Who can build the best team from 1 decade of a specific MLB franchise? Let's find out! Anyone's invited to join, but please pay attention to your team and adjust fatigue settings, etc. accordingly throughout the season to keep the league's competitive balance as even as possible.

THEME RULES/NOTES (see post below to claim your team/decade...*please note change from prior seasons of now $75mill salary cap and that if an owner has 2 teams, only 1 of the teams can be a deadball era team from 1920 and prior years in order to be able to split the divisions and leagues by era as evenly as possible, and lastly the change that only the WIS generic ballpark can be used now to take away ballpark advantages and make it a level playing field...no pun intended):

1.) Must draft players from only 1 MLB franchise (all Yankees, all Red Sox, etc.) & w/in a specific 10-yr timeframe (i.e.: only Yankees players from 96-05, only Red Sox from 04-13, only Senators/Twins from 1956-1965, etc.). Can NOT draft players outside of 10 years apart & from different franchises to your roster or that ineligible player will be removed & replaced with an eligible player or your team can be removed if unresponsive to sitemails or messages to fix your roster.
2.) No clones.
3.) No waiver wire.
4.) No DH.
5.) No trades.
6.) Award winners are allowed.
7.) $75 million MLB salary cap.
8.) Optional AAA manually drafted "average" pitchers and "above average" hitters (between around $700k-$1.8 million for aaa pitchers salary & around $1.5-$2.6 million for hitters salary...2 pitchers, 6 position players, no AAA salary cap) from your same chosen team/decade OR can have WIS randomly assign your "average" AAA pitchers or "above average" AAA hitters (your choice). Manually drafted players not from your same chosen team/decade will be removed & replaced by WIS randomly assigned AAA players if you are not responsive to sitemails or messages to fix them.
9.) Must choose WIS generic stadium with 1.0 ballpark factor so there are no ballpark advantages and everyone has the same ballpark.
10.) There can be the same franchises owned by more than 1 owner (for example, there could be 3 different versions of the NY Yankees chosen).
11.) An owner can own up to 2 teams in the league. Leagues & divisions will be aligned by different eras/decades as best as possible (i.e.: deadball teams will be in the same division as each other), & owners with 2 teams will have each team put into different leagues.

Teams claimed so far and feel free to copy/paste to add to this as you claim one and draft your roster to enter the league (once it's filled, it's filled, so I won't be able to save spots that could delay it from getting started):

1) lb_bunk80: Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves 1962-71
2) vaugheyj: Cinncinati Reds 1987-96
3) DougDoty: Cincinnati Reds 1991-2000

87-96 Reds - will relive the Nasty Boys era, where walks were not a concern, apparently.

91-2000 Reds please

Colorado Rockies 1993-02

Teams claimed so far and feel free to copy/paste to add to this as you claim one and draft your roster to enter the league (once it's filled, it's filled, so I won't be able to save spots that could delay it from getting started):

1) lb_bunk80: Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves 1962-71
2) vaugheyj: Cinncinati Reds 1987-96
3) DougDoty: Cincinnati Reds 1991-2000
4) DCarden34: Colorado Rockies 1993-2002
5) expo4ever: Montreal Expos 1992-2001
6) expo4ever (2nd team): Montreal Expos: 1981-90
7) lb_bunk80 (2nd team): Minnesota Twins 2000-09
8) slim senior: Cincinnati Reds 2015-2024

I'm in with the 2015-24 Reds.

I'll play with the 1980-89 Yankees.

I'll try the White Sox - 57-66

An Oakland As team to be determined. A 2nd team to be determined.

Teams claimed so far and feel free to copy/paste to add to this as you claim one and draft your roster to enter the league (once it's filled, it's filled, so I won't be able to save spots that could delay it from getting started):

1) lb_bunk80: Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves 1962-71
2) vaugheyj: Cinncinati Reds 1987-96
3) DougDoty: Cincinnati Reds 1991-2000
4) DCarden34: Colorado Rockies 1993-2002
5) expo4ever: Montreal Expos 1992-2001
6) expo4ever (2nd team): Montreal Expos: 1981-90
7) lb_bunk80 (2nd team): Minnesota Twins 2000-09
8) slim senior: Cincinnati Reds 2015-2024
9) trd3: New York Yankees 1980-89
10) Dufferman: Chicago White Sox 1957-66
11) WillsRoyals: Oakland A's tbd
12) WillsRoyals (2nd team): tbd

I’d like to try the 1950-59 New York Yankees. I’d also like to enter a 2nd team, yet to be determined.

Teams claimed so far and feel free to copy/paste to add to this as you claim one and draft your roster to enter the league (once it's filled, it's filled, so I won't be able to save spots that could delay it from getting started):

1) lb_bunk80: Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves 1962-71
2) vaugheyj: Cinncinati Reds 1987-96
3) DougDoty: Cincinnati Reds 1991-2000
4) DCarden34: Colorado Rockies 1993-2002
5) expo4ever: Montreal Expos 1992-2001
6) expo4ever (2nd team): Montreal Expos: 1981-90
7) lb_bunk80 (2nd team): Minnesota Twins 2000-09
8) slim senior: Cincinnati Reds 2015-2024
9) trd3: New York Yankees 1980-89
10) Dufferman: Chicago White Sox 1957-66
11) WillsRoyals: Oakland A's 1968-77
12) WillsRoyals (2nd team): Cleveland Indians 1652-61
13) thunder1008: St Louis Cardinals 1981-90
14) battingzero: New York Yankees 1950-59
15) battingzero (2nd team): tbd
16) thunder1008 (2nd team): Chicago White Sox 1958-67
17) Majocha: Atlanta Braves 1993-2002
18) tab316us: Pittsburgh Pirates 1902-11
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Cleveland 1952 to 1961 will be my second team. Don't ask how I finished this team first.

Oakland 1968 to 1977.