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

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!