A draft-eligible prospect is defined as a hitter that has less than 150 Major League at bats or a pitcher with less than both 55 Major League innings pitched and 20 Major League games pitched. Further, to be eligible, the player must be a professional baseball player, defined as one of the following:

- Under contract with a MLB team's system. This does not require them to have been assigned to a minor league team at the time of the draft.
- A professional player playing in/having played in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) league.
- A professional player playing in/having played in Korea's Korean Baseball Organization (KBO) league.
- A professional player playing in/having played in Cuba's top professional league, the Serie Nacional.

Amateur players in High School, College or otherwise subject to the Rule 4 draft are not eligible.

There will be a 3 hour per pick clock and a 4 hour cumulative clock to draft. If you are skipped, you may make your selection at any time. If you have been skipped and not made up that pick, you will continue to be skipped until you are caught up. Time will not accrue from midnight to 8 am ET, though anyone may select during that time if their pick is up. Legit queues will not accrue any time. There won't be a cumulative clock chart so it's up to each manager to know when he times out. I am sure there will be some managers to help out with that.

Once the draft concludes, the only way to add a prospect is via trade or future drafts. If you are skipped you have 3 hours or until the last pick is made in order to make up your pick. See a commish for details. Complete rules can be found in our constitution.

Please check to be sure your pick is not already a prospect or owned by a current manager before posting and use this format:

48.01 Joe Prospect,SS,Cin

We are drafting rounds 48, 49, 50, 51 and 52. We keep these rounds for posterity to track when prospects were drafted.

Illegal selections will be allowed to be corrected if found during the draft, but the draft will proceed. Your replacement pick will be able to be made at any time.

Please email the next three managers after drafting. If you are posting for someone else, please put their name above their selection.

Besides commissioner updates/graphs/etc, please only put picks in this thread and keep discussion to our Preseason Thread.

The keeper deadline isn't until Tuesday at Noon (I am just getting an early start). I will post in here once the deadline has passed and I am satisfied there are no further administrative needs and we can begin the draft untimed.