I know Fantasy, I have the best Baseball – 2017 ILX league is open!

The league has auto-renewed everyone's team, so you shouldn't have to do anything.

We have some fresh meat this year, as we are welcoming mr NA as our newest GM (you should have an invite in your yahoo email)! If anyone doesn't think they'll be able to rejoin this year, let me know so NA can have the option of taking a team over or starting from scratch.

Draft has been set for March 26th, at 4pm EST.

Am willing to move the draft time if it's a problem for enough people.
Same stats/roster set-up as last year. Tho, if anyone has a suggestion to try something new, I'm all ears.

As always, the keeper rules:
• 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 2, 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.

Last year's draft results are here, if you want to confirm who you can-and-cannot keep: https://archive.fantasysports.yahoo.com/archive/mlb/2016/47766/draftresults

I think that covers it!

thanks, i'm looking forward to getting destroyed

Lincecumlords

Miguel Sano (23)
Xander Bogaerts (24)
Carlos Martinez (25)
Starling Marte (28)
A.J. Pollock (29)

Porno for Shapiros:

Kris Bryant (25)
Carlos Correa (22)
José Quintana (28)
Jackie Bradley Jr. (26)

looks like just 4 for me, i guess. RIP Jose Fernandez :`(

by the way, can everyone *try* to get your keeper picks in at least a week before the draft?!

ayyyy didn't see this thread go up! no harper this year, last year of one of my best players of all time, can i repeat!? THE ANSWER IS MAYBE!

Mookie Betts (24)
Steven Matz (25)
Nolan Arenado (25)
Kenley Jansen (29)
Paul Goldschmidt (29)

Unfortunately I will need to bow out this year, though I will forever cherish my lone 2011? 2012? title over the brain trust here.

ah, shitty.
is it me? because i can change!

so if sanskrit doesn't change his mind, his available keepers would include: Manny Machado (24), Kole Calhoun (29), Jorge Soler (23), Matt Harvey (28), Carlos Rodon (24), Corey Dickerson (27), Lance McCullers (23)
NA – let me know if you'd want to take over "Don't Stop Blyleven".

hmmm as tempting as having machado is i think i'd rather start from scratch with my own team. again, i expect to get destroyed this season (at least).

i forget, are predraft trades allowed? all are eligible keepers of SABATHIAS THEATER but cuz of intolerable ageist discrimination i CANNOT keep one (1) of:

STORY, TREVOR (24)
HARPER, BRYCE (24)
SEAGER, COREY (22)

would need a 27-8-or-9 year old; pref starting pitcher but other offers considered ~

i think we decided against it since A) not everyone pays full attention over the off season, B) there is no opportunity for people to vote against trades like there are through yahoo and C) it adds another place where i'd have to cross-check everything, whereas yahoo has a record of all in-season trades

o word ok, i didnt recall a vote or some decision abt it

noticed something about the phrasing in the post that i never noticed before... if a player is drafted, dropped, and picked up, are they eligible to be kept? i've always kept an (extremely unwieldy and pain in the ass) spreadsheet that tracked all of the drops to note who's "keepable", wondering if i didn't need to do that...

(i still have the one from last season i can share if anyone wants)

free agent/waiver pick-ups cannot be kept

So ya, weren't wasting your time!

in that case, here is the list I make every year and upkeep mercilessly

i'm not sure how the filters work when sharing a google sheet... if you are able to use them, then you should filter by "last team" (if there was a trade, i would've updated it there). the "keeper" column has either A, B, or blank: A means keepable and under 27, B means keepable and 27-29, blank means not keepable (was at some point dropped, or is too old)

disclaimer as always: the data i pulled for age has been shown to be incorrect in the past, i try to fix it as much as i can every year, but double-check those birthdays!

if anyone's looking at it, let me know if you can use the filters.

nvm i just tried in another browser and you can't use the filters... make a copy and you should be able to!

thanks for keeping track of all that!

how do i find out if i can keep villar i traded a guy i drafted for him...would it depend on whether he was drafted or picked up as a free agent?

i am dumb. figured it out. don't mind me.

keeping

trea turner (23)
francisco lindor (23)
george springer (27)
j.d. martinez (29)
zach britton (29)

sabathias theater

bryce harper (24)
jose altuve (26)
fred freeman (27)
dallas keuchel (29)
corey seager (22)

Olney The Lonely

Chris Sale (28)
Craig Kimbrel (28)
Danny Salazar (27)
Salvador Perez (26)
Lucas Giolito (22)

i'm curious what will happen to Sale in fenway.

Okay formerly Bread&Jam Betances, currently MidtableObscurity, soon to be some other bullshit name:

Julio Teheran (26)
Giancarlo Stanton (27)
Madison Bumgarner (27)
Dellin Betances (29)

Seems like probably I cannot do anything else by league rules, as none of my other eligible players are young enough.

Hey Thermo, just changing up my keepers a bit:

Xander Bogaerts (24)
Carlos Martinez (25)
Starling Marte (28)
A.J. Pollock (29)
Aroldis Chapman (29)

Whither NoTimeBeforeTime, Andy K, bnw?

they still got time – some people like to keep us in suspense. might send out a reminder message next week.

it's cool that they like to keep us in suspense. i just like to CALL EM OUT FOR IT

Ultralight Bream

Buxton (23)
Syndegaard (24)
Trout (25)
Odorizzi (27)
Jeffress (29)

SYNDERGAARD

Real life has gotten in the way of following baseball lately, but I'm in this year.

IwakumaJamaicaAroma keepers:

Trevor Bauer (26)
Clayton Kershaw (29)
Anthony Rizzo (27)
Kyle Seager (29)
Joc Pederson (24)

oops. this will be a good use of my work morning for sure.

with a true gift for picking disappointing pitchers...

Stephen Strasburg (28!)
Addison Russell (23)
Chris Archer (28)
Gerrit Cole (26)
Gregory Polanco (25)

Draft is in two days!
I hope everyone got their picks in and the ages etc right, because i have been so insanely busy i haven't had a chance to double check anything yet!

I tihnk it all looked good in my sheet!

how do the keeper picks work in the draft, are they automatically taken out? sorry for dumb question but i haven't done a keeper league before

they will all happen in the last 5 rounds. so you'll have 5 picks in a row right at the end (i think).

hey Thermo i changed my keepers upthread, just wanted to make sure you saw (hanging onto Chapman instead of Sano.)

excited to draft with you gentlemen and take it to the limit one more time

thanks, noted!

im excited also for another season! now that the real life cubs have won anything is possible!!

thanks everyone for getting your selects in. I've got the draft order set and keepers set. because it's incredibly easy to mis-click on things, please make sure your picks are correct on the draft page: https://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/36915/draftresults

(scroll to the bottom)

alright. time for me to do some research!

LINCECUMLORDS

C - Kyle Schwarber
1B - Carlos Santana
2B Dustin Pedroia
3B Anthony Rendón
SS Xander Bogaerts
OF Starling Marte
OF Lorenzo Cain
OF A.J. Pollock
OF Andrew Benintendi
1B, 2B, 3B, SS Jedd Gyorko
3B Ryon Healy
3B Yoan Moncada
SS Dansby Swanson

SP Jacob deGrom
SP Jon Lester
SP Carlos Carrasco
SP Garrett Richards
SP Carlos Rodon
SP Carlos Martínez
RP Jeurys Familia
RP Aroldis Chapman
RP David Phelps

Benintendi and Moncada is pretty sweet.

Oh hey ima post my ballot too

C - TBD (lol)
1B - Paul Goldschmidt
2B - Rougned Odor
3B - Nolan Arenado
SS - Trevor Story
OF - Mookie Betts
OF - Mark Trumbo
OF - Adam Jones
1B/OF - Wil Myers
1B/OF - Ian Desmond
2B/SS/OF - Jose Peraza
OF - Max Kepler

SP - Steven Matz
SP - Kenta Maeda
SP - Danny Duffy
SP - Zack Greinke
SP - Lance McCullers
SP - John Lackey
SP - Kevin Gausman
SP - Alex Reyes (oops)
RP - Kenley Jansen
RP - Ken Giles
RP - A.J. Ramos

realized the end of the draft was creeping up way too quick, realized i hadn't queued up a young minor leaguer to draft with my last pick, freaked out, grabbed alex reyes, of course without checking he's out for the season... so he'll be getting dropped for a catcher at some point, anyway. my batting is gonna be terrifying this year just hope my pitching can hang

You can stash him in your NA slot if you want.

I might do that, although given my keeper options at this point in the season there's almost no point. Might instead just pick up a guy who starts in the minors who I epxect to make an impact this year (i ahve at least one in mind).

I think I know who you're thinking of. If I missed out on Urias, I would have gone for him later on.

My Ballot, Porno For Shapiros:

C – Buster Posey, 1B
1B – Hanley Ramirez
2B – Matt Carpenter, 1B, 3B
3B – Kris Bryant (keeper), 1B, OF
SS – Carlos Correa (keeper)
OF – Jackie Bradley Jr (Keeper)
OF – Dexter Fowler
OF – Nomar Mazara (possible keeper)

UTL/bench – Ben Zobrist, 2B, OF
UTL/bench – Even Gattis, C
UTL/bench – Elvis Andrus
UTL/bench – Michael Brantley, OF

SP – Max Scherzer
SP – Jose Quintana (keeper)
SP – Cole Hamels
SP – James Paxton
SP – Jharel Cotton
SP – Sonny Gray
SP – Julio Urias (probably keeper)

RP – Wade Davis
RP – Alex Colome
RP – Cam Bedrosian

you got Cam Bedrosian right before i was going to take him, i like that dude.

I'd honestly never even heard of him before yesterday.

Woops.

PROTOSCHWARBER

C - Willson Contreras
1B - Brad Miller
2B - Javier Baez
3B - Justin Turner
SS - Aledmys Diaz
OF - Nelson Cruz
OF - Christian Yelich
OF - Keon Broxton
UT - Greg Bird

1B - Mike Napoli
C - Wilson Ramos
OF - Travis Jankowski
OF - Yasmany Tomas
OF - Ender Inciarte

SP - Corey Kluber
SP - Aaron Sanchez
SP - Jon Gray
SP - Drew Pomeranz
SP - Ian Kennedy
SP - Adam Wainwright

RP - David Robertson
RP - Francisco Rodriguez

i was not very well prepared and then real life intervened - we had to go pick up my kid from a play date so i was trying to give my wife directions through a townhouse complex parking lot while also keeping an eye on the draft on my phone

IwakumaJamaicaAroma

C - Yasmani Grandal
1B - Anthony Rizzo
2B - Robinson Cano
3B - Kyle Seager
SS - Jean Segura
OF - Andrew McCutchen
OF - Joc Pederson
OF - Adam Eaton
Util - Victor Martinez

BN - Alex Bregman, 3B
BN - Wilmer Flores, 1B, 2B, 3B
BN - Odubel Herrera, OF
BN - Tyler Naquin, OF

SP - Clayton Kershaw
SP - Justin Verlander
SP - Marcus Stroman
SP - Robbie Ray
SP - Trevor Bauer
SP - Marco Estrada

RP - Cody Allen
RP - Kyle Barraclough
RP - Chris Devenski

Similar to last year, I'll keep a list all year so people can track who is keepable. Unlike last year, I'll share it now, so you can see the updates whenever I make them.

link to sheet

Warning: if a player gets dropped and I don't add him to the "dropped" column in time and you trade for him and later find out he's not keepable that's on you! this sheet for entertainment purposes only etc

all ages should be updated for NEXT year btw, so if someone seems too old it's because i'm aiming for their ~apr 1 2018 age

thanks!

(there have also been many mistakes on age over the years so please double-check before believing them!)

that's awesome, thanks for putting it together

Stanton Like My Mama (pka MidtableObscurity/Bread and Jam Betances):

C - Russell Martin, Welington Castillo
1B - Miguel Cabrera, Brandon Belt
2B - DJ LeMahieu, Jonathan Schoop
3B - Miguel Sano
SS - Jonathan Villar, Asdrubal Cabrera
OF - Giancarlo Stanton, Jose Batista, Kendrys Morales, Eric Thames
SP - Rick Porcello, Madison Bumgarner, Julio Teheran, Masahiro Tanaka, Drew Smyly, Sean Manaea
RP - Mark Melancon, Hector Rondon, Dellin Betances

i have eight solid dudes pretty well under 27, i think i'll be making some deals this season.

I think those deals will be with NA!

Thanks for the spreadsheet, Will! Seeing that made me feel better about my keeper situation. It also reminded me that eight years of Kershaw (best draft pick I ever made) are ending this year -- if I'm out of it mid-season, guess who's going to be available!

i'm suddenly wishing i drafted more trade-bait.

First place after opening day -- it really is the best day of the season, where anything seems possible.

and you've also peaked!

the magical time of the season when you can lose 34 points in one day

jeez i have five guys named Carlos on my team

Team now named Carter Guti Boyd (no longer Ultralight Bream), fyi.

i have 6 guys on the dl rn

I'll have five (including four SPs) shortly.

Probably leading the league in SP DL stints following disaster starts.

This has not been my year

this 10-day DL is really fucking with my junk.

thinking about your offer, Nick. it's not bad, but leaves me in a pinch for the 27-29 range. will get back to you in a day or two.

i might want to flip Mazara for an older OF who is performing a little better, if anyone is interested!

may god have mercy on our souls

Day-to-Day
Day-to-Day
10-Day DL
10-Day DL
10-Day DL
60-Day DL
10-Day DL

ya... my other league has opened up a 3rd DL slot. i'm not opposed, if enough of us want to go that route.

have you guys played deadball? i am playing a game against myself this evening and it is ridic fun

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/695502966/smallball-baseball-with-dice

let's see how some of my key draftees and keepers are doing

Marte, suspended, dropped
Pollock, DL
Chapman, DL
Familia, DL, dropped
Richards, DL, dropped
Rodon, DL, dropped

ok nm

oh cool, thx

Carlos Carrasco departed Monday's start against the Rays in the fourth inning with an apparent injury.

ya... my other league has opened up a 3rd DL slot. i'm not opposed, if enough of us want to go that route.

― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, May 11, 2017 7:00 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

How about six, maybe seven?

have a pending trade out there but also looking for other good starting pitching for my 1b/3b/of (not harper), get at me w any proposals~

How about six, maybe seven?

Definitely seven.

let's check in on my draft day team

1. (10) Jacob deGrom (NYM - SP) - not bad
2. (13) Kyle Schwarber (ChC - C,OF) - dreadful
3. (32) Jon Lester (ChC - SP) - halfway decent
4. (35) Carlos Carrasco (Cle - SP) - good
5. (54) Andrew Benintendi (Bos - OF) - someday he'll be better
6. (57) Yoan Moncada (CWS - 3B) - NA
7. (76) Anthony Rendon (Was - 3B) - good
8. (79) Carlos Santana (Cle - 1B,OF) - bad production at 1B, dropped
9. (98) Dustin Pedroia (Bos - 2B) - power's gone, dropped
10. (101) Dansby Swanson (Atl - SS) - terrible, dropped
11. (120) Jeurys Familia (NYM - RP) - suspended, dropped
12. (123) Lorenzo Cain (KC - OF) - not great, dropped
13. (142) Garrett Richards (LAA - SP) - injured, dropped
14. (145) Jedd Gyorko (StL - 1B,2B,3B,SS) - good
15. (164) Carlos Rodón (CWS - SP) - injured, dropped
16. (167) Ryon Healy (Oak - 1B,3B) - not great then, dropped
17. (186) David Phelps (Mia - SP,RP) - whatever, dropped
18. (189) Carlos Martínez  (StL - SP) - good
19. (208) Aroldis Chapman  (NYY - RP) - injured
20. (211) A.J. Pollock  (Ari - OF) - injured
21. (230) Starling Marte  (Pit - OF) - suspended, dropped
22. (233) Xander Bogaerts  (Bos - SS) - good, not great

7 of my top 8 ranked batters on yahoo are free agent pickups, it's a miracle that I'm in the middle of the pack

Bogart was leading the league in AVG up until a few weeks ago – and so far has a career high OPS (.849) (only 2 HR but 8-0 in SB). maybe not MVP-level great, but he's doing pretty damn well. Esp for a guy you got at #233!

and thank you for Cain, btw!

ha ha you're welcome, i don't feel too bad since i dropped him for Avisail Garcia. i figured Cain might not win me the league this year either way, I had to start doing hail marys with my OF after Marte was suspended.

funny thing tho i picked up Cain on waivers a couple seasons back when I won the league. perhaps he will help you become more "able" to win this year too.

i approve of that pun.

i was wondering when someone was going to grab cozart

well, my Urias gambit is officially a failure.

A twelve point, one day turnaround at the top of the standings!

Ya, I did not expect to wake up to that.

i knew it was coming, just not when.

i've almost unlocked a new trophy for my case: the all-waiver wire starting lineup.

please tell me that's a real thing

maybe it's a secret trophy

judge and bellinger weren't drafted this season, imagining they'll go 1&2 next year maybe...?

Bellinger is three years younger so he's probably the clear #1.

really? given judge's better this year and his excellence was perhaps more "expected" i'd be taking him above bellinger. also bellinger's swing fucking scares me. look at his legs when he swings hard.

Seven on the DL.

my team is open for business!

trade bait:

Smoak
Schoop
Rendon
Pollock
Marte
Conforto
Souza
Gennett
Morrison
Lester
Carrasco
Severino
Chapman

there are others, too. i just didn't mention them because who the hell wants Schwarber now.

none of these guys are keepers, fwiw. I'm looking for at least one (1) good 27-29 keeper for next season and perhaps a <27 keeper.

off the market (barring an astonishing offer): Benintendi, Bogaerts, Carlos Martinez, DeGrom.

I've been waiting all season to trade Kershaw if my team was out of it, and he's injured :(

SIX regulars on the DL plus two assholes day to day.

Aaaand my lead is gone

Another change at the top. And my team has its highest point total since June!

I don't understand what happened this morning. I had a pretty typical day; not bad... drop 6.5 points.

another drop! time to fucking panic!!

:-)

oh it's on!

whoa, i'm in spitting distance again?

Five points separating first from third. Best pennant race our league has had in years!

the last week my team is hitting a robust .176 (34-for-197) w/5 HR, 17 RBI, 9 XBH, 1 SB.

but hey i scored 23 runs.

More flip-flopping at the top!

Finally all my best players are healthy and kicking ass (too little too late).

Order is restored.
For now.

Four or five lead changes later, and it's a tie at the top!

My offense has done nothing this month ... hoping for a great stretch run from both my pitchers and hitters was too much to ask. Not to say that I could have won, but it's still frustrating.

didnt even notice! am in a semifinal h2h struggle to the death in another league rn

i want off this crazy roller coaster.

Is there a Yahoo medal for seven SPs on one day or

Grabbing spot starters for the final few days of the season has completely backfired for me so far ...

Two points separating first and second! (yes I am living the end of the season vicariously through managers with better teams).

Tomorrow I am firing my entire coaching staff.

fun season ;)

Congrats dude! Some quality late season management there.

thx !
2 straight 2nds for you therm? that is impressive in itself~

http://www.clubgowi.com/sites/www.clubgowi.com/files/styles/large/public/field/image/first-loser1.jpg?itok=4pVzBqCX

Grabbing spot starters for the final few days of the season has completely backfired for me so far ...

Had to grab spot starters throughout the last month to make up for several simultaneous DL stints. Boosted the counting stats -- no hope for the rate stats -- to go from eighth to fifth. Probably made more moves this year than in all previous years combined.

Team evidently led the league in doubles that didn't plate anyone -- first in XBH, second in SLG, seventh in RBI.

You killed it in team transactions!

my draftees were either disappointed, injured, or suspended. except for the excellent work by my SPs -- deGrom, Carrasco, and CarMart. I got very lucky on the waiver wire with Severino and Alex Wood. which is why in my pitching stats i had all 11s or 10s (except for sv+hold.) the less said about my terrible offense the better.

disappointING, not disappointed. though there was a lot of disappointment to go around.

Thanks you to Thermo and j.crunch for an exciting stretch run. And special thanks to Thermo for his great job as commish.

It was a middling year for me, the pitchers turned it up a notch in the second half but my offense never really got going. I'm feeling OK about my keeper options for next year though. Now that I'm losing Kershaw to the over-30 crowd I'll have to stop using my pitching as a crutch and figure out how to draft a decent offense.

my offense was def my strong suit all yr

pitching was gerry rigged together esp after arrieta & roark disappointed early and often; erv santana, keuchel & rich hill were huge, & then acquiring jimmy nelson and archer in separate trades was juust enough

please help me come up with a name for this years thread!
i'll start a new one once yahoo registration opens (soon i expect).
also, if anyone wants to volunteer to co-commish, would appreciate. there's some pretty not good things happening for me right now and having a back-up/bench commissioner might not be a bad idea.

I'd be willing to be a backup/bench commish! Never done it before but I do love me some FBB. I can't come up with a snappy title... rock out with your pitch clock out? ugh gross i'll think about it

looking forward to this. i was just looking at the keeper spreadsheet to remind myself of my options and i don't think it was kept up to date ... looks like it's missing some trades from later in the season. not complaining, just informing.

either that or i don't understand the keeper rules. which is entirely possible.

It's very possible I missed some trades! I should be able to update it maybe tomorrow? Or maybe tonight depending.

wow yeah lol i didn't update this fucking thing since july 14. i got some work to do!

thanks Will, you're hired. when i open up the new league you will find yourself with AMAZING NEW POWERS!
appreciate it.

Here is the link to what I hope is the updated spreadsheet. Since I did this super late, the dates are a little buggy on drops (made it 2018, oops, but it's irrelevant really) and Yahoo has changed the formatting on some names so PLEASE double-check that you didn't actually drop a player you're keeping. E.g. "A.J. Ramos" became "AJ Ramos" in the system and i'm using vlookup here.

LMK if there are any corrections, questions, etc.!

Potential thread name: it's not a trick, it's a collusion

^^ A+ name

How does one join?

just send me the email you use to log into yahoo and i can send you an invite when the league opens.

also buy me beer.

Ohtani is going to be two separate players btw. I can't see a simple way of keeping both hims on the same team.

oh weird. doesn't seem like he'll actually be batting much, does it?

we could just have an honour rule where if you draft pitching ohtani, only you are allowed to pick up hitting ohtani? far from ideal, but he presents a unique challenge (i think the best would just be if you could start him as a batter OR hitter each day, but yahoo fucked that right up)

I'm running an auction league this year if anyone's here's interested. $20 to play. The auction is 10am pacific on March 24th. SABR Points scoring, with some tweaks.

I don’t mind the idea of an honour rule with Ohtani. Since he’s supposed to be a more effective pitcher - maybe give whoever drafts him as such five rounds to add him as a hitter before all bets are off?

i think we're dangerously messing with the fabric of space and time, he's going to slip through a wormhole and pitch to himself.

I for one, welcome the destruction of space and time.

I’m sick of it’s shit.

https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2018/2/27/17056670/fantasy-baseball-positional-eligibility-oddities

Do you guys have a league going this year?

yes, we're drafting saturday!
thread: It's Not a Trick, It's a Collusion – 2018 In Love Baseball Fantasy League

oooh

sunday tho!