Ok, in lieu of an imported draft tool, we'll run the draft on the boards for now. I honestly don't know whether I'll get to make the tool operational or not during the next few weeks, so let's get this going so we can get on to the season.

The first round draft order as per the game, which should reflect any trades from the last couple of years, is:

1. Cold
2. Texas
3. Medicine Hat
4. New Glarus
5. Chessie
6. Boston
7. Latrobe
8. Homer
9. St. Boni
10. Biloxi
11. Bradford
12. Honshu
13. Superior
14. Melbourne
15. Chattooga
16. Bowie
17. Vienna
18. South Beach
19. Halifax
20. Orchard Park
21. Spalding
22. Falls Church
23. Cold
24. New York

I'll monitor posts to this thread and send out pick notifications to owners as I can.

Interim owners:

• Boston - Me (autopick)
  
• Cold - Zayx
  
• Honshu - Gnorst
• Medicine Hat - Jarien
• Texas - Caelon
• Spalding - Me (autopick)

So, Cold is up!

Cold Selects - 3B Roosevelt Harrison

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Chessie Ironhorse

Texas selects 2B Enrico Mateo.

I "love" how HS players get all 1's for their current ratings - feels like taking a bit of a leap of faith believing they'll come close to their potential ratings.  ;-)

Heh, and starting in the second round (hell, after one SP is off the board really), if you want a SP, you're just getting a guy suitable for pitching batting practice.  Geez...

Oh well, game on!!!  :-)

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Caelon
GM New York Empire

I probably would have taken Mateo if he were still on the board, but the all-1's scared me too. Guess he's not going to be making the jump directly to the majors this year.

New Glarus selects C Ernest Murphy.

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Impalla
GM New Glarus Brewmasters

King Williams looks like a bust in the making to me

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Chessie Ironhorse

Berd's up!

Wish there was an SP, but...

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Berd
Manager, Latrobe Lightning

St. Boni is up.

Why are there virtually no pitchers?

Bradford selects CF Nobukazu Yamamoto

I think we skipped Biloxi and I can't get in touch with Albatros at the moment. He is at work and has no access to the game.   Let me see if I can get Biloxi's pick and I'll place it here.

 

Zayx

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Ok I picked for Biloxi, Honshu is up since Bradford picked a little ahead.

 

Zayx

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Chessie Ironhorse

I emailed Albatros after Coach picked.

Let's do this: After your pick, please check who is up next and add that to your post. That might make it easier to avoid skipping people. It would also help if you'd email who is next if you have their address. I've been doing so but only when I have time to check the board and see that someone picked.

Sorry, your sneaky edit didn't send me an email, so I just saw that Honshu is up. I emailed Gnorst.

I think the last draft was really pitching light too, maybe the last couple drafts.