiebreaker by being #2 in reverse finish order to the #4 TinCaps. Zach Pleasac drew the other co-highest bid at 303K by the Dodgers.

The Master Roster and Player/Money Totals files have been uploaded to the website and include the results of the draft. In addition to the money totals being updated, the player totals have also been updated in the Player/Money Totals file.

Trading will remain open until February 1st and the final day to cut players without penalty is February 8th.

This year's Waiver Draft will be held on February 22nd. The deadline for submitting lists is Friday the 21st at midnight. Since the Blaze will not be participating, you can start sending your draft lists to me anytime. I'm not anticipating a lot of action since most teams are either maxed out or currently over the limit of players.

The Pelicans have cut Adrian Sampson, so he'll join the leftovers from the Unowned Draft in the Waiver Availables list... which has incidentally just been posted in the Downloads section.

Colt .45s / Highlanders Trade

To Colt .45s: RHP Sam Coonrod, RHP Josh Staumont and 170K

To Highlanders: RHP Brandon Workman

Browns / TinCaps Trade

To Browns: 3B Maikel Franco

To TinCaps: RHP Adam Kloffenstein and 60K

Browns / Captains Trade

To Browns: OF Jarren Duran, LHP Matthew Liberatore, 3B Nolan Gorman and 3B Bobby Dalbec

To Captains: 2B Jonathan Villar and 3B Anthony Rendon

Twins / Yellow Jackets Trade

To Twins: LHP Tim Cate, RHP Kevin Ginkel, RHP Luis Frias

To Yellow Jackets: RHP Corey Kluber

Highlanders / Twins Trade

To Highlanders: 15K

To Twins: RHP Shaun Anderson

Grays / Stars Trade

To Grays: SS Didi Gregorius and RHP Jhoulys Chacin

To Stars: RHP Mike Foltynewicz and SS Cole Tucker

Files Updated

The Master Roster and Player/Money Totals files in the downloads section have been updated.

Keep in mind... in the Player/Money Totals file, the player totals haven't been updated to reflect trades. I'm only going to update those numbers again after trading ends. But, the money totals are current through all trades posted below this.

Grays / TinCaps Trade

To Grays: RHP Mike Foltynewicz, RHP Dellin Betances, and 30K

To TinCaps OF Jhon Torres, 3B Hudson Potts, RHP Mason Denaburg, C Drew Romo and LHP Brock Burke

Grays / Pilots Trade

To Grays: 3B Hudson Potts and 126K

To Pilots: LHP Brett Anderson

Bandits / Expos Trade

To Bandits: OF Michael Gugliotti

To Expos: RHP Jaime Barria

Second Trading Period Opening Flurry

To River Dogs: C Cam Gallagher, 3B Joe Rizzo and 60K

To Yellow Jackets: C Buster Posey

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The Highlanders: Ken Giles and 60K

To River Dogs: 2B Shed Long, RHP Zack Littel and LHP Gregory Soto

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To River Dogs: RHP Adam Civale, LHP Alex Young, RHP Tyler Ivey, LHP Lewis Thorpe, 2B Luis Rengifo and 100K

To Pilots: LHP Clayton Kershaw and OF Avisail Garcia

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To Highlanders: LHP Rich Hill

To Yellow Jackets: C Austin Allen, OF DJ Stewart and 60K

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To Pilots: OF Kole Calhoun and C Tony Wolters

To TinCaps: C Jake Rogers, 1B Matt Thaiss, SS Willi Castro, RHP Bryan Abreu, RHP Beau Burrows, SS Braden Shewmake and 45K

RML News

We have a date for the Unowned Player Draft. It will be held on January 18th. As usual, Lloyd will be hosting it and it's slated to start at noon. Anyone near or willing to travel to NE Ohio is welcome to join the fun of processing all the draft lists. I'll let you know when it's safe to send your draft lists to both Lloyd and myself.

Before that happens, we'll have our second trading period starting on January 1st... running through February 1st.

Also, Michael Grimm as decided to change his team name from the Indians to the River Cats. I've made the change to all the relevant files and in the manager directory.

Free Agent Draft Results

Eight players changed teams and four teams answered bids to retain their players. Here are the details:

Andriese, Matt (former team: Firebirds) - Acquired by the Pilots for 70K
Hamels, Cole (former team: Whales) - Acquired by the Stars for 185K
Hernandez, Enrique (former team: Firebirds) - Acquired by the Dodgers for 106K
Longoria, Evan (former team: Whales) - Acquired by the Reds for 165K x 2
McCann, Brian (former team: Colt .45s) - Acquired by the Gypsies for 46K
Pillar, Kevin (former team: Bandits) - Acquired by the Expos for 133K
Pina, Manny (former team: Gypsies) - Acquired by the Grays for 57K
Simmons, Andrelton (former team: Colt .45s) - Acquired by the Whales for 110K

Aguilar, Jesus (Monarchs) - Matched a 35K bid from the Whales
Duffy, Danny (Yellow Jackets) - Matched a 95K bid from the Whales
Maybin, Cameron (Whales) - Matched a 78K bid from the Gypsies
McHugh, Collin (Monarchs) - Matched an 85K bid from the Whales

These players received no active bids and will stay put at what they were originally offered:

Barraclough, Kyle (Twins)
Bour, Justin (Twins)
Cabrera, Melky (Colt .45s)
Chacin, Jhoulys (Stars)
Conley, Adam (Monarchs)
Difo, Wilmer (Monarchs)
Flores, Wilmer (Browns)
Forsythe, Logan (Whales)
Freese, David (Grays)
Gausman, Kevin (Colt .45s)
Goins, Ryan (Knights)
Holland, Derek (Stars)

The 'RML Master Roster' and 'Player/Money Totals' files in the downloads area have been updated to reflect this draft's results.