Dumb question. What does "track and lock" mean?

Very cool. Love the logo, though I suspect our more cynical fans will stoop to calling the club the Sugar Daddies instead.

Top post updated for the Anderson deal.

We confirm.

Let's see if I have this down pat...

Yellow Springs Spends 70 points on a personal trainer to ...

Please, please increase Ángel 'Dynamite' De Castillo's Work Ethic

If he doesn't develop, it's not going to be because I left him to rot there in our International Complex.

agrudez wrote: Wouldn't you also say, though, that when you're on the bottom of the pile you generally don't have 41 guys of value? I think I have 33 guys on my 40-man.

RonCo wrote:That said, I've had my say now, so I'll go back to fiddling with my team.

The Rule 7 draft are guys no one wants. Fair enough. A few disclaimers? 1) When you're on the bottom of the pile, a decent backup can add value. 2) I'm assuming the Rule 7 draft works differently, in that players so acquired can be placed anywhere in the team's organization (i.e. they don't have to...

Don't you then have an "unfair advantage" in the EBA when someone has a former player that gets poached? I don't understand. An EBA team is going to get a player either way, the only question is from which team. I don't think the prospect of losing an unprotected Rule 5 guy is a deterrent for a poa...

Nov 5, 2024 After the build comes the crash. After the euphoria of claiming topping rights to budding EBA star Alfredo Salazar, the front office of the Yellow Springs Nine woke to the realization that they were suddenly in the metaphorical gunsights of several bottom-dwelling nobodies with deep budg...

Oh, and I would say every player alive would prefer a frontloaded deal to a backloaded one. So there's that too. I think this is true of the smartest ones, at least. :) Again, I have no major issues with big front-loading--it is "gaming the cap system" but that's normal business. You play within th...

Oh, and I would say every player alive would prefer a frontloaded deal to a backloaded one. So there's that too. I think this is true of the smartest ones, at least. :) Again, I have no major issues with big front-loading--it is "gaming the cap system" but that's normal business. You play within th...

Added two...

Omer Asik and Jeremy Lin, especially the latter. Lin's was backloaded, but it was backloaded such that it would have cost the Knicks an enormous amount of luxury tax and hamstrung their franchise. Those deals are created by the accounting practices of the NBA, though. The offering team can account ...

I'm having De ja vu, lol. Front-loaded is better (and more realistic) than backloaded. That said, if someone had offered a contract like Baca's (52M year 1 to 21M year 2 is almost a 250% drop, lol) to one of his own home grown players I might've raised an eyebrow, but that's just the nature of the ...

7teen wrote:Gonna go out on a limb and say that I'd be surprised if Savage is wearing a Yellow Springs Nine uniform next season.

Nothing is impossible, said Heisenberg to the Empire State Building.

After hearing the results of the MBWBA's annual Rule 6 draft, Nine fans are suddenly salivating at the idea of an outfield that pairs 22-year-old superstar Luis Bacca with 23-year-old slugger Alfredo "Savage" Salazar . The team made Salazar, who has been a star for the Brussels organization, the fir...

bschr682 wrote: I can afford to give him more than 50...

Here's me not counting unhatched chickens.

7teen wrote:Losing out on the drafting rights to Salazar bothers me more than anything about giving Yellow Springs the #1 pick with Avery's tanking.

I understand that, and I sympathize ... but not enough to keep from making the selection.

What a series!

bschr682 wrote:Yellow springs prepare to be poison pilled! Mwahahaha

I suppose I can always just let the other guy pay $50M for Savage if need be.