2012 Minor League Ball Fantasy League has Openings

by John Sickels on Jan 26, 2012 12:10 PM EST

The Minor League Ball fantasy league has some openings. Contact jaroche6@yahoo.com if you are interested. There are four teams available, current rosters listed below.

BatCats

C Ryan Lavarnway / John Buck / Ivan Rodriguez
1B Lyle Overbay
2B Aaron Hill / Jemile Weeks
3B Chipper Jones
SS Manny Machado / Jason Bartlett / Wilson Valdez / Trevor Plouffe
OF Domonic Brown / Gerardo Parra / Ryan Kalish / Ryan Ludwick / Jonny Gomes /
Scott Hairston / Nyjer Morgan / Mike Cameron / Kyle Parker / Trayce Thompson /
Nick Weglarz / Thomas Neal / Ryan Westmoreland
SP Shelby Miller / Deck McGuire / Keyvius Sampson / Casey Kelly / Brett Myers /Kyle Lohse / Carl Pavano / John Lannan / Tyler Thornburg / Nick Hagadone /Miguel De Los Santos

RP Juan Carlos Oviedo / Michael Stutes / Tony Sipp / Darren Oliver / Scott Mathieson / Matt Guerrier / Pedro Feliciano / Dan Wheeler / Trever Miller

Minor Offense

C Carlos Santana / Wilson Ramos / Tyler Flowers / Ramon Hernandez / Robinson Chirinos

1B Justin Morneau / Lars Anderson / Brandon Snyder / Ryan Strieby

2B Michael Young / Adam Kennedy / Chris Valaika

3B Casey Blake

SS Alcides Escobar / Willie Bloomquist / Sean Rodriguez / Clint Barmes

OF Shane Victorino / Alex Presley / Andy Dirks / Cody Ross / Ezequiel Carrera /

Fernando Martinez / Jack Cust / Ryan Sweeney / Cory Vaughn

SP Jon Lester / Ervin Santana / Shaun Marcum / Joel Pineiro / Bronson Arroyo /

Chien-Ming Wang / Vin Mazzaro / Luke Jackson

RP Jose Valverde / Francisco Rodriguez / Francisco Cordero / David Hernandez /

Sean Burnett / Darren O'Day / J.C. Romero / Alfredo Simon / Ryan Franklin /

Daniel Schlereth

Screaming Eyeballs

C Joe Mauer

1B Paul Goldschmidt / Mitch Moreland / Kila Ka'aihue / Joe Mahoney

2B Skip Schumaker / Freddy Sanchez

3B Chone Figgins

SS Alex Gonzalez / Yuniesky Betancourt / Mike McCoy

OF Andre Ethier / Alex Rios / Angel Pagan / Will Venable / David Murphy / Ben Francisco /

Eric Hinske / Nolan Reimold

SP Jair Jurrjens / Ivan Nova / Wandy Rodriguez / Roy Oswalt / Hiroki Kuroda /

Bartolo Colon / Esmil Rogers / Kyle Kendrick / Chris Archer

RP Octavio Dotel / Jason Frasor / Jim Johnson / Franklin Morales / Logan Ondrusek /

David Aardsma

NY Dynasty

C Josh Thole

1B Aubrey Huff / Chris Carter

2B Daniel Murphy / Placido Polanco / Lgan Forsythe

3B David Freese / Lonnie Chisenhall / Jack Hannahan

SS Cliff Pennington / Ryan Theriot / Brendan Ryan / Jiovanni Mier

OF Carlos Quentin / Coco Crisp / Tyler Colvin / Franklin Gutierrez / Raul Ibanez /

Jarrod Dyson / Tim Wheeler

SP C.C. Sabathia / Yovani Gallardo / A.J. Burnett / Aaron Crow / Blake Beavan /

Carlos Carrasco / Javier Vazquez / Anthony Swarzak / Tim Wakefield / Charlie Furbush /

Noel Arguelles / Rafael Dolis

RP Chris Sale / Frank Francisco / Antonio Bastardo / Evan Meek / Kevin Jepsen /

Jose Contreras / Cole Kimball

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Is there a link for the league?

Thanks.

by dbreer23 on Jan 26, 2012 12:31 PM EST reply actions

Private League

I am not sure if a non-league member will be able to access the league, however, the league URL is as follows: http://minlbfl.baseball.cbssports.com

by jaroche6 on Jan 26, 2012 12:50 PM EST up reply actions

No access

You were correct on that one…I did send you an email. Thanks.

by dbreer23 on Jan 26, 2012 12:58 PM EST up reply actions

Brief Summary of League Rules

To add to John’s post, the league is a deep 24-team 7×7 rotisserie keeper league.

The 24-player active roster includes: C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, MI, CI, 5 OF, DH, 5 SP, and 6 RP.

The batting rotisserie categories include: BA, HR, OBP, RBI, SB-CS, SEC*, and SLG

*For those unfamiliar with SEC, it is Secondary Average. The formula for SEC is (TB – H + BB + SB – CS)/AB.

The pitching rotisserie categories include: ERA, FIP*, HD, K, QS, S, and W

For those unfamiliar with FIP, it is Fielding Independent Pitching. I believe the formula used in this league for FIP is (13HR + 3*BB – 2*K)/IP + 3.10.

Teams may keep up to 20 players, which includes both major leaguers and minor leaguers.

There is a 16-round automated, online draft via the CBS league page with 30 minutes between picks (you set a list and it selects the top ranked player).

The league is run through CBS.

Finally, to add to the rosters above, it is worth noting the 2012 Draft Order. BatCats has the first pick, Screaming Eyeballs the 7th, Minor Offense the 8th, and NY Dynasty the 9th. The draft order does not snake.

The draft will include all recent MLB draftees, Leonys Martin, Yu Darvish, and possibly Yoenis Cespedes if he signs before the draft. The draft will likely begin in early-mid March.

I believe that properly summarizes the league’s setup.

by jaroche6 on Jan 26, 2012 12:48 PM EST reply actions

Applications

In e-mail applications, please state the following:

1. Your Minor League Ball username
2. Fantasy baseball experience, and
3. Rank the available teams in the order you prefer them.

We are looking for active owners with strong knowledge of prospects and the MLB, of course.

I will not accept any more e-mail applications after January 27th at 12:10 pm EST.

by jaroche6 on Jan 26, 2012 1:05 PM EST reply actions

Optional

Strictly optional, please state your age, occupation, and which state and/or city you reside.

by jaroche6 on Jan 26, 2012 1:08 PM EST up reply actions

by the way

By the way, I want to personally thank JARoche for administrating the league. I don’t have time, and without his efforts the league would have gone under after the first year.

by John Sickels on Jan 26, 2012 1:52 PM EST reply actions

Thanks, John

by jaroche6 on Jan 26, 2012 7:19 PM EST up reply actions

here here

by daveh33 on Jan 27, 2012 1:43 PM EST up reply actions

How about a Minor League Ball "Dynasty" League?

This sounds like fun, but I am surprised that the Minor League Ball Fantasy League is not set up as a dynasty league with large minor league farm systems.

I think we all enjoy this site for the in-depth minor league knowledge that John, Matt and others have.

If you guys ever start a dynasty league, I would be interested in competing. I can also supply a copy of a dynasty constitution to use.

I take part in a league that has 24 teams and we can manage up to 225 players per team. We do a 35 round FYPD each August, and a 20 round Minor League Free Agent Draft each March to divide up new talent every year.

The most interesting thing I have found in being part of this league, is that everyone ranks players differently. Many times we will hear John say something like “players 11-20 could be in any order”, or “these three players could all move way up the list by next year”. And that is all true, and you can test your team building skills by being part of one of these leagues.

by philc423 on Jan 27, 2012 3:43 PM EST reply actions

The Super Sickels Keeper League has openings

I believe we’ve gotten all the positions filled in the Minor League Ball league, of which I am a member, but I am also in a similar league which started the year prior – the Super Sickels Keeper League – and we have openings in that league.
The league was formed specifically by long-time readers (and posters) of this site, and of course named for John. Naturally, it has alot of emphasis on minor leaguers – we have 30-man major league rosters and 15-man minor league rosters. We have 20 teams in our league, so that means we’ve got 300 minor leaguers on our teams – so it really helps to know your prospects in this league, which is why I post here. We also have daily transactions so it does require a fair amount of time involvement, and we’ve got some pretty sharp owners. If you think this league sounds interesting, send me an email at kennyholl@verizon.net, or reply with an email address of your own, or other contact info.

The wind is in the buffalo.

by journeymen on Jan 30, 2012 10:26 PM EST reply actions