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

Mets fans watch on with baited breath

is it too early to blow it up

Z -- I accepted your crazy trade offer (more likely I am the crazy one for going along with it).

Crazy trade lads!
If I knew Vlad was gettable I would have been offering all manner of insane package for the last month!

!!!!

crazy LIKE A FOX

apologies to [owner who will remain anonymous unless they wish to reveal themselves] who had a similar looking deal on the table

also apologies to the league, i'm new to this league and not sure if these types of rebuild-y trades occur normally and i'm half expecting it to get vetoed :x

wow love it!

if [owner who remains anonymous] wants to make such a trade have a look at my team and see if i have anything!

i would have expected Vlad to fetch more, tbh – but nothing is suspect about this.
as the commish, i bless this deal *does blessy-arm motions*

as a team that is brutally tanking despite my best efforts, I as well would like to offer up my premiere talent for Vladdy-like players.

After five middling seasons I stumbled ass backwards into a potentially great team thanks to my best ever draft day. All the keeper eligible guys I drafted are raking -- I can't keep them all because too many of them are age-27 plus, but never mind that for now -- so my offense is looking solid for a couple more seasons at least. I have a logjam at 1B/3B, another early 20's Jays stud to keep me company for years to come (Bichette), but my pitching staff screams 100-win regular season team that you know is getting bounced in a five game series because they have one sort-of ace and no depth.

And that's how Vlad became available!

Hey I'm [the anonymous manager]. No worries ✖! Appreciate you keeping my anonymity

I'll open it up at this point - I have a whole host of keeper-eligibles to exchange for any impact players from teams looking to next year. When I have time I'll be looking at Will M.'s and Thermo's team and sending ideas. Any ideas are welcome from anyone, message me!

my Keeper-eligibles:
OF Arozarena
OF Buxton
OF Carlson
OF Gallo (2 more yrs of control)
OF Machado (1 more yr)
SP May (TJ'd until earliest mid-22)
SP Glasnow
SP Flaherty
RP Edwin Diaz

i'm also open for business re: trades, i've got solid pitching in particular if anyone needs better starting or relief pitching for their 2021 campaign

Was about to add Turnbull the other day because someone hit the IL, but I couldn’t because Price had just been activated. Figured Price would fare better in the long term. Also picked up Jah Happ just in time for the two worst starts of his career.

I was torn between Bubic and Turnbull to pick off the scrap heap yesterday. Bubic pitched a beauty 6-inning no-run QS and I was like "phew, yep I made the right choice!" lol

I don’t think anyone could have predicted Turnbull. He’s still available in my 9-team (8 team now I guess) AL only league. I had him for a brief stint, but he wasn’t even up to that leagues diminished standards.

benched rodon today cause i wanted to go easy on all of you, you're welcome

;_;

Jesus. Who is this guy all of the sudden?! 13 Ks?!

Good trade A+ for both sides.

Does anyone need Steals? I've decided to punt the category and have Garrett Hampson for trade and he excels in Runs Scored, XBH & Steals (and plays half his games in Denver). Looking for a decent RP arm in return.

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i just assumed everyone punted NSB every year?!

I mean I will probably end up negative at this rate.

Therefore I am petitioning for ASB* next year: Absolute Stolen Bases

lol steals are my second-best category

Well let me rephrase that then, I have a 2B/SS/OF for trade who scores runs and hits for XBs (and also steals bases) if you need flexibile-positional help, just looking for a similar ranked RP arm.

Didn't really realize that trade was still on the table, tbh! Oh well. Romano just needs the opportunities and he's great

Thermo, I'm interested in your offer, lemme mull it over a bit

👍

Was all set to say goodbye to Bryant! He’s on fire this year - has been with my team since he broke in but will be 30 soon. Shame I wasn’t able to give the man a ring in his time with me since this year is a write off.

check yr mails if you value Bryant's chances

oh! ya. thought about him, but thought you'd like the other guy more...

I just threw my hat into the Bryant ring if it's not too late.

lol, nevermind I guess.

was happy to accept the trade i was offered but wondering for future trades -- is there like a messaging platform everyone is on? for most of you, the only way i can communicate is, uh, literally making offers lol

there's an ilx slack if that works for anyone... but i know slack isnt everyone's cup of tea (i can barely handle checking it lol i have two separate work slacks which have focus most of the time)

or does the yahoo chat function not suck? i haven't tried it in years (it sucked back then)

Still sucks. I can only see messages if I’m using the app. And it’s still showing a message from five years ago as being unread, no matter how many times I open it.

I honestly don’t see slack as an option (I have 4 accounts for work, since I freelance for a bunch of places and would rather gouge my eyes out than add another). Sending emails back and forth worked fine for myself and Francis.

Each pair of owners should have their own board on ilxor.com that only they have access to

I'm requesting that Thermo & I's trade be forced through, if it's in the league's conscience. it was canceled because I would've been over max roster size. That's my bad, I didn't think it would be canceled, just that I wouldn't be able to use the new players until brought down to size or something.

that's weird it didn't force you to select players to drop... maybe it's because Flaherty went onto the DL after the trade was accepted?
at any rate - I've resent the offer. accept it for now and if no one objects, I'll force it through. worst case scenario we have a couple more days to wait before the trade goes through properly. i'm worried about just barging ahead with using the mod tools on my own trade and then as soon as i do, i have a bunch of managers pissed at me for abusing mod powers.

Yeah of course, no problem either way

Wow. Some serious action today. Wandervision stockpiling young shortstops! Wondering who gets transitioned to 2b!

wooow

Haven't thought that far ahead. Just getting my guys

Wild trade guys! Looks like a good old fashioned challenge trade?

not at all, this was me getting all up in Burneson and Guns's emails demanding they take my team away in exchange for two of my favourite players (xander and trea). (and me staring at spreadsheets figuring out what they needed so i could offer them both the best packages for their needs). burnesen really took me to the cleaners for xander though lol

now that the real is made though, i have the (nice) problem of 6 stud keepers for next year. def entertaining any offers to upgrade in a two for one scenario or something. Wander, Trea and Xander at short, Betts Eloy and Grish at OF lol. Who has the elite young SPs?! hit me up that never goes poorly for me *sweeps luis castillo's 2021 stats under a rug*

the deal* is made

Will, I got your message on my phone, I honestly can't find out how to pull it up again to reply, but just want to say, yeah, I'm always up to entertain offers. any player is available. But I'm trying to win this thing atm and need SP for one of my 4 keeper OFs if anyone has ideas hit me up

FWIW I do not understand this Xander deal

Initial haul was to be Bogaerts for (unkeepable) Kimbrel, Cruz, and Arenado. Pollock and Smith were throw-ins because CB was going to drop them anyway (and I might drop them but we'll see). But then CB added Rizzo for Rendon because Rendon's been bad and he knows how to squeeze me lol. Everyone I am sending back is unkeepable and Xander is consensus top-20 dynasty player based on a lot of lists I've seen. and im dogshit this season so having unkeepable players is worthless to me

Yeah, I can see it. Got a lot of big names flying around this year, it's interesting

I figured with my team constructed as it is, I wasn’t likely to catch you! I was already thinking that I would be trading Xander to secure multiple non-keeper quality bats before I was approached by Will. My batting has been pretty disappointing, at least in a few categories. Xander has been awesome but I was going to lose him after next season if I even play again, which I may not. We’ll see. Rendon has been weak, Pollock injured, fresh prince has the saves but not the rest...if these guys play as well as they have thus far and Rizzo steps up a bit, maybe I’ll catch up enough to...finish half a dozen points back.

I think I liked the idea of going into next season (if I play) with a rotation already set, plus Tatis. Alvarez is tempting too but he’s a potential injury waiting to happen. If one of the SPs gets TJ I’ll likely just hang onto him instead.

If shit starts to go south get ready for me to dangle some heavy hitters.

I think the baffling part was the big names coming along with Xander - but they all seem to be struggling this year.