Strike 1, 2, 3 and yr locked out at the ollll’ bawlllll gaaaaaaammmeeeeletstiethisinwithfantasybaseballsomehow2022

Even if it was just one game, I sure did hate giving money to the Ricketts family today.

revised for me

James Karinchak, A
Cody Bellinger, A
Walker Buehler, B
Tim Anderson, B
Devin Williams, B

Austin Riley - A
Julio Urias - A
Xander Bogaerts - B
Josh Hader - B
Will Smith - A

^^Last of the Molinas

^^^Charlie Morton XCX

before I post my list of keepers that actually might be the worst this league has ever seen, I just wanted to express how much I dislike player trading in our league. I just wish there was a platform we could use to throw ideas back-and-forth as the season progresses instead of having to throw a trade at someone (that you are then beholden to), or taking it to email or whatever.
ok, that's off my chest.

I like the idea of 2B > XBH,
I like SB > NSB
I don't think I'd support any defensive stats at this stage
I would like to get rid of QS because I think the "no 3rd-time through the order" mentality has diminished its relevance
big no to No-hitters or Cycles, etc.

Longmont Potion Castellanos:

B Arozerena
B Buxton
B Glasnow (i know)

I want to express my appreciation for the spreadsheet, thank you

isn’t that what the Trading Block is theoretically for?

yes, to an extent.
i just think communication between managers could be simpler. it's nbd really

Luv Will Teheran Us Apart keepers:

Bo Bichette (24)
Dylan Cease (26)
Shohei Ohtani (batter) (27)
Jared Walsh (28)
Alex Bregman (28)

Ya, keeping the trading block updated I think is a good way to communicate what everyone is looking for in deals - and this avoiding the really stupid, off-the-mark offers.
And people will drop in here too, to announce when they are especially looking to get a deal done, which I think works well.

And I guess I will make this official: will dump XBH and replace with 2B. Adjust your cheat sheets accordingly!

Is Xander Bogaerts keeperable for bnw? Only asking because I had traded him to Will last season who then traded him awhile later, I just want to know if the rule had changed and I missed it.

I don’t know his age, but trading a guy a bunch doesn’t affect his keeper-ability-ness.

yeah I’m not sure why I thought that a second trade would nullify it but I may be thinking of another league

I only trade for old men obv

Votto No Get Enemy*

Vlad Guerrero Jr (23)
Ke'Bryan Hayes (25)
Corey Seager (27)
Joey Gallo (28)
Bryce Harper (29)

*was gonna change this but tbh i'm awful at puns and unreasonably proud of this one

so i guess we're just missing VHS's (Mad Boone Rising) selects. once i have them, i can enter everyone's picks/draft order etc.

so it looks like VHS totally tuned out half way into the last season. does anyone know him irl? should i assume he's lost interest?

Ok. Mr Van Horn emailed me and is unable to join us this year.
Keepers of note:
Luis Robert
Acuna Jr!

oh wow! pitching ohtani too if i remember correctly?

*checks notes* – this is correct. also: Sixto Sánchez.
and with this infusion of young talent into the draft, I am very fucked by the draft order (to be revealed soon)

is it random order this year or based on reversing last year's ranks?

guess i should start thinking about this draft

same as last couple years - weighted random.

i'm entering picks now – and I don't know why, but i thought Joe Musgrove was like a million years old... he's 29?!

also just realized Omar is keeping the entire Milwaukee Brewers rotation!

Ok freaks and geeks, selects are in. please to be double checking my groggy work on the draft results page here

so.... i'm going to assume everyone's good with the picks i entered? no one at all bothered by the number of Albert Pujols' on their team?

Once again I am scrambling to just do-not-draft a bunch of guys before a disastrous auto-draft.

i am probably going to begin our draft while finishing my other one and fully expect to make some rushed, bone-headed calls out of the gate!

Conversely, I will be fully present and focused for the entire draft and will have nothing to blame but my own foolishness at the end

good draft everybody!

link to the google sheet where you can see who is keeper eligible for 2023, because it's never too early to give up on this year and look to the future, right? i'll keep the drops updated as often as possible.

Corbin Burnesen:

C - Perez
1B - Belt/Y Gurriel
2B - Cronenworth/Lux
3B - Turner/Dalbec
SS - Tatis Jr/Swanson
OF - Stanton/Alvarez/Schwarber/Ozuna
SP - Cole/Burnes/Woodruff/Peralta/Anderson/DeSclafani/Gray
RP - Hendriks/Jansen

I have so much multi-position eligibility on my team that figuring out how to write this was a struggle, but...

WanderVision

C.. Carson Kelly
1B. Kris Bryant (1B, 3B, OF)
2B. Max Muncy (1B, 2B)
3B. Wander Franco (3B, SS)
SS. Trea Turner (2B, SS)
OF. Ronald Acuna
OF. Mookie Betts (2B, OF)
OF. Eloy Jimenez
UT. Josh Bell (1B, OF)

B1. Austin Meadows (OF)
B2. Trent Grisham (OF)
B3. Brendan Rodgers (2B, SS)
B4. Alex Kirilloff (1B, OF)

S1. Shane Bieber
S2. Aaron Nola
S3. Yu Darvish
S4. Michael Kopech
S5. Hyun Jin Ryu
S6. Chris Sale
S7. Mike Clevinger

R1. Ryan Pressly
R2. Edwin Diaz

Bell was OF eligible?!
Your team has the kind of positional flexibility I dream about at night.

Are We The Baddoos?:
C: Yasmani Grandal
1B: Joey Votto
2B: Ozzie Albeis (k)
SS: Francisco Lindor (k)
3B: Manny Machado
OF: Bryan Reynolds
OF: Jesse Winker
OF: Jarred Kelenic (k)

Bench
2B, SS, 3B, OF: Chris Taylor
SS: Brandon Crawford
C: Alejandro Kirk
OF: Riley Greene

SP1: Max Fried
SP2: Jack Flaherty (k)
SP3: Alek Manoah
SP4: Shane McClanahan
SP5: Jose Urquidy
SP6: Adam Wainwright

RP1: Paul Sewald
RP2: Diego Castillo
RP3: Anthony Bender

I may have overdone it with targeting high OBP guys.
I def reached for Manoah and Greene (I was lucky McClanahan fell as far as he did), and Reynolds + Winker are solid over-27 options. Liking my keeper option in a season I figure I’d have to retool (wanted to hedge my bets with Lindor, Kelenic and Flaherty)

xp i was surprised too re: bell!

i didn't even aim for this positional eligibility, just kinda ended up where people fell to me. by the end i was legitimately confused as to what positions i needed to draft backups for. i'm still not sure!

https://i.ibb.co/mC264LM/lpnc.jpg
LONGMONT POTION CASTELLANOS

C Keibert RUIZ
1B Rhys HOSKINS
2B Jose ALTUVE
3B Josh DONALDSON
SS Marcus SEMIEN
OF Mike TROUT
OF Byron BUXTON
OF Randy AROZARENA
OF Charlie BLACKMON
MI Javier BAEZ
CI/OF Patrick WISDOM

SP Kevin GAUSMAN
SP Tyler GLASNOW
SP Trevor BAUER
SP Chris BASSITT
SP Alex WOOD
SP Aaron CIVALE
SP Tanner HOUCK
RP Raisel IGLESIAS
RP Jordan ROMANO

Omg that graphic

amazing graphic

Giolito Shuffle

C: Mike Zunino / Adley Rutschman when they call him up
1B: Pete Alonso
2B: Tommy Edman
3B: Nolan Arenado / Matt Chapman
SS: Willy Adames
OF: Luis Robert
OF: Teoscar Hernandez
OF: Tyler O'Neill
OF: Seiya Suzuki
1B/2B/OF bench guy: Brad Miller

SP: Lucas Giolito
SP: Sandy Alcantara
SP: Chris Paddack
SP: German Marquez
SP: Kris Bubic
SP: Luis Castillo
SP: Tarik Skubal
RP: Emmanual Clase
RP: Genesis Cabrera
RP: Camilo Doval

i generally feel alright about my hitters. my rotation is mostly high-risk, high-reward guys so i could get lucky or i could get fucked.

oh and i've got Myles Straw OF coming in on waivers too to try and get some SBs, though i don't know how often i'll be playing him

i think i'm going to roll with a lineup of:

C - Salvador Perez
1B - Brandon Belt
2B - Jake Cronenworth
3B - Justin Turner
SS - Dansby Swanson
OF - Giancarlo Stanton
OF - Yordan Alvarez
OF - Kyle Schwarber
UT - Yuli Gurriel
BN - Gavin Lux
BN - Bobby Dalbec
BN - Marcell Ozuna
IL :( - Fernando Tatis Jr

SP - Gerrit Cole
SP - Corbin Burnes
SP - Brandon Woodruff
SP - Freddy Peralta
SP - Ian Anderson
SP - Anthony DeSclafani
SP - Jon Gray

RP - Liam Hendriks
RP - Kenley Jansen

My team speed is really lousy, i kind of dropped the ball there. Lots of base cloggers. The most NSB from last season with Tatis on the shelf: 6 from Swanson, followed by 3 from Turner.

C: M. Garver/G. Sanchez
1B: L. Voit/C.J. Cron
2B: W. Merrifield/J. India
3B: Y. Moncada/E. Suarez
SS: T. Anderson/E. Suarez
OF: S. Marte, C. Mullins, C. Bellinger, L. Gurriel, H. Renfroe
SP: S. Ohtani, F. Valdez, W. Buehler, S. Gray
RP: D. Williams, S. Barlow, D. Bednar, J. Karinchak

c daulton varsho
1b spencer torkelson/ryan mountcastle
2b jazz chisholm
3b jose ramirez/bobby witt
ss carlos correa/bobby witt/jazz chisholm
of jo adell, adolis garcia, andrew benintendi, ryan mountcastle, akil baddoo

sp carlos rodon, jose berrios, eduardo rodriguez, stepehn strasburg, ranger suarez, pablo lopez, jesus luzardo, mackenzie gore, triston mckenzie
rp greg soto, andrew kittredge

kind of a mess.

LuvWillTeheranUsApart '22

C Wilson Contreras
1B Jose Abreu
2B Eduardo Escobar
SS Bo Bichette (K)
3B Alex Bregman (K)
OF Christian Yelich, Kike Hernandez, Jared Walsh (K)
Util: Shohei Ohtani (K)
bench: Steven Kwan, Will Myers, Dustin Harris (NA)

SP: Logan Webb, Robbie Ray, Luis Severino, Shane Baz, Marcus Stroman, Dylan Cease (K)
RP: Craig Kimbrel, Will Smith, Jake McGee, Garrett Whitlock

A lot of question marks. If Yelich and Severino bounce back, while Ray, Ohtani, and Abreu continue to be good then it's a good team. I feel the collapse potential is high though (Abreu will be 35, Kimbrel is Kimbrel, Ray has been inconsistent for most of his career, and so on).

No speed on my team, as usual. My bench is weak and not very deep, I drafted four relievers and I'm not really sure why.

Corbin Burnsen's offense looks terrifying, if Perez and Belt carry over their success from last year and Tatis and Stanton get/stay healthy.

it's his starting pitching that i find more intimidating.

yeah when freddy peralta is your fourth (!) best pitcher, your pitching scares me!

Accidentally sat my only Cub, which can only mean --- let the season commence!