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

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.

my second biggest regret was drafting 4 players who i knew were going to be IL/NA for a long time and praying no one else would get hurt. lol.

entertaining offers for berrios and ramirez, i guess

i've got willy adames and seiya suzuki coming off the IL in the next week, but i don't really need either of them in my lineup right now. they're both keeper-eligible. i'm open to trades, primarily for reliable sources of SV/Hs.

i should never have dropped Kirk. holy shit.

Everyone except omar little keep reading. Omar stop reading here

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Fellas how are we gonna sabotage omar little

seems kinda rude to go out of our way to sabotage the 6th place team but i'm always down for a plot

Wait did I pick the wrong person

Yes I did. Ignore previous post how do we sabotage... Whoever is in first I forget who is who

he’s more of a lurker these day. But also running away with it this year!!

spent a good chunk of the season in 2nd and I'm hesitant to make any trades because I'm not sure it's surmountable

more i think about it the more i wish i pushed for hitter strikeouts to be a category. i can't believe i argued for making the categories nicer to non-power hitters and completely forgot that was an option. strikeouts impact two pitching categories, may as well judge hitters against them too!

for next year i propose replacing something or other with Ks

my starting pitching rotation, which had been pretty reliable for the first couple of months of the season, seems to be all shitting the bed at the same time

see if you can guess which two starting pitchers i had in the two day games today lol

Was Giolito one?

once jacob degrom, max scherzer, bryce harper, aroldis chapman, ty france, nathan eolvaldi, grayson rodriguez and andrew heaney come off the IL i'm gunning for that top spot

My god. Taylor out with an injury now… I think this might be one of the worst drafts I have ever had.