Byron Buxton (2-for-4, 3 RBIs and his 15th and 16th homer, hitting .278) went from one of the most exciting players in baseball who couldn’t stay healthy to one of the most boring players who is staying on the field. It must’ve been like, “Hey, I can give you 110%, if percentages went over 100%, and you will see flashes of Eric Davis. You will marvel at my deering-do. The gumption when my brakes ain’t pump-tion. The sizzle in the flash in the pan. Or I can give you 62% and be kinda okay.” I honestly don’t know which I prefer. [sees Royce Lewis hit 27 homers in 26 games and miss 98% of the season] I guess Buxton? I still don’t know. Buxton’s become Jake Meyers with seemingly more in the tank. Call him Riding-the-brakes Meyers. Anyway, here’s what else I saw this weekend in fantasy baseball:
Simeon Woods Richardson – 7 IP, 2 ER, 4 hits, zero walks, 7 Ks, ERA at 3.78. This might be absolute hooey, but it seems like there’s more pitchers this year who are pitching to contact and not walking as many guys. Like they clued in on what I was saying in the preseason. With the pitch clock, there’s no time to be worrying about strikeouts. Hitters are going to fail seven of ten times, so just throw a strike and see what happens.
David Festa – 3 1/3 IP, 1 ER, 70 pitches, ERA at 5.20. Quick hook for Dave Party, which sucked because I streamed him. Hey, it’s my Party, I’ll cry if I want to.
Emmanuel Clase – 1 IP, 0 ER, ERA at 0.66, as he got his 35th save. Never talk about closers when they’re going well, but gotta hand it to Clase. He’s Class A. He loaded the bases with zero outs yesterday and it was still like, “Nah, you ain’t scoring.” Phenomenal.
David Fry – 1-for-4 and his 11th homer, hitting .271. Dropped Elias Diaz in one league for Fry and never looked back. Well, except now. This is technically a look back.
Tanner Bibee – 5 2/3 IP, 1 ER, 6 hits, zero walks, 5 Ks, ERA at 3.39. If every pitcher of yours has a 2.5 BB/9 or lower, you can’t go that wrong.
Yariel Rodriguez – 5 2/3 IP, 1 ER, 6 baserunners, 5 Ks, ERA at 3.60. He’s 51.3% O-Contact%, which is near best in league with Glasnow (if Yariel qualified, he doesn’t, obviously), and his Z-Contact% is worse than average. Small sample, so prolly means nothing but pretty interesting if you take a moment, put your hand on your chin and contemplate that. He is untouchable on balls nowhere near the plate, and is easy to square up on balls in it. Streamonator doesn’t love his next one, but I could see it.
Chris Bassitt – 4 IP, 7 ER, ERA at 4.30. Bassitt read earlier in the week how I said he threw his best start of the year and was like, “Watch this,” and did the Usher hand motions.
Daulton Varsho – 2-for-3 and his 14th homer, hitting .207. You could teach someone who doesn’t know baseball what makes a good top-of-the-order hitter and they could figure out a better place in the order for Varsho than the two-hole. Unless two-hole is meant to connote crap. Then, well played.
Osvaldo Bido – 6 IP, 0 ER, 3 baserunners, 5 Ks, ERA at 3.92. Was vs. Yariel on Saturday, and, funnily enough, his Ks and command look eerily similar, like if they ‘jumped out of a closet and yelled boo’ eerie. Streamonator actually likes his next one an itty-Bido more.
JJ Bleday – 3-for-4, 3 RBIs and his 14th homer, hitting .243. Being a streaky hitter and getting three hits gets an immediate hot schmotato alert.
Zack Gelof – 3-for-4, 2 RBIs and his 15th homer, hitting .201. Kinda same deal as Bleday, but also Gelof homered earlier in the week, and the A’ss are a sneaky ‘don’t mess with them’ streaming against team, which makes Yariel’s Saturday start the more impressive.
JP Sears – 7 IP, 3 ER, 6 baserunners, 4 Ks, ERA at 4.32. Don’t trust Sears on the road, but if you had the pants grapes to start him, then good on you. Go tell a girl at a bar how you went to Sears in a desperation move and it worked, she’ll be impressed.
Spencer Arrighetti – 7 IP, 2 ER, 3 baserunners, 13 Ks, ERA at 5.14. I say last week he looks like a 2025 sleeper and homeboy starts blowing up my spot. Shush!
Hunter Brown – 5 1/3 IP, 2 ER, 7 baserunners, 9 Ks, ERA at 3.96. I’d say his post-April run should be instructive for future years. When (player’s name) struggles in April, you might not want to drop him, but we all know when (player’s name) struggles in April next year, you’re dropping his sorry ass.
Yordan Alvarez – 2-for-2 and his 25th homer, and 3rd homer in two games. Captain Woo Cubano turning up the gas in Beantown.
Jeremy Pena – 3-for-5, 2 runs, 2 RBIs and a slam (10) and legs (13), hitting .273. Jeremy’s pokin’! (The ball)
Alex Bregman – 2-for-4, 2 runs, 3 RBIs and his 17th homer, 2nd homer in two games. Don’t worry, he won’t hit more than 25 homers on the year, Dude’s the most predictable player in baseball.
James Paxton – Left yesterday’s game limping. Unless he was practicing to be a pimp, it looked bad. Not good bad. Saying it’s a calf strain. Boo.
Gerrit Cole – 5 1/3 IP, 1 ER, 8 baserunners, 10 Ks, ERA at 4.70. This is how my rostering of Cole has gone, “Okay, gonna start him…” Then one of the worst starts of his career. Of course that leads to, “I need to bench him…” Then vintage Cole.
Aaron Judge – 3-for-3, 2 runs and a slam (42) and legs (6), hitting .328, and hitting near .500 in the last week. Judge is like, “You like Bobby Witt Jr. for AL MVP? That’s cute.”
Juan Soto – 2-for-5 and two homers (29, 30), hitting .304. Also, in this game, Giancarlo Stanton (1-for-2, 4 RBIs) hit his 20th homer. Rangers starting pitcher was Heaney, but he only allowed one homer. Oh, he still sucked, but only one homer. I’m just pointing shizz out. I’m The Great Pointing-Shizz-Out’er.
Marcus Stroman – 5 IP, 1 ER, 7 baserunners, 1 K, ERA at 4.01. He’s sorta bleh for fantasy, but in real life: He went to Kanye’s dentist for his grill. If you’re not familiar with Kanye’s dentist, please Google him. He looks like a bouncer for a strip club.
Jasson Dominguez – Boone said there’s nowhere for Dominguez to play, so there’s no timetable for his return, which is what I’ve been saying for about four months. Need Big G or Verdugo, who thinks he’s a G, to go down to injury.
Cody Bradford – 5 IP, 1 ER, 5 hits, zero walks, 7 Ks, ERA at 3.60. Big lefty who had ridiculously good command, but has not had great results, in general — career 4.89 ERA in 81 IP. All the peripherals say he should be better. So, prolly a monocle on the cyclops, but maybe Streamonator if the league is deep enough.
Carson Kelly – 3-for-4, 2 runs, 2 RBIs and his 8th homer, hitting .250. Rangers’ beat reporter said Kelly might’ve supplanted Heim for the starting job. I say, “So?” Tomato-tomahto, Kelly-Heim, So…So?
Jake Burger – 3-for-4, 3 runs, 2 RBIs and his 22nd homer. He had seven homers on July 1st, now 22. Also, he hit 17 HRs from July 1st on last year. Cust kayin’.
Max Meyer – 6 1/3 IP, 4 ER, 7 hits, zero walks, 4 Ks, ERA at 5.20. Love to hear the thought process behind throwing him for all these innings in a lost season. Get to his Tommy John surgery faster? Incapacitate him so they don’t have to pay him ever? They don’t know how numbers work? I have questions, y’all!
Andrew Nardi – 1 2/3 IP, 2 ER, ERA at 5.01. In a clear save opportunity, Calvin Faucher was not called on, unless they tried, and the Marlins haven’t paid their bullpen phone bill, which is possible. Faucher’s been solid so I can see holding, but this is clearly, uh, unclear mixed signals.
Nick Martinez – 7 IP, 0 ER, 1 hit, zero walks, 7 Ks, ERA at 3.16. Pitching well all year but only his seventh game started. He has an under-1 BB/9 in 91 IP. Yeah, that plays, even with a 37% GB%. He gets the Royals next, which is incredibly scary to me, but he’s been great — a 0.91 ERA in his past 11 appearances. FAAB’d him, we shall see!
Nick Lodolo – 5 1/3 IP, 3 Er, 6 baserunners, 4 Ks, ERA at 3.99. Well, at least one Reds’ Nick is good. Not this one!
Tyler Stephenson – 2-for-3 and his 15th homer, hitting .248, 2nd homer in the week. In one two-catcher league, I have Stephenson and David Fry. Not saying it’s amazing, but tell me again why you need to draft catchers high.
Tobias Myers – 7 1/3 IP, 0 ER, 3 hits, zero walks, 9 Ks, ERA at 2.79. Brewers are the NL’s version of the Guards in that they just be making aces.
Joey Ortiz – 1-for-4, 2 RBIs and his 8th homer, hitting .252, hitting near-.330 in the last week. Trying to find a schmotato and prolly comes down to Joey Or-what.
Michael Wacha – 7 IP, 2 ER, 7 baserunners, 6 Ks, ERA at 3.50. Told you when he was activated he was wildly underrated. You just have to defend against terrible matchups. Like this week’s start I find to be meh.
Lucas Erceg – 1 1/3 IP, 0 ER, ERA at 3.14, and the save on Saturday, as Hunter Harvey went on the IL. Just as the Orioles’ pen is TCBY, as in iT’s Cano BabY. The Royals’ pen is Coldstone Creamery, as in it’s anyone except McArthur, who should be working at Coldstone and not pitching in the majors.
Craig Kimbrel – 1 IP, 1 ER, ERA at 3.35, as Yennier Cano worked in too many games in a row, so the O’s lost. Cause and effect.
Albert Suarez – 6 2/3 IP, 0 ER, 5 baserunners, 5 Ks, ERA at 3.39. You do a Skibidi in the toilet like Bassitt and your FAAB goes down and I don’t want you. You rise from the ashes like Suarez and your FAAB goes up, and now I want you more. Like somehow their futures are affected. I’m being philosophical, I think. Work with me, I’m doing the Whole 30 and haven’t had carbs in two weeks.
Jeffrey Springs – 5 IP, 1 ER, 6 hits, zero walks, 8 Ks, ERA at 4.61. Springs, I’m already sprung for you for next year. You don’t need to sway me further.
MacKenzie Gore – 4 IP, 0 ER, 5 hits, 6 walks, 2 Ks, and 5 unearned runs, ERA at 4.50. Man, he’s got the filth, but he’s also sloppy as hell. Sound like I’m talking about Messy Marvin. Check me out with the new references. Okay, how about, “Who is Gore? The Rizzler with a Takis Costco deal?” (It’s better if you don’t understand that 2nd one.) Gore can be great, but someone needs to figure out his mechanics.
Jacob Young – 2-for-4, 2 runs and his 2nd homer. I really needed power in this one league, so I benched Young for Coby Mayo. Naturally!
Jorge Soler – 2-for-4, 4 RBIs and his 15th and 16th homer. Even after signing a big contract, Soler is still good in Coors. Damn, way to subtweet Kris Bryant.
Travis d’Arnaud – 1-for-5, 2 RBIs and his 12th homer, hitting .252. How has he not supplanted Murphy for the starting job? Is Murphy that good of a framer? Is this somehow connected to Aaron Brothers going out of business?
Max Fried – 5 IP, 4 ER, 10 baserunners, 9 Ks, ERA at 3.56. No joke, hope he’s not permanently damaging his arm.
Spencer Schwellenbach – 6 IP, 2 ER, 8 baserunners, 7 Ks, ERA at 3.95. I want to give him my full-throated endorsement. My Hawk Tuah, so to speak, but the Braves seem to be managing his innings. His peripherals say he is pitching solidly.
Julio Rodriguez – 0-for-5, 5 Ks, as he was activated from the IL. Kevin from ESPN’s “Get Him In Your Lineup” Department said, “I wasn’t talking lewd, Margaret, I just said, ‘My weekend was nice. She bingo’d on my bango until I Chuck’d my Woolery.'”
Cal Raleigh – 3-for-4, 5 RBIs and his 25th and 26th homer. Loved the Karl Ravech home run call, “Cal Raleigh is anything but ass!!!…then again he is 98% ass.”
Jorge Polanco – 3-for-5, 2 runs and his 11th homer. Ya know who else has 11 homers? That’s right, Jeff McNeil (1-for-3). Ya know who else? [sad trombone] Julio Rodriguez.
Andrew McCutchen – 2-for-5, 4RBIs and his 15th and 16th homer. More like McClutch! Like a stick shift car? No, Random Italicized Voice.
David Bednar – 1 2/3 IP, 1 ER, ERA at 5.75. This was not a save opportunity, but he should not be closing. David craps the Bednar on the reg. Aroldis is the handcuff, sorta like he uses on women in his hotel room.
River Ryan – 4 2/3 IP, 0 ER, ERA at 1.33, and on the way to an easy victory when he was pulled at 56 pitches with tightness in his forearm. If I were at the game, I would’ve charged the field like Kanye and been like, “Forearms are good and all, but imma let him finish the inning so I can get my win!”
Max Muncy – Will be activated along with Tommy Edman during the Dodgers’ next homestand. This weekend the Dodgers said, “Hey, since we’re in the Bermuda Triangle, we may as well bring back both guys.”
Aaron Nola – 5 IP, 3 ER, 12 baserunners, 4 Ks, ERA at 3.60 vs. Zac Gallen – 4 1/3 IP, 1 ER, ERA at 3.69. This was a matchup of aces! Emoji that is trying to keep a straight face as it rolls its eyes.
Cristopher Sanchez – 4 2/3 IP, 7 ER, ERA at 3.63. Welp, we had a good run. Now two of his last three starts have been hideous. Streamonator likes his next and I could see giving him one final shot, but the trust is gone.
Merrill Kelly – 5 IP, 2 ER, 5 baserunners, 2 Ks, ERA at 2.43 as he was activated from the IL, pitching his first game since April. That’s a quick turnaround from Tommy John. [intern whispers in ear] But it’s Return From Tommy John Month! Merrill is a solid backend fantasy starter. Think what Jordan Montgomery should be. Call him JoMoBThere.
Corbin Carroll – 1-for-3, 2 RBIs and his 11th homer, and 2nd homer in as many games. Also, in this game, Jake McCarthy (3-for-5, 1 run, 4 RBIs) is one of the hottest schmotatoes in the land. DBags are just nasty right now. Do not come for them.
Matt Vierling – 2-for-5, 2 runs, 2 RBIs and his 14th homer. Some guys I mention and I think about how depressing it is if you have them, then I look at my AL-Only team and there’s Vierling.
Dillon Dingler – 2-for-4, 2 runs, 2 RBIs and his 1st homer. Dingler? I bought you six rolls of toilet paper last week!
Ryan Walker – 1 IP, 0 ER, ERA at 2.20, and his 1st save on Saturday. Giants sent Doval down to the minors on Friday in a shocking move if you were in a coma since April. “They sent down Doval? Oh my God! Hopefully my other drafted closer Adbert Alzolay is okay!” Coma Man, you might want to sit down. So, Walker has been solid all year, doesn’t appear to be a Cuddle Boy, and I’d try to grab him everywhere. Behind him might be Jordan Hicks or Tyler Rogers. I think that’s the right Rogers. So dumb they have twins on their team. That shizz should be disallowed. You building a team or filming The Parent Trap?
The Rays calling up Junior Caminero. Interdasting.
Oh man if CWS beat the Yankees the meltdown will be delicious. (I dont even hate the Yanks, but the overreact would be fun)
3-1 CWS IN 4TH after KYBUSH THREEPWOOD danced around that lineup so far. I hope they pull him. Luck can only hold so long.
Ha!
At least their fans has some fight yesterday
https://x.com/ChicagoCritter/status/1822702109776548113/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1822702109776548113¤tTweetUser=ChicagoCritter
CWS 16 hits on 34 AB so far tonight in a 11-2 score. WS on the menu!
FYI that rusty nail Hunter Brown can still Bite Me!
Ha!
Anyone else enjoy when someone tells you a player is “going to regress to the mean” and clearly are just parroting a line. I got told this about Burnes and now Ozuna.
what i find funny is that the non math heads only use “regress” to indicate downward (i.e. worse) movement. it’s similar to how non physics heads use “accelerate”.
clearly it indicates the player is headed downward to the mean (person). Right?
You are right about acceleration. I used to hang with a bunch of engineers and physics people in college. I was a wide eyed puppy when they started talking about real stuff. “Guys, I barely understood math with basic letters. You got hieroglyphics going on.”
They beat me into submissoon on “acceleration.” Just like my lawyer buddies with who/whom, or Prima Facie.
I can sound like I know something for about 5 seconds and nod sagely rest of time.
here’s some (i’m by no means a physics head, just more curious when words are warped to mean a % of their meaning (or even opposite meaning), then that gets popular enough such that later MOST people confuse what the word means)
(): regress to the mean means just that: regressing to what was statistically to be expected, if you are doing MUCH better that means downward, if you were MUCH worse than expected that would mean upward. so i could say it applies to both s.lugo and c.carroll (assuming he’s not just injured, which evidence would indicate)
() accelerate: means a change in velocity, that could be stopping or starting (or going faster or slower if already moving)
() mendoza line: it isn’t .200 batting average, this originally meant carlos mendoza’s career batting line (which is like .213 i think or something like that), but it’s MUCH easier for the average person to just remember “it means bad, and near .200” so by now almost all people think this actually meant batting .200.
(-) narcotics: when used by cops or politicians or anybody talking about drugs. but it means drugs based on opium plant, i.e. opiates (or derivatives of these). doesn’t apply to cocaine, meth, weed, or any other non opiate. but it sure is easier to make up one word to apply to ALL illegal drugs, so that’s what the politicians warped it into.
here’s another fun one, “sodomy” a very old word used originally just to mean taboo sex acts (i.e. banned by a very stringent deity), by people who meant that to apply to all these: handjobs, blowjobs, anal, masturbation and anything else not considered ok by the prevalent supposed deity of the people writing this at the time. much later it’s used for just anal, but legal codes still mostly if not changed would still consider a blowjob “sodomy”
hahahaha, even i forgot, i jumped it the wrong direction, c.mendoza’s career batting average: .182, i guess .13 off the wrong way, really off .18 the other way.
Pretty sure you were closer in orginal post. He was .215 career BA. I think he had more under .200 than over years though.
shit, forgot, it was about mario mendoza, not carlos (and there were quite a few carlos mendoza’s)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendoza_Line
and yr right it was .215, i was close the first time guessing .213.
narcotics word usage always irks me too
Haha
Kris Bryant to the IL. Nolan Jones (3 HRs during rehab) not called up? Did the Rockies forget they have him?
Trash franchise. His August rehab 7 games: 9-23, 2 hr, 9 rbi, 1.326 ops. Bud Black needs to give abs to Jake Cave and Charlie Blackmon
Haha
Hey Grey, could you rank Scherzer, Gavin Stone, Nick Martinez, Faucher for ROS?
Thanks for everything so far this season.
Exclude Faucher, please.
Nick, Stone, Scherzer
You dropping Kutter for Arrighetti? QS 12er…
i would be, if i could by now. i got lucky to obtain arrighetti in one deep 12’er (if shallower probably not as lucky, this one’s deep BN’s, way less decent or better SP’s in FA) but didn’t trust him @ BOS, then he goes out and puts out yet another more than 10 K game.
That sounds right
Start Singer @Min? I need innings this week but I know it is risky.
Sounds fine
hahaha, if you blink you’ll miss when bryant yet again gets IR’d for something based on no prior injury updates, anybody outside COL by now knows: dude is literally always injured, why even pretend to take him off IR ever. have no idea what he put into his body, but i wouldn’t wish his condition on almost anybody, what’s that back going to be like by age 40, or 50. it’ll be probably a lesser version of what tony romo would’ve become had he not got out of NFL right when he did (his was based on serious contact injuries though).
Ha, yup
There is just no way his medical was fine when they signed him with all of this. Bonkers.
of course not. i would say he should get his damn back fixed BUT, he’s in a pretty good situation, almost never has to play at all, and makes i don’t want to even look it up crazy money for long long time, like rendon but can’t be as bad as that (i had been saying for years corbin’s contract was the worst in baseball, but i forgot about the utter insanity of rendon’s both term and amount).
I have Matt Chapman, Oneil Cruz, and Eugenio Suarez for two spots. Should I bench Chapman today against Sale?
Sure
Start or sit Freddy Peralta vs the Dodgers tonight?
Start
Kutter home vs Tex or
Peterson home vs Oak?
Peterson
12tm H2H pts obp redraft, would you drop Friedl and Stott to activate Julio and then add McCarthy? Holliday is in 2B spot, Friedl OF#5 (play 5)
Yes and yes
David Hamilton or Masyn Winn ros obp league?
Are you starting Taj Bradley today in 12 team roto? He has a tough match-up and has hit a few speed bumps recently against much weaker opponent. He was pretty crappy in those last 2 starts. Thanks
Hamilton
I am not starting Taj
Good call haha!
Why would someone downvote me for saying Grey made a good call after Taj got blasted in the game? Weird.
Hehe
Well here I go falling for Walker again hook, line, and sinker.
I’d almost forgive him for what he did to me if he came up and hit 10+ bombs in last 6 weeks or so.
HAHA, I’m ready to get hurt again
he’s being used as a loogy this time around it sounds like so far (for redrafts, obviously that could change for keepers/dynasties and if it took say a month to do it you wouldn’t mind). at least he finally started hitting in his last just over 50 at bats, wasn’t over any decent period since send down.
Please rank top 2
Friedl,Meadows,McCarthy,Morel
McCarthy,Morel
Grey 10T 5×5 Category OBP Keeper League
Drop M. Vientos for any of B. Lowe, H. Ramos or W. Abreu?Im stashing J. Dominguez for roster expansion/keeper value next year. Were do you think he ranks next year? would you still drop him for any of the remaining above?
BTW… Im currently in 4th place
Thanks!
Ramos
Meh, I’m not convinced the Yanks go into the season with Dominguez in a starting job, so it’ll depend on that — maybe around 150 overall
Ok after H. Ramos who’s next on that list to grab
Wilyer
My favorite pickups this week
Wallner dropped Miranda
Jo Aidell dropped Kutter
Toglia dropped Luis Robert
Like you said you gotta do what’s best for your team to make these playoffs and Robert ain’t it lol
Gotcha
Please drop someone for Mookie; Kiner-Falefa, Morel, or Busch?
IKF
Be brave and start Musgrove vs PIT tonight or sit tight?
Sit
ROS (no keeper league): Caminero or Dominiquez?
Keeper league): Jordan Walker or Caminero?
Dominguez — Caminero
points league…
McCarthy or Kelenic?
McCarthy
Afternoon Grey!
Coby Mayo has been dreadful! Hold or drop him?
Thanks as always for your input.
Drop
NL Only 5×5 Weekly Drop Dansby Swanson for Tommy Edman?
No
10 team H2H points league
Is L. Robert a keeper in a 10 teamer? He’s very frustrating.
Who do you prefer next year Robert or Adolis Garcia?
Robert
10 team H2H, saves only. Drop Doval for Erceg or hold and hope Doval comes back and figures it out?
Yes, Erceg
Sears or Nick Martinez?
Nick
Jordan Walker called up
indeed
pick up over Dominguez?
Yes
post-sleep hyper
Haha, let’s go!
This question might be even dumber than most “crystal ball” asks… but since I have to cut someone now I might as well ask.
It’s September 16th, the first round of my playoffs. I am happier that I still have Bryce Miller or Spencer Schwallenbach on my team?
I’d look at who their teams would be facing then
As an owner of both I’d say Schwelly. his k/bb is loverly
I need one 2B, one RF and one U from this group. Which three do you have in the starting lineup?
Steer (1b/2b/3b/lf)
L.Garcia (2b)
Burleson (1b/lf/rf)
Cowser (lf/cf/rf)
Tovar (ss)
Robert (cf)
Steer, Cowser, Robert
Dbacks are hot. So do you think Mccarthy may be the guy who appeared in your sleeper post last year? He is virtually playing everyday and is hitting lhp better than rhp. Their OF defense also is so much better when he plays along with Carroll.
Yes, he could be
it took ARI like 5-7 extra season months to figure out a.thomas should be behind mccarthy. if not longer, like all the way back to what april or may 23.
Mlb schedule is a mystery. How many teams had Sunday off yesterday? How drunk was the person who came up with it?
Why would they ever give any team off on Sunday
yeah pretty sure first time i ever heard of that, 4 teams too, i didn’t notice which the 4th was, but CUBS, STL, KC 3 of them. sounds (like day games outside CHI) like throwing a lot of money in the trash.
whoever was playing CUBS on fri-sat, WSOX was the 4th. so basically it was just MO/IL teams, weird.
Ha, yeah
Weekly lineups today 5PM: Gurriel’s hamstring problem (removed from yesterday’s game). I assume this means out a few games.
Activate Turang or Gurriel this week?
Turang
Drop Waldron for N. Martinez?
Drop Yepez for J. Walker?
Nick
Yepez
Hey Grey
Darvish was dropped, worth a stash pickup for next year
$6 to keep if i do, but my sp is deep and need money to spend on hitters.
is 6$ too good of a price for darvish for next year?
He’s not a keeper
tho, I don’t know your league, but i doubt it
Hi Grey,
7 weeks to go. Thanks for your help throughout the season!
Of course!
Happy Monday…
But who ya got for best catcher too own in 12 tm mixed total points league… no penalty for ks.
D. Fry,S. Langeliers, T. Stephenson, or Alvarez
Tia
Fry
Who’s the start this week?
Streamometer likes Schwell.
Schwell
Excellent job Grey!
16-team h2h weekly points league…redraft
drop Jasson Dominguez for Zebby Matthews?
Thanks
Sure
@Grey: weekly roto redraft. josh bell for schwellenbach? what kind of innings cap do you think hes on?
You should get someone who isn’t being limited for IP
@Grey: also weekly roto:
blackburn – vs oak, vs mia
or
woo – @ det
thanks!
Blackburn
@Grey: 12 team weekly roto. start 3 / sit 3. who starts?
arozarena – 3 @ det, 3 @ pit
steer – 3 vs stl, 3 vs kc
tovar – 3 @ ari, 3 vs sd
friedl – 3 vs stl, 3 vs kc
j bell – 3 vs col, 3 @ tb
stanton – 3 @ cws, 3 @ det
thanks!
Randy, Steer, Tovar
10 Team QS Keeper League
1.Would you drop Baz to stash Christian Moore?
2.Could Moore be keeper worthy?
3.Would you swap any current SP for:
Manaea
Eduardo Rodriguez
Nick Martinez
Jose Soriano
Birdsong
Rasmussen
Lively
Ryne Nelson
Current 2B:
Gleyber
Stott
Xavier
Thairo on IL
Current SP: I only have 49 starts left.
Kirby
Freddy P
Gausman
Arrighetti
Zebby
Baz
Joe Ryan on IL
1. Yes 2. Yes 3. EdRod is better than Zebby
Gotta sit one:
Gausman @ LAA
Berrios @ LAA
Ronel Blanco @ TB
Berrios
Thanx! One more thought-
Fo you trust ERod hm against CO over Gausman or Blanco?
*Do
Yes, EdRod
good morrow
just general goodness- M. Garcia or Polanco?
Muncy or Vientos?
Soler or Vientos?
spank you
Polanco
Vientos
Soler
actually, plz add to this:
Polanco or M. Busch
tx
Polanco
If you had to pick one now to go with the rest of the way:
TJ Friedl
or
Jake McCarthy
McCarthy
Hello Grey. So i have zebby as my ml guy and stashed boyd coming off dl to start for cleve this week. So who would be the best (if there is one lol) from this mess : zebby,boyd, waldron,nick martinez, spiers, david party ? Thanks for the help
I’d look at matchups, if you can’t then prolly Nick Martinez
Hey Grey, 5×5 roto, can you rank these guys moving forward please (in a vacuum): J Lowe, Yoshida, Heliot, Friedl
Ramos, Lowe
Help with 2 keepers, 10 team roto. I can keep them for 2 more years only.
Chourio
T. Hernandez
J. Merrill
J. Wood
Choose 2 please.
Two Jacksons
Who is the closer in Detroit?
Vest
Maybe Holton in a share?
Yeah, could be…
Who is on First!
Haha
Rest of the way, pick two closers
Kenley
Yates
Walker (New SF guy)
Kenley, Yates
Lux facing 7 RHP this week. Betts hasn’t played a game in essentially two months, with no rehab starts. We saw how well that worked out for Julio with no rehab ABs. Gotta figure the Dodgers are going to be easy on Mookie his first week back. Gotta go Lux > Mookie this week, no?
I wouldn’t
Two questions for you in a 12team QS/OBP keeper league
Thanks!
1. Depends what you’re trading him for 2. Wallner
Clay Holmes is the only offer I’ve had for Crochet. Others have balked at higher value assets like Matt Olson, Clase, Suarez
Do you need saves? Is Crochet a keeper for you?
Current closers are Duran, Hudson, Cano, JMart. Crochet would likely be a keeper if I don’t trade him.
We can keep 6 and my only viable keepers are Witt/Soto/Glasnow
I put less emphasis on SP keepers due to injury concern which is why I’m looking to trade Crochet for something to bolster my title run
You don’t need a 5th closer
Good morning,
In redraft leagues, are you still holding onto Crochet? He does carry 10th round keeper value and if I drop him, anyone can pick him up on waivers and stash for that keeper value next season.
Is he a keeper? Then hold him
Elly in the 8th, and then the options for the 2nd keeper would be between Crochet in the 10th, Flaherty in the 10th, Burleson in the 10th, or Strider in the 6th
He’s not a keeper
Mookie back so have to drop 1.
Drop Yepez or Langford?
Yepez
Two teams that are close to a WS ring or at least playing in it don’t have a lockdown closer … unbelievable
Yeah, crazy
12tm H2H pts with OBP, 5 OF. Julio activated who is the drop for him?
Stott, TJF, JLowe, or wait to see if Eovaldi goes on IL and swap.
Eovaldi
SF’s Patrick Bailey 3-43 over the past two weeks. Obviously cooked. Swap out for MLB’s latest sensation Del Castillo or some of the old tried and true types, Kirk, Jansen, Bart, ‘d’Arnaud, and Heim
Bart
Totally forgot that Mookie is coming off the IL today!
Which “Closer” are you cutting to make room (12-team, 6×6 league with no HOLDS):
Ben Joyce
Yennier Cano
Thanks again!
Joyce
Closer … Duran or Cano
Duran
Cut Langford for any of Josh Bell, Busch, or Butler? Keep 6 OBP/SLG league but I think Langford has been edged out of my keeper candidates.
Meh
indeed
Despite the service time manipulation for this year (Verdugo stinks), is Dominguez still a top tier keeper for 2025?
Yes
Thanks. I think we definitely see him when rosters expand and he’ll be starting every day going into the postseason. Stanton is made of paper mache and Verdugo is a bench player
Prolly see him, but he has no place to play, so he might platoon
Hola Grey,
1) UTL spot this week, need counting stats:
Toglia (3 away, 3 at Coors) or Lane Thomas (6 games)?
2) More Ks this week: Devin Williams (7g, all home) or Crochet @HOU?
1. Thomas 2. Devin
Gracias!
No problemo
So Kimbrel, are we dropping in a 12-draft redraft? Seranthony is available but that’s about it. Too soon or would you make the move?
Kimbrel is droppable, Seranthony is not the closer, Cano is
Need two of these guys for saves.
Y Cano, Daniel Hudson, Lucas Ercerg, Seranthony Dominguez.
Please add Evan Phillips to the list of options.
Cano, Hudson
Grey, 10 team league OBP/K9/QS, we keep normally 4 postional players and 3 pitchers.
Drop Tyler Oneil and Joe Ryan? Is Joe Ryan a keeper?
Made the playoffs by a 1/2 decimal.
Diaz, Y
Freeman
Altuve
Steer
Henderson
Nimmo
Carroll
Doyle
Colten
Flagherty
Crochett
Brown H
Kirby
Sale
Munoz
Clase
Bench
Ryan J
Bradley
Houck
IR Painter
IR Perez E
Unlikely that Ryan is a keeper for you
10 team 5×5 OBP. Freddie P home vs. Dodgers today. Very high on SON but seems tougher than that. Start or sit? didn’t trust SON this weekend with Springs and it bit me.
Start
how would you rank for ROS for utility/bench among for H2H 13 team league that counts OBP and avg separelty : Friedl, Happ, Suarez, Morel
Thanks
Morel, Happ, Friedl
12 team lol*