Nicholas Tropeano sounds like a sitcom character, doesn’t he? Like that’s his real name, but he goes by the nickname of The Boof or simply Boof. Then only his mom, Mrs. Tropeano calls him Nicholas. Some girls call him Nick, but Boof or The Boof, that’s what you know him as. At one point, he even went to a technical school with Arthur Fonzarelli and Joseph Tribbiani Jr. I went over The Boof briefly the other day when he threw a five inning, meh start. There I said, “Breezed through the minors as only an Astros prospect could. What I mean is they don’t have a ton of major league options, so if someone does okay, they promote the crap out of them. In Triple-A, he had a 8.7 K/9, 0.99 WHIP and a 3.03 ERA in 124 2/3 IP.” And that’s me quoting me! This Buy is more for AL-Only leagues and keepers (I’ll go over mixed league starters to stream in the post). Shoot, this Boof buy could even be considered more for 2015 fantasy baseball. Now, maybe I’m really just having residual feelings for what Collin McHugh and Dallas Keuchel did this year, but Tropeano looks like a $1 flyer in very deep leagues that could reap similar benefits. I know it’s far from glamorous to put faith in Astros, but I’m likely to call Tropeano a sleeper for 2015 and point back to this post next year. I’d love if his velocity was a tad faster to go with his nasty change, but The Boof could pay dividends for savvy owners in deep leagues. Ayyyyy! *pounds wall, jukebox turns on* Anyway, here’s some more players to Buy or Sell this week in fantasy baseball:
BUY
Edward Mujica – SAGNOF is a activity done by vultures without a soul, and I wanna peck the eyes out of Edward, The Last of the Mujicans, if he doesn’t get saves and just keeps giving up runs.
Drew Storen – Every once in a while a guy comes along that not only takes over the closer job, but looks better than his predecessor. If only Soriano would’ve got canned earlier in the year, so Storen could’ve helped me with my save lead preserves. Toast points!
Aaron Sanchez – Unlike Storen, Sanchez is on the other side of the SAGNOF spectrum. The guy that is better than the closer, and is supposedly put in as closer, then he gets repeatedly called on in the 7th inning. John Gibbons can eat a banana! Actually, anyone can, unless you’re allergic. Check with your doctor first before following this advice.
Wade Davis – Was a bit surprised to see him on waivers in so many leagues. Sure, he’s only getting saves now, but he’s ranked sixth for all RPs for the whole year on our Player Rater, and if he gets a few more saves, he’ll end up fourth for all relievers. Behind only Kimbrel, Holland and K-Rod. By the by, our Player Rater is better than ESPN’s, but you knew that.
Kevin Quackenbush – Fun Fact! Quackenbush’s outgoing voicemail message is voiced by Gilbert Gottfried.
Josh Fields – Maybe it’s Tony Sipp getting Astros saves. Maybe it’s Chad Qualls. Maybe you don’t care because you’re not this desperate. Well, excuse me! Ooh, I’m swooping my one wispy piece of hair over my bald spot and don’t need a closer. Aren’t you Mr. Fantastic?!
Stream-o-Nator – *looking through pitchers, not seeing a guy name Stream-o-Nator, calls up ESPN’s Fantasy Department, put on hold while they gather people around the phone so they can laugh at another person who calls into the Fantasy Department, asks for a player named Stream-o-Nator, hears stifled laughter, hangs up phone, cries into mother’s bosom* Stop your crying, little man?! There’s no exact starters at this point, because everyone is either streamable or droppable. Would I stream Vidal Nuno? Oh, hellz yeah. Yes, a ‘Z on hell’ yes. Would I consider Jimmy Nelson? I’d prefer not to, but I would if desperate enough. Chase Anderson streamable? Mos Def, Ms. Fat Booty. Everyone is streamable if the shituation is dire enough.
Hitter-Tron – See what I said about the Stream-o-Nator, but replace pitchers with hitters and replace Ms.Fat Booty with a well-buttered bundt cake tin.
Tyler Flowers – You don’t send me to waivers for Tyler Flowers anymore… Sorry, I didn’t hear you come in and I was singing my favorite Streisand song. *thinking* …Okay, a top 5 Streisand song, it’s so hard to choose!
James Loney – In the last week, I’ve said about Loney, “Stop bankrupting my boner, Curt Schilling!…Gabe Kaplan in the Battle of the Network Stars…David Bowie asked The Wallflowers to unsing Heroes…” Hmm, I’d never get a job for Zagat’s pulling quotes like that.
Gregor Blanco – The White Russian has been tipplering the scales near-.350 in the last week and has speed. Yes, part of that week is being buoyed by his recent trip to Coors, but you can’t fault The White Russian riding on the back of a beer.
Dayan Viciedo – How many homers in one week does he need to convince you to pick him up? 5? Wow, you’re greedier than me. He has four in the last nine games. Just missed your arbitrary cutoff. Day-amn!
Gerardo Parra – Has hit in every game he’s started in September, and he’s only sat out one game, so that means *doing math in my head* Taste the rainbow! Hmm, my math is off there.
Alejandro De Aza – He had some shizzy luck this year. De Aza could’ve easily been a fantasy number three to four outfielder for all mixed leagues if he just would’ve been the starter. Oh, well, can’t cry over spilled milk as they say in war-torn Bosnia where all they have is donkey’s milk.
Jordy Mercer – Shrugs. He’s hot, I don’t know.
Jed Lowrie – Didn’t do much all year, and he’s still not hitting for a lot of power, but he is hitting for average and he has to play every day because he’s the only non-catcher on the A’s.
Jose Ramirez – Didja know Jose Ramirez is used similarly to John Doe in South America? “We got a Jose Ramirez here with his jort pockets turned inside out. Third time this week we’ve found one like this.” That’s from CSI: Bogota.
Scooter Gennett – If Scooter doesn’t wear a shiny green jacket every day of his life, then I have but one reaction.
Josh Rutledge – Basically, the Buy column this week is like the guy in Fargo who opens the back of his van for Malvo to buy black market items, only the van is stocked with MIs and SAGNOF.
Xander Bogaerts – In two weeks of September, he’s hit as many homers (3) as he hit in any whole month up until this point. Also, pushing his average over .350 for the month. Best month for Bogaerts since his image hawked Diet Coke, before that you have to go back about 40 years for a good month. Talk about a dry spell!
Joe Panik – When you pick him up, please call up a friend and tell them, “I’m about to hit the Panik button. Express to me in 150 words or less why I shouldn’t.” Preferably a friend that doesn’t play fantasy baseball.
SELL
Rafael Soriano – See, blurb on Storen. Then sigh. Then release Soriano. Simon’s not going to say anything, just do it.
Jimmy Rollins – “YES!!!” Okay, Ryne Sandberg, take it easy.
Elvis Andrus – “The Rangers are holding him back for the playoffs, right?” Comatose Rangers Fan, you might want to sit down.
Giancarlo Stanton – News sounds promising for next year, but you can drop him in redraft leagues. On a related note, CBS might want to consider changing the name of their “Eye On Baseball” updates for Headley and Giancarlo.
Josh Hamilton – You staring at Josh Hamilton on your fantasy team, wondering if you should drop him is sad. You’re depressing people around you. Please don’t make someone step in and ask you if everything’s okay. You’re putting people in an uncomfortable situation, and now they have less time to wait for people to like their pithy Facebook status and more time spent on worrying about your mental state. You’re so selfish, I hope you’re happy!
Chris Davis – Who knew his nickname Crush came from crushing Adderall pills and sprinkling them on his popcorn? I did not. I’d love to be a Jeff Goldblum on the wall when Chris Davis and Carlos Ruiz were having a conversation. “Yo, what’s up?” “The sky, the birds, the tree leaves, the tree leaves are up, the planes, the clouds, the clouds are up, the high apple pie in the sky hopes are up. What’s up with you?” “The ceiling fan, the roof, a guy waving in a hot air balloon, the tree leaves are up for me too, my blood sugar says the doctor, test scores for inner city youth, my hand that I’m holding above my head.” Apparently, it’s hard to get amped up naturally for a sub-.200 average. If you own Davis in a redraft league, you can drop him.
I want to draw out some classic cram up in here so I will ask Tyler Flowers or Russell Martin ROS?
LOL! HA!
The acronyms really put it over the top… Reminds me of Paul George’s comments on the Ray Rice video… Cougs was not happy, being a Pacers fan…
@Grey: Indianans? what da ya do!
Honestly, she said Paul George and I thought she was talking about a hair stylist…
@Grey: I always think boy George
Sam Smith?
@Grey: kevin smith in drag?
You? Okay, sounds good!
I’m using chris Davis as my 3B I’m in the playoffs and he was doing well for me last two weeks getting hits, runs and BB. Who do you say I should pick up as a 3b to replace him? Kindly appreciated keep up solid work!
Who’s available?
@Grey: I am going to pick up Uribe based solely because of his avg my other option is plouffe, 12 man keeper league
Cool
@Sam: If you want an answer give more details, league size, players avail, scoring system would help.
@Sam: I’d say Beltre, Miggy, or Longoria would be solid pickups…
@Abdoozy: donaldson over longo. do it.
Drop Bruce or Cuddyer for one or two of the hitters listed above? Need every offensive category I can get through next week to win the ship.
Bruce
aw, no rusney castillo recommendation? pawtucket’s post-season comes to an end this weekend. i’m hoping he can come off my bench and fill in for beltran for last 2 weeks of the year. really whatever he does should be an improvement on beltran.
Hopefully he doesn’t just bring a ton of hype…
@Grey: yeah, that would put me in a pickle. though usually you would like that from a cuban…
Mmm, I’m hungry….
Sup Girl
Sup
C’mon. The Way We Were has to be #1.
Haha
@Grey: This time next week I’ll be in your time zone.
@SteveNZ: Will have just arrived in your time zone, is what I meant to say.
@SteveNZ: our time zone can’t wait. Bring something new zealandy
@J-FOH: How about a strange accent?
Haha
Aw sooky! Getting my haircut right now so it’s grown in nice by then
@Grey: Had mine cut last week!
Lambda!
@Grey: Are you referring to the point on the skull where the two parietal bones and the occipital bone come together?
Nope! Lambda is the symbol for same wavelength, was saying we were on it (though not as much on lambda)
@Grey: Ha, that’s right. I’ve seen it before on the Razz but had forgotten what it meant. We’re totally Lambda!
I’m trying to say ‘totally’ a lot more as preparation for LA.
Good move! And gag me with a spoon, everyone here does!
Weekly league is coming down to R primarily, but possibly AVG too. Start 7-game Revere who has been chilly in last 7 or 6-game Wil Myers who has been not so chilly in last 7?
@Justin: Bruce and Hosmer are also options for final spot, but with only 6 games per, and neither lighting up the R’s, I didn’t think I’d go that way …
Myers
If you were only looking for K’s and a potential Win in a key H2H matchup, would you prefer Salazar or Lobstein in the CLE/DET game tomorrow?
Stream-O hates Lobstein but his numbers have been pretty good so far.
Salazar
No comment on Kole Calhoun who has defied your Sell recommendation from last week? Would you still drop him or has he merited a keep for now?
I’d hold him now
Is a one handed Ryan Braun appealing at all? Someone dropped him and I’ve been riding the hot hand in my second UTIl spot. Currently have Vargas and Matt Adams. Should I drop either of those guys for Braun? Thanks a lot!
I’d lose Vargas for Braun
Hey Grey, I know you don’t like football, but maybe you could just be on the razzball radio show and make random comments in the background a couple times a week, the show loses something without your great presence. Great season thanks for all the fantasy advice!!!
Everything loses a little something without me… It’s effin sad…
@Grey: ha!! Preach it..
Gospel, son!
@ElBoss: like make jokes in the background over Nick’s football commentary. that would be most funny, but probably irritate Nick, and then his interaction with you would be even funnier.
dare i drop jay bruce for kole calhoun? in 2nd place currently.
Go for it
Rank the following ROS: J Rutledge, J Ramirez, J Panik and B. Miller … THANK YOU!
Ramirez, Rutledge
@Grey: Thank you kind sir!
No problem
I need a streamer Saturday, but I just don’t like Chase Anderson vs Tyson Ross. No QS scoring & a win seems unlikely against Ross. I know he’s pitching to the hitters, not Ross, so maybe I’m overthinking it. Kyle Kendrick & Hand is kind of a battle of mediocrity. Salazar scares me. The Tigers love fastball hurlers. I was thinking Miguel Gonzalez – 6 1/3 IP, 0 ER, 9 baserunners, 4 Ks, ERA down to 3.22 vs Greene NYY. Whatda think? I know you said you like Chase, but wins add 10 pts. & no QS. H2H ESPN 10 team standard. Who you gonna call? F the Ghost Busters, I’m callin Grey!
Anderson
In my final move for the week, I’m about to drop Chris Davis for the insurmountable Vidal Nuno. This will be a make or break move too, my season is in dire straights! Yup–I’m leaving it all on Nuno!
Haha
@Sally: Nuno is @ COL next, tread carefully.
Hey Grey,
Any sign of AHeaney getting a start or two this year? Need W’s, JNelson or AHeaney?
Nelson
I can’t think of the name ‘Boof’ without thinking of ‘Boof Bonser’. I used to say he would always be my boof after I dropped him to the FA pool:
I’d Boof that! Huh?
Boof goes the dynamite!
Boof my boner! Opps, autocorrect!
@Grey: Boof, there it is!
Boof, I did it again!
All I wanna do is a zoom, zoom, zoom, and a boof, boof!
Sometimes when we Boof, the honestly is too Boof…
boof dat
You had to be a Boof shot last night all your friends were knocked out…
What can I say, I rocked ruff ‘n’ stuff with my afro boofs…
In the jungle the mighty jungle, the Boof sleeps tonight
Speaking of Boof, the real LaBeouf is doing some funny stuff lately:
http://www.eonline.com/news/577855/is-shia-labeouf-sending-a-message-through-his-nike-running-routes
Shia LaDouche?
@Grey: Call him Shia. Heck, call me Shia.
Haha
In a keeper league, would you drop any of these to pick up Tropeano?
Chase Anderson
Rubby De La Rosa
Yovani Gallardo
Matt Garza
Jason Hammel
Kyle Hendricks
Dilson Herrera
Mike Moustakas
Kohl Stewart
Hendricks
Who do you recommend for a “break glass in case of emergency” Sunday streamer?
M. Garza v. Cin ($16.1)
Petit v. LAD and Kershaw ($12.4)
Volquez v. CHC ($10.1)
H. Santiago v. HOU ($9.2)
Niese v. WAS ($8.5)
J. Vargas v. BOS ($2.4)
Much appreciated.
Petit
@Grey: thx. keep hope alive!
Always!
need to replace stanton.
i still got some power. looking at a power/speed combo guy.
i see wil meyers, de aza, aj pollack.
which do you prefer?
thanks.
Myers
Start Rajai Davis vs. Carrasco or Coco Crisp vs. Paxton tonight?
Crisp
@Grey: Thanks Gray, always appreciate the help.
No problem
Hip Hop Line Of The Day:
The cult leader, the war-monger, armed with four high-powered
Firearm barometers; I visited Andromeda
The human cloner, the donate to my fam organ donor
The morbid odor of corpses lowered, the coroner
The cult leader, result needer, the skull and bones bleeder
The chrome heater, the soul eater, the tome reader
The cloak and dagger magnum packer
Convert star systems to active vacuum
The illest shit since Manson had goons
The great communicator; alien tomb raider
Consume data, cut from the same cloth that produced Vader
The cult leader, the ultimate fighting champion
The benificient, the lamb, the messiah, the religion
There’s a thousand faces, more than the cross and the Star of David
I’m the combination of God and Satan
The humble shepherd, the son of lepers, the stuff of legends
The cult leader, I’ve indulged in the most disgusting of pleasures
Likeable and charismatic; my smilin face has been
Enough to make a mother leave her children in a violent place
I turn knees to noodles; I make my female followers
Want me until they pussy’s drippin like fruit juice
The pervert, the pathological, the prophet
I’m the second coming, the Anti-Christ, the final conflict
Who got nuclear weapons and a suicidal doctrine?
The cult leader, and I’ll never stop until I got you locked in
I turn knees to noodles, too! Who is this? You?
@Grey: Ha i wish, i thought it was you as it describes you perfectly oh mighty leader!
Don’t know Non Phixion at all, should I be embarrassed?
@Grey: nah, its not the most known but its good stuff…
http://youtu.be/jFzaZ6bWZbo
Affiliated acts?
@Grey: eh i dont know who really. Did a couple songs with MF Doom, some Necro and Premeir beats….the album ‘The future is now’ is tight as a sheeps dick
@nick the dick: give that cult leader link a listen, i love this track
Okay, definitely
Haha… Okay, will check it out…
@Grey: Their old track “I shot Reagan” is pretty good as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7CyrPiThzA
Nice! Thanks!
@Grey: Haha for real its Ill Bill from Non Phixion
It hurts to drop Stanton as he has been one of my best players all year and worst of all I own Fiers so its like my team is sabotaging itself! I also had Daniel Murphy get hit last night and Werth battling the flu.
Damn
@Grey: Yeah I meant to ask a question there, who do you think will be more valuable ROS Wade Davis or Drew Storen?
Storen
with 7 K lead and now both me and opp have 4 more starts since this Stroman last second b.s. and i have to play kershaw again, gotta hope hope.
Hope hope is all you got at this point
@goodfold2: and soler’s out for whole weekend too. damn bad luck running around here… and in other leagues stanton.
Yup
@goodfold2: Do you happen to know if news that Soler would miss the weekend out there before game lock, or even yesterday? I’m ticked, too, but I’d also like to know how much I can justifiably blame myself. If I should wear a hairshirt and flog myself I will, but dang, no RF for me tonight.
@Hal Incandenza: it was out there before 6 PM central, i know that. i think it was somewhere around like 3 PM central, or maybe slightly earlier. sorry i missed this for awhile.
i’m guessing you can throw away qualls at this point? (probably should’ve a couple of weeks ago)
Yup
been juggling 1st baseman..just dropped butler, who do I want for the final 2 weeks…Fat Adams or Loney? I need every stat possible, I am a sinking ship who was in first by 5pts now in 2nd 1pt back…my team is like watching a slow death ugh
Loney
@Grey: thanks
No problem
Latos scratched, Corcino in.
Yup
@slew: i shouldn’t bitch about my bad luck so much what with CIN, and TEX, in real life.
Miami should’ve beaned Parra in retaliation so Khris could play everyday.
I say bean Braun
@Grey: Ok by me
damn jones goes 0-5 then doesn’t even play 2nd game, yikes.
Yup, crap
@Flowers misses his old glasses, but he’s ok tho: cruz and jones, good ol 2/12
instead of being a rankings slave, I’ll be a tiers slave.
Can you tier for let’s say 2015 and 2016 (or at least say if any of them are noticeably above or below the rest?)
Ross, Arrieta, Wood, Smyly, McHugh, Bailey, Verlander
I’ll likely be able to keep 1 or 2, and may need to drop 1 or 2 this week.
Ross, Arrieta
What do you see yelich’s AVG, HR, SB in 2015? looking to keep him as one of 5 keepers in 11 team five keeper OBP/SLG 7×7 yahoo league. Would keep over Jose Fernandez, Iwakuma, Wade Davis< Seager and David Ortiz.
Thanks!
Yeah, over those guys
STEAL MENDY! do it. i’d be my first all week.
@goodfold2: or ramirez, both on first at same time.
@goodfold2: PIT was even playing a backup catcher too. I see other people’s players get 2 or 3 steals vs backup catchers.
Yup
Ha
Twins Chisox double tomm any of these worth the stream Garcia,Santana, Dayan,Arcia
All of them… Avisail
@Grey: I was looking Garcia and Santana prolly the more solid of the 2 correct?
Sure, depends on needs…
@Grey: Runs hrs rbis speed don,t mean to bring football here but check this out from a player who lost A 2 year old yet never missed a game>http://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/adrian-peterson-indicted-reckless-negligent-injury-to-a-child-091214
at least ramirez tried. man, relying on wada (k’s or not) for era/whip and not losing not going well. dude’s getting porcello’d.
Sucks
Would you drop Andrus for Mercer, Panik, Turner, Solarte, Bogaerts, Valaika, Herrera, E. Escobar, Miller, Rutledge (@Home next week), J. Ramirez, Owings, Hechavarria, or Y. Escobar? or Hold?
Was mainly holding onto Andrus for steals.
Xander
I’m eliminated from contention. Looking into 2015, anyone on the wire to stash for next year in a keeper?
Matt Harvey
Carlos Gonzalez
Jose Fernandez (don’t know if he will be back?)
I’d stash all of them
Should I be considering dropping Latos with no timetable and keeping eye on him to pick back up in semis? Im already grabbing peavy for next week now im thinking grab
kennedy son 17 v PHI
Colon 16.6 MIA
I’d go Kennedy
@john: Could try hold him around bit dont need make move now or could hold puig around bit longer if I cut latos
Then hold if you don’t have to make a move
MENDY! one bright spot for my CUBS today. but at this point i would trade in 2 homers for 1 steal, so….
wada moving era up about .4, making Ryu’s tonight start fairly important. hey all SF people except Pence, KILL HIM!
Yeah, first time I benched him in weeks
this guy lost a 2 year old to abuse in 10/13 http://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/adrian-peterson-indicted-reckless-negligent-injury-to-a-child-091214
Sorry, this was in the spam folder…
@Toe Knee: that wasn’t his abuse that killed his other kid though. he wasn’t even in the same state at the time. i think the murderer used his knuckles.
Grey i tried to send you link to Adrian Peterson story its just sick.This dude lost a 2 year old to child abuse in 10/13 now this. It was strange cause this guy never missed a game either.
What happened? He get arrested for something?
@Grey: Hes done…they yanked his start this week
@ty: I don’t even know who he is, so was looking for more clarity than he’s done…
@Grey: He beat his 4 year old with a switch causing injury.Adrian admitted whooping him.This is the same guy who lost a child in 10/13 to child abuse which seamed strange at the time that he didn’t even miss a game.
Holy crap, that’s insane… What, NFL is for the criminally insane now?
@Grey: they’re the modern day gladiators, basicially human bred mutants. They’ve never had to learn to be normal humans, and this means many of them exactly aren’t.
Yup
@Grey:A star running back in the nfl prolly hof caliber
Grey do you like any of your 2b’s you mentioned better than Mookie B?
@ty: Rutledge at home, when he gets there
Can Jason Hammel get lit up for 10 earned runs tonight! Please….. If there’s a baseball God make this happen!
@Bye Felicia: It’s alright by me, so long as the same happens for Paxton…
@royce!: as long as Cano homers and gets ribies
@Toe Knee: Also fine by me…unlikely, but fine
@royce!: Cano dong so likely
Haha
@Bye Felicia: as an a’s fan, i patooey this thread….
picked up ozuna basically for puig but half tempted to give puig a chance @COL next week or move on??
would you rather drop carrasco over latos or odorizzi. I am keeping odorizzi for mon start and latos on a wait and see with his elbow.
You can lose Latos
There tampa pitching mcgee in the 8th, wonder if that has something to do with yesterday? Can I still expect saves from him next week or watch close?
@john: Balfour in to close lol, hope edwin hits homer
Doubt it
@Grey: you doubt McGee gets saved next week? Or doubt Balfour comes in
I’d think McGee will get saves
Was just checking the forecast. Holy crap, the weather you have coming in the next couple of days…
Yeah, about as hot as it’s been all summer… Should be beautiful when you get here…
@Grey: LA Times saying the temperatures could be record-breaking on Sunday…
Yeah, I heard 98… That’s Fahrenheit, btw…
@Grey: Yeah. Could top 100 downtown. Looks a little cooler for next weekend (mid 80s) but that’s still plenty hot enough for me.
What is now where you’re at? 75?
@Grey: Try 60. Just at the end of winter here.
@SteveNZ: grey has it easy. I live out in the san gabriel valley and its always 10 degrees hotter than where he is.
Ah, still not bad… by the time you go back it will be beautiful… So since it’s the end of winter did you just have Xmas?
I wonder if Steve wil have any crocodile dundee moments in LA….oh wait. Wrong country.
@J-FOH: I’m from the city, big guy. I’m hip to you LA types.
@SteveNZ: cool then let’s go on a city tour before the game….not big guy, I have no idea of your stature. I’m more Long Beach than LA, but have spent many years in both
Same diff!
I’m a little worried about Fiers is going to react vs St.Louis next week.Would you take the chance or drop him for Kennedy and his 2 starts at home?
Sure
@Grey: You mean make the switch?Thanks.
Yeah, make the switch
@Hondo: STL doesn’t have any players as valuable as stanton, so i wouldn’t worry about it (although holliday lately…)
Gonna give Mad-Bum a big hug if I see him at Dodger Stadium on the 22nd.
Haha
Use Werth, Pollock, or Xander in my Util spot next week?
Werth
Wow, thanks for the lightning-fast response! I’m sorry i only found this site this year!
No problem
Great Job all year. Not easy predicting baseball.
10 team
Locke vs. Cubs
Chase vs. Padres
All stats relevant, leaning Chase or both?
Thanks for all the year long info.
I’d go Chase first, but I’m streaming both…
Mercer at Home or Bogaerts at PIT next week?
Xander
1) VERY nice call way back on 8/29 (Expanded Rosters = The Buy Bang Theory) telling us to sell Chris Davis.
2) Cool that your cougar is a Pacers fan – most of us here in Indy are also extremely upset with George’s comments.
3) Thanks for educating me on the proper way to spell hellz yeah – binge watching Californication and thought it was hells yes. No entry in my AP Stlye book., hellz yeah is so much cooler (and proper).
4) Thanks for answering my question a few days ago recommending Trop before putting it in your column – I feel special.
My question: with Cuddyer on my DL, yahoo blocks me from making needed pitching drop / adds – which batter do I drop? Leaning toward an OF because of quantity, but not quality. Batter bench size (3) too big for playoffs? 20 team Yahoo H2H getting ready for semi round next week.
Roster:
Devin Mesoraco- C
Albert Pujols – 1B
Jedd Gyorko – 2B,3B
Josh Donaldson- 3B
Joe Panik – 2B,SS
Denard Span – OF
Christian Yelich – OF
José Bautista – 1B,OF
U – Jordan Schafer – OF
B – Adeiny Hechavarria – SS
B- Rougned Odor – 2B
B – Josh Reddick – OF
DL – Michael Cuddyer – 1B,OF
2 -SP, 3 – RP, 4 – P, 9 – B spots for P (one used to stash Smyly for 2015 keeper)
Ha, no problem… Hellz yeah is actually from Strunk & White… Lose Reddick then, but Adeiny is by far your worst bat
@Grey: Hellz yeah I’m picking up a copy of that book! Not sure how I missed that one? So I’m dropping Reddick which means everyone should be picking him up because he’ll be going on a home run tear next week (probably some SB’s too.) Might trade Adeiny in for José Ramírez. Thanks again.
Ha, nice
Sir, why does mark trumbo suck so much?
I wish I knew
Thanks again for your help all year. Championship week is next week (9/15) in H2H OBP league. I know you like Soler (and I do too) but AJ Pollock has done well since he has been back and he plays 3 at home and 4 at Colorado facing only one good pitcher (Bumgarner). Meanwhile Soler has 7 games at home but he has to face Cueto, Kershaw and Greinke and the Cubs have been sitting him on Sundays. Hittertron likes Pollock ($10.2 v $5.9) too. Drop Soler for Pollock?
Sure, makes sense
was kicking major ass in semi finals 16 teamer, with wonderful ERA/WHIP, and could probably have handled two of these from yesterday, but not three of them . wada/nuno/carrasco (actually carrasco had a QS except for Lee F’ing him). QS league. i need to drop doolittle or mujica (also have mejia/storen) to have room to drop Nuno (@ COL next start, plus he was awful, but for first time in forever) to be able to stream 2 last guys. kendrick today as he is MUCH the best option i’m sure out of him/Hand/Holmberg, right? now losing losses/ERA, and whip but only a little on whip. still winning overall.
@Aubrey Plaza’s Pillow: 2. same league as above. winning bases/homers/RBI’s/runs by decent margins, losing AVG. tied in steals, gotta bench somebody to keep lagares in lineup for those. ignore TRON on Gordon today and bench him? other options are to bench ozuna/dickerson/arenado/frazier/vargas (doubleheader). Tron says Gordon is best but he’s been bad for about 25 at bats now, if not slightly more. on sunday somebody will have day off to take this out of my hands.
Bench Vargas
Yup, Kendrick
Mujica
@Grey: sweet jesus, i forgot, espn roster pickups lock before the FIRST GAMETIME! Damn, it’s my only espn league, so i wasted a pickup on kendrick, and can’t use him. I could’ve noticed the date next to his name when i added him, but that’s on me. I usually pick up streamers way before they play, and probably have only run into this once over the course of the year. Who runs these companies that would have such illogical b.s. hamstring their owners? I’m curious as to what sort of idiot puts settings in place like that in the first place, and why.
Yeah, I hate that…. Happens on my CBS league too, I think it’s preferences done my league manager
@Grey: I don’t think there’s any provider (or even a setting) that lets you pick up a guy after first pitch on a given day and then use him on that day.
Oh, was that what was meant? No, you can’t…
@SteveNZ: i didn’t mean that, clearly i’m not trying to cheat. I meant if a game starts at noon, in my league if you try to pick up a player who’s game starts at 6 PM, you can’t, after noon. which i’m sure you aren’t defending (no reasonable person would) might want to read what i said there. I certainly wouldn’t be defending the idea of being able to change a player in the game he plays in. today was filled with good streamers (holmberg/kendrick), yet my opp had in advance picked Rubby/Lobastein. haha.
@Aubrey Plaza’s Pillow: Might want to check your own comprehension there big guy – don’t see any suggestion of cheating in what I said. Nor am I defending it, though your attitude kinda makes me want to.
Ever since I’ve been playing fantasy that setting has been ‘inherent’ as you put it, in ALL leagues, from ANY provider. It’s not just your league. My guess is it has less to do with annoying fantasy players (though in this case it’s a enjoyable bonus), than it does with how ESPN, Yahoo et all run their daily stats updates. Maybe it’s a change that will come at some stage so you can make the change in the way you wanted to, but for now I’m assuming there needs to be a cutoff time for when you can swap players in an out and still have their stats included when ESPN/Yahoo run their daily stats update – and first pitch seems to me to be a perfectly reasonable option.
@SteveNZ: this moa has claws
@J-FOH: Claws and Fangs. And he’s looking at his claws and he’s looking at his fangs and he’s saying to himself, “I don’t know what to do?!?!?”
@J-FOH: @Kid A: And as I’m trying to figure it out, I become extinct.
@Kid A: in a dark alley?….maybe. In the comments section….hells no
@SteveNZ: i never said you mentioned “cheating”. but i meant it was fairly obvious that i wasn’t trying to be able to change a player after HIS game started. To me if you could change a player after HIS game started, this wouldn’t be fair at all. You seemed to read what i said as if that’s what i wanted to be able to do. Since you claim that all providers do what you think i was bitching about, it’s clear you still aren’t understanding what i said originally. I’ll explicate this to make it obvious.
1. My espn league (i’m only in one)- allows players to be picked up the day of their games, unless a different game has already started that day, at which point if you pick up anybody it only counts for tomorrow. Grey mentioned above that it very well might not be inherent to espn that this be so. (if it is then it is, and i’m glad i’m finding that out either way)
2. I’m in many yahoo leagues , of one of 2 types. either daily -today which means i can pick up a player before THEIR game time, and their stats count for THAT DAY.
or the 2nd way, daily -tomorrow, in which all pickups count for tomorrow.
from this line “I don’t think there’s any provider (or even a setting) that lets you pick up a guy after first pitch on a given day and then use him on that day.” you either didn’t understand what i said above, or have never played in a yahoo daily -today type transaction league (this is very basic setting). They are pretty cool. you can grab players last minute, in case a pitcher changed happened, etc. You clearly did suggest that i thought it stupid that i can’t sub out players after their games started, which i never said at all. As far as comprehension goes, i’d love to hear the reading of what I said that makes it sound that way. I might need to grow in size till i’m a “big” person to get it though.
@Aubrey Plaza’s Pillow: it’s weird, since in yahoo the transactions are either daily -today and you can pickup anyone till gametime, but nobody till 3 AM eastern for next day, or simply daily-tomorrow (which really sucks, since you can’t put in subs for last second benches/injuries, but at the same time CAN beat all your opp’s very easily to closer/injury replacements), but at least those are cut and dried systems of this. espn basically does both, daily-today until first game, then goes to daily-tomorrow at first gametime.
@Aubrey Plaza’s Pillow: for next year i’m getting this voted on if it’s editable, since i’m pretty sure damn near EVERYBODY thinks this is stupid, and the only reason nobody has whined about it before is they very well may think it’s inherent in espn leagues. What’s even to gain from that system. If Wainwright gets killed in traffic accident 1 hour before his late game gametime you can’t pickup a streamer for at least some stats? who’s gonna defend that. It also forces people to be able to edit their rosters multiple times a day when it’s not needed.
Yup
G, i have one move left to throw a guy this week and hopefully eek my way into the championship. Do I go YoGa vs cin, Anderson vs sd or Garza vs cin? SON has greasy nuts and bolts for all of em, suprisingly, the most lubed for Garza. Yet it’s all rusty over the guys I actually own, Sonny and Teheran. Need these wins!
@nick the dick: it’s gonna be anderson for everything except wins. probably gallardo for wins.
@Aubrey Plaza’s Pillow: well we all know it aint gonna be Garza!! Didnt mention Gonzalez vs yanks or leake vs mil because son hates em but throw them in too.
@nick the dick: you mentioned garza. don’t touch the leake. MIG has been wonderful for a while now. i’d go (and already am in numerous leagues) him. Grey’s also told many many people to grab him back since end of last week for this week.
Anderson
Oh Jorge Soler. You and your baby-making on New Years Eve. Oh well, I don’t even think you could have known you may have cost me the season…actually he probably would have done it anyway, then yelled out during “This one’s for you Mello!” and I would have been like “”Okay, thanks!….awkward”
Haha
Going catcher-less for the rest of the season. Castro was doing more harm than good and this opens up another streamer spot for the last two weeks. I’ll miss out on the 4R, 1HR, 2RBI that he would get me, but not having a .200 AVG from him outweighs the losses.
Gotcha
Pick a streamer for next week:
Kennedy v PHI (Burnett) – better matchup but he’s sucked lately
Hutchison @BAL(Jimenez) – worse matchup but he’s been good lately
Also for next week keep 2 of these:
Benoit (7 games) – Black said he’s close if he gets through tomorrow’s bullpen
Janssen (7 games) – is he going to share save opportunities
Feliz (6 games) – will there be any opportunities against OAK and LAA?
Kennedy… Not Benoit
For this coming week –
Mercer – @Home vs BOS and @Home vs MIL
Bogaerts – @PIT and @BAL
Rutledge – @Home vs LAD and @Home vs ARI
Baez – @Home vs CIN and @Home vs LAD
Looking for HRs and Steals. Or just overall stats.
Bogaerts
Who to replace Stanton for next week? Looking for HRs.
Pearce – vs TOR, vs BOS
Singleton – vs CLE
Wong – vs MIL, vs CIN
Reddick – vs TEX, vs PHI
Gyorko – vs PHI
Morales – @LAA
Vargas – vs DET, vs CLE
Alcantara – vs Cin, vs LAD
Bruce – @CHC, @STL
Bruce
Thinking about grabbing De Aza but it looks like he has 2 leftys and a day off in the middle of the week. possibly only 4 games he plays?
Likely, yeah
ok, now that i f’ed up and missed the kendrick start, but used a pickup on it, who’s best for tomorrow (i’ll pick that person up right now, unless espn somehow F’ed up and put one of tomorrow’s games into system as starting already, which i suppose is possible),
odrisamer @ ARI
gonzales vs COL
bucannon vs MIA
Gonzalez
@Grey: thanks quintana is kicking ass!
Nice
@Grey: in that same league where i got screwed wasting kendrick pickup, my opp has rubby/lobastein (he clearly has no SON), so i could get back ERA/losses anyway. Opp has no chance if that happens, since my counting stats other than steals in hitting are destroying him.
Gotcha
Going all mash up tomorrow for Sunday hip hop. It’s my ode to a great art form.
Nice!
@Grey: Ralph is not a mash up guy. He needs to get with the program
Depends on the mashup, but a lot are great… Love the Grey Album… This is a great one too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgMKOWqalTs
@Grey: very nice. I hope you enjoy the weird shit I picked out
Looking forward to it, homey!
@Grey: where you taking coug for dinner tonight?
Pine and Crane
@Grey: sounds like rustic seafood
Yeah, not at all
@Grey: okinawan?
Rustic okinawan!
@Grey: Mr. Miagi would be proud of you
12 teamer where i’m on a bye. for next week i have this lineup and 8 pickups per week, and can prepare for best available starts now. f-her/cobb/mchugh/kluber/shoemaker/carrasco/keuchel. it’s likely best lineup i have anywhere. only have f-her since it’s a keeper i took over. thinking of turning keuchel into stream spot with all of these streamable minor/house/anderson/petit/hutchison/paxton/pineda/nuno. K/BB and QS.
2. in different league (dynasty) i have pedroia. who to replace (i’ve dropped desmond to make room, don’t need desmond with cain/polanco). alcantara/panik/rutledge/valbuena. this is only till end of year gig, otherwise i’m sure it would be mendy. i don’t have roster space with a lot of other really useful players such that i have to bench 4 of polanco/morneau/carter/calhoun/soler/upton/k.davis/aramis every day already. i took over this team and it had a lot of bench bats, but they are good ones. 12 team league with BB/K’s/Slug/OPS in addition to normal categories.
@Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey: also in #2 it has big benches, so i still have 10 SP.
1. Don’t know their matchups, but sounds fine 2. Rutledge in Coors
anybody else find it funny that sometimes you can almost be sure (in H2H league playoffs) that no team still around has even one player playing in certain matchups, like SD @ ARI? it’s hilarious. you almost don’t have any need (other than anderson) to even check the box score/play by play.
You do if the league is deep enough
@Grey: oh yeah, i meant in shallower leagues. just noticing the other white fish is available and if i survive in this shallow league i’m picking him up over alcantara for monday. pollock or lagares for steals but also overall production? but it’s also likely at this point, with 4-6 teams left, that the better teams have the least amount of players from those teams.
Lagares
at least i deserve to lose steals now, with desmond taking over the world. damn that dude is good. wonder if next year i overpay on SS and grab him in more leagues, instead of waiting till near 100th and taking the presumed to be last good non-punting SS andrus (who wasn’t that this year)
Semis start monday which 3 bats do I roll with…..
Puig Pollock Ozuna Rizzo Betts?
@john: due to injuries, current production, i’d go mookie/ozuna/other white fish, since we don’t know how much rizzo even plays (if at all), and puig hasn’t done much for a while.
Ozuna
Oops… Ozuna, Puig, Betts
@Grey: should i be considering rusney or dont even bother
I wouldn’t bother
Went to a wedding last night..drank 1 to many L.I. Iced teas..got home around 1am..banged my wife till around 2am (the power of alcohol) my kids were up this morning at 6am…why am I awake watching the Mets get smoked by the nats
Cause you’re a hero to your friends and family…
@Grey: Ha…or a jackass
Yeah, that was my second option
@Grey: I was a hero on the dance floor last night..there’s no doubt about that.
“One F, no more Macarena for you!”
@Grey: the bride asked me for my number when I left
@jef with 1 f: my wife gave it to her
@jef with 1 f: i’m guessing you got home that early after that many of those since either getting a ride (or safely dodging the cop gauntlet). could be the best way to travel, rocking out on headphones while super loaded on public transport.
@The Harrow: Ha ha..nah my wife drove…it was her turn…I usually just ask her if she is driving or are we taking a cab
HA!
Lady killer/home wrecker!
I dislike you, Brian Shaw.
@SteveNZ: Mike Trout, on the other hand, is OK by me.
I hear that
@SteveNZ: Trout and Abreu coming through for you as per usual. Your team just mashes. Ugh.
Welp, that Ross start did an excellent job sinking battleships in a couple of leagues. Jeezy Creezy.
Yup
solarte party and son of donald bombs!
Hittertron likes moss tomorrow. Take him or de aza over lagares?
@Jay: I could drop betts or matt carpenter too
Betts
@Jay: no, moss has been horrible, for months. de aza’s hot as shit (make sure he’s playing righty though), lagares too.
@goodfold2: maybe you just picked moss up lately (doubt it). he’s been plan bad (much worse than all of those listed guys) for a long time. it’s wasn’t cespedes mojo or some other b.s. that some twit on MLB network claims with him either, as he’sbeen bad before that.
@goodfold2: i’m talking at least 16 team league droppable bad. If you were in those deeper leagues with him and still have him, you likely got beat to vargas/pierce or somebody else who could’ve been useful to you.
@goodfold2: I was just looking at HT and saw he had a favorable match up but de aza is avail too.
@Jay: i was curious so i went and looked up just how bad moss has been since his last homer (on july 24th). in 119 at bats (21 BB’s) his line is .160/.286/.193. he has 19 runs + RBI’s in that time, 48 K’s (40% K rate, worse than springer, better than baez). his OBP doesn’t include hit by pitches since those weren’t listed in game log i looked at.
De Aza
rosenthal possible injury (or something unexplained going on here). with guys on 2nd and 3rd and one out in 9th inning (and only having pitched once, yesterday, since the 6th) rosie wasn’t brought out, neshek was. neshek looked like shit and allowed 2 hits, and even then rosie wasn’t brought out. Only explanation i can think of is when neshek came in it was a 4 run lead, so barely a save at all, and maybe they didn’t want to “ruin his confidence” or something to that effect.
Thanks for the heads up!
@Grey: follow up, matheny either A. finally read the Managers for Dummy’s Book I got him for his birthday B. Highers up made him do it, but apparently he’s actually going to try to not overwork neshek or rosie for rest of regular season now.
http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/cards-hang-on-to-edge-rockies/article_50cc3abe-5b8a-54e7-afea-420ccaf7031f.html
Finally
anybody else noticing that either the SF manager, or maybe his kid or nephew is pitching (it’s the exact opposite of leverage, but hey why not start your pitching career at 59)
Ha
1. need holds. have smith and walden, walden used to be quite useful, back when ATL ever had leads. drop him for any of shaw/herrera/familia/cecil/n.ramirez?
2. boxberger (overall performance here, with holds) or cecil/herrera/gregerson?
3. perkins is healthyish and still awful. drop him (for saves and overall performance here) for one of cishek/petricka/quackenbush/feliz?
Cecil…Cecil…Cishek
@Grey: thanks thanks thanks.
@Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey: just noticed that i also have walden in that league with boxberger (really loaded up on walden earlier in year, when ATL scored runs), so drop which for cecil?
Hold
Hitter Streamer for tomorrow:
Chris Young (NYY)
Dayan Viciedo
David Freese
Viciedo
Is Ryan Howard okay to drop in 15 team, 30 player dynasty? Want to play lamb in COL but need to drop someone. Thanks
Drop him
Hey Grey,
Looking way head at some streamers. On Wednesday:
Gee vs. MIA $12.3
House at HOU ($2.3) (do we trust the SON, or House’s recent starts more?)
Gee
@The JoGarza: house has been moved back anyway, till at earliest the weekend.
I need to sit one SP today and I can’t have a bad ERA day….. Neise, Garza, Santiago.
Let me be more specific.. I’ve got a 7 K leads and .05 ERA lead. Last day of H2H. He’s got Buaer and Kuroda going. I’ve got Zimmerman, Neise, Garza, and Santiago going on the west coast. How many would you start and who? I can always keep an eye open and brign in Santiago with his late start if I’m behind in K’s.
So with a 7 K lead I could take a chance and only start 2 to match his 2 and wait on Santiago in case I fall behind in K’s. Maybe, IDK??
For him Match ups – Kuroda @ Balt and Bauer @Det
for me -Zimm @NYM, Garza home vs Cinc, Neise home Was, Santiago home vs Hou
StreamoNator has Garza 15.2, Santiago 10, Niese 8.5, Zimm 20
I don’t trust Garza
Why wouldn’t you wait until you see how his pitchers have done first?
Don’t know the matchups
Don’t know the matchups
Don’t know the matchups
Garza home vs Leake
Neise home vs Zimmerman
Zimmerman away vs Neise
Santiago home vs Kuechel
Why don’t you wait to see how his early games go?
My problem is if I wait he’s starting 2. My only late strarter is Santiago. I’ll be down in K’s with only a 7 k lead and then i’ll have to start Santiago and hope he make up the difference.
I could go Zimm and Santiago since they are the safest and should be able to win K’s with a 7 lead going in and have the best chance of winning ERA?? Thoughts?
Or Zimm and one other ealy starter and hold Santiago for a wait and see how things go. If do what would go Niese orGarza?
Start Niese and Zimmermann
Grey:
Heading into the championship week in my big money H2h league. My opponent basically punts saves because all of his closers are injured.
Who is my drop with Doolittle coming off the DL:
Reed
Street
Feliz
Petricka
Storen
Also, his team is very heavy on SP. would you drop a second reliever for a starter? League is shallow so there are a lot of streaming options.
Thanks!!
Drop Feliz and Reed
Heyo Grey. I just asked Mike this too. Need runs today for my H2H match up. Thinking of dropping Sandoval for one of the following: Carl Crawford, Neil walker, Chris Young, Gregor Blanco, Bourn, Pagan, De Aza, Pollock, Enciarte, Cain, A. garcia, L. Martin or R. Davis.
Martin
I have Jordan Zimmerman to pitch today, he has Mike Leake. Matchup Im up 7-6; Wins 2-4, Losses 2-2, GC 1-0, SV 2-3, Ks 40-31, ERA 2.25-4.38, WHIP 0.85-1.38. Theres 3 close hitting cats that could change. Do i start Zimmerman or move him to the bench? He also has a roster move left.
I’d start him
@Grey: Thank you sir! One day away from the championship and i owe it all to the Mustache!
Fantasy Master Lothario!
Thanks for the SON question up there. One more for you:
Colon v. MIA $16
Burnett @ SD $14
Also, do you play H2H leagues? Just realized I haven’t remembered any pre-season posts of your teams that were H2H.
Burnett… I was supposed to be in Behrens’s H2H league, but then it didn’t come together on a conducive day, so I’m not this year
@Grey:
Not a big fan of the luck factor involved?
Nope
winning ERA/WHIP by 1.33/.11, wins by 2, k’s by 27. losing losses by 1. should i bench
keuchel @ LAA
opp has
kershaw @ SF
garza vs CIN
as long as i hold onto most of saves/era/whip it will be very hard for me to lose overall. i’m winning saves by 2 with 4 closers and opp only has allen/rondon/davis (holland had clean inning other day). looks like if either i get one save, or he has even one guy not get one 1 win those.
Makes sense to bench him
Hey, Grey. Really close matchup in h2h, whoever wins goes to the championship.
I’m up 1 QS and 2 Wins, but he picked up Volquez and Santiago this morning and also has Kershaw starting.
I have Petit going, but am thinking about adding Vargas vs. BOS. You think he has a good chance of getting QS/W without hurting era/whip too much?
I’m streaming Vargas
I thought Buehrle owned the Rays…
Yeah, there goes my AL-Only team
@Grey: Kinda swept up after himself. The way a teenage cleans his bedroom.
@SteveNZ: *teenager*
Ha!
It looks like I might make it through this week. For next week, do you like Bogaerts (3 @ PIT, 3 @ BAL) or Rutledge (7 @ home)?
Also, pick 3:
JD Martinez (3 @ MIN, 3 @ KC)
Avisail (3 @ KC, 3 @ TB)
Myers (6 @ home (NY and CWS))
De Aza (6 @ home (BOS and TOR))
Soler (7 @ home (CIN and LAD))
Lind (3 @ BAL, 4 @ NYY, 4-5 v. RHP)
Kennys (6 @ home (DET and CLE))
Thanks buddy!
Xander…JD, Avisail, Myers… Tough call on last hitter… Could flip a coin on some of these guys…
@Grey: Exactly…I might just do that…I’m winning 9-2 (14 categories), but everything but Ks and RBI are close, so it could come down to Kuroda’s start tonight.
You’re gonna win this league for the first time ever!
@Grey: IT’S HAPPENING
Me you and SteveNZ!
@Grey: The Three Somethingorothers. All for one and one for all!
(And JFOH)
I like it! …and all for somethingorother!
@SteveNZ: My somethingobrother!
@Grey: There are still two rounds of playoffs, bee tee dubya…
Think I should play Rizzo next week?
I played him over Vargas, but what’s your option?
@Grey: Well, I’d be playing him at IF, moving Bautista to the OF, meaning that I would have to pick from Soler, Vargas, De Aza, Myers, and Avisail for UTIL.
Since I’ve got you on the line, all things being equal, would you play Andrew Miller, Ken Giles, or Aaron Sanchez? We count 5×5 plus Holds and K/BB.
Sounds like it makes sense to play Rizzo… Myers, Avisail… Sanchez
@royce!: I’ve had good success with Giles and his role is probably a little more defined in comparison to the others, but I did read that his workload is being ‘managed’ over the last couple of weeks.
Also, Avisail has a pretty tough matchup in Shields tomorrow – something to be aware of…
Would you start Fiers (vs. STL) after the Stanton incident?
Sorry about Stanton.
Sure
mash ups up
drop McGee to activate Doolittle? McGee looks terrible lately, just blew another save. Also have Storen, Mejia, Street.
Or would you dump someone like W. Chen, McCarthy, Holland, Fiers, Archer
I’d dump McGee if I didn’t need saves, otherwise I’d dump a starter with the worst matchups
best two on tuesday
peavy v Ari
Kennedy v Phi
Odorizzi v NY
Peavy, Kennedy
I have Soler and Iwakuma sitting on waivers that clear tomorrow. Would you pick up Iwakuma for his start tomorrow @LAA? or go with Soler.
I’d go with whichever one I needed more… Who are they replacing?
@Grey:
Iwakuma would be replacing vargas (one of my 2 streamer spots), and soler would be repalcing either de aza, lagares, rajai, or xander.
Go with Iwakuma
ok, so unless prado from this point get three more runs than a.jones i’ll do no worse than go 6-6-1, and i have the tiebreaker, having gone 13-11-2 during season. turns out i likely would’ve won only if i had played keuchel and got another win (that was was risking losing whip and maybe ERA so good decision there). kershaw/garza did tie wins (likely) right now. to even make it this close opp has out total based me today by 13 so far, and those are tied, but him winning those don’t matter. desmond/superfluous H/walker jacked up his bases while i have only 10 today so far.
Nice!
@goodfold2: ok, so prado can’t score 2 runs more than jones from this point forward. not a good way to start this game.
Nope
@goodfold2: and to think, i was right (at the time) to not grab prado when he was dropped in 20 teamer about 10 days ago. it’s dynasty so i didn’t want to drop gyorko/pompey/norris (backup to zunino). i was lower than guy who waivered him anyway.
@goodfold2: jesus, also just finding out it was a 364 footer, announcers are saying that was only maybe a homer in 3 stadiums or so. either way, dude might only have 2 more at bats (i’ll just assume jones never scores)
Ha
@Grey: get McCann OUT!
@goodfold2: just realized i could also actually lose if say, betances were to get a win. so actually more nervous for a while here. i’d go 6-7.
@goodfold2: prado could actually be the one that sends me out too.
Yikes
Sorry the mash ups weren’t your thing but damnit i like this 50 cent one with Toto. I’m a weirdo, what da ya do?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Why3itsH2wI
I love the Johnny Cash ones which are prolly sacrilege for some people… Toto and anything would seem to work, but I don’t know…
@Grey: DJ Z-Trip is one of the best shows I ever went to
Fo’really? Where?
@Grey: little club my buddy had in Hollywood like 10 years ago.
He’s performing with LL Cool J and Salt-n-Pepa on the 27th at the LA County fair
Oh, man, now I wanna go to the fair…
@Grey: don’t you go every year
My friends went today, don’t think I’m gonna go this year…
@Grey: It’s a Saturday. You and cougs get a date night
Hmm, that’s true, maybe since it’s the end of the season…
@Grey: what says I love you more than weird deep fried foods and LL Cool J?
Fried pink cookies in the back of my jeep…
@Grey: thats poetic, I’m a sucker for the fried oreos with whip cream
You just sold me on it!
@Grey: I’m a date planner…not really.
Yeah, you are… Figure out something for Friday for us, thanks!
@Grey: get a nice hotel down in Newport for the night. Dinner and the beach is a beautiful thing. Then get up Saturday and head to the fair after a nice breakfast.
I see the English Beat is playing that Friday. I’m sure Coug was into them in High School or early college…?
Okay, who’s paying for this?
@Grey: get Jef to throw down for this
Yeah, that’ll probably happen…
@Grey: he loves you a lot
This is true
@J-FOH: the slack album of Jay-Z and Pavement mashup i like, but i’m huge into Pavement. it’s Pavement’s first album and Jay’s black album.
Is there any point in holding Ackley? Need a bit of roster flexibility for the H2H semi.
Next week’s opponent coming off a HUGE week…
Lose him
@Grey: Gotta say my team looks pretty lame without Giancarlo. Whole bunch of my other guys hit under .200 for the week.
Hopefully it means they’ll have a big one when the stats actually count.
Hope so!
@SteveNZ: i had to drop him early this week. bone spurs doesn’t sound like something that he’ll suddenly hit a hot streak again with, or even play often.
wow, actually will go out from benching keuchel and opp getting three wins out of kershaw/garza/betances. had to also get out based by at least 15 for that to have happened today. team’s hit around .230 for last 2 weeks, and just few enough homers to miss covering it, unless somehow betances doesn’t win. thanks o’day. on to less monetarily important leagues. wouldn’t have thought not trusting keuchel was my final choice (wonder if that makes me want to draft him higher or lower next year), and it was the hammer. now i have to root against my own closer, if K-Rob blows it i’ll win. he has pitched 2.66 innings last 2 days…
@goodfold2: opp had 2 homers for first 6 days of the week, and needed all three of the ones he got today to win bases by 3.
@goodfold2: wow, even further wrinkle, he has to blow up but i’m only winning whip by .02, so it can’t be bad. just one more hit, then 3 str outs. or an error.
@goodfold2: NOW i need outs from K-rob, suddenly rooting section completely flips.
Ha
@goodfold2: wow, THAT was some hair raising shit. it’s funny if NYY manager just knew that you probably shouldn’t put in a tired robertson in the first place i’m out. If either Betances just pitches 9th or anybody not tired does. won whip by .01
Wow
@Grey: sick part is my opp had to hit at least 26 total bases today to even have the chance he had (he got 28, hitting over .400)
Crazy
So if I hadn’t had the bye in huh, I would have had Papelbon, Vincent and Robertson going for me today…
@SteveNZ: In *h2h*
Whew!
Championship week, currently playing Wong at 2b. He hasn’t been doing much and seems to be benched once or twice a week, so I want to make a move. I can put Rendon at 2b and pick up Uribe, who’s got 3 games in coors this week…or Baez, B.Miller, D.Santana, Plouffe are also available. I’m leaning Uribe, what would you do?
@Tom: he’s benched for lefties, same as he always has been throughout entire year, so you can check in advance.
Baez
still alive, but now it’s down to top 4 teams of season, and i’m up against a team that actually should beat me. Dropping Alcantara to grab Lagares (tired of a team that was 3-4th in steals all year only getting 2 each of last 2 weeks), will i guess keep Jose Ramirez to backup both Harrison/Mookie. 4 pickups left and have Wada/Familia to drop. Could grab 2nd bench bat for off days/short day thursday. (de aza/mercer/other white fish/uribe if arenado is actually hurt). so i’ll have at most 4 stream spots for next week. i already have 11 starts to opp’s 10. pick best 4. could be 2 from same day, if need be.
Tue
Hutchison @ BAL (SON loves this, but hard to trust that number and this pitcher)
Wed
Gee vs MIA
Stults vs PHI
McCarthy @ TB
House @ HOU
Tropeano vs CLE
Thur
Kendrick @ SD
Fri
Santiago vs TEX
Locke vs MIL
Sat
Bauer @ MIN
Sun
Gonzales vs CIN
Tillman vs BOS
@goodfold2: forget the house start, the doctor’s playing golf till the week after.
Hutchison, Gee, Tillman, Bauer