Sweet Lou: January 2012

Monday, January 2, 2012

AL South Preview Season 1

Richmond Rebels
Richmond has great starting pitching is a few bats and RP’s away from being a real contender in season 1.
Their rotation is lead by two CY YOUNG contenders Mickey Karsay and Mike Hannity.
They should get plenty of pop out of Armando Jacquez and Ed Cox other than that Richmonds hitters are not that exciting.. Richmond needs to acquire 1-2 RP’s and a couple decent bats to make a push for the play offs. If they can get in they would be a force with their two Cy Yong caliber starters.
Season 1 Draft Pick: 9^th Pick
Prediction: 89 wins

Mexico City Los Dos Hermanos
Mexico City’s biggest strength is it’s phenomenal bats lead by MVP hopeful Orval Spencer. They have a few other above average bats that should help score plenty of runs versus the weak season 1 SP’s. The bad news is Mexico will need a lot of runs to compete with their below average pitching staff. They’ve made one big move to acquire Jesus Marin who should get plenty of wins to be in contention for a Cy Young trophy. Mexico will need to acquire a SP and RP if they hope to go far in season 1.
Season 1 Draft Pick: 18^th pick
Prediction: 86 wins

New Orleans Voodoo Queens
Now this team is just pathetic. Thankfully there is a shortage in talent in this world that should enable this group of rejects to surpass the win floor. New Orleans has no notable minor league talent and is lead by hitters 3B Lawrence Martin, LF BoomerColeman and LF Randy Pedroia. The pitching staff is lead by SP HeinieVelandia, SP Gio Bennett and RP Matty Gonzalez. This team is looking to trade away its aging talent and look to compete in season 3 or 4.
Season 1 Draft Pick: 4^th Pick
Prediction: 62 wins

Texas Wolverines
This team may even be worse than New Orleans. They should compete for the number 1 pick in season 2. Bright spot is that they were able to trade away Jesus Marin to acquire lock down pitching prospect TommyFleming. Fleming could end up being the best RP in this world in 3-4 seasons. Overall Texas is a old team that will need to rebuild for a few seasons.
Season 1 Draft Pick: 1^st Pick
Prediction: 59 wins

HALL OF CHAMPIONS

Sweet Lou World Rules

The commish of Sweet Lou is Willsauve.
World Rules-

Win Floor: 55/125/190

If an owner violates the anti-tanking rules, they may appeal. They can make their case to the world committee and state why they should be allowed to stay. The committee will then vote the fate of that owner., if allowed back you will still need to make the next win floor. Example: if you win 50 games in season 1 and are allowed back you will need to win 75 in season 2. A world committee will be set up by the commish. It will be made up of 4 owners, 2 from the AL and 2 from the NL. The committee will vote on rules violations as well as admission to the world if / when vacancies occur. In case of a voting tie, then the commish will cast the tie breaking vote.

Each owner only gets one appeal, after that a violation results in expulsion from the world. If a committee member quits or gets kicked out, then the commish will appoint a replacement committee member. If the commish quits or gets kicked out, then the committee will appoint a new commish. All owners are expected to keep their minors stocked, to avoid fatigue problems. Above all the owners will be held to the WIS HBD fairplay rules.

Budget limits:

Payroll: 115 Max

Prospect: 30 Max

Prospect Payroll can NOT exceed 30 million. (Example, if you budget 20 million for Prospect Cash, then you can only transfer in up to another 10 million).

Penalty - The player or players that are signed by going over the cap are inactivated for all of their first season so they don't develop and they are also added to the 40 immediately so they burn up all of their option and have to waive the player to pull them off.

HS/Col Scout: 10 Min Combined (you can go 0 in one if you go atleast 10 in the other)

Adv Scout: 10 Min

Medical: 10 Min

Training: 10 Min

Must use at least a 4 man rotation. Tandem Pitching staffs are allowed as long as the Tandem A is set to 60+ Target Pitch Count.

Trades: If cash is included in a trade then the cash can NOT exceed the player salary going with it. (Example is player A makes 2 million...you can NOT trade 5 million and the player)

R5 Draft: You must protect your players for the 40 man roster! Plenty of time to do so once budgets are set to protect your players for the Rule V Draft. There will be no "I had something come up, please take pity on me and trade me my player back."

Stadiums:

The following ballparks are banned from the league. Colorado, Santa Fe, Tuscon, San Jose, Burlington ,and Tacoma

All cities will be set from day one and will never change through the life of the world.

All team names must be listed in normal text. No Symbols, No all CAPS.

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Monday, January 2, 2012