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

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.