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

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!

Well timed trade!!

#Dbacks Zac Gallen scratched with right lateral forearm soreness. Still being evaluated. He's been getting treatment for 10 days.

— Steve Gilbert (@SteveGilbertMLB) March 22, 2021

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYY

CORROSION OF CONFORTO

C - Salvador Perez
1B - Wil Myers
2B - Ian Happ
3B - Anthony Rendon
SS - Fernando Tatis, Jr.
OF - Michael Conforto, Yordan Alvarez, AJ Pollock
Utility - Xander Bogaerts
BN - Joc Pederson, Eduardo Escobar

SP - Brandon Woodruff, Corbin Burnes, Lance Lynn, Charlie Morton, Ian Anderson, Marco Gonzales, Jameson Taillon
RP - Will Smith, Archie Bradley, Jake Diekman, Freddy Peralta

Too many crusty vets for my usual liking but they’re offset by some rising(?) young stars(??)

I SWEAR TO GOD I DIDN'T KNOW

IM SORRY ✖

NOT SORRY ENOUGH TO CANCEL THE TRADE BUT

How dare you try to fleece a 13 year old, have you shame Will?

*no

lol i don't expect the trade to be reversed or anything, still a young guy so i'll get some value out of him after what i can only assume will be 4 consecutive tommy john surgeries

as always, i'll do my best to keep this sheet up to date. shows all keeper-eligible players for 2022 with their age as of apr 1 2022, updated w/ who they were traded to, and if they were dropped. if you're making a trade for a keepable player here's a good place to check that they weren't dropped/picked up at some point or what not

link here

thanks!

Thanks for keeping track of all this dude!

since Arozarena is not on my team, i returned to an old classic:

https://imgur.com/a/pSWB4TH

oops...

https://i.imgur.com/dEnlKp1.jpg

lol excellent

That's awesome! Also, sorry but he's under contra-ct for 4 years

made my team image today too

https://i.imgur.com/U9WdKvd.png

L-R: Wander Franco, Wander Franco, Wander Franco, Wander Franco (seriously)

That’s hilarious

I had to research it first, but that's an epic team avatar there

make sure your lineups are set, boys!

My closer had TJ surgery this week. Smashing start to the season!

yermin's gonna be pickup of the year isn't he

If he can get eligibility at a position or two...

Is it too late to punt on all categories? #strategy

Teams will now just be 10 UTL slots.

who wants to change their team name to "Are we the Baddoos?"

who wants to change their team name to "Are we the Baddoos?"

me!

I just returned yesterday from a weeklong spring break in the mountains and was very surprised to see my team is hanging in there despite my top 3 players playing a total of zero games and a rash of injuries.

I was able to hike up to a nearby peak to our campsite that I was able to get a bar of phone coverage and set my lineup and try to pick some triage scraps off the waiver wire.

A View to Akil is also available to anyone, just sayin.

McMahon hit 3 (3!) homeruns on my bench today

pretty good day for the bench boys, actually: 5/8, 4 HR

It’s not fantasy baseball if your bench isn’t out hitting the entire league.