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June 19

HOT SLUDGE SUNDAE reserve Josh Beckett, activate Rick White.

HOT SLUDGE SUNDAE reserve Kyle Davies, activate Mike Koplove.

STONES trade J Pierre, C Biggio, and T Hoffman to COPPERFIELDS for J Encarnacion, A Pettitte, and C Lidle.

June 20

RUFFINS reserve S Seabol, activate S Rolen.

June 23

COPPERFIELDS reserve A Eaton, activate J Santana.

June 24

BY KENNEN reserve M Gonzalez, activate H Carrasco.

June 25

COPPERFIELDS reserve L Castillo, activate J Werth.

COPPERFIELDS reserve J Santana, activate J Grabow.

COPPERFIELDS sign V Zambrano (.05), reserve him, waive M DeJean.

DA PAUL MEISTERS reserve A Cintron, activate R Clayton.

DA PAUL MEISTERS reserve G Blum, activate C Guzman.

STONES sign J Repko (.08), reserve him, release J Weaver.

STONES sign K Stinnett (.06), reserve K Hill, waive R Wolf.

DEM REBELS reserve L Cormier, activate S Eyre.

HOT SLUDGE SUNDAE reserve J Williams, activate M Prior.

HOT SLUDGE SUNDAE reserve M Koplove, activate T Redding.

HOT SLUDGE SUNDAE reserve R Shealy, activate M Anderson.

KENNDOZA LINE claim F Guzman on waivers, reserve him, waive H Luna.

KENNDOZA LINE reserve V Diaz, activate T Linden.

KENNDOZA LINE reserve D Ardoin, activate R Fick.

RUFFINS claim K Groboski on waivers, reserve him, waive B Nelson.

SPLENDID SPLINTERS claim N Lowry on waivers, waive J Borowski.

SPLENDID SPLINTERS reserve B Harris, activate J Vizcaino.

RESERVOIR DOGS sign A Sanchez (.25), reserve him, waive H Quintero.

RESERVOIR DOGS sign S Olsen (.06), reserve him, waive DJ Houlton.

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Free Agent Bids and Waiver Claims

Trade Aftermath

There have been some questions about what teams are and are not allowed to do with their rosters immediately following a trade.  Here are a few reminders:

If you trade a hitter for a pitcher, you ARE allowed to activate a hitter from your reserve list to replace the guy you traded away. Likewise, you MUST reserve a pitcher to make room for the guy you acquired (unless you want to put the new pitcher on reserve himself). The same type of thing holds true if you trade a catcher for a shortstop.

However, keep in mind that you must be able to field a complete 23-man active roster immediately after the trade.  That means you can't trade a catcher unless you get one in return or have one on your Reserve List that you can activate. 

You are NOT allowed to make additional moves that aren’t related to the trade. For example, if I trade Andy Pettitte for Juan Pierre, I can reserve Wily Mo Pena (to make room for Pierre) and activate Jim Brower (to replace Pettitte). But I can’t also reserve Jose Castillo and activate Placido Polanco – neither one of those guys had anything to do with the trade. Making a trade doesn’t give you the chance to do other roster shuffling.

Finally, you are not allowed to shuffle your roster around to fit the new guys you acquired under the salary cap. If you acquire three .25 pitchers in a trade and their salaries put you over the current salary cap, you’ll have to put one or two of them on reserve until the next transaction deadline and do your roster shuffling there. This doesn’t mean you can’t reserve a .30 pitcher and put one of the new .25 players in his spot. It means you can’t reserve a .30 outfielder and replace him with a .01 outfielder in order to get your salary cap down – as in the example above, the outfielders weren’t involved in the trade.

Hometown Discount Watch

In 2006, the teams that finished in 5^th-12^th place in 2005 will receive a budget of up to .06 to use toward reacquiring players who had played out their option with the team (B-contract players). The exact amount each team receives will be based on how far behind the 5^th place team they are at the end of the year, in terms of a percentage of the 5^th place team's point total.