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

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!

3

Too

My plan to come up with my own draft ranking last failed, so I will be basically using my gut. Lol! Looking forward to it!

JUAN!

Corbin Burnesen:

C - JT Realmuto
1B - Pasquantino, Abreu
2B - Drury, Grissom
3B - France, Jung
SS - Swanson, Tatis
OF - Alvarez, Carroll, Bryant, Yoshida
SP - Burnes, Heaney, Kirby, Peralta, Sale, Kluber, Taillon
RP - Minter, Brown (gonna need some RPs….)

C - Salvador Perez
1B - Freddy Freeman, Josh Bell
2B - Brandon Lowe, Jonathan India
3B - Eugenio Suarez
SS - Jeremy Pena, Ezequiel Tovar
OF - Eloy Jimenez, Steven Kwan, Chrisian Yelich, Nick Castellanos, Riley Greene, Garrett Mitchell, Sal Frelick
SP - Max Scherzer, Shohei Ohtani, Merrill Kelly, Framber Valdez
RP - Devin Williams, Alexis Diaz, Daniel Bard

outfield rich but mid, pitching top-heavy and sparse, let's f'in go

I went prospect heavy this year, trying to get prospects who might conceivably contribute this season though.gonna have to make major adjustments as I go mos def.

i was also intending to go more prospect heavy, seeing as how this season is going to be really difficult as a new team. i can't believe how early Jordan Walker went! i was thinking he might be a 5th or 6th round kind of thing.

on the prospects side i did end up with eury perez, franciso alvarez, and hunter greene, who i guess isn't really a prospect anymore but is still really young and will hopefully become really good soon. i was also happy to land alejandro kirk as a potential keeper

Newcombes On deBlok

C | Willson Contreras
1B | Anthony Rizzo
2B | Ozzie Albies
3B, and hopefully keeper legend | Gunnar Henderson
SS | Francisco Lindor (last year I can keep him RIP)
OF | Kyle "Daddy" Shwarbucks, Bryan Reynolds, Brandon "Captain" Nimmo

SP | McClanahan, Manoah, Fried, Cortes, Luzardo, Cabrera

RP | Munoz, Fairbanks, Lange, Montero

bench bats | Merrifield, Miranda, Conforto

total flier NA pick for the hell of it | Kyle Manzardo

said this before, but i like this team a lot. only thing I'm nervous about is that my entire pitching staff is barely out of diapers. Feel like I should have picked Grey instead of Cabrera so I'd have a more proven/boring arm.

xpost _ Kirk was a solid get!

The sheet is up to date!

My team is apparently good except for home runs and rbis. are those important? (caps = keeper)

C - Grandal
1B - Nathaniel Lowe / Vargas
2B - Mookie / Urias
3B - Bohm / Urias
SS - TREA / WANDER
OF1 - ACUNA
OF2 - Mullins
OF3 - O'Neill / Meneses

SP1 - NOLA
SP2 - BIEBER
SP3 - Gausman
SP4 - Morton
SP5 - Bassitt
SP6 - Singer
RP - Jansen / Bednar / Ottavino

Minor league stash - James Wood

giolito shuffle

C - rutschman
1b - alonso, torkelson
2b - semien
3b - arenado, ke'bryan hayes
ss - anderson
of - robert, renfroe, adolis garcia, kelenic, friedl
util - muncy
na - colas

sp - giolito, lynn, ray, stroman, trevor rogers
rp - clase, leclerc, fulmer

in hindsight i'm fairly happy with my results. starting pitching could be bad but i usually end up streaming to some degree. i might have gone a little galaxy brain on my later picks but most of them are keeper-eligible and it's fun to have a couple of gambles going (like kelenic or torkelson finally being good eg)

Will, I really liked the Vargas pick up. Right abouts where i was about to take him.
And again: if you don't finish top 3 with that team, I will mock you without mercy.

Will, I really liked the Vargas pick up. Right abouts where i was about to take him.
And again: if you don't finish top 3 with that team, I will mock you without mercy.

whoops

the question will be can i keep up with the teams that play the daily wire game! cos i am not sure i can!

The sheet is up to date!

oh, thank you for doing that! i hadn't actually gone through and checked for my own players yet, so that is a big timesaver

no worries, i did most of the work years ago and at this point its just adding the new players and their birthdates, which i can grab off of bbref very easily.

@NA: man i really like your team. i was watching your picks (you were on the elbow of the draft right?) and i was just like damn this is a good team. the only pick i didn't like was ke'bryan (latent anti-pirate bias?), but now that i am seeing that he's backing up arenado (and muncy!), im just like damn someone's in it to win it

your jinx game is strong

that team does look good. so does Childish Bambino, Corbin Burnesen and Dascenzo Corbusier – but i think Will's team looks strongest right now.

The number of players I have who are going to be under 27 going into next season means I’m going to have a lot of tough choices to make with regards to keepers. Unless several of them faceplant, which is totally possible.

your jinx game is strong

― na (NA), Sunday, March 26, 2023 5:25 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol i swear it was unintended, i just genuinely liked your picks! i thought after round 7 or 8 "i keep liking NA's picks"

ha i know. i’m pretty happy with my draft but all that matters is results, so we’ll see

Omar - I’m the same. Wasn’t trying to wind up with so many young guys, kinda just happened.
But if midway through the season Cabrera/Luzardo/Manoah and/or Miranda/Manzardo are all on fire, I’ll probably find one or two of them a forever home for a little competitive bump.

I have 8 dudes who’ll be under 27. I feel like I’ll also have to turn on the trade machine at some point, unless I’m totally out of the running in which case I’ll just hold and play out the string.

A Moon-Shaped Pujols

C / RUIZ, K
1B / WALKER, C
2B / MARTE, K
3B / DIAZ, Y
SS / HOERNER, N
OF / BUXTON, B
OF / AROZARENA, R
OF / TROUT, M
UT / SPRINGER, G
BN / VERDUGO / LeMAHIEU / NAYLOR, J

SP / GLASNOW, T
SP / DeGROM, J
SP / RODON, C
SP / COBB, A
RP / DURAN, J
RP / HELSLEY, R
RP / SEWALD, P
P / HOUCK, T

NA / CHOURIO, J
NA / PAINTER, A

If anyone failed to draft a prospect, I've got Painter available for spare parts.
Trout et al are available for your keepers this year, hmu!

Impressive injured list you got there!

Ohtani Dancer In My Hand

C Christian Bethancourt
1B Triston Casas
2B Nick Gordon
3B Alex Bregman
SS Bo Bichette
OF Michael Harris II, Giancarlo Stanton, Jake Fraley
UT Shohei Ohtani
BN Jose Altuve, Chris Taylor, Shea Langeliers

SP Dylan Cease, Logan Webb, Blake Snell, Dustin May, Jose Berrios, Brandon Woodroof, Cristian Javier
RP Evan Phillips, Hector Neris, Seranthony Dominguez

My bench is weak and I somehow failed to draft a decent catcher, but at least the pitching should be good!

not a fan of yahoo showing every single player as not playing today

at least every single batter

It makes looking at my roster incredibly stressful

Same thing happened opening day last year too iirc