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Well we’ve now got our 18 teams and the Dynasty draft league for the 1970 season is starting to roll. It began with our Expansion Draft. We had four new players two of which took existing teams vacated by other players (Cleveland and SF) and two who took new franchises (California & Philadelphia). Those two teams participated in an expansion draft choosing players from existing teams. Each existing team was allowed to protect 7 players from the expansion draft and an additional five if a player was drafted from their team. Once any team lost 3 players (LA Dodgers) no further players could be drafted from it.

Here were the draft results by round

Round	Player	Position	Drafted From	Player	Position	Drafted From
	Philadelphia Phillies			California Angels
1	Mudcat Grant	P	St. Louis Cardinals	Tommy John	P	Boston Red Sox
2	Don McMahon	P	Los Angeles Dodgers	Bill Russell	ss/OF	Boston Red Sox
3	Dick Selma	P	Los Angeles Dodgers	Joe Niekro	P	Washington Senators
4	Clyde Wright	P	Minnesota Twins	Sandy Alomar Sr	2B	San Francisco Giants
5	Pat Dobson	P	Cleveland Indians	Carl Morton	P	New York Yankees
6	Luke Walker	P	Cincinnati Reds	Don Money	3B	San Francisco Giants
7	Tom Phoebus	P	Pittsburgh Pirates	Bob Locker	P	Oakland A’s
8	Clay Carroll	P	Pittsburgh Pirates	George Mitterwald	C	Seattle Pilots
9	Ron Klimkowski	P	Montreal Expos	Matty Alou	OF	Los Angeles Dodgers
10	Dick Drago	P	New York Yankees	Lou Piniella	OF	Baltimore Orioles
11	Jim Rooker	P	Montreal Expos	n/a	n/a	n/a
12	Tony Taylor	Inf	Atlanta Braves	n/a	n/a	n/a

Having drafted 10 players in the expansion California will draft 16th in the full scale version ahead of Seattle & Behind LA. Because they took the full 12 players allowed the Philadelphia will draft last at 18th.

The Final Draft order for the 1970 continual draft league:

1. Atlanta Braves
2. NY Yankees
3. San Francisco Seals (Giants)
4. Cin City (Cincinnati Reds)
5. St Louis Cardinals
6. Boston Red Sox 
7. Washington Senators 
8. Oakland A’s
9. Pittsburgh Pirates
10. Baltimore Orioles
11. Montreal Nos Amours (Expos)
12. Minnesota Twins
13. Cleveland Indians
14.  LA Dodgers
15. California Angels
16. Seattle Pilots
17. New York Day Traders (Mets)
18. Philadelphia Phillies

Given that the actual draft will be 18 players from all over the country from NY to CA it will take at least a couple of weeks. I expect us to get started by the end of may or beginning of June, sooner if I can manage it, but we’re playing 162 this time and it’s going to be fun.

And if you like what you see, well we can always go to 20 teams next season.

UPDATE The rules for keeping players after the next season are as follows:

1. World series winner 4 players
2. World series runner up 5 players
3. Division winners who don’t go to the series 6 players
4. Division winners who don’t make the Pennant round 7 players
5. Wild card teams who don’t go to the series 8 players
6. 11th and 12th best records 9 players
7. 13th and 14th best records 10 players
8. 15th and 16th best records 11 players
9. 17th and 18th best records 12 players

With 18 teams the divisions are going to be as follows

AL East	AL Central	AL West	NL East	NL Central	NL West
Seattle Pilots	Cleveland Indians	Boston Red Sox	Atlanta Braves	NY Day Traders	Los Angeles Dodgers
New York Yankees	California Angels	Oakland A’s	Philadelphia Phillies	Cincinnati Reds	Pittsburgh Pirates
Baltimore Orioles	Minnesota Twins	Washington Senators	Montreal Nos Amours (Expos)	St Louis Cardinals	San Francisco Seals (Giants)

Divisions were set up with the following priorities in order

• Division winners not to be put in the same division
• Whenever possible players are placed in divisions with opponents living in the same time zone
• If not possible traditional rivals are put together
• Actual geographic location of the franchise

Thus since the Red Sox (Colorado), the A’s (Arizona) and the Senators (Nevada) all live out west they were put in the same division since with an unbalanced schedule (18 in division, 12 out of division 6 interleague) so alas the Redsox and Yankees will not share a division as the Yanks live in the east

two of the three AL central teams live in the central time zone while four AL team managers live in the east. California and Seattle were the obvious candidates to go to the central but as Cleveland is defending a division title and so is Seattle California was the default as it was the closest geographic choice.

The NL was more complicated four NL teams live in the east, four in the central and only one (Pittsburgh) on the west coast. Thus one eastern player and one central player had to go west. The obvious choices were the Giants and the Dodgers as they are both actual west coast teams and are also traditional rivals.