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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

So far today I’ve lost my catcher and starting pitcher

The incredibly jetlagged Billy Childish Bambino

C Tyler Stephenson (K)
1B Ryan Mountcastle/Matt Olson (K)/Tyler Stephenson (K)
2B Tommy Edman/Ryan McMahon (K)
SS Willy Adames/Tommy Edman
3B Matt Chapman/Ryan McMahon (K)
OF Juan Soto (K), Kyle Tucker (K), Anthony Santander, Andrew Benitendi
DH JD Martinez

SP Gerrit Cole, Spencer Strider, Triston McKenzie (IL), Joe Musgrove (IL), Jordan Montgomery, Tony Gonsolin (IL), Jon Gray (plus a bunch of other scrubs, does anyone even read these things?)
RP David Robertson, James Karinchak, Robert Suarez (IL)

NA N/A

I read your things brah

I’ve had top-tier hitting so far this season at least until today. And I believe a single good start from a pitcher.

I feel like some guys have to get used to the pitching clock, he said hopefully

i anticipate kikuchi turning out to be a real good pick this year

That was indeed an impressive outing.

Ohtani got dinged for a pitch clock violation but went aside with the umpire at the end of the inning with his interpreter to try to explain that he hasn’t finished his windup when it was called.

Finally able to sit down and take a look at the post-draft shake out. Send Nootbar's early lead is insane. Everyone is getting steals (except for me, which was the common theme last few years). QS and Wins continue to be as elusive as ever... esp as pitch clock anxiety is absolutely a thing, doubly knowing that baserunners will be running like crazy.

Whomever sent me that goofy trade proposal, sorry if my rejection was a little harsh but I'm not giving up 3 years of a better outfielder for your 1 year rental of a fading star who is ranked 34 spots behind my guy, lol.

j.q i sent you a message on the app

Luzardo with 10 K and 1 run through 7 today! I hadn’t been targeting him in the draft, he was just the best arm out there when I went looking to add a SP - but there’s no way I can keep him, Manoah AND McClanahan! (all three got QS today)

yeah i remembering appreciating that pick-up at that time in the draft. manoah will be a monster, i'm calling it. 7IP 1-hitter! but i'm a jays homer obv

gotcha, francisF. evaluating.

Wow. Our first big trade of the season and you guys are not fucking around!

manoah was my first pitcher selection this year — my league has a QS category so he was especially valuable last season. the projection systems think he overperformed last year but workhorse starting pitching is a scarce commodity

fried was my second SP pick. gotta love when one of your guys gets hurt 4 innings into the season. i ended up sacrificing Ks and maybe some upside for guys who pitch a lot of low ERA, low WHIP innings on good teams.

other guys i ended up with were logan gilbert, freddy peralta, joe ryan, pedro sandoval, hayden wesneski. more Ks here but more instability. gilbert i think could have a huge season tho and he’s another guy who regularly goes deep into games

we’re a keeper league so i’m also stashing brandon pfaadt in the event he comes up relatively soonish this year and pitches as well some of the projections think he could

luzardo is awesome, i love watching him pitch. if he can stay healthy the whole year i think he’ll be a top 10 pitcher in the NL and possibly the entire league.

wait sorry if i’m posting in the wrong thread i’ll get a mod to move me over to the non ILX fantasy thread. it’s kinda hard to tell on zing

i had luzardo last year and wanted to keep him, but was just concerned about his ability to stay healthy.