Looking for a dedicated Jays fan

[Dirty Water]

First off I apologize if this is against the rules of the forum. I'm not promoting my website or anything like that. Just posting about a unique and fun opportunity. I'd rather not post in the fantasy baseball forum because I'm looking for someone a little more invested in the Jays than a regular roto fantasy team. I don't post on realgm much anymore, but I know the Canadian following on here is quite expansive so i figured this would be a good place to look.

I'm involved in a deep, deep dynasty league that has an opening due to the resignation one of our long time and original members who decided he no longer had the time. The open position is the GM of the Toronto Blue Jays franchise. The league has been around since 2006 and has been able to maintain good stability even though there is no league fee or dues. It's all for fun. But that doesn't mean it's not serious.

The Rules
The league consists of 28 franchises, with 14 in the American League and 14 in the National League. Consequently, the Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Rays were contracted, and their players are being dispersed through an annual dispersal draft.

Like I said, the rosters were originally set as of Opening Day 2005. Owners control the major league franchise as well as the minor league rosters of their teams, all future signed draft picks, and any foreign players signed and brought over, with the exceptions of Cuban and Japanese players which enter regular open free agency, much as they do in MLB. After Opening Day 2005, the rosters were no longer tied in any way to actual MLB or MiLB transactions, with the exception of the acquisition of first-time players, whether that be by amateur draft or foreign signing.

Salary caps were originally determined by taking the team’s Opening Day 2005 salary and adding $25,000,000 to that figure. By 2009, that number got set to $100,000,000 where it has and will remain for the life of the league. Every January/February, we have two types of free agency, open free agency and matched free agency, in the latter a specific team designated player is opened to the market, and the original owner has the chance to match the contract, just like restricted free agency in NBA or NHL. We also have a franchise tag, where an owner can assume control of a player for a certain price for 2 years (this increases over time if the owner keeps using this tag). There are limits to how many players can be retained.

Once "called up" minor leaguers hit a certain amount of service time, they are assigned a rookie salary and contract year in whch the contract expires. For all players, there are buy outs, non tenders, more of which would be explained to you later. But for the sake of simplicity I won't go into all the rules here.

All transactions during the season must be cleared through the league message board. This includes all trades, free agent signings, minor league demotions or promotions. In the off-season, different rules apply, and I also won't get into that here either. Each type of roster transaction has its own place on the message board where the proposed transactions are to be posted for approval from a board of 6 or 7 GMs elected by the league.

The league scoring setup is as follows:
6X6 Head-to-Head scoring:

Offensive Categories
Batting Average
On-Base Percentage
Runs
Home Runs
Runs Batted In
Stolen Bases

Pitching Categories
Wins
Holds
Saves
Strikeouts
Earned Run Average
Walks + Hits per Innings Pitched (WHIP)

Interested?
The Blue Jays roster as it is now is in rough shape as it has been neglected the past couple seasons. I am being serious here - consider this your warning - this team for lack of a better word is in absolute shambles. HOWEVER, there is salary to work with in free agency, and a few valuable assets to build around or sell. I haven't studying the minor league system very much, but seeing as it was neglected for a while, most of the familiar Jays prospects would be in the system (unless they were traded in real life from another team). There has been a string of new GMs that have joined in last couple years that were able to turn a franchise around, even perennial doormats like the Jays are now. So it's not out of the question. There is just some work to do. If you think you may be interested, PM me or reply here with a way to privately contact you and I'll follow up and choose someone. It's not going to be stringent and would probably be first come first serve, but I also want to make sure you are dedicated and won't abandon the league. Thanks.

[torontoaces04]

I'm interested, PM me some details.

[Dirty Water]

I'm interested, PM me some details.

PM sent

[Dirty Water]

This is still open.

[Santoki]

Not interested, but was just curious and wanted to ask a couple of questions:

1) Is it just like an expanded fantasy game, where you have players on your team but not necessarily in real life?

2) How do you deal with free agency or re-signing players? Can I just re-sign guys whenever I want to whatever amount I want?

[Dirty Water]

1) It's a fantasy league with 28 teams.

2) The league operates like a real life market with a full free agency which includes a matching and franchising phase to help retain players.

[Relentless88]

This is pretty cool. My baseball knowledge is still "growing" so I'm not the person you are looking for. We have a lot of knowledgeable Jays fans on this board, so hopefully someone responds.

Good luck with the league.