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

i will never forgive myself for the draft - when i was looking at Fowler and CarGo and i went with Fowler.

i drafted rick porcello

and he's yours for 8 years!

wow.

well i'm not keeping him

i think i have my team name: King Felix & BBQ Show

xpost lol! u serious?

porcello?????

i already listed my 5 keepers

oh - i missed that. fair 'nuff - those are some quality keepers.

i think at 22 tho - porcello's not a write off or anything.

damn ciderpress' keepers are very swag

yeah i basically drafted all keeper-eligible guys last year. i'm gonna have to release back into the pool: clay buchholz, colby lewis, pedro alvarez, miguel montero, etc

that is interesting news.

At the risk of opening myself up to some CIA-level psyops, which one of these three guys would you keep?

BJ Upton
John Danks
Jacoby Ellsbury

Leaning towards Danks because he's a pitcher, but Upton's speed/power combo is tempting.

ya - it's def between those two. i think it depends on your need for pitching vs power/speed.

i'd say that's a toss-up between upton and danks, ellsbury is trash at this point

Porcello doesn't seem like keeper material at all -- doesn't go deep (hasn't shown he can do it), not a strikeout pitcher, etc.

Aite, my 5:

Ryan Braun 27.39
David Wright 28.3
John Danks 25.98
Madison Bumgarner 21.68
Martin Pardo 27.44

(Reviewing Thermo's rules, I kind of had to pick Danks over Upton anyway.)

Possibly:

Fielder
Morneau
Gallardo
Greinke
Weaver

damn son

ya - those are two quality batches.

I have six candidates and I'm not sure which to pick, honestly. At least my two young guys (Posey and Gonzalez) will be an easy decision, but arguably my two best players (Crawford and Hamilton) will not be keeperable after this season. Verlander and Weeks are a bit younger.

ya - those are two quality batches.

You're not referring to mine (in addition to Andy's), are you!?

sure am.

Braun, Wright & Bumgarner is not bad.

Underachieving bastards/manager.

i'd wait until the latest possible to make a decision on morneau tbh...reports about him are still sketchy

That's why I said "possibly."

Soria and McCutchen are other possibilities.

i would think that mccutcheon is a must-keep

Given what I have, McCutchen isn't top tier in enough categories (for OFs) to keep (unless Morneau remains risky). Love him, though.

Does any site track NSB (in a sortable manner)?

Let me know if my math is egregiously wrong.. not my forte..

Granderson (28)
Hart (28.. probably 29 before season starts)
Kemp (26)
Ubaldo (26)
Price (25)

Looks like my OF is set. I kept Jesus Montero on my roster all goddamn year last year and Im releasing him back into the wild. Will miss u little buddy but I gotta have proven major leaguers in my stable of keepers. Was convinced he was going to be traded at the deadline last year and would be a starting C this year..

Thermo, if one team trades a keeper-eligible player, does the other team need to send another keeper-eligible back to maintain a certain balance?

I'll probably end up keeping:

Robinson Cano (28)
Jose Reyes (27)
Brett Anderson (23)
Matt Cain (26)

and then either

Michael Napoli (29) or Denard Span (27), depending on how much playing time Napoli is expected to get, and how much speed/power I need.

leee - i don't see why they should need to keep balance.

probably:

Rasmus (24)
J Upton (23)
Ade Gonzalez (28)
K Morales (27)
Aardsma (29)

bad news, jingleberries - Granderson will turn 30 in march!

i think i'm keeping matusz, latos, longoria and pedroia for sure.

...and then? eesh.

Aw sheeeeit. I knew my math was garbage. I think I can still keep Quentin right? Even tho I dont really want to, Im pretty sure I dont have anyone older than 26 other than him thats keeper eligible..

i dunno - how old is he?

I'm keeping:

Joe Mauer (27)
Ryan Zimmerman (26)
Clayton Kershaw (23)
Stephen Strasburg (22) (RIP)
Andre Ethier (28)

... unless I can somehow find space for Chad Billingsley (26). I'd seriously consider keeping him instead of Ethier if it were possible (because of age requirements). Carrying Strasburg for the entire season will sort of suck, but I guess it'll be worth it when he hopefully comes back better than ever and I can LAYETH THE SMACK DOWN ON YOU SUCKAS UNTIL 2018.

that is some dedication there, brah. i commend you.

I was wondering if maybe we could adapt the rules slightly so that players claimed on waivers ARE eligible as keepers but free agents aren't? I thought that might be a fun wrinkle, so that if someone discards a player the keeper eligibility isn't immediately shot.

This would hypothetically apply only to the first time they go on waivers, of course.

i thought about something like that (when i was crafting the rules). but i have to keep track of all of this, and while i can check back to drafts etc - i cannot see free agent/waiver moves after a few months. i want to keep this as relatively simple as possible for everyone - including me, your beloved commissioner - because once it gets too confusing (or too much work) it stops being as much fun.

i would like to pick up Billingsley right now a la Rule 5 Draft.

Quentin was born in 82 so I think he makes the cut. My math skills are poor to say the least.

Thermo, I'd be happy to be your fact-checkin' cuz if that made things easier, but obv it's your call.

It's pretty easy to see the free agent / waiver moves all the way back to the beginning of the season, fwiw

it is? you got a link? all i could find was draft results.

Go to League > Transactions, and then you can sort by Drops and then subsort by the individual manager's team (for example) it gives you a list of every player one manager put on waivers for the season, which is a pretty quick and painless way of seeing if a player from that team's draft was ever waived. Or you can go through all the drops without subsorting.

yahoo msg boards are still pretty lol:

What the "F K" 12-Sep-11 09:42 am
How does a tie give the Fantasy Guru the victory? this is bull@#$% this is under protest i cant believe this @#$%... This a travesty of the worst kind 75X worst than any scandal is sport history i will take this all the way to the inventor of fantasy baseball..my guys played hard all year this is ashamed they get treated this way...This has ruined the mindset of my young players....We hate you!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS WAR!!!!!!!!!!
WORST THAN RED SOX- YANKEES
STEELERS-RAVENS

ha ha!

i have only just now noticed and laughed like a lunatic at "Ohlendorf On Golf".

Suddenly my lead is in danger! Can I hold until Wednesday?!

A nearly 30 point lead is down to 6.5 points! Is this a choke?

Can my team make a late run and climb out of 12th place?

(answer to both questions: probably not)

a 7 point drop in 3 days isn't all that likely imho, but it is possible!

my team of scrappy white hustlers has hustled and scrapped its way into the top 5ish after being in 12th all damn year since I made some decent moves and Dan Uggla decided to stop hitting .180.

i was in the cellar early on and then had to scrap and grit my way to second place. first place is likely a difficult reach at this point, i'm hail marying it and banking on a few free agent pickups to carry me over the top.

4 point difference!

congrats polyphonic - on dominating us two years in a row now!
a fantasy dynasty is born!

i almost made it despite autodrafting from an unranked list! congrats poly.

autodraft landed u some guys that really panned out big that everyone was down on at the time - ellsbury, michael young, beckett, asdrubal

congrats 2 poly

heres the best ranked players, end of season edition:

Kemp
Verlander
Ellsbury
Braun
Kershaw
Granderson
Halladay
Cliff Lee
Miguel Cabrera
Adrian Gonzalez

yahoo list?

Wow, I jumped 11 points in the final few days and finished in 9th. What happened to the innings limit? I started benching guys toward the end of the season because I thought it would stop accumulating pitching stats once you went above 1400 IP. Or does it stop only after the day in which you pass 1400 IP? Case in point, I had 1399 IP before yesterday and benched everyone except for Strasburg.

We almost had our own version of this year's wild card races but congrats Poly, your team is more clutch than the Braves and Red Sox combined!

ya - you can blow 1400 IP out of the water on your last day if you want/can!

damn you Barry - i just realized you slipped in ahead of me! jerk.

wheew

and I juuuuust barely finished in the money in my money league too!

what are the keeper rules again?

i will provide a link to a page that has the rules almost right at the top...

here you go!

I get to keep Kemp again this year! Maybe I will ride his production all the way to a 4th place finish and build on this momentum.

are we keeping this going in 2012?

you know it!
i was going to start a 2012 thread in the next few days (once i thought of a good song to reference or somesuch).

all i can think of right now is "Keeper Lagoon" :s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wngb5Mq1SQY

three-peat?

I look forward to being disappointed yet again. Will probably do better than my fantasy hoops team which fucking sucks.

I will (be able to) pay more attention this year.

oh man.. do i really want that to be the thread title?!

FYI, pretty sure I'm out. ._.

aw.
makes me sad. :(

i think that makes you and Will. was it something i said?!

new thread:
The Keepers Of The Stars: welcome to 2012 fantasy baseball country