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

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.

ya - that was there during the season, but is it still there? i thought they took that and a bunch of other stuff down. (can't check as i'm at work)

Oh, I didn't realize you were talking about after the season was over. I guess it would be tough to keep track of that stuff between the 2011 and 2012 seasons, although it would be pretty easy for me to make a list of keeper-eligibles at the end of the season.

OOHH! 2011 is open!

http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/18268

hmmmm:

"You are not allowed to view this page because you are not in this league. (Error #152)"

the "join a league" link is here:

http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/register/joinleague?.scrumb=

but we need the League ID# and pw from the commish

...and I just saw my email. sorry!

Just click on the "Join Private" link, and you'll trigger an alert to renew last season's team (at least that's what happened for me).

invites have been emailed.
so i guess once we have all our teams signed up i can enter our keepers.

wow xposts

password is "keeper", ID# 18268

also: i think i might have to "lock" the league in order to set the keepers. so there's going to have to be a point where all the teams that are going to sign up need to be on board.

"geovany lord sotosyn" checking in

Dying Qualls on board, making 11 of us now

hey i'm in

Going with Skank Bloc Polonia instead of War Inna Papelbon

LETS DO THIS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUt2BNwG3CE

woot - figured out how to set the keepers - i can finally sleep well tonight!

My keepers are BPosey, CGonzalez, CCrawford, JHamilton, and JVerlander.

i'm seriously jealous of 90% of the other team's picks.

yeah, polyphonic's keepers are off the chain

i think we have our league's yankees here.

Well, I only get to keep Crawford and Hamilton for one more season!

How late can we declare our keepers?

ahhh - i dunno. someone suggested two weeks before the draft and i'd be fine with that.
how about - let me know by march.

my team name is currently 'go grab my beltre', for the record

and my keepers are officially the same list i posted upthread:

jon lester (27)
josh johnson (27)
joey votto (27)
troy tulowitzki (26)
jay bruce (24)

teams dragging your feet on keepers, we know who you are.

you're not going to gain a competitive advantage monitoring spring training and/or injuries.

and you're one of them!

in all fairness tho - if Joey Votto get repeatedly hit by a train on March 2nd - i'm not going to force ciderpress to keep him.

i like the imagery of the train stopping, backing up, and and then plowing into him again to meet your repeatedly qualifier.

geovany lord sotosyn:

bailey (26)
loney (26)
marmol (28)
alexei ramirez (29)
chris young (27)

http://qag.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/image/0018/80631/04._Sonatine.jpg

how about we can change our keepers if they aren't on the 40-man roster on opening day? (i.e. they are on 60-day DL or restricted list. or dead.)

err on draft day i mean not opening day

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