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

If you have a problem with Buck Farmer you have a problem with me

(I'm trying to pick up potential vulture saves)

saves aren't even a stat on their own in our league! Buck Farmer!!

oh, i have a new team name if anyone wants to give it a good home: Fedde Gott Fingers

yeah but saves are easier to hunt for than holds

late on this but Will, my team name is currently:

BillyChildishBambino

#dokeepup

Aw I could've sworn I checked to see if Hampson was available last night

He’s doing well? Drafted him last year with high hopes but he was a serious let down.

You're welcome to Byron Buxton, who for the first year since he came up is on neither of my fantasy baseball teams. By letting him go I have freed him to be really really good at baseball

Received with open arms 💪 thank you!

Well I give up. Max Fried died on me yesterday. Plesac and McCullers imploded today. This fantasy season has gone about as good as the last year of my life. I give up.

Warning to any fans of Casey Mize: i have added him to my team, be ready for his arm to fall off or a piano to fall from space and land on him. apologies in advance.

april isn't even halfway over!

i keep telling myself with my >6 team ERA!

you can't win your league in the first month, but you sure as hell can lose it!

trying to think of a better mize-centric team name than You Can't Hide Your Lyin Mize

Real Meyez RealMize Real Miez

Then this one I just came up with will be of no help to you: Skubal Drew

every time i read "skubal" my brain goes "from the bottom of the skubal, cackalacky to new yawk" which is probably too long

A criminal Mize
is ball I
ball I've every thrown

ever*

Mize da B'y

so yahoo is beta-testing longer team names. I've signed us up. I'll let you all know when we can all finally rename our teams the text from entire novels.

hey maybe i can at least use my full team name, including the parenthetical

ok guys. our team name limit is 30 characters! go to town, and since it's in testing lmk if you experience any weirdness and i can let the yahoo dev team know.

worked for me

yes, i see you really thought that one through.

ha, i happened to be in there before you posted and thought i would go ahead and try

perfect length for my team name, but i was getting used to the fire emoji i had to save space 😕
it doesn't display the full length when i'm on the My Team page, btw

mobile or desk/laptop?

and is it just truncating, with the "..." at the end? it's showing up fine on both my phone and desktop.

sorry for the questions, part of signing up for the testing was providing feedback.

ok, so my last post seemed to have disappered, anyway,

I was wrong actually it puts the last word "Jeffress" on a second line on my team page on desktop

utterly broken!

https://i.postimg.cc/SxQBGgMp/image.png

How are your keepers doing?

Juan Soto - IL for 2 weeks (?)
Adalberto Mondesi - IL for ??? Hasn't swung a bat since spring training
Kyle Tucker - Mendoza OBP(!), enjoying a 0-14 slump including 3 games in Denver
Nick Castellanos - started red hot but currently SUSP for flexing after scoring post-HBP (didn't touch anyone, had his hands behind his back)
Matt Olson - verrrrry slow start but I have nothing to complain about at all (except for a CS today)

Lindor: SLG .195
Albies: SLG .333
Bryant (my lone ray of sunlight, in his final keepable year): SLG .623
Pearson: DL, working his way back
Soroka: DL and, i quote, "not good"

keeper hopefulls... Robles: SLG .255; Kelenic: NA; Plesac: imploding with a 6.75 ERA and finally max Fried: DL with an 11.45 ERA.

my team is a disaster wrapped in a catastrophe.

nola - excellent
giolito - very good except for his one terrible start against boston
baez - pretty much as expected - very low avg/OBP but good HR producer and surprising source of steals
alonso - slow start but the mets have only played like half their games so far
paddack - pretty good, trending better in his last couple of starts, still has a very dumb haircut

the keepers have not been the problem for me, my high draft picks have not been producing to expectations

Just noticed that yahoo! may have paywalled the little clickable info box next to each player's name?

They’re working fine for me right now. Just the new tools have been paywalled from what I can tell.

i have my 5 keepers from last year and a few new options:
MACHADO - awesome as always
GALLO - .455 OBP, not much else
JIMENEZ - :(
FLAHERTY - doing a lot better this year, I'm relieved
MAY - gamble paid off so far (he's starting and excelling)

GLASNOW - I picked him #1 overall and it was not a mistake
BUXTON - HOLY $HIT this guy is 26 :D
AROZARENA - not too awesome so far

Fuck you people and your successful picks!

not #1 overall, but #5 in the draft (Glasnow)

My keepers:
Luis Castillo: Awful start. 7.15 ERA, under 7.5 K/9.
Mookie Betts: Missed some games, fine but not the tier I want from Betts.
Nolan Arenado: Also not playing to his full potential but not a disaster.
Wander Franco: I didn't draft him to play in 2020. Or 2021. Or maybe 2022. So... no surprises?
Zac Gallen: Seems like he's doing a great job for X's team! Traded for Strasburg (lol injured. Two starts, I missed the lights-out one and got tagged for the terrible one) and Rizzo (a couple of poor weeks and so far one good one)

Also drafted for potential keeping:
Trent Grisham: Mashing when he's not on the IR.
Pablo Lopez: four starts, only one (real) bad one. Excited!
Ha-Seong Kim: at this point droppable.
Cavan Biggio: .281 OBP for a guy I drafted hoping for a killer OBP. hahahah
Dinelson Lamet: Lol drafted on the IR, got back, pitched two innings, IR.

COOL SEASON WILL

the good news keeps rolling for my team...

Counsell said Yelich "has hit a plateau." Is going back to Milwaukee for MRI.

— Tom (@Haudricourt) April 24, 2021

well, i chose a good day to pick up cedric mullins.

Damn, nice one.

OTOH I have one (1) single today in 20 ABs. I've been incredibly lucky this season... I was wondering when the wheels were gonna fall off.

last night I had a K:BB of 26:0 until May walked one guy to cap it off

holy cow!

Two players on my team had 7 RBI games in the past week!

Unfortunately, both were benched at the time :(

you benched Vlad?!

I mean if you don't want him...

How's Tucker Barnhart and John Staumont sound? That's a two for one deal! TWICE the value!