HACKING MASS, a reverse fantasy contest

Three hours til the extended deadline. The new gag grand prize is just awful.

Entries now closed, right in the middle of my attempt to sub Eric Young for Billy Hamilton.

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Catcher Tuffy Gosewisch
First Base James Loney
Second Base Joe Panik
Third Base Luis Valbuena
Shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria
Left Field Ben Revere
Center Field Billy Hamilton
Right Field Nick Markakis
Pitcher 1 Ricky Nolasco
Pitcher 2 Kyle Kendrick

I know Loney is on the DL, but he'll still be near the top of 1Bs, esp with that oblique nagging him.

Last minute prize announcement -- Tim McCarver's "solo album"! This was released six years ago and I'd never heard of it? Hacking Mass -- THIS TIME IT COUNTS.

I made a few challopsy choices here, and now that Mike Minor has had another setback in his return from the DL I'm pretty much screwed. Oh and Nelson Cruz hit a million home runs since I put this team together.

Catcher Tuffy Gosewisch
First Base Ryan Howard
Second Base Jonathan Schoop
Third Base Chris Johnson
Shortstop Andrelton Simmons
Left Field Nelson Cruz
Center Field Austin Jackson
Right Field Jay Bruce
Pitcher 1 Mike Minor
Pitcher 2 Jerome Williams

well now i'm sorry I saw the mets slap Jerome Williams around last night... At least your Cubs ace is in long relief this year.

now Ricky Nolasco has elbow soreness fuuuuuuuuuuuuck

Hechavarria got 4 hits today wtf

Kendrick, Nolasco and Gosewisch have blest me with 76 points

My other seven players: -16

In the past week I've climbed from fifteen or so places from the bottom up to 489th place! Still in negative points though.

I have zoomed into the top 50, bcz Loney, Hamilton and even Valbuena and Markakis are finding their rubber legs in the batter's box. Too bad Tuffy Gosewisch is about to lose his starting job; shoulda gone with Bethancourt, goddammit.

I'm 10th from the bottom! Nelson Cruz is killing my team.

Even the guy in last place was obviously making serious picks, choosing DJ LeMathieu and Mike Moustakas is easily defensible.

Only one other person picked Cruz, if I understand it correctly. At the start of 2014 no MLB teams wanted him! Last year easily could have been a fluke, and it was really only a couple of great months, in the second half he was terrible IIRC.

The 12 players who have Jeremy Guthrie are inordinately happy today.

btw RIP Tuffy Gosewisch (torn ACL)

Kyle Lohse is the first player to 100 points, nosing out Kyle Kendrick (97)!

Note to self: pick more Kyles.

(not Ricky Nolasco, looks out for the year)

your 2015 HM All-Stars

Rene Rivera C
Adam LaRoche 1B
Omar Infante 2B
Casey McGehee 3B
J.J. Hardy SS
Ichiro Suzuki LF
Billy Hamilton CF
Alex Rios RF
Kyle Kendrick P
Jeremy Guthrie P

For my squad, Kendrick and Hamilton came through with a combined 185 points. My other 8 picks: minus 54. Finished 311th out of 536.

it's back

you got a team picked out yet?

I'm in:

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/hm/index.php?mode=team&alias=6afc&nocache=1459371691

i have not, tt, but i have learned from last year in particular i'd say

just minutes to finalize those rosters (allegedly)

my squad, Run Dusty Run (tho i picked no Nats, as Ben Revere is disabled)

Catcher Cameron Rupp
First Base C.J. Cron
Second Base Omar Infante
Third Base Aaron Hill
Shortstop Alcides Escobar
Left Field Yasmany Tomas
Center Field Billy Hamilton
Right Field Eddie Rosario
Pitcher 1 Chris Tillman
Pitcher 2 Wily Peralta

it looks like Hamilton has learned to walk a little, tho! :o

Chris Tillman is gonna be a fucking All-Star this year, i just know it

lol

coulda picked a Rockies pitcher! ANY Rockies pitcher!

Rick Porcello is killin' me

i am literally middle of the pack, #197

i almost picked Alfredo Simon over Chris Tillman, which is currently a swing of 88 points.

down to 55 pts from 92 a month ago!

Cron, Tillman, Y Tomas, Philly catcher Rupp all been afire

refresh my memory. in reversyland hacking baseball; more points is better, right? the worse your guys are doing, the better = more points.

yep

tillman, rick porcello, angel pagan, and kurt suzuki are killin' me

Yasmany Tomas and Cron have passed Tillman as my worst picks

thx to the above and Rupp, down to 34 pts, and 312th out of 394. Sad!

your all-stars

Derek Norris C
Ryan Zimmerman 1B
Daniel Castro 2B
Juan Uribe 3B
Adeiny Hechavarria SS
Jake Marisnick LF
Ben Revere CF
Jason Heyward RF
James Shields P
Tyler Duffey P

Heyward! Yikes.

now open at BP!

they finally froze the rosters this weekend, here are my picks

C Martin Maldonado
1B Yulieski Gurriel
2B Dee Gordon
3B Jose Reyes
SS Alcides Escobar
LF Travis Jankowski
CF Leonys Martin
RF Matt Joyce
P 1 Ubaldo Jimenez
P 2 Josh Tomlin

welp, Leonys Martin sent down to Tacoma, fuck me

yet i'm in 5th place...

Thanks to 'sterling' outings by Josh Tomlin and Ubaldo yesterday, I'm #1.

maintaining my lead by a mere 2 points (damn Jhoulys Chacin)

retaken the lead by 8 points! thank you Josh Tomlin, for your 5-inning, 4-ER win yesterday.

if i win, mookie will get the Tebow t shirt.

I swooned mightily and finished 27th, presuming they don't let the hacker who put James Shields at every position win...

My worst picks were Yuli Gurriel, Matt Joyce, and surprisingly Jose Reyes, whose horrendous first 2 weeks lured me into picking him.

27th out of, what, a few hundred (?) ain't bad!

just... not bad enough.

lol, right

i already have confidence in a couple of the position leaders for next year.

the all-stars (the only ones picked by more than 11 players were the DUH! perennials, Escobar and Jimenez)

Matt Wieters C
Albert Pujols 1B
Tyler Saladino 2B
Darwin Barney 3B
Alcides Escobar SS
Alex Gordon LF
Adam Engel CF
Jose Bautista RF
Ubaldo Jimenez P
Chris Tillman P

play by midnight tomorrow!

https://legacy.baseballprospectus.com/hm/index.php?mode=rules

A shit ton of players earned 20+ points last night, but not me. So I checked the box scores and learned that Texas is still mysteriously letting Matt Moore pitch, and he gave up 6 ER in 1.2 IP.

Elvis Andrus has to be on some sort of leaderboard for this season's fall from grace?