Marcus Stroman went from calf tightness to a tear. That’s what the cow said! Huh? Sorry, I’m a little freakin’ delirious because I own Stroman in not one, not two–I can’t even count how many leagues I own him in because I don’t have enough fingers and toes, and this is a PG show and we can’t count with anything else, you absolute pervs! Hey, serious question, has anything ever good happened to the Mets? Not to get all metaphysical rolling magnets around my shakras, but The Curse of The Bambino became The Curse of 1986. I won’t hear different. Bill Buckner allie-kazoo’d some voodoo on Mookie Wilson and the Mets have never been the same. Alas, I would drop Stroman in every league, aside from maybe NL-Only, but even there it’s pretty meh. He’s week-to-week, so maybe he returns by the end of August. What are you holding that for? The S’s and G’s train left the station a long time ago. Anyway, here’s what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
Brian Dozier – Signed with the Mets. If you’re a Wilpon, the only thing better than Jed Lowrie is signing a poor man’s Lowrie.
Juan Lagares – Signed with the Mets. The Mets heard what a great ratings draw an Old Timers’ Game can be and are not above a stunt.
Gordon Beckham – Released by the Mets. They have Dozier for the poor man’s Lowrie role. No room for two, Gordon. You were a role player, and that role has been filled.
Hyun-Jin Ryu – Jays still don’t have a home. Pittsburgh fell through. That’s too bad, because, with traffic, Pittsburgh is closer to Toronto than Anaheim is to Los Angeles, so in a lot of ways the Pittsburgh Blue Jays of Toronto makes more sense than the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. I still think a last second deal will be made for Buffalo, but right now the Jays are gonna be a traveling circus, moving around the country, carrying all their shizz like Steve Martin in The Jerk. Vlad Jr., “All I need is this chair…and this stapler…and this glove…” All the projections in the Streamonator and Hittertron are up-to-date with Jays as neutral, but they will get updated based on wherever they play, so I imagine you might see some changes when things solidify.
Nate Pearson – Will be called up on July 29th. At exactly midnight on July 29th, Pearson will emerge from his cocoon, a fully realized butterfly, capable of being a star MLB pitcher. Or, ya know, usual BS service time manipulation.
Hunter Dozier – Hit the IL with Covid. We lasted all the way from when I wrote my Hunter Dozier sleeper post in November to Re-Opening Day in July and now I lose Dozier. *cry-snorts* I would’ve removed Dozier from my rankings, but they’re finally locked in. I’m no longer reranking guys, roughly 7 months after I began. Praise you, Jesus Christ-Aguilar-Montero!
Brady Singer – Royals’ 1st round pick in 2019 will start on Saturday. Up until today I thought Brady Singer was the annoying person who, after hearing about someone’s remarriage, would sing, “Here’s the story of a lovely lady…” Prospect Itch said of Singer, “Once in the conversation with Casey Mize for top overall pick, Singer fell to pick 18 after an up-and-down college stretch but came out strong as a pro and remains a low-floor, decent-topside arm with a ground ball profile. If only I could floor Grey.” What the hell, my dude! So, I grabbed Singer in one 15-team mixed league where I might’ve lost Marcus Stroman forever, and Singer was owned in an AL-Only league. Shallower, I didn’t bother looking.
Mike Trout – Plans to play the whole year, impressed with how MLB is handling the pandemic. He said, “Everything’s been great, but how come no one is answering when I call the Blue Jays’ clubhouse?” I would move Trout back up to 3rd or 4th overall, coin flipping him and Bellinger, if I were still changing my rankings, or if you have a very late draft.
Anthony Rendon – Could miss a couple of games of the regular season. Or as I’m calling it, “Really? We’re playing real baseball games that count? It must be a dream!”
Zack Wheeler – His child came early and I couldn’t even tell he was pregnant! Wheeler’s owners will be happy to know they will be dining out on placenta, and fantasy value this year. He’s not opting out.
Framber Valdez – Will start the Astros’ 5th game of the season, while Jose Urquidy is on mend. With this toothpick, Dusty poked a hole in his mask and said, “We’ll see how long Framber stays in the rotation.” Yes, we will!
Jake Odorizzi – Will begin the season on the IL with upper back soreness. Sounds like I’m down to one starter in some leagues just in time for Re-Opening Day. Bring on the madness!
Jordan Montgomery – Will start the 6th game of the season. Or after one-tenth of the season is played. I don’t hate JoMo for the stream in certain circumstances — Certances? Cercumstances? Oh, definitely not that. — but you need to play the Streamonator more than you need to get tied to a guy who might be in and out of the rotation, or as the 5th starter.
DJ LeMahieu – Still trying to figure out when he’ll be ready for Re-Opening Day. Not to, ya know, pressure anyone, but he kinda needs to be ready today.
Tom Murphy – Will begin season on IL with a broken bone in his foot. Welp, I’ve already dropped my catcher. Bring on the Frankencatchers, long live the Frankencatchers.
Freddy Peralta – Will start the third game of the season. Feels like for every terrible thing we get five more terrible things and then, maybe, if we’re lucky, we get one good thing. Well, I don’t know what terrible things Peralta-into-the-rotation is offsetting, but it’s a good thing.
Alec Mills – Named Cubs’ 5th starter. You might remember Alec Mills as the mom on The Wonder Years. More relevantly, he relies on offspeed stuff, and you would too if you had an 89 MPH fastball. Not surprisingly, he had 104 IP in Triple-A last year with a 5.11 ERA and turns 29 in November. Jose Quintana will be back shortly to take the rotation spot. Can tell Mills is not good without being smart, Alec.
Mookie Betts – Signed a deal with the Dodgers through 2032. Ha. We are barely getting through 2020, and y’all out here signing deals through 2032. Mookie Betts in 2032 is gonna be I Am Legend playing baseball with a German Shepherd, and an automated Al Gore head with an electronically altered voice talking like Max Headroom.
Ke’Bryan Hayes – Optioned to Pirates alternative training site at Altoona. More like Altoon-up! Right?! C’mon, high-five the crap out of me! Not literally! We can’t touch!
Keone Kela – Says he’s tested positive for Covid since June 30th with no symptoms. Good news is he has to return a negative test soon. Bad news is why hasn’t he already and can others remain sidelined for that long? Related news, Kyle Crick should get saves in his stead. Unrelated news, I just burped.
Austin Riley – Announced as the starter at 3rd base on Re-Opening Day and I am floating on air. Don’t pull me down! Let me float! Oh, crap, Austin Riley wires!
Austin Dean – Made the Cards’ team as a backup outfielder. He’s a Quad-A player, or in his case, the Dean of students.
Nomar Mazara – Hit the IL with undisclosed reasons. Mazara was called up originally in 2016 at the age of 21, was told the average age for player breakouts is 27, and is a strong proponent of confirmation bias.
Jake Bauers – Optioned to alternate training site. He’s had one of the longer leashes to prove himself, but I guess for Jake Bauers his time is up. *dramatic sting, commercial break* Next up, baseball! Finally!
HI Grey!
I’m in a 5×5 10 team yahoo league that autodrafted for all the teams. just wondering your thoughts on my team and also one of the mgrs is interested in trading for my Zac Gallen and Mallex Smith. Not sure if I should ask for his Ross Stripling and Adrian Houser? Should I stick with what I have? I feel he would get the better end of the deal if I were to ask for those guys in return. Thank you sir!
C) JT Realmuto
1B) Yasmani Grandal
2B)K Hiura
3B)M. Moustakas
SS) J. Baez
IF)Corey Seager
OF)Mallex Smith
OF)V Robles
OF)R Laureano
Utl) K Schwarber
SP) G Cole
SP)M. Clevinger
SP)Z. Gallen
SP)M. Fried
SP) K Maeda
SP) K Maeda
RP) K. Yates
RP)R. Pressley
P) J. Musgrove
BN)D. Peralta // Carlos Martinez Stl (RP), have 3 more open spots on my bench.
IL) J. Soto (OF), Will Smith (RP), Jose Urquidy (SP)
In an NL only keeper could you rank Cespedes, Alex Dickerson and Olivares?
Yo, Olivares
So Grey, there’s no bench in this league. We’ve got to play the guy every day. Does that change your opinion?
Make sure you emphasize that it’s a keeper league when you ask the third time. *Burn*
I did say it was a keeper in the original question. It was actually two questions, not three.
cespedes unless don’t care about competing, from the at bats. but let’s get those keeper details, if it’s like a keep 6 none of this matters and just go cespedes.
within the first game of the season, we had a player a test positive for the rona and a rain delay… i wonder how they’ll deal with rain outs during this 60 game sprint… if it’s the last day of the series, do they just skip the game? there’s no time to reschedule
Ugh. IL hit me hard today. Hanser Alberto or Cano for just this first 10 days?
Or peraza
Peraza
I can’t tell if the pumped in crowd noise is just for the broadcast or actually in the stadium over the PA. I’m also a few scotches deep so I could be hearing things. Yeah baseball!
Starlin Castro and Howie Kendrick as your 3 and 4 hitters would make me want to down some scotch too
Bodes well for the Mets and I don’t own any Nats hitters so this is all good.
I’m a little scared as my team is heavy on California players (LAD, SD, OAK)
It doesn’t rain in California so you good
oh not referring to rain, but the rona
It’s stadium PA
Stanton takes a little of the sting off losing Soto with the first homer of the year.
LFG!
Gee, so glad that I lost all three of my Stanton shares…
It’s so weird watching them play in an empty stadium
Wittgren or Buttrey in an AL only keeper?
Wittgren
soto’s already testing negative (from a testing place that doesn’t count as “official” MLB ones). so this might not be long at all.
Hopefully
The rapid tests are reportedly pretty unreliable. Abbott’s and the antigen test have been proven to be inaccurate. It’s all a crapshoot, basically.
Yup
Streaming a hitter today after Soto went down.
Do I go with Howie against Cole or Justin Turner against SF?
Turner
oh baby i wish i had those choices, i have kike/pence. and i don’t even know if pence is playing yet. in another soto spot i ONLY have pence.
well that kike over pence decision went well. only existed since wong had a flag in fantrax. would’ve went suzuki over him (did already nab him with moving soto to DL slot too)
Grey, while i wait for Madrigal whos the pick up among these 2B?
I assume Peraza
Peraza
Profar
Alberto
Cabrera
A.Frazier
Long
Peraza
Just heard Kershaw to DL with back stiffness.Dustin May starts tonite.
RICK
Let’t get it RICK
I was gonna run to pick May up as well, but i don’t even know if he’ll even get to 5 innings
At least we can chuckle at anyone who drafted Kershaw in defiance of Razzball policy.
Ha
wow, LAD never had ANY indication kershaw had any issue at all, pretty sure, albeit i don’t own him anywhere, so this is good for may, stripling and later probably gonsolin too (do have HIM in one deep dynasty stashed). maybe even graterol too eventually. or m.white. is everybody turning into the mess here with these medical teams? or did kershaw just hide this for the entire summer camp? obv could be both, or kershaw underplayed it massively (so much that he never even had a DTD)
sorry, yeah once a back issue always a back issue for rest of his life, could always just flare up.
Prolly had it for whole camp
of course, pulled the old wainwrong (who pretended he was healthy for 3-4 str training camps when he wasn’t back when his contract was still huge, and as “team captain” one spring training about 6 other STL players did it) on it. this ain’t working at UPS to feed your 7 kids, “pushing through it” ain’t a good thing. it makes you a worse player results-wise, and screws over your team. the guys playing for their contracts/jobs i get why they might do it, but he’s not in that boat (neither was wainwrong for those 3-4 years)
Ha, yup
Kershaw to IL with back stif…..er covid!
Really?
Giancarlo!
My baby boy!
Appreciate the Razz.
Wise man once said, you put the men in mensch.
Thanks!
Completed my last draft of the year last night & maybe my best (IMHO). It was a Fantrax 12 team best ball points league with 40 picks …but every player is assigned a position so no multi-positional players …which would be so handy in these Covid times.
I feel really good about the team overall …some real values fell to me (I think).
Anyhoo here’s what I ended up with:
C Vasquez (242), Suzuki (386)
1B Olson (47), Walker (218)
2B Lowe (170), Odor (287), Cano (314), Madigral (383) just missed my target a couple of time but then saw
value at the end
3B Chapman(98), Shaw (311), Bote (455)
SS Tatis (26), Didi (167), Camargo (479)
OF Acuna (2), Jimenez (50), Robert (95), Laureano (119), Mercado( 146) Love this starting 5 if they stay healthy
Carlson (266), Adell (335), Keirmaier (362) Puig(407), Jose Martinez (431) went mostly upside with backups
SP Clevinger (23), Woodruff(74), Pearson (122), Wood (194), Houser(239), Burnes(263), Howard(338),
Kikichi(359), F Peralta(410), Lyles(434), Urena(458)
RP Yates(71), Chapman(143), Anderson(191), Robles(215), Melancon (311) seemed Chapman was way devalued
over Covid
I think I should’ve taken at least one less OF & one less 2B & maybe added a C, 1B or some MRs. But i’d very much would like your evaluation of this team or anyone else wanting to chime in. Thanks
I like the team, Licketty! I think your OF is fine, and your hitting looks good overall…Maybe a little weakish at 3B, but I love Chapman — pitching looks solid too! I like this team a lot!
Hello Grey and fellow Razzballers!
I’m sure you’ve been wondering how Hal’s teams look this year, and when he drafted them. Fortunately, I am Hal and therefore able to provide answers to exactly these things!
I started this league in 2002, and a couple of long-term owners opted out this year. Those were even pre-pandemic decisions! So we’re scraping by with just 10 teams in a 6×6 Roto with OPS and Holds. We drafted early March to mid-March. Looking at the team feels a bit like opening a time capsule.
C: Y Grandal
1B: Pete Alonso
2B: Brandon Lowe or Ryan McMahon
3B: Jose Ramirez
SS: Mondesi
IF: Matt Olson
LF: E. Rosario
CF: Tilldaddy
RF: McCutchen
OF: Choo
Util: Bichette
Bench
Brandon Lowe or Ryan McMahon
David Peralta
Kingery
Buxton
Pitching
Corbin
Giolito
Lynn
Ryu
Gallen
A. Chapman (IL)
Edwin Diaz
Neris
Doolittle
D. Castillo
Daniel Hudson
Blake Treinen
Andrew Miller
I currently have an open roster spot with Aroldis to the IL. Suggestions on who to add? Obvious drops? I realize you have no idea who is available in my league unless I state more. More: Rich Hill, Crick, Givens, Stripling, Kyle Lewis. Top %ROST bats that are FAs: Lux, Gregorius, Hicks, Hosmer, Odor, Renfroe, Cespedes. Obviously not the deepest league so there may be others that are “hot” at Razz that could be looked over in a 10-teamer.
Thanks in advance.
That team is “hot,” Hal. Very “hot!” I enjoyed looking at it, and glad you shared…. No lose Treinen or Miller, add Hill hold on the rest and McMahon over Lowe since he’s been hitting well in camp
Will Smith is only gonna play 3 out of 5 games to start the season… sigh…
I know, don’t buy a catcher
yeeeeeeep – was the last bat drafted until I went with my pitchers – didn’t want to deal with everyone else. At least there’s upside!
Ha
good thing only spot i own him is a deep dynasty with small innings cap such that you should/could use a BN spot for a backup, i got suzuki last night in that one. and in that i got him off WW’s last year didn’t have to pay his this year draft price.
Who you picking up as a Soto replacement? Brian Anderson, Grisham, Pollock, or Riley?
Riley
yikes, WAS waits till today to say soto even has corona. that or he just like yesterday flunked a test after negativing the others. got freeman in one spot soto is in too, that could’ve turned out badly. a 16 teamer too.
Yeah
he must’ve flunked a last night or this morning test, pretty sure week or more ago he had it too (or complications of getting answer to a test). but then played just fine for a while after that.
Not sure how he didn’t come in contact anyone on the Nats in the last few days, but here’s hoping
yeah, when they were playing together most of those days. my guess is once you get this you can always just test positive again later, it would explain a whole lot. and you likely never had any reason to even know you had this. this probably is just how this disease works. so it’s really not good for jobs that require negative tests AND test you again later, often.
that in fact would jibe with how common flus work too, they are always “in” basically everybody; and almost always there’s no symptoms.
remember they’ve only even HAD a test for this thing for 6-7 months max, so not much time to quality control it. would also explain how people are:
1. testing postive
2. 2 days later testing negative
3. 2-5 days later testing positive again
4. some days later negative again, maybe 1 day later
all 3 with no symptoms. the actually cool thing us non experts is we’d probably never learn these things EXCEPT for seeing the sports players go through this stuff. WYSIATI (unless you can find accurate data elsewhere, which i don’t know where to do)
It was from Tuesday,
My H2H opponent has Soto. Not sure how to feel.
Sanguine is probably best. Could easily be one of my guys next…
Yeah
I have a spot open now that Soto is on COVID-IL.
I was going to fill his position with Luis Robert or move Belli to OF and trade Robert for Vlad who will have 1B eligibility in 5 games (Yahoo). Good move or no?
For FA which of these would you grab while Soto is out?
J.D. Davis (3B/OF)
Lourdes (2B/OF)
Yuli (1B/3B)
Howie Kendrick (1B, 2B, 3B)
Davis
I’d take Vlad too
Sano or Vlad?
Vlad
Thoughts on 16 team playoffs
Might cause more teams to coast in Sept., which isn’t great for fantasy
Agreed. Smart minds think alike..
It’s here! It’s here! Finally get some baseball!
10 team h2h dynasty league. Know you don’t like Goldy and blackmon and they’re two of my older players. I’m not in it this year, but what would you be looking for in a trade for them? The sale/syndergaard owner is running Vogelbach at 1B so might be able to get some future pitching from him. My top 3 arms are Ray, Edrod, and Lamet.
I know my roster is a lot of guys you don’t like, but things went south fast.
C – Jansen
1b- goldy
2b – Altuve
3b – machado
Ss – Baez
Of – blackmon, franmil, Tucker
Util – Hoskins
BN/IL/prospects- Sano, Riley, Kendrick, h. Dozier, Franco, bohm, rutschman, brujan
So- edrod; ray, lamet, Weaver, Marquez, Wright, lucchesi, manaea,
IL/prospects – tailllon, mize, Hunter green, honeywell, DeSclafani, rodon
So my pitching is a disaster, hitting not much better.
Haha, you know I don’t like these guys, but you drafted them? The pitching looks very risky and your hitting looks like it has some holes, but you know this
It’s a dynasty league. So I’ve had altuve, blackmon, Goldy etc. for years now. Typically 20-25 guys, including minor leaguers, are kept every year, so not a ton of turnover.
Thoughts on trading them for prospects or those injured starters?
Ah, gotcha…Yeah, I’d start to move on to younger players — Honeywell and DeSclafani are not useful at all, Green is maybe, but barely
Is Juan soto worth drafting after pick 100 in a standard league? Thanks Grey
Think he fell to 179 in Rudy’s ranks
Grey! hope all is well.
10 Team h2h with OBP and SLG league. Can you rank top three of these for UTIL:
Grisham, Riely, Hays, Happ, Calhoun, Biggio, C. Walker, D. Peralta, C Taylor
Thanks
Walker, Peralta, Willie
Grey what’s up man….
With the puk injury , my life got easy on which arm to drop for a Catcher to finally pick up. Now the I only have the odious task of picking up a catcher …. In points league who do suggest..
Sean Murphy
Francisco Mejia
I. Kinser-Falefa
Danny Jansen
Thank you!!!
Hey, good to see you!
Murphy
Hey Grey-I hope this finds you well. I need to choose 2 OF out of the following 4 for the week 1 ESPN lock which is 11 days long:
K Lewis
I Happ
Akiyama
Sam Hilliard
Thanks!
Happ, Lewis
Grey,
I need your help. I put in a bid for Buster Posey, and awaiting for him to comer off the WW. Also, I have 4 guys on the IL because of the Covid-19 (Freeman, Gallego, Will Smith, and I think Yordan Alvarez). I just brought up the kid from SD Olivares, currently i have 42 active players. If I get Posey i will have 43. If I activate the 4 it will put 2 over the roster limit so I need to make room for them by dropping 2 players and not sure who to drop these are my choices on my team:
Fulmer
Wacha
Profar
I am leaning towards the 2 SP. What are your thoughts? please advise
Grey what’s up man….
With the puk injury , my life got easy on which arm to drop for a Catcher to finally pick up. Now the I only have the odious task of picking up a catcher …. In points league who do suggest..
Sean Murphy
Francisco Mejia
I. Kinser-Falefa
Danny Jansen
Thank you!!!
Hey, good to see you!
Murphy
Posey opted out this year
i know. I can protect him for next year. So what do you think?
which two of the three?
in fact let me re do the list. Pick two of the 4 to throw back
Fullmer
Wacha
Profar
Kahnle
Fulmer, Kahnle
I think he’s next to worthless
i can withdraw the bid on Posey ($6)
Weekly Standard + OPS: pick one to replace Soto (essentially bench bat):
Austin Hays
Kyle Lewis
Riley
Hilliard
Canha
Hays
Grey, please pick two best streamers?
SON like them all
VV at home vs Mia
P.Lopez at home vs Balt
Houser at Pitt
E.Hernandez at home vs Balt
Houser, Lopez
Happy Re-Opening Day, Grey!
Just wanted to drop a note of appreciation for you. With everything so unpredictable right now, it’s reassuring to know that your witty analysis is waiting for me every weekday when I wake up. Keep up the fantastic work!
Appreciate you!
I fully second this. Your writing is important to a lot of people. Keep up the good fight.
Thanks!
I third this!
Thanks!
FMFBL…drafted Soto 9th overall in a roto draft. Odds of winning this league just went down by about 75%.
Soto fell to 179th overall in our projections
Ouch! And here I was feeling sorry for myself regarding Tom Murphy… maybe EdRod can add to my woes.
Haha
I don’t think I’m brave enough to replace EdRod with [email protected] I think he’s -$22 on streamonator. Kinda confirms my fears for him.
Yikes
It actually increased to -$33!!! I’m not sure what to think since he’s 18 months post TJS and they’re making him their #2.
Yeah, I’m not sure SON knows either tbh — lots of unknown there
Brutal. This is the 4th year in a row my 1st round pick will be a complete bust and this time, it happened before the first pitch of the year. Unreal bad luck.
Yeah, effin’ sucks
It Eflin sucks
Whats up Grey,
12 Team Roto 6×6 OBP, sv and holds separate cats
What do you think?
C – O. Navarez
1B – P. Alonzo
2B – E. Escobar
3B – J. Ramirez
SS – A. Mondesi
MI – T. Anderson
CI – J. Donaldson
OF – C. Bellinger
OF – J.D. Davis
OF – A. Hicks
OF – A. Verdugo
OF – M. Cahna
UTL – N. Cruz
BN – Shogo
SP – Darvish
SP – S. Gray
SP – Lynn
SP – Gallen
SP – Musgrove
SP – R. Hill
CL -Melancon
CL – Kintzler
HD – D. Castillo
HD – S. Lugo
I love the pitching…Great staff…Hitting looks okay, but low on OBP
Typo on my part, I meant OPS, does that change your outlook on the team?
We made it! Dodgers vs Giants tonight! I’ll take whatever we get, let’s play ball!
What a long, strange trip it’s been.
Same, same!
For real baseball (and real life) COVID is terrible – but for fantasy purposes, I almost welcome this newfound chaos.
Embrace it bb
Yeah, may as well
Arrgh! The covid got Sexy Dr. Pepper! This year is gonna be funky
Yup
What’s the correct most PC way to handle news like this?
Step 1 – Hope he’s ok
Step 2- Check all my rosters for shares of Less Sexy Dr. Pepper
Step 3 – No Shares
Step 4 – Do a Jig
Step 5 – Remind self that most important thing is it isn’t serious for him
Step 6 – Jump in air and click heels together
I just did Step 2 and I have him in Tout — oh well, that team feels doomed anyway
Was that the Matz is my ace team?
Hey, welcome aboard!
Opening day trade offer. My Laureano, L Hendricks, H Alberto for his Castellanos, Plesac. I have Rogers, Kimbrel, Pressly (for a couple weeks at least) as closers as well.
Hold
Watson or Kitzler for SAGNOF?
Or Helsey?
helsley ain’t closer now, for sure (at least to start)
Watson
JUAN SOTO GETS COVID
JUAN COV-OTO
NOOOOOOOOO :'( that one hurts me bad
Damn
Ugh Juan soto just tested positive :/
@Grey: sagnof week 1, who do you like better? britton (3 @ was) or pressly (3 vs sea)? happy opening day (finally)!
Britton
Grey — please ask Donkey Teeth if his name is from a Supernatural episode 9/16 from 2014.
Then you could call him the ‘First Blade’
I think he took it from Key and Peele
Thanks, just looked it up. Scary funny.
No problem
Got offered Jorge Polanco for my Jeff McNeil. I don’t have a SS so I kind of have to take this deal, right ?
Sounds fair
Marcus’s calf blowing like a Stroman Candle made me laugh and cry at the same time as I was hoping he would anchor the back of my rotation. Now Im stuck with making the tough call as to the likes of Framber Valdez, Elieser Hernandez or Yusiel Kikuchi. Any advice for this less than ideal situation would be great. Thanks
Framber, easy call
Burnes starting Saturday vs Cubs and Darvish. That was fast!
Best stash (short term): Stroman, Uquidy, Odorizzi
Odorizzi
Hill vs. Keuchel @CHW
or
Velasquez vs. Urena @PHI?
Answered above
Hill (MIN) vs. Keuchel (@CHW)
or
Velasquez (@PHI) vs. Urena (MIA)
Either really, I think Vince, but would check SON
Hey Grey! Great write up as usual.
I am in the same boat – we only have two IL spots in this league and I just watched Dozier get COVID, Stroman and Odorizzi go down and I already had Kela on the IL. I’m assuming I hold on to Stro for the time being but it’s difficult with only two IL spots.
For a last-roster-spot-dart-throw do I go with Cespedes or Riley? Cain and Shogo are there too but I have a lot of speed.
Team: Sano, Muncy, Bregs, Lindo, Springer, Ozuna, Franmil, Mondesi, Bichette
BN: Mcneil, Mercado, Cespedes IL: Dozier
Thanks!!!
I have another league where I have Khris Davis as my last roster spot. Davis over Riley? Or drop a guy like Pressly for riley in a SV + Hld league where I have 5 relievers including Pressly. Thanks again!
I’d go Riley — Can lose Pressly
Riley or Yo is close, prolly Riley
Lose Stroman
Time to grab a blanket and throw on some Sarah Mclachlan for one of my favorite pitchers
HA!
I’m curious as to what your ‘Perts league team looks like. Got a link?
https://www.fantrax.com/fantasy/league/mi2ep50fk632pgwg/team/roster
First start or bench question of the new season.
Would you start Johnny Cueto in LA tonight. I am thinking NO..
Nah
Thoughts on Andres Giménez for 2020? Mets gave promoted him.
Meh, bench role, right?
Hadn’t seen specifics. If he were in an everyday role?
Sure, if
mahle time bitches! desclafani has a “mild right teres major strain” bye bye wacha in NL only
Nice for Mahle!
so desclafani is the “very model of a mild/major general” here. sounds oxymoronic here.
Ha
12 team 5×5 Roto (6 keepers)
C – Vazquez
1B – Olson
2B – Biggio
SS – Baez
3B – Chapman
OF – JD Martinez
OF – Laureano
OF – Conforto
UT – Ohtani
UT – Mallex
BN – Happ
BN – Willie Calhoun
IL – Dozier
NA – Madrigal
SP – Cole
SP – Buehler
SP – Clevinger
SP – Stripling
SP – Ray
SP – Urias
SP – May
SP – Gore
SP – Pearson
RP – Jansen
RP – Kintzler
RP – Wade Davis
Would you make a move to add Pressly, Watson, or Crick to chase some Saves?
RP is my weakest spot, and having a hard time deciding if I want to ditch one of the SPs. Would think May based on the roster news, but he seems too good to drop for a rent-a-closer.
Watson
I’d lose Gore before May, or even Davis
Hey Grey,
Thanks for answering my question above! I have Andujar as a UTIL, and Lucchesi at the end of my rotation. I was thinking of replacing one or both of them to bolster my bats, or hold?
C: Garver
1B: Olson
2B: Villar
3B: Donaldson
SS: Bogaerts
CI: Austin Riley
MI: Brandon Lowe
OF: Acuna
OF: Harper
OF: JD Martinez
OF: Kyle Lewis
UTIL: Willie Calhoun,
UTIL: Miguel Andujar
BENCH: Christian Walker
IL: Hunter Dozier, Yordan Alvarez
NA: Madrigal
SP: Giolito, Darvish, Lamet, Wheeler, Houser, Heaney, L. Weaver, Lucchesi
RP: Jansen, Kimbrel, Kennedy, Melancon
IL: Odorizzi
Available Bats:
-Arraez
-Gardner
-Renato Nunez
-Tapia
-Brian Anderson
-Trent Grisham
-Jon Berti
-Michael Chavis
-Nick Solak
Thank you!
Grisham and Nunez
Flier on Burnes, Lucchessi or Civale?
Burnes
Sal Perez or Kiner-Falefa?
Perez
this isn’t close, salvy. all those “but but falafel man hit all those spring training HR’s” (after minor and major league career of nearly none), salvy pretty sure just HR’d in back to back summer camp games within the last 3 days or so. not that i care about those, but every damn one of these falafel man guys love to use that stuff (as they have nothing else TO use). the ONLY true and positive thing about falafel man is you’d have a starting 3B with catcher elig, so less off days. however, if yr in a more ratio based situation like say OPS, falafel man will bring those down even more FROM that those extra at bats. plus salvy (along with molina) basically never gets any off days anyway, he’s like the safest floor catcher there is from those.
Mixed 5×5, 17 bats, 11 arms, 0 bench, I can add a bat and an arm to replace IL guys, pick one of each:
bats: Braun, Eaton, K. Lewis, Madrigal
arms: Yarbrough, SAGNOF (W. Davis or one of the SF guys) or a MR for ratios (D. Castillo, Karinchak, Buttrey to cuff my Robles, or Pagan)
FWIW I should be about middle of the pack in SV with my current roster and my SP are Rico Suave.
Depends on needs…Braun is safest, Madrigal is stash, Lewis is sexiest
Yarbrough
Quick Moment, as I wish your thoughts please:
12 Team Roto (R, HR, TB, RBI, BB, SB, AVE, OPS // K, QS, W, SV, ERA, WHIP, PTW, K-BB
C Willson Contreras
1B Danny Santana OF, 1B
2B Mike Moustakas 3B, 2B
3B Jose Ramirez 3B
SS Carter Kieboom SS
2B/SS Garrett Hampson 2B, OF
1B/3B Hanser Alberto 2B, 3B
OF Giancarlo Stanton OF
OF Luis Robert OF
OF Lorenzo Cain OF
UTIL Kyle Lewis OF
Bench Ryan Braun OF
Bench Tommy Edman 3B, 2B
Bench Sam Hilliard OF
PITCHERS
P Josh Hader RP
P Kirby Yates RP
P Edwin Diaz RP
P Carlos Carrasco SP, RP
P James Paxton SP
P Lance Lynn SP
Bench Andrew Heaney SP
Bench Corbin Burnes SP
It looks like you had 2 picks in the first 4 rounds.
Hitting looks fine, if a little light on OPS and you have no pitching — looks like you’re going with a strategy, so hopefully it works
cram’s right, you went well over (i mean under in number) ADP in probably quite a few spots to have those hitters, and those pitchers in a 12’er. it looks like stanton was yr 2nd round pick (i love stanton, and he’s going like 72nd overall or some silly b.s.). went closer/closer probably at around pick 45-60 (and diaz ain’t that cheap either for the 3rd one). unless you have an unusually small innings cap i’d dump some BN hitters for SP (keep edman over beef jerky man alberto).
Starting the season without both of my closers (Chapman and Gallegos). It ain’t pretty out there but Wade Davis or Kyle Crick? (I know, don’t judge)
Crick
Hot dogs at the ready. Check.
Plenty of beer on ice. Check
The usual card board cut out friends waiting on the couch. Check.
The neighbors already pumping in unusually high levels of crowd noise. Check.
Just finished an hour of 100 yard long toss. Check.
Getting some pepper going in an hour. Check.
Got my good spikes on inside on the hardwood. Check.
Cup check. Ouch.
Man opening day is feeling good!
HAHA — hope you have a cutout of me there!
Yes you are a parrot apparently…I didn’t realize I was doing Razzball social media…
Haha, yes, I was inspired…Want me to remove, say the word
The process of being mentally stimulated to do something creative.
This means copy word for word?
I got overly jazzed about baseball returning and thought it was funny, you’re right, it was deleted — apologies, Wake
I deleted it, didn’t want you to upset you
The danger of too many mock drafts reared its ugly head last night in my real Friends League draft. It appears they are smarter than the average Joe- maybe even Razzball readers! I may have reached a few times for short positions which I hate to do. Ended up with 7 guys I never acquired in any mock draft. Ugh. I will need to make some moves! Here is the team – 12 teamer Roto with ten hitting and nine pitching cats so it rewards guys that have a high average, walk and don’t strike out much.
C- Perez
CI- Abreau, Suarez, Dannys
MI- Tatis, Newman, C Hernandez
OF- Yelich, Brantley, Mercado, Laureano, C Dick (!)
Util: Ohtani
SP: Stras, Morton, Hendricks, CMart (Ohtani)
RP: Hand, Iglesias, Betances, Pagan, Treinen (S&H)
Bench: D Murphy, Dyson
I can move Dannys to OF and pickup a CI if that helps.
Best on wire:
H Dozier, Thames, Piscotty, Fletcher, Fletcher, Chavis, Puig, Hays, Hays, Hilliard, Taylor, Puljos, Smoak, Berti
Why do you own Cesar, Murphy and Dickerson?
I’d grab Thames for now — Hays over Dickerson, and Berti over Cesar
Cuz I panicked! Cesar and Murphy 50% owned and clock was ticking down (30 seconds per pick)
Hopefully I can fix! Thank you
No problem
Loved Max Headroom reference.
Thought Title of post should’ve been:
‘Stromanm my pain with his calf string….’
HA! NOW try and gettin that out of your head!
Haha, nice!
12 team NL only Aristedes Aquino. Drop or hold?
Hold
12 team NL only Aristedes Aquino. Drop or hold?
Grey!!
Thanks, man.
a. Have since dropped Burnes ’cause I can’t start him for any of his first two starts (per SON) so I’m using it for streamers. First up, Eovaldi for his first start.
b. Question about SON and the $ score. Obvi, JV at home versus the Mariners should be a lock hence his good score for Ks, Ws and probably everything else. What score is the absolute lowest you’d take to start a pitcher that you believed in? Eovaldi is going at 9.9$ at home versus the Os, so he should be good for something. Obviously most pitchers in Colorado are going to have a negative score and should be avoided if possible, even if they are around ‘0’, right? Do you have a range of confidence? Like…
1. 20 and above, got to start him, like JV at home vs the Ms
2. 5 – 20, fairly confident. Start him if the other pitcher is gonna get bombed at least for a W.
3. 0-5, tread with caution.
4. less than 0, try to avoid if possible.
Cheers,
Ante
Oh, hey, look at you down here
A. Be careful with Eovaldi but O’s are bad, so I can see it
B. I try to avoid negative #s
3. Tread w/ caution
Grey!!!
a. Don’t know what happened, automatic update and low I was down there. Took too long to make my comment.
b. Yeah, on Eo I was also stunned by 9.9$. Must be a mirage and by gameday SON will slap himself in the face for such terrible job. Gonna drop Eo for Hudson, maybe he latches on as closer? Haven’t seen anything good from the Nats’ camp on Doolittle.
c. Signed up Britton by some luck! Dropped Dustin May for the second time.
d. Not happy about Madrigal to the farm news. Hopefully he gets back in 7 days! If not back in 7, then I’ll have to drop if something hot is afoot!
e. Happy OD. May all your dreams come true today.
Cheers,
Ante
A. Ha
B. Juan Soto tested positive, everything is broke
C. Cool
D. He’ll be back
E. You too!
Oh god, Quintana – persona non grata to me for costing me my spot in the finals last year