Week 26 Newsletter

October 5, 2009

TRANSACTIONS:

September 30
QUIBBLERS acquire Mike Morse for 50 cents, releasing Jose Valverde

October 2
TAILGATERS acquire Troy Glaus and Yorvit Torrealba for 50 cents each, releasing Brad Penny and Tony Pena

October 5
KNICKS acquire Justin Maxwell for 50 cents, releasing Benjie Molina
BORG acquire Scott Olsen for 50 cents, releasing Shane Victorino

2010 AUCTION DATE: The auction date next spring is scheduled to be on Wednesday, April 7, 2010.

POSTSEASON MEETING: Please be checking your e-mails for a message in the next few days about the postseason meeting.

LONG TERM CONTRACT BUYOUTS:
Teams owe the following amounts for buying out long term contracts in 2009:
GREENBUSHERS: $4.00 (Bill Hall, 4.00)
JOKERS: $3.60 (Chris Duncan, 3.00; and Kelly Johnson, .60)
MISFITS: $1.10 (Khalil Greene, 1.10)
NoFRNS: $1.10 (Jeff Francis, 1.10)
SOX: $3.00 (Eric Byrnes, 3.00)

THE PRIZE POOL of $112.80 is divided as follows for the top four teams:
1 – BORG - $56.40
2 – QUIBBLERS - $28.20
3 – GREENBUSHERS - $16.92
4 – KNICKERBOCKERS - $11.28

Mark, Russ and Warren will receive payment of $11 each for taking care of substitutions and roster changes for other teams.
Doug will receive $20 for preparing the newsletters and rosters.
Rod Clark will receive $19.00 for handling player claims.
Steve Kleinmaier receives $18.00 for preparing the standings and performing other commissioner duties.

Players released in this newsletter cannot be claimed on waivers or as free agents. You will have to wait until next spring’s auction to get the players.

Announcements of all free agent and waiver acquisitions are subject to change if a late arriving letter or postcard is received from a team with a superior claim. Salaries of free agents are 50 cents unless otherwise indicated.

REMINDER ABOUT FREE AGENT CLAIMS: When claiming a free agent, you must specify whether the player being released is in the lineup or not. The status of the released player is the status on the day before the claim goes into effect, which means in most cases it is the status on the day you send the claim. If the released player is not in the lineup on the day you send the claim, you can just note NIL, which, of course, means not in lineup. If the released player is in your lineup on the day you send the claim, you must report who will replace that player in your lineup. I do not care if you already reported a sub to your “checker.” You must also report the sub in the free agent claim. If it makes it easier to understand, when you make the claim just forget that you have a “checker” for your lineup and pretend that all your substitutions are reported to the person receiving the player claim. Then, report the substitution in the free agent claim.

Questions? E-mail Steve