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

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

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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?

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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!