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

(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.

yeah the current in-draft tool is incredibly robust compared to even like 4 years ago.

thanks!

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.

Juan Soto and Luis Robert Jr shouldn't be on this list, they're both keepers. Or am I interpreting this wrong?

I predict a first place finish this year. I’ve got a really good feeling about this

the Rosario factor

Juan Soto and Luis Robert Jr shouldn't be on this list, they're both keepers. Or am I interpreting this wrong?

My mistake, now fixed.

draft day! i feel almost comically unprepared!

i am 100% unprepared and won't have time :(

i am going to try to go in and take obviously injured players (or people like wander franco, if they're on there?) out of my auto-draft. i feel like i'm going to look tomorrow morning and find i have a lineup of former superstars who are having tommy john in 2 weeks

i am going to try to have my phone on, with the app, so i might be able to make a few decisions depending on timing!

I will likely be at "The Society of Magical Negros" during the beginning of the draft so maybe AutoDraft will be better than I usually am at roster construction

BTW Baseball Prospectus came up with "Arraez Were Watching God" so...damn.

draft window is open!

CORBIN BURNESEN

C - Garver
1B - Christians Walker and Encarnacion-Strand
2B - Morel/Julien
3B - Royce Lewis
SS - Bogaerts/Trevor "Just Another" Story
OF - Tatis/Yordan/Corbin Carroll/Jarren Duran
SP - Burnes/Peralta/Kirby/Skubal/Verlander/Keller/Kershaw
RP - Jax/Payamps/Tyler Rogers

Gott Money (I'll do anything 4U)

C | Will Smith
1b | Paul Goldschmidt
2b | Ozzie Albeis (27)
SS | Gunnar Henderson (22)
3b | Jake Burger (27)
OF | Bryan Reynolds, Anthony Santander, Steven Kwan (26)
bench | Starling Marte - OF, Colton Cowser - OF (23), Jackson Holliday, 2b/SS (20), Ryan McMahon - 2b/3b

SP | Aaron Nola, Jesus Luzardo (26), Shota Imanaga, Bobby Miller (24), Kodai Senga, Alex Cobb, Kyle Harrison (22)
RP | Pete Fairbanks, Bryan Abreu, tbd

IL for the year | Shane McClanahan (26)

did not intend to buy into the Orioles so hard. oh well. wanted to invest heavily in young guys after the Manoah disaster and with Luzardo and McClanahan moving up to 27+ next season. apologies to Miller and Harrison fans, i may have cursed them now.

BILLY CHILDISH BAMBINO

C - Willson Contreras
1B PLATOON - Spencer Torkelson (24) or Josh Naylor (26)
2B - Marcus Semien
3B - Alex Bregman
SS - Willy Adames (28)
OF - Juan Soto (25), Kyle Tucker (27), Teoscar Hernandez, Jack Suwinski (25)
DH - Nolan Arenado
UTILITY/IL - Tommy Edman (2B/SS/OF)

7 man SP rotation - Spencer Strider (25), Max Fried, Zach Eflin, Shane Bieber (28), Nathan Eovaldi, Triston McKenzie (26), Nestor Cortes (29)
RP - Chris Martin, Andrew Kittredge

NA/PED SUSPENSION - Noelvi Marte (22)

the soon-to-be-renamed GIOLITO SHUFFLE

C - Adley Rutschman
1B - Nolan Jones, Anthony Rizzo
2B - Mookie Betts
3B- Mannie Machado, Ke'Bryan Hayes
SS - Dansby Swanson
OF - Seiya Suzuki, Luis Robert, TJ Friedl, Jose Siri, Brent Rooker

SP - Cole Ragans, Joe Musgrove, Merrill Kelly, Chris Sale, Ryan Pepiot, Kutter Crawford
RP - Emmanuel Clase, Jose Alvarado, Robert Suarez, Abner Uribe

i feel pretty good about the draft, i made a plan and largely stuck with it until the last few rounds when i maybe floundered a little and overlooked some good remaining options. if i'd realized that Friedl is injured i might have pushed for another good OF earlier in the draft but i didn't see that until after.

Learned around 6:45 EST that I wouldn't be able to make the draft, frantically shuffled rankings and deleted injured players, then learned the hard way about not being able to make changes within half an hour of a draft. (Should be good with five healthy arms, right?)

currently Morning Alonso, new name tbd
some of them will be under 30 next year and some of them will even be under 27

C - MJ Melendez
1B - Pete Alonso / Nathaniel Lowe
2B - Andres Gimenez / Colt Keith
3B - Yandy Diaz
SS - CJ Abrams / Carlos Correa
OF - Ronald Acuna Jr. / Brandon Nimmo / George Springer / Tyler O'Neill

SP - Kevin Gausman / Zack Wheeler / Shane Baz / Carlos Rodon / Taj Bradley / Max Scherzer / Aaron Civale
RP - Jhoan Duran / David Bednar

NA - Samuel Basallo

was noticing the auto draft make some interesting decisions on your behalf there.
you'll have a great rotation come August tho!

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thats a pretty solid team there.

this year's sheet because why not post it early! will as always update drops in big chunks every 2 to 8 weeks (aka whenever i remember to)

Steve Barber and a Cast of Thousands:

C - Sean Murphy, Gabriel Moreno
1B - Vladimir Guerrero
2B - Bryson Stott
3B - Jose Ramirez, Isaac Paredes
SS - Corey Seager, Jeremy Pena, J.P. Crawford
OF - Marcell Ozuna, Nick Castellanos, Cedric Mullins, Lourdes Gurriel

SP - Luis Castillo, Grayson Rodriguez, Jose Berrios, Bryan Bello, Yusei Kikuchi
RP - Camilo Doval, Evan Phillips, Jordan Hicks, Tim Mayza

Completely in the dark on how to balance production, position, age, etc.

I had to auto-draft this year, the results weren't horrible but my SP corps consists of Logan Webb (keeper) and unsigned Jordan Montgomery. The first thing I did today was to put in claims for the SP scraps on the waiver wire.

holy shit dude. 5 relievers!! your lineup at least turned out somewhat ok.