Taking adderall durring the draft will require league permission: the 2015 I Love Baseball fantasy league thread!

Season opens on April 5 this year – lets set the draft for, saaaayyy... Sunday March 29th – 3pm.
Which means I would like your keeper selects posted by March 15th, please. Registration hasn't opened yet, but as soon as it does, I will send out invites and provide a link.

Settings changes this year; due to popular demand: Holds and Saves are going to become one stat (SV+HLD) and we are adding a "NA" slot to everyone's roster.

I believe all our managers are returning, so good luck guys – I'm looking to repeat this year!

And, as usual, a reminder of the keeper rules:
• total of 5 keepers
• 2 of which must be 27, 28 or 29 yrs old
• another 2 players 26 or under
• one final keeper that can be either (basically anyone under the age of 30)
• age is based on that year's opening date (April 5, this year)
• for a player to be keep-eligible he must have been drafted on draft day by your team or traded to you by a team that drafted him. that means:
• free agent/waiver pick-ups cannot be kept
• if you keep less than 5 players - you will have a random filler pick inserted instead of a keeper. once the draft is complete you can drop that player for someone else that will count as your final draft pick (must happen right after the draft, so i can keep track of it)

my keepers (age on April 5th, 2015):
José Fernández (22)
Jason Heyward (25)
Félix Hernández (28)
Jonathan Lucroy (28)
David Price (29)

holds are dumb y'all are dumb

a good idea i just had if u wanna force MIs into the game just have a GS limit and then a IP limit slightly higher than estimated SP+closer IP and throw in a lot of P slots ur welcome

hey im already sure the 22nd isnt gonna work for me, can we target like the previous or following sunday? or a weeknight is fine also

my keepers (still considering switching out one of the <27 guys for bogaerts)

Corey Kluber (28)
Aroldis Chapman (27)
Matt Harvey (26)
Sonny Gray (25)
Starling Marte (26)

my guys are older than i thought!

Anyone have a beef if we move the draft to the 29th to accommodate mr crunch?!

keepers, probably

Fred Freeman (25)
Jose Altuve (24)
Yasiel Puig (24)
Justin Upton (27)

thinking at the moment...

george springer, kevin gausman
jose abreu, masahiro tanaka
yu darvish

thank god the draft day is not the same as my other league, i was actually secretly worried

just saw the other post, either is ok with me (just not march 15th plz)

oh and

29 - Carlos Gomez
27 - Paul Goldschmidt
26 - Matt Adams
24 - Anthony Rendon
22 - Bryce Harper

oh and

my team name will probably be "Man or M.Stroman?" unless the top77 tracks inspires a funnier/shittier pun

ha!

also in consideration per above:
sremmurdmetrics
tommy laschmurda
grand phantoslam

also i will be taking ritalin during this draft not adderall we cool dog?

is there a mod here than can change both the draft and selects deadlines back one week in the first post?

Trout (23)
Smyly (25)
McCutchen (28)
Gallardo (29)
Céspedes (29)

Glaussian Curve is too inside, isn't it?

no offense but your outfield sucks

you should probably trade me either trout or mccutchen

We are not looking to make any moves at this time.

holds are dumb y'all are dumb

yep, that's why it's FANTASY

lol

the 2015 St. Louis Cardinals, I mean my fantasy league keepers

28 - Pablo Sandoval
27 - Lance Lynn
26 - Stephen Strasburg
23 - Carlos Martinez
24 - Trevor Rosenthal

RIP Oscar Taveras

Pablo is only 28?!

sox buying his prime years!

um, johnny, you realize you can keep five guys - right? this is two years in a row now you're only hanging onto four!

thx therm, for drawing attention to my organizations total lack of foresight and planning! my only other eligible players are too young

actually, can trading occur now y/n ? if so, i have keep eligible yordanni ventura or mike wacha on the slate for a 27/28/29 age player

i guess i wouldn't have a problem with it, unless someone else can think of a good reason why not.

would anyone want to step up as co-commish? i stupidly already had plans on the weekend that I have moved the draft to and it's 50/50 that i will actually be there for the draft.

I can help

thanks, but i decided to cancel the other thing.

when's the new wedding date?

ha! it was a bachelor thing that would have required me to head to Nashville. i was on the fence to begin with, this just kind of pushed me over.

priorities, man

you guys should feel honoured.

ok gang - league is renewed. once all the managers have signed up i can set the draft order and assign keepers.

Damn, that means I have to stop putting off the decision about who I'm keeping.

don't feel like you're obligated to keep Seager, just because you totally hosed me in that trade!
;p

i've hosed myself in so many trades the past few years
kept rizzo through his rookie season, only to trade him before his first good year
traded cueto before last year
i think i traded away adam jones back during the first season

i've made some questionable "going of it" trades over the years too :/ which i wouldn't regret if my team hadn't shat the bed after the deadline both years. cargo out, sonny gray out, etc etc etc.

also my team name in my 2nd league is "WHIP Priest" which i am pretty proud of. hope to god i didn't see it here years ago & think I came up w/ it myself.

2/3 of the trades in my hunt for 1st blew up in my face, but I'm lucky i was able to hang on. i traded away Marte, Seager and Miller and they *all* caught fire after being dealt. glad i hung onto Lucroy and Fernandez tho, despite a few guys making hard pushes to pry them away - so coulda been worse!

i like the addition of the NA spot. i would have loved to have used it the last two years when i had oscar taveras!
Saves+holds should be interesting.
no big deal for this year, but i still think the batting categories lean a bit too heavily toward power hitters. but i can live with it.

what i would love is for yahoo to allow us to replace runs and rbi's with total runs (rbi + r - HR).

nooooooo yuuuuuuu!

Only a week left to make up my mind about who I'm keeping ...

What other keeper lists are we still missing?

missing 6 in total. more importantly, i'm still waiting on Jordan to join up. until all the managers return, I can't start plugging in our keepers.

My keepers:

Anthony Rizzo (25)
Kyle Seager (27)
Oswaldo Arcia (23)
Johnny Cueto (29)
Clayton Kershaw (27)

thank you.

so tomorrow was supposed to be the deadline to get picks in, but I'm going to extend it a week. with J0ordan still not signing up, i'm pretty much forced to wait. if by next sunday he still hasn't bothered, i'm going to have to lock the league to input everyone's picks and his keepers will be up for grabs. here's his list from last year:
carlos gonzalez
matt carpenter
brandon belt
giancarlo stanton
jurickson profar

are we missing anyone else's list of keepers?

yes... Sanskrit, bnw, Francis and Matt (aka this cannot be changed).

hey it's me Matt aka this cannot be changed

so how do i find out how i got a player that i didnt trade for (aka dee gordon)

crap i meant to say

How do i find out how i got a player i didn't draft (aka dee gordon)?

anyone?

look in last yr's transactions -- looks like via trade

Aug 8 1:40am
Conor Gillaspie(CWS - 1B,3B)
Dee Gordon(Mia - 2B,SS)
Santiago Casilla(SF - RP)
Trade The Lucroyals Tinker2Evers2Chainz Thermo
Adrián Béltre(Tex - 3B)
Joe Smith(LAA - RP)P
Tinker2Evers2Chainz The Lucroyals Matt

dang okay thanks. lucroyals didn't draft him right so he's off limits I'm guessing.
so here are mine:

madison bumgarner (25)
julio teheran (24)
gio gonzalez (29)
dellin betances (27)
ben revere (28)

Also I have a new team name

i like it.

i have a spreadsheet that sorts all players by age, and whether or not they were ever dropped/added from waivers, i can post it tmrw

thanks!

looks liek dee wasn't initially drafted in 2014

i took the list of players who were drafted*, ran it against a complete list of players who were at any point dropped to waivers, ran all THAT against a list of ages i found on the internet**, and generated the following list per team.

* I think I marked every trade but I may not have, so if you see a player you own on another team, my bad
** Double-check the ages, there has been at least one error on this so definitely make sure your players are eligible

12 rodneys
Chris Archer
Shelby Miller
Elvis Andrus
Gerrit Cole
Mark Trumbo
Michael Brantley
Buster Posey
Homer Bailey
Desmond Jennings

AIR BUD SELIG
Yasiel Puig
Michael Wacha
Jose Altuve
Yordano Ventura
Freddie Freeman
Asdrubal Cabrera
Justin Upton

Ausmus Tietchens
Jean Segura
Mike Trout
Drew Smyly
Yoenis Cespedes
Josh Donaldson
Yovani Gallardo
Andrew McCutchen

Hosmertronix
Jonathan Villar
Alex Wood
Billy Hamilton
Jay Bruce
Pedro Alvarez
Billy Butler
Everth Cabrera
Matt Wieters
Tyson Ross
Kenley Jansen
Jordan Zimmermann
Adam Jones

Iwakuma Jamaica Aroma
Addison Reed
Oswaldo Arcia
James Paxton
Cody Allen
Anthony Rizzo
Kyle Seager
Johnny Cueto
Andrew Cashner
Hyun-jin Ryu
Clayton Kershaw
Mike Minor

Jazzy Jeff Hornacek
Wilin Rosario
Trevor Rosenthal
Carlos Martinez
Stephen Strasburg
Oscar Taveras
Lance Lynn
Pablo Sandoval

Lincecumlords
Xander Bogaerts
Sonny Gray
Starling Marte
Wil Myers
Corey Kluber
Aroldis Chapman

Quien Es Mas Machado
Masahiro Tanaka
Kevin Gausman
George Springer
Jose Abreu
Steve Cishek
Alex Cobb
Evan Longoria
Mat Latos
Yu Darvish

Rich Homie Braun
Starlin Castro
Taijuan Walker
Archie Bradley
Jurickson Profar
Giancarlo Stanton
Jason Kipnis
Greg Holland
Brandon Belt
Matt Carpenter
Carlos Gonzalez

The Lucroyals
Jose Fernandez
Jason Heyward
Jonathan Lucroy
Neil Walker
Felix Hernandez
David Price

Thee Tee Ohs
Javier Baez
Chris Sale
Carlos Santana
Craig Kimbrel
Chris Tillman
Ian Desmond
Chris Davis

Tinker2Evers2Chainz
Andrelton Simmons
Patrick Corbin
Madison Bumgarner
Julio Teheran
Domonic Brown
Evan Gattis
A.J. Griffin
Gio Gonzalez

Villar Love Triangle
Matt Adams
Anthony Rendon
Bryce Harper
Carlos Gomez
Paul Goldschmidt

btw bold is under 27, italic is 27-29

jesus - how long did this take?!

Yup, here are some errors from that list

Should have included in italic (age 29 on opening day, not 30):
David Robertson - Hosmertronix
Saltalamacchia - Iwakuma Jamaica Aroma

Put in italic, should been bold (age 26 on opening day, not 27):
Bandon Belt - Rich HGomie Braun
Craig Kimbrel - Thee Tee Ohs
Chris Tillman - Thee Tee Ohs

xp not sure how long it actually took because i maintained that list all year. every week or two i copy-pasted all of the drops from the site, put them in a spreadsheet against the draft results spreadsheet, and if a drafted player also showed up in the drop list, he was "flagged." then i found a list of ages and just did vlookups for everyone.

making the list bold/italic was just a simple if statement. so basically that took about 10 minutes today, but probably a few hours of chipping away over the course of the season. idk i liek fantasy baseball spreadsheets.

my keeps:

Chris Archer 26
Shelby Miller 24
Gerrit Cole 24
Michael Brantley 27
Buster Posey 27

my team name is now teletubby tuivalala. not sure if I keep it, possibly too intimidating.

omg thank you. three more to go! (although one i've written off entirely)

You probably shouldn't be able to keep Oscar Taveras

yeah, now i'm keeping trevor rosenthal instead. ugh

i didn't really think about it, just mass copy-pasted from the spreadsheet :S

Hey - I'll allow it!

arrgh just realized today i missed the 15th. so sorry. if you'll still have me, i'll toss them up in a sec

whoa 21 dead in Tunisia. thank you Yahoo News. wait im getting distracted.

ya - because J0rdan is still awol, i've been forced to hold off on inputting our keepers. so you have until this sunday to get your picks in.

Adam Jones 29
Billy Hamilton 24
Jordan Zimmermann 28
Tyson Ross 27
Alex Wood 24

maybe temporarily change the title of the thread to "J0RDAN! J01RDAN! J012DAN! J0123DAN! J01234DAN! J0123456DAN! J0123457DAN! J012345678DAN! J0123456789DAN!"?

(i've always kind of wanted to be a mod but this is why it can never happen)

hey draftwise will all these keepers be off the board at the start of the draft or do we need to put them all on the do not draft list?

they will not be available. i will basically be manually entering them in the last 5 rounds of the draft before it starts.

cool okay thanks

give me j0rdan's team how much money do i win y/n

you win respect and admiration. or at least one of those.

possibly neither.

j.q. higgins - are you keeping yu darvish?

omg sorry, this shit really creeped up on me, ok:

SALE
KIMBREL
SANTANA
DAVIS, Chris
DESMOND
...seem to be the pack of losers I'm forced to trot out there.

i will also be changing my team name to Inanimate Carbon A-Rod

You're complaining about Ian Desmond and Chris Sale?!??

Also thank you.

I wouldn't mind any of the other 3 guys either!

actually, could i change out darvish for longoria?

Sure

ok - keepers are set. check your team page and make sure the "K" is next to the appropriate dude.

Well, I'm being a little facetious, but some of those dudes need to turn it around from last year, including Desmond who i'm worried is gonna keep striking out more.

I'm hard on my guys, that's how i get results

2 more days!

draft should be interesting this year with the added NA slot.

ya - may bee a lot of minor league guys going later rounds. possibly earlier rounds...
and now that you've mentioned it, i'm off to see who yahoo has available in the stashable universe.

ALSO EVERYONE PLEASE DOUBLE CHECK YOUR KEEPER PICKS ARE CORRECT. the interface is set up to make mistakes and my new tiny human, tho adorable, likes to deprive me of sleep. and i love sleep.

my keeper picks may be ill-advised, but they are "correct"

same

therm i recommend catching up on sleep during the draft, i hear autodraft is flawless nothing to worry abt

Fully expecting someone to take Kris Bryant in round two given the combination of hype and NA slot. Won't be me though. I already overpaid for him in a different league.

Also my keepers are OK! Thanks for all the time in, thermo!

i think you need to sub in a fake keeper for teams keeping four, lest they get an extra early round live pick. [/snitch]

Nope - I can put the keeper picks in at the end now; so any team with 4 keepers (there is one) will get an extra round at the end. I accidentally copy/pasted older rules at the opening of the thread there.

My keepers are OK.

ugh, i guess my keepers are ok. i'm forced to choose between Carlos "stuck in middle-relief forever even though my stuff is like Pedro" Martinez and Wilin "my OBP typically hovers around .204 or so" Rosario. guess i'll stick with martinez.

do we know the draft order yet?

yes.

http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/15619/draftresults

gee i wonder who first pick will be. the mind boggles.

kyle farnsworth upset pick?

any young sluggers available?

any young sluggers available?

Yep! There's one in Florida. His name is Marcell Ozuna.

I think he's named Mike.

yung sthlugger

gee i wonder who first pick will be. the mind boggles.

kyle farnsworth upset pick?

Every year it's either Pujols or A-Rod. I wouldn't expect this year to be any different!

WELL WELL WELL I GUESS YOU"LL JUST BE HELLA SURPRISED THEN

hashtagjuanpierredotcom##

I am crawling across public transit right now, trying to get home in time. Hopefully I'll make it in time for the first round.

fwiw they finally ditched Flash for what I assume to be HTML5, you should be able to draft on your phone.

you can also draft in-app, i did it last football season for a few rounds at one point and it was fine. a little slow and obviously harder to multitask but totally doable.

draft room is open!

so my kids decides that right now is the best time to launch herself off the couch for the first time in her young life – currently being consoled by her mother, but may be in and out of the draft since i now feel like a terrible parent.

priorities dude

rub some dirt on it

now my internet is being a total dickbag

my wifi ONLY fails on draft days

ohhhh goddddd looking at my team the day after doesn't feel good

altho if anyone missed out on drafting a keepable guy for their NA slot, i drafted seager and buxton because i am sooooo clever :S

ha! are we even going to see Seager in the bigs this year?

wait... you literally have no catcher?!

who knows if we'll see either of them?! but it's a way to use your NA slot that gives you a keeper opportunity!

(plus he's blocked by kendrick, rollins, and uribe, and i guess olivera, and only two of them need to get hurt to create an opportunity, which isn't outside of the realm of possibility)

xp and yes -- no catcher because i don't care to keep a catcher (so why draft one), so i'm picking one up once waivers clear because i have that NA slot which opened a spot on my roster. i'll have one by opening day. #strategy

i can also tell that i'll be in the market to trade for a 2016 27-29 guy next year, because after goldschmidt i've got... jansen, hughes, adams, boxberger, bailey. not really a beautiful list of prime-age heroes. (maybe one of them will stick, we'll see)

i honestly don't understand that logic, tbh. why saddle yourself with a catcher off the junk heap when you could have drafted a better one before before you got bench guys like Cabrera/Walker/Baez? certainly your starting catcher will have more impact than those guys. unless you just really didn't like the option you had at that point? i'm guessing that's it?

xpost

There weren't a lot of catchers I rated, but some of them were Gattis (went in 5th... too high for me), Mesoraco (rd 4, ditto), and then a few guys i was willing to wait until the end for -- martin, gomes, ramos, darnaud, wieters, perez... by the time i was down to the last two on my list, Ramos and Wieters, they went back to back in front of my Seager pick. that's when i decided i wasn't drafting one (it was the 2nd last round anyway). actually if you look at where catchers went it's kind of remarkable... MCCann right before my pick in the 10th, then d'arnaud right before my pick in the 13th, then ramos and wieters back to back right before my pick in the 16th... and you know what? i am okay with riding the waivers here. i mean is there any guarantee that those guys will be better than vogt? miguel montero? navarro? derek morris? jaso? grandal? etc etc etc.

i will probably cobble together a frankencatcher by picking up guys batting in coors or chase or against shitty pitchers. and my C spot will probably get 500 ABs, hit .250, 15 HRs, 70 RBIs, 70 HRs, 0 NSBs... which to me is p good production from that spot if you don't have posey/carlos/gattis.

lol 70 runs. not 70 HRs.

I agree with that strategy -- at some point in the later rounds of the draft there's no point in wasting a pick on a 10th rate 2B/SS/C because you can pick up one on the waiver wire anytime. You don't gain anything by drafting them but you can lose out on decent bench players at other positions and keeper eligible players.

sorry for picking d'arnaud just before you when I already had a C!

i'm glad you did! it set up my GRAND(al?) EXPERIMENT of mercilessly streaming craptchers all season! I will do my best ot record the results and compare them to real-life catchers. (yahoo introduced that handy game log last year, so it should be easy).

reminds me i have to set up my keeper-eligible-2016.xls.

I was the jerk that picked up McCann and Wieters just before you. Sorry!

This is the first year I've drafted 2 catchers. The last few years I've been burned only having 1, who then only ends up with 400 ABs by the end of the season.

That's the thing -- fangraphs lists only 10 catchers as "qualified" (502 PAs minimum; I added Santana to the list though) and of those 10, only 4 put up decent-ish numbers (Lucroy, Posey, Gomes, Santana) and another 3 put up barely tolerable numbers (Perez, McCann, Suzuki... and I use tolerable loosely, Perez and McCann put up sub-.300 OBP and Suzuki's ISO was .095). The other three were intolerably bad (Navarro, Castro, Montero). I figured if I'm going to have shit at catcher, it might as well be shit I'm not attached to because I drafted it.

Now I feel that I've shown my hand 6 months too early and the FA pool is going to get picked over by people who think I "may have a point" but I don't care! This is going to be a rough year for me anyway. High-risk injury guys (Fielder, Tulo, Harper, Rendon), low-risk injury guys (Arenado, Goldschmidt), potential busts (Baez, Adams, my entire pitching roster)... why not make up my own dumb gonzo-moneyball scheme for backstops?

And after I wrote that I checked my player news. Anthony Rendon is getting a consult on his knee from Dr. Andrews, which I guess means they're going to invent knee-TJ, and Baez has been optioned to Iowa. Good thing I drafted THREE second basemen...

I think this is a sound impromptu strategy and the only logical response would be for us to clear bench spots for a third backup to the backup catcher.

Unless it was my plan all along to make you guys drop players for crap catchers, riding your sloughed-off players all the way to an Empty-C season victory~~~

i have 3 of the cardinals 5 starting pitchers, plus their closer and setup man.

mistakes were made

Catcher is such a poor offensive position that I usually don't care if they get only 400 AB because even my starting C will drag down my rate stats. If he goes on the 15 day DL then so what? Is it worth grabbing some crappy backup for two weeks who will go 2-20 with one RBI? The 2-20 hurts a lot more than the one RBI might help.

I have the luxury of being able to move my starting C to 1B, should the need arise, and I feel like I'd be missing out on too many counting stats without a decent back-up (rate stats be damned)!

i hope i never have to say to myself "good thing I can move my C to 1B"

in one of my other leagues i waited too long on 1Bs multiple times and ended up with Duda/Trumbo (with Santana as my catcher) so it could happen

Welp, I missed the draft.

Lucky for Will,
C PEREZ, Salvador is available for trade.

As well as
SS RAMIREZ, Hanley or DESMOND, Ian

I need a first baseman!
I'll have to sort out the rest of this mess on the weekend, but those are the obvious things.
Please take a look at my roster if you're looking for a trade, I need to do some balancing out

also, I didn't check my keepers properly :'( so i ended up with Tillman instead of Chris Davis, but i'll have to live with it :(

i won't be able to check rosters til this evening, but i might be interested in a trade. i have four players with 1B eligibility: encarnacion, trumbo, duda, mccann.

oh dear. i had forgotten that hunter pence was injured until at least may.

i took a look to maybe send an OF offer your way but you look solid. maybe work betts & prado at 2B/OF, toss Pence on DL once season starts and patch with FA? your team looks strong.

yeah, i have a couple opening day moves i'll try to make that should patch things up a little. wish we could move players onto the DL before opening day so i could make the moves now!

i'm predicting a middling finish for my team this year, but hopefully not a disaster. yahoo added a dynamically predicted standings thing to the draft, and my team ended up being ranked last by a large margin!

in response i have renamed my team ⨌⨀_⨀⨌

Ya - I'm eager to fill up my DL spots as soon as I can. Just gotta wait for teams to make rosters etc official.

where is this predicted standings thing? I am always very bad at figuring things out on yahoo because i am not very smart.

Karl wasting no time in grabbing Grilli!

i hope he's next in line for closer! i didn't check

his competition is Jim Johnson.

Heyward putting me ahead in all the offensive categories tonight. i do not plan on relinquishing!

Guys i need to unload either Hanley Ramirez or Ian Desmond for some power/1B

I've got Duda if you're interested!

Duda 2014: 30 HR, .349 OBP, 92 RBI, .481 SLG, 57 XBH

if you want you can take a look at my roster and see if there's someone else I can throw in

cool, i'll take a look today and see what i might be able to put together

Stephen vogt just hit a home run. The no catcher draft experiment has been a runaway success. Shut down the league guys. I won it. (ignore my pitching forever.)

Ha! He's my 2nd on both my other teams! (started today on one of them)! I declare this a victory for the 2-catcher system!!

I'm trying to propose a bit of a blockbuster trade, but when i press the continue button it just refreshes and shows me the same page?
Maybe there's a resulting roster situation that would stop it from going processing?

going

maybe try a different browser?
if you can't figure it out, send me a pm through ilx or yahoo with specific details and i'll try to sort it out.

Everyone's offense kind of sucks, doesn't it (except for M. or M. Stroman's)

If the real Detroit Tigers were in our league, they'd be first in R, second in HR, first in RBI, first in OBP, first in SLG, second in XBH, and first in NSB, so...yeah.

wow. that's a steal for Hamilton!

(that was not intentional)

Hahaha. I was confused when it said "pending" because I never got indication that it was accepted! I think it works out for both teams tho. Prince still OBP/SLG/RBI threat.

I need a little pop at 1B. Also might be setting up our league's first three way trade, though i'm fine keeping Prince.

now im dying to know which you meant -- that Fielder was a big haul or that B. Hamilton was bought for pennies on the dollar.

actually me too now that i read it again

considering Hamilton can be kept for the next five years and fielder is sort of a gamble (tho he looks ok so far), i felt Will was coming out on top. admittedly i'm more skeptical of Prince's chances of bouncing back than most.

i like billy hamilton, but not for our league.

R - avg to above avg
HR - nope
RBI - below average
OBP - upside is avg someday?
SLG - nope
XBH - nope
NSB - well yeah

not terrible, and grabbing him guarantees a good finish in NSB, but he's a liability in the other categories

Yahoo needs a category for first-to-thirds.

I'm doing fantasy bb for the first time this year, not in the ILX league but some ILX people are in it, and I have no idea what I'm doing and my team is terrible. I need a Cyrano de Bergerac to whisper in my ear and tell me what to do.

can't help you with your terrible team, but we had a manager disappear on us this offseason, if you want to try your hand at keeper baseball you're welcome to join us next year.

OK thanks, we'll see.

YOU CANNOT PETITION THE FANTASY BASEBALL GODS WITH CROWDSOURCING

actually go ahead and try, what the hell

This new feature on yahoo where you can click on the play button next to the players' name and see their game highlights is awesome.

Prepare your assholes everyone - Bryant is about to make his MLB debut and I'm about to put this league away for the next 7 years!

Here's hoping I didn't just brutally jinx myself.

man... i just picked up devon travis, agonized over who to drop, decided on baez, read his news article... fuck. i feel like an asshole.

it's ok. i don't think Baez is going to hold it against you.

http://i.imgur.com/FMMiY1f.png

wow, you run a tight ship. that is almost as heartless as the time you tried to trade me Nick Adenhart for Ben Zobrist.

less concerned about how baez felt about my dropping him & more that ilx would think i am heartless... glad i nipped that in the bud xp ohhhhhhhhhhhhh

hey, he didn't strike out – progress!

whoops, meant or the cubs thread. whatever.

first place on 4/20 - this feels right

My team figured out how to steal bases all of a sudden -- 10 NSB in the past three days. I went from last to first in the category in one day (literally between yesterday and today).

well – an unexpected congrats to whoever grabbed Addison Russel. getting the call!

i'm probably going to have him hang out in the NA spot until he gets going - maybe even all the way into next year, depending on how well he does. i don't want to repeat my terrible mistake with rizzo (i drafted and played him every day during his mediocre 2013, then traded him away for $14 and a lonnie smith rookie card in Fair condition just before he finally morphed into Anthony Rizzo, baseball star)

i don't think you can keep him in the NA slot once he's no longer "NA". not if you want to make any roster moves, at least.

hmmm, i was thinking it had the same rules as the DL slot (you can keep a player in the DL spot after they come off the DL in real life, i believe)

well, if it comes down to it i suppose i can drop the legendary B. Shaw (RP-Cle) from my roster

gatdang, i still only have one NSB! had no idea it was that dire. come on billy, don't go into drought mode!

i was thinking of how the Dl worked too. once someone on the DL is no longer eligible, they won't let you add/drop anyone. beyond that they will let you get away with it for a few weeks before being stubborn about it and not letting you adjust your roster.

also – my 2-catcher plan should have been a 3-catcher plan, as I have now lost both to the DL in a day.

my "pick up a different catcher every week" plan devolved into the "vogt or die" model

you're lucky i went with d'Arnaud in our league – went for Vogt as my 2nd in my other two leagues (the difference being i liked Travis for OBP better).

If we add a gorgeous quotient stat to batters in 2016 (GQ, obv) then Anthony Recker would be a stud IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE AM I RIGHT?

but seriously he'd be a dece pickup til d'arnaud returns to health

wait is plawecki starting in front of him?

think so!

i don't want to repeat my terrible mistake with rizzo (i drafted and played him every day during his mediocre 2013, then traded him away for $14 and a lonnie smith rookie card in Fair condition just before he finally morphed into Anthony Rizzo, baseball star)

Wait a minute, I traded you Strasburg as part of that deal (who is still on your team) but more importantly, I never got my Lonnie Smith rookie card!

from 10th to 4th in a night - early season/small sample size/fun!

i am tempted to enforce this Lonnie Smith rookie card portion of the deal!

cautionary tale to future samardzija owners: do not start him if there are no spectators. he does terribly in 0-attendance situations

well, didn't expect to see Syndergaard back out there so soon.

it was probably a mistake to dump him considering the state of my rotation but frankly i'm just tinkering with the lunch menu on the RMS Lusitania at this point.

best players on mem day wkend is a ~~reasonably predictable list~~ usually takes much longer 2 normalize

Harper
Cruz
Goldy
Scherzer
Trout
Upton
Felix
Adrian Gonzalez
Greinke
Dee Gordon

did not expect Gordon or Cruz to be as god as they are so far this season.

those are def surprises; not as much as AARON HARANG + CHRIS YOUNG (PITCHER) being in the top-40

Anthony Gose too, I did not expect.

I forgot to start Garrett Richards yesterday, fortunately, the Yankees blew him up to the tune of six runs in two-thirds of an inning.

Hernandez, Pineda and Tazawa left me with an ERA over 10 last night. if that sounds low, considering the night they all had, Price mercifully gave me 9 shutout innings.

welp, my season is a disaster. early warning: i will be looking to trade for keeper dudes. i have 8 keeperables right now:

under 27:

Michael Wacha
Carlos Martinez
Rosenthal
Addison Russell
Mookie

27 and up (age as of beginning of next season):

Strasburg: 27
Lynn: 28
Panda: 29

since i can only keep 5, i will be willing to trade a combination of my keepers + older players (including encarnacion and others) in return for a keeper/s that is/are better than those listed above. i'll be taking a look at rosters but please propose a deal to me if you have something in mind.

this season has been a disaster. i am selling. my goal is to improve my keeper stock. here's what i have:

26 and younger (at beginning of 2016 season)
Michael Wacha
Carlos Martinez
Trevor Rosenthal
Addison Russell
Mookie Betts

27-29 (at beginning of 2016 season)
Stephen Strasburg
Lance Lynn
Pablo Sandoval

obviously i can't keep all of them. so i'd like to trade some of them, perhaps bundled with my over-30 players (encarnacion being the best of that crew, but check my roster for others), in exchange for better keeperables. i'm looking to improve my 27-29 keepers, in particular.

let me know if something makes sense to you, and i'll also be scouting everyone's roster and looking for possible trades.

Forgot to set my lineups last night, missed out on two great starts by Chavez and Kershaw. I'm way over the projected IP limit though, so I guess I had to start benching guys anyway.

KM I just sent you a trade offer.

you still got 3/5 of the season to reign in your IP. no need to take your foot of the petal this early!

Yeah, I made up a flimsy excuse to make myself feel better :/

HEY YO

Congrats. Maybe we can get a streak of Candian winners. Be like the opposite of the NHL!

yo, man or mstroman is canadian too. MAYBE YOU DON'T COUNT QUEBEC OR SOMETHING? YOU'RE ALL GOING DOWN. VIVE LE VORPED LIBRE MOTHERFUCKERS, IT'S SUPER ON.

Whoops. Totally forgot!

IT'S TOO LATE. NOUS SURMONTERONS~

Yeah, the Lightfoot Cup has become competitive in the last few years. It used to be all about me and Thermo fighting over ninth place in the rankings, now we've got actual good teams and stuff (and more than two teams).

yesss

+Chris Young KC - SP,RP
Free Agent
-Chris Young NYY - OF
To Waivers
Man Or M.Stroman?
Jul 1, 6:21 pm

hahaha yeah i took a screenshot before i realized almost nobody would care

fucking baller move, dropping Cain!

that confused me

my team sucks but i finally thought of a baseball/music pun so that's progress

Why are people not responding to my trade offers?

I need more offense, I'm willing to trade a good SP in return.

i don't think i got one... i'll at the very least shoot you down promptly.

my hail marys have paid off for what will likely be only one day!

Four teams within five points of first place!

Me, two years ago, almost to the day:
This rate stats thing is ruining my liiiiiiife~~~ HOW DO I GET OUT OF THE PITCHING GUTTER
― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Friday, July 26, 2013 10:45 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

At the start of last year:
wow, this year same as last year -- top 3 in almost every stat, bottom 3 in the pitcher rate stats
― Neckbread (Will M.), Thursday, April 24, 2014 10:29 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just so you all know that I am, if nothing else, consistent: first place in RBI, SLG, OBP, 2nd in XBH, top 4 in all other batting stats... and bottom half for all pitching cats except sv+hld.

HOW DO U PITCHER?

(also consistent with at least last year, and possibly the year before: my first-half lead followed by inexorable descent into high-mid table)

so, with Sano hitting really well i might not have room for Heyward (26) anymore. And with Lucroy stinking i might be interested in someone a year or two older than Jason (27/28). still not sure about this move, but if anyone is interested in swaying me, hit me up.

When's the trade deadline? Must be soon.

fuck, i'm a terrible commish. didn't realize the deadline was two days ago! i suck.
in my defense we just (sort of) finished sleep training our kid and am dealing with a nightmare tenant in our basement we've been trying to evict for months now.

is his name jason heyward?

my child is not named jason Heyward, no.

i might not have room for Heyward (26) anymore

dealing with a nightmare tenant in our basement we've been trying to evict for months now

my joke sucked so i am not sure why i am blockquoting this agh never mind I AM GOING TO LOSE THIS LEAGUE AGAIN

i was just being a pain! ;p

12 runs, 5 HR, and 12 RBI's yesterday (thx Gardner and Joey Bats) and I barely moved in the standings. Tough league.

I want 5th place and you're in my way!

congrats (n)omar!

p happy finishing 2nd tbh think if waino hadnt suffered his injury i coulda made a better run @ it

Congrats Omar! this is championship #2?

having spent the fist half around 10/11th i'm pretty happy with a 4th (or possibly 3rd?!) place finish. i'm in a good spot for next year with Bryant Sano, Fernandez, Felix and other (maybe Quintana since i accidentally dropped Pineda).

Yep I won in '09 too! I thought for sure my team was sunk at one point, but I managed to plug some gaps and keep battling and you know it was a team effort, my hats off to the kids, they really played with a lot of heart and just knew how to win in the end.

btw I'm tentatively finished with fantasy, allowing myself the possibility to change my mind if my schedule gets better. So these guys I was debating on keeping may be out there for next season:

Marte
Bogaerts
Gray
Kluber
Chapman
Pollock
Kipnis
McHugh

nooooooooooo..........

There's not a good time to do it, so may as well say I'm most likely out for bext season as well. It's lame but I got really into daily fantasy this year and although season long isn't as much work, it's too much to do both at the same time.

I have mookie, Addison Russell, Strasburg, Carlos Martinez, lance Lynn, and I think a couple other potential keepers.

;_;

fug.

well I may be back. the grind of 162 games really runs me down at age 40 but if Julio Franco can play real baseball at 48 I might have another season in me.

i for one am shocked

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/sports/fanduel-draftkings-fantasy-employees-bet-rivals.html

Congrats nomar! There were a lot of strong teams in the first half of the season but you crushed everyone in July and by mid-August there wasn't really any doubt about who would win.

It was a disappointing season for me, I had a good two month run where I was in the top three and even had a two day cup of coffee in first place, but it turned out that my offense was playing way over its head. I like my keeper options for next year though.

I think I've changed my mind on quitting already. I need at least one fantasy league to distract me.

I went into first place one day and I thought I'd be done bc there were several other scary rosters but cargo and ortiz kept hitting. pollock ended up being a great pick, I was going to use him as a reserve and he ended up the fourth best offensive player or something ridiculous like that.