These 12 managers signed up for 2016 Fantasy Baseball. What happened next will shock you!

i seem to have a wealth of pitching so homerbaili (demo) maybe we can work something

TLOP OPS+
c - darnaud
1b - freeman; morales; hosmer
2b - altuve
3b - tomas/kang
ss- seager
of - upton; parra; kemp; puig

sp - scherzer; price; keuchel; lackey; shelby miller; severino;
rp - perkins; segrist; melacon

Iwakuma Jamaica Aroma 2016

C - Lucroy
1B - Rizzo (K)
2B - Josh Harrison
3B - Kyle Seager (K)
SS - Brandon Crawford
OF - CarGo
OF - Choo
OF - Joc Pederson
bench - Teixeira, Castellanos, Piscotty, Span, Alex Gordon

SP - Kershaw (K)
SP - deGrom (K)
SP - Greinke
SP - Patrick Corbin
SP - Trevor Bauer

RP - Osuna, Rosenthal, Doolittle, Finnegan (K)

I tried to focus more on offense, every year I find I'm struggling on offense and wasting my good pitching (only two more years of Kershaw carrying my team!)

Hopefully at least one of my post-hype prospects pan out (Bauer, Castellanos) for future keeperables.

Finnegan will be starting with the Reds this year, he's young, and has been really good in his limited time in the majors. Unfortunately he's been getting shelled in spring training and will be pitching half of his games in a HR launching pad, but it's not like any of my other keeper eligibles were a surer thing.

Anibal Corpse has selected Lord Byron Buxton of the Baxley, Georgia Buxtons.

I had a hot date so I missed the draft, sorry for picking Jose Reyes

damn Kershaw / degrom / greinke is p nice, Aroma

easter didnt work for me, sorry i couldn't take part in draft. thx for fixing up my team.

yo will what u think of my trade offer

damn Kershaw / degrom / greinke is p nice, Aroma

Greinke and Kershaw together again ... only in our dreams (and on my fantasy team).

Will I've sent you an offer

how's the weather down there btw, boys?

signed,
your homerun leader

I saw that, I see the appeal but I'm more desperate for pitching tbh.

also apologies to the other person who sent me an offer that i never responded to, i was trying to think of a counter offer that worked for both of us but then i got drunk a few times

pitching i definitely cannot help with haha

although i think it's a missed opportunity, i appreciate the speedy reply! offer is still on the table.

I'll take this opportunity to offer up OF/SS Ian Desmond for 3B/Pitching help

Very glad I took a flier on Story.

I'm less happy (Greinke got routed by the Rockies).

I'm in first place though! The season isn't a total failure, no matter what happens from here on out.

day fucking 3 and i am already forgetting to start dudes, mookie on the bench WHY

3rd hr for Story. i may have to re-rename my team!

Four!!

I'm listening to offers, people. Can't keep him and Correa!

Five!

Six!!!

wow jeez

holy shit

what the

that 2nd round Kyle Schwarber is looking rough right now. Good trade bait though to a faltering team, I assume he's 22 or something.

It's all downhill for me from here I suppose.

good on you, whoever that was that just grabbed White.

so... edwin drop in early may ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i was not going to say anything...

i wouldn't have but i'm 7th waiver so i don't stand a chance anyway, but yeah! what up with that!

edwin has responded nicely to his shameful ilbb league dropping

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so bogus

thank god i was 10th priority and dont feel so bad missing this thread reminder nor the three starters I had on the bench yesterday.

shit i didnt mean to start a knuckleballer in the rain o_o

can someone do some sabremetric analysis on whyhow im 1st in xbh but last in rbis lmk

My team has fallen off a cliff in the past four days -- I dropped from second to a distant fifth, and lost 30 points in the standings.

After a 7 HR, 17 RBI day, HOMERBAiLi now has 133.5 out of a maximum possible 154 points. I think the rest of us can officially declare that the battle for second place is ON.

i might actually have a shot at second place if my starting pitching wasn't such inconsistent trash! way to waste some great offense, fellas.

This is the third year in a row I've had a commanding lead on first place going into June only to fall apart over the next four months so don't count out touchdown everyone-else

i'm 30 points away from first and 14 ahead of 3rd. trevor story is for real – all you fools are in a race for 3rd!!

also – we all like our league's sexy new icon?!
feel free to submit any new icon ideas as they come up over the season.

Nomar and I have the same problems. I couldn't have asked for much more from my offense, but my starting pitching stinks. Without Kershaw I would be in last place in almost every pitching category.

*Chaperones 48-hour school trip to Toronto, forgets to download fantasy app, arrives home, sees slide from third to eighth place*

SAMURAI
FANTASY BASEBALL

my SPs are all basically guys who are too potentially good to outright drop, too mediocre to rely on, and too weak to dangle as decent trade bait. Plus my best RP is pitching for a team that doesn't give him save opps.

i think losing Pollock hurt a bit but it's also highlighting the importance of landing a true #1 pitcher, last year I had scherzer (plus good Sonny Gray.) keeping my fingers crossed that Kluber turns it on at some point, he seems pretty unlucky this year. But despite the Cy Young award he's not a guy to anchor a winning FBB rotation.

my best RP is pitching for a team that doesn't give him save opps

should be ok tho, since we got SV+H now?

the importance of landing a true #1 pitcher

If anything this year for me is highlighting the importance of getting lucky with pitchers more than anything...

Two years ago I drafted pitching pretty hard with Wainwright, Salazar, Hamels, Sonny Gray, and kept Ryu... not so good. Gray was p good, Wainwright was p good, but Salazar crashed and burned that year, Hamels and Ryu underwhelming.

Last year I drafted Lester, Hughes, Samardzija, and then waited on my other dudes. Had Hughes kept up his incredible K/BB game up and Samardzija hadn't sucked out loud, i would've done better again, but... it was not meant to be.

This year I was risky AGAIN with pitching, not picking one until Cueto, then Liriano, Darvish, Matz, and finally Nola in the last round... for once, I'm actually getting amazing results. Nola and Matz in particular have been absolute steals, to the point where I was comfortable dropping an expensive but underwhelming Liriano fairly early. Cueto also hasn't disappointed.

Basically for pitching: if you pay a lot for it, your batting pays, but it doesn't always make the pitching work out.

That said, I have the champagniest of champagne problems this year... I have no idea who to keep for next year! Goldschmidt and either Belt or Kenley... and three of Harper, Arenado, Betts, Matz, Nola, Arcia and Franco. Harper's a lock, Arenado and Betts are borderline locks, but Nola and Matz have been SO GOOD and who even knows, maybe Arcia ends up being this year's Carlos Correa...

Was 1.5 GB out of 1st place. now I'm 3.5GB and failed to realize my Ace-in-the-hole is making his first start tonight! Look out for the Lonelys, we're not even at full steam yet :D

Really, I just want to beat Lincecumlords; he's been coming on pretty hard since that savvy Edwin pickup :P (I have Chris Carter now by the way lol)

and...Lincecum's ahead of me >:( I will have vengeance GO CARTER

Do you guys use Yahoo Fantasy Baseball? It bugs me that they give you so much info on each player and game, including ratings of how well a player is expected to do in that day's game, but they don't tell you which starting pitcher they're facing that day. So you have to open MLB.com in a separate tab to get that info.