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2025 DRAFT DATE:
Friday, March 21st, 2025
5:30PM
DRAFT LOCATION:
Blair DeWalt's house
19 North 3rd Ave
West Reading, PA 19611
Since some of you
forget every year:
You must draft
26 players for $290
(2) C, 1B, 1/3, 3B, 2B, 2/S,
SS, IF, (5) OF, DH, U, (10) P |
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ESL ROSTER FREEZE:
Friday, March 14th, 2025
5:30PM
You may retain up to 16 players. You must also
note any contract extensions at that time. You
must also note any rookies that you will retain on
reserve. You may submit your freeze list early -
you can change it as many times as you like up until the
dead-line. However, once you submit your list, you may
no longer make any trades until after the draft. |
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2024 ESL Summary
Drew Gallagher, 10/02/24 |
We have been
doing the ESL for 40 years and at no point did I imagine
that a player going for 65 would be a bargain, but
Rick's draft day purchase of Ohtani vaulted him to his
second ESL championship and the $945 in first place
money so by that measure he was a bargain and didn't
even pitch this season. Congratulations to the Beach
Rats on the win and on getting Shohei as pitcher and
hitter next year. Not to poke at old wounds for Blair,
but one has to wonder if Acuna had stayed healthy and
Ohtani was the one who got hurt in April if roles might
have been reversed.
The battle for second place did not end until Monday's
doubleheader concluded. Robbie was mere batting average
points away from catching Perk (.002) and that could
have pushed him into third and possibly even second
place. Robbie ended up finishing fourth, but after
decades of never finishing in the money the Reservoir
Dogs placed for the fourth year in a row. Robbie now has
all offseason to contemplate what might have been if he
had started David Peterson on Sunday against Milwaukee
instead of trying to preserve his ration and sending him
down to miss seven innings of one-hit ball.
Chris finished second and cashed $525. Slickers was
third at $315 with Robbie cashing $210. Ball and Oates
finished fifth for $105. |
For those of you who
cashed, please email me and let me know if you'd like
PayPal or a check. Be forewarned that the mail is taking
longer than once upon a time so you are dependent upon
Butch to get that money to you.
I believe the Question Marks wrestled the first overall
pick from my grasp by failing to get 1,000 innings but
I'll let Chris do that constitutional review.
We are considering one rule change for the 2025 season
(beyond someone to auctioneer other than me) and that is
moving our trade deadline back to August 1 instead of
the Friday after the all-star break. I'll probably
forget to send a follow up email on that so feel free to
reach out and cast your vote on if you are in favor of
moving the trade deadline back to noon on August 1st.
Let the trading begin and, Zap, if you see any players
on my team that might pry James Wood from your clutches
they are all available. Thank you all for being part of
one of the oldest continuing fantasy baseball leagues in
the history of mankind. And what is funny is that is not
hyperbole. |
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the present
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THE BEST!
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For the ESL
Trade Archives
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ESL TRADING RULES: |
Between Draft Day and noon on August 31st,
teams may accept only TWO "asterisk" players
total and those must be from different
teams. On the flip-side, a team may
trade AWAY as many "asterisk" players as
they like (but no two "asterisk" players to
the same team.) "Asterisk" players are
any players auction drafted for $20 or over,
any players FAAB drafted for $60 or over,
players of any salary in the final year of
their contract, and players traded to the
A.L.
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Each team is allowed one "asterisk for
asterisk" trade during the season. The
trade is only one asterisk for one asterisk
and other players cannot be involved in the
trade. This trade can be utilized at any
point in the season up until the trade
deadline. The intent of the rule is to allow
fair trades. Again, it is simply one
asterisk player for one asterisk player. It
is not two or three asterisks for two or
three asterisks and no other players (or
rookies) can be included in the trade.
This trade does not count against a team�s
limit of two asterisk trades. However, you
may not make two trades involving that same
team within +/- 30 days. In other
words, if you have made a trade with that
team within 30 days prior, you may NOT make
your asterisk-for-asterisk trade with that
team; and likewise if you make your
asterisk-for-asterisk trade with a team, you
must wait 30 days before making any
additional trades with that team. |
Friday after the All-Star Game, 12:01 p.m. thru noon August 31st:
Restricted trading, you may trade with any
team +/- 5 points in the standings (based on
the most up to date standings on the front
page of the All-Star Stats web-site.
"Live" standings will not count, as there
will be no way to verify it later.)
Also during this period, teams with less
than 40 points and not in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th
or 5th place will also be able to continue
trading with each other. The asterisk
rules will apply during this period.
Between 12:01 p.m. on August 31st thru the
end of the regular season: NO
trading what-so-ever. |
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