Keeper Keeper Bo Beeper ...

The dispersal draft is this Tuesday. My excitement for the draft is second only to my excitement for the Fighting Illini's upcoming Sweet Sixteen upset of Connecticut.

As a reminder, seven teams will participate in the dispersal draft: The Kurt Bevormos, DJ Dozier and Friends, Dr. Rosendowell, The Committee, Little Italy, Mitro Nitro and The Octagon. The draft will take place over e-mail, with each owner e-mailing their pick to the commissioners and copying the other owners of the league. Trades during the draft are allowed and very possible. The time limit for picks has not been set but there is talk of a five minute limit.

But what, you ask, of the other five teams in the league, the so-called "keeper teams." Those squads chose to keep three players each and won't participate in the dispersal draft. They could, of course, trade one or more of their keepers for a pick in the dispersal draft and, based on the chatter I am hearing among the league owners, a deal along those lines sounds very possible.

Here is the list of keepers organized according to the team that kept them:

Operation Shutdown
Pedro Martinez
Mark Teixeira
Johan Santana

ZAGS
David Wright
Miguel Tejada
Manny Ramirez

The Vipers
Todd Helton
Carl Crawford
Travis Hafner

Team Italy
Roy Oswalt
Miguel Cabrera
Mark Prior

Skillz that Killz
Phat Albert
Michael Young
Lance Berkman

Some of these keeper choices were obvious, others were a tougher call (Skillz kept Berkman over Derrek Lee, The Vipers kept Hafner over Ichiro, and Operation Shutdown kept Pedro over Soriano). But however you cut it, each of these teams has a nice base from which to enter the regular draft on March 24.