Saturday, April 25, 2009

Welcome to Season Seven!

Hello fellow CAPB owners, and welcome to season 7. Thanks to your continued commitment to this league, the Continental Association of Professional Baseball - or CAPB - has enjoyed great success over its first 6 seasons. As we prepare to enter season 7, we welcome 5 new owners into the fray: Erran, huskypride2, tomjames, chrishoiles and keeid12x. The addition of these 5 solid owners once again shows the strength of our world, and the respect which we have built throughout the HBD community with our combined efforts.

The new season also brings a new rule regarding minor league roster management that I wanted to once again bring to everyone's attention. League Rule 4.01 reads as follows:

∙ At the beginning of the minor league regular season, each level (Low A, High A, AA, AAA) is to have no fewer than 23 players on the roster.
∙ Of those 23, at least TWELVE must be pitchers.
∙ Of the 11 position players, their must be AT LEAST ONE of each at: C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, LF, CF and RF.
∙ At the conclusion of the draft (i.e., before the games start), the Rookie League team must have no fewer than 25 players on the roster
∙ Of those 25, at least FOURTEEN must be pitchers.
∙ Of the 11 position players, their must be AT LEAST ONE of each at: C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, LF, CF and RF.

Please read through this (and all) rules to make certain that you have a firm grasp on the guidelines of our world. These are not meant to be restricting upon any single owner in any way, but are in place to again help assure league equality and owner accountability.

That's all for now - good luck in the upcoming season (and go St. Louis!).