Ok, we've got all the spots filled up now, so I want to get the draft date set up. I'm tentatively thinking Wednesday night, March 14th. If that doesn't work for you let me know.

We have two more openings for new managers to take over existing teams. You get 3 keepers then the rest is redraft. The league is a 10-team league with the following specifications

Roster Size: 22
8 starting position players, plus 1 utility slot
5 starting pitcher slots, 3 reliever slots
5 man bench

IP and GP limits

3 Keepers

Rotisserie Scoring (6x6), categories:

AVG, HR, R, RBI, SB, OPS
ERA, WHIP, K, S, W, QS

This is an existing 10 team LSB Keeper League on ESPN. We have two teams that need new managers and I still need to hear from 4 others.

I need to hear back from Abu Muquama Allstars, Big Fly Boomstix, Team Ruth, and Inappropriate Hugs about whether they are going to play this year.

Gossamer, JBImacknee's Owls, Montreal Expos, and my team, Cruz Missiles, are in.

The two open teams are Jetstream Jenny's and West Texas Hog Jockeys. They both have some good players, and with only 3 keepers, there should be no problem becoming competitive. Jenny's has Bautista, Ellsbury, Stanton, and McCutchen. West Texas has Miguel Cabrera, Carlos Santana, Ethier, and Lawrie, among others.

Let me know if you're interested in joining the league or if you're one of the returning managers, let me know you're stll in.

*****EDIT******

Jetstream Jenny's team is gone.

Here's the roster for the available team and more league info.

Roster Size: 22
8 starting position players, plus 1 utility slot
5 starting pitcher slots, 3 reliever slots
5 man bench

IP and GP limits

3 Keepers

Rotisserie Scoring (6x6), categories:

AVG, HR, R, RBI, SB, OPS
ERA, WHIP, K, S, W, QS

West Texas Hog Jockeys
C -- Carlos Santana
1B -- Miguel Cabrera
2B -- Ben Zobrist
3B -- Danny Valencia
SS -- JJ Hardy
OF1 -- Corey Hart
OF2 -- Lance Berkman
OF3 -- Andre Ethier
Util -- Brett Lawrie
Bench -- BJ Upton
Bench -- Eric Hosmer
Bench -- Matt Wieters
Bench -- Chris Young
Bench -- Eric Thames

SP1 -- Carpenter
SP2 -- Lester
SP3 -- Daniel Hudson
SP4 -- Jaime Garcia
SP5 -- Vance Worley
RP1 -- Joel Hanarahan
RP2 -- Jordan Walden
RP3 -- Joe Nathan
DL -- Clay Bucholz

Over at The Hardball Times there's a story by Chris Lund describing just how historically awful Jeff Mathis has been and proposing that we need to replace "The Mendoza Line" with "The Mathis Line". He also goes in to mention some of the players this season who have fallen below the Mathis Line, like Vernon Wells, Alex Rios, Adam Dunn, Justin Smoak and Miguel Olivo. He also mentions the pitchers that have historically been better at the plate than Mathis.

"The Mathis Line: a new frontier of mediocrity"

Nice article over at Fangraphs comparing Hamilton and Cruz over the last three years. Also talks about how pretty much every aspect of the organization is smoothly run, and that it doesn't leave a whole lot of room for criticism or analysis from Fangraphs writers, making them "boring".  He also mentions how the biggest attention drawing news has been from off the field issues, and that they're well on their way to another division title. I also give him props for this...

If you like good pitching (Lewis and Wilson, in that order)

A nice column on why anybody not named Jeter would have been a better choice for Gold Glove, looking at a range of defensive stats, and showing that Alexei Ramirez was consistently better defensively than any other AL shortstop by almost any metric used except errors. He also talks about Elvis, and how in most categories he was only about average for an AL SS. To me what's most impressive about this piece is that it comes from an MLB.com writer that actually knows about defensive statistics. I did not think those existed.