It's Not a Trick, It's a Collusion – 2018 In Love Baseball Fantasy League

I guess you guys inspired me – did up a quick spoof logo to go with the name:
https://imgur.com/a/M1rYR

C – J.T. Realmuto
backup / DL replacement C – Brian McCann
1B – Jose Abreu
2B – Ozzie Albies (shame on you people for letting him fall to me)
3B – Kris Bryant
back-up 3B – Matt Chapman
SS – Carlos Correa
OF – Andrew McCutchen
OF – Nomar Mazara
OF – Ryan Braun
OF and DL mainstay – Michael Btantly
OF / NA stash: David Dahl
2B/OF/rebound candidate – Jason Kipnis
super-mega utility dude – Eduardo Nunez

SP – Lius Severino
SP – Jose Quintana
SP – James Paxton
SP – Jake Arrieta
SP – Garrett Richards
SP – Jake Faria
RP – Edwin Diaz
RP – Addison Reed
RP – Kyle Barraclough

27-29 Keepers for 2019:
Bryant (27), Realmuto (28)

< 27 keepers (in order of the odds I'll be hanging on to them):
Correa (24), Severino (25), Albies (22), Mazara (23), Dahl (25), Faria (25), Chapman (25), Diaz (25)

my team's standing every year since we starting keeping players in 2011:
10/15, 7/15, 7/14, 1/13, 4/12, 2/11, 2/12

looking to end that three year dry spell, especially after two misses and losing Jose Fernandez.
will probably start looking to move Mazara/Dahl/Faria/Chapman for an upgrade a little into the season once we have a better look at them/the standings.

hmmm, try that image one more time:
https://i.imgur.com/rsBH5uB.jpg

whoops that's big.

Just realized I never said my team name (Incase people don’t recognize the logo)
PORNO FOR SHAPIROS

http://flipflopflyin.com/flipflopflyball/misc-miketrout.jpg

Offense
C - Welington Castillo CWS
1B - Chris Davis BAL
2B - Starlin Castro MIA
3B - Mike Moustakas KC
SS - Elvis Andrus TEX
OF - Mitch Haniger SEA
OF - Billy Hamilton CIN
OF - Nelson Cruz SEA
Util - Ryan Zimmerman Was - 1B

Bench:
OF - Max Kepler MIN
3B - Travis Shaw MIL
1B - Logan Morrison MIN
2B - Daniel Murphy WAS (DL)

6-man Rotation:
Corey Kluber Cle - SP
Alex Wood LAD - SP
Danny Duffy KC - SP
J.A. Happ Tor - SP
Jake Odorizzi Min - SP
Chase Anderson Mil - SP

Relief:
Kenley Jansen LAD - RP
Jeurys Familia NYM - RP
Brad Boxberger Ari - RP
Carl Edwards Jr. ChC - RP
Pat Neshek Phi - RP (DL)

My goal is to win the league without really paying attention to keepers.

Some may remember me as the original commish of ILBB fantasy (why hello Balks, HBP, Cycle) as well as orginal moderator of ILBB but that was like 15 years ago so probably a lot of you do not!

Is it cool if I start referring to you as “the ghost of fantasy past”?
Also: why have you come to haunt us, spirit??

my team is garbage

protoschwarber

https://imgur.com/a/4VF9V

willson contreras - C
paul goldschmidt - 1b
javier baez - 2b, ss
jake lamb - 3b
marwin gonzalez - everywhere
ender inciarte - of
christian yelich - of
aj pollock - of
rafeal devers - util

tim anderson - ss
jeimer candelario - 3b
josh bell - 1b
ian desmond - of (though he'll be replaced by josh harrison tomorrow)
scott kingery - 2b
gleyber torres - ss (NA)

yu darvish - sp
jon gray - sp
mike clevinger - sp
tyler chatwood - sp
alex cobb - sp (NA)
marco gonzalez - sp
blake treinen - rp
kelvin herrera - rp

i love trades

i see you did the same linking thing i did originally.

eh you aren't missing much

i dont fuck w photoshop but imagine cc's giant head/face on https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51xr2811V3L._SX339_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

o & my team ~ currently obp'ing/slg'ing .471/.677 get @ me

c- d'arnaud
1b- fred freeman
2b- altuve
ss- c seager
3b- castellanos
of - bryce harper
of - blackmon
of- cain

util/bench
k. seager
t. frazier
d. peralta
dl g. bird

pitchers
keuchel
verlander
jordan montgomery
sonny grey
chris archer
erv santana
cody allen
devenski
wade davis
alex colome
adam ottovino
dl - d. lamet

Damn your team is monstrous.

i got u, Johnny...

https://i.imgur.com/zp51Gu7.jpg

also: your team is indeed disgusting.

haha thank u

For a brief moment a few minutes ago, I was 1st in Quality Starts & last in Wins.

I wanna see the team that can pull off the opposite.

Get me Jack Morris and David Wells, stat

LuvWilTeheranUsApart (character limits ruin the team name somewhat)

After three straight podium finishes, my team has been in a Blue Jays-like state of not exactly rebuilding and not exactly ready to contend. Yuck!

C - Buster Posey
1B - Edwin Encarnacion
2B - Anthony Rizzo (a very useful position eligibility quirk!) (K)
3B - Alex Bregman (K)
SS - Addison Russell
OF - Matt Olson, Kyle Schwarber, Jackie Bradley Jr
Util - Carlos Santana

bench: Eddie Rosario, Evan Longoria, Willie Calhoun (currently NA), Justin Turner (currently DL), Vlad Guerrero Jr (currently NA, future face of the team?)

SP - Gio Gonzalez, Robbie Ray (K), Marcus Stroman (K), Michael Wacha, Trevor Bauer (K), Steven Matz
RP - Dellin Betances, Brad Hand, Brad Brach, Nate Jones

you're really going the long haul for Vlad, huh?

I picked him towards the end of the draft, so it was low risk. I figured I might as well stick him in the NA spot and see if they bring him up this year.

Years ago I drafted Strasburg before his debut, hung onto him all season long until he was called up, then kept him all throughout the year he was recovering from TJ surgery. If you've got the roster spot to burn (and NA isn't an active roster spot) and if the upside is high enough then why not?

in my case, because i lack the required patience.

sometimes i get the existential fear, like knowing how Ian Happ will age out of being a keeper just before i turn 50.

i think about how old my daughter will be when Albies gets there. (almost high school age) :`(

Last place! I have never been in last place in this league (14 seasons!), even for a day.

i don't even remember ever being in the dang bottom half this season is a COMPLETE WASH

I added 3 players (Ohtani batting, Rosario and Panik), I believe it's fine? As in, it's by the rules? I'm still learning as I go.

yeah add anyone you want -- just know anyone you drop at any point can't be kept next year, and anyone you pick up also cannot be kept next year :)

cool that i balanced out jakob junis and his six innings (so far) of no-hit pitching with jon gray's 12.6 era and marco gonzalez's 15.43 era

Ohtani is the 3rd ranked pitcher and 28th ranked batter. O_O

DL, DL, DL, DL, DTD, Suspended

same issue here, dropping some of these DL guys now :(

Does anyone want to take a gamble on Danny Duffy, my 17th round pick? Holler at me with a SP offer.

lmao my entire OF is benched for the day, along with my two available backups also being a) benched and b) DLed.

when you have players on your fantasy team who are playing against the team you're a fan of that day, do you bench them bc you want them to perform poorly against "your team," or do you play them to mitigate the negative feelings if they do well against "your team"?

i shut down any and all personal feelings. i am an unfeeling, uncaring, relentless fantasy baseball bot when it comes to setting my line-up.

waits impatiently for Acuna*

xxp I remain emotionless, I have no control of the outcome anyway, so I might as well play the guys playing against my fav. team. I had two of my fantasy Orioles players against my IRL cherished Blue Jays (I also have two Jays). This was a close to ideal outcome for both The Gallos and The Blue Jays (Jays won 7-1):

Machado .500/.600/1.250, HR
Smoak .400/.400/.400
Donaldson .250/.400/1.000, Grand Slam

Bundy 7.0 IP, 10K, 2.57 ERA, 0.86 WHIP, 5.00 K:BB

Sometimes it works out

I’d just like to thank again, everyone who passed on Albies for five rounds. I love you all.

-3 NSB on the day (so far)

3-way tie going into today!

I'm leading the league in Quality Starts and ERA (also second in WHIP).
LAST in Wins.

Sorry 3-way tie *FOR 2ND* going into today

so Dahl's been called up and I have too many OF and too many keepers...

My horse Acuna has arrived.

^___^

he's having a day

i was going through my team to start mass-adding/dropping players (my team is a fuckin' mess and april's over, seems like the right time to panic) and I was looking at my keep-eligible players... all of a sudden I was like, where did this one guy go? I didn't drop him, but he isn't on my team... turns out Felipe Rivero is now Felipe Vazquez.

Anyway the point is I'm blowing up a bunch of my team (mostly pitching) and the upthread keeper spreadsheet is updated.

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elbow
fingernail
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