Waiting 171 days to submit your keepers will not give you another year of control – 2019 I Love Fantasy Baseball League is open!

well shit

Boys of March!

team ERA: 6.52
team WHIP: 1.64

My team's first time in 3rd since early September 2018.

...and with that post, I have cursed my team to a freefall into the cellar.

Need six IL slots — maybe a dozen by the end of the week.

was thinking next year, with the short IL (DL) we might should add a 3rd slot.

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jesus i took a bath last night - dropped from middle of the pack to 12th. not quite Corrosion Of Conforto territory, but still not good.

at least i have a very good OBP

it is astonishing, i'm not sure what happened. everything is terrible.

I’m impressed really.

you ready for tomorrow Barry? 1.25 seasons of waiting!

Hell yes dude, I'm not sure if I'm more excited for the fantasy or real life Vlad era.

Virtually the only good thing I’ve done this year is draft Tatis Jr, the poor man’s Vlad Jr.

I had a dream nightmare last night my roster was replaced with the Detroit Tigers

Every morning I wake up and check the standings like

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bLJM5lHwql0

two problems you might be able to help me with:

1) i have tim anderson and paul dejong, i don't need both. would trade one for a 2B, or maybe 1B, or maybe pitcher of some variety.
2) my potential keepers for 2020 include four 27-29 studs (arenado, judge, castillo, betts -- all 27 next year except arenado who will be 28) but my under 27 crop is (comparatively) weak (buxton, robles, wander franco, mcmahon). i'm definitely listening if someone finds themselves in the opposite situation, looking to shore up their mid-age keepers.

Not bad for a getaway day, I'm sniffing top 3 for the first time in 5 weeks:

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Also massive thank you to whomever dropped Josh Bell.

3 QS & 0 wins is absolutely the name of my game fwiw.

Not bad! I just checked, and look what my relievers strung together today:
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May I welcome you to the 3rd place dogfight bnw & I have got going on here

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whoops, yeah so i'm in fifth now ^
game on

so i've gone from 12th to 1/2 game from first!
I've got Kershaw going for me today and He Ain't Javy has Strahm going. Let's do this!

...and the fantasy gods taketh:

https://i.imgur.com/vo2zTDs.png

Win now mode: engaged.

uhhhhh hey so this is awkward.

when i accepted the trade i didnt see mookie in it at all.

i thought it was over the top doing winker and ozzie for lourdes but acceptedf anyweay. then i saw the email, and nightmares.

any chance we can reverse this trade? def willing to negotiate but i fucked up big time

why would you even accept such a one sides trade?! (as-in the one you thought you saw and not the actual trade)

i thought someone was getting frustrated or something! tbh i'm also p sick right now so i don't think brain is working at full speed

i will kaibosh once i'm at a desktop machine i can use my commish tools with.

I was in a league long ago where one of the managers would constantly throw these absurd trade offers out there trawling for someone to click the wrong button and sure enough someone would and then there would be a desperate campaign for folks to vote against said trade, haha (it wasn't me).

the deed is done. and i don't think the trade was absurd!

(it was you tbqh)

https://i.imgur.com/ZYtli0C.jpg

that's maybe half the notifications i've gotten in this chain over the past two days

i'm unbelievably back in the mix at the back of the pack -- it'll be a knife fight in a phone booth for 12th place.

ive clawed to 3rd/4th ish after autodraft brutalized & left me for dead

Not 1 but 2 grand slams today, yes from my team whose only keeper is on the IL with a busted testicle.

my team whose only keeper is on the IL with a busted testicle.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, June 14, 2019 9:01 PM (four days ago)

Said keeper had surgery to repair said busted testicle and may (?) begin light baseball activities shortly.

now that i'm not in first place anymore i feel like i'm allowed to complain about how badly my pitching rotation is fucking me

some of which was me gambling on streaming options, sure, but my young hotshot pitchers (paddack, strahm, and fried) fell apart and stasburg has had some shitty games recently. on the plus side, darvish has been gradually improving and clevinger just came off the IL, so hopefully that plus verlander will stem the bleeding

Having been in last place all season despite having an across-the-board fine offense I feel that. My best pitcher has been the thoroughly solid #4 guy Mike Minor.

This is one hell of a trade that's brewing between The Guns of Buxton and Porno for Shapiros. Gutsy move, both of you!

Team name I thought of the other day: Acuña Matata

My mistake last year was waiting too long to make a deal and push for first. Just hoping Springer comes back as hot as he was before the injury. And stays healthy obviously.

midseason awards:

NL MVP: Yellich (he ain't javy K)
AL MVP: Trout (blast first petit K)
NL CY: Ryu (porno for shapiros FA)
AL CY: Verlander (he ain't javy FA)
NL ROY: Alonso (he ain't javy FA)
AL ROY: Vogelbach (porno for shapiros FA)

i believe alonso is a keeper for me, i drafted him

or is keeper-eligible, i mean. but maybe you mean he was a free agent prior to the draft.

you haven't kept him yet!