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FMJRA 2.0: Draft Day 1974

— compiled by Wombat-socho I don’t think Pete’s draft list at Da Blog is up to date, but here’s how my draft went. 1st round: SS Bucky Dent, White Sox (because Ed Brinkman’s not getting any younger) Traded SP Bill Lee to the Red Sox for Dave Winfield and a 5th round pick 2nd round: […]

FMJRA 2.0: Meanwhile At The Catgirl Barrel

— compiled by Wombat-socho The draft is this Saturday, and I have yet to peruse the free agent lists. Well, I’m not going anywhere this week, so I should have plenty of time in between bouts of continuing education to prepare for tax season. Illo courtesy of @ShamashAran (Sensurround) on X. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon […]

FMJRA 2.0: Draft Delays

— compiled by Wombat-socho The draft in Pete’s league is being pushed back to the 4th (at least) since one of the managers is out of the country. This actually works well for me since what with the run to Las Vegas this week for podiatry I spent absolutely no time reviewing the free agents. […]

FMJRA 2.0: Cramming For The Draft

— compiled by Wombat-socho A little less than two weeks to go until it’s time to get up early and take part in the 1974 draft in Pete’s Dynasty Baseball League. Unless someone stepped up last night, it looks like the Cubs will be managed by the robot manager after Pete drafts for them. We’ll […]

FMJRA 2.0: Morning Glory Milking Farm

— compiled by Wombat-socho I may not have done a book post in quite a while, but as longtime readers can attest (and this website as well) this book by C.M. Nascosta is not anywhere near my normal tastes in books. However, being the public benefactor I am, I felt obligated to give this book […]

FMJRA 2.0: Agonizing Reappraisal

— compiled by Wombat-socho Well, after looking over the 1974 cards for my players (and those available to me as rookies) I posted my keepers: SP Pat Dobson SP Bill Lee SP Carl Morton SP Jim Kaat RP Charlie Hough 1b Dave Kingman 2b Cookie Rojas 3b Bill Madlock ss Ed Brinkman cf Del Unser […]

FMJRA 2.0: Preparing For The Draft

— compiled by Wombat-socho I’m actually feeling pretty good about the upcoming 1974 draft in Pete’s league. Aside from having given away my second-round pick for Steve Braun (boy, that was dumb) I have a solid front four and a stud reliever, plus a solid infield bolstered by rookies Mike Hargrove at first and Jim […]

FMJRA 2.0: Birds Win! Birds Win!

— compiled by Wombat-socho The Reds took it to seven games, but in the end Al Bumbry and Rich Coggins were unstoppable and the O’s won the World Series in the 1973 season of Pete’s DLB league. We’ll probably get a week or two off until Pete gets the 1974 cards sorted, assigns the rookies, […]

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