These 12 managers signed up for 2016 Fantasy Baseball. What happened next will shock you!

Real baseball GMs hate them!

Anyways, invites to renew should be showing up in your inboxes. If one doesn't appear, let me know (will be the email address linked to your yahoo profile).

Setting the draft date for Sunday March, 27th – 5pm (EST). If the time is a problem time for some people, complain here and if everyone's ok with it, I can move the time around. Would like keepers submitted by the 20th. Please, please, *please* – have your picks posted here by then!

I'm thinking same rules/settings/etc as last year. (?)

And the guidelines for keepers:
• 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 have less than 5 keepers, you will get an extra draft pick at the end of the draft.

in case anyone needs some guidance on who on their roster is eligible to be kept (draft selections vs free agent or waiver-wire pickups), last year's draft results are here: http://archive.fantasysports.yahoo.com/archive/mlb/2015/15619/draftresults

I'm afraid I'm out this year. My team has decent keeper options if anyone wants it, including Mookie Betts, Addison Russell, Strasburg, Carlos Martinez, Lance Lynn, and a couple others.

and my selections:
Miguel Sano (22)
José Fernández (23)
Kris Bryant (24)
José Quintana (27)
"King" Félix Hernández (29) (RIP my first selection in our first every keeper draft!)

xpost oh noes :(

well, there's a team up for grabs if we have a new manager interested.

I hope we can get a manager for it!

My keepers, as of now (submitted to the site as well):
Paul Goldschmidt (28)
Kenley Jansen (28)
Bryce Harper (23)
Nolan Arenado (24)
Byron Buxton (22)

(note: may change Buxton to Anthony Rendon, will let thread & yahoo know if I change my mind before Mar 20)

ya, I'm still working on a justification for keeping Heyward instead of Sano, myself.

Oh and assuming I don't come up with a name that amuses me more, I am now known as HOMERBAiLi (Demo)

And also, I keep a spreadsheet every year where I tirelessly and shamelessly track the adds, drops, and trades in this fantasy league to keep an eye on who's a keeper potential. I'll share that sheet below!

Quick instructions:
- Probably save a copy, I'm not sure if you can filter if you don't
- Filter by "Last Team" -> your own team
- Filter by "Keeper" -> no blanks

Tada! it shows you the guys you are eligible to keep. Anyone else was either dropped (date of drop shows up) or wasn't drafted if not on that list. The ages are probably about 95% correct, so double-check the math on those.

The Great Keeperable List of 2016 VORPed

Hats Off To Bryce Harper? xp

as you recall last season after my championship run i chose not to return but i have CHANGED MY MIND

LINCECUMLORDS

tentatively keeping:

Xander Bogaerts (<27)
Sonny Gray (<27)
A.J. Pollock (27-29)
Corey Kluber (27-29)
Starling Marte (27-29)

*I may swap out one of the 27-29 players with Aroldis Chapman
**Will, I noticed on your xls that Kluber is OLD but fortunately for me I believe he's turning OLD April 10!

hahah shit. yeah that's the problem, for some reason the list i pulled was sketchy with april birthdays but i don't remember where i pulled the list. felix hernandez was fucked up last year

it's hard to find a list of every baseball player's birthday apparently

One of the main sites, fangraphs or bb ref had an xml file up for grabs, that has most the stats. It's been a few years since I've gone liking for it...

Keuchel (28)
Altuve (25)
Puig (25)
J. Upton (28)
Freeman (26)

soo... will it put anyone out if i move the draft back by an hour (or even 30 mins)?

the commish of my other league just set the draft for 12 on the same day – would prefer not to juggle two simultaneous drafts.

yea no prob

it's an auction draft too, which take a while, so i'll be manning two drafts for a little while no matter what.

could a mod change the start time in the original post to 2pm?

Sorry for not posting yet on this thread or naming my keepers but I'm obviously in this season (and I will obviously win!)

all good, you still have ~ 3 weeks.

Madison Killdozer (name to change soon):

Giancarlo Stanton (26)
Madison Bumgarner (26)
Julio Teherán (25)
Dellin Betances (27)
Khris Davis (28)

oops I forgot I am already Ike and Trea Turner

current thinking re: keepers...

jose abreu
j.d. martinez
george springer
christian yelich
taijuan walker

excellent, i can replace one more set of supposed keepers with "real" ones in willmvorped2016.xls

I'm changing one of my keepers -- you won't believe who it is at #5!

(After comtemplating Buxton vs. Rendon for the past few weeks, I have decided on a third candidate instead. That third candidate is Billy Hamilton, 25!)

also who ain't up 'n' joined yet?

"IwakumaJamaicaAroma" and "Lincecumlords" still have yet to renew their teams. and "Wong Leatherette", Karl Malone's team, won't be renewing.
just sent a mass reminder to sign up (sorry karl – I know you're out)

so – nomar, NoTime – renew!

done

wooo!

Gerrit Cole 25
Buster Posey 29
Chris Archer 27
Kolten Wong 25
Gregory Polanco 24

I have Matheny brain and am leaving off Shelby Miller. :( Going to have to stew on this and read a bunch of idiot fantasy columns.

done. I still have to review my keepers ... hopefully this weekend.

Iwakuma JamaicaAroma (name change possible before opening day) keepers:

Anthony Rizzo (26)
Kyle Seager (28)
Clayton Kershaw (28)
Brandon Finnegan (22)
Jacob deGrom (27)

wow. pick #4 has shocked me!

The main thing is that I needed another 26 or under guy, but he's young and has pitched well in limited opportunities despite getting called up and sent down about five times last year by KC. In Cinci he should have a good shot at a spot in the rotation.

Don't Stop Blyleven keepers:

Manny Machado (23)
Matt Harvey (26)
Kole Calhoun (28)
Carlos Carrasco (28)
Tyson Ross (28)

so, i have just been informed that the draft date is set for easter sunday. is this going to be a problem for anyone?

i just realized i'm going to be away that weekend. :/

saturday the 2nd would be perfect for me but i realize that's the absolute last day for drafts before the season

yikes. would moving the time around at all help your ability to make the draft, or join wherever you'll be at? if not i will send a message about the 2nd.

i might be able to do the draft anyway? i'm going to be on a super mellow four day trip to the desert, but my four yr old might be easter egg hunting at the time we're drafting. maybe if it's moved to 5 PM EST/2 PM PST?

ok. if no one objects here, i will send out a message about pushing it back a little further in a few days.

excellent thanks!

so, i haven't heard any grumbling – i'm change the draft time to 5pm est. i really hope everyone saw the message i sent out.

is there an ilbb mod up in our fantasy league that can change the time in my initial post from 2 to 5?

i'm sorry i am so bad at decisions :/

keeper number five is buxton hamilton rendon

all good. you're keeping pace with the frequency i'm revising the draft time!

Anibal Corpse

Mike Trout (24)
Drew Smyly (26)
Jake Odorizzi (26)
Elvis Andrus (27)
Andrew McCutchen (29)

ok - time has been push back to 5pm est

so when does it flush the system/assign keepers? is it at the draft? i haven't done my rankings in the yahoo system yet

i meant to do it sunday, and i'm just about to hunker down now and take care of it.

so, uh – sanskrit looks like Matt Harvey will be 27 on opening day (late march b-day), which would give you 4 guys in the 27+ dept on opening day. sorry i didn't catch this sooner.

also – still waiting on Francis to submit his picks.

Olney The Lonely:

Sal Perez (25)
Danny Salazar (26)
Chris Sale (27)
Craig Kimbrel (27)
Dee Gordon (28)

Thanks for your patience, Thermo!!

NP. just waiting on sanskrit now.

so – I'm not sure what to do about sanskrit's team. he made an mistake with Harvey's (and also Carrasco's) age which has put him one over how many guys he can have in the 27-29 range and I haven't heard back from him yet. i figure he'd probably drop Ross (28) - but do i take the liberty of guessing who's he prefer in the sub-27 range? i think Soler is the obvious pick, but there's also Castillo and Wood... or do i just leave him with 4 keepers and an extra draft pick?

also – everybody check your picks on your team page. make sure i got them right.

wait where? i see in the notes log you edited keepers or whatever but when i view my roster it just shows my whole 2015 team

The picks *should* have that keeper icon next to their name. This really sucks waiting on sanskrit, I can't make anything final without hearing from him.

Ok, no they don't. Fml

ok. i've locked shit down. keepers will now have the "K" icon next to them. i should be able to go back and revise things up to a few hours before the draft if sanskrit isn't happy with hanging onto soler instead of ross.

ok. 30 mins. hopefully most people turn up on this easter draft-day!

is the order set yet or not til the draft client launches?

if you click "draft results" you can see the order.

with manual keepers i have to select the draft order myself (i use a website that randomizes lists to do this).

also - i have done next to no prep work this year.

thx willm

I have also done next to no prep work this year.

"I have also done next to no prep work this year."

said will m, lyingly

you'all are crazy letting Carrea slip to #4, btw!

According to Yahoo's projected stats, I'm winning this year. Thanks for playing everyone, better luck next year.

your 2016 LINCECUMLORDS

1B Miguel Cabrera Det
2B Robinson Canó Sea
3B Adrián Béltre Tex
SS Xander Bogaerts Bos
OF David Peralta Ari
OF Starling Marte Pit
OF A.J. Pollock Ari
Util Dustin Pedroia Bos
BN Mitch Moreland Tex
BN Javier Baez CHC
BN Brett Gardner NYY
BN Jackie Bradley Jr. Bos


SP Cole Hamels Tex
SP Carlos Martínez StL
RP Aroldis Chapman NYY
RP Héctor Rondón ChC
P Huston Street LAA
P Jason Hammel ChC
P Yordano Ventura KC
BN Sonny Gray Oak
BN Corey Kluber Cle

where do you see projected standings btw? i must be looking in the wrong place.

There was a tab for projected standings during the draft, but now I can't find it on the regular yahoo site.

i think it's only a draft window feature. would be curious to see the full standings

C - castillo
1b - goldschmidt, votto
2b - Rendon, schoop
3b - arenado, franco
Ss - Castro, arcia (minors)
Of1 - harper
Of2 - betts
Of3 - cain
Of4+ - deshields, belt

Sp - cueto, liriano, darvish, Verlander, nola
Rp - Jansen, tolleson

Summary: can I somehow get extra points for batting when my pitching shits the bed

Oops and Steven matz

C • Russ Martin (my hometown boy)
1B • Albert Pujols
2B • Matt Carpenter (3b)
3B • Miguel Sano (was a keeper, we'll see)
SS • Carlos Correa (likely keeper)
OF • Kris Bryant (3b) (keeper)
OF • Jayson Heyward (possible keeper)
OF • Michael Brantley
bench • Matt Holliday (OF, possibly 1B)
bench • Adam Eaton (OF)
bench • Daniel Murphy (1b, 2b, 3b)
bench • Trevor "what's the" Story "morning glory" (SS)

SP • King Felix (keeper)
SP • Jose Fernandez (keeper)
SP • Jose Quintana (was keeper)
SP • Jordan Zimmerman
SP • Collin McHugh
SP • Jamie Garcia
SP • Jose Berrios (NA)
RP • Andrew Miller
RP • Joaquin Benoit
RP • Pedro Stropitalready

i seem to have a wealth of pitching so homerbaili (demo) maybe we can work something

TLOP OPS+
c - darnaud
1b - freeman; morales; hosmer
2b - altuve
3b - tomas/kang
ss- seager
of - upton; parra; kemp; puig

sp - scherzer; price; keuchel; lackey; shelby miller; severino;
rp - perkins; segrist; melacon

Iwakuma Jamaica Aroma 2016

C - Lucroy
1B - Rizzo (K)
2B - Josh Harrison
3B - Kyle Seager (K)
SS - Brandon Crawford
OF - CarGo
OF - Choo
OF - Joc Pederson
bench - Teixeira, Castellanos, Piscotty, Span, Alex Gordon

SP - Kershaw (K)
SP - deGrom (K)
SP - Greinke
SP - Patrick Corbin
SP - Trevor Bauer

RP - Osuna, Rosenthal, Doolittle, Finnegan (K)

I tried to focus more on offense, every year I find I'm struggling on offense and wasting my good pitching (only two more years of Kershaw carrying my team!)

Hopefully at least one of my post-hype prospects pan out (Bauer, Castellanos) for future keeperables.

Finnegan will be starting with the Reds this year, he's young, and has been really good in his limited time in the majors. Unfortunately he's been getting shelled in spring training and will be pitching half of his games in a HR launching pad, but it's not like any of my other keeper eligibles were a surer thing.

Anibal Corpse has selected Lord Byron Buxton of the Baxley, Georgia Buxtons.

I had a hot date so I missed the draft, sorry for picking Jose Reyes

damn Kershaw / degrom / greinke is p nice, Aroma

easter didnt work for me, sorry i couldn't take part in draft. thx for fixing up my team.

yo will what u think of my trade offer

damn Kershaw / degrom / greinke is p nice, Aroma

Greinke and Kershaw together again ... only in our dreams (and on my fantasy team).

Will I've sent you an offer

how's the weather down there btw, boys?

signed,
your homerun leader

I saw that, I see the appeal but I'm more desperate for pitching tbh.

also apologies to the other person who sent me an offer that i never responded to, i was trying to think of a counter offer that worked for both of us but then i got drunk a few times

pitching i definitely cannot help with haha

although i think it's a missed opportunity, i appreciate the speedy reply! offer is still on the table.

I'll take this opportunity to offer up OF/SS Ian Desmond for 3B/Pitching help

Very glad I took a flier on Story.

I'm less happy (Greinke got routed by the Rockies).

I'm in first place though! The season isn't a total failure, no matter what happens from here on out.

day fucking 3 and i am already forgetting to start dudes, mookie on the bench WHY

3rd hr for Story. i may have to re-rename my team!

Four!!

I'm listening to offers, people. Can't keep him and Correa!

Five!

Six!!!

wow jeez

holy shit

what the

that 2nd round Kyle Schwarber is looking rough right now. Good trade bait though to a faltering team, I assume he's 22 or something.

It's all downhill for me from here I suppose.

good on you, whoever that was that just grabbed White.

so... edwin drop in early may ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i was not going to say anything...

i wouldn't have but i'm 7th waiver so i don't stand a chance anyway, but yeah! what up with that!

edwin has responded nicely to his shameful ilbb league dropping

https://media.giphy.com/media/mWEhiQVLsO9yg/giphy.gif

so bogus

thank god i was 10th priority and dont feel so bad missing this thread reminder nor the three starters I had on the bench yesterday.

shit i didnt mean to start a knuckleballer in the rain o_o

can someone do some sabremetric analysis on whyhow im 1st in xbh but last in rbis lmk

My team has fallen off a cliff in the past four days -- I dropped from second to a distant fifth, and lost 30 points in the standings.

After a 7 HR, 17 RBI day, HOMERBAiLi now has 133.5 out of a maximum possible 154 points. I think the rest of us can officially declare that the battle for second place is ON.

i might actually have a shot at second place if my starting pitching wasn't such inconsistent trash! way to waste some great offense, fellas.

This is the third year in a row I've had a commanding lead on first place going into June only to fall apart over the next four months so don't count out touchdown everyone-else

i'm 30 points away from first and 14 ahead of 3rd. trevor story is for real – all you fools are in a race for 3rd!!

also – we all like our league's sexy new icon?!
feel free to submit any new icon ideas as they come up over the season.

Nomar and I have the same problems. I couldn't have asked for much more from my offense, but my starting pitching stinks. Without Kershaw I would be in last place in almost every pitching category.

*Chaperones 48-hour school trip to Toronto, forgets to download fantasy app, arrives home, sees slide from third to eighth place*

SAMURAI
FANTASY BASEBALL

my SPs are all basically guys who are too potentially good to outright drop, too mediocre to rely on, and too weak to dangle as decent trade bait. Plus my best RP is pitching for a team that doesn't give him save opps.

i think losing Pollock hurt a bit but it's also highlighting the importance of landing a true #1 pitcher, last year I had scherzer (plus good Sonny Gray.) keeping my fingers crossed that Kluber turns it on at some point, he seems pretty unlucky this year. But despite the Cy Young award he's not a guy to anchor a winning FBB rotation.

my best RP is pitching for a team that doesn't give him save opps

should be ok tho, since we got SV+H now?

the importance of landing a true #1 pitcher

If anything this year for me is highlighting the importance of getting lucky with pitchers more than anything...

Two years ago I drafted pitching pretty hard with Wainwright, Salazar, Hamels, Sonny Gray, and kept Ryu... not so good. Gray was p good, Wainwright was p good, but Salazar crashed and burned that year, Hamels and Ryu underwhelming.

Last year I drafted Lester, Hughes, Samardzija, and then waited on my other dudes. Had Hughes kept up his incredible K/BB game up and Samardzija hadn't sucked out loud, i would've done better again, but... it was not meant to be.

This year I was risky AGAIN with pitching, not picking one until Cueto, then Liriano, Darvish, Matz, and finally Nola in the last round... for once, I'm actually getting amazing results. Nola and Matz in particular have been absolute steals, to the point where I was comfortable dropping an expensive but underwhelming Liriano fairly early. Cueto also hasn't disappointed.

Basically for pitching: if you pay a lot for it, your batting pays, but it doesn't always make the pitching work out.

That said, I have the champagniest of champagne problems this year... I have no idea who to keep for next year! Goldschmidt and either Belt or Kenley... and three of Harper, Arenado, Betts, Matz, Nola, Arcia and Franco. Harper's a lock, Arenado and Betts are borderline locks, but Nola and Matz have been SO GOOD and who even knows, maybe Arcia ends up being this year's Carlos Correa...

Was 1.5 GB out of 1st place. now I'm 3.5GB and failed to realize my Ace-in-the-hole is making his first start tonight! Look out for the Lonelys, we're not even at full steam yet :D

Really, I just want to beat Lincecumlords; he's been coming on pretty hard since that savvy Edwin pickup :P (I have Chris Carter now by the way lol)

and...Lincecum's ahead of me >:( I will have vengeance GO CARTER

Do you guys use Yahoo Fantasy Baseball? It bugs me that they give you so much info on each player and game, including ratings of how well a player is expected to do in that day's game, but they don't tell you which starting pitcher they're facing that day. So you have to open MLB.com in a separate tab to get that info.

it says the opposing pitcher if you click matcup ratings, at least in browser.

In browser go to My Team and click Opponents

also, if you are losing the season and you have good old pitchers, ilxmail me and we'll figure out a way to give you an A+ keeper for next year in exchange for me not throwing this fucking season in the garbage can

Greinke and Kershaw injured on the same day? There goes my season?!?

it says the opposing pitcher if you click matcup ratings, at least in browser.

― a simba man (Will M.), Tuesday, June 28, 2016 9:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In browser go to My Team and click Opponents

― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, June 28, 2016 9:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

neither of these options work for me? matchup ratings aren't clickable and there's no opponents option under my team. weird. thanks for trying though!

"Opponents" should be sitting between "Ranks" and "Matchup Ratings" to the right of where the date and "stats" is. click that and there'll be a column for opposing pitchers. it might not be visible on a smartphone/tablet tho.

ah that did it. thanks.

we're at the halfway mark! HOMERBaili has a 10.5 pt lead over Olney the Lonely.

top ten batters at the break:

Donaldson
Ortiz
Trout
Bryant
Altuve
Encarnacion
Rizzo
Betts
Arenado
Trumbo (!!)

top ten pitchers:

Kershaw
Bumgarner
Scherzer
Cueto
Fernandez
Syndergaard
Strasburg
Sale
Miller
Jansen

depending on how my July pans out, i might be in selling mode. I have a stunning number of non-keeper impact players on offense, plus the now-30 yr old Corey Kluber.

surprised Donaldson is over papi now as #1 batter

I can't believe I took Bautista over Donaldson; I'd be in first! >X'S

no idea why i added Bregman. Already have Correa and Story. may have gotten a little carried away in the hype

free agent add of Jett Bandy, what a time to be alive

Sorry Nomar, your trade offer was good but I was thinking about pulling that one all week...

just turned down one hell of a crazy 8-player deal...
I'm surprised, tbh, Harper fetched so little. this is fun tho - our league had gotten quiet for a bit there.

what was the point of the villar deal? villar can't even be kept...

i knew i overreached on my epic eight player deals.

sending you an email. my app didn't let me write a response when i turned it down.

i liked it. but there's a hitch.

Also, to everyone: I won't be able to keep all 3 of Story, Correa and Sano (Bryant and Fernandez aren't going anywhere). let see some dumb trades! (would want pitching and/or 27-29 keeper.

^i am cooking up an insane offer rn

sweet.

question is do i have the stones to even offer it?!

pondering that trade offer...

Welp. Was asking a lot for Story since his production was going to be tough to replace. And now he's no good to me for the rest of the year. If anyone has an open DL slot and wants him as a keeper, hit me up. Will toss him overboard in a few days otherwise.

fuck it indeed!

Only slightly better than Vogt. But I was dropping him anyways, so what the hell.

thermo i came at you with another proposal

It's pretty good. Only thing holding me up is I'd be light in the OF dept after this.

Wow, this trade is wild.

Just crazy enough.

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/903/249/7fa.gif

some intersting names when u sort best performers the past 30 days

dozier
napoli
verlander
justin turner
miggy
votto
scherz
schrimpf
danny duffy
blackmon

Was out of town for the weekend, limited internet access, didn't realize Betts was back. Benched a 3 HR game. Due to another similar error earlier this year I'm pretty sure I benched ANOTHER one of his multi-HR games, meaning due to two days I've missed out on 20% of his homers, lol.

ridic that kershaw is still ranked #1

i'm gunning for that fourth place medal hardcore

i'm going to jinx Will right now and prematurely congratulate him on his eminent victory this year.
way to kick all of our butts!

how dare you :P

IT'S NOT LIKE YOU'RE SUDDENLY GOING TO DROP 13.5 POINTS OR ANYTHING! WHAT ARE THE ODDS??!?!!

seriously tho, congrats. you killed it this year.

i've lost in september before :/ hopefully i can keep it together tho. it'd take a pretty severe kick in all of my ratios to really fuck me at this point

dammit i'd have given it a better run if aj pollock wasn't crippled until a week ago (and then crippled again), and if my pitchers didn't have awful k/bb ratios (despite having high K rates.)

I was having a decent run before my SP's completely imploded in August. After a good first half I figured I had a good shot at a podium position, but the second half has been an all-time fantasy sports disaster for me. HOMERBAiLi crushed everyone this year.

My place every year:

2016: ???, for a while have been 1st
2015: 3rd, for a long while was 1st
2014: 4th, was maybe briefly 1st
2013: 3rd, was 1st for half the year
2008: 14th lol I don't remember this

The point is: I'm definitely not ready to celebrate, EVER, until it's over

Also every year I've traded solid keepers to win and failed. CarGo in 2013; Baez, Chris Davis, Craig Kimbrel 2014; i guess none in 2015 but yeah... Harper in 2016 better fucking buy me that pennant

i tried that two years ago – the keeper sale – and boy did it blow up in my face. this year it's worked out better, but not worked quite enough.

would be p sweet of would could see the standings plotted out over the season.

man. now i really wish i could look at historical standing for our league over the season. would have been fun to visualize that.

THERMO YOU JINXING SON OF A FUCK I'M ONLY UP 8 POINTS NOW

I BETTER NOT LOSE

having a hard time dropping Jose Fernandez. i shoulda done it last night... but, fuck. i can't believe he's gone.

gonna sound dumb and tone-deaf but there is a "NA" slot you can use.

had the same feeling in my keeper league w/ oscar tavares couple years back.

i could kiss you!

Way to go Will – you mopped the floor with us!
I got sort close and then it was a pretty big gap after that.

I feel like i should photoshop up a trophy for you or something. (but i'm lazy)

it was a lot more of a nail biter than i expected. now that i have won one i can finally CHILL (lol jk never)

Congrats Will, you really mopped the floor with the field this year.

is this happening again this year? would it be possible for me to play? i've been in a league the last couple of years but i don't really know anyone in it and it would be more fun to be competing against relative non-strangers.

oh! yes it is happening again! send me your yahoo email addy and i will invite you when i restart the league in a few days.
we'll figure out how to get you set-up with a new team when i create a new thread and find out if everyone is coming back.

also thank you for reminding me about this.

cool. i sent you a webmail, let me know if that doesn't work