♫ Pitcher bunt attempts forever, for the union makes us bat ♫ – 2021 ILX Fantasy Baseball!

might need you to reach out after all albert, need those keepers from higgins

so sorry for spacing out

correa, berrios, turner, ramirez, laureano

All good m’dude. Still got it in on time.

ok gang. draft order is set and picks are in. please, for the love of all this is holy, double check i got your keepers right (it's easy to mess up this stage)!

you can view the order and selects HERE.

You got mine right!

Thank you so much Thermo for doing this.

oh dang i've got second choice? i need to do some research

does anyone know how to find a list on yahoo fantasy of ALL the available players (ie with the keepers taken out) by the rank they use for the draft? like i want to see the list of players as we'll see it during the draft. the Players list removes the keepers but doesn't let you look at one list of batters and pitchers, only one or the other.

unfortunately i don't think you can do that with yahoo for some bizarre reason. the only place i know of to see the list w/ pitchers and batters at the same time is "pre-draft rankings," which includes keepers. yahoo is kinda bad at some things! i recommend just pulling a list from some other site like fantasypros.

i'm just trying to figure out what players are around my draft turns without having to manually assemble something. annoying.

The in-game sortable draft module is pretty robust imho.

guys – all you have to do is view "players" from our league home page. the kept players aren't included.

but you have to select either batters or pitchers, you can't get a list of both at once afaik?

ooohhh - no, you're right.

Does any one else use the fangraphs auction calculator? I know we don’t do auction drafts, but it still spits it out as an ordered list and you can input all the league stats and setting.

So when I view available players on the mobile app, it does list pitchers and hitters together.

heads up - every time i try to join a mock draft i get a "You must be 13 to play in Yahoo! Fantasy Sports games" error. if i get this in the real draft, apparently i'll have to quickly make a new account and have team ownership transferred over, even though it worked fine last year

for the record, i am in fact older than 13. the account itself is older than 13 (which may be the problem)

I'm going to need to see some ID pal.

screw you old man!!!!!

that's weird as fuck.

i guess you probably have an "invalid" age in your profile. you can see it pretty easily by going to account info – but it's not letting me edit my own

hopefully no one else has this issue.

yeah, there's no way to edit it. i don't have an age listed anywhere, i'm guessing my account predates mandatory birthdates and they just randomly decided to start enforcing that

i googled it and the top hit comes up from three years ago – so looks like it's kinda of random.

but if a bunch of people get hit with this when trying to log into the draft, i might have to push is back 15-30 minutes so people can sort it out. but i'll have to know a bit before the draft starts. so this could possibly suck.

I just tested a mock draft and had no issues

ok. team transfer request sent.

thanks, switched over. i have a big boy account now

ha!

draft room is open!

according to the draft room "standings" – i am 12/13. so... not last!

Also am relieved af that everyone was able to join (I think)

even me, a 7 year old boy

This is the year I finish in single digits ranking.

Accepting offers for Buddy Biancalana and Scott Pose.

are we doing this?

HE AIN'T JAVY (He's My Baez) lineup 2021

C - JT Realmuto
1B - Pete Alonso
2B - Tommy Edman
3B - DJ LaMahieu
SS - Javier Baez
OF - George Springer
OF - Teoscar Hernandez
OF - Eddie Rosario
Bench - Kyle Lewis, Andrew Benintindi, David Bote, Adam Eaton
NA - Andrew Vaughn

SPs - Lucas Giolito, Aaron Nola, Sandy Alcantara, Marcus Stroman, Chris Paddack, Yusei Kikuchi
RPs - Aroldis Chapman, Hector Neris, Rafael Montero

Scary good team.

we'll see!

i forgot to think about potential keepers when drafting

I was looking at my team and realizing how so much of it hinges on a bounceback year/regression-to-mean:

BillyChildishBambino 2021

C: Gary Sanchez (K)
1B: Matt Olson (K)
2B: Gleyber Torres (K)
3B: Matt Chapman (K)
SS: Adalberto Mondesi (K)
OF: Juan Soto (K)
OF: Kyle Tucker (K)
OF: Nick Castellanos
Bench: JD Martinez, Austin Nola, Chris Taylor, Miguel Sano (K)

SP: Max Scherzer, Zach Greinke, Joe Musgrove (K), German Marquez (K), Corey Kluber, Elieser Hernandez (K)
RP: Tony Gonsolin (K), Giovanny Gallegos, Chad Green, Emilio Pagan

(K) = Keeper Eligible

2021-eligible keepers marked up (under 27) (27-29)

C - ???
1B - Christian Walker/Carlos Santana
2B - Cavan Biggio
3B - Nolan Arenado
SS - Willy Adames/Ha-seong Kim
OF - Mookie Betts
OF - Marcell Ozuna
OF - Trent Grisham/Brandon Nimmo
UT - Nelson Cruz

SP - Luis Castillo, Zac Gallen, Dinselson Lamet, Patrick Corbin, Kevin Gausman, Pablo Lopez
RP - Craig Kimbrel, Pete Fairbanks, Justin Topa

Minors - Wander Franco
IL60 - Luis Severino

Two empty slots on team will go to a catcher and another position! But I'll never tell WHAT position :O

I was looking at my team and realizing how so much of it hinges on a bounceback year/regression-to-mean:

also kim covers 2b and cavan covers 3b and of so that technically gives me two eligible players at every position in a pinch, which i wasn't realllly thinking about but it's nice to have!

Raising Arozarena (possibly name change under consideration):
C - Grandal
1b - Bell
2b - Albies (K)
3b - Donaldson
SS - Lindor (K)
OF - Yelich, Robles (k), Bryant (outgoing K)
UTL/Bench/future of team - Mancini, Solak, Cronenworth, Kelenic (k)

SP: Plesac (k), Fried (k), E Rodriguez, Keuchel, Soroka (K), Pearson (K)
RP: Pressly, Trevor May, Melancon

i like the team, but wish i'd done better at 1b. and my team def has a busy infirmary between Mancini and Rodriguez coming back and Pearson & Soroka recovering.

i'd trade ya for bell!

(aka my 1b is worse)

yes, i see you hedged your bets there. i only like bell slighter more than either of your guys. slightly.

uh wow... earliest trade in vorped minds history?

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYY

i love it

My keepers needed an upgrade, so I took the best keeper-eligible ones for pick 1 & 2:
oh, and I picked Carrasco with pick 5 not knowing he's messed up for 6-8 wks. It said DTD?

BURN YOUR FIRE FOR NO JEFFRESS 2021
C: MURPHY, Sean
1B: ABREU, José
2B: ALTUVE, José
3B: MACHADO, Manny
SS: SEMIEN, Marcus
OF: JIMÉNEZ, Eloy
OF: GALLO, Joey
OF: AROZARENA, Randy
BN: CARLSON, Dylan / DeJONG, Paul / MADRIGAL, Nick

SP: FLAHERTY, Jack / GLASNOW, Tyler / CARRASCO, Carlos IL / MAY, Dustin / PAXTON, James / CANNING, Griffin
RP: DIAZ, Edwin / POMERANZ, Drew / BARNES, Matt

(EXPECTED KEEPERS)

I'm gonna try to crack 300 transactions this year

I def had my eye on Glasnow but being dealt the #12 pick meant going into survival mode.

Now someone offer me a better 1b!

Congrats again, dude.

A lot of my top players stank this year - Lindor, Yelich etc.
Was a seller this year for the first time in a while (I think I’d been second place two or three years in a row) and dealt Bryant before he became a FA, along with a few other deals and somehow my team started doing better after dumping talent?!

Congrats to NTBT! My big ol trade mostly paid off but it wasn’t enough. A relatively low OBP led to relatively low runs despite great hitting elsewhere, and like any good baseball fan I’ll also blame my starting pitchers for not WINNING despite great numbers elsewhere. I also mostly think NTBT was just too good.

most of the issues this season were in offense. i was particularly hurt by using early draft picks on DJ LaMahieu (who was bad all season) and George Springer (who was injured for big chunks of the season). at least i traded a non-keeper-eligible Aaron Nola for potential hotshot prospect Adley Rutschman, who is keeper-eligible.

forgot to wish NTBT a hearty congrats! hearty congrats to you NTBT!

also came back to say that i remembered to do the final update on that sheet with all of the september drops, here.

Thanks Will! And thanks again for your work on the keeper spreadsheet.

My keeper situation isn't as bad as I'd feared ... Dylan Cease showed legit #1 or #2 starter potential this year, so he and Bichette have me covered for solid <27 keepers. I doubt Ohtani will be as good next year, but obviously I have to keep him. That leaves five players (all of whom were really good last year) for two keeper spots. It's going to be a tough decision!