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

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

i'm surprised some enterprising small market team hasn't pried loney from the dodgers yet, he's underhit his high line drive rate for 2 seasons now and you can't keep hitting line drives straight at fielders forever

I'd like to read something more promising than "Concussion survivor Justin Morneau has picked up a baseball bat," but

Fielder
Morneau
Gallardo
Greinke
Weaver

sorry ciderpress - changing even one team's keepers means unlocking the league and doing everything (all the teams etc) all over again. doing all of that on the day of the draft is not a thing i'd like to do!

alright well i don't expect it to happen to anyone anyway

may as well hold thermo to his "by march" stance (*roots for ciderpresses stud keepers 2 slip in the shower*)

*exceptions made for freak accidents or acts of god/train.

I'm holding out a couple weeks too, I'm still in deep thought about a pick between 2 guys

In case you need it again, here is ANAL KENT's five:

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

OK, so I'm starting to think about putting together a list of players that are already taken so I can think about what positions/players to target during the draft. Here's what I've got so far:

sorted by team

TEAM	        Player	        Pos.    Age
ciderpress	Jon Lester	SP	27
ciderpress	Josh Johnson	SP	27
ciderpress	Joey Votto	1B	27
ciderpress	Troy Tulowitzki	SS	26
ciderpress	Jay Bruce	OF	24
omar little	Andrew Bailey	RP	26
omar little	James Loney	1B	26
omar little	Carlos Marmol	RP	28
omar little	Alexei Ramirez	SS	29
omar little	Chris Young	OF	27
J0rdan S	Elvis Andrus	SS	22
J0rdan S	Miguel Cabrera	1B	27
J0rdan S	Shin-Soo Choo	OF	28
J0rdan S	Mike Stanton	OF	21
J0rdan S	Ricky Nolasco	SP	28
bnw	        Jorge de la Rosa SP	29
bnw	        Brandon Phillips 2B	29
bnw	        Chris Perez	RP	25
bnw	        Tim Lincecum	SP	26
bnw	        Austin Jackson	OF	24
thermo	        Matt Wieters	C	24
thermo	        Felix Hernandez	SP	24
thermo	        Dexter Fowler	OF	25
thermo	        Nick Markakis	OF	27
thermo	        Cole Hamels 	SP	27
Leee	        Ryan Braun	OF	27
Leee	        David Wright	3B	28
Leee	        John Danks	SP	26
Leee	        Madison Bumgarner SP	21
Leee	        Martin Prado	2B, 3B	27
Andy K	        Prince Fielder	1B	26
Andy K	        Justin Morneau	1B	29
Andy K       	Yovani Gallardo	SP	24
Andy K	        Zack Greinke	SP	27
Andy K	        Jered Weaver	SP	28
mayor jberries	Carlos Quentin	OF	28
mayor jberries	Corey Hart	OF	29
mayor jberries	Matt Kemp	OF	26
mayor jberries	Ubaldo Jimenez	SP	27
mayor jberries	David Price	SP	25
Z S	        Robinson Cano	2B	28
Z S	        Jose Reyes	SS	27
Z S	        Brett Anderson	SP	23
Z S	        Matt Cain	SP	26
Z S	        Mike Napoli	C	29 (OR SPAN)
Z S	        Denard Span	OF	27 (OR NAPOLI)
johnny crunch	Colby Rasmus	OF	24
johnny crunch	Justin Upton	OF	23
johnny crunch	Adrian Gonzalez	1B	28
johnny crunch	Kendry Morales	1B	27
johnny crunch	David Aardsma	RP	29
NoTimeB4Time	Joe Mauer	C	27
NoTimeB4Time	Ryan Zimmerman	3B	26
NoTimeB4Time	Clayton Kershaw	SP	23
NoTimeB4Time	Stephen Strasburg SP	22
NoTimeB4Time	Andre Ethier	OF	28
polyphonic	Buster Posey	C	24
polyphonic	Carlos Gonzalez	OF	25
polyphonic	Carl Crawford	OF	29
polyphonic	Josh Hamilton	OF	29
polyphonic	Justin Verlander SP	28

sorted by position

TEAM	        Player	        Pos.    Age
ciderpress	Joey Votto	1B	27
omar little	James Loney	1B	26
J0rdan S	Miguel Cabrera	1B	27
Andy K	        Prince Fielder	1B	26
Andy K	        Justin Morneau	1B	29
johnny crunch	Adrian Gonzalez	1B	28
johnny crunch	Kendry Morales	1B	27
bnw	        Brandon Phillips 2B	29
Z S	        Robinson Cano	2B	28
Leee	        Martin Prado	2B, 3B	27
Leee	        David Wright	3B	28
NoTimeB4Time	Ryan Zimmerman	3B	26
thermo      	Matt Wieters	C	24
Z S	        Mike Napoli	C	29
NoTimeB4Time	Joe Mauer	C	27
polyphonic	Buster Posey	C	24
ciderpress	Jay Bruce	OF	24
omar little	Chris Young	OF	27
J0rdan S	Shin-Soo Choo	OF	28
J0rdan S	Mike Stanton	OF	21
bnw	        Austin Jackson	OF	24
thermo	        Dexter Fowler	OF	25
thermo         	Nick Markakis	OF	27
Leee	        Ryan Braun	OF	27
mayor jberries	Carlos Quentin	OF	28
mayor jberries	Corey Hart	OF	29
mayor jberries	Matt Kemp	OF	26
Z S	        Denard Span	OF	27
johnny crunch	Colby Rasmus	OF	24
johnny crunch	Justin Upton	OF	23
NoTimeB4Time	Andre Ethier	OF	28
polyphonic	Carlos Gonzalez	OF	25
polyphonic	Carl Crawford	OF	29
polyphonic	Josh Hamilton	OF	29
omar little	Andrew Bailey	RP	26
omar little	Carlos Marmol	RP	28
bnw	        Chris Perez	RP	25
johnny crunch	David Aardsma	RP	29
ciderpress	Jon Lester	SP	27
ciderpress	Josh Johnson	SP	27
J0rdan S	Ricky Nolasco	SP	28
bnw	        Jorge de la Rosa SP	29
bnw	        Tim Lincecum	SP	26
thermo	        Felix Hernandez	SP	24
thermo       	Cole Hamels 	SP	27
Leee	        John Danks	SP	26
Leee	        Madison Bumgarner SP	21
Andy K       	Yovani Gallardo	SP	24
Andy K	        Zack Greinke	SP	27
Andy K	        Jered Weaver	SP	28
mayor jberries	Ubaldo Jimenez	SP	27
mayor jberries	David Price	SP	25
Z S	        Brett Anderson	SP	23
Z S	        Matt Cain	SP	26
NoTimeB4Time	Clayton Kershaw	SP	23
NoTimeB4Time	Stephen Strasburg SP	22
polyphonic	Justin Verlander SP	28
ciderpress	Troy Tulowitzki	SS	26
omar little	Alexei Ramirez	SS	29
J0rdan S	Elvis Andrus	SS	22
Z S	        Jose Reyes	SS	27

there are 14 teams registered, only 12 have named their keepers. I'll update this list again before the draft.

really torn about keeping Napoli or Span. the pre-rankings that I've seen have Napoli at around #7-8 for the catcher position (even though he'll mainly be filling a utility role in TX, he's still C-eligible), and catcher is a pretty weak position so it would tempting to just keep him, but...what if he only gets 200 PA's or something?

Hey, I go to the trouble of giving you floating point ages, and you go and truncate them into ints????????

my shame is compounding the longer this spreadsheet stays open!
*closes it*

i am so happy to see someone else being as nerdy about this as i am.

Ok, here you go then i feel bad for holding out now :D

27-29: Adam Lind, Kelly Johnson
<26: Thomas J. "Handsome Tommy" Hanson, Neftali Feliz, Carlos "Supernatural" Santana

Really wish i paid attention to who i was drafting in the 27-29 range

teams that haven't weighed in yet:

impatient youth (heyward!)
BJ Upton Top Ranking (Hanley Ramirez!)
Kneel before Zaun! (Longoria!)

Impatient Youth is me -- I said a few months ago that I was dropping out. Still hoping somebody is willing to pick up my team, but if not, Heyward is going to be a mighty tempting early pick in this league.

McCann, too!

gwow...i thought i piped up earlier.

longoria
matusz
pedroia
latos
reynolds

still trawling the fantasy thread tho, eh Will?!

I'm going to follow you guys all season long! For the LOLs! The sub-boards that I do follow, like Comics/Cooking/Baseball, I follow closely. I just don't want to play fantasy sports anymore, it quit being fun. :/

ok, i feel stupid for even deliberating on it for so long but I'm keeping Napoli over Denard Span. (my main concern w/ Napoli was that he'd just be platooning at 1B, but I forgot that it's the AL and he can fill in at DH too, as well as the occasional turn at catcher)

So, just to make it official, that leaves me with:

Cain
Brett Anderson
Reyes
Cano
Napoli

I thought Napoli was the starting catcher. Is Torrealba starting?

Pretty sure Torrealba is starting, yep. :/

fine fine fine

Hanley Ramírez 27
Francisco Liriano 27
Adam Jones 25
Ian Stewart 25
Jonathong Sánchez 28

Jordan: why you no sign up??

so man, most of the SP aces are already taken.

Taken: Lincecum, Hernandez, Johnson, Jiminez, Lester, Price, Kershaw, Verlander, Greinke, Hanson, Ltos, Liriano, Hamels, Gallardo, Weaver, Cain

Available to draft: Halladay, Wainwright, Lee, Sabathia, and Carpenter

you have to spend two picks for joba. because he is a fatty.

actually my favorite part of fantasy baseball is building my pitching rotation from the april waiver wire. aces are overrated. (says the guy who has lester and j.johnson as keepers)

Available to draft: Halladay, Wainwright, Lee, Sabathia, and Carpenter

― OH YEAAAAH! (Z S), Saturday, February 19, 2011 5:50 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark

And then there were four.

i finally registered

cheers!

ok, tonight i will lock the league and set keepers. so speak now or forever yadda yadda...

I look forward to finishing in the bpttom tier again. I tried to mollify myself in thinking that my keepers would make my team sucking so hard last year worth it this year, but we shall see.

Gardenhire said Sunday that Morneau was scheduled to see a doctor in order to gain clearance to play in games, but he didn't have anything to add on Monday. "I have no idea," said Gardenhire. "I'm not even getting into that. That's done. Don't ask me about him anymore. You're going to start tweeting it and blogging it. That's over with."

OK Gardy that's GREAT.

Uh.

Thermo, can you please swap out Morneau for Andrew McCutchen? Thanks and sorry.

Opening day ages:

Weaver 28
Greinke 27
Fielder 26
Gallardo 25
McCutchen 24

for some insane reason I joined another keeper league with $ involved. there is no age limit on keepers but you can only keep players drafted during/after round 10. weird, eh?

np. *crosses McCutchen off list*

xpost

ya - i've heard of that before. that way there isn't a monopoly on elite talent and it's much easier to manage than having to run through everybody's age (ours is still better tho).

*adds Morneau onto the "maybe if shit gets crazy" list*

last year i didn't check anyone for injuries (\_(OO)-/) and ended up drafting Brandon Webb, Carlos Beltran AND Huston Street

i'll stick w/ the 5 i posted upthread, even tho it sounds like kendry may not be ready by opening day :(