Browns / Grays Trade

To Browns: LHP Ranger Suarez, LHP Cooper Hjerpe and OF Colton Ledbetter

To Grays: RHP Sonny Gray

Grays / Yellow Jackets Trade

To Grays: LHP Robbie Ray

To Yellow Jackets: RHP Brett Honeywell, RHP Luke Weaver and 10K

Bandits / Colt .45s Trade

To Bandits: SS Colson Montgomery, SS Edwin Arroyo, LHP Mason Montgomery and 43K

To Colt .45s: 1B Paul Goldschmidt and SS Xander Bogaerts

Bandits / Stars Trade

To Bandits: C Keibert Ruiz, 1B Joey Meneses, LHP AJ Minter, OF Alec Burleson, OF Dominic Canzone and 60K

To Stars: LHP Julio Urias and 3B Justin Turner

Bandits / Browns Trade

To Bandits: C Salvador Perez

To Browns: OF Teo Hernandez

Expos / Hornets Trade

To Expos: SS Isiah Kiner-Falefa

To Hornets: OF Elijah Dunham and 1B Blaine Crim

Bandits / Grays Trade

To Bandits: SS Jordan Westburg, OF Brent Rooker, 2B Nick Madrigal, C Jake Rogers and 50K

To Grays: 1B Bryce Harper

Voting Results

Proposal 1 (expanding rosters to 32): Failed by a 13-8 count... only getting 61.9% of the vote.

Proposal 2 (not having to clear roster space to participate in the waiver draft): Passed by a 14-7 tally... getting the bare minimum of 66.7% of the votes.

Proposal 2 will take effect for the next waiver draft.

RML Updates

Online version of the Master Roster and Player/Money Totals files in the Downloads are have been updated to reflect in-season trades and post-trading cuts/pickups.

The Captains cut Tanner Banks to get down to the 30-player roster limit.

Captains / Knights Trade

To Captains: OF Bryan Reynolds

To Knights: LHP Dax Fulton, RHP Luis Danys Morales, OF Anthony Gutierrez and C Jeferson Quero

Captains / RockHounds trade

To Captains: OF Mike Trout and RHP Emmanuel Clase

To RockHounds: OF Lourdes Gurriel, RHP Mitch Keller, OF Oscar Colas and OF Druw Jones

New message board forum

A new message board forum has been added.

It's called "Game Results".

Post anything related to your game playing, highlights, reviews, results and info in that forum.

Playing Schedule

Block #    Dates in Strat's Schedule   Our Start/Due Dates
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Block 1    March 29 - April 28         April 1 - April 27
Block 2    April 29 - May 29           May 1 - May 28
Block 3    May 30 - June 29            June 1 - June 27
Block 4    June 30 - July 29           July 1 - July 28
Block 5    July 30 - August 29         August 1 - August 28
Block 6    August 30 - September 27    September 1 - September 28

Pilgrims / Whales Trade

To Pilgrims: 1B Vlad Guerrero Jr

To Whales: RHP Hunter Greene, RHP Andrew Painter, OF Elijah Green and 1B Luke Voit

Pilots / Titans Trade

To Pilots: 7K

To Titans: RHP Matthew Allan

TinCaps / Titans Trade

To TinCaps: LHP Kyle Muller, OF Roberto Campos and RHP Chase Petty

To Titans: 2B Matt McLain and RHP Gunnar Hoglund

Waiver Draft Results

Round 1: Pilots - Dickerson, Corey (40K)
Round 1: Twins - Stephens, Jackson (15K)
Round 1: Pelicans - Reynolds, Matt (15K)
Round 1: Knights - Vest, Will (20K)
Round 1: RockHounds - Soler, Jorge (35K)
Round 1: River Dogs - Baddoo, Akil (20K)
Round 1: TinCaps - Pass
Round 1: Colt .45s - Meyers, Jake (20K)
Round 1: Expos - Crismatt, Nabil (20K)
Round 1: Whales - Feltner, Ryan (15K)
Round 1: Stars - Kelly, Joe (20K)
Round 1: Hornets - Fortes, Nick (15K)
Round 1: Gypsies - Vierling, Matt (15K)
Round 1: Dodgers - Heasley, Jonathan (15K)
Round 1: Captains - Hernandez, Enrique (40K)
Round 1: Bandits - Higgins, PJ (15K)
Round 1: Pilgrims - Rosario, Eddie (40K)
Round 2: Pelicans - Wynns, Austin (15K)
Round 2: TinCaps - Plawecki, Kevin (15K)
Round 2: Expos - Velazquez, Andrew (15K)
Round 2: Whales - Harvey, Hunter (15K)
Round 2: Hornets - Walls, Taylor (15K)
Round 2: Gypsies - Casali, Curt (15K)
Round 2: Dodgers - Stassi, Max (15K)
Round 2: Captains - Milner, Hoby (15K)
Round 2: Bandits - Hutchison, Drew (15K)
Round 2: Pilgrims - Givens, Mychal (15K)
Round 3: Pelicans - Brosseau, Mike (15K)
Round 3: TinCaps - Pruitt, Austin (15K)
Round 3: Expos - Barnhart, Tucker (15K)
Round 3: Gypsies - Schoop, Jonathan (15K)
Round 3: Dodgers - Fedde, Erick (15K)
Round 3: Pilgrims - Garcia, Avisail (15K)
Round 4: Pelicans - Escobar, Alcides (15K)
Round 4: Expos - Sanchez, Anibal (15K)
Round 4: Dodgers - Nance, Tommy (15K)
Round 5: Expos - Moll, Sam (15K)
Round 5: Dodgers - McGee, Jake (15K)
Round 6: Expos - Underwood, Duane (15K)

Files updated

Now that the penalty-free cut date has passed, I've updated the following files in the Downloads area:

• Master Roster
• Player/Money Totals
• Waiver Availables
• Owned Minor Leaguers
• Minor League Cuts (listed as 2022, but is through yesterday)

Trading has ended

Now that our second trading period has ended, I've updated the following files in the Downloads area:

• Master Roster
• Player/Money Totals
• Waiver Availables
• Owned Minor Leaguers

Gypsies / Whales Trade

To Gypsies: 10K

To Whales: C Kyle Higashioka

Stars / TinCaps Trade

To Stars: LHP Ethan Small

To TinCaps: 10K

Gypsies / TinCaps Trade

To Gypsies: RHP Mason Denaburg and RHP Connor Seabold

To TinCaps: 10K

Dodgers / Reds Trade

To Dodgers: RHP Dennis Santana

To Reds: 15K

Dodgers / Gypsies Trade

To Dodgers: LHP Joely Rodriguez

To Gypsies: 15K

Colt .45s / RockHounds Trade

To Colt .45s: LHP Drew Rom

To RockHounds: 15K

RockHounds / Twins Trade

To RockHounds: 50K

To Twins: 1B Garrett Cooper

Colt .45s / Titans Trade

To Colt .45s: SS Wilman Diaz

To Titans: 15K

Expos / Pilots Trade

To Expos: C Andrew Knizner

To Pilots: 15K

Pilots / Titans Trade

To Pilots: 10K

To Titans: RHP Jose Ruiz

Browns / Yellow Jackets Trade

To Browns: SS Javier Baez and 3B Tucker Toman

To Yellow Jackets: OF Chas McCormick and LHP Jared Shuster

Gypsies / Whales Trade

To Gypsies: RHP Gerrit Cole

To Whales: RHP Gavin Williams, RHP Johnny Cueto, SS Alan Trejo and C Rafael Marchan

Browns / Whales Trade

To Browns 40K

To Whales: 2B Cavan Biggio

Monarchs / Titans Trade

To Monarchs: LHP Wade Miley

To Titans: 20K

Grays / Pilots Trade

To Grays: OF Jarren Duran

To Pilots: 20K

Pilots / Titans Trade

To Pilots: RHP Ryan Pressly and SS Nico Perezs

To Titans: LHP Kris Bubic, RHP Caleb Kilian and LHP Jackson Sanders

Browns / Grays Trade

To Browns: 3B Emmanuel Rivera

To Grays: 40K

RockHounds / Titans Trade

To RockHounds: OF Mike Trout and 3B Brett Baty

To Titans: RHP Tony Gonsolin, C Jorge Alfaro, OF Robert Hassell, RHP Shane Baz and 1B Kyle Manzardo

Grays / Reds Trade

To Grays: 80K

To Reds: RHP Griffin Jax

Pilgrims / Pilots Trade

To Pilgrims: OF Cody Bellinger

To Pilots: RHP James Taillon, OF Aaron Hicks and RHP Paul Sewald

Bandits / Grays Trade

To Bandits: 180K

To Grays: RHP Felix Bautista

Blaze / Dodgers Trade

To Blaze: 15K

To Dodgers: OF Alex Call

Bandits / Reds Trade

To Bandits: 40K

To Reds: SS Jose Iglesias

Grays / Whales Trade

To Grays: RHP Michael King

To Whales: 2B Ian Lewis, OF Franchy Cordero and 30K

Grays / Titans Trade

To Grays: 40K

To Titans: RHP Paul Blackburn

Browns / Pilots Trade

To Browns: 48K

To Pilots: OF Wil Myers

Pilots / Titans Trade

To Pilots: OF Drew Waters and 15K

To Titans: OF Alex Kirilloff

Unowned Draft Results

Today's Unowned Player Draft is in the books.

The pick-by-pick results have been posted in the Unowned Player Draft forum of the Message Board under the 2022 Unowned Player Draft thread.

Here's how each team's numbers shook out:

Bandits - 7 @ 1100k
Blaze - 8 @ 400k
Browns - 4 @ 338k
Captains - 5 @ 664k
Colt .45s - 3 @ 513k
Dodgers - did not participate
Expos - 4 @ 291k
Grays - 11 @ 760k
Gypsies - 4 @ 192k
Hornets - did not participate
Knights - 5 @ 625k
Monarchs - 12 @ 725k
Pelicans - 2 @ 192k
Pilgrims - 6 @ 365k
Pilots - 10 @ 1132k
Reds - 2 @ 199k
River Dogs - 8 @ 1141k
RockHounds - 3 @ 163k
Stars - 6 @ 837k
TinCaps - 6 @ 622k
Titans - 7 @ 627k
Twins - 3 @ 329k
Whales - 5 @ 551k
Yellow Jackets - 1 @ 40k

Blaze / River Dogs Trade

To Blaze: OF Eli White

To River Dogs: LHP Konnor Pilkington and 30K

River Dogs / Twins Trade

To River Dogs: SS Rece Hinds, OF Jay Allen and SS Osleivis Basabe

To Twins: OF Hunter Renfroe

Gypsies / Pelicans Trade

To Gypsies: RHP Michael Lorenzen

To Pelicans: RHP Tyler Wells

Grays / Whales Trade

To Grays: RHP Ross Stripling

To Whales: LHP Noah Shultz, LHP Thomas White and RHP Nick Pivetta

Pilgrims / Titans Trade

To Titans: RHP Dan Espino, SS JP Crawford and SS Tyler Freeman

To Pilgrims: RHP Walker Buehler

Titans / Whales Trade

To Titans: RHP Tylor Megill

To Whales: SS Felnin Celesten

Post Free Agent Draft Updates

The online versions of the Master Roster, Player/Money Totals and Unowned Player files have been updated through the Free Agent Draft.

The updating of the Unowned Player file had nothing to do with yesterday's draft, but there was an addition made to it. Aaron Sanchez was cut at payroll time, but I mistakenly kept him on the Titans until the error was pointed out to me. He's now included in the online version.

Here is how the draft affected each team's bottom line:

• Bandits (-145)
• Captains (-41)
• Gypsies (-150)
• Monarchs (+250)
• Pilgrims (-70)
• Reds (-4)
• RockHounds (-35)
• Titans (+31)
• Twins (+132)
• Whales (-216)
• Yellow Jackets (-316)

Also, there were 3 instances of single year bids being over the protected rates of the players. In those cases, the protected rate is listed in the master roster... per our rule:

>>> In this draft, when single year offers are for more than the protected rate, the excess over the protected rate is considered a bonus. For example, if a veteran has a protected rate of $80,000 and the successful bid on the player is a single year offer of $101,000, $21,000 is considered a bonus and the player goes on the roster with an $80,000 salary. There are no bonuses involved with multi-year contracts.

Those instances were:

• Bandits bid 170k on Iglesias and his protected rate was 165k.
• RockHounds matched Maldonado at 81k and his protected rate was 80k.
• Whales matched on Williams at 106k and his protected rate was 105k.

Not huge changes in any of these cases, but this is the reason why their listed salary does not match what these teams paid for the above players.

Free Agent Draft Results

Here are the results of the Free Agent Draft... which had 8 players changing teams and 6 others had bids matched.

These 5 players did not have their bids matched by their previous teams:

• Baez, Javier (formerly on the Titans) goes to the Yellow Jackets for 151k x 5
• Brantley, Michael (formerly on the Monarchs) goes to the Gypsies for 119k x 2
• Hoskins, Rhys (formerly on the Monarchs) goes to the Yellow Jackets for 165k x 5
• Iglesias, Raisel (formerly on the Twins) goes to the Bandits for 170k
• Manaea, Sean (formerly on the Bandits) goes to the Whales for 90k x 3

The Monarchs lost these 3 players because they had no answering rights:

• Choi, Ji-Man (went to the Pilgrims for 70k)
• Higashioka, Kyle (went to the Gypsies for 31k)
• Rogers, Taylor (went to the Whales for 90k x 2)

These players were retained by their previous team by matching bids:

• Hill, Tim (Captains) matched a bid of 81k x 2 by the Pelicans
• Laureano, Ramon (Captains) matched a bid of 80k x 3 by the Pilots
• Lemahieu, DJ (Reds) matched a bid of 169k by the Gypsies
• Maldonado, Martin (RockHounds) matched a bid of 81k by the Bandits
• Williams, Trevor (Whales) matched a bid of 106k by the Bandits
• Yelich, Christian (Titans) matched a bid of 154k by the Yellow Jackets

And finally, these players received no bids:

• Alberto, Hanser
• Alfaro, Jorge
• Bradley, Jackie
• Cessa, Luis
• Cishek, Steve
• Dozier, Hunter
• Duvall, Adam
• Flores, Wilmer
• Floro, Dylan
• Garcia, Leury
• Gibson, Kyle
• Gomes, Yan
• Grossman, Robbie
• Harrison, Josh
• Hedges, Austin
• Molina, Yadier
• Taylor, Chris
• Voit, Luke

Files Updated

Many files have been added to the Downloads area. These include: the Master Roster, Player/Money Totals, Free Agent Draft list, Minor League Cuts and the Unowned Players list.

Grays / Hornets Trade

To Hornets: OF Brandon Mayea, SS Javier Osorio, SS Dyan Jorge and 40K

To Grays: LHP Jose Quintana

Colt .45s / Gypsies Trade

To Colt .45s: 1B Alfonso Rivas

To Gypsies: 10K

Colt .45s / RockHounds Trade

To Colt .45s: 50K

To Rockhounds: 1B Keston Hiura and OF Franmil Reyes

Gypsies / Stars Trade

To Gypsies: 105K

To Stars: LHP Lucas Luetge, LHP Matt Strahm and RHP Chris Archer

Browns / Colt .45s Trade

To Browns: 2B Cavan Biggio

To Colt .45s: 30K

Gypsies / Yellow Jackets Trade

To Gypsies: 15K

To Yellow Jackets: RHP John Brebbia

Bandits / Grays Trade

To Bandits: 1B Caden Grice

To Grays: 20K

Bandits / Browns Trade

To Bandits: C Seby Zavala

To Browns: RHP Jared Jones and 25K

Blaze / Pilgrims Trade

To Blaze: 3B Matt Chapman

To Pilgrims: 2B Jonathon India

Blaze / Browns Trade

To Blaze: SS Max Muncy

To Browns: 2B Santiago Espinal

Pilots / Yellow Jackets Trade

To Pilots: RHP JR Ritchie, 1B Sean Bouchard and SS Angel Martinez

To Yellow Jackets: 3B Christopher Morel and 3B Jake Burger

Bandits / Pilots Trade

To Bandits: SS Jose Iglesias and 2B Orlando Arcia

To Pilots: LHP Marco Gonzales and LHP Jackson Sanders

Browns / Yellow Jackets Trade

To Browns: RHP Kutter Crawford

To Yellow Jackets: 25K

Browns / Colt .45s Trade

To Browns: 15K

To Colt .45s: RHP Matt Wisler

Colt .45s / Knights Trade

To Colt .45s: INF Tucapita Marcano, RHP Chris Paddack, LHP Wandy Peralta and 40K

To Knights: OF Colin Barber

Expos / Grays Trade

To Expos: RHP Paolo Espino and OF Rafael Ortega

To Grays: 33K

Twins / Yellow Jackets Trade

To Twins: C Christian Vazquez

To Yellow Jackets: OF Cristian Pache

Browns / Colt .45s Trade

To Browns: 1B Michael Chavis

To Colt .45s: 10K

Browns / Grays Trade

To Browns: OF Victor Robles and 2B Tony Kemp

To Grays: 2B Jose Altuve and 40K

Blaze / Browns Trade

To Blaze: 3B Alec Bohm

To Browns: RHP James Kaprielian, RHP Connor Brogdon and 25K

Bandits / Pilgrims Trade

To Bandits: 1B Paul Goldschmidt

To Pilgrims: SS Yiddi Cappe, RHP Owen Murphy, SS Masyn Winn, OF Derek Curiel, OF Konnor Griffin

Bandits / Grays Trade

To Bandits: RHP Kenley Jansen and 90K

To Grays: RHP Jordan Hicks and SS Bryce Rainer

Gypsies / Twins Trade

To Gypsies: SS Dansby Swanson and 1B Eric Hosmer

To Twins: RHP Frankie Montas, RHP Nick Martinez, RHP Bryce Elder, OF Jose Siri, RHP Jimmy Lambert, and SS Miguel Rojas

Colt .45s / Pilots Trade

To Colt .45s: SS Colson Montgomery, RHP Cade Horton, SS Edwin Arroyo, and OF Miguel Andujar

To Pilots: RHP Kyle Wright

RockHounds / Twins Trade

To RockHounds: SS CJ Abrams

To Twins: 2B Jeff McNeil

Grays / Monarchs Trade

To Grays: 10K

To Monarchs: RHP Kyle Gibson

Browns / Pilots Trade

To Browns: RHP Zach Davies and SS Maikol Escotto

To Pilots: OF Jarren Duran and OF Nelson Velazquez

Grays / Gypsies Trade

To Grays: RHP Nick Pivetta and RHP Paul Blackburn

To Gypsies: OF Connor Joe, OF Tyler Naquin and SS Miguel Rojas

Captains / Reds Trade

To Captains: LHP Tim Hill

To Reds: 2B DJ Lemahieu

Bandits / Gypsies Trade

To Bandits: LHP Marco Gonzales

To Gypsies: OF Starling Marte

League average OPS

The 2022 MLB league average OPS ended at .706 as it dropped another point in the final few days (slipping just below the rounding point at .70644).

For our 2023 RML season, that would make:

• Hitters unlimited at .581 and under
• Pitchers unlimited at .756 and over

Colt .45s / Stars Trade

To Colt .45s: 1B Aaron Sabato and OF Malakhi Knight

To Stars: 22K

Bandits / Reds Trade

To Bandits: 25K

To Reds: OF Jared Dickey

Gypsies / Reds Trade

To Gypsies: 15K

To Reds: SS Garrett Hampson

Pelicans / Reds Trade

To Pelicans: 2B Cesar Hernandez

To Reds: OF Ben Gamel and OF Edward Olivares

Colt .45s / Reds Trade

To Colt .45s: SS Kyle Farmer, OF Khalil Lee and 20K

Bandits / Colt .45s Trade

To Bandits: OF Byron Buxton and LHP Tyler Anderson

To Colt .45s: 3B Alex Bregman

Browns / RockHounds Trade

To Browns: 1B Josh Bell

To RockHounds: SS Nick Loftin, OF Lazaro Montes and RHP Wilkelman Gonzalez