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

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)