Waiting 171 days to submit your keepers will not give you another year of control – 2019 I Love Fantasy Baseball League is open!

that's insane.

9 HR and "only" 13 RBI also seems to symbolize these homer happy times.

so Dakota Hudson was a good add!

for the 2nd time this season, 4 of my 5 keepers are on the IL:

Andujar: labrum tear (Apr 1 -> EOS). 12 games played in 2019 for my #3 pick lol
Haniger: ruptured testicle (Jun 7 -> Sept?)
Mondesi: subluxation of shoulder (Jul 16 -> Sept?). Still #2 in SBs lol!
Marquez: arm inflamation (Aug 26 -> ?)

i know that given my position it's gauche to complain about this, but javy baez and christian yelich are now both out for the rest of the season but neither are on the DL, so i can't DL them to make room for replacements, and they're both keeper-eligible so i'm not going to drop them

Lol, that's been most of my season my dude. Welcome to the club.

I mean, different but same in the grand scheme.

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/YdAkGFv

pretty good pitching line last night

ugh nevermind failed brag

i wish you could just upload pics directly to ilx. so i could more easily brag about my pitching line from last night.

you'll just have to describe it to us as vividly as possible.

well, looks like the die is cast with 5 days to go. the only question is if having no pitching and being short 3 hitters will be enough to drop NA/Javy 20 points in the standings.

after reviewing the expanded standings and looking at the numbers, i'm leaning wards "no".

Happy last day everyone, I've been battling for the final podium spot for ages now. I was devastated to have had dropped to 4th recently, but somehow collected about 10 points in the last week to claim my spot for the first time! Some of those days the stats looked okay, but I'd be unexplainably +4. Funny how those numbers come together sometimes. See you at the wreath ceremony

4 straight second places for thermo

I didn’t even notice that!

And congrats NA!

also congrats to Orel Halo, who managed to make 195 roster moves.
just 5 short of the illustrious 200 club!

thanks, guys! i had some good luck this season.
i also enjoyed making a big, season-impacting trade! trades are fun! losing rafael devers and (to a lesser extent) franmil reyes is probably going to hurt me in future seasons but verlander (plus darvish rebounding) really helped my pitching stats improve enough to push me into that top spot.

Good job NA. Hopefully my keepers will be off the IL sometime in 2020.

so there will be changes next season and also I have a suggestion I'd like to run by everyone.

new for next year:
• 3rd DL slot. with the shortened IL, there's just too many dudes inured at any given time.
• static age cut-off date to be April 1. this is instead of basing off the official opening day, which is just creating too much work/confusion since it changes yearly.
• weighted lottery draft order. basically i use a random list generator to decide the draft order every year – next year I will weight the teams so that last place gets 13 chances at first pick, 12th place gets 12 - all the way to first place getting just one entry.

bigger change I'm contemplating and might poll managers on:
adding a 6th keeper. this will be a minor leager with no MLB experience. I would add a 2nd NA slot as well for this. this would not count as an under 27 player – the only condition to being kept is that they have never played in the majors and are (obviously) available in yahoo. since they added the top 30 prospects for every team last year, this should not be a problem.
what do we think?!

so you would draft someone as a prospect and then they would still have to be in the minors a year later to qualify as a keeper for that slot?

aie.

How good is the Yahoo! platform for true dynasty leagues (such as the slot you're proposing?). I feel like I've heard feedback in the past that the depth of their dynasty rosters is not as robust as their alternatives...

well like i said, they have the top 30 prospects for every team. i have no idea what the alternatives are like – but we're only talking one minor leaguer set aside per team, there's no way yahoo won't be able to meet our needs.

Yeah that sounds pretty robust to me. I'm really angling for some of the LLWS MVPs though.

ha!

Congrats NA!

has the time come?

we might at least need an updated keepers spreadsheet

Sorry guys. Meant to get the ball rolling this weekend. Shit in my life is kinda fucked rn tbh.
Will renew tomorrow when I’m back in the office.

i can probably take over a team if anyone is dropping out, was hoping to do some more teams this year

i'll update the keeper sheet tonight!

KEEPER SHEET

there could be errors! you would know better than me so let me know!

no pressure thermo! life shit sucks

i shouldn't have raf devers or franmil reyes as keeper options, i traded them away to blast first petit last season

im likely gonna bail this year so my team (sabathias theater) is up for grabs; prayers to the new owner that altuve can still hit w/o knowing what pitch is coming

When's the deadline to finalize keepers?

🤷‍♂️i just work here

Btw - Johnny, you sure?

Looks like you might get your team, X.

Btw, I’ll set thing up tmrw for real this time!

im sure! farewell & pls consider me for the ilbb hof in 5 years

we all know you were juicing like mad in '17!

i feel "ok" about my keepers i guess:

Bogaerts (27-29)
Tatis (<27)
Conforto (27-29)
Dahl (<27)
Benintendi (<27)

i'm worried Benintendi not-so-secretly sucks but he's also only 25 and looks to have a more prominent lineup role w/Betts gone.

Thank you for letting me be the Dusty Baker to your AJ Hinch xp

I totally forgot to put the trades in from last year, I'll put them in now -- check that link in about 5 mins