Ready your international amateur free agent pool money: it's your 2025 Fantasy Baseball thread! (with a poll about replacing one OF slot with CF)

and i am completely lost as to how to approach my absolute mess of keeper eligible players

actually, we don't need 4 IL slots. gonna knock that down by one.

I'd agree to the CF position so long as those of us with 3 OF keepers with no CF are grandfathered in and not penalized by some sudden rule change that invalidates years of drafting results based on previous rules.

Also Thermo, if you currently are keeping a CF, I would recommend you either trade that player or drop them prior to the season start in the interest of transparency and unbiased parity as league commish.

Instead of doubles I think we need a negative offensive stat: GIDP for example?

no, only possible keeper for me in the OF is Kwan and he's LF. and i'm undecided on him.

i'm willing to work with anyone that has trouble with the new setting, but there's limits on what i can do in terms of roster set-up, as yahoo defines who is and isn't a CF. if it turns out the endeavour is profoundy unfair for anyone and there's no workaround, i'll just scrap the whole thing.

we had GIDP a while ago and it was dumb. just unfairly punished hitters that had slow/numerous runners in front of them

I am firmly in the "worth a try" camp. Why not try it and see how it goes, just a bit of fun, let's be cool, etc.

i just spent forever looking for the custom position eligibility tab, incase it could help the teams that have 3 OF keeper options (by my count there are two likely teams to have a likely packed outfield). turns out they got rid of that option like 2-3 years ago.

i am also okay w/ the proposed cf rule

lol

I know that you all disagree, but I liked having one random and fun category (e.g. cycles).

Fielding percentage is silly because it doesn't correlate to being a great fielder.

For pitching, we never had Inherited Runners Scored or On Base Percentage Against. One problem with saves and holds is that you can load up on mediocre relievers on winning teams. Adding more team-independent categories could make pitching choices more interesting.

I know that Inherited Runners Scored isn't really team dependent but the point is to reward excellence more. I'm not saying that we all haven't benefitted from guys pitching the sixth inning, giving up two runs, and "earning" a hold. But it could be good to get away from that.

team-INdependent, that is

i agree the zany wild card stats are fun, but the majority didn't like the chaos involved so it's probably off the table for the foreseeable future.

OBP or OPS against could be fine – but i think inherited runners would wind up like when we had blown saves. having a neg stat for relievers would make having them pointless. and speaking as someone who has, at times by necessity, loaded up on mediocre relievers – the damage they can do to your ERA with a couple bad outing is very real!

i think the ERA and WHIP stats really do offset one's ability to simply stash random bullpen arms, i've definitely had seasons where i thought i was doing pretty well with my RPs and then it just takes one shit guy like Craig Kimbrel having a meltdown to kill excellent outings by your SPs, not even just the other RPs.

so - i don't think i have the tools available as commish to let a team get around a OF/CF/CF set-up. and manually setting position eligibility no longer exists as an option. i thought last year that it wouldn't have much of an impact on any teams, but hadn't taken into account trades that happened during the season...
as much as i like the idea, and seems to be popular enough, maybe it's best to shelve it for a year or two. give our OF-heavy teams a chance to plan accordingly.

I’m cool with whatever. A random wildcard stat seems fun.

i'm gonna put in my keepers now for team most likely to soon be formerly known as Corbin Burnesen, unless i draft him again.

Tarik Skubal (28)
Jarren Duran (28)
George Kirby (27)
Fernando Tatis Jr (26)
Corbin Carroll (24)

Your team makes me want to barf already. I hate it.

Can someone re-post the keeper spreadsheet on this new thread?

Also hello old friends

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hpsG8k76efjA3bMamBZbU_RRa9Wf99KXzrFZHbsKdeI/edit?gid=1545943393#gid=1545943393

my <27 keepers are so depressing

thanks dude

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so i only have three i can keep and they will be skenes, lee, and volpe

if you want to double check things, the results of the 2024 drafts is here:

https://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/2024/b1/41654/draftresults?drafttab=team&draft_results_period=current

obviously any trades and drops aren't reflected there