It’s time for us as a people to start makin’ some changes. Let’s change the way we eat, let’s change the way we live and let’s change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn’t working so it’s on us to do what we gotta do, to survive. If that means cutting loose Brett Lawrie with his DL stint, then so be it. This year he has a 59/9/40/.282/13 line. Right now, I’m throwing up a “W” with my hands, which is the 14-year-old girl gang sign for Whatever. Yunel Escobar called, he wants his stats back. Yu Darvish called and said he’s got the wrong number. Kelly Johnson called and said, “What’s up, Yunel?” I then disconnected the phone cause it’s getting too many calls and I need to roll out some text on this bizzlog. Disappointing is saying the least followed by an adjective to emphasis disappointing. You know what I’m sayin’? Give me a thesaurus up in here, up in here! And, with that said, I’ll still like Lawrie again next year. At 22 years old, he’s way too young to look at as a Yunel-wannabe. Just didn’t happen this year. If you have DL room, I’d still hold him, but if you don’t, do what you gotta do. Anyway, here’s what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
Henderson Alvarez – 4 2/3 IP, 4 ER, 14 baserunners, 2 Ks, ERA is now up to 4.58, 1.44 WHIP and 51 Ks in 135 2/3 IP. I just put “Henderson Alvarez sleeper” into the Google machine and I went through a few posts from the preseason. And you thought I was crackers for saying Jason Kipnis was a sleeper…Oh, wait, that one worked out. And you thought I was cracked-out on goofballs for saying Alex Rios was a sleeper…Shoot, that one worked out too. And you thought I was crummy with crackers for saying you should draft Mike Trout. Darn… Well, I’m sure I’m forgetting some. Please don’t mention Vernon Wells, thanks!
Moises Sierra – 1-for-4 with a steal. You might pee yourself like your name was Moises…The Razzball podcast! Damn, that shizz is dope! Wait until you hear our fantasy football podcast theme song. Let’s just say we’ve added a rap interlude like we’re MC Skat Kat, but the rapper’s name is Juice. Your mind = Blown. Any the hoo! Moises Sierra was called up to face mostly lefties, because, well, that’s how the Jays are playing it and Sierra’s got a plus arm in the outfield, so they should play him. He looks like he could provide some power (17 HRs in Triple-A) and speed (7 SBs), and comes from a solid pedigree with two major leaguers as his parents. He’s not worth looking at yet outside of AL-Only leagues
Tyler Greene – Astros acquired him for cash considerations. To pithy that up, Astros get Green, Cards get green backs.
R.A. Dickey – 9 IP, 1 ER, 5 baserunners, 10 Ks as Dickey matched up against Johnson for a pissing contest. The first 500 fans in attendance got an STD. I don’t mean as a giveaway. I mean, they’re Mets fans.
Andres Torres – 3-for-3, 2 runs, 3 RBIs and his 2nd homer. That’s threes full of deuces.
Ruben Tejada – 2-for-5, hitting .323 on the year. He’ll be in this afternoon’s Buy/Sell. If that doesn’t have your breath all bated and shizz, I don’t know what will.
Jon Jay – 2-for-3, 1 run and 2 steals. Now has 13 steals, and only two times caught. After the game, Jon Jay said stealing without being caught is the foundation of what our great nation was built on.
Carlos Beltran – 1-for-3 with his 27th homer. I wonder how many people who were burned on Berkman this year are going to draft Carlos “The Great Zombino” Beltran next year.
Adam Wainwright – 7 IP, 1 ER, 8 baserunners, 7 Ks. Now has around a 2.30 ERA since the All-Star Break and a batting average against around .210. A K:BB ratio of 39:7. Drool:Lip Overhang ratio for me drafting him next year is 4:1.
Justin Ruggiano – 2-for-4 and his 9th homer, raising his average t0 .353. Ruggiano’s nearing Stage 4 on the Fantasy Lust Scale. I’m about to write his name on my gotchies with “Property of.”
Heath Bell – In a game the Marlins were losing, Bell came in for the 7th inning and gave up a run. Bell says he needs high pressure situations to succeed. A guaranteed $27 million eliminates a lot of pressure, obviously. Maybe the Marlins should tell Bell they’ve hired a sniper and put him somewhere in the stands, then whenever he’s sucking they can put one of those red lasers on him.
Matt Moore – 6 IP, 1 ER, 4 baserunners, 6 Ks. Don’t look now but he has a 3.73 ERA. I told you not to look!
Evan Longoria – 3-for-5, 2 RBIs. Still time to win the AL MVP! (Sideways emoticon with X’s over the eyes, and birdies flying in a circle over the head.)
Jason Kubel – 2-for-5, 4 RBIs and his 24th and 25th homers. He went through a tough stretch up until yesterday where he had 1 homer and a .120 average in August, but hopefully he’s coming out of it now. Thanks goes out to all his H2H owners for joining together to form a six-mile-wide prayer rhombus.
Aaron Hill – 3-for-5, 2 runs. I’ve pretty much hated Aaron Hill’s guts for the last month or so. To the point where I’ve benched him for Ruben Tejada and now Machado. So you can imagine how welcome it was he actually got hits on a day I had so many guys not playing. Thank you, Aaron Hill! I know I’m not the only one that plays hitters on short schedule days. There should be a glossary term for this –> the short-schedule hitter pick up. Please suggest in the comments.
Todd Frazier – 2-for-4 with his 14th homer. That would’ve been a good (insert term for short schedule hitter here).
Starling Marte – 2-for-4, 1 RBI, now hitting .281 with 4 homers and 2 steals in 14 games. He won’t be in this afternoon’s Buy/Sell, but he’s the one rookie call-up I’ve actually held onto so far from that Breanny Segolt-Jacksitterado flurry.
Gaby Sanchez – 3-for-4, 1 run. Ah, must’ve been Ladies Night.
Eric Hosmer – 1-for-4, 0 runs, 0 RBIs. As the kids would say, Hosmer is so boss. So the boss of the Jerk Store.
Billy Butler – 3-for-5, 3 runs, 3 RBIs and his 23rd homer. If he keeps this up, we may have to remove his name from the definition of blimpotence.
Alex Gordon – 3-for-5, 2 runs and a homer. Took about a half of a season, but Gordon has finally come alive. Since the All-Star Break, he’s hitting around .340 with 2 homers and 4 steals. Too bad he’s probably on the one abandoned team in your league. Who told you to draft him so early?! That’s to the abandoned team owner who isn’t reading this anyway. Hey, Abandoned Team Owner, I was the one who stole your Netflix. My bad!
Michael Morse – 2-for-3, 3 RBIs and 2 homers. In a weird coincidence, Tom Cupconnectedbytwopiecesofstring passed his driver’s test. Go, TC!
Jordan Zimmermann – 6 IP, 0 ER, 3 baserunners, 11 Ks. Wow, it’s about time he started striking out– Oh, it was vs. the Astros. That’s like picking on the fat kid in dodge ball.
Roger Bernadina – 3-for-4 with 2 steals. He always has me intrigued. Intrigued, I tell ya! But he’s a 4th outfielder right now.
Ubaldo Jimenez – 6 IP, 3 ER, 9 baserunners, 10 Ks. That gets the ol’ ERA down to 5.25. This game was about the highlight of his season. His walks are out of control, his Ks are way down and his ERA isn’t even showing that he’s been particularly unlucky. Maybe he should try to decompress before games inside a humidor, or get into a screaming match with Tulowitzki.
Wei-Yin Chen – 4 2/3 IP, 7 ER. Damn he caught the Moves Like Arrieta bug. Shizz is catchy! Needs to go into the Starbucks-sponsored lounge, have a 20% off latte and discuss with Carson Daly how much working with Cee Lo means to him.
Manny Machado – 2-for-4 with a run as the O’s played him at 3rd and hit him in the nine hole. Guess they wanted to spread out Hardy’s .225 average, Lew Ford’s .160 (raise your hand if you knew Lew Ford was still playing; okay, everyone related to Lew Ford, lower your hand), Reynolds’s .210, Andino’s– You get the picture. Ridiculous to hit Machado last in that lineup. They only have three hitters and one of them is hitting .249 (Wieters).
Doug Fister – 6 1/3 IP, 2 ER, 9 baserunners, 4 Ks vs. the Yankees. The Stream-o-Nator doesn’t fear the Yanks. The Stream-o-Nator only has two fears 1) Rudy not updating it and 2) Russian women.
Alex Avila – 2-for-4 with his 7th homer. Has a hit in every game since July 30th and is hitting near .500 in the last week. I just cursed myself to a dozen questions of “This Catcher” or “That Catcher.” That reminds me, I had a nightmare where I was captured by al-Qaeda, but instead of them interrogating me for state secrets, I was answering catcher questions. “No, I won’t put anyone before Jesus Montero!”
Omar Infante – Three singles and a caught stealing. Hey, the Juan Pierre cycle! Infante has now hit in his last ten games, hitting near .350 in the last week. Omar’s coming, yo!
Scott Podsednik – The Red Sox resigned Podsednik. Oops, I mean, re-signed. They’re totally still in the race. And now they got their legs! (When his wife comes to games.)
Eric Chavez – 2-for-4 with his 12th homer. Looks like with A-Rod injured, there’s more than enough steroids to go around. Chavez now has 4 homers in the last ten games and is hitting an insane .500 in August. I’m not going to openly tell you to pick up Chavez because it’ll pain me too much. Instead, hold this up to a mirror: .zevahC pu kcip
Michael Fiers – Brewers announced they would cut his season short because of an innings concern. He’ll only have another 30+ innings to get a Nicki Minaj verse stuck in your head.
Alfonso Soriano – 1-for-4, 2 RBIs with his 20th homer, a game winner. See, Cubs fans, when you lose 98 games instead of 99, you’ll have one man to thank. A bad contract — pfft!
Jason Kipnis – Missed yesterday’s game with a stiff neck. Must’ve got a Viagra lodged in his throat.
Travis Hafner – What’s that beeping sound? Sounds like a large truck backing up… Oh, it’s Hafner going back to the DL.
Johnny Damon – Was released by the Indians. Damon and Vizquel are petitioning for an expansion team to help them limp to 3,000 hits. Ivan Rodriguez and Ichiro Suzuki are also interested in becoming partial owners. They can call the team, the Boca Raton Biggios.
the kipnis joke is always a crowd pleaser
thanks again for the late night read
@ferris, Thanks!
Hey Grey!
Good MorLand to you !
Juan Pierre cycle ha !
Picked up Olt in a 10 team keeper ! now having Pickers remorse! any value this year! I need to drop someone either Olt or Ugghhhla to activate McCarthy !
Thanks !
@druss, i giggled at the juan pierre cycle as well..
@druss, To you too! Olt
Hey Grey who should I drop to activate Longoria? Jennings, Yoenis, Stubbs, Bruce or Chris Johnson
Mahalo
@DSimms, Jennings
It may be a stretch but since MLB days off are Monday and Thursday we can call those guys Thurmons.
@Danwise, Thurmon Murman?
@Danwise, @YoMommaSoUggla, Ha, I kinda like that…
You really think Lawrie is droppable? The thought crossed my head for a brief moment but… Ehh i couldnt see him on someone elses team goin #beast#mode.. although he has been a disappointment and i remember last year he wasnt much help in the fantasy playoffs.. tough decision for the razzball nation! Anywho, who do i replace Lawrie with?
Ruggiano, headley, marte, soriano, morneau?
Thanks! Happy friday!!
@Prezii, Ha, yeah… Marte…Happy Friday!
at first, Stream-O-Nator looks new and great reference.
but there are some losses as many as wins.
this is today’s result.
good: Dickey, Fister, Moore, Wainey, Zimmermann
bad: Johnson, Kuroda, Wandy Rod, W.Chen..
i can’t trust it any more.
@Piranhaman, If you expected perfection from the SON, your expectations were off. All the bad pitchers were solid gambles yesterday and only Chen’s start was a truly bad one.
Does Jesus Montero still have a bright future in dynasty leagues or has the luster of being a Yankee prospect finally worn off? Does he have a significantly better future than, say, Willin Rosario?
@Samardzija!, Will Montero have catcher eligibility next year? If so…..Absolutely better than Rose. If DH only, then I’d….Well thinking about it as I write. I’ll be taking Montero before Rosario either way.
@Chicago Mark, In yahoo yes, don’t know about ESPN
@Samardzija!, Yeah, he’s still solid… Still waiting for Wieters to come into his own…
My divorce with Ubaldo is irrevocabe, iron-clad, ain’t no way I’m EVER gonna take him back… Ubaldo could strike out 20 in a game and it will not sway me.
I’d rather stream Jose DeLeon holograms then take another chance with Ubaldo Jiminez.
Of course, if Ubaldo was somehow traded to the Padres, will, haha, I’d definitely reconsider…
@Racehorse, Nice rant!
@Grey: Take a flier on Machado or go with Stephen Drew or Erick Aybar?
@William, Machado
Batty calls are when you add a position player on an otherwise slow night of baseball. As in, “Cano had the night off, so I batty-called Hill…and he answered! I had extra room on my bench, so why not, there wasn’t much else going on last night.”
@fri-guy, i battie-called markakis every night this week to fill up my outfield and he’s been coming up huge for me. i like it.
@fri-guy, Ding-ding-ding, i think we might have a winner. Batty Call is a great one!
Batty Call – The pickup of a swinger when you’re standby is out for the day. Usually does not lead to a long-term relationship.
Nice Fri-Guy!
Scrubstitutes?
@Jeffrey Leonard, Not bad, I think Fri-Guy got you.
If you’re using OBP/Slugging instead of Runs/Avg, who are your two best Bautista replacements out of this bunch?: Rasmus, Ruggiano, Ludwick, Quentin, Soriano, Carlos Gomez. Thanks!
@Eddie, Rasmus, Ruggiano
@grey 14 team keeper. In first by 7, very competitive in all offensive cats could move up 1-2 or down as much as 3. Can trade Adam Jones and Anibal for Cano. Do it right? Carlos Gomez becomes my 5th OF from DH and Uggla moves from 2B to DH.
@Telemachus, Yeah, it’s fair… Actually sneaky trade for the other owner…
@Grey, Do you think Adam Jones is a better keeper than Cano?
I think they’re pretty close…
Grey : Don’t forget your Adam Lind 30+ homer sleeper season too:)
Also, Rudy : Did Grey talk to you about doing the positionater? Thought was with how well the Stream-o-Nater is doing, to do one for offensive players that day. Yahoo seems to always suck as with their matchup rating stars and people could really use it.
@2 Cups 1 Braun, I’ve just been using the SON to do this for me. I sort by score in reverse order (worst score first) and see who the pitcher is facing, then I head on over to my local waiver wire and sort by that team to make a pick-up.
Or are you more referring to making daily line-up decisions? In that case you could just sort by the day and see which pitcher has the worst score for the day. It kinda seems like the medium is already there to do this yourself.
@MattTruss223, While this can be done, I would imagine there are some other metrics to consider. Not knowing how the stream was built you could certainly use it but a natural extension would be into offensive player rankings.
@2 Cups 1 Braun, I smell what you’re stepping in.
The SON does at least take into account park factor which translates to offensive players well. Also, Home vs. Away which translates inversly for offensive players. Then it mostly looks at FIP, which if a pitcher is bad, then I would gather in turn the odds are he will be giving up counting stats to the offensive players. I guess it would take some searching to figure out what else would predict a hit or a homer on a certain day for a player, but facing a bad pitcher in a good hitter’s park has to be 2 of the biggest factors, no?
@MattTruss223, definitely. Just need to take the same stuff, add a sexy name to it, maybe include a players past history against lefty/righty or past history against the pitcher and make it out of the box functional.
@2 Cups 1 Braun, There was talk during draft season of switching the RCL’s over to Yahoo next year and I honestly hope that does not happen. ESPN’s usability is so much better than Yahoo’s, especially in the available player area. I’m not saying they are the greatest, maybe CBS or somewhere else is better, but for free, ESPN blows away Yahoo. You can’t even add a same day player pickup to your lineup there. BVP is also much more accessible on ESPN. Really hope we do not change the RCL’s home.
@nyydj2, We have same day pickup in Yahoo. All add/drops are immediate for us which bodes well for the Stream-O-Nater. Only issue is our 100 IP cap.
@2 Cups 1 Braun, Okay, must be the settings in public leagues, I just play a few for shits and giggles there. I can’t even take a guy off the DL the same day, even at 8 in the morning, it does not reflect until the next days lineup. They took three times as long as ESPN to add Straily to the pool as well.
@nyydj2, Yea, I wasn’t a big fan of their handling of Olt/Straily either. They were available after a 3 day waiting period only after their first starts. Just a enough time for some dildo to write an article about “Whats hot this week” and the morons in my league to read that crap and grab them with their higher priority. My hope is both tank and I can add them to my farm system for next year
@nyydj2, I was a Y! honk before this season (my first year doing the RCLs) and now I’m in love with the ESPN side. I also think they’ve nailed the standard lineup. I think it takes a little more effort to produce a quality team when you have MI/CI/5OF spots to fill vs. Yahoo and the 3OF/2UTIL set-up. If they do switch, hopefully the ESPN line-up sticks around and same day add/drops gets included in the setting too. Standard Y! public league settings blow chunks.
@2 Cups 1 Braun, I talked about it with Grey. The hitter stream-o-nator would be tougher in my opinion. The biggest challenges are:
1) Have to factor in handedness of the pitcher. I think this is less of a deal comparing a pitcher to a whole team. But it’s a bigger variable for determining how well a hitter will do vs. a starter. This would require knowing left/right splits on each hitter which I don’t have as part of my current data feed.
2) Lineups aren’t known until a few hours before game time. Would be real frustrating to pick a guy as a great matchup play and then he’s not in the lineup.
3) Tougher to do an analysis on hitters vs. starting pitchers b/c there isn’t 1 ideal stat to regress to. For pitchers, I regressed against WHIP which has positive correlations w/ Wins, ERA, and Ks. But for hitters, you have power (HR), speed (SB), on-base ability (OBP), lineup strength (R/RBI), etc. So a great reco on power might be awful for other stats and vice versa. This makes testing the effectiveness of it tougher (whereas I knew going in that SON explained 25% of starter WHIP)
At one point, we had talked to Accuscore about providing us a data feed that would predict likelihood of a HR for a hitter, etc. Went to their site today and they charge $49/month for that service….so I imagine it would be really costly for us to import it.
I’ll think about it during the offseason. It’s possible and intriguing….just have to get my head around all the additional complexities….
@Rudy Gamble, Awesome. Sounds like there are as many complexities as I imagined but was unsure of the data feeds you were obtaining or have access to. With the effectiveness of the stream-o-nator I thought it would be helpful and a natural extension.We can all dream and who knows, maybe it will come to fruition sometime in the future as it would certainly give you a leg up on the competition and available tools today.
@Rudy Gamble, I asked this below but Grey suggested I post here so you see it.
This may be WAY too much to ask for, but is there any way you can project the SoN out 7 days instead of 4? This would really help those of us who play in leagues with weekly lineups/waivers. Especially for my league since said waivers are run late Sunday night and, as you have said, weekend SoN updates will be spotty.
If not, I understand. But I can’t believe you would actually expect me to do some thinking for myself.
Short sched hitter pickups are: scratch off tickets.
@nyydj2, Feeling lucky today? Buy a scratch off.
@nyydj2, this probably fits more than battie-call, above, but i really like them both. battie-call is more like a streamed position player and a scratch off ticket is my grab of kubel last week in a daily league.
@nyydj2, Not bad, I think Fri-Guy got you.
Short ScHedule hITTER
Well of course Grey….it’s the
SSHITTER
@Chicago Mark, Eh, I think Fri-Guy got you.
10 Team 5X5 Roto league – have a bit of a log jam in the OF:
Have:
Braun
Bruce
Kubel
Pagan
Revere
FAs:
Ruggiano
Reddick
Gordon
Boesch
Cain
Quentin
Bearing in mind that I need steals, would you make any moves?
@Mr. Rickey, Ruggiano over Pagan, Gordon over Revere
@Mr. Rickey, Actually, hold Revere
At CI, Frazier or Alonso ROS?
@Mr. Rickey, Frazier
Short schedule pick-ups: “one-and-done”… or “one-and-doner”. Using your example sentence:
“Todd Frazier – 2-for-4 with his 14th homer. That would’ve been a good one-and-doner.”
In other embarrassing news, I was a Henderson Alvarez fan pre-season. I even haz a sad that I didn’t draft him in every league. I no longer haz a sad about that. Dude seemingly has all the tools except the part about getting people out and not preventing runs scoring (or, god forbid, actually striking batters out).
@JoeC, Not bad, I think Fri-Guy got you…. It’s okay, I still own Hosmer…
The Stream-o-Nator is right to fear Russian women. ‘Nuff said!
@JoeC, Of course!
Keeper league, I just traded Lawrie away last week to a rebuilding team. Sent a $5 Lawrie plus Alexei Ramirez for…Jose Reyes & Aramis Ramirez. Obviously I’m thrilled, especially with Lawrie going on the DL.
@TheTinDoor, Sounds decent…
Easily among my favourite post-Living, pre-Hologram Tupac songs. Keep Ya Head Up Grey!
@A Hill O’ Beans, Thanks, par’ner!
Raul Ibanez and Billy Butler BOTH tripled yesterday, wrap your mustache around that one.
@Tony, Too insane
The short-schedule hitter pick up – Phil McCracken
@CT Old School, That’s awesome! I think we can do a double definition…
A’la Ben Carpensheeter
Need some pitching advice for this weekend. Sit/start:
Maholm @ NYM tonight
Medlen @ NYM tomorrow
Corbin vs WAS Sunday
Capuano @ MIA Sunday
Lester @ CLE Sunday
Hughes @ TOR Sunday
Thanks, as always!
@Jon, Sit Hughes…
How about Trojan man for a short schedule pick up, they get their shot then are discarded.
@jim, Eh, think we have better…
Powers an issue with my team. Should I drop Rasmus for marte, kubel or ruggilano??
Thanks!
@Jamiehov, Kubel
Beltran had a good 2011 too (22/84/.300)… was an easy keeper choice for me at rd 10 cost. Granted this year is a different level, but it’s no Lance Berkman 2010 to 2011.
@supra, Yeah…
Short schedule starter = sharter
“I can’t believe I sharted Ludwick when Frazier got the HR!”
Also, I think there should be a name for your regulars who take the day off on a short schedule day, like Kipnis or Harper yesterday. Right now I just call them a$$holes.
@Charles, Ha! Yeah, at some point we’ll get a term for those… Don’t think shorter works as well as others…
My keepers coming into this year were:
Hosmer, Lawrie, Jennings, BJ Upton, Latos, Bruce, and Stanton.
Stanton is the only one who’s legitimately been strong this year. And ironically now, Latos is coming on again.
I think I am gonna keep only Stanton and Lawrie after this yr cuz I’ll get to keep only 6 or 7 depending on where I finish…
@papasmurf, They all look like nice bounce backs… I know, small consolation…
Stream Bedard or Niese on Sunday? Stream-o-Nator says Bedard… What do you think?
@JTR, Niese
Riding the Short Bus to Your Lineup…
Slim Pick Buster (slump buster who flip the switch on Mon/Thurs…)
Bottom Feeder…
@The G, Eh, I think Fri-Guy got you.
Looking to pick up a recently-dropped Capuano in H2H: drop Minor, Lester, Liriano or Niese for him, or hold?
Also, which is the 2nd of those guys you’d drop when Morrow comes off the DL?
@Steve Stevenson, Lester… Liriano…
Please rank in order best keeper option for 2013:
Allen Craig
Manny Machado
Mike Moustakas
Starling Marte
Thanks!
@Hardcore Midget, Moose, Marte, Machado
@Grey, No love at all for Craig? The 2b eligibility this year has been great, but it looks like he won’t keep it next season.
Yeah, I like him…
This may be WAY too much to ask for, but is there any way Rudy can project the SoN out 7 days instead of 4? This would really help those of us who play in leagues with weekly lineups/waivers. Especially for my league since said waivers are run late Sunday night and, as Rudy has said, weekend SoN updates will be spotty.
If not, I understand. But I can’t believe you would actually expect me to do some thinking for myself.
@L-Boogie, You should ask him in his comment above so he gets the followup email…
Middlebrooks or Bautista? Which side would you want in a h2h?
@Charles, Middlebrooks
Scut
Scutaro, Cozart, Aviles, machado, or Drew?
Valverde, Holland, or Whilhelmsen?
@DaddyAoki, Machado… Wilhelmsen
@Grey: Continue riding Colby Rasmus or hop on the Alex Gordon bandwagon? FYI – Gordon was dropped in my league
@William, Can try the Gordon train…
Cespedes or Dunn ros?
@crock, Cespedes
Hola Grey–
You think the DBacks call up Skaggs or give Bauer another whirl shortly? Know you’ve been bullish on Skaggs, rightfully so….
Tempted to roster 1 or both now in my 14 team mixed redraft, 6×6 (ops/holds) and they’re both available. Having drafted Bauer, sitting on him all year, only to have him sent back to AAA after 4 starts, then dropping him– I want some sort of fantasy payback.
My current staff – Gio, Lincey, Scherzer, Capuano, Detwiler, Medlen, Volquez and Brett Anderson. With 12 P spots to fill, I usually start 6-7 of these guys weekly, no innings cap. Just lost Garza, so I think I need 1 more arm for my post-season run…So, I’d likely be dropping a bench bat for Skaggs or Bauer.
Appreciate your take on this…
Thx
I’ve been bullish in deep NL-Only leagues… No idea who else is available, but I’d stash Bauer…
@Grey,
Thx; the available arms do not move the needle mucho. Really have no patience for the likes of Ervin Santana, NOlasco, Oswalt nor Gavin Floyd
Only guys really worth mentioning (and sorta intriguing) are: Eovaldi, LeBlanc, Chris Archer and Estrada, the latter whom I add/dropped most of July.
Yeah, not much excitement there…
Hey grey….if I needed to add a schmohawk with 3b and 2b eligibility, do you see any of these following guys being worth a damn ROS? I am not looking for world beaters here, natch, but just need to cover Lawrie and a few others on DL. Thanks!
Macier Izturis
Keppinger
Sean Rodriguez
Andino
Lombordozzi
Bleh… Lomardozzi…
@Grey, agreed, bleh. Lost Votto Lawrie Konerko and Phillips recently…..fell from first to third in my roto. Just trying to tread water until they come back healthy , and I only have 5 moves/adds remaining for the year. Thanks again for the help…..keep up the good work!
No problem…
I am in a 20 team h2h dynasty league. I made an offer of sano wheeler morse for sabathia and melky. Unfortunately it was rejected. Although the other owner countered with the following offer. Should I still accept this?
Melky for sano and wheeler
c jp arencibia
1b prince fielder
2b neil walker
ss yunel escobar
3b miguel cabrera
inf Evan longoria
lf carl crawford
cf peter bourjos
rf justin upton
of Michael morse
util travis snider
bn Carlos lee
bn jurickson profar
bn ryan lavernway
Bn miguel Sano
dl andrelton simmons
dl evan longoria
sp clayton kershaw
sp yu darvish
sp cliff lee
sp aaron harang
rp sean doolittle
rp matt thorton
rp matt belisle
p joe kelly
p Dan straily
p Jared Hughes
bn barry zito
bn zack wheeler
dl anthony bass
I’d hold…
grey,
fast forward 5 years. who youd rather own profar or machado?
i guess what im asking is who does your gut tell you is the better prospect???
thank you
Profar
@Grey, Any shot Profar is the starting SS for TEX next year? Hamilton leaves, Kinsler moves to the OF…if we close our eyes and clap really hard can we make this happen?
Yeah, gotta close your eyes real tight though…
Had a great one night stance with my batty-call last night!
There ya go!
Short Scheduled Hitter = Schitter (c is silent)
Not bad, I like batty call better.
Start Halladay tonight? Or am I just a glutton for punishment?
Start him…
Batty call is good. I think some kind of variation of hit it and quit it would work too.
I hear ya…
I hate to be *that* guy… but sometimes, after a really fun batty call, I’ll keep calling the guy way after it’s clear he’s lost interest.
Yeah, gotta hit and quit it…
@Grey, Yeah, I’ve been waiting over a week for Chris Davis to give me another slam. Wait, huh?
Carnac’s true identity is Bill James!
@Grey, “Bill James” is the handle I use when I write Chris Davis fan fiction.
Ha! Better than Buffy Fan Fiction, I suppose…
Yo Grey, what do you think of Carl Crawford for the rest of the year? I’ve got strong pitching and a pretty big lead in ERA and WHIP, would you deal Vogelsong or J. Zimmermann for Crawford? Surely not Gio or Bumgarner? (12 team 5×5 mixer)
With those pitchers as the major pieces (along with Capuano and Sanchez), at what point am I overpaying for Ryan Braun? Gio, Zimmermann & some bat? Bumgarner + Zimm? Where is the sweet spot?
Thanks
I’d do Vogelsong for him, but it’s a bit risky… Bum and Zimm for Braun is fair…
@Grey, Do you like Werth more than Crawford as a trade target?
I don’t…
chipper or chris johnson ROS?
Johnson
I am in a 20 team h2h dynasty league. I Have an offer on the table where I get Braun Sandoval Bourn Aybar Jordan Zimmerman for my Longoria Morse Profar Sano Wheeler. Does this move hurt me in the long run or am I good for the foreseeable future?
c jp arencibia
1b prince fielder
2b neil walker
ss yunel escobar
3b miguel cabrera
inf Evan longoria
lf carl crawford
cf peter bourjos
rf justin upton
of Michael morse
util travis snider
bn Carlos lee
bn jurickson profar
bn ryan lavernway
Bn miguel Sano
dl andrelton simmons
dl evan longoria
sp clayton kershaw
sp yu darvish
sp cliff lee
sp aaron harang
rp sean doolittle
rp matt thorton
rp matt belisle
p joe kelly
p Dan straily
p Jared Hughes
bn barry zito
bn zack wheeler
dl anthony bass
Sounds decent… A lot will be riding on Braun…
I give: C. Johnson, Rizzo, and B. Phillips
I get: Justin Upton
I need to make a move in order to bring Longo back into my lineup
am I seriously overvaluing J.UP??
So it’s Upton and Longoria? It’s not bad…
@Grey,
The trade is for Upton.
I currently have Longoria. The move will free up space on my lineup to move Longo from my DL spot to starting UTL.
I know, I was saying the trade gets Upton and moves Longoria into your lineup, looks decent…
Machado over Segura at short ROS? BTW my vote would be for batty call.
I went with Machado for s’s and g’s, they’re a toss up… Agreed on batty call…
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I can gain several points with just a few SBs. Is there any way to figure out which pitcher/catcher combinations are most likely to give up SBs? There must be a statistic for this compiled daily somewhere…..
Short-day schedule hitter pickup is easy – ONE NIGHT STAND!
I think we have better with batty call…
Motte, pap, pedroia
Or
Jansen, freiri, lester
Thanks
Pedroia
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