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

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.

kinda wish I’d had more keeper options, I have concerns about several of my guys w/r/t health and performance, that’s why I mostly went with a youth movement this season. Probably overdid it!

my team is doing about like i expected - the offense is generally good, the pitching is ... not (somehow marcus stroman is my ace!?!). i had been planning to stream pitching but my first few attempts were disasters and i haven't seen many great options since then.

so i was looking for potential trade partners to swap some of my surplus of young, keeper-eligible batters for a reliable SP or two, but it's tough because everyone already seems to have a fairly large bank of keepers this season. but i'm open to trade offers if anyone wants to send me decent pitching.

I have never had consistent luck streaming SP. just too easy to hit a landmine playing matchups with fringe starters

FT: Matt Olson
ISO: Tier 1 SP

What did you feed your team for breakfast yesterday? Asking for a friend.

Man... I only have a couple days of annecdotal data but I'm thinking the balls could be juiced this season?

It's freaking April! Imagine what July is gonna look like...

Yesterday starters:
3/32, 2R, 1 2B, 0 HR, 0 RBI, .171 OBP, .125 SLG, 0 NSB

Yesterday bench:
4/15, 3R, 0 2B, 2 HR, 4 RBI, .333 OPB, .700 SLG, -1 NSB

my team had 14 RBI yesterday. Adolis Garcia was responsible for 8 of them.

fuck i 100% switched gausman to my roster a couple of days ago but it somehow got reset probably by another move i did after

7 IP / 13 K / 1 BB / 1.00 WHIP wasted. i hate myself

Deactivating Judge 2 activate Harper

Slow descent imminent -- no way is the pitching staff this good.

welp, the worst players in baseball are off to a rough start. morale is low.

i'm in sell/trade mode, thinking of next year. i have a surplus of decent <27 keepers for next year, and a weakness in the 27-29 category.

this spreadsheet is more or less accurate, except that i no longer have the immortal danny jansen, and i do have 20-year-old SP prospect Eury Perez, who i drafted and makes his debut today.

if anyone would like to make a trade, i would like to improve my pool of 27-29 year old keepers, and i have at least one <27 keeper that i could part with as part of that trade. either Alejandro Kirk or Francisco Alvarez needs to go. pretty much anyone in my lineup could be considered for a trade, i just want to improve the team for next year.

if anyone has a trade they want to propose, let me know, otherwise i'll probably propose one of my own in the next few days

whoops, fixed eury! i guess there was another eury perez who at some point played and was born in 1990.

for dropped guys i usually update that about once a month!

even with Turner tanking this season, Will is starting to pull ahead of the pack. i guess Acuna is offsetting that pretty nicely.

Pull ahead of the pack? Omar was in first for a good chunk of the last month my dude. This is the most competitive the league's been in years!

yeah i only stumbled into first for a day or two ago after losing it for a while! its clooooose and last i checked i'm not even first in any individual categories

for

to the trade offerer: good lord i'm tempted. im thinknig about it

I didn’t mean to imply the season is over or anything. Just noticed will has hung into the lead for a bit now and had a three point jump last night. Also this was before my coffee and thought he had a 12 point lead instead of 8.

I am also very glad I didn’t pursue trading away younger guys when I was flirting with 4th place, as my team has now crashed brutally and might just drop Manoah entirely. (Which wil break my heart)

As soon as I dropped Jose Abreu my team started rising up. Clearly he was a bad clubhouse guy.

guess i gotta change my team name

was about to say - it's one of the unspoken rules of fantasy baseball!

also took a flyer on a pitcher because he was against the A's

189.00 ERA, 24.00 WHIP in 0.1 innings oops

Daym. Manoah-esque!

morelike GRoansy amirite?

2 month+ analysis (currently 4th place):
My round #2 pick might skip a start due to cramping
My round #3 pick is on the IL (concussion protocol)
My round #4 pick is due to make his season debut this week (only took 2 months & 1 week of IL residency)
My round #5 pick is on the bench
My round #6 pick in on the bench
My round #7 pick is on the trading block* because I have an all-star outfield (and would be on the bench if there wasn't a PPD)
etc.

(*Check your trading block inbox, esp those of you with a plethora of RPs)

This trade!! Love it. It takes a lot of guts to go all in for the league title by trading away a HOF calibre young player (been there, done that).

bad timing for Alonso to get hurt there

I, myself, remember when Will was pulling away in first place... for a few hours... in early June.

jk lolz.

I initially vetoed this trade but now I think it's fair? Could the commish remove my veto vote so the trade gets pushed through?

why did you veto in the first place? I guess the option is there for a reason but I can’t imagine vetoing a trade that two adults agreed on unless it was comically lopsided.

{narrator: it was comically lopsided}

I don’t think I can change votes?!

And ya. I may have been premature there on calling the league.

And I def feel like that was a steal for Franco (assuming that’s the lopsided ss had in mind)

if it was comically lopsided, why did will accept the offer?

never mind, I am not interested in getting into a pissing match over fantasy baseball. I don’t know if one veto can kill a trade. if it can I will be annoyed bc this was a genuine attempt at a trade that would benefit both parties.

I think it has to be a majority veto to nix the trade. But now I think it's more fair! So please assume I said nothing and let's all go on our merry way.

ya, takes a certain % to tank a trade. usually the veto is for suspected collusion or other antics, but iirc we have tanked lopsided trades before

ok then I’ll chill out about it. sorry about that

idk if it's even the most lopsided trade this year lol. dalton varsho?????????

anyway... fuck

At least this gives me a great idea for my team name for the next month

Mourning Alonso

sorry dude. he should be back in a few weeks hopefully? still a potential difference-maker?

That is a A+ name

sorry dude. he should be back in a few weeks hopefully? still a potential difference-maker?

― na (NA),

Nah I'm just being dramatic. Dats fantasy baseball baby! (Plus I can't resist a 90s Charlotte hornets pun)

For the good of the league I have decided not to use these Terence Trent D'arby-themed team names:

Syndergaard or Damn
Welcome to My Andruw Monasterio
Castellanos Blue
Neither Fishman Nor Flexen

Jung Like A Horse
Eflin4Zaggin