How do we get Taylor Swift into fantasy baseball? Your 2024 ILX Fantasy Thread! (also, there is an opening for a new manger!)

baseball fans, tell me what to do. i am faced with an agonizing choice for my 27+ keepers.

one of them is cody bellinger, who is definitely going to be MVP in 2024, chance of regression = 0.0000000001%
the other? JACK FLAHERTY OR AMED ROSARIO
goddammit

on the other side, i will obviously keep Eury Perez. then, i must pick 2 of francisco alvarez, lars nootbaar, hunter greene, and everybody's favorite little big guy who runs fast, alejandro kirk. i'm going with lars nootbaar just because i like to root for the home team, and i've seen him do some very athletic things so i believer in his potential. so
FRANCISCO ALVAREZ OR HUNTER GREENE

speaking from experience, get off of Jack Flaherty's wild ride asap

I’m smelling a comeback player of the year award for amed rosario!

smell the rosarios!

formerly A Moon-Shaped Pujols, now obviously:

Honey Nut Chouri◎s
20 CHOURIO
26 LODOLO
26 HOERNER
29 AROZARENA
29 HELSLEY

ok - 11 respondents. think it's safe to call this one...

9 vs 2 in terms of picking a new date.
Most preferred date was a tie between the Sat 16th and Tues 18th; and a tie between Tues 18th and the OG date for what most people found workable.
Highest rage score, after the "none" option: Sat 16th.

So looks like our new date will be Tuesday the 18th starting at 7:30 est. apologies to the two managers that had that date as their least favourite option.

I will change the league setting shortly; and anyone with outstanding picks, please get them in my mid week next week.
i should prolly get a mod to edit the initial post as well.

Tues the 19th?

FFS. yes. Tuesday the 19th. sorry about that.

trying to do too much this morning.

apologies to the two managers that had that date as their least favourite option.

if i finish in last again this season i'm going to blame it on this!! ;) ;)

no worries, and there's a chance i could join for at least part of it (aka do the draft in the background of a band practice lol)

could always do a little pre-ranking (esp if there are young guys you'd like to target) and then join in part way to fix whatever mess the auto draft left you with.

i was the other person who ranked that at as my least favorite option but it's OK, should still be able to join

appreciate all efforts made to accommodate the rescheduled draft

good news - looks like Votto No Get Enemy will live on under the stewardship of clemenza! i think this might be his first foray into fantasy nerdball?

That spreadsheet looks like hieroglyphics to me, but I'll tentatively give it go. No guarantee I'll last. Thanks for the invitation.

baseball fans, tell me what to do. i am faced with an agonizing choice for my 27+ keepers.

one of them is cody bellinger, who is definitely going to be MVP in 2024, chance of regression = 0.0000000001%
the other? JACK FLAHERTY OR AMED ROSARIO
goddammit

on the other side, i will obviously keep Eury Perez. then, i must pick 2 of francisco alvarez, lars nootbaar, hunter greene, and everybody's favorite little big guy who runs fast, alejandro kirk. i'm going with lars nootbaar just because i like to root for the home team, and i've seen him do some very athletic things so i believer in his potential. so
FRANCISCO ALVAREZ OR HUNTER GREENE

EURY PEREZ
HUNTER GREENE
FRANCISO ALVAREZ
AMED "MVP" ROSARIO
CODY BELLINGER

fuck, oops, sorry for including that text at the top! i meant to delete before posting my keepers:

EURY PEREZ
HUNTER GREENE
FRANCISO ALVAREZ
AMED "MVP" ROSARIO
CODY BELLINGER

lars nootbaar has fractured his ribs. i am sorry lars.

clemenza, i predict that you'll have a great time doing this, if you participate! and if nothing else you can race me for the cellar

Stumbling along blindly here, will help from Thermo, but these will be my keepers:

Grayson Rodriguez (24, P)
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (25, 1B)
Bryson Scott (26, 2B)
Corey Seager (29, SS)
Sean Murphy (29, C)

I'll change my team name as soon as I think of a good Ball Four connection.

Grant BallFour?!

Ok, since i don't think we are in danger of adding or losing any more managers, i am going to lock the league and will post the draft order later today.

i think there is just one last manager that needs to get their selects in and then i can start plugging those bad boys in.

Lets try to get final keep selects in by the 14th.

Is this still valid or out-of-date?

(I would like to see a larger sample of more than 2IP of ST pitching before I lock in a keeper lol)

14th is still good. I’ll probably enter the picks over the weekend - I just want managers to have some time to double check I got everything right.

Billy Childish Bambino:

Juan Soto (25)
Spencer Strider (25)
Triston McKenzie (26)
Kyle Tucker (27)
Willy Adames (28)

Mind blowing that Soto is only 25

ok. draft order is set:

1 Giolito Shuffle
2 Satanic Frelick in the Attic
3 The Worst Players in Baseball
4 The Guns of Buxton
5 Newcombes On de Blok
6 A Moon-Shaped Pujols
7 Votto No Get Enemy
8 Send Nootbaar
9 Ohtani Dancer in my Hand
10 Dascenzo Corbusier
11 Corbin Burnesen
12 Billy Childish Bambino
13 Morning Alonso!

oh man the pressure of the #1 pick (and back-to-back picks after that). not that i'm complaining.

Changed my team name to Steve Barber and a Cast of Thousands (rendered a bit differently on Yahoo to fit the 30-character maximum). Bob Locker, Ball Four: "Boys, today it looks like Steve Barber and a cast of thousands."

I love these team names, have fun everyone. Whoever gets the most dodgers, let me know so I can root for you

So do we have 2B again as an off cat or ... ?

Not really a lot of input on that front - so same as last year.

Einstürzende Baumgarten fka Dascenzo Corbusier

Julio Rodriguez (23)
Jarred Kelenic (24)
William Contreras (26)
Rafael Devers (27)
Zac Gallen (28)

He lives!

However, almost 30 years after throwing my last pitch, I have developed a torn rotator cuff, delaying my return to the field another season.

Devastating. But this bodes well for Tarik Skubal as the clear #1 on the squad

selects have been input. everyone have a look and double check i got everything right:
https://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/41654/draftresults?drafttab=team

Einstürzende Baumgarten--love that!

yeah i love that name too. in fact a couple of times i have wanted to tell ppl about how great that name is irl but then i keep realizing that the fantasy baseball music pun game is a venn diagram with a brutally tiny sliver

like my gf has listened to a bunch of EN due to her old roommate but i don't wanna be like "ok so there's this guy named madison bumgarner"

I will always have a soft spot for yanc3y's first year ILXFBB team name: "My Bobby Valentine"

Devastating. But this bodes well for Tarik Skubal as the clear #1 on the squad

Officially his role to lose.

Einstürzende Baumgarten--love that!

Thanks. That was the name I wanted the first season I played, but Yahoo's character limit back then didn't allow it (so I settled for the Cerutti Column).

Team names understood only by music nerds, and premium young talent sentenced to a decade on mediocre squads: my fantasy baseball legacy.

like my gf has listened to a bunch of EN due to her old roommate but i don't wanna be like "ok so there's this guy named madison bumgarner"

There's this guy Ross Baumgarten!

https://jewishbaseballmuseum.com/images/player-cards/a-c/Baumgarten-1983-Fleer-PittsburghPirates-(front)jpg.jpg

Of course...I associate him with the White Sox and all those good young starters they had at the time, but I was thinking of Bumgarner too.

There's this guy Ross Baumgarten!

I THOUGHT I WAS IN THE SLIVER BUT I WASN'T IN THE SLIVER

Einstürzende Baumgarten = COLLAPSING TREE GARDEN

did we determine that it's impossible to get yahoo fantasy to show a list of ALL available players (i.e., both batters and pitchers, in expected draft order, with the selected keepers taken out)

I need lots of help on this, so I made one up myself using a Sporting News list--anyone who wants to, feel free to use it.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18sbWAGuT1QwQLqILaUSXmF8WfUMg-vjhGSMQbPp_I8U/edit?usp=sharing

For yahoo, I don’t think there’s a way to view pitchers AND hitters together

on the fantasy app, you can in fact view them all together. i don't understand why the desktop site is lagging in that respect.

btw, i called this victory 6 months ago!

i won in 2009 and 2015 and since then i've been going back and forth between third and fourth place forever. i'm just happy i was able to give team namesake Corbin Burnes his ring during what's probably the final season he'll be on my team.

Well done, Omar!

Congrats to Omar! - tho I don't get the reference 😳

my team was something - tied for last in offence and top 3 pitching. 10th overall

I drafted for the future this year, landing Langford, Joe Ryan, Bibee, Steele and Mason Miller as options
Chourio immediately shined in his rookie year, thankfully. hoping for similar results from Langford
I also bolstered my future by trading Snell for Jung
the offence was completely frankensteined together all year
the biggest boon was grabbing Reynaldo Lopez and Crochet in the first week.
have keepers, will travel

MVPs: Salvy, Reynaldo, Joe Ryan, Mason & Honey Nut Jackson

i guess if i had to name a team MVP it would be Gunnar Henderson, with Imanaga then Kwan/Santander following.

also big announcement from the soon to be renamed Gott Money I'll do anything 4U: we will be retiring the numbers for team legends "King" Felix Hernandez and Jose Fernandez!

looking to next season - i think we have consensus that it's time for doubles to go. i guess we don't *have* to replace it with anything and i doubt we will see any new stats available next season. i was concerned it would throw off the balance with pitching stats, but if we consider there is a distinction between SP and the one cat we have for relievers; it's probably fine.

i also *really* like the idea of having CF + 2 OF instead of just three OF. try to make sure we have at least one OF that has some acumen with the glove.

I'd go for the CF idea, though it'd be more of a pain obv

re doubles: I think a negative stat might help here: K, GIDP, or maybe even OFA (outfield assists) if you want to boost CF/RF value.

is there any way to see what our players would be ranked w/o doubles being included? it doesn't change anything for me w/only having five keeper-eligible guys, just curious.

I wouldn’t want to do GIDP again - it punished hitters that had slow ass runners infront of them too much. Also going negative instead of just getting rid of it would actually cause some imbalance vs SP.

congrats on chasing me down, omar! I had a surreal run where all fantasy luck was working. I would forget to start a guy and he would get nuked. I’d pick someone up and they’d become babe ruth. Then in those last few weeks in flipped 100% - I think I had a whole week without an ERA under 6. Feel ok that I have decent keeper options for next season.

it felt like you were ahead of me for three months, i thought i might be cursed and the trades wouldn't help so much since the rest of my team wasn't so hot and yours was so well rounded, but it worked out. it was probably very fortunate that Carroll and Tatis came back really strong, but maybe even better was having a relief corps i didn't have to do anything with most of the season, they just gave me 400ish IP of great k/bb, low ERA, and excellent WHIP, and got me a bunch of wins too.