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REMINDER!! eMLB Winter Meetings TONIGHT!
The 2015 eMLB Winter Meetings will take place tonight beginning at 9 PM on AIM (Backup plan will be the TSW Lounge if chat room doesn't work again like last week).
There will be five sim days completed, good chat opportunities with fellow owners, and a chance to hear the John Comey Show LIVE, assuming he'll be broadcasting on the air at that time. If that's the case, then Ethan Knight might be there live as well to provide news as it breaks in regards to key signings, and trades that are rumored during the meetings.
Remember: The sim will start as close to 9 PM as possible with the 1st of ...read more.
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Restructuring takes place in Minors
Move makes for more playoff eligible teams
by: Ethan Knight
In a rare move, the Office of the Commissioner announced a change in structure to the Triple-A and Single-A leagues today. After sighting a procedural issue that took place last season which caused a Division Winner to be declared ineligible in favor of a Wild Card team, the league sighted it needed to restructure the division to emulate how the Majors appeared. This move will cause some teams to move divisions.
The following changes took place:
In AAA:
- All divisions renamed to Red, White & Blue.
- Scranton moves to Int'l League White Division from Red....read more.
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Made in Japan
Japanese Players Could Bolt
By Tim Dierkes [December 2 at 8:15pm CST]
There are several Japanese players that could seek to be posted to the eMLB. Let's several candidates over.
C Hitoshi Mori Nippon Ham Fighters
Nippon Ham may post 25 year old star C Hitoshi Mori this winter to play in the USA. Mori is solid across the board. He's a switch hitting catcher that plays solid defense, has a career batting average of .302, and has hit 102 HR ...read more.
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eMLB 2015 Rule V Draft Order
Draft Order is the same as the Draft Order for the 2016 First-Year Player Draft to be scheduled in June of the coming season:
1- Detroit - SKIPPED
2- Kansas City - SKIPPED
3- Arizona - SKIPPED
4- Baltimore - P Jesus Acevado (Minnesota)
5- Philadelphia - P Theo Frierson (Minnesota)
6- Seattle - SKIPPED
7- Colorado - P Justin Alger (Chicago White Sox)
8- Pittsburgh - SKIPPED
9- Washington - SKIPPED
10- Houston - 2B Carlos Martinez (San Francisco)
11- St. Louis - SKIPPED
12- New York Yankees - P Douglas Black (Cincinnati)
13- Texas - SKIPPED
14- San Diego - P Ray Stottlemyre (Colorado)
15- LA Dodgers - SKIPPED
16- LA Angels -...read more.
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eMLB officially converts to OOTP9!
BIDDEFORD, ME (AP) - Erik Kelly, Commissioner of Electronic Major League Baseball (eMLB), declared that eMLB was fit and ready to make the move to the new database system that basically keeps eMLB functioning.
"After considerable testing, we've found Out of the Park 9 to be stable, solid, and capable of running eMLB operations at peak capacity. We thank all the owners for their patience during this time, giving our offices every opportunity to make sure that there would be no interruption of eMLB services.", the Commissioner said from his offices. "Free Agency will begin Wednesday night, June 25th at 8 PM, on t...read more.
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