Your 6 keepers must be posted in this thread by 11:59pm ET on Friday, February 29th.

The draft will become active that weekend, as soon as I finish entering the keepers into On The Clock at kaffeinatid.com.

As always there will be a strictly kept 1 hour time limit during weeknights.

2008 Prop 2 -- The addition of a prospect keepers to the league

Each preseason immediately following the primary draft, we will conduct a second "Prospect Draft."

To be eligible for the Prospect Draft, a player's major league career must have compiled fewer than:
150 at bats, 50 innings pitched and 20 games (as a pitcher).

The draft will be a straight (non-snake) format totaling four rounds or however many rounds are necessary for each team to possess 4 total prospects. No team may possess more than 4 total prospects at any time, meaning that some teams may not participate in every round of a draft, depending on how many prospects are kept from the previous year. The draft order will be the same order as the primary draft. Drafted prospects will remain on the manager's Prospect Roster until they are promoted to the primary roster, released or traded away.

Once a player has been added to a team's primary roster, that player has lost his status as a prospect for as long as he remains the property of that manager. Should that player not be kept by any team in the following preseason and also remain under the Prospect Draft Eligibility Limits listed above, he may be selected once again in the Prospect Draft.

A player will retain his status as a prospect until he is promoted to the primary roster or passes one of the Prospect Thresholds:
800 at bats, 300 innings pitched or 90 games (as a pitcher).

A manager has 7 days after his player reaches one of the Prospect Thresholds to promote him to his primary roster. After 7 days the (now) former prospect becomes a free agent and may be picked up by anyone.

A manager may choose to retain rights to a player as a prospect beyond those thresholds by declaring him an Extended Prospect. In doing so, he sacrifices one of his other prospect slots (be it filled or vacant). If all of his prospect slots are filled at that time, the manager must promote or release one of his other three prospects. If one of the slots is vacant because the manager had already promoted (or traded away) one of his prospects, the manager does not lose a prospect but it is understood that he no longer possesses that vacant slot.

An extended prospect will be granted an additional 500 at bats, 180 innings and 50 games beyond the initial Prospect Thresholds.

A manager may also choose to further continue extending a player's prospect status or declare the extension of another prospect, as long as he has a slot to sacrifice.

For the purpose of sacrificing a slot, an extended prospect only couunts as one slot. For example, if a manager has 2 normal and one Extended Prospect with no vacant slot, he may not extend the status of both his normal prospects by sacrificing his Extended Prospect.