Strike 1, 2, 3 and yr locked out at the ollll’ bawlllll gaaaaaaammmeeeeletstiethisinwithfantasybaseballsomehow2022

also just realized Omar is keeping the entire Milwaukee Brewers rotation!

Ok freaks and geeks, selects are in. please to be double checking my groggy work on the draft results page here

so.... i'm going to assume everyone's good with the picks i entered? no one at all bothered by the number of Albert Pujols' on their team?

Once again I am scrambling to just do-not-draft a bunch of guys before a disastrous auto-draft.

i am probably going to begin our draft while finishing my other one and fully expect to make some rushed, bone-headed calls out of the gate!

Conversely, I will be fully present and focused for the entire draft and will have nothing to blame but my own foolishness at the end

good draft everybody!

link to the google sheet where you can see who is keeper eligible for 2023, because it's never too early to give up on this year and look to the future, right? i'll keep the drops updated as often as possible.

Corbin Burnesen:

C - Perez
1B - Belt/Y Gurriel
2B - Cronenworth/Lux
3B - Turner/Dalbec
SS - Tatis Jr/Swanson
OF - Stanton/Alvarez/Schwarber/Ozuna
SP - Cole/Burnes/Woodruff/Peralta/Anderson/DeSclafani/Gray
RP - Hendriks/Jansen

I have so much multi-position eligibility on my team that figuring out how to write this was a struggle, but...

WanderVision

C.. Carson Kelly
1B. Kris Bryant (1B, 3B, OF)
2B. Max Muncy (1B, 2B)
3B. Wander Franco (3B, SS)
SS. Trea Turner (2B, SS)
OF. Ronald Acuna
OF. Mookie Betts (2B, OF)
OF. Eloy Jimenez
UT. Josh Bell (1B, OF)

B1. Austin Meadows (OF)
B2. Trent Grisham (OF)
B3. Brendan Rodgers (2B, SS)
B4. Alex Kirilloff (1B, OF)

S1. Shane Bieber
S2. Aaron Nola
S3. Yu Darvish
S4. Michael Kopech
S5. Hyun Jin Ryu
S6. Chris Sale
S7. Mike Clevinger

R1. Ryan Pressly
R2. Edwin Diaz

Bell was OF eligible?!
Your team has the kind of positional flexibility I dream about at night.

Are We The Baddoos?:
C: Yasmani Grandal
1B: Joey Votto
2B: Ozzie Albeis (k)
SS: Francisco Lindor (k)
3B: Manny Machado
OF: Bryan Reynolds
OF: Jesse Winker
OF: Jarred Kelenic (k)

Bench
2B, SS, 3B, OF: Chris Taylor
SS: Brandon Crawford
C: Alejandro Kirk
OF: Riley Greene

SP1: Max Fried
SP2: Jack Flaherty (k)
SP3: Alek Manoah
SP4: Shane McClanahan
SP5: Jose Urquidy
SP6: Adam Wainwright

RP1: Paul Sewald
RP2: Diego Castillo
RP3: Anthony Bender

I may have overdone it with targeting high OBP guys.
I def reached for Manoah and Greene (I was lucky McClanahan fell as far as he did), and Reynolds + Winker are solid over-27 options. Liking my keeper option in a season I figure I’d have to retool (wanted to hedge my bets with Lindor, Kelenic and Flaherty)

xp i was surprised too re: bell!

i didn't even aim for this positional eligibility, just kinda ended up where people fell to me. by the end i was legitimately confused as to what positions i needed to draft backups for. i'm still not sure!

https://i.ibb.co/mC264LM/lpnc.jpg
LONGMONT POTION CASTELLANOS

C Keibert RUIZ
1B Rhys HOSKINS
2B Jose ALTUVE
3B Josh DONALDSON
SS Marcus SEMIEN
OF Mike TROUT
OF Byron BUXTON
OF Randy AROZARENA
OF Charlie BLACKMON
MI Javier BAEZ
CI/OF Patrick WISDOM

SP Kevin GAUSMAN
SP Tyler GLASNOW
SP Trevor BAUER
SP Chris BASSITT
SP Alex WOOD
SP Aaron CIVALE
SP Tanner HOUCK
RP Raisel IGLESIAS
RP Jordan ROMANO

Omg that graphic

amazing graphic

Giolito Shuffle

C: Mike Zunino / Adley Rutschman when they call him up
1B: Pete Alonso
2B: Tommy Edman
3B: Nolan Arenado / Matt Chapman
SS: Willy Adames
OF: Luis Robert
OF: Teoscar Hernandez
OF: Tyler O'Neill
OF: Seiya Suzuki
1B/2B/OF bench guy: Brad Miller

SP: Lucas Giolito
SP: Sandy Alcantara
SP: Chris Paddack
SP: German Marquez
SP: Kris Bubic
SP: Luis Castillo
SP: Tarik Skubal
RP: Emmanual Clase
RP: Genesis Cabrera
RP: Camilo Doval

i generally feel alright about my hitters. my rotation is mostly high-risk, high-reward guys so i could get lucky or i could get fucked.

oh and i've got Myles Straw OF coming in on waivers too to try and get some SBs, though i don't know how often i'll be playing him

i think i'm going to roll with a lineup of:

C - Salvador Perez
1B - Brandon Belt
2B - Jake Cronenworth
3B - Justin Turner
SS - Dansby Swanson
OF - Giancarlo Stanton
OF - Yordan Alvarez
OF - Kyle Schwarber
UT - Yuli Gurriel
BN - Gavin Lux
BN - Bobby Dalbec
BN - Marcell Ozuna
IL :( - Fernando Tatis Jr

SP - Gerrit Cole
SP - Corbin Burnes
SP - Brandon Woodruff
SP - Freddy Peralta
SP - Ian Anderson
SP - Anthony DeSclafani
SP - Jon Gray

RP - Liam Hendriks
RP - Kenley Jansen

My team speed is really lousy, i kind of dropped the ball there. Lots of base cloggers. The most NSB from last season with Tatis on the shelf: 6 from Swanson, followed by 3 from Turner.

C: M. Garver/G. Sanchez
1B: L. Voit/C.J. Cron
2B: W. Merrifield/J. India
3B: Y. Moncada/E. Suarez
SS: T. Anderson/E. Suarez
OF: S. Marte, C. Mullins, C. Bellinger, L. Gurriel, H. Renfroe
SP: S. Ohtani, F. Valdez, W. Buehler, S. Gray
RP: D. Williams, S. Barlow, D. Bednar, J. Karinchak

c daulton varsho
1b spencer torkelson/ryan mountcastle
2b jazz chisholm
3b jose ramirez/bobby witt
ss carlos correa/bobby witt/jazz chisholm
of jo adell, adolis garcia, andrew benintendi, ryan mountcastle, akil baddoo

sp carlos rodon, jose berrios, eduardo rodriguez, stepehn strasburg, ranger suarez, pablo lopez, jesus luzardo, mackenzie gore, triston mckenzie
rp greg soto, andrew kittredge

kind of a mess.

LuvWillTeheranUsApart '22

C Wilson Contreras
1B Jose Abreu
2B Eduardo Escobar
SS Bo Bichette (K)
3B Alex Bregman (K)
OF Christian Yelich, Kike Hernandez, Jared Walsh (K)
Util: Shohei Ohtani (K)
bench: Steven Kwan, Will Myers, Dustin Harris (NA)

SP: Logan Webb, Robbie Ray, Luis Severino, Shane Baz, Marcus Stroman, Dylan Cease (K)
RP: Craig Kimbrel, Will Smith, Jake McGee, Garrett Whitlock

A lot of question marks. If Yelich and Severino bounce back, while Ray, Ohtani, and Abreu continue to be good then it's a good team. I feel the collapse potential is high though (Abreu will be 35, Kimbrel is Kimbrel, Ray has been inconsistent for most of his career, and so on).

No speed on my team, as usual. My bench is weak and not very deep, I drafted four relievers and I'm not really sure why.

Corbin Burnsen's offense looks terrifying, if Perez and Belt carry over their success from last year and Tatis and Stanton get/stay healthy.

it's his starting pitching that i find more intimidating.

yeah when freddy peralta is your fourth (!) best pitcher, your pitching scares me!

Accidentally sat my only Cub, which can only mean --- let the season commence!

i was 15 minutes away from somehow sitting my ace even though i expressly remember starting him* so i'm right there with you!

*to be very clear i am sure it's my fault and not yahoo's, I JUST REMEMBER DOING IT

I downloaded the sportsnet app, which has great reminder/update notifications for individual players.

Whoops. Apparently the app is called “the score”

it's his starting pitching that i find more intimidating.

― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 16:21 (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah when freddy peralta is your fourth (!) best pitcher, your pitching scares me!

― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 19:03 (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Corbin Burnsen team ERA: 9.62

From the baseball I’ve watched over the last three days, that still feels pretty good.

yeah I only have one quality start so far and I almost sat the starter for that game because it was against the Dodgers.

Corbin Burnsen team ERA: 9.62

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, April 11, 2022 5:25 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

and my batting's ops/slg is .272/.284, somehow. week 1 is always weird. (that or i have made roughly 10 huge mistakes)

I had a good run there between draft day and opening day.

(that or i have made roughly 10 huge mistakes)

this is usually my strategy

xpost lol

yes.

getting some writing done

https://i.imgur.com/zqxA5GN.png

i drafted 3 guys who were on the IR when i drafted them

two weeks later, when i have 5 guys on the IR: (insert surprised pikachu)

Not to get too judgy about such things, but three is a lot of hurt dudes to draft. (Unless they were all keepers)

they weren't! i just didn't stick to the script! (and one of them was acuna, so... not a lot of choice there)

You have my blessing on Acuna

Important news: Put ze Candelario Back! has finally put ze Candelario back.

was surprised to see Graveman was floating out there!

The Jarred Kelenic experiment is probably over for the Baddoos. My 9th place team just can’t manage room for him on the bench. If anyone has more faith than I do, feel free to offer literally anything.

I’d been looking at Arraez. Mostly because in my last OOTP sim he became a Boggs-like god

i had him on a team in the past couple of seasons, he's a solid OBP contributor for sure

i was going to snag him this am. oh, well!

i'm excited that holding on to adley rutschman for 1.25 seasons while waiting for the orioles to call him up will finally pay off by getting me the 40 points i need to jump from second place to first place

i have faith, friend-o.

penciled-in keepers for He Ain't Javy (He's My Baez) (likely team name change to come)

Adley Rutschman (24)
Chris Paddack (26)
Sandy Alcantara (26)
Pete Alonso (27)
Lucas Giolito (27)

mostly pretty easy decisions this season. vaguely considering swapping in Andrew Vaughn for Paddack but for now this is the crew. i'm gonna need bats.

― na (NA), Monday, February 14, 2022 2:42 PM (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink

well i made the wrong decision there (by keeping chris paddack instead of andrew vaughn). i think i dropped paddack even before he got tommy john, while vaughn is looking like a solid hitter who will probably continue to improve. vaughn is available but having him as keeper-eligible would have been the real value.

i always liked his plate discipline. not as much power as you'd hope from a 1b tho, so the OF eligibility helps some. obv at this point tho, anyone under the age of 26 is going to be looking better than Paddack.

had vaughn for a while, dropped him because he just wasn't providing enough upside in any specific category. but he might go wild at any moment.

my biggest regret, and i've had a few, was trading one year of aaron judge for two years of joey gallo. lol.