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

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

Sorry that was meant to be "Jung Like A Jorse" I apologize

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

At least I can trust my old faithful, the aces who have got me thru the season, such as Kevin gausman who is currently on *checks notes* infinity ERA/whip uh oh

impressive pitching line for Billy Childish Bambino yesterday

Ya that’s quite an impressive jump in points there

At the start of May, my team was 90 points behind the leader, I'm now 22 points back.

Most of my top draft picks were injured or were just awful, my offense was a AAA-level bad joke outside of about two players, and most of my keepers got off to slow starts.

I tried to swing a couple of trades, but nothing worked out, in part because some of the players I wanted to offer got injured.

I'm not sure if my team is regressing to the norm after a bad start or playing way over their heads, but either way, it's been fun.

Y'all I just got back from 8 days truly off the grid (zero wifi/cell service) and somehow I'm in 2nd place. WTF is even happening...

homers hit during the HR derby should count

Anyone interested in a non-keeper trade? I need RP help and have a surplus of OF:

Castellanos or Santander for a top 100 RP
Eloy for a top 200 RP
JDM (DH) for a top 50 RP

Seems to be a glut of quality OF right now. Was trying to unload Lowe in my other league - but everyone seems to already be at one-outfielder-too-many already.