“Hello, Proprietor of a Milliner, I understand your trade is hat-making. I was wondering if you could make this Dairy Queen sundae helmet into a normal-sized head helmet…Right, right, I get that. Yes, I guess I could just buy a helmet from the John Olerud collection, but I’d like this exact Kansas City Royals sundae helmet. It’s for Opening Day for the 2021 baseball season, Mr. Milliner–Wait a second, I’m seeing news come across my ticker…Adalberto Mondesi has an oblique strain? Forget it, Opening Day is called off. Goodbye.” How do you strain your oblique on the one day without baseball between now and July? Was he reaching up to get a suitcase out of overhead baggage? Well, I too have baggage, but I push my baggage down until I randomly start crying at red lights! Why, why whywhywhy…Well, I guess, Happy Opening Day! It feels less happy now with Mondesi news. The Royals recalled Nicky Lopez, which is objectively just funny. If you have late drafts, like after Opening Day, I updated top 500 for Mondesi, conservatively removing 100 at-bats, which is roughly three weeks to a month. It seemed like a big stretch to have Mondesi hitting 3rd in that lineup. Obviously too big of a stretch for his oblique. Hopefully, he can get back soon, because it’s Opening freakin’ Day! Anyway, here’s what else I saw yesterday for fantasy baseball:
Kyle Isbel – 24-year-old prospect is favorite to see the strong side of platoon in the Royals’ right field, and, since the Royals have very little interesting depth, Isbel could just win the full-time job. By the by, Kyle Isbel sounds like a runner-up to win American Idol. “I always say no one should try Whitney Houston, but, Kyle, you’ve proved me wrong and would’ve made Whitney proud. You’re through to the next round.” Isbel is a some speed, some power, some contact hitter. 50 grades for all three. For now, I’m interested in 15-team or deeper leagues, and he’ll be in Friday’s Buy/Sell, which is already available on Patreon.
Austin Nola – Will start year on the IL, i.e., no Nola, which sounds like music teacher correcting scales.
Trent Grisham – Will start year on the IL. Didn’t adjust him in my top 20 outfielders ranks, because he won’t be out long, and more bluntly *coughs through a cloud of smoke* I ain’t drafting him or anymore.
Andrew Vaughn – Made the White Sox Opening Day roster, which was assumed for a while now. Yes, of course, he’ll be in this Friday’s Buy column. Though, he is sitting on Opening Day because Tony spilled scotch on his lineup card.
Eloy Jimenez – Second opinion confirmed that he needs surgery. *dissolve to five months from now*…Eloy’s going for surgery after the White Sox received a 434th opinion. Kidding, he had surgery and is out 5-6 months. Good stuff. *Tommen falling out the window*
George Springer – Hit the IL with an oblique strain, but the Jays said he could be back as soon as next week. Speaking of backs, that will be the next thing he injures. Hey, blame the crystal ball, pardner.
Tony Watson – Signed with Angels. Also, Steve Cishek signed there. Signing Watson and Cishek can only mean one thing, Maddon is trying to discover DNA.
Shohei Ohtani – Pulled from a start with a blister. Thought only his fantasy owners were getting blisters.
Franchy Cordero – Activated from the Covid-19 list, and about to go 19/19/covid! Wait, that makes no sense. Franchy about to be a late sleeper that I touted all preseason, after not drafting him once. Let’s go!
Kyle Lewis – Hit the IL with a deep bone bruise and I have a deep bruise of my soul. Fantasy Baseball Overlord, why do you hurt me? I await your answer. The Mariners said Lewis could’ve played on Thursday, but he will be sidelined for a few weeks. How, please take the time to answer me this, do you go from being able to play today but can’t return for a few weeks? Alas, Taylor Trammell and The Gypsy Kings’ Marmelejos will play more, and Tee-Tee is in Friday’s Buy.
Ji-Man Choi – Undergoing arthroscopic surgery on his knee. That’s what happens when you’re demonstrating how to make banana splits out of the ice cream parlor. Nah’mean? I removed Ji-Man from the top 20 1st basemen, but didn’t up anyone like Tsutsugo, because you prolly don’t want that noise, and, yeah, draft season is done. Finally.
Todd Frazier – Re-signed a minor league deal with the Pirates. Todd, you’re embarrassing New Jersey, and that’s a very low bar.
Dustin May – Will start the year as the 5th starter. Horny time, party for one. Made a slight adjustment to him in my top 80 starters, failing to move him up as high as I had him before the Bauer signing (around 40th starter overall). Still can’t imagine him staying in the rotation for longer than 12-15 starts, but oh, what a glorious 12-15 starts they shall be for The Human Carrot.
Steven Souza – Signed with the Dodgers. Souza has a better chance of getting time in the brass section of the LA Philharmonic.
Sixto Sanchez – Will start the year in the alternate camp, where they listen to KCRW. So, Sixto went from the Fish to Fishbone. I wasn’t drafting Sixto this year, so I’m pretty whatever on this news, but it’s not value-crushing news. The Marlins just don’t need a fifth starter yet, and Sanchez isn’t throwing a full season anyway.
Kyle Garlick – Made the Twins’ roster. A Kyle Garlick implies the existence of Kyle Halitosis.
Yu Chang – Announced as Cleveland’s Opening Day 1st baseman with Jordan Luplow in center. Time can Chang Yu, but Yu can’t Chang time, nor expect anything from anything from Cleveland’s hitting.
Mike Soroka – Hit the IL as he returns from Achilles surgery. “Hey, I thought my doctor was operating on my Achilles, not…Well, why is he wearing a toga?”
Odubel Herrera – Reassigned to minor league camp. After adding ODB to the top 100 outfielders late and–Well, I shouldn’t add anyone late! Roman Quinn and Adam Haseley will share center field duties, and, hehe, I said duties. Roman Quinn is in the top 100 outfielders, and Haseley was usually modeled by Anjelica Huston, and I will monocle, but his projections are around 12/8/.255, which would have Haseley saying, “Huston, we have a problem. Uh, Anjelica.”
Hector Neris – Announced as the Phils’ closer. How long does that last? One week or two? Or does it last four months and you wish it ended after one week?
Jose Leclerc – Underwent Tommy John surgery. There should be some kind of fine for teams who have pitchers go down in March, needing Tommy John surgery. How you mfers get through the entire offseason to only realize someone’s elbow is janky in March? You’re telling me Rangers’ GM Chris Young couldn’t see this coming? He can see everything coming, he’s eight feet tall!
Rougned Odor – Didn’t make the Rangers. Like one who dealt it, I feel the need to defend Odor. He sucks — with a defense like this, he’s gonna be doing 25 to life — but the Rangers went with Charlie Culberson and Brock Holt instead. They’re like getting the benefit of Tommy Edman’s position eligibility with nothing else, and, since the Rangers are in a real baseball league, and not a fantasy one, I’m not sure they need a guy to qualify at a position. Ha, my defense of Odor was about as good as “No, sweetheart, it was the dog.”
Glad I refreshed. I was thinking I needed another Grey article to truly end the baseball preseason.
Let’s hope this year goes off without a hitch my friend. After drafting the perfect draft™? in 2020 only to have the world come to a crashing half, I for one could use some normalcy.
So I shall wish the Razzball community some luck. May your squads stay injury-free, may your pitchers always get ahead in the count and may your bitters all have double songs.
Here’s hoping we all get to grow playoff beards, and yes that includes the 5 women Razz readers.
Love & hot sauce
<3
Scott
Agh – autocorrect!
“May your batters all have double dongs”!
:::shakes fist::::
Shakes fist on double dongs? Or for double dongs?
About that hitch…I have news from you from the future
I refreshed one too many times & jinxed it.
Also I just named my team Double Dongs.
:::shakes songs:::
Ps – looks like just a rain delay in Boston. Yahoo loves to jump the gun I guess.
I hate you autocorrect & lack of proofreading.
:(
Haha
Autocorrect ruining my funny. That and my strict vow to never ever proof read anything.
:(
Damn you autocorrect!
Double Dongs!
Catchy, right? My league mates hate it. That’s how I know it’s real.
Haha, it’s good
Now tomorrow’s post will be something I’m already looking forward to. Busy night for u I’m sure .Play ball and don’t get hurt
Opening Day!
Hey Grey,
Had my final draft earlier tonight. Would like to get your thoughts on it. Per the war room totals and how it played out, I think this was the best of my 4 drafts this season.
1. (7) Juan Soto (Was – OF)
2. (18) Francisco Lindor (NYM – SS)
3. (31) Rafael Devers (Bos – 3B)
4. (42) Luis Castillo (Cin – SP)
5. (55) Yordan Alvarez (Hou – OF)
6. (66) Lance Lynn (CWS – SP)
7. (79) Ketel Marte (Ari – 2B,SS,OF)
8. (90) Matt Olson (Oak – 1B)
9. (103) Lourdes Gurriel Jr. (Tor – 2B,OF)
10. (114) Trent Grisham (SD – OF)
11. (127) Zac Gallen (Ari – SP)
12. (138) Dinelson Lamet (SD – SP)
13. (151) Franmil Reyes (Cle – OF)
14. (162) Shohei Ohtani (Batter) (LAA – Util)
15. (175) Frankie Montas (Oak – SP)
16. (186) Shohei Ohtani (Pitcher) (LAA – SP)
17. (199) Joakim Soria (Ari – RP)
18. (210) Trey Mancini (Bal – 1B,OF)
19. (223) Leody Taveras (Tex – OF)
20. (234) Aaron Civale (Cle – SP)
21. (247) Jonathan India (Cin – 3B)
22. (258) Elieser Hernandez (Mia – SP,RP)
23. (271) Mitch Garver (Min – C)
Picking 7th here after being 8th in my other 2 yahoo pro leagues, I figured I would end up with Story for a third time, but was pumped to have Soto fall to me. Lindor in the 2nd was the best I could have hoped for there. As good of a start as I had, it was almost even better as Bellinger fell to one spot ahead of me in the 3rd. Wanted to take Alonso in the 4th, but he was taken just ahead of me and the next power bat I liked was Alvarez who I was pretty sure I could get in the 5th so I went with Castillo. Made a similar decision in the 6th with Lynn as I was looking at Marte there, but thought I could get him a round later. War room totals for this team were better than my 3 other teams with 130% on runs, 175% onr HRs, 136% on RBIs, 68% on SBs and 101% on AVG.
Pitching staff will start off a little weak with Gallen and Lamet on the IL. Once they are DL eligible, hopefully I can find some good options to fill in. Took one bat more than I planned on, but after hearing your thoughts on your FAAB bid for India, figured he was worth a late round pick.
One of the non razzball podcasts I listen to is huge on Ohtani being a potential difference maker available late so that’s why I grabbed him both as a hitter and pitcher. If he turns out to be a bust this year, I will blame them and remember not to listen to anyone other than you from now on for draft prep.
Team looks fine, you’re pitching is very risky…I don’t see why you’d take Lamet and Gallen, wouldn’t take one at this point, let alone both — hitting looks solid tho!
Here’s to Ohtani busting!
Thanks Grey! With Castillo and Lynn, I figured I could afford to take some risks on higher upside guys who might not have innings issues late in the year if they miss time early. A lot of the guys on your “pitchers to target” list have been going undrafted so I planned on looking for those guys once Gallen and Lamet are on the DL.
Means, Dunning, Devi Garcia, and Kikuchi are available from your target list. Montgomery, Heaney, Canning and Mize, are also available.
Going by your top 500, Means and Montgomery would be the top 2. Would you stick with the rankings or is there someone else you’d grab based on upside or early matchups?
Those two work for me
Good deal! Your late pitcher targets have been money over the years. I consistently end up with one of the better pitching staffs in my leagues despite going heavy on offense the first 10 rounds. Here’s to another year of you picking out next year’s highly touted starters a year early for us.
Hopefully!
The Royals strictly prohibit players from “handling luggage”. Salvador Perez approves this message.
14 team h2h league. Allowed 4 SP this week-
Today:
Bassitt vs HOU
Maeda @ MIL
Gausman @ SEA
Friday:
Yarborough @ MIA
Saturday:
Lynn @LAA
Who do I sit out of this group?
Thankyou, I look forward to your daily insight
Yarbrough
No way. Sit Bassitt.
Haha
Agree with 1 F
Noooooo! Hahaha.
Haha
Missed the daily write ups! But this one has a lot of soul crushing news I have to admit! Haha.
In a keeper league, would you trade your Sale $1 IL stash for a $0 India? Or would you wait for him to get closer to returning and hold out for more?
Thanks!
Haha, ugh
Closer to returning, better return
Just finished our draft tonight! Nothing like waiting till the last minute… Wanted to run my team past you for any feedback or areas I should look to improve (besides closer, which I’m sort of punting until that situation starts to clarify around the league):
(ESPN, 12 teams, H2H, 6×6; AVG, HR, RBI, R, OPS, SB / ERA, WHIP, K, QS, W, SV)
C- Christian Vazquez
1B- Eric Hosmer
2B- Dylan Moore
3B- Rafael Devers
SS- Fernando Tatis Jr.
OF- Luis Robert
OF- Michael Conforto
OF- Eddie Rosario
UT- Bo Bichette
B- Austin Riley
B- Ryan Mountcastle
B- Andres Gimenez
B-
SP- Brandon Woodruff
SP- Kenta Maeda
SP- Hyun-Jin Ryu
SP- Dylan Bundy
SP- Kevin Gausman
RP- Drew Pomeranz
RP- Anthony Bass
IL- Noah Syndergaard
Thinking of grabbing Andrew Vaughn on waivers to fill that empty bench slot and maybe swapping some of my offensive bench guys for hitters/pitchers from the wire.
Available waiver hitters include: Josh Naylor, Franchy Cordero, Ramiel Tapia, Garrett Hampson, Tyler O’Neil, Hunter Renfroe, and Austin Hayes.
Available waiver pitchers include: John Means, Sean Manaea, Elieser Hernandez, Jordan Montgomery, Nate Pearson, Zach Eflin, Jake Odorizzi, Aaron Civale, Dane Dunning, and Nate Eovaldi.
Thanks, Grey! Loved reading your stuff as always to prep for the draft!
Thanks! Good to see you! Your team looks stacked on hitting and pitching…If I had to nitpick, you might be low on AVG — love the pitching, but you need another SP — grab Elieser
Grey!!!
Great report!!!
a. IL’d Mondesi in two leagues (signed up McMahon (MI) in one league and Kike in the other upon consultation with Hittertron). IL’d Lewis in two leagues (signed up TT in one league and Chad Green in the other where TT was not there). ‘Nuff said.
b. Marx brothers quote of the day
‘No my friends, no, money will never make you happy. And happy will never make you money,
that might be a wisecrack but I doubt it.’
Groucho Marx (as Mr. Holder), The Cocoanuts (1929)
c. Random Reggie Jackson quote of the day
‘The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.’
Cheers,
Ante
preseason.
Let’s hope this year goes off without a hitch my friend. After drafting the perfect draft™? in 2020 only to have the world come to a crashing half, I for one could use some normalcy.
So I shall wish the Razzball community some luck. May your squads stay injury-free, may your pitchers always get ahead in the count and may your bitters all have double songs.
Here’s hoping we all get to grow playoff beards, and yes that includes the 5 women Razz readers.
Love & hot sauce
<3
Scott
Oh, hey, Ante! Didn’t recognize you behind that username — happy opening day, awesome quotes!
You could’ve at least fixed Double Dongs. Heh
Don’t hate me gray but I’m rolling the dice with Joc pederson. Won’t hesitate to drop but he could put it all together right? Hopeful wishing.
I own him multiple places. Think he’s gone fairly overlooked.
I’d love to see it, even if I don’t own him — think we know what he is at this point tho
Agreed.
One of my league-mates is friends with his dad. I guess he’s a Bay Area kid.
So naturally my buddy reached for him by 6 rounds in our draft.
Prediction: he’s marginally better than he has been, just more of it. He’s never been able to hit lefties well so any improvement there could probably make him startable in 10-12 teamers as a 4th OF/Util?
Yup, makes sense
Happy opening day Gray! As an Adalberto owner, was not stoked to see the ticker yesterday. In other news, my students have been working on digitizing features found on historical maps and one of them digitized a “Jeweler and Milly” business the other day – so I too, now know what a millinery is!
Happy opening day!
Have them make NFTs! Smart!
Hey Grey, perplexed by this. I dont like having too many shares of one player who was drafted in the first round and i have a few shares in Soto. What do you think of this offer? I trade Soto, Swanson, Vaughn and Domingo German for Vladdy, Albies, Hampson and Ian Anderson.
12 team keeper where we keep 14 players in h2h league. OBP is a category.
I think it would be foolish
Hold
The Mets really got a contract done with Lindor… I’m in disbelief but also excited! LGM!
I thought I woke up dreaming.
Got him to agree to 10 years and no opt outs so he’s going to be a Met for a loooooooong time
Now the Mets just need to stop Mets’ing
Happy Opening Day….Finally.
Working out the end of my roster. I currently have Hays, Naylor and Hampson at the end of my
lineup or on the bench. Would you swap out any(or all of them) for any of the guys below?
Tellez, Chasholm, Trammell, O’Neil, Pache
Gracias in advance.
Happy opening day!
Trammell, O’Neil, Hampson
I have one free spot, Hays, Dalton Jeffries, or Vaughn?
Thanks
Vaughn
Agree with Cram
So in all the leagues I’m in, I made sure get Paul DeJong as either 2nd or 3rd shortstop …
Heck, in one free yahoo league (that I auto-drafted), I ended up with Trea Turner, Bogaerts and Tim Anderson, and I still scooped up DeJong post-draft.
Playing fantasy is my hobby — collecting shortstops is my hobby inside a hobby!
However … yesterday … in my ONE money league … I still needed a catcher so I dropped DeJong because I have Bogaerts and Mondesi …. and …. [email protected]#$^%#$VERYY!!!!!!!
Haha, nice!
Happy Opening Day, Grey! Unfortunately gave up having nice things for Lent, so I’ll be starting Ryu vs. the Yankees and Marquez vs. the Dodgers today. Goodbye, everyone; I’ll remember you all in therapy!
Happy Opening Day! See ya there, Buttlicker!
Happy opening day! You starting means at BOS?
Not me.
Happy Opening Day! Nah
Which two sit on opening day? Flaherty, Gausman, Ryu, Bundy or Means?
Welcome back, Razzballers!! Cheers to a fun season ahead, Grey
The Balt/Bos game got nixed, so sit Means and start tomorrow if you can. Or sit him tomorrow too, that matchup is kinda worrisome for me. Not sure the other one to sit, so will let Grey pick or you could check the SON
Thank you for the heads up on the PPD, Nux.
My east coast brethren is saying it’s just a rain delay, not actually PPD. Hmm
Happy Opening Day!
I don’t know the matchups
Flaherty @ CIN
Bundy home vs. White Sox
Gausman @ SEA
Ryu @ NYY
I’d start them all….If you have to bench, Bundy
why isnt F Valdez on the IL asking for a friend
oh man… I have the same issue with Framber, Gallen and Pearson… I hope they do all those transactions before my lineup locks…
You know that teams will not make the move until right before the games start… Then the fantasy platforms won’t update their IL statuses until after games start. So brutal.
Predator blood
Grey –
Happy Opening Day! Drafted my last 12 team H2H league, 6×6 w/ OPS and QS, last night:
C – Vasquez
1B – Cron
2B – Moore
SS – Bichette
3B – Devers
CI – Dalbec
MI – Semien
OF – Acuna
OF – Alvarez
OF – Stanton
OF – Verdugo
UT – Ohtani
UT – Senzel
SP – Maeda
SP – Berrios
SP – Lopez
RP – Chapman
RP – McGee
P – Mahle
P – Means
P – Kikuchi
P – Skubal
Bench – Votto, Webb, RichRod
IL – Carrasco, Severino, Sonny Gray
Since I’m about to have 3 IL-eligible guys, do you see clear categories/positions I should address with the 3 remaining bench spots?
Looks like you’re low on AVG and maybe runs — solid pitching!
keller seems like a great stream today even tho hes dogshit. the rangers lineup is laughable and keller been great at home. you streaming this chump today?
i may need to change my name after this lindor extension
also keller has great batter vs pitcher numbers (small samples) vs the rangers batters
Sounds like a good stream
Hey Grey,
Happy Opening Day!
In a 6×6 OPS 11 day weekly league who would you pick up to start
Hilliard (likely in a platoon but 7 games at home)
Fuentes
Jonathan India
Thanks!
Happy Opening Day!
Hilliard
So do we just have to guess what Nationals players are out on quarantine? Why can’t they just tell us?
Game was PP’d
I see that now. Guess that makes it easier???? And by easier I mean not easy at all!!! Hahaha. What to do with these players on a short week one lineup
Ugh I know
Not only did Odor not make the roster of one of the worst teams in baseball, DeShizz suffered the same fate.
Every time I see Chris Young around Dallas at first I think to myself is that the moon? *obi wan voice* that’s not moon…
HAHA
Which Nationals’ player tested positive for the Vid? Why are they making me wait for this information?? HAHA. I’ve already lost Springer, Voit, and Lewis to start the year. If it ends up being Soto that’ll be a pretty deep hole to dig out of!
Welcome to Opening Day 2021!
Related: Grey, would you roll the dice of an iffy Strasburg, who AFAIK hasn’t even been announced as the starter Saturday and who now may or may not be one of the Washington 5? 4-day short week; rosters lock at 1pm.
[email protected] vs Stroman-NYM
or
Webb-SF vs. [email protected]
Thanks!
Not sure Nats play tomorrow either, they might be banged for a few days
They aren’t playing tomorrow,Saturday at the earliest. They aren’t saying much.
Not surprising
I think we would know by now if it were a big name, it prob would have gotten out if it were Soto. I think its prob one of Gomes/Avila, since they just called up some other catcher last night.
*** Youkilis broken wrist out for the season ***
Damn, adjust your lineups
WW: Votto, Andrus, Candelerio, Eaton, JD Davis
Team:
C – Garver
CI – Freeman, Chapman, Abreu
MI – Albies, Turner, Polanco
OF – Springer, Winker, Pham, Kepler, Robles
Bench/Util: Wong, Taveras, V Reyes
Any swaps?
Not right now
Ready to roll – Glad to ‘see’ you Grey!!
Happy Opening Day! Hope you’re well!
Already a PPD!? Waaaaaah
Come on nature!
Really? Rain too?
And locusts in Chicago.
Someone already dropped Leody Taveras. Really want to snag him although my teams pretty high on speed with Trea, Merrifield, and Tapia.
My drop options are Tapia, Dunning, Workman (my league counts holds and I have Kimbrel who has been shaky), and Renfroe. I just added Hunter Renfroe since I seem slightly lower on power despite having guys like Arenado, Olson, Cron. Any thoughts?
Can drop Dunning for Leody and come back for Dunning later. He is tandem for now, so not sure exactly what the deal is with him. But I’d bet he or someone similar will be on the wire for you later, when you need another arm
Agree with Nux
Out with one Kyle (Lewis) in with another Kyle (Isbel)
https://razzball.com/luke-skylimper/#comment-3000037
Glad I didn’t cut him already!
Enjoy the games today. Hope the Yanks don’t do the same thing that Boston just did. Tomorrow will be nicer, so they postponed? Hearing from Boston buds that its not really all that bad out and they would prob play the game if it were any day that wasn’t opening day.
Ha, nice!
Happy Opening Day!
Means @ EVOO Rain out !
Not looking good in the Bronx either… check your lineups
EVOO made me think of A.C. Green
The Ripken of olives!
Damn
Grey,
BAL/BOS was ppd, and I have Bo Bichette (0-6 lifetime with a K vs. Cole). Do I play him today or pick up Amed Rosario vs DET
Start your studs, especially on Opening Day
wake up says the weather is not looking good in the bronx
There may be a delay in the Bronx but they should get the game in – weather is supposed to be fine after 1/2pm or so.
i received a trade offer last night in my keeper/auction league and am on the fence about it.
I give up Alex Bregman/3B/HOU ($21)
I get DJ LeMatheiu/2B/NYY ($26)
I have Bohm, J-Ram, and Josh Fuentes to play 3rd. I also have 5 of the Astros lineup. Altuve, Alvarez, Brantley, Bregman and Tucker.
I also have Altuve, and Madrigal playing 2nd.
Would you make the deal?
Agree with Nux
ESPN, 12 team, 5X5 roto. Injuries have forced me to start one of the following for opening week (11 days);
Kiki Hernandez – 3 vs Baltimore, 3 vs TB, 3 @ Baltimore
Hunter Renfroe – 3 vs Baltimore, 3 vs TB, 3 @Baltimore
Taylor Trammall – 3 vs SF, 3 vs CWS, 3 @ Minnesota
Justin Upton – 4 vs CWS, 2 vs Houston, 4 @ Toronto
Gregory Polanco – [email protected], [email protected] Cin, 3 vs Cubs
Not looking for any specific categories just overall value. Thanks in advance and enjoy opening day!
Trammell
Great stuff Grey!
16 team H2H weekly points league…
who to start for this 11 day week.
OF spot
Carlson 3x @CIN, 3x @MIA and 3x vs MIL or
Tapia 4x Vs LAD, 3x Vs ARI and 3x @ SF
Util spot
Franmil Reyes [email protected] DET, 2xVs KC and 3x Vs DET or
CJ Cron 4x Vs LAD, 3x Vs ARI and 3x @ SF
Thanks
Thanks!
Tapia
Franmil
Luplow hitting leadoff. Glad to see that Tito’s embracing the spirit of the day, but can we keep the April Fool’s stuff off the field?
Bohm is hitting 5th so that Rhys can move into the two hole. Eloy, Mondesi, Lewis. Might want to make an offering to the fantasy gods, GA.
Haha …make it a double Tito’s rocks !
Haha — I saw on Bohm, hoping he moves up to 2, where he belongs
I bet Bohm gets moved up. the man is sexi
Yeah, for sure!
thoughts on john gant? is he someone you are interested in? deep or shallow leauges.
In NL-Only leagues
Hey there Grey
12 Team Roto
Drafted yesterday morning, thoughts on how this team looks?
C – Sean Murphy
1B – Cody Bellinger
2B – Dylan Moore
3B – Rafael Devers
SS – Javier Baez
MI – Andres Gimenez
CI – Yoan Moncada
OF – Christian Yelich
OF – Luis Robert
OF – Wil Myers
OF – Kyle Lewis
OF – Lourdes Gurriel Jr.
UTL – Josh Donaldson
BN – Hunter Dozier
SP – Jose Berrios
SP – Dylan Bundy
SP – Lance McCullers
SP – Chris Bassitt
SP – Tyler Mahle
SP – Marcus Stroman
RP – Matt Barnes
RP – Hector Neris
RP – Daniel Bard
RP – Anthony Bass
You look low on AVG and maybe runs, not a bad hitting team tho…I love the pitching, looks solid on RPs too
pick up matthew boyd off waivers and start him today v, bieber? SON likes it.
if ‘yes’, who do i get rid of: minor, bassitt or smyly?
Nope
The Souza blurb was great.
How many leagues to you own both Mondesi and Lewis?
Happy Opening Day!
Thanks!
I don’t think I own them both in any leagues, I have Lewis and Eloy in a league and Lewis and Springer…Those hurt
Happy Opening Day!
Why’d you have Miggy so low!
HAHA
I hope Rotowire is being drunk with their expected lineup for Seattle tonight: Dylan Moore is slotted 7th behind Tom Murphy and Trammell
Are the Mariners still announcing all of their organizational information at the local Rotary Club?
Maybe Rotowire attended last night.
Yuck
Dang Moore is batting 6th – bigger shocker, Yordan batting 6th… I thought Moore would be within the top 3 and Yordan would be cleanup
With Lewis out too…Hmm…
Hello Grey,
12 Team H2H 6×6 OPS QS Daily Redraft
Was just offered McCutchen/Kimbrel for my Santander/Garrett. That’s a no for me. I think he is high on Santander..
Acuna, S. Marte, Santander, Mancini, and Moore are currently covering my 3 OF spots.
I currently roster Lynn, Bundy, McCullers, Morton, Mahle, Gausman, Means, and Webb.
Thinking of countering Santander/Means for his Burnes or perhaps just Santander for his Ohtani or Vaughn. Perhaps I should hold for now.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts
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I’d take Burnes
Sup G, Happy Opening Day to you, my friend! Catcher question!! In Yahoo Zack Collins is eligible..Would you dump Carson Kelly for him? I have Varsho on NA waiting for the call up so not sure to the roll dice on another young player. 12 Team dynasty
*Collins is C eligible* sorry for the grammatical nightmare.
Happy Opening Day!
I’d keep Kelly for now
12 team keeper league: Looking to pick up Logan Webb, would you drop either Alzolay or Keuchel for him or stick? And in another league, same format would you drop Justus for him?
Yes, Dallas
Grey, did my other 12 team roto last night
Please critique and tell me how u think i did?
C-Kelly
1B-Olsen
2B-Solak
SS-Bichette
3B-Devers
MI-Swanson
CI-Croneworth
OF-Acuna
OF-Castallanos
OF-Lewis
OF-Santander
OF-Tavaras
Util-Alveras
BN-Wong(can move around lineup while Lewis out)
SP-Castillo
SP-Ryu
SP-Gray
SP-Gausman
SP-Elfin
CL-Montero
CL-McGe
CL-Bass
CL-Gallegos
CL-Bush
CL-Kennedy
You have 3 aces, but it hasn’t hurt your hitting too much, you might be a little low on power, but HRs are findable off waivers
5×5 11 team OBP and Saves+Holds instead of saves.
C – Posey (27)
1B- Alonso (3)
2B – Biggio (5)
3B – Muncy (7)
SS – Anderson (4)
IF – Bellinger (2)
OF- Harper (1)
OF- Gallo (9)
OF- D. Moore (11)
OF- Schwarber (15)
UTIL – Vaughn (13)
UTIl – F. Reyes (18)
SP – Lynn (6)
SP – Berrios (8)
SP – Bundy (12)
SP – Gausman (16)
P- Yarbrough (20)
P – S. Gray (10)
RP- Pomeranz (14)
RP- J. Hicks (17)
RP- Crochet (19)
RP- T. Antone (26)
Bench- Eovaldi (23)
Bench – Trevor Rogers (21)
Bench – T. Gonsolin (24)
Bench – Jazz Chisholm (22)
Bench – JD Davis (25)
Bench – Framber Valdez (28)
What do you think? I am short (possibly woefully short) on speed but I kept getting sniped at every turn there.
When Framber DL’s, pick up Myles Straw, Adbert, Pineda, Canning, Tarik Skubal, Justus Sheffield, Pache, Lorenzo Cain, or Rowdy Rowdy Tellez?
You don’t look awful on speed, maybe a little bit…You look about right…Your pitching looks solid too, I like the team! I’d prolly flyer on Skubal for now
Awesome. Thank you so much for all the work you and team put in and thanks to Rudy for responding to my war room questions.
No problem
11 team daily moves runs hr rbi sb avg and ops are our categories. I need to sit one of tatis Lindor Baez machado alonso Guerrero bohm. Which one is your bench bar most days?
Bohm
AL Only 11 Day Week 1 5×5 Standard Categories-
Start Alejandro Kirk or Max Stassi?
Side Note: You’re the man Grey! People still say that right?
Stassi
Thanks! Happy Opening Day!
Yes, one day Mondesi will be healthy…just not today, or this year…sigh!
Sigh
Grey would you mind grading this team I just drafted? I drafted it it in your honor.
ESPN 12-team Auction draft ($260 budget) 5×5 OBP
C J. McCann $1
1B M. Olson $16
2B M. Muncy $13
3B A. Riley $1
SS T. Story $51
MI B. Bichette $30
CI J. Walsh $1
OF Lou Bob $27
OF R. Laureano $6
OF N. Solak $2
OF Kike Hernandez $1
OF J. Kelenic $3
UTIL Y. Alvarez $19
Bench G. Lux $1
IL E. Jiminez $2
IL K. Lewis $4
SP B. Woodruff $28
SP S. Gray $12
SP P. Corbin $2
RP J. Hader $25
RP E. Diaz $11
SP C. Bassitt $1
SP J. Means $1
SP E. Hernandez $1
SP N. Eovaldi $1
Bench N. Wittgren $1
I never usually spend up on closers but it actually felt kinda good. Oh and the team is named Boba Chette.
You have made me proud…I love the pitching…Looks like a great hitting team too…If I had to complain, I’d say I worry about Walsh’s PT, Kelenic needs a replacement and you look low on speed
Thoughts on this squad? 12 team H2H 5×5. Didn’t mean to draft the entire M’s outfield…
C – McCann
1B – Abreu
2B – K Marte
3B – Chapman
SS – Bichette
CI -Muncy
MI- Semien
OF- Robert
OF – Blackmon
OF – Dylan Moore
OF – Austin Hays
OF – Taveras
U -Gimenez
BE – Kelenic
BE – Tellez
IL – Kyle Lewis
P – Ryu
P – Gray
P – Gausman
P – Plesac
P – Lopez
P – Eflin
P – Mahle
RP – Romano
RP – Neris
BE – Bassit
Happy Opening Day!!!!!!
Haha, I did that too in a league…Um, yeah…I like the hitting, you look low on RBIs and maybe power and AVG…It’s decent tho, I like the guys you have…Pitching looks solid
I know Yu Chang has some of the hardest Max velos this spring. I know, but keep an eye on him. In his previous stints, his bating eye was good if I were to look at his k/bb and I am no expert. He didn’t look lost at the plate and did seem to have a plan, plus he’s Asian.
I am not a Razzzie expert, but there seem to be some underlying positives for Chang.
I wonder about your sleeper Cordero. I want to believe as I also own players with a similar profile in my minors, but only thing stopping me from really picking up Cordero is he has no eligibility and I think Razzball stated he’s slated for RF, and I desperately need a CF.
I’m gonna be watching Chang, he’d be a nice cheap get on waivers if he does something, so that’s good
I am curious, is Calhoun that bad that the Rangers will never put him at 2b again?
Don’t think he can play 2B, plus he’s hurt
HEY to the HEY, GREY!
Mostly just excited to get to chit chat with you, so I needed to get in some kind of post.
The Springer thing makes me real nervous. Do people really get grade 2 oblique injuries and swing wooden bats at 97 mph fastballs two weeks later??? He dropped in my draft, so I took the risk, but I’m worried the dude’s gonna end up being an expensive IL stash.
Also, look at me! Saying “IL” instead of “DL” with ease.
Happy Opening Day! Good to see yoy!
Not usually on Springer, I’m worried too
Grey,
I received a trade offer last night in my keeper/auction league and am on the fence about it.
I give up Alex Bregman/3B/HOU ($21)
I get DJ LeMatheiu/2B/NYY ($26)
I have Bohm, J-Ram, and Josh Fuentes to play 3rd. I also have 5 of the Astros lineup. Altuve, Alvarez, Brantley, Bregman and Tucker.
I also have Altuve, and Madrigal playing 2nd.
Would you make the deal?
Bregman side
are u saying if i trade bregman the guy getting him wins the deal?
I’d want Bregman
so hold on to bregman
Yes
i just hate having so many hitters from the same lineup
I was able to avoid Eloy’s injury (barely, someone thankfully ignored my trade offer for him).
But did get lots and lots of shares of Mondesi and Lewis, so I’m starting off the season on the waiver wire.
Wanted to pop in here and thank you again for the brilliant pre-season insights.
Here’s the last team I drafted for the year. Keep up to eight. 12 team H2H, 5×5 OBP and SV+H instead of AVG and SV.
C – Kiner Falefa (Y! still has him as a catcher)
1B – Olson
2B – Moore
3B – Giminez
SS – Lindor
OF – Soto, Ozuna, Alvarez
UT – Conforto, Riley
BN – Walsh, Solak
IL – Kyle Lewis, Grisham
SP – Ryu, Luzardo, Sonny, Lopez, Eovaldi, Means, Stroman, Dunning
RP – Gonsolin, Kennedy, Clase, Petit, Joely Rodriguez
I like the pitching a lot, and felt like I was trying to find speed throughout the draft but ended up with enough. Plenty of power. OBP is a crapshoot beyond Soto buoying the rest of the squad.
Thanks again. Play ball.
Ha, whew!
Thanks! Happy Opening Day!
Your pitching looks great, exactly how I’d draft a staff…OBP with Soto should be fine…And Ozuna, and Lindor…You should be good…I like this team overall…I have nothing to complain about
Per buster Olney, mets and nats will be postponed b/c of covid issues. Can’t even start the season and this $hit is happening already.
And the Orioles are rained out. It’s a grand and glorious day to be a baseball fan in the Baltimore-Washington corridor.I’m gonna need some beer.
Happy Opening Day! and crap
Utility spot for today: ohtani (vs giolito) or Cron (vs Kershaw) (@ coors)
Outfielder spot – joc pederson (vs. Kuhl) or Dahl (vs Keller)
Ohtani
Joc
Start ryu vs the yanks?
Yup
Hey Grey,
Who would you drop out of Stroman, Christian Javier, and Elieser Hernandez?
They’re all pretty close in your rankings.
Thanks!
Javier
Aaaaaaaand of course the WAS / NYM game is postponed due to COVID.
How is it possible that these players can’t follow protocol?! How are they not vaccinated?! Agh!
Between that & the Boston postponement I just lost like 5 players today. Gah!
Is it going to be one game or the entire series.
Now I’m hearing it’s just a rain delay.
TBD
Maybe Yahoo playing an April fools joke?
Yikes
Happy Opening Day! And ugh
who’s the better stash in a NA spot: Adell or Kiriloff?
Kiriloff
Happy Opening Day!!! Finally!!
Drafted yesterday… How’d I do?
Hitting (HR, RBI, SB, OBP, SLG)
C – McCann
1B- Alonso
2B- Muncy
SS- Lindor
3B- Devers
OF- Bellinger
OF- Gallo
OF- Nimmo
UT- Franmil
UT- Ke’Bryan
Bench- Adam Vaughn
IL- Kyle Lewis
Pitching (QS, ERA, WHIP, Ks, Sv+Hld)
SP- Lynn, Bundy, Gausman, Musgrove, D. May, Peralta, Webb
RP- D. Williams, Fairbanks, T. May, Diekman, Reyes, Duffey
Thanks for your posts everyday, makes mornings at work more tolerable.
Happy Opening Day!
I would draft a pitching staff very similarly….Your RPs are fun for Holds too, really solid staff….Your hitting looks fine, good on SLG hopefulyl okay on OBP and low on SBs
No problem!
My league mates didn’t adjust well to Sv+Hld instead of saves. Hader went 3rd round!! and Most of the top closers went before pick 75. (12 teams).
I got williams around pick 105, and all my other RPs I got round 18 or later. EZ money.
Damn, nice!
Catcher question – so sorry..
How would you rank the following? Thanks!
– Mitch Garver
– Danny Jensen
– Wilson Ramos
– Jorge Alfaro
– Wilson Ramos
https://razzball.com/top-500-for-2021-fantasy-baseball/
Grey, would you pick Fuentes (Rockies) or Vaughn?
Or Jay Bruce
Vaughn
Rosenthal to IL with shoulder inflammation…
So surprising
Diekman the pick up?
Yes
Bud Black benches McMahon for Chris Owings on day one. You called it, Grey.
HAHAHAHA
I swear that other than Trevor Story I am done with Rockies hitters. Bud Black is sure to play whatever washed up vet he can ahead of Hampson, McMahon, Hilliard et al. Worst manager in all of baseball.
Yeah, I hear ya, but Story will get his stats
I know you’re not the prospect guy, but still want your take on this. I’m in a 10 team h2h dynasty league where prospects and rookies are extremely valuable (most team friendly tags). What do you think it should take to move Wander Franco? Would you even entertain offers to move him at this point?
My team is likely a year or two away from competing, but might be able to make a run if I got a good enough haul for Franco.
I’d want a top 15 bat right now for Franco
Would you move Franco and Marquez for Yelich? I have Arozarena, Gurriel jr, Franmil and Frazier for my 4 outfield spots.
Yes
I thought so. Just so hard to do. I traded Baez for tatis before he broke out so I’m terrified I make that move and regret it as soon as next test
Yeah
16 team h2h weekly points league…
I was offered German or Kluber for my CJ Cron… (I have Olson as well)
what do you think?
German
and the guy chickened out… :(
thanks Grey!
Damn
Ducks in a row – lineups ready LFG! Have a great day G-man!
LFG!
Happy Opening Day! Though the unbridled excitement has been somewhat tempered by a Nats COVID outbreak.
Weekly lineup lock, long 11 day 1st period, any chance you sit Pete Alonso for Jared Walsh or Solak with the Mets maybe missing a full series against the Nats?
Thanks as always and glad to have baseball and your sage back advice in my day!
EDIT: No, not for a 11 days
Hitting cleanup! Woooo!
Edit?! What wizardry is this?!
One perk to answering 400 comments a day
:::shakes dongs::::
Dongs up!
RIP Trevor Rosenthal for at least 10 days. Shoulder. Always a good sign.
Dilemma the SAGNOF grab? Maybe CBBC
Also Sixto with a shoulder issue too. “Discomfort” which is how all of the owners of these two feel, I imagine.
How do so many guys get hurt between March 31 & April 1st?
Not dilemma. Diekman!
I blame all of this on the 2nd Moderna shot yesterday. Hits like a truck.
Haha
Ok I have multiple college degrees and the Watson/DNA joke almost flew over my head. I haven’t felt this amused and also puzzled since Dennis Miller was on a Cubs broadcast complaining the Diamondbacks ‘A’ logo looked like “an airport runway at Chichen Itza”.
Is it better to stash Sale or Pearson on the IL? I’m thinking Pearson right?
Grateful Morning Meister Grey,
A) Listening to ‘Touch of Grey’ reminds me of an old friend who made my childhood the greatest and now another that is making my mid life crisis years the greatest. That doesn’t mean, I want to touch Grey:). Once again, thank you for your words of wisdom, your ferocious funny’s and your Semi-God like baseball knowledge. If I were ranking fantasy baseball writers, you’d be in a tier all by yourself. You’re kind of the only one I read so, your tier could be like five or six or seven…..
B) I don’t have any questions, just listening to your written word is enough but enough of the mushy sh-tuff, thank you and the beginning of my day just got soooo much better:).
C) There is no C :):):)!!!
CCC
Cancelling the Mets/Nats game most certainly sucks! I was really looking forward to an Official Opening Day matchup of deGrom vs. Scherzer. More importantly (because it pertains to my team), I most certainly will have to face deGrom twice in week #2 instead of once. At least one of those starts is in Coors *lower case and 2.5 font “yay”*.
Happy Opening Day Everyone!!!
Grey — the covid cancelled games will be made up, and MLB has been clear on player protocols —
10 days out positive test, 7 days close contact quarantine.
But what about reporting what players are out from this, and will they be put on a
“Covid IL” to allow for replacements? Have you heard? Thanks.
I haven’t
Whos the drop if i pick up Diekman?
Neris
Bard
Garrett
Bush
Castillo
Crichton
Crichton
thoughts on benching Edwin Diaz for the Thurs-Sunday week this week in lieu of Ian Kennedy? Idea is that Mets might not play many games due to COVID cancellation
Yeah, makes sense
It took me way longer than I’d like to admit to figure out the title
I am not a smart man
Haha
Opening Day, let’s goooo! Thanks again for all the ways you’ve helped everyone get prepped for the season.
I’ve got a trade offer on the table in 14-team H2H points league: my Giolito for Yelich.
I like the deal, but it’s a keeper/auction draft league, and I was able to keep Giolito for $13, while Yelich was kept at $50. Even though I think the trade would put me in a better position to go for the chip this year, I’m not sure about that huge gap in keeper value. For reference, Aaron Nola went for $44 at auction, so I like the idea of potentially having Giolito at a low price and spending the savings elsewhere. Again, that’s obviously next year, and we’re not playing for next year’s chip! How to think about this situation?
LFG!!!
Sounds fair, I’d take Yelich to win this year, but can understand passing
Gotcha – I’ll mull the trade over a bit more.
One more trade I’d like to get your take on: my L. Castillo for Arenado (would be looking to upgrade from E. Escobar – the 3B waiver wire is super thin). Is that the right amount of return for Castillo?
Meh
Safe to assume you’d like Devers better as a target in exchange for L. Castillo?
Yes
If I were to try to upgrade 3B via waiver wire, would you drop Escobar for India?
Sure
Hi Grey,
Hoping I can get your opinion on this glorious day.
12 team H2H league.
I was offered T Bauer and Xander B for Jose Ramirez and Chris Sale. My current shortstop is Swanson and my top three pitchers are Greinke, Snell, Gausman.
I have Urshela on the roster as well.
Sale would be a 20th round keeper next year Ramirez 12th round keeper. Bauer 13th round keeper next year.
Xander side
Why would the Rays start Yoshi Tsutsugo at lead off? He didn’t show well last year & couldn’t hit a lick this spring.
Perplexing.
Haha, I know
Our boy Guriel with the 1st RBI of the year. Woot!
LFG!
The rays are not exactly conventional. Tsutsugo did habe good walk rates, hitting a different story.
Yeah, Yoshi’s not lasting at leadoff tho, is my guess
Another great read.
Had my main draft last night
10 team keeoer yahoo 6×6 roto QS, OPS, Saves/holds
C. C. Kelly
1B. M. Olsen
2B.K. Hiura
3B. M. Muncy
SS. F. Tatis K
MI T. Turner K
CI. D. Moore
OF. Acuna K
OF Soto K
OF Luis Robert K
OF Laureano
UT A Riley
UT. T. Edman
BN. L Taveras
BN. A. Vaughn
IL Kyle Lewis
SP: Bieber K, Bundy, Luzardo, Mahle, Eovaldi, Means, Montgomery, Singer IL Syndergaard
RP: R. Rodriquez, Holland, Melancon, Kooech, Tyker Rogers
NA: Kelenic, Torkelson, Devi Garcia
I think your pitching looks solid, I’d be a little worried about your RPs…Your hitting looks solid, too…I can’t find anything to complain about except your RPs
Thanks. I kinda waited till end of draft to start grabbing RP. Nice thing is I can grab middle relievers since holds count.
No problem
With 4x 1st rounders (arguably the 1-2-3 in Acuna/Soto/Tatis) + Robert, you shouldn’t have to worry about hitting for a while. Like, a generation.
That hitting looks good for an 8-team league.
Don’t look now, but after 1 inning, Bieber has an 18.00 ERA and 3.00 WHIP.
Good times! Happy baseball everyone.
Jolt
I don’t own him so…well…
Pumped for opening day. Thanks for all you do from you and the crew.
10 team Wins saves Era WHIP K/BB K/9 QS league
Current Roster is
Sp-Castilllo
Sp-Bundy
Rp-Jansen
RP- Diekman
P- Wittigren
P- Bassit
P-Means
Pomeranz
Snell
Paddack
Mahle
Paxton
Thinking about adding Skubal Would you drop any of these guys for him?
I’d hold for now
Like the Rays situation, I don’t get Senien as a lead-off bat. He makes more sense than Yoshi, but not by much.
He’s solid contact guy, don’t agree
Semien that is
But Springer will replace him
Not sure what antone’s role will be and where he sits in pecking order while in the pen. I play in a s+h league. Would you rather own antone or soto from Det for s+h. Soto looks like the closer in Det. They qualify at sp. Ratios are important too. A bad team doesn’t mean there won’t be saves so I don’t mind owning a rp on bad team as long as the other pitch stats are good. Thanks
Antone
Yeah, you’re probaby right on both counts – I just have this gut feeling about him this year.
That said, you’re spot on about Springer, if/when his oblique settles down. God I hate that injury for any of my hitters. They can rehab for months, come back & jack it up again on 1 swing.
Don’t look now, Fried is settling down. That was a naaaaassssty curveball.
Yeah
Have I mentioned I hate Bill Miller? Harper K’s twice at the bottom of the zone & Miller calls both balls, despite that being a strike earlier in the AB.
And maybe his name is spelled Mueller, but I hate him too much to GIS if I’m spelling it wrong.
Maybe it was Realmuto. Mueller still sucks.
Haha
Not sure what antone’s role will be and where he sits in pecking order while in the pen. I play in a s+h league. Would you rather own antone or soto from Det for s+h. Soto looks like the closer in Det. They qualify at sp. Ratios are important too. A bad team doesn’t mean there won’t be saves so I don’t mind owning a rp on bad team as long as the other pitch stats are good. Thanks
Ke’bombin!
Gonna be a fun guy to watch
My most owned player
Ke’HRyan!
Missed him by 1 pick. D’oh!
Donaldson didn’t even make it to the bottom of the first.
Ha, I know, he’s a 85-game player at this point
HAPPY OPENING DAY GREY!!!!
Just heard Alex Reyes will be the closer in STL over Hicks (expletive). Is Hicks still worth holding onto in non-holds leagues?
Also, have room for 1 IL spot, who do I stash, who gets dropped:
– Framber Valdez
– Luis Severino
Thanks as always!!
HAPPY OPENING DAY DANCIN HOMER
Can lose Hicks in shallower leagues…. Severino
thanks for the advice; do you like A. Reyes or Taylor Rogers better for saves now?
.. and just got the alert Lamet hit the IL today… I now have 3x IL slots with the following guys all on the IL. Damn terrible drafting apparently:
– Springer
– Lewis
– Lamet
– Valdez
– Severino
so, i’ll either need to stash 1-2 on my bench for a bit or cut loose.
at least we have real baseball!
Reyes
Yup!
Just swooped him for Fairbanks. Thanks for the tip! I hated having to play best guess with TB closers.
Which side – Teoscar or Dansby?
Dansby
Ginkel Soria or crorchton with most D’Back saved?
Soria
Not sure what the over/under on Donaldson getting hurt was, but…whoever had Game 1 wins!!!
Haha
Hey dad.
Your Mondesi Lovin, SP Puntin, Son of a gun reporting.
I have been balls deep in fantasy hoops, trying to catch up to baseball. Would you recommend having a balanced attack with pitching? Or a focused attack either going for Ws & Ks, or Saves, ERA & WHIP?
I love strategy talk, if you couldnt tell already.
https://razzball.com/2021-fantasy-baseball-rankings/
I’m confused. Is there an article that talks about pitching strategy that I missed?
This is for a 12 team, 5×5 categories standard yahoo public league.
https://razzball.com/top-20-starters-for-2021-fantasy-baseball/
woof nevermind, my apologies if i’ve offended you in some way
No offense, you’re just asking me to go over 3 months of material
Heard, I need to work on my communication. Will try to ask better questions in the future.
Nothing like having your whip and era destroyed in one inning by your best pitcher. Luis Castillo. Oh boy. Btw, Suarez not look at that smooth at SS.
Not looking all that smooth
What is their backup plan?Cause he really sucks.
He just had another throwing error that led to a run since goldy took 2nd base.
Suarez sucks
Happy Opening Day, Grey!
You too!
Pitching pillow-fight going on in KC.
Yeah, lots of feathers
Naturally my boy Dozier is the only Royal not to reach base so far.
Haha
Stevebermetrics!
Hosmer unaffected so far though!
Haha
Just the eight stranded by Dozier today.
Haha
First saves of the year go to Gregory Soto and Julian Merryweather. Just like we expected.
Soto looks yuck
That bullpen is a mess. As are many bullpens, to be fair.
Doesn’t look quite as bad as the Reds defense though. Oof. What’s worse – Suarez at SS or the Indians trying to shoehorn Rosario in CF?
Suarez has to move back
Curt and definitive. Are you a Castillo owner? But yes, I agree. It was a stupid idea to begin with. Should’ve just kept Iglesias from a couple of years ago.
I am in a league or two, I think…It’s super early, I’m trying not to panic, but Suarez made an error in every inning, so that’s not great
It’s hard to see this experiment lasting too much longer. Might be better to try India at SS. That at least has a chance of working.
I’d take that at this point, and I don’t know anything about his defensive abilities, but Eugenio just can’t
BREAKING NEWS: Angels trade Steve Cishek to Pirates for Kyle Crick to make Grey’s DNA joke even more appropo.
err, I mean apropros.
Crick and Watson just sent me a nasty text re: spellchecking.
Happy Opening Day all!
(and boo the Nats for ruining my Scherzer-DeGrom starts today)
Yeah, but you take what you can get
Yes, fingers crossed
Wait, so Bellinger was robbed of a homer by… Turner?
Ha, that’s what I’m hearing
Any time you pass the runner in front of you, I think it has to be your fault…
So Bellinger robbed of homer by… Bellinger!
Rough start for the lower end aces I drafted in the 4th-5th rounds. Castillo, Woodruff and Flaherty have all been varying degrees of trash.
Castillo’s fastball was extremely hittable today. Wasn’t fooling the Cards or missing bats at all. The Reds defense looks like garbage too. I’d be a bit concerned with him. Not so much with Woodruff or Flaherty though. Just mediocre starts in less than ideal matchups.
Thanks for the heads up. I was watching the Dodgers/Rockies. Castillo fell to me in the 4th in the late 30s. Thought I was getting a steal there so hopefully he won’t turn out to be a dud this year.
Yeah, not great
The weather may have been a factor
Colome with the blown save after Rogers pitched a clean 7th.
Ugh
How short of a leash do you think Colome will have in the closer role?
A few weeks maybe, he was signed to close
Hey Gr~ey,
Happy Opening Day!
1) Could you pick your top 3 out of these for the week?
Tarik Skubal, David Peterson, Adbert Alzolay, JT Brubaker, Anthony DeSclafani
Thanks!
I’d look at their matchups
Word, I did make a list from the Streamonator, I hear what you’re saying *thumb’s up*
Word, I did make a list from the Streamonator, I hear what you’re saying *thumb’s up*
Ended up with Ketel Marte at 2b on all 4 of my teams thanks to Grey having him well ahead of ADP in the top 500. 4/4 with a homer is a nice way to kick off the season.
Love him!
Reyes or Pagan?
Reyes
My adds for Sat: M. Cabrera, Owings, A. Cabrera (my opening day batty call! yes!), M. Taylor, TShaw. (This list keeps getting longer…)
Seriously, maybe there is a correlation between these older pitchers who don’t have high heat who know how to use what they have to succeed, to some of these older hitters who keep on keeping?
BTW, I am panicking and dropping all my picks…They were all a mistake.
Opening Day! Yes!
Hahaha — Except Bumgarner
Would’ve been nice if someone would’ve told us Freddy Peralta was gonna pitch today!
Come on Counsel
Ha
Any idea why Freddy Peralta was pitching out of the pen today? 2 innings,6 k’s! But I bet most people had him on their bench,like me!
Diego gets the first save for Tampa and looked good doing it.
Prolly needed work
08:00 AM, “Happy opening day! What a glorious day it is for baseball, love is in the air and hope springs eternal!”
4:00 PM, “I hate this F’n game. Stupid Darvish with 2-2 coins with a 5 run lead 1 out from a W & he does that?! GAH!”
Exactly
*count
Ya know whatV F it. Tomorrow is a brand new day. At least Alfaro swiped a bag & Meadows hit a tater.
:(
Owings stole two, haha
Yeah, watching the end we (Rockies) just won but of course they played that bum.
Bard, tho
Made it interesting (greiited teeth emoji). Though if Gameday is to be believed he was throwing some serious smoke…
Bard hung a slider to Muncy for a lead triple. Taylor I think had a real good at bat drew a walk on close pitches. He hit Smith on a pitch that was barely inside. Smith let it hit him on the elbow guard. Bard looked pretty good. Triple digit heat. The slider was effective against righties. Got Mookie to end it
Yeah that was getting out of but like Oaktown said…. Who am I kidding? I’m going to try to find someone else on all teams with him.
how much would you bid on Ian Kennedy in a 12 tm al only? My only other reliver is hendriks
$270 FAAB budget
You need him huh? Maybe $16
Yeah Boooooyd!
Haha
Holland is not good
Haha, was just watching that…
I added Wade Davis in RCL almost immediately. He looked pretty good. Good velocity, sharp slider.
Might as well get the first one of the year out of the way… I hate F’n closers!
I just had a nap (for reals) and woke up and saw that Longoria and Posey had homered and now I don’t know what year it is.
Lou Bob coming through already with a run and a steal!
Not wild about him hitting 7th, but yeah. Garcia should be behind him, at least. But love the speed.