Who can build the best team from 1 decade of a specific MLB franchise? Let's find out! Anyone's invited to join, but please pay attention to your team and adjust fatigue settings, etc. accordingly throughout the season to keep the league's competitive balance as even as possible.

THEME RULES/NOTES (see post below to claim your team/decade...*please note change from prior seasons of now $75mill salary cap and that if an owner has 2 teams, only 1 of the teams can be a deadball era team from 1920 and prior years in order to be able to split the divisions and leagues by era as evenly as possible):
1.) Must draft players from only 1 MLB franchise (all Yankees, all Red Sox, etc.) & w/in a specific 10-yr timeframe (i.e.: only Yankees players from 96-05, only Red Sox from 04-13, only Senators/Twins from 1956-1965, etc.). Can NOT draft players outside of 10 years apart & from different franchises to your roster or that ineligible player will be removed & replaced with an eligible player or your team can be removed if unresponsive to sitemails or messages to fix your roster.
2.) No clones.
3.) No waiver wire.
4.) No DH.
5.) No trades.
6.) Award winners are allowed.
7.) $75 million MLB salary cap.
8.) Optional AAA manually drafted "average" players (between $1.6-$3mill salary...2 pitchers, 6 position players, no AAA salary cap) from your same chosen team/decade OR can have WIS randomly assign your "average" AAA players (your choice). Manually drafted players not from your same chosen team/decade will be removed & replaced by WIS randomly assigned AAA players if you are not responsive to sitemails or messages to fix them.
9.) Must choose either one of the home stadiums from your specific franchises decade chosen (i.e: 87-96 Twins would choose the Metrodome, 05-14 Twins could choose either the Metrodome or Target Field, etc.) OR can choose any stadium you'd like w/ a Park Factor anywhere between a 0.95-1.05 (so just no extreme hitting or pitching favored parks like Coors Field, Petco, etc. unless they are your specific franchise's home stadium). Teams with an ineligible stadium will be asked to change their stadium, & if unresponsive to sitemails or messages the team can be removed.
10.) There can be the same franchises owned by more than 1 owner (for example, there could be 3 different versions of the NY Yankees chosen).
11.) An owner can own up to 2 teams in the league. Leagues & divisions will be aligned by different eras/decades as best as possible (i.e.: deadball teams will be in the same division as each other), & owners with 2 teams will have each team put into different leagues.

Try 72-81 Astros again with tweaks and different ball park, thanks.

Teams claimed so far and feel free to copy/paste to add to this as you claim one and draft your roster to enter the league (once it's filled, it's filled, so I won't be able to save spots that could delay it from getting started):

1) lb_bunk80: New York Yankees 1933-1942
2) summerfield: Cincinnati Reds decade years TBD
3) expo4ever: Montreal Expos 1992-2001
4) expo4ever (2nd team): Montreal Expos 1981-1990
5) WillsRoyals: Toronto Blue Jays 1984-1993
6) DougDoty: Houston Astros 1972-1981
7) DCarden34: Atlanta Braves 1991-2000
8) DCarden34 (2nd team): Baltimore Orioles 1968-1977
9) vaugheyj: Pittsburgh Pirates 2009-2018
10) Slubby23: San Diego Padres 2007-2016
11) slim senior: Cincinnati Reds 2011-2020
12) Mwett: Chicago Cubs 1903-1912
13) Dufferman: Baltimore Orioles 1960-1969
14) sdingledine: 2011-2020 Washington Nationals
15) Rattlers: Franchise and decade years TBD

Sorry, I forgot to include in the subject line and can't edit it now that this is for league # MLB140041 when you submit your drafted roster for it.

Taking 2 teams this season

1991-2000 Atlanta Braves
1968-1977 Baltimore Orioles

2009-2018 Pirates

I’ll take the Padres 2007-16

I'll take the Cincinnati Reds for 2011-2020.

Baltimore Orioles - 60-69

In-team TBD

Teams claimed so far and feel free to copy/paste to add to this as you claim one and draft your roster to enter the league (once it's filled, it's filled, so I won't be able to save spots that could delay it from getting started):

If it is okay to take a 2nd team, I will go with the Florida Marlins. Never have used them before. 1996 to 2005.

Posted by slim senior on 4/23/2024 1:54:00 PM (view original):
I'll take the Cincinnati Reds for 2011-2020.

I'm switching to the Reds in 2014-23. I'm going to get Elly Del La Cruz on my team!

Posted by lb_bunk80 on 4/24/2024 3:18:00 PM (view original):
Teams claimed so far and feel free to copy/paste to add to this as you claim one and draft your roster to enter the league (once it's filled, it's filled, so I won't be able to save spots that could delay it from getting started):

1) lb_bunk80: New York Yankees 1933-1942

2) summerfield: Cincinnati Reds decade years TBD

3) expo4ever: Montreal Expos 1992-2001

4) expo4ever (2nd team): Montreal Expos 1981-1990

5) WillsRoyals: Toronto Blue Jays 1984-1993

6) DougDoty: Houston Astros 1972-1981

7) DCarden34: Atlanta Braves 1991-2000

8) DCarden34 (2nd team): Baltimore Orioles 1968-1977

9) vaugheyj: Pittsburgh Pirates 2009-2018

10) Slubby23: San Diego Padres 2007-2016

11) slim senior: Cincinnati Reds 2011-2020

12) Mwett: Chicago Cubs 1903-1912

13) Dufferman: Baltimore Orioles 1960-1969

14) sdingledine: 2011-2020 Washington Nationals

15) Rattlers: Franchise and decade years TBD
16) lb_bunk80 (2nd team): Minnesota Twins 1963-1972
17) WillsRoyals (2nd team): Florida Marlins 1996-2005
18) ace_topgun: Cincinnati Reds 1950-1959

1) lb_bunk80: New York Yankees 1933-1942
2) summerfield: Cincinnati Reds decade years TBD
3) expo4ever: Montreal Expos 1992-2001
4) expo4ever (2nd team): Montreal Expos 1981-1990
5) WillsRoyals: Toronto Blue Jays 1984-1993
6) DougDoty: Houston Astros 1972-1981
7) DCarden34: Atlanta Braves 1991-2000
8) DCarden34 (2nd team): Baltimore Orioles 1968-1977
9) vaugheyj: Pittsburgh Pirates 2009-2018
10) Slubby23: San Diego Padres 2007-2016
11) slim senior: Cincinnati Reds 2014-2023
12) Mwett: Chicago Cubs 1903-1912
13) Dufferman: Baltimore Orioles 1960-1969
14) sdingledine: 2011-2020 Washington Nationals
15) Rattlers: Franchise and decade years TBD
16) lb_bunk80 (2nd team): Minnesota Twins 1963-1972
17) WillsRoyals (2nd team): Florida Marlins 1996-2005
18) ace_topgun: Cincinnati Reds 1950-1959