Any team caught using the shift will be fined by the league: your 2023 fantasy baseball thread!

Any opposition to the same same on the Saturday instead?

i can prob do whichever day, as long as it's like in the afternoon/evening (i have another draft whose date isn't set yet and we usually do that the same weekend around ~1pm eastern)

same here

saturday would be much better for me, thanks

Ohtani Dancer in my Hand (formerly LuvWilTeheranUsApart) keepers:

Bo Bichette (25)
Logan Webb (26)
Dylan Cease (26)
Shohei Ohtani (batter) (28)
Alex Bregman (29)

i was going over some younger guys i might want to target – and I started to get the feeling like I was instead picking some poor unsuspecting prospect to jinx. i'm curious if i've actually had bad luck, or if I'm just being paranoid. over the last 8 years some guys i've reached for in the draft (or traded for) include:
Julio Urías (pitched just 27 innings over two season before i moved on),
Luis Severino (gave me one decent season before being injured for the next two),
Nomar Mazara (replacement level his entire career),
José Fernández (died after two seasons on my team),
Jesús Luzardo (was good for 12 promising innings before fate took hold of him),
Michael Soroka (he managed 13.2 inning before becoming irrelevant),
Nate Pearson (Luzardo 2.0),
Zach Plesac (career 0.4 WAR after drafting him),
Francisco Lindor (he's been better, but proceeded to have a career worst season right after i traded for him),
Jarred Kelenic (unequivocal dumpster fire),
Riley Greene (Kelenic 2.0?!),
Jack Flaherty (managed 36 innings and two serious injuries since i added him).

that's not to say i haven't had guys work out, but do most managers have this many guys flame out?!

https://imgur.com/krI0AyN.png
A Moon-Shaped Pujols
(formerly Longmont Potion Castellanos)

24 Keibert Ruiz
26 Tanner Houck
28 Randy Arozerana
29 Tyler Glasnow
29 Byron Buxton

i botched my trade opportunities last year. gonna need a major re-tool here

hey – a team name reference i actually get!

do you all still need an additional manager (or someone to take over for gygax, i guess)? no big deal if not, but i'd be glad to step in and be the guy who drafts all the cardinals prospects that will actually really suck for the next few years

thermo my keepers have previously included Mazara, Carlos Martinez, Benintendi, AJ Pollock, Miguel Sano, Khris Davis, Sonny Gray, David Dahl, Ian Anderson....lots of injuries, lots of unfulfilled promise.

hey, we're Mazara brothers! and that is a solid list of disappointment you got there.

true hacking mass championship material right there!

i don't know what i ever saw in Mazara. probably something like...hey, his first name is Nomar? Stop there, I'm sold.

did someone once have team called faith nomar?

i don't recall ever seeing it. and i don't think i ever saw Mazara Starr either

hello friends i didn't get any emails (nor do I deserve any) but someone please negotiate me to the spreadsheet so i can pick the worst possible keepers before i draft the worst possible team thank you matt s cibula at gmail dot com

Emailed!

>>Send Nootbaar<<

Julio Urias 26
Austin Riley 26
Logan Gilbert 25
Josh Hader 28
Will Smith 28

deGromlandic Edit a.k.a. a lot of other bad puns.

Jonathan India 2B
Framber Valdez SP
Shohei Ohtani SP
Devin Williams RP

Votto No Get Enemy

Grayson Rodriguez 23
Vlad Guerrero Jr 24
Oneil Cruz 24
Sandy Alcantara 27
Corey Seager 28

nice! just two managers left to confirm and then i can set/announce the draft order and we're gtg!

Dascenzo Corbusier fka Snitker Conspiracy

Julio Rodriguez (22)
Rafael Devers (26)
Gleyber Torres (26)
Zac Gallen (27)
Jorge Polanco (29)

Thanks, Thermo and Will!

So my flight lands 20 minutes before our draft starts lol... what could possibly go wrong dragging my family through the airport and customs while trying to put a decent team together. Relatives are picking us up so I don't have to worry about losing connection in a train tunnel or what not but I'll try to auto-populate my pre-draft rankings as much as possible.

Keepers (age):

Juan Soto (24)
Kyle Tucker (26)
Matt Olson (29)
Tyler Stephenson (26)
Ryan McMahon (28)

Thermy & Willy,
Thank you for all that you do~

awesome! that's everyone!!! will – can you double check the ages? and I'll post the draft order in the next couple days and get the draft ready to go!

do you all still need an additional manager (or someone to take over for gygax, i guess)? no big deal if not, but i'd be glad to step in and be the guy who drafts all the cardinals prospects that will actually really suck for the next few years

― z_tbd, Thursday, February 23, 2023 9:06 AM (two weeks ago)

Was there any follow-up on a way to integrate z_tbd into the league? I'd give him my team in exchange for some choice draft selections.

jesus, i totally missed that! i will email him.

any objections if I push the draft time back 15 minutes?
our glorious league champ could probably use every minute we can give him to de-plane and get into the draft.
feel free to email me directly – if it puts anyone out I'll drop the idea.

Push it back as needed!

works for me

oh cool! i wasn't sure if there would be a way to join this year, but looks like i'll be able to start up a new team. i hope i can come up with a good pun. it's the hardest part of fantasy baseball

Awesome. I sent you an email. I just need to know what email to send the yahoo invite to.

since they weren't posted here yet, these are the keeper rules for the league:

• total of 5 keepers
• 2 of which must be 27, 28 or 29 yrs old
• another 2 players 26 or under
• one final keeper that can be either (basically anyone under the age of 30)
• age is calculated as-of April 1
• for a player to be keep-eligible he must have been drafted on draft day by your team or traded to you by a team that drafted him. that means:
• free agent/waiver pick-ups cannot be kept
• if you have less than 5 keepers, you will get an extra draft pick at the end of the draft
• keep it clean

xp i sent you an email reply thermo! just in case you didn't get it, it's:

smithers underscore 312

hopefully it works - i haven't logged in since the last time i played in this fantasy league! just let me know if it doesn't and i'll create a new one.

you don't nec need to use a yahoo email for your yahoo acc't. mine goes to a gmail. i'll send the invite to both the emails i have. just make sure whatever email your yahoo sends stuff to is one you monitor so you don't miss league emails that could be important.

sounds good, thanks!

i'm in - thanks for the help! I'm out for the rest of the day but I'll be sure to pick a team name and do anything else I need to do before draft day

awesome! that's everyone!!! will – can you double check the ages? and I'll post the draft order in the next couple days and get the draft ready to go!

― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, March 14, 2023 8:35 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

i didn't check the individual ages everyone wrote here, but everyone's choices are correct per the rules (2 of each + 1) so every team's legal!

but are they hot and ready?!

i can guarantee at least some of them are In The Best Shape Of Their Lives and more than one of them Is Working On A New Swing... I think that counts as Hot and Ready

Some are even Looking To Make A Fresh Start In A New Environment, I've heard.

i can confirmation some are even tinkering with a new pitch

ok hommies, in what might be a first for our league since we started keepers, i have the draft order and keepers set-up ahead of schedule.

everything can be viewed on our league's draft page (scroll to the bottom for keepers). if anything looks amis, let me know.

Z S's Impressive Team was not my choice for a placeholder but it'll have to do. second pick! obviously going andrew knizner, he is due

Draft 2023/Keepers 2024 spreadsheet

here's the spreadsheet for the upcoming draft (and eventually, the keeper-eligible players for 2024). i'll update with draft results and then every month or so update the dropped players.

So the draft is now set for 4:15.
This involved, stupidly, having to re-enter all the keeper picks and order etc. so double check everything looks right and you have the correct Ohtani or will smith etc

I'm so sorry Thermo but I sincerely thank you.

It will be interesting to say the least... while it won't be my first draft via mobile while otherwise preoccupied, it will be the first one while incredibly jet-lagged while navigating customs & baggage claim with family in tow and then trying to be cordial and respectful to in-laws I haven't seen in 3+ years lol.

so double check everything looks right and you have the correct Ohtani or will smith etc

remember that one year there were like 5 different Wander Francos?

the best part is they're his brothers! Wander Samuel Franco, Wander Alexander Franco and Wander Javier Franco (also their dad is Wander Franco)

and the reason? he was a ballplayer who never made the bigs but he wanted his name to make the bigs lmao

I have the correct Bobby Jones and once again will scramble to set pre-draft rankings for a disastrous auto-draft.

wait, you've got the first pick and won't be there for the draft?! i guess having pick 1 makes pre-ranking a little easier, but still...

Five hours until the draft!

Four!

think Alonso is safe. Corbin has maxed out 4/7 lineup slots AND innings.

The above statement by Therm is 100% untrue.

Corbin has not maxed out any cats but is projected to max out.

The month of September (esp. these last 2 weeks) is always a uh... fun time trying to calculate who gets shut down for the playoffs, shutdown due to lack of playoffs, rotations start to get tweaked to dovetail into playoffs/byes, 40 man roster call-ups taking up regulars positions so that front office can give them a look while they're getting their cup of coffee, &c. &c.

Ah my bad! Pitching will probably be ok, but does mean sitting random dudes here and there or leaving slots empty. Basically 3 games at UTL (for example) that otherwise could have had a dude slotted in there. So counting stats will be a bit suppressed.

Also: I will be away in Germany for the next three weeks, so if there is any fantasy emergencies I might be slow to react.
Will my absence even be noticeable from me team? Not likely.

Congrats Will - you did it!
Between Acuna and the Franco deal, it was one for the books!

Congratulations Will on a great season! Like any of us had a chance against a team with Betts AND Acuna.

I'm happy with my fourth place finish considering my team's horrible start and the injuries to most of my top draft picks. OF and C were a mess all season long, I need to fix that in the draft next year.

After what happened to Manoah - I’m still not dissuaded from the idea that there is some kind of curse on my pitching.

I tried some late season heroics to take Will down but his GLORP was just insurmountable, well done!

Congrats will! I enjoyed my run at the top for awhile but in the end, some of my hot streak players who kept me afloat faded away and a couple of injuries did the rest, not that anyone would overcome the acuna/betts duo.

I guess however for the first time in a few seasons, I'm thoroughly happy with my potential keepers entering next season.

Whew thanks all! Burnesen and bambino really had me sweating at the end, almost as much as my average era of like 9 for most of September did. Now I can finally just... Stop sweating

I'll do a final update on the keeper sheet later today!

congratulations! a dominant performance

frustrating season for me, my offense was pretty great all year but just couldn't get any reliable pitching rotation going. and then the franco trade lol. SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME. whatcha gonna do though.

i have a mere eight players remaining from draft day. six of them are possible keepers.

i was happy with my Freeman trade but it was too late to make a difference. i got wrecked by the early ERA troubles and later OBP troubles, and tried to balance semi-punting saves + holds with going all in with other categories. didn't quite work.

the annual top 10 hitters of the fantasy season

Ronald Acuña Jr.
Freddie Freeman
Matt Olson
Mookie Betts
Shohei Ohtani
Juan Soto
Kyle Tucker
Corey Seager
Corbin Carroll
Marcus Semien

And the top 10 pitchers

Gerrit Cole
Zach Eflin
Spencer Strider
George Kirby
Logan Webb
Zac Gallen
Zack Wheeler
Justin Steele
Kyle Bradish
Luis Castillo

an all-Zachary staff might have taken the chip

How good was Will's team?

I had top #3,6,7 hitters and top #1 & 3 pitchers and he still beat me by something like 10 points. That's kind of unreal in a 13T roto.

i was very fortunate to grab Eflin when i did, what a season that dude had. i'm kinda surprised he was sitting there most of the season, but it was a weird one for pitchers. there weren't a lot of guys who were across-the-board great for the full season, except for Cole.

Hey y'all, Votto No Get Enemy's gonna cut out this year. If it wasn't obvious by my complete lack of engagement, my interest in FBB plummeted to zero last season. Thanks for letting me play along these past few years!

we'll miss you! i hope this means you've also been able to extricate yourself from that truly nightmarish other glorping fantasy league with the family. it was bad enough that i retold your stories to some of the guys in my other league!

also, apparently, this was a lie:

I'll do a final update on the keeper sheet later today!

― Ryan seaQuest (Will M.), Monday, October 2, 2023 1:46 PM (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink

but i was able to do it today.
see here

lemme know if there are any issues! (or wait until next season's thread, when most of you will bother looking at it lol)

godspeed ✖

thanks will

Sorry to hear. I might have to refresh my memory on the other glorping fantasy thread.

I guess will see if any posters are interested in taking over Votto…

the keepers on Votto are p.great! Grayson/Vlad/Oneil, Sandy/Seager/Murphy

ya, some good options there for sure

compared to my rebuilding-a$$ at least

Is there a policy on how are abandoned teams are handled if no takers on adopting it? All players straight back to the draft or is there another way of redistributing?

Also, how do we get gyac to discover and relish the great American pastime of yahoo! Fantasy Baseball?

All players just go back into the draft pool. Any keepers not drafted are shot.

When is the deadline for keeper commitments? I have a potential odd man out situation...

we're not even close. i'll figure it out when i start the new thread in a couple weeks.
deadline was March 19 last year, so expect something close to that.

Thank you Thermo.

for other bookmark-users who forget to check boards on account of all of the bookmarks: new thread