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

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

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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.

I was kind of figuring that Will Smith is a guy who is extremely useful in saves leagues, but in this league he’s perfectly average and there are a lot of guys his equal in terms of S+H in the free agent pool. Pollock could pick it up and do what he did last season on a full season scale but I can’t count on it. I feel like Rendon has maybe been unlucky but also maybe just sucks this year and will continue to do so, and Arenado is an upgrade regardless, and with Cruz I wouldn’t have anywhere else to put Tony. Santana has been great at first but a lot less great lately, and Rizzo may likely be better going forward. And if not I’ll just stick Carlos back in there.

I look forward to all of this blowing up in my face.

Interesting to hear how this came about -- a trade for Xander that snowballed into a trade involving infield stars past their primes (Rendon/Rizzo) and elite relievers.

I'm feeling the pressure to make another trade, but I already parted with my best bargaining chip (Vlad Jr). I might need to upgrade at SP (it depends on Bauer's spin rate going forward ... ugh) and sooner or later my six RP have to start picking up saves and holds.

I’m curious who’s gonna find themselves out an ace once mlb starts handing out fines/suspensions etc

I thought MLB was only "gathering information" this year? I think they'll save the fireworks for the off-season -- coincidentally this happens to be a bargaining year and this is just more ammunition for putting the screws to the players.

Oh so much for that -- new enforcement policy and likely suspensions starting on June 21.

Just noticed the posts on the PED thread.

In other news, I'm putting Trevor Bauer on the trading block you guys! You don't want to pass this up! Cy Young winner -- going cheap!

well, i can't imagine having anything to worry about w/ cole...

Glasnow is down now, I can't afford this.. 😑

Apparently because he had to stop using sunscreen for grip!!

Tyler Glasnow just went off about the midseason crackdown. He stopped using sunscreen a couple starts ago and felt sore afterwards due to difficulty with grip. Same last night. Says it contributed to his current injury. He’s hopeful to be back at the end of the season.

— Jesse Rogers (@JesseRogersESPN) June 15, 2021

well, looks like i picked the wrong day to sit ryan mountcastle.

I added Brett Anderson, so I feel like this will end the Diamondbacks losing streak.

You’re welcome, Arizona.

Fractured hand after 3 games back! Buxton is a total lemon, holy sh*t haha it's almost mystifying

Ok this bogaerts-turner thing is great but wander Franco is making things very complicated. I know I know champagne problems

Anyone with eyes on the future, the injured 27yo Glasnow is now up on the trading block. I need Starting Pitching - get at me!

Four of my hitters are on the DL or listed as DTD and I'm starting to get nervous.

I saw a message in the sky and it said I'm dropping to 2nd place tonight after an overlong tenure in first 😰

of course my team is doing well now that i have traded all of my good players and i am settling into the stupid middle of the pack.

also i have 7 good keepers now

I’m also doing weirdly better after trading my best hitter, starter and closer.

3-way tie for 1st at the moment!

My team had a day yesterday.

nothing Earth-shattering, but I finally cut ties with Dylan Carlson :,/

And I have finally been forced to end the Mike Soroka experiment.

Couldn't pry Corbin Burnes from CorbinBurneson, couldn't pry Soto from BillyChildishBambino

Like trying to get Lajoie from the Naps!