You know I love you, but I'm playing for keeps: Your 2011 Fantasy Baseball thread!

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you're actually looking okay

i did start to feverishly drag and drop for the while i had access

oh shitty dude - only checked the thread now.

meh i can work w/ these guys - plus i went out and ran some errands i was procrastinating on so ~w/e~ mister yahoo u can suk it

Good luck everyone!

I kinda thought I had a balanced team this year, unlike most years when I end up totally punting a category like SV or NSB and it ends up biting me in the ass, but now I'm looking at my hitters and realized I might be staring a .375 team SLG in the face.

one last time, just to be annoying - if everyone changes their "team slogan" to their ILX name it'll be way easier to track who is who

if you're into that kind of thing

Through a combination of managerial incompetence and Yahoo! inscrutability, I have ended up with four 2B-eligible guys, five 1B-eligibles, and no SS. Please make me offers. (Also looking for RP.)

Barry - i think i might actually be harder up than you with SLG!
will trade for tacos!

i have a lot of keeper eligible dudes this year - i think i went a bit overboard in putting the "***KEEPER!!***" marker by certain players in spreadsheet!

also, for some reason mixed up Eric Hosmer with the other KC infield prospect, Mike Moustakas. Moutstakas is expected to get significant playing time this year. Hosmer is behind Billy Butler, and is expected to drink beer with his minor league friends this year.

if Hosmer mashes at AAA they could bring him up and bump Butler to DH. probably smarter of them to wait until all their pitching is ready to come up too though.

ya - i have a shit tonne of keepers too. how attached are you to Dunn, Z?

pretty attached, because i don't really have an alternative at 1B. are you thinking of giving up butler?

Given my 1B surplus, maybe we can swing a 3-way?

maybe...though not likely tbh. I was pretty ok with dunn, actually (he was my first pick) - i'd have to get a mighty sweet deal to deal him away.

probably not going to even pay attention this year tbh, so the fact that i had to autodraft for a second year in a row and didn't really pre-rank too much isn't a big deal. done after this year, though.

xp this is the last time I suggest a three-way.

lol

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MONETIZING EYEBALLS

i would def be down with trading Butler - but ya, i can understand wanting to hang on to Dunn obv.
think i'd be better off taking a wait and see approach anyways. Butler, Weiters, Castro, Heyward and even Figgins should all slug a little better this year.
RIGHT?

Sweet Christ I had Chone last year.. Got him like 6th-7th round thinking I was so smug in drafting him.. =\

heh - ya. needless to say i'm praying for a bounce-back season (and 3B eligibility)!

Is there a way to manually input the waiver order, considering the fact that the draft actually was flipped due to starting in round 6?

i will have a look.

you guys kill me btw

fixed!

Thanks Thermo!

when do the waiver claims go thru

it says two days in the settings, so does that mean that the first claims will go thru tomorrow?

it should say on your team page when it will go through.

aight

Do we have to wait for the start of the season before guys are DL-eligible?

i'm going to put you on the DL in a minute!

wait i lost my unfair 1st pick and 1st claim due to the odd numbeer of rounds haha

i was not messing with anyone at draft, sat there for a minute waiting for it to start thinking i was 15th, never seen yahoo rejigger at the bell like that.

i love this from the "recent transactions" box:
Waiver Priority changed from 'old order' to 'new order'

YOU HEAR THAT? THERE'S A NEW FUCKING ORDER 'ROUND HEAH!

oh, you've got green eyes oh, you've got blue eyes oh, you've got grey eyes

so i took the 2011 projections from Fangraphs for my team and shuffled it into the 2010 stats/standings to see where i'd wind up. somewhere between 3rd and 5th, apparently! 4th worst home runs totals tho :s

counting stat projections are basically BS though

at least for lineup dependent ones like R and RBI i mean

it was all pretty much bs. i fully admit this.

Mar 16 3:18am Kyle Farnsworth (TB - RP) Player notes Add Free Agents The CarGo-Go's

i like the cut of your jib

yes - first place is now officially up for grabs!

I did it!

so you guys were right. Berkman was still out there waiting for me!

...and i failed to pull the trigger on bedard. bah!

now i have to be the bitter guy that says, "enjoy all 5 starts you get out of him."

...and he'll get 28 just to spite me.

Bedard and Davis were good pickups i saw on our transaction-o-meter.

man, Drew Stubbs is kicking ASS this spring!

(42 at-bats, 20 strikeouts, two walks)

spring

42 at-bats

i don't care what the context is - that's an awe aspiring strikeout total!

I would've given you something for Ackley for what it's worth.