 | NL News: Pre-Season Begins
Friday, March 1st, 1878: Spring training is just around the corner! The NL unveiled their 1878 schedule today and the preseason is under way. A new season means a fresh start for many players, while fans can't wait to see how the newest version of their favorite team looks.
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| NL News: First-Year Player Draft
Friday, March 1st, 1878: Today's National League first-year player draft will produce a new pool of potential all-stars, players with aspirations of one day holding position in the lineup, starting rotation or bullpen. The prime candidates, according to BNN's predictions, includes:
1. Flip Banks, 21 year-old center fielder out of college.
2. Dan Scheid, 20 year-old starting pitcher out of college.
3. Tom Bigler, 17 year-old starting pitcher out of high-school.
4. John Visconti, 18 year-old second baseman out of high-school.
5. Tom Suttle, 21 year-old starting pitcher out of college.
6. Billy Mulville, 20 year-old starting pitcher out of college.
7. Bill Apple, 18 year-old catcher out of high-school.
8. John Gerheauser, 18 year-old left fielder out of high-school.
9. John Marshall, 21 year-old catcher out of college.
10. Tim Hogue, 22 year-old starting pitcher out of college.
The first five picks go to Indianapolis, Providence, Milwaukee, Chicago and Boston.
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| NL News: Draft Pool Revealed
Wednesday, January 30th, 1878: With the rookie draft only weeks away, clubs are huddled in their conference rooms, mapping out scouting strategies with their eye toward the future. These sabermetrical speculators will be traipsing across the fruited plain, hunting for the ideal find, trying to decipher the will, drive and pure passion on the unknown youthful faces before them. Some will rely on tried-and-true baseball knowledge, others psychology. And others will live by luck alone. Though their final assessments will be made and hashed over many times before draft day, the repercussions of draft day, good or bad, will endure long after the dust has settled.
At any rate, teams now have thirty days to scout the draft pool prior to the draft. The Transactions page also gets a new section dedicated to the pool.
You can find the draft pool in the league transactions screen (league menu).
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