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

i DID notice

given that a lot of your dudes were underperforming earlier this year while a lot of my dudes were overperforming, i'm not optimistic about my chances of overtaking you!

I don't know man. How will I win without Jeter?

canada day/4th o july best players update

kemp
verlander
braun
bautista
a-Gonz
crutis granderson
reyes
jered weaver
miggy
halladay

Watch out, I'm knocking on the top 10 (out of 15)!

i think its impossible for me 2 finish anywhere better than 3rd w/ last or 2nd to last in 4 categories (bbs, gidp, fielding, saves)

My team is so bad (and injured). In the last week they grounded into about a dozen double plays, as if my ranking in every other hitting category hadn't suffered enough in the past few weeks.

Melkey Cabrera just hit two home runs for my team today, guys.

Who's got Carlos Gonzalez? Best keep an eye on the medical reports :(

xp i was thinking, not sure how crowded the al of is, but hes prob a deserving all-star imo

kinda funny that in the al-only league im in one team decided 2 buy all the cabreras & is owning us all, in 1st by a wide margin

Who's got Carlos Gonzalez? Best keep an eye on the medical reports :(

Yeah I benched him for the next few days already.

kinda funny that in the al-only league im in one team decided 2 buy all the cabreras & is owning us all, in 1st by a wide margin

Haha that's amazing.

h ah haha - i always wanted to form a fantasy team based on having the fewest last names possible.
i'm 99% sure we talked about that idea a few years ago and how to best pull it off.

xposts

kinda funny that in the al-only league im in one team decided 2 buy all the cabreras & is owning us all, in 1st by a wide margin

i've drafted all mitchell report (2nd to last), a friend tried drafting all jew (i think someone stole his youkilis) but all-Cabrera is blowing my mind right now.

During a recent Indians-Tigers game, Miguel was standing on second during a pitching change, talking to Asdrubal and Orlando, and the CF camera closed in on their backs.

that's a pretty rad trade.

I like Geovany Lord Sotosyn's strategy of not bothering to have a catcher at all. Maybe I should do that at 3B until Chipper gets healthy.

I've done that in past years, it's a good strategy IMO.

xpost yeah, I like this trade (credit goes to 77 Active UZR's, who proposed it), my hitting has been awful this year so it's worthwhile gambling on keeper eligible players with upside.

whoooooooooooooops, i just dropped brett anderson since he's not pitching for the rest of this year, and possibly out for all of 2012 as well. but he is technically keeper eligible, so sorry if someone would have traded for him?

yea re: that trade, it struck me that 2 make any sort of run this yr, saves was prob the only counting stat where maybe i could add a handful of pts w/o sacrificing too much in another category. & i felt it would make sense for both sides so im happy u said yes

colby does have big upside but w/ his playing time at the whim of tlr its kinda maddening in fantasy world imo

heh, traded in VORPed minds *and* real life!

anyways - our trade dealine is almost two weeks away and i have a surplus of keepers. current needs are 2B, C and SP.
i'm on vacation in Poland right now so i might not respond right away, but i also may accept anything at the rate i'm dominating the beer/vodka here!

All of my non-Verlander starters are available, as is Dustin Ackley (who is not keeperable).

melky cabrera is ranked 19th in mlb, above albert pujlols

my team - still blows. I can probably part with cudduyer (sp?) but only if I am overwhelmed by a deal. jk

i might hit you up! you're short keepers, no?

I have no idea? Need to look.. My problem is I keep trying to find players who are good at alot of things but not really great at anything. Also probably handling pitching all wrong too..

HOW DARE SOMEONE ELSE HAVE MORE HOLDS THAN ME.

Next year, I need to cut back to one team (the one in this league) and limit the maintenance. I don't think I've made any moves for either team since April -- just shuffling the lineups around whenever I remember to look.

get at me for Pujols but i think CarGos has it in the bag.

michael cuddyer is officially on the trading block guys! he plays like every position!

dan uggla decided to not be worse than chone figgins anymore so I got that going for me now.

so on the train tonight Bonita Papelbon pops into my head. good thing i googled it on my phone as tracer stuck it in Bermanisms five years ago. making it worse he was only like the seventh google result a bunch of herbs from a phish message board were all over it ranking higher than ilx.

i had to squash latos intolerant and evan loggorhea earlier in the season after seeing how common they were.

so. i make that trade and *then* i read this about my IF safety net:

spiking Murphy hard in the process on a clean but awkward play. Mets general manager Sandy Alderson said Murphy has a substantial injury to his left knee and will be placed on the disabled list.

That play hurt to watch.

sounds painful.

alright. hopefully my bazillion trades will turn things around!

Billy Butler for Pujols is such an awesomely weird trade.

weird is one way to put it

I don't get that trade at all.

Butler is keeperable, Pujols isn't.

That's why I don't get it. Why trade a keeper eligible 1B for two months of (subpar) Pujols? Unless King Felix and BBQ Show thinks he can win the league this year with Pujols.

well why not then? i wasn't going to be keeping Butler - and Pujols over the last month has been much better.

i might not keep Butler either.. but i have him in another OBP/OPS/BB league and for that league his real value is far greater than his 5x5 yahoo rank. the offer came in unexpectedly.. damn just noticing now he had Kimbrel up for sale. :)

won't be keeping him either!

the problem is he's my only closer, so...

I see, if you're already loaded with keeper eligible players then it makes sense.

even tho he's bombed this year i'm not giving up on Heyward, and i decided i'd rather have Castro than Weiters. so that's in addition to Markakis, Hamels & King Felix. so that means Kennedy, Kimbrel and Freese are probably not sticking around.

hmmm, think i'll check rotowire and see what's going on with adam dunn since he's been in a slump his last 400 at bats or so
- "Dunn said he will ratchet up his offseason workout routine this winter, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Dunn has a history of lax offseason work, and that may have been at the root of his historically bad 2011 season." F#@$^&#@$)(

best players, labor day 2011

verlander
kemp
granderson
braun
ellsbury
kershaw
adrian gonzalez
bautista
halladay
weaver