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

thanks - i swear i searched the thread

Dumped Sal Frelick finally and changed my team name to Celebrity Skenes.

Immediately Sal hits his first and then second home runs of the season. He just needed me to set him free!

I loved looking at the team compositions and names, impossible to say which one I like best but damn, some of you have been hit hard with injuries. I’ll have to play this next year.

i was worried i'd get hit with a rash of injuries after Royce Lewis went 2 for 2 with a HR and promptly injured himself AGAIN***, but my team has been shockingly healthy. and yet aside from a couple SPs everyone i drafted is really underperforming.

***https://memeguy.com/photos/images/well-ok-then-283717.jpg

♪♫ For ACL or torn hammy, call Jacob Emrani. Call Jacob! ♫

^ this rules, I would also submit a modified version as:


♪♫ For broken wrist or John that’s Tommy, call Jacob deGrommy . Call Jacob! ♫

Lol very good. I wanted to make sure everyone had a chance to experience one of LA's finest ear worms, that omar so thoughtfully reinserted in my ear.

i use "charming" in the relative sense but Jacob is probably the most charming of the billboard lawyers (a million miles better than Sweet James)

he recruited LeBron to come to L.A.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rPmwPMof3hs/maxresdefault.jpg

Jacob is the great guy who helped us through our collective trauma after the bitter Cellino & Barnes divorce. He's family.

(sorry for crashing fantasy thread)

I went to check who had Paul Skenes, and I see he has his own team now!

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

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, March 19, 2024 6:37 PM (two months ago)

Only 3 of the 7 SPs I drafted are currently healthy (Fried, Cortes & McKenzie). 2 of the 4 on the IL will be out not just this season but a substantial part of next season as well (Strider & Bieber).

This must be how the Dodgers GM feels like, it's insane.

Forgot to switch Danny Jansen back into my lineup this morning: 3 hits, HR, 5 RBI.

Wait till that day when you make a calculated decision to sit someone and play someone else and the guy on your bench goes off for two or three home runs

Right up there with dropping a struggling player who immediately it's a hot streak, and then you somehow manage to pick them back up and they immediately go cold again. One of the closer approximations of how the owner of Michigan J Frog must have felt.

Fried, Cortes & McKenzie

And all these guy pretty much have one foot on a banana peel

Yup, you know you're fucked when Cortes is your best pitcher.

Mired forever in 7th-8th-9th place, I forget to check in this morning (possibly the first time) and left Berrios on the bench for his (very good) start today.

haha my team was finally starting to turn the corner

finally got my IL down to four players, but my offense is dogshit right now, and i don't have much hope that getting ke'bryan hayes or tj friedl back off the IL is going to help. if anyone wants to trade me (Naked Ragans) a reliable source of offensive power (especially at 1B but i'm open to other positions as well), i have some decent SP/RP/keeper options available.

Ridiculous--three catchers on my roster, and all are sitting today.

(xpost: I dropped Cedric Mullins today to make room for Sean Murphy's return--you're obviously after more than the numbers he's putting up this year, but maybe as a stopgap?)

NA- I sent you a chat msg via the y! mobile app. Not sure if that made it to ya...

Clem- Clearly the solution is you need to roster a 4th catcher.

I was thinking of going all-catcher.

It's a new variation on the Jays' all-utility strategy.

i was going to say, if i was advising you'd i'd get even further into the pocket of Big Catcher

the cousin of the Padres' all-shortstop strategy

Big gloves & bad knees... my kind of team!

Clem, I sent you a msg on the fantasy page

Sorry, francis, didn't see that till now.

Real-talk question:

If a ~seasoned~ manager doesn't even recognize the name of one of his players, that player should automatically be traded (y/n)

lol my bad, for some reason i thought you thought i had jared jones. i think i can be forgiven for forgetting about nolan jones, given his impact so far this season

Bro, he's like the 3rd or 4th best "Nolan" to ever play the game!

~33% of the season status report:

I am almost trailing the league in Wins with 24. My IRL MLB team equivalent would be the Cincinnati Reds, owners of last place in the dismal NL Central.

Offensively my 289 runs scored puts me ahead of LAD yet behind the mighty PHI out of all MLB teams.

I feel out of the running but my foolish optimism think I'm close enough to harbor a top 3 finish?

Not ready for a fire-sale but could be open to SELL-MODE by the ASB.

I remember when I used to remember he names of every mediocre set up guy I ever had on my teams. Now I’m constantly forgetting the names of my current middle relievers. Nolan Jones tho was a gem for me last season, will always be in my heart.

i entered this season feeling thoroughly set at OF and decided to go all-in on pitching, and while my pitching has been vv solid, my best hitters are two free agent pickups, the completely decent Christian Walker, and the poor man's Corbin Carroll in Jarren Duran (Corbin Carroll for me being the destitute man's Jarren Duran this season.)

Yordan and Tatis = extremely mid!

The Autodraft bungled my SP (by not bothering to draft anybody who wasn't injured or NA). That's been the story of my season. My offense should continue to be good if most guys are healthy, but grabbing Ranger Suarez off the scrap heap the day after the draft basically saved my ass. A few more decent SP pickups here and there have kept in contention, but I don't suppose anyone wants to trade me a front line SP?

Have kept *me* in contention . .

just noticed you have the top two hitters and the top SP!

the top SP rankings is a really weird mix

Blockbuster trade in the offing.

(I'm so low in the standings, I won't vote.)

Ah yes, the best player in the league for a guy who just got absolutely manhandled by *checks notes* the worst team in the league and who will probably be shut down/workload limited by the ASB...

I just noticed that Sale start this morning, when I was checking into Reynaldo Lopez...think I'll write a book called Baseball Is a Funny Game.

Def quite the haul for sale.

Sale was NL pitcher of the month for May. Is there anyone clearly better?

The start vs Oakland is just one start (hopefully).

There is always a higher injury risk with pitchers (and Sale missed most of two years due to injury) but Judge has had his share of injuries too.

The main point is that I don't have the pitching to win this year. If Sale can give me 100 dominant innings then I have a chance. On offense I have some options to offset the loss of Judge. But my pitching is a clusterf***.

Wondering what I could get for Imanaga now…

a great comparison, given that he also has an innings limit this season and had a very bad start last time up. but i would still be happy to have him on my team, personally.

i'm not going to weigh in on what i thought was a reasonably fair trade offer, except to say that i think a lot of times people look at the trades by comparing the individual players, but without looking at the needs of each team involved in the trade (as NTBT alluded to). when i'm looking to set up a trade, i look for what i can offer and then i look at which owner NEEDS what i can offer and is in a position where the trade would make a difference to their success. then i look at what they have that i want.

Not sure of the etiquette, I tried to jump in with my own offer for Judge this morning. As the rest of you know, can't do that while the trade's on the table.

The replacement level for pitchers is so much lower. Crochet and Reynaldo Lopez have a higher fWAR than Sale, and I picked them off the scrap heap. Far less likely that I sign someone who beats out a healthy Judge this year.

well, when we see the trade, it's already been accepted and done - and generally they always go through (you're only supposed to vote against trades if you think something is amiss, but since our league is a little weird sometimes managers will vote against one sided trades). if you really want Judge you'll have to try and get it from Naked Ragans after the trade, but good luck with that!

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