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

also the sheet is updated once again for the end of the month (roughly)

names i didnt bother including above in my offers but who are available include, uhh, pretty much everyone. alonso, yandy diaz, correa, winker, stanton, scherzer, bednar, etc. honestly my team looks good on paper its just been awful in practice

Watching a rare Jays inning, and I see that Tim Mayza has a 6.20 ERA. I've left him on my roster all year, untouched--he had a great spring, or a great first few games, or something, and I think I start with the assumption that all relievers in 2024 carry sub-2.00 ERAs. This is why I'm bouncing around last place.

Roused myself into cutting Mayza loose this morning.

Could just be coincidental, but feels like Vlad has switched into audition mode.

Oops--wrong thread.

My streak of streaming disasters continues: James Paxton 9 ER, 4 IP

Six SPs set to throw on the 4th. God bless America and no place else.

wow, god bless!

"Lopez dominated once again...sixth start of the season with five or more innings and zero runs allowed, tying him with Tarik Skubal"

left on the bench again! I swear, if you set your SPs a few days in advance, they will sit back down if there are other changes made after (FA pickups, etc)

I wish I could bench my whole roster. Just to let them know I'm not happy.

i put a collection of keep eligible players on the block. i don't think i will be competitive this season, so i'm open to swapping a combination of >29 talent, plus any of the guys i put up for a solid <27 player.

I had four catchers on my roster this morning. Dropped one, still have three; glad to part with one in a trade. (I still tinker around for two or three minutes each morning...no real point, just habit by now.)

ya its habit forming.

Clem, I have an extra catcher if you're feeling vulnerable in the Catcher department.

I also have 2 vet 3Bs (Arenado or Bregman) up for trade if any needs some solid 2nd half production from the the hot corner.

Thanks, but quite the opposite--I'm swimming in catchers.

I also have 2 vet 3Bs (Arenado or Bregman) up for trade if any needs some solid 2nd half production from the the hot corner.

flagging post for blatant misdirection and false hope ;)

ok, i understand my team is bad. but even worse than my players is my own management of them. i am a bad gm. i watched moneyball last night and thought, what a terrible gm. what terrible writing. this movie is horrible. but then today, i noticed that i am in last place not just in hitting (pretty much every category) and overall points, but also in games played and innings pitched. like many teams, i was hit by a hilarious number of injuries early on, and i guess i didn't do well in making roster decisions to fill the gaps quickly enough.

the tone of this season was set by the early decision to keep amed rosario rather than jack flaherty. it's been a rough one, but i am still determined to take down clemenza and avoid last place.

You see, I love Moneyball, and all the wisdom I have learned from that will be my secret weapon in holding you off for 12th-place. For instance, a) I know that playing first base isn't easy, it's incredibly difficult; b) I know what losing sounds like, and c) I'll know that I've hit a home run when I finally do hit a home run. And these are the lessons I try to impart to my players every day.

Sounds like both of you guys need another catcher, hit me up in the DMs

tbf Rosario has been good when he does play. certainly had himself a day today.

Lemme just check I haddhimonthebench oooooooof

Always start your guys against the jays. Pro tips from your commish.

I should just give up on having starters. Clearly I’m not meant to. Senga comes back after being out all season, throws 5, then dies. Out for the rest of the year. Just like that.

Gray: removed before throwing a pitch

Two of my players who were traded, Paredes and Kikuchi, have "NA"s beside their names. That's just temporary, right?

yeah they're just switching over - could be a couple days

Thanks...Wow at that pending trade; that's practically Williams for DiMaggio level.

Yeah that's a fun one, an absolute gamble to see who can stay off the IL.

https://i.postimg.cc/cHfwnByQ/trade.jpg

Two of my players who were traded, Paredes and Kikuchi, have "NA"s beside their names. That's just temporary, right?

― clemenza, Tuesday, 30 July 2024 14:01 (one hour ago) link

if it says NA next to their name it means you have to trade them to me

I couldn't pass up the chance to trade away the two best hitters in MLB in the same season.

Any suggestions for a new team name?

I’m pretty sure my team just went 1 for 34 tonight!

I’m pretty sure my team just went 1 for 34 tonight!

I am almost 99% sure

My superstar CF who has been sidelined for 2 months for a *checks notes* bruised shin may be back by September!

Wow - my boys hit 7 home runs today!

aaah they changed the app

After finally sorting out my catcher problem (i.e., four of them) and getting back down to a more normal two, I look today and 1) Moreno's on the IL, 2) Patrick Bailey's sitting and his game has already started. So no catcher today. I picked up Jacob Stallings to tie me over till that moment when Moreno returns and I realize I'm pointlessly carrying three catchers and I have to start shuffling again.

Bryan Bello has "NA" beside his name, but it also indicates he's starting tonight, which I confirmed on mlb.com.

???

Brayan--I'll get that right eventually.

he was on pat leave, but now he's back with dad power

I checked back later and they make the adjustment automatically--just wanted to make sure I didn't have to do anything myself. Bello pitched very well tonight.

dad power!

This is actually his second child and he shoved the last time he came back from paternity leave too. Dad power is so real

After finally sorting out my catcher problem (i.e., four of them) and getting back down to a more normal two

Clemenza please believe me when I say the "normal" number is actually 1

I just want everyone to know that I am actually trying to win

Two catchers has been working out p well for me!! Pretty much cemented that coveted 6th place position.

If you carry only one catcher, you just forfeit the 30 games or so he sits then? I take it you'd do better with another relief pitcher in that spot?

I think I'm too anchored to the idea that lineup construction should approximate a real-life team.