Here’s what I’ve said previously about Aaron Hicks, “Open Up and Buy AH, because owning Aaron Hicks is Nothin’ But A Good Time!  Also, a good time is searching any girl’s name from Rock of Love with your parental controls turned off.  Okay, I have a few Bee Tee Dubs here.  Unless you have a child, you don’t set parental controls on your TV.  You can filter what you see without magically stumbling on porn.  The internet though?  You need parental controls on it, no matter if you’re home, at work, 12 years old, 64 years old, at school or on the john.  You can Google something as innocuous as “Persian cucumber” with no parental controls and all hell breaks loose in your search results. “Oh em gee, I just wanted a recipe for a cucumber salad! And, wow, I didn’t know Omar Sharif had so many nude scenes.”  Bee tee dubya II, we’re due for a terrible 80’s hair band renaissance.  Someone needs to do a cover of a Poison song.  Bee tee dubya III, there is no bee tee dubya III.  Bee tee dubya IV, I have this nugget in my brain that says, even though I was only 14 years old, I knew how awful Poison was at the time.  Like, when they did Your Mama Don’t Dance, a big part of me knew they were absolutely terrible, even then.  Any hoo!  Hey, any hoo’s initials are Aaron Hicks.  Coinkydink?  Thinks not.  He’s on a 162-game pace of 25 HRs, 15 SBs and a .260 average.  Of course, that doesn’t matter.  We just want a hot player at this point, and, on our 7-day Player Rater, he’s near top 25, and should be owned everywhere.” And that’s me quoting me! Yes, the royal we (which is me wearing a Burger King crown) have been here before, but every year it’s the same story with Hicks, until he gets hurt. Hey, he’s more predictable than that hair band renaissance apparently! For now, Hicks is healthy, and should be owned. Anyway, here’s some more players to Buy or Sell this week in fantasy baseball:
BUY
John Hicks – I’m hoping when we’re going around the table at Thanksgiving dinner, my family turns to me, and I lower my head, saying, “Thank you for giving Hicks catcher eligibility the day before Miggy was injured for the year so I could start Hicks at catcher while he played 1st.” And my mother will cry, knowing how much that means to me, and I’ll look at her, saying with my eyes, “It’s okay, mother.”
Tom Murphy – I’ve often thought about how much a name matters. You don’t get much more boring than a name like Tom Murphy. Does that factor into enthusiasm for him? Not sure. Either way, Murphy could hit 15 homers in a half year, and is in Coors, so you always take the over on any power projection.
Jake Bauers – This is the saddest 1st base Buy pool we’ve had in a long time. I nearly listed Niko Goodrum, but then realized I just want to be good and drunk if I need a 1st baseman off waivers right now.
Ryon Healy – Just gave you my Ryon Healy fantasy last week. It was written while wrapped in aluminum foil so aliens couldn’t read my thoughts.
Ketel Marte – I have a (not so) secret love for Diamondbacks — Peralta, Au Shizz, Lamb, Owings, Marte — and a lot of times it’s unwarranted. Marte could fall into the unwarranted camp but he has been hot. A hot, unwarranted camp in Arizona doesn’t sound topical at all.
Adalberto Mondesi – He’s so fast he just ran into your room, mussed your hair and ran back out and you didn’t notice until your co-worker asks, “Hey, Bill, new hairdo? You look like a member of Flock of Seagulls.”
Matt Duffy – If I were a Rays fan, I’d be encouraged by Duffy, and, if I lived in Tampa, I’d go to a Hooters for dinner and say hello to my cousin who works there for the past four years while she figures herself out and say I have a good friend who works at a Tampa-area Tilted Kilt and she should apply there, they’re classier.
Johan Camargo – Who’s going to be the next Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion? Johan Camargoadamsiswadeboggsgirlfriend. Of course, that will mean Camargoadamsiswadeboggsgirlfriend struggles for another four years. See you in 2022! Though, in deeper leagues, he has been hot. Like Wade Boggs always tried to tell you!
Nick Senzel – After dealing with another case of vertigo, which is when you talk like Jimmy Stewart incessantly and chase after a blonde girl who wants nothing to do with you. By the way, watch Rear Window or Vertigo through the prism of #Metoo. Yo, Jimmy Stewart, stop perving! Any hoo! Senzel is back to doing his thing in Triple-A and really should be playing for the Reds, though I have no idea where, I guess Peraza goes to the bench. Well, that’s for another time, right now just stash Senzel.
Franklin Barreto – I just want to see Barreto face Lasagna, and then I’m going to dream I’m in Naples with Diane Lane and will hang a Do Not Disturb sign from my door for three minutes.
Joc Pederson – He’s cooled off a bit, but not enough to not own. What, you can’t dig on this Joc? Hehe.
Kevin Kiermaier – He feels like a movie that receives rave reviews from critics, then you see it and you’re like, “So, Blythe Danner leaning her head out the window signifies she feels liberated and I saw this for what? I mean, I can dig on her Cougar-ness, but I never want to see another movie with her or that John Krasinski guy calling someone mom or going to a funeral.” That’s Kiermaier. A lot more people will tell you he’s good vs. him actually being good.
Scott Schebler – No one wants Schebler, so I’m gonna list him and move on, but before I move on like I just promised you I would, on our Player Rater, Schebler is a top 50 outfielder. Above Ryan Braun, Puig, Polanco, Billy Hamilton, DeShields, Yoenis and Conforto, to name a few.
Leonys Martin – …continuing from the Schebler blurb, Leonys is the 37th best outfielder.
Randal Grichuk – As I said this morning, Grichuk is in this Buy column, so don’t call me a liar!
Mark Melancon – The Giants’ bullpen is elementary, my dear Tony Watson! That element is Boron, only it’s spelled Mboron, and the B is silent. If I’m being honest, I don’t know who’s closing in San Fran. It could be Sam Dyson still, Watson, Mark Melancon, Will Smith or Bochy putting the moron in Moronta. Melancon feels the safest right now, but that could change by tomorrow.
Joakim Soria – He’s the White Sox closer. I have no shares, and no personal stake here. In case you didn’t know, I’m not Joakim.
Hector Rondon – I know owning an Astros reliever who Hinch randomly uses in the 7th inning feels like taking a date to Benihana just for your buddha mug collection, but, guess what, I have a Benihana mug collection, so what’s your point?!
Yoshihisa Hirano – Did he add an extra “hi” into his name recently? “Yo, Hirano, you’re so friendly you should add an extra ‘hi’ into your name!” Through a translator, “I give extra ‘hi’ to your mother last night after I get in that–” Hey! So, Boxberger is sideways — I don’t want no more f**king Merlot! — and Bradley is likely staying in the Hader role, so Hirano could move into the closer role.
Seranthony Dominguez – True story alert! Gabe Kapler bought a carpool mannequin and is hoping to get him saves before the season is over. So, Seranthony may or may not get saves, but his ratios and Ks are worth owning in every league.
Andrew Suarez – This is a Stream-o-Nator call, like the call it makes to the Elton John Fan Club Headquarters to see if they will sing Sad Songs Say So Much to it.
Seth Lugo – This is also a Stream-o-Nator call. “Do you know ‘I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues?'”
SELL
Daniel Murphy – Taking a page from Anime Grey’s video at the top of the page with this Sell, and going against conventional wisdom. Well, not against conventional conventional wisdom. One conventional, as in, “You sell guys when they’re going well.” ‘Sell-well’ but this is a ‘Sell…well.’ 2nd well as in resignation not satisfactory. I’m painting myself into a logic corner today! What I’m saying is the Buy/Sell tool says Murphy is a buy. One of the biggest Buys, actually, said the mansplainer. I’m saying sell Murphy low. I’d go to the Fantasy Baseball Trade Analyzer and see what you might be able to get for him. No, don’t sell him for an overnight stay at an Airbnb at Charlie Rose’s oceanfront bungalow.
Kiermaier over Bauers in a UTIL Slot for a 15 team 6×6 OPS?
I’d try Bauers
@Grey: Thank you kindly. Have a lovely weekend Grey.
Ah, thanks, knucks
No love for Descalso with his .250 ISO this year?
Have to imagine he’s gonna turn into a pumpkin one of these days
@Grey:I read he was a swing plane guy this year. So add Chris Taylor and drop Descalso? SB not a factor.
I’d want Taylor, Descalso joined the revolution, huh?
Have you checked in on Holland recently? His last two appearances since his call up from AAA have been pristine. Still like Hirano over him for speculative saves?
Thanks
I’d go Hirano, Norris has been fine, no?
@Grey: Norris has been fine but if Holland keeps turning in 2K 0H 0BB innings I bet he’s back in the mix before long.
*now watch him implode
I’d hold for now
Needed pitching consistency, so I traded Lugo for Rich Hill. Good move?
Consistency? Sorry, don’t mean to laugh, but sounds fine
@Grey: LOL i know…. just figured Hill was better, when healthy.
thanks Grey!
Ha, no problem
Soroka going back on the DL. Hold or let go in a 10 team h2h league?
Ugh, let go
Every rose has it’s thorn on a fantasy baseball team Grey! So one of mine is Moncada.. he’s my only bench bat. With 25 moves left in a 12tm H2H redraft weekly league, you dropping Moncada to pick up Hicks or hold…
Haha… I’d hold my moves
I hope you’re right, Grey. I’ve got both Senzel and Hirano on my DC team. I’d love to bench Aledmys Diaz, the f’n scrub I’m forced to start now due to DL pile-ups.
Meanwhile, Bryce Harper leading off, Soto cleaning up. Hmmmn…
Ass-veil and Leury both starting for ChiSox.
Ass-veil!
Hirano over Watson, Cishek?
Nah
Better pick up for saves/ratios – Romo or Melancon? Thanks.
I’d try Melancon
Not many SP recs – u don’t really believe in Lugo? here is my team. I need some SP help. 12 team pts league. 10 pickups left for the season:(15pts for W, 7pts for S, 1pt for SO)
P:M Estrada
P: J Gray
P: L Serevino
P: B Hand
P: R Lopez
P: S Menaea
P: J Musgrove
B: C ARcher
B: J ordorizzi
DL: Yu darvish
soroka, Loaisiga, Holland, S Miller, A Sanchez, are also available
You’re screwed
Wha’ happened?
@Grey: 10 moves left with that staff and those options…
I believe in Lugo enough to go one start at a time, and wouldn’t use one of my 10 moves on him
Is Nimmo a sell high in dynasty or do you believe in some close approximation of his current value?
Depends what you can get, but likely a sell high, he was iffy at best coming into the year
Thanks Grey. I should be thrilled to get someone like Wil Myers or Eric Hosmer, agree?
Thrilled is relative
Truly
I’ve got Grandal at Catcher. I’m getting very little production from the Catcher spot since he takes a lot of time off. With the slim pickings on the waiver wire, would it be crazy to drop Grandal & leave the position open?
@James Bolger: I’ve done it before. Depends on format.
Hold Grandal
#shallowleagueproblems:
My roster is currently:
C- Grandal
1B – Abreu
2B – Merrifield
3B- Rendon
SS- Lindor
OF- Betts, Rosario, Desmond
UTIL- Shaw
B- Gallo
SP- Corbin, Bauer, Severino, Rodon, Teheran, Buehler
RP- Treinen, Boxberger, Dominguez, Barraclough, Greene, Cishek
DL- Archer
Cishek’s spot is where I flip flop between chasing saves and stream a starter.
Based on my roster, would I be better off with Aaron Hicks and Nick Senzel over any of these guys?
Also, should I swap out the slumping Grandal for John Hicks? Maybe a Hicks + Hicks pickup?
@William Hung: If it’s that shallow, I’d only own Corbin, Bauer Severino, stream the rest/open up roster spots
@Cram It: 10 teamer – i forgot to mention that we do have a 6 move limit per week, so streaming is restricted somewhat
@William Hung: I hear ya. But I’d probably rather use the moves on streaming than cycling through catchers or bench bats or back and forth save chasing.
This is true by Cram
@Cram It: Yeah good idea
I’d try Hicks over Grandal, can’t hurt
Double Hicks is too much for any man!
Hey Grey – in a weird scenario where I have 3 catchers in a 2 catcher weekly league. I’d been rolling with Grandal, Flowers, but snuck a $1 Tom Murphy grab as an upside play.
I don’t need to drop anyone yet, but as a Boxberger owner, I’m thinking about spending $1 on Hirano as a handcuff just in case he’s pumpkining.
Would you drop one of those catchers to do so? My other options would be to not handcuff or drop someone like Caleb Smith or Peraza, who I’d rather not drop.
My long term plan is to go back to 2 catchers only on my roster of course, but I have no idea who I’d be dropping of the 3 catchers. Grandal’s been bad, but he’s still hitting for power and in the 4 hole often. Flowers is every other day, but won’t kill you anywhere (top 12 C doing the same thing last year), and Murphy could be legit good (or not).
Thanks!
@Duda Want to Build a Snowman?: Also re: you blurb about Tom Murphy, totally agree. If only his name was Tom Keeboom like that other random catcher!
Hahaha
Yeah, lose Flowers for Hirano…
@Grey: Thanks!
No problem
@Duda Want to Build a Snowman?: Always short and sweet with the catcher questions. *puts gun to head, pulls trigger*. Hi Duda!
Is it safe to drop Dyson then? I also have Melancon and want to pick up Conforto to boost my OF. My only other option is to drop Roark.
Yeah, drop Dyson
Hirano blurb made me LOL
Aw, peace, we’re buds lambda’ing
I picked up the red hot Senzel a couple of weeks ago. He actually called me up. Thought I was Kim Novak and asked me what color underwear I was wearing. I guess the vertigo isn’t completely gone.
Damn disappointing to hear, is he seeing Hitchcock cameos too?
When I read the lede I thought, “Is this a Poison reference?” Within the first few sentences my best suspicions were confirmed. hahaha
Well done.
“Every “José” has its thorns…”
Only Guillen has a few more
Precisely;-)
Thanks!
“Every José has its thorns”
Matt Carpenter or Hosmer rest of year? Also curious as to why you think Murphy is a sell… no production so far, sure, but he’s only been back a little while. He’s playing first base and I feel like that entire Nats lineup is full of buy lows (Turner, Harper, Strasburg, etc.). Thoughts?
Hosmer… Murphy’s dinged up pretty bad is my guess, knees are tricky especially on an older player
Fair. I just traded a 10th round pick in a keeper league for Carp. Hosmer is on my bench, driving me nuts with that garbage lineup. But I’ll hold both. Thanks!
No problem
Senzel homered twice in one game, yesterday.
Nice!
Bird or Aguilar ROS? Don’t know how much longer I can wait for Bird to heat up.
Aguilar
Good afternoon Grey,
Trying to snag a couple potential closers for after the all star break. In which order should I target Hicks, Jimenez, and Yates? Anyone else I should be monacling? Thanks. Enjoy the weekend.
Yates, Hicks, you too!
I am not sure if this is a silly question, but…
10 Team HTH Keeper League:
Drop Schoop for D Murphy?
Go for it
Hi Grey,
I’ll be stashing Soroka on the DL, but the pattern that seems to developing with him so far isn’t encouraging.
Who would you pick out of the following to fill his spot? Loaisiga, Eflin, Peralta, VV, Bieber. I realize most of these guys for whom you have to go start-to-start, playing the matchups.
Thanks for all the great work you do!
Yeah, start to start… Can try Bieber for his next
@Grey: It may sound strange, but the league I’m in discourages heavy streaming. Would you also pick Bieber as the longer term add?
Nah
@Grey: Quintana, ugh. Time to sell low on Quintana or ride things out? Not even sure what I’d be able to get for him…
How about Corbin tho?
I’d ride Quintana, unless could get a decent price
@Grey: Yah, looking at the trees and not the forest tonight, it seems I should have traded Quintana instead of Corbin! Blech.
Do you think Posey plus Quintana is too high a price for Snell?
Seems a bit high, but could work out
@Grey: @Grey: Actually, Ima run out and grab superNova /s
Haha
@Thunder Thighs: heavy streaming… is that what happens after a prostate exam?
Haha
@Fogimon: Haha. While I am too young to know, I hear from my father that it is indeed something like that.
Haha
Thanks, Grey! Lugo over Bieber? Assuming the Beibs bc upside?
Sure, can try Biebs, pretty much coin flip
GREY 3x!
Schebler or Trumbo ROS?
I like that Schebler is LH, that way I just play him versus right handed pitchers, but I’ve seen what Trumboni can do when he is HOT.
This would be for UTIL, matchups, schmotato, etc. purposes. My outfield is pretty stacked.
Thanks!
Trumbo while hot
Who should I add out of Stroman, hirano, gausemen, gray, Tyson ross, hammels, Teheran, odorizzi, Freeland, Musgrove, bucholz, Trevor Williams, Chatswood, eflin ,mike montgomery, montas, estrada,?
I have Thor, wacha, and now saroka on the d.l. But I am 50 innings above my projected innings limit. So I don’t need the pitching right away. With Senzel, and Jimenez available I could grab one for now and see what happens, and wait on a pitcher for a couple weeks. Jimenez for saves if there’s a trade, but Senzel mainly in looking at since I’d be able to keep him next year for $5.
Just hold Senzel for a few if you don’t need the pitching
Grey,
I get Kershaw back tomorrow. Who should I drop to activate him? My choices are:
CC
Bieber
Loaisiga
Pivetta
Lasagna
loaisiga it is thanks
No problem
Hey Grey,
I don’t know if I’ve ever read one of your Buy columns where it seemed like you were luke warm on everyone. Maybe I’m reading into it, but seems more of a “might as well Buy” column.
A) Osuna’s supposedly gonna get his suspension tonight. Any chance Tepera can step in and serve it for him?
B) Chris Davis is making his first start in 10 day, and it would be the most Chris Davis thing ever to homer three times. Then, of course, to never get another hit the rest of the season.
C) Alcides Escobar moving to CF is a good start, but my hopes is that the plan is to slowly keep moving farther back game by game until he’s sitting in the bleachers where he belongs.
D) Burying the lede: Hanley Ramirez is part of a Federal & State investigation! All I can think is he ordered steroids through the mail? Or kidnapped someone? That explains a lot.
Have a great weekend!
Ha, some weeks they’re less excited than others… I mean how excited can one get for Melancon? A. Ha B. Totally, haha C. Ha, nice D. Hearing cocaine — you too!
@Grey: Haha! That’s one HR for Davis. Two more to go…
Oh Jesus, so true… then he’ll go 0-for-125
OBP league….
Start Haniger @ Wright or Gallo @ Romero?
Thanks!
Haniger
drop Schoop 4 Barreto?
Sure
BARRETO again, thanks Grey, i picked him up to fill in for Segura!!!
Nice!
Should I trade Marte, yelich, or Myers for Harper? I need power. Maybe Votto for harper? If they say no to marte then yelich, then myers. How would you rank Votto, yelich,Marte, Myers?
It’s a keeper so Harper was $60 or something so hes 61$ to keep my marte is only$19, Votto will only cost $29 to keep next year..
Myers, Marte or Yelich works for me
Not baseball related, well unless Sano is reading and ready for a dinner invitation.. but what is Grey’s meal of choice if he had time on a lazy weekend in So Cal…
Whereabouts?
And what kind of food?
@Grey: Nah I’m not in Cal just asking if you were cooking or ordering your plate of choice
Ah… I’m in Palm Springs this weekend, think I’m going for crabs
Hanley being Hanley.
Hanley being Narcos
Hanley is Keyser Soze!
[Hanley leaving the Sox office after getting DFA’d, beginning with a limp . . . that slowly disappears into a walk that only a 30-SB speed score could do]
While I feel like it’s going to be a PED or #metoo thing . . . can you imagine if it’s something COMPLETELY random?
I’m hoping for something totally insane… Hanley Weinstein!
@Grey: Hanley’s the Russian operative behind the election hack.
Hanley killed Kennedy!
@Grey: Lee Hanley Oswald???
Haha, well, yeah!
@Grey: Tom Arnold releases Pee Tape of Hanley and Trump.
In 2018, anything’s possible
Hey Grey,
Do you like Nola ROS, or are too many regression fairies lining up?
Thanks
I like Nola a lot
I asked a similar question yesterday, but the owner won’t trade bellinger
12 man obp, total bases, and slugging percentage league, and holds
Would you trade K. Davis, Upton, Shaw, and Cueto
for Correa, T. Bauer, Brantley, Betances,?
My team
C Hicks
1b Goldy
2b c. taylor
3b devers
ss bogaerts
of harper, upton, k. davis
util – rosario, soto
bench – shaw, braun, m. taylor
That works for me, hopefully Brantley holds it together
Shane Bieber trying to regain respectability on the family name
Haha, gonna flip out when he faces a Gomez
@Grey: no one gets in the way of Bieber fever 2018!
Haha
Grey! Nick Senzel pulled from tonight’s game in 1st inning, and Scooter Gennett not starting for the Reds. a scooter trade on the way? a return of The Vertigo? only time will tell!
Oh my goodness!
Nah finger injury
Add Melancon over Familia or Giles?
Giles
Who do you like more RoS: Eduardo Rodriguez, Rodon or Jack Flahrety? Do you see either as must add in a roto league with 7 moves for entire year?
They are not must adds
Grey,
What kind of production do you expect from Yu Darvish, Kris Davis and Daniel murphy ROS?
Kris is a 40+ homer hitter, Murphy is a replaceable hitter, Yu is hurt
Is Walker Buehler worth using a DL spot at this point?
Ur the best!! ?
I would if it was between him and no one
@Grey:
I have Buehler, Carrasco, Darvish on the DL…
Hi Grey, 10 tm h2h pts, for ROS – pls rank Jay, Choo, Mazara, Castellanos
Thank-you!
Castellanos, Maza
I am trying to add one more good SP to my rotation. Here are the list of pitchers who are probably available to make a trade for. Which three would you target?
Suter, R. Hill, Syndergaard, Happ, Hamels, Keuchel, Bumgarner, Lester, Archer, Clevinger, Greinke, G. Gonzalez, Freeland, Corbin, C. Martinez, Newcomb, Quintana, E. Rodriquez, Gray, Roark, Flaherty, M. Fulmer, M. Gonzales, Darvish
Here are the list of guys who I can send in a trade. Who would you send off?
Didi, Pollock, L. Cain, S. Marte, R. Ray, Kershaw, B. Hand or C. Kimbrel
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Pollock and Kershaw for Noah and Bum? Noah and Clevinger? Noah and Newcomb?
10 team OBP h2h limited season moves
Cervelli and Soroka just hit the DL (joining Archer and Acuna…yay!), need to drop one of Cervelli or Soroka to pick up another catcher.
1) Drop Cervelli or Soroka?
2) Catcher replacement: Grandal, Gomes, Hicks, Stassi, Murphy
Right now I’m leaning towards dropping Soroka between the two. If Cervelli comes back quickly, he’s probably too valuable, especially in an OBP format. I feel like Grandal is the safe conservative move, but he’s been pretty bad lately, even in OBP format.
Thanks!
Thanks!
1. Soroka 2. Grandal
H/H points…ROS. W Myers or Soto
Soto
Getting quite agrivatted with Boxberger. Do you think he loses the job soon to Bradley/Hirano? Should I hold Boxberger or pick up one of the two mentioned or look otherwise to players such as Rondon/Tepara?
I’d go Hirano as mentioned in the post you’re commenting on
@Grey 12 team, 5×5 roto
Starting Pivetta @Was tomorrow? ($-5.9)
Is Soroka a drop or try to hold? His MRI came back clean.
Carl Edwards Jr. looks to be returning soon – do you think he will get a shot at the 9th?
Best bench bat with emphasis on SB – Gardner, Margot, Polanco, Hicks or Jon Jay?
By the time Edwards is ready Morrow will be back… Gardner
Can drop Soroka, I wouldn’t start Pivetta
Who do you like moving forward, C Frazier or Kyle Tucker (assuming a call up in the next couple of weeks)?
14T OBP bench bat
Thanks
Tucker
Out of these three MI, who is contributing more in September? Thanks!
DeJong, Semien, Marte
DeJong
Blah… Senzel will have season-ending surgery on tendon in his finger.
Damn, I jinxed him
Hey yo, Grey! This my 12 tm h2h 5×5 as you can see in really healthy especially Pitching wise. (Sarcasm). Was throwing out trades trying to Sell Murphy. Got this counter:
Ozuna and Morton for Dozier and Happ..What you think? He also has Albies. Not sure how much this offer helps me..
C- Zunino
1b-Abreu
2b- Murphy
3b- JoRam
Ss- Trea
OF Yelich, Ozuna, Puig
Bench- Chris Taylor, Joc
SP- Bum, Morton, Pivetta, Newcomb, Flaherty
RP- Rondon, Tepara, Watson, Cishek
DL- Archer, Tanaka,
Bench, Wacha, Buhler
Ozuna side, it’s fair
In a 15 team roto and need the DL spots – is it crazy to dump Ohtani the pitcher? Can’t see a scenario where he pitches again this year and I wouldn’t keep him. Other options are Cahill, A.Reyes (great round ref) or Soroka.
Thanks grey
You can lose Soroka or Cahill
Yahoo 5×5 12 team, H2H
Looking for a new backup 3B for UT spot:
1) Devers for Dietirch and Desmond?
or
2)Devers for Ian Desmond and Dietrich?
or
3) Neither
@Hepcat13: Also, thanks!
1. Desmond 2. This is the same
@Grey: Sorry, 2) is supposed to be Hoskins and Dietrich for Devers
I’d prefer Hoskins over all names listed
Good morning, Grey! Is Godley still just a streamer based on matchups, or has he turned a corner as an ownable SP4 in an RCL? Might I do just as well if I continue to stream?
Thanks!
Morning! Streamer
@Grey: Ugh. Joey Gallo just left with hamstring tightness. If he ends up hitting the DL, he’ll become the 7th currently DL’d guy on my RCL. Maybe next year we should have 5 DL slots? Just saying, if this is the new athlete–brittle joints and tight hamstrings–we need to accept it. They have one job: be in shape. And it’s not like we’re asking them to get their blood spun or pack on ten pounds of muscle. How bout a little light stretching every day? Some semi-hot yoga? Sheesh.
Haha, yeah, just saw that myself… Who is going to do all the striking out on my team now?
@Grey: Chris Davis using Max Fischer voice: “I’m sorry, did someone say my name?”
Ha!
@Grey: Hey Grey, would you drop Buxton for Manny Margot? I’ve been holding tight, against all reason, and he’s almost back so I feel dumb. Others I could drop are DeJong, F. Peralta, D German, and recently picked up Kyle Tucker. Thanks!
@GrassyKnollRedding: Oh, or Boxberger. If he’s toast.
Yeah, constant struggle with Box
Oh man, lose Buxton… For anyone… Sure, grab Margot
Trying to trade one of my end of the rotation starters for a RP. H2H league, 21 games up in the standings so focus is on September playoffs. Holds and saves league.
My RP staff is Britton, Herrera, BearClaw and Parker. Ugh.
. My SP staff is Max, MadBum, Bauer, Morton, Hendricks, Pivetta, Wood.
1. Between Wood and Pivetta, who would you part with first?
2. He has Familia, Davis, Norris, Rodney, Knebel. Top two to target?
3. Hirano is best on the wire. If trades don’t pan out, would you grab him? If so, who is the drop?
1. Wood 2. Davis, Familia 3. Yes, Herrera
@Grey:
I was on the same page as you for 1 and 2. That gives one confidence!
Surprised me on #3 as I think Herrera gets a ton of holds moving forward. Herrera versus Wood as my drop is my dilemma then. Nothing easy LOL. Thanks!
Yeah, tough call
@Grey:
appears Herrera is trying to make your point tonight!
Ha, yup
Parker or Romo for saves going forward?
@Josh:
Oh and one more. Drop Lucchesi for Bieber?
Thanks
Sure
Parker
16 team h2h. have nunez to backup 2B/SS (segura/gone varnish in those). nunez losing playing time to BROCK HOLT! of all people and wasn’t stealing all year anyway. who’s best out of:
d.travis (1.036 OPS last 2 weeks in 28 at bats)
spangs
“don’t yell his name out in public” kike H
Haha, I’d try Travis
I think I’m a Bielieber. He did get a Dan Pants head line FGS.
To be sure, Freddy Peralta, Bieb, or Fernando Romero ROS??
Also, what are the Pros so Far on Jurickson, now that Elvis is back in the building?
Try Biebs — Profar will play, Falafel won’t
16 teamer with holds and saves sold separately. have bradley/boxy/raisel/steck/strop/kelly/n.ramirez (CLE) and cingrani in DL slot. drop ramirez or strop for romo (pretty clearly the closer now).
Ramirez
Kyle Tucker or Vlad ROS?
Bieber or Fulmer ROS?
Thanks
Tucker….Bieber
Limited moves for a 12 team H2H QS not wins, would you drop ASuarez and Musgrove for Maeda and Biebs?
I would
Need QS/ERA/WHIP, and Nola’s owner loves young prospect..
6 keepers league and I have candidates already.
Tim Anderson + Acuna Jr. for Nola, agree?
Acuna alone could be worth more than Nola
@ Grey 12 team, 5×5 roto
Would you trade Abreu and McCullers for Goldy?
Abreu side
Fuck the Expanse just made me cry
Which episode? Or was it the belter accent that just bothered you so deeply?
@Grey: season 2 at the end when they could only take 52 on the Solambulist (sleepwalker in French, from Montreal remember). Fuck.
Anyway meanwhile Goliath has some sort of amputation fetish antagonist? This is retarded. What in the fuck.
Ah, yeah, re: Expanse, that was good stuff… Be interested in hearing what you think of the 2nd half of the next season…
Haha re: Goliath, yeah, I didn’t want to spoil anything, I don’t like Duplas either (who plays him) and, well, if the amputation fetish was the only issue with the season, you’ll see…
@Grey: I probably won’t. I am very picky and will probably bail on further Goliath.
re: The Expanse tears. Wine probably had something to do with the over reaction. But watching all those misfits left there to die while murmuring reassuring nothings to each other in terrible accents…choked me up.
Holden’s character is kinda grating. He seems a little wooden in his persona. Amos FTW tho. And the brown pilot dude is aight.
@Peacecoast: correction: Somnambulist. What kind of idiot brags about knowing a word in another language then spelling it wrong
Haha, I wasn’t going to correct you
Prolly right call on Goliath, let’s just say amputation stuff is not the worst of it… Alex! I like Amos and Alex a lot, Naomi grates on me
@Grey: she can grate her pelvis on me
Dirty!
Berrios or Kershaw ROS? Some sites rank Berrios as a top 20 SP.
@Perfect Game: dude it’s Clayton Kershaw
I know, but he’s not the same Kershaw. Will see after some starts if he can regain his form.
@Perfect Game: kershaw suddenly isn’t when healthy a less than top 20 SP. appears healthy now.
Kershaw
10 team redraft
Just got offered Altuve and Nova for my Trout. My team below:
c-Ramos
1-Jesus Aguilar
2-Rizzo
3-Rendon
SS-T Anderson
OF-Trout, OZUNA, Haniger
UTL-Bellinger, Devers
Bench-Whit Merrfield
DL-Acuna
SP-A Wood, J Gray, Heaney, C-Mart, Porcello, Wacha, Folty
DL-Archer, Yu Darvish
Take this trade right?!
Thanks man!
Trout side
10 team h2h OBP limited season moves (budget)
Joe Mustgrove has been rough lately, thinking about making a change. Opponent next week will have one more scheduled starter than I have, so I was thinking about picking up a 2 start pitcher for next week, however none of these options are super inspiring. What should I do?
1) Hold onto to Musgrove for his next start (@SD) this Friday and then reassess and then make a move (the rest of his schedule is pretty rough: LAD, WAS, MIL).
2) Drop now for one of these 2 start options:
Montgomery @LAD, MIN
Montas @DET, CLE
Lugo PIT, @MIA
Gausman SEA, LA
Lucchesi @TEX, PIT
Ross @TEX, PIT
Lynn @CHW, @CHC
3) Or just pick up best pitcher available:
Stroman: DET, NYM, @ATL
Bieber: @STL, @KC, CIN, NYY
Manaea: @DET, SD, @HOU, SF
Gibson: @CHW, @MIL, BAL, TB
Matz: PIT, @TOR, PHI, WAS
Guerra: @CIN, MIN, ATL, @PIT
C Smith: NYM, TB, MIL, PHI
Thanks!
Think you should be streaming… Lugo
Looking to pickup saves in a keeper league – deal Buehler for Jansen? Thanks.
@hankg: my guess is the answer is “find cheaper saves”. i know i myself would never trade a top 3ish SP prospect (who also is better than kershaw at same development time in MLB) for any closer.
Sure
16 team roto dynasty with holds, K/9, K/BB, relief appearances,relief wins added. i have:
rivero, minter, hader, ollie perez, britton, fields, kela. colome and kelly dropped today by somebody. add either over anybody i have?
Kelly over Oliver Perez
Couple questions below for you sir for my 12 teamer, H2H league, saves and holds are categories. I am in first 21 games up but the second place team is good and will be a challenge once he gets past his injuries….Richards, Cespedes, Wacha all on his DL.
He wants Britton thinking he will be a closer somewhere. I have doubts about that
C- Gattis. CI – Freeman, Santana, Eugenio. MI – Dee, DeJong, Bregman, OF – Trout, Mazara, Peralta, Rosario, Jo Ma. Util- Nelly Bench: Seager.
SP: Max, MadBum, Morton, Bauer, Hendricks, Pivetta, Wood. RP – BearClaw, Britton, Parker, Herrera
Please weigh in on these potential offers. Thank you.
1. Britton for Devenski?
2. Britton, Seager, and Hendricks for Marte and Devenski?
3. Britton and Wood for Devenski and Ottavino?
1. Devenski 2. Marte who? 3. Devenski
@Grey:
Sterling. Sorry. I need steals since Dee’s toe injury.
Hearing now Astros want Britton. If true, he has to be their closer, right? I Don’t trust Rondon.
Marte side of the trade, Britto would be their closer, I wouldn’t trust Britton either
@Grey:
True! Thank you
No problem
Should I start pivetta against Washington today?
Nah
How do you feel about this Cleveland pitcher bieber?
Agree with Pants https://razzball.com/then-i-saw-those-ks-now-im-a-belieber/
Mike Montgomery moved up to start today.
Works for my team!
@VinWins: something with chatwood having knocked up somebody roughly 9 months back. poor bastard.
Haha
SON loves Loaisiga @ PHI.
They’ve been pretty hot in the last week though. Going to guess it’s no go?
If I owned Lasagna, I’d start him there
If we don’t trust Pivetta on the road v Nats, should I then look to move him now in a H2H league? During the playoffs, I won’t have many opportunities to sit SPs just because they are on the road. My guess is that I can get a guy like Knebel or Norris to shore up my pen.
Thanks for all the answers today. Using up my weekly allotment here.
Trade him for a closer? Sure, if you need one
Batty calll….need HRs and doubles. Happ at Romano or Colorado Murphy at home v Caleb Smith?
Murphy
Believe in buxton second half? Trade pham for him?
No way
@Grey: Do you believe he will have a good second half tho? Good buy low candidate? I chose Pham cuz he pissed me off, a lot of K’s lately.
Dude will probably want a keeper tho for Buxton, he is in 11th place.
Can buy low, but not with Pham, I’d buy way low, member him in The Wire?
@Grey: who
@peacecoast: Weybey!
@Grey: oh damn Wee Bey! I haven’t thought about him in years. I miss that show. I never watch shows again, sorta makes me sad to even think about watching something twice. You?
Haha, nah, doesn’t make me sad, you’re feeling very emotional today, huh? I’ve watched The Wire like 4 times
@Grey: What makes me emotional is the total lack of any SB on my team for the last 2 fucking weeks. And I have Dee, Pham, Eaton,
Aw, you need a hug!
Morning Grey, Vizcaino to the DL – 25 moves left in a H2H 12tm redraft.
I own Knebel and Giles –
1. would you drop Giles for Rondon to gamble as the closer?
2. Or drop Giles for Maeda going forward for a SP/matchup plays,
3. Sip my coffee and hold the damn move
3
@Grey: very surprised you’d tell him to stick with giles over rondon (HOU) for saves, even with 25 moves left. unless it was saves and holds, in which case little difference.
ALen Hanson or Profar ROS?
@iifish Horton Heat: hanson easily assuming some playing time, which he’s getting with longo out except against lefties.
Neither? Profar
A lot of players taking Sunday off. One of my team 5 OFs were sitting. The one thing I love about Fantrax is they are much quicker in marking players that are not playing. It was a job this morning going through all my ESPN lineups looking for the players to sit.
@VinWins: yahoo/espn are MUCH slower to this.
That is true of Fantrax, within seconds of lineups being posted
@VinWins: Added Happ on a bunch of teams again.
Umm. My German start could have began better. I’m really scared at how hard TB is hitting him. Today could turn into a real ratio killer.
Ha, yeah… Hopefully he turns it around
@GrassyKnollRedding: yeah he’s allowing XBH hits to
kiermaier (not good at hitting all year and no real hits since back)
cargo 2 (nuff said)
rechavarria
and 2 decent hitters in duffy/bauers as well
and now multiple hits to cargo 2, i bet he can’t even remember the same day he did that.
Haha
@Mordacious Levator: and now even the religious figure of sweetened condiments. this’ll be the worst start all day honestly.
@GrassyKnollRedding: His curve is absolute dogshit today, so flat.
He doesn’t look good at all
@Grey: It’s gotta be that Tampa Bay just faced him recently. They appear to have figured out how he killed them last time. I doubt I’ll stream again all year.
Yup
@Grey: PS: I’m just thankful I also had Berrios going today. German was so bad today that my ratios are still ugly. Really hoping for a little smooth RP action today. One heart attack a day is enough. C’mon, Boxberger! Haha.
Haha
Would you trade DMurph for Moncada?
Sure
12 team qs instead of wins would you trade chris taylor for either pivetta or quintana, if so which would you prefer? Or would you try to get something better?
Not to overreact but Domingo German is looking like garbage against TB. Is he a drop in a mixed?
Yeah, can stream
Yes, either…Quintana is safer, Pivetta more upside
In an NL only dynasty league, somebody just dropped Musgrove and Dereck Rodriguez. My three worst starters are Wheeler, Matz, and Stratton. How would you play this?
Kinda six of one, half dozen of other…. Musgrove over Wheeler, I guess…
Of goddamn course the Rays in the form of Jesus Sucre, Carlos Gomez, and Hechevarria are tearing up German. I steer clear of this nitwit in a bunch of tougher match ups and he implodes against a one of the worst lineups in baseball.
If there’s a bright side, we won’t hear an ‘I told ya so’ from Wily Mo
@Grey: yeah but this is EXACTLY when he SHOULD BE having to show up.
Not how these things work, ML
@Grey: would be if I tried to “claim” somebody doing something well. but of course he tried the same thing with heaney, and what’s funny about that one is that before he tried to do that he even asked YOU first IF heaney was “just a streamer or not” way back in earlier may. i’d certainly not ignore it and try to pretend them apples and other rotted fruit aren’t ready just for me.
@Mordacious Levator: you didn’t try to dodge rutledge or delino.
Nah, no point for me, bc I have some times I’ve been right
@Grey: HAHAHAH, yeah that might be the main difference here. but seriously though, since you are omnipresent here on the site you have to deal with the times you didn’t look so great and the times when you did. jackasses like the above mentioned literally disappear completely when it comes to them being wrong.
Haha
@Fred Garvin MP: made nearly same comment just above, also included kiermaier, who’s been awful at hitting all year in limited at bats.
Dyson, Winkler or Minter for SAGNOF?
None and all… I guess Winkler
German, Hill, and Montgomery were my big 3 today. 14 IP/14 ER.
I think this is the 7th time this season that Lindor and Ramirez have homered in the same game.
Ouch, Montgomery one wasn’t his fault, any consolation?
@Grey: Oh, OK then. I feel bad for mentioning it now.
On 1 team I used German and Cole, with Pivetta benched. ERA currently at 7, thinking I might as well run him out there tonight.
Ha! Sorry Vin, was trying to be helpful! I’m starting Pivetta, but feel terrible about it
Drop Andrew Miller for Minter or Winkler?
Winkler
Do you think Kyle Tucker is up any time soon? The astros GM said today there is a decent likelyhood Tucker is up in 2018
I’d guess by mid to end of July
Grey,
Would you start pivetta tonight vs WAS?
Nope
Grey,
I am about to lose Gary Sanchez to the DL and need a replacement. My choices are:
Austin Romine
Evan Gattis
Kurt Suzuki
Gattis
ok thanks just waiting for the DL move to happen.
Yup
Hello Grey,
Trumbo or Pederson as a bench bat ros?
My son is in from college, I tried to explain your love for Stanton. By the end he seems to think you and I may be in lust with the same man.. lmao
Thanks kind sir.
HA! Wait, we’re not? I’d go Pederson, but Trumbo is very hot right now
Have 1 add I can make
C Gomes
1b Abreu
2b Albies
3b moustakas
If Braun
Of Ozuna, benetendi, parra, haniger,
Util joc, puig
Bench Barreto, kris Bryant, Lorenzo Cain
Starters sale, Bauer, Nola, pivetta, Gray, German, wacha (dL) ohtani (dL)
Seranthony, Bradley, strop, Rondon, Jeffress hold/saves league
On waivers
Trumbo, lugo vs pirates, winkler reliever, luchessi @texAs, Peraza, Maeda vs Chicago
Maeda
Streamer tomorrow?
Maeda at home vs Cubs or
Taillon at Mets
SON likes both
Maeda
Loaisiga or Bieber
Thanks
Bieber
Eaton meh and not playing every day. Drop him?
Meh, can lose him
Story has been awesome this year and Correa a bit underwhelming. I own Correa and considering making an offer of him for Story. Should I or hold? I’m in a standard 5×5 roto using R, HR, RBI, SB and AVG.