Around The Lou, Paul DeJong is colloquially known as Colonel Mustard, the Land Marshall, who is both dignified and dangerous who always rolls second. Or, uh, *counts the spots in the lineup* sixth. Yesterday, Colonel Mustard (2-for-4, 3 runs, 5 RBIs) did it with a baton on the back of a miniature horse while riding through our nation’s capital. “Onward tiny chap!” The Colonel coaxed his horsie, not a pony, many people make this mistake, around the bases not once, but twice. His fourth and fifth homer-jaunts around the bases in this too-early-to-be-called-a-season season. Will the Colonel Mustard continue to *pinkie to mouth* musquerade as an All-Star General or will his dong-ability be more of a lowly private? A tiny horse, of course, can carry him to 30 homers, and a .250 average easily, and I won’t hear any neighs. My condiments to the Colonel. Anyway, here’s what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
Jack Flaherty – 6 IP, 2 ER, 8 baserunners, 5 Ks, ERA at 3.80. On one hand, he was cruising out to the W on Ivictory Coast because the Cards were up huge. On the other hand, where’s the flat-out domination from a starter who was being drafted in the top 25 overall? On a third hand that is actually Hamburger Helper, it’s a small sample. On a fourth hand that is a mitten on a mop’s handle, his velocity is down.
Paul Goldschmidt – 3-for-5, 2 runs, 2 RBIs and his 2nd homer. Au Shizz!
Tommy Edman – 2-for-5, 2 RBIs and his 2nd homer. Okay, but how about that position eligibility? My man, Ed Tommy!
Justin Williams – 2-for-3, 2 runs and his 2nd homer, hitting .231. Love everything I’ve seen from this kid — ha, “this kid” like I’m 80 — but I haven’t seen enough to warrant anything more than NL-Only. Will be cyclops’ing him, though.
Joe Ross – 4 1/3 IP, 10 ER, ERA at 5.87. For those people who started Ross, Giolito and Patrick Corbin last week, check out our fantasy football offerings! I kid. Kinda. That is a rough go of it. You just have to grind it back, like you’re doing fantasy baseball twerking.
Lucas Giolito – 1 IP, 7 ER, ERA at 5.79. Someone should’ve told him Patriot’s Day doesn’t mean you give up touchdowns. Had to feel bad when fans were taunting “Tough Monday, Gahfield. Go to the North End and get some lasahgnyah!”
Enrique Hernandez – 2-for-6, 2 runs, and his 3rd homer. Another leadoff homer, call him Enrickéy.
J.D. Martinez – 3-for-5, 2 runs, 2 RBIs and his 6th homer. Just Dong, because anything else would be uncivilized.
Alex Verdugo – 3-for-4, 2 runs and his 3rd homer. Gonna have a top 50 overall type year, and will go completely unheralded, ironically since in Boston. Think it’s the type of player Verdugo is that he won’t ever be appreciated for how valuable he is. 90/22/90/.300/9 seems kinda whatever, but it’s a very valuable year.
Nathan Eovaldi – 6 1/3 IP, 4 ER, 9 baserunners, 10 Ks, ERA at 3.04. Red Sox jumped out to a huge early lead, then Eovaldi cruised out to the W on the Ivictory Coast. By the by, he tired late, but this was a solid start, even if he gave up his first barrel of the year. That’s right, his first. Only pitcher without allowing one was Woodruff, and that ended last night too.
Adalberto Mondesi – Still not cleared to swing a bat. Can he pinch run? Asking for my teams that need steals.
Andrew Benintendi – 0-for-3, hitting .204, as he was moved down to the seven hole. Enjoyed how the Royals’ beat writers were talking about this like it’s just a slump Benintendi’s gonna shake out of. Ha, yeah, okay, it’s one of those 24-month slumps.
Danny Duffy – 6 IP, 0 ER, 6 baserunners, 8 Ks, ERA at 0.50. Sure, grab him, but this was also a Streamonator call, and it likes his next one, if slightly less so.
Josh Fleming – 5 1/3 IP, 0 ER, 2 baserunners, 3 Ks, ERA at 0.87. Fun fact! Josh Fleming is an exclamation often associated with lots of mucus.
Adolis Garcia – 2-for-4, 2 runs and his 2nd homer. Last week I told you about him, and how he could sneak into a lot of power. Today, I’m asking you, want you be an absolute Adolis and grab him?
Kohei Arihara – 5 2/3 IP, 0 ER, 4 baserunners, 6 Ks, ERA at 2.21. This guy is a WHIP connoisseur. A master and commander of pitches. A fiancée engaged with finesse. He’s good for ratios. Streamonator does hate his next one though.
Shohei Ohtani – 0-for-4, hitting .309. Will be limited to 75 pitches today, and won’t be hitting. Geez, it’s like a unicorn taking off its horn, and just being a sparkly pony.
Albert Pujols – 1-for-4, 1 run, 1 RBI and his 1st steal. Was a pretty cool steals actually, Albert Pujols wore an outfit of grass and dirt, so he blended into the outfield and was able to steal third without a throw.
Dylan Bundy – 5 IP, 5 ER, ERA at 4.50. When they said Bundy always calls for a count of five, this wasn’t what I had in mind.
Lance McCullers – Due to an illness, he won’t be able to pitch in Colorado on Tuesday. Yeah, it’s Mile High Fever and it’s 420 in Colorado, Mr. Bong Blaster!
Dinelson Lamet – Will make season debut today or tomorrow, which puts him on pace for Tommy John surgery on May 12th, give or take three days.
Joe Musgrove – 7 IP, 2 ER, 5 baserunners, 13 Ks, ERA at 1.04. Hey, anyone have a time machine for me to go back and draft Musgrove in every league? I’ll pay for the gas. Or plutonium, or whatever.
Billy McKinney – 1-for-4, 1 RBI and his 1st homer, hitting .310, just as I added him in one of my deepest leagues. Now we’re talking — McTalking? Billy Mc is a high contact, iffy power, no speed hitter who is filling in for Yelich. Sounds enticing! He could be a schmotato, but too early to say.
Luis Urias – 1-for-1 and his 2nd homer. Urias was a guy who I said last week seemed to be getting hot, but he left with a calf cramp, so moo to that.
Brandon Woodruff – 6 IP, 1 hit, 1 ER, 3 walks, 7 Ks, ERA at 1.96. Milwaukee’s Cleveland of the NL. They might make the playoffs, due to their pitching, but their hitting is hilariously bad.
Corey Seager – 1-for-4, 2 RBIs and his 3rd homer, as the Dodgers met his brother’s team, the Mariners. Corey out-performed Kyle, but the M’s won, so what does that mean for the Seagers’ mom? Who will she love more? Find out tomorrow!
Dustin May – 5 IP, 3 ER, 5 baserunners, 8 Ks, ERA at 2.93 vs. Justus Sheffield – 5 2/3 IP, 3 ER, 7 baserunners, 6 Ks, ERA at 4.86. This matchup of May vs. Sheffield sounded like a British Prime Minister mishap involving cheering on the pitch for the wrong football team, and sloppily making up for the error by eating bangers.
Kyle Lewis – Will be activated today, or as it’s known in my house: Opening Day. LFG!
Rafael Montero – 1 IP, 0 ER, and the save, ERA at 2.89. *screeches tires to a stop, backs up to waivers, passes by the cemetery and the Graveman, re-picks up Montero* Yeah, I have no idea. I thought Montero was over, then, he put two guys on in the 9th, and I thought he was over again, but apparently this is more of a committee.
Ty France – Left the game after taking a pitch off his forearm. Sounds like he’s day-to-day, which with France is just so laissez faire.
Jose Marmolejos – 1-for-4, 2 RBIs and his 3rd homer. All in favor of him changing to the one-name moniker, Marmolejose — say aye; all those against, get out.
Jose Alvarado – Hit the IL with about five other Phils, like Matt Moore, due to Covid protocols. Patient zero: The Phanatic.
Kevin Gausman – 6 IP, 0 ER, 10 baserunners (4 BBs), 5 Ks, ERA at 2.45. Gausman throws more splitters than pitches. I don’t know how that’s possible, but he does. Since I have Gausman in more leagues than I care to admit, I watched this game, and he was dancing between the raindrops with all the traffic on the bases, but since half the Phils’ lineup is currently hitting below .230, it seemed like he was always able to work around trouble.
Brandon Belt – 1-for-4, 2 RBIs and his 3rd homer. He hit that ball so hard, well, I get why he’s not Brandon Suspenders. As someone who’s followed Belt’s career for longer than he’s followed it himself (not possible), Belt always hits them in bunches, like Mr. Chiquita, so now’s the time to grab and hold.
Starling Marte – Will hit the IL with a non-displaced fractured rib. I blame all rib injuries on Adam Eaton. My guesstimate for his return is anywhere from three weeks to two months.
Ronald Acuña Jr. – Went for an MRI on his strained abdominal, and is day-to-day. The Fantasy Baseball Overlord takes, then he takes some more. Screams at the sky, “Can’t we have anything nice?!” Seven hours later, still silence. “I don’t think he’s going to answer.”
hey, just wondering if theres anyone here i should quit, have to limit adds for a month or so.
r. 2b. 3b. Hr. Rbi. Stl. Avg. Obp.
Garver
Bell
Cronenworth
Lindor
Arenado
Conforto
Verdugo
Mullins
Biggio
Upton
Garcia,donis
xRendonx
Ip. W. K. Gidp. Sv. Era. Whip. Qs
Ryu
Eovaldi
Darvis
Clase
Garcia, y
Diekman
Trivino
Taillion
Lamat
DeScalfini
Yarborough
Matz
Irvin
xLynn
xSoroka
thx.
i had hicks but i also have a yankees sticker on my trash can,
no cheating implications, i wans just told i couldnt put it on the toilet. (so i poop in the trash can now)
thx. you.are great. like parmesean
Burnes is just ridiculous. What a season for him so far.
Feeling pretty solid with Yu / Burnes / Stroman as my 1-2-3. Hopefully Gray can turn it around.
AL only with QS over wins, holds added, have this:
SP: jefferies (julio rod in lone NA slot), rodon, bieber, odorizzi, sheffield, heaney, ray, minor
RP (max 4): green, barlow, putting challenge, rogers
for some reason bassitt hound got dropped for fleming (but kept g.richards this owner),
1. drop jefferies i’d guess (or somebody else)
for
2. bid how much out of 100 (88 left)
10 team h2h AL only.
Mlb sucks. Fantrax sucks. I like you. Screw them.
can u please rank Pollock, Duvall, Kelenic, hampson?
drop 1 to stream? drop a second to grab any of
Chris taylor, JD davis, H dozier, Enrique, adolis
thank you
rainey and heuer have been stinking up the joint. I am looking at Zimmer from KC. Which one would u drop for zimmer?
go doval first, probably out there (not for sure though if you are specifically thinking zimmer).
oops, over heuer
A robust 1/20 today. Jesus.
Hey man for the next few weeks would you stick with Sano @ first or add Colin Moran or Jeimer Candelario?
2-When does Wander Franco get called up?
Thanks for your time
AL only with OBP over AVG, net steals over steals, total bases added. i added marmo and piscotty just lately (dropped tsutsugo a few days ago, naylor lately), forgot with lewis back marmo’s job is gone. add which of renfroe (i also had for a day), r.nunez (1B/3B), w.castro, m.taylor, franchy, naylor,
C: ramos
1B y.gurriel (3B)
2B l.gurriel (OF)
SS semien (2B)
3B solak (2B/OF)
MI: straw (SS/OF)
CI: rowdy (1B)
OF (4): piscotty, lou bob, arozarena, stanton
util (1): otani hitter (but i have both separately)
BN: marmo
DL: rendon
NA (1): julio rod
Nunez
Adrianna with the double and the RBI
I love it when the young guys do good.
Nice!
Grey, Sean Manea pitching good. How you feel about him ROS?
I like him
Sorry everyone. My fault. I started watching the Sox jays game so naturally my Ryu starts getting hit. Weird how much of a lock that is
Damn man!
Hey grey! By any chance Do you like Lourdes guerriel more than laureano, Solak or cronenworth? The owner is willing to trade him. 10 team points league
Can add Kyle Lewis to that list as well
More than Solak
Cool thanks buddy!
No problem
Wasn’t expecting a better start from Corbin than Ryu *sob*
Yeah on my bench
Same here. Was always going to be a tough start for Ryu I guess.
Yeah not a huge deal
FWIW the ticker said Corbin was averaging 89.5 MPH on his fastball.
That seems…not awesome
Yikes
Oh.
I hope Plesac is done facing the White Sox for a little while… would you send him out there this weekend at home v. NYY? I feel like Plesac is gonna have nightmares of the White Sox for awhile
Also, WTF Ryu…
Yeah, I would
Unfortunately he faces them again next week.
Ugh. Moose out until next Tuesday with non COVID illness. Soto to the IL with shoulder issue. Need two total from below (can move hampson to either 2b or OF). Who you like best in the meantime:
2b: gimenez, McKinstry, madrigal, lowrie, wendle, or Arraez?
OF: schwarber, McKinsey, hays, Margot?
Schwarber, McKinstry
Grey, how you feel about Sean manea ? 3 good starts. Gets TB next…
at least corbin’s doing well on everybody’s bench
Yeah exactly
it’s better than freaking out throwing him away and watching him have a good season starting today on somebody else’s roster of course. odorizzi too
Yeah
What up Grey,
12 Team Roto
Top choice please
Lourdes, Blackmon, Edman
Blackmon
Hey Grey – in a keeper league would you swap your $16 Luzardo for a $0 Kopech? Thanks!
Yeah
I missed the 1st inning but Corbin hit 93 mph in the second,when he was effective in the past he was only around 91.Encouraging.
Nice
The announcers said Davey Martinez thought his slider grip was messed up from working on his changeup too much during spring training.That doesn’t explain why his velo was down though.
Yeah
according to that twat soto just suddenly got hurt for who knows how and strasburg was forced to keep playing while being hurt since it took douche mart 5 extra days to admit it was clearly an injured shoulder. i’d not trust much of anything out of that dude’s mouth. that’s just in the last 6 days too.
Are you talking about FP?
no, davey martinez and how WAS’s hidden injuries and/or outright lied about them for like the last 4ish years.
20 teamer lost soto, so with luplow (not quite only lefties, but close), trammell, ja garcia, marmo, piscotty, stewart, mckinney? OPS/slugging/hits/total bases added h2h.
Lu
Oops…Luplow is hot
Awesome report Grey!
How real is this start from Jazz? I just got him and his underlying numbers look great. I know it’s early but do you think this is real or a hot schmotato?
Thanks!
LG
Could be real, he’s a top prospect coming into his own
Thanks! Have a great night
No problem
NL only total bases added, net steals over steals, OBP over AVG.
1. mostsuckass/soto back to back out of nowhere news blurbs that they are DL’d, soto’s completely out of nothing (good lord that WAS coach is a MF’er, see strasburg’s lies about a week before, plus they’ve played this game on soto and rendon and others in the past too).
best add out of: heath (would require bidding as he came over from AL), farmer, hilliard (dropped since b.black f’s him over constantly), mckinney
2. add a 2nd of that list over d.fowler (i had alford, went to fowler since he mostly stole his job, has speed too, not as much as alford though)
I’d try McKinney 2. Hilliard
what about b.miller, segura just got hurt, sounds like he’ll have a job for a bit (i got wong back soon here).
Meh
need a bat in an OBP league, who do you like here: W Calhoun, G Polanco, Harrison, Adolis Garcia, Piscotti, Cron, Dalbec, Luis Urias
thanks!
Adolis
Castillo again! The freaking D bags again. Their offense has destroyed my pitching this year. Corbin’s melt down was vs them too. My era and whip are shot and it is April
Yeah brutal
And now Santander also injured. In the meantime, Castillo had an easy double play but that infield once again let him down. Do I have to sit Castillo every single time they play Eugenio at SS? Damn
It sucks
Pinch runner for Santander – anyone see what happened?
Ugh, rolled his ankle.
Ugh
NL-Only H2H
A) Try Camilo Doval over Ginkel?
B) Start Corbin vs. STL? SON has him at + 5.4.
Meh
B) meh
Life was good today until the Soto news. 1st and 3rd pick (Mondesi) in the IL, just great.
This is a shallow league, not much decent options to pick up instead of soto, so now I’ll have to get a bench bat I guess. Who’s the better add? Soler, Gimenez, travis shaw, duvall, bryan reynolds, justin upton, grichuk or dahl?
I know, Soler
Josh Bell vs Wainwright
Fletcher r vs Lyles
Dalbec vs Ryu
Pick two please
Bell, Fletcher
Who is more likely to be productive in 2021 – Framber or Syndergaard? Or is there no need to waste blog space on either?
Framber
Julio!
Excellent start
Me and him were down by the schoolyard.
Haha
Any interest on the GREYDAR in Spencer Turnbull tomorrow v PIT? $10 on the SON…
Nope
Yeah, just realised it’s a part of a DH – won’t be getting a QS out of that one.
Nope
For all concerned-according to Fantrax,Yordan has been activated but is not in starting lineup.
It’s Coors for God sakes,start’em!!
Yeah
He can’t field tho
And, Moustakas to the Covid List. After I manipulated him into all my lineups.
I mean the IL
Yup
Where’s that schadenfreude dude who was celebrating Acuña’s injury?
Yeah – way to jinx your pick Soto. Karma is a cruel mistress indeed.
Yeah, brutal
@Grey: weekly roto. who do you like better for this week
acuna – 2 @ ny, 3 vs ari (out today, possibly playing tomorrow, but best case is probably just the 3 vs ari)
c mullins – 2 @ mia, 3 vs oak
Acuna
I need to drop one of Shaw, Escobar, McMahon, D Moore, McCutchen, or Winker. Who goes?
Moore
start ed rod vs tor? son isnt a fan.
grabbed L.Urias just in case but need some help cleaning up my roster. how much longer do I wait on happ to turn it around before I start trying to package him and an sp for a real 2b? or am i just stuck? also have j.rojas 2b elig but he was for sagnof sake.
also send AMeadows and get Mahle?
‘m basically 4th place in every category and would have to play batty calls for my 4th OF if Baddoo/Rojas fall off the table my rotation with mahle would be lights out lynn, gallen, pablo, wheeler, Mahle, Tejay, Matz, weaver, fulmer, skubal. (streamer)
Yeah, I would start EdRod — Happ can turn it around — No on Meadows trade
thanks he offered me Carlos Martinez for meadows so I knew it wasnt going anywhere.
Ha, yeah
Dynasty 6×6 OBP
Would you send J Walsh for A Baddoo?
Nope
Who to drop to pick up Alex Wood?
Jordan Montgomery
Pineda
Mahl.
Or hold?
Hold
Have to think one of the most likely guys to be traded this year is Mitch Haniger.
Aw poor Mitch
As long as the Mariners stay “relevant” I don’t think Haniger is going anywhere. Kelenic will get called-up and take over LF, but there is no heir apparent in RF in 2021. Julio Rodriguez won’t be ready till mid-2022, and Trammell is a MLB 4th OF’d right now.
Ty Freedom can’t field 3B, so wouldn’t be surprised seeing both Haniger and Seager back in 2022.
That tracks for me, Poop
Need to cut one (Leaning to Dunning). Do you concur?
Jose Berrios
Dylan Bundy
Kevin Gausman
Freddie Peralta
Ian Anderson
John Means
Carlos Rodon
Dane Dunning
Anthony DeSclaf
DeSclafani
Sup!
Would love your input on a trade.
My Franmil and Dustin May for Conforto & sonny Gray
Team & league deets below.
5×5 league
HR, RBI, Stl, OBP, Slg & QS, ERA,WHip, Ks, Sv/hlds
1b.Alonso
2b. Muncy
3B. Devers
SS. Lindor
OF Kyle Lewis
OF Gallo
OF nimmo
Util Jazz
Util Moran
Be: Franmil, India, Mullins
IL: Bellinger, Ke’bryan Hayes
SP: Lynn, Musgrove, Bundy, Gausman, Peralta, May.
Thanks boss!
Conforto, fair
Grey,
so tired of owning Conforto in my points league. Should I hang on or drop him for Kyle Lewis?
Hold
Thanks, Grey! Would you drop either Chris Taylor or Arozarena for Kyle Lewis?
Taylor
Why does Cora keep sitting Verdugo and Devers, after sitting Bogaerts, but keeps leading off with Kike every single day ? So strange.
Makes no sense
Reparations. He’s trying to pay back Kike for the lost WS. Don’t forget: Cora banged the trash cans.
12 team roto redraft 5×5 with OBP. I’m behind in runs and SBs.
There’s a CF slot, two OFs and two UTILs.
I’ve got Hays coming off the IL.
Drop Hays, or any of these?
Moran
Escobar
Mullins
McKinstry
Knebel
D. Castillo
Bukauskas
Thanks in advance.
Bukauskas
back to my kiriloff question…Kepler out with COVID-19. Someone not named kiriloff was recalled. This tells us 3 things about the twins:
1. Where krilioff is now / how much they think he can help them based on their needs
2. How cheap min is
3. Both 1 and 2.
Yes and yes
Would you trade Morton for Ohtani in a keeper points league where Ohtani hits and pitches?
Sure
I have Mountcastle, Mancini, McInstry, and Pham Id be willing to move on from. Any drops for Moran or Avisail?!
Thanks!
Moran over Mancini
Need to lose a guy for K Lew. Who’s the drop? Votto, Urshela, Nimmo, Bassitt, India. 12 team keeper. Thanks
India
Would you trade away Gleybor Torres for Lindor?
Yes
Hey Grey! Currently rocking the studly catcher pairing of Barnhart and Barnes (lol!). Tom Murphy was just dropped – I assume you would swap Barnes for Murphy? Other options on the wire are El Tortuga (playing a bunch) and Meijia who is off to a solid start. Thanks l!
Haha, ouch! Barnes for Murphy, yes
N Lowe or Santander bench bat
thank you
Santander
who is the odd man out in a SV+HLD league: Pomeranz, Graveman, Garritt, Jansen
Amir
Sounds like Betts is joining the D2D band – hopefully he doesn’t end up like Bellinger and end up joining the IL band
Haha
I don’t like to complain hahaha F U Starling!
But these frign’ injuries are all over my teams.
I’ve lost so many early picks… please ACUÑA be back ASAP.
Haha, oofa
Hello Grey
Been offered Tim Anderson and Kyle Hendricks for my Tatis and Snell.
Take it?
Thanks
Sounds fair
TO THE MOON!!!
No Acuna or Betts, but Moustakas is playing!
Um, yay?
haha. Well, there’s Albies, too.
Haha, yay?
https://twitter.com/molly_knight/status/1384577945067343876?s=21
Mookie X-rays negative. No MRI, but he’s available to pinch run.
Y’all can exhale now and hope he doesn’t have Bellengeritus.
Nice!
Man, every damn year. I do something like this. Every year. Chris Taylor, my “oh what the heck” bench bat 27/30 round pick. I drafted Lourdes Jr as my 2B, Didi as my MI & Solak for bench depth, and needed a closer. So of course, 7-8 hitter, won’t play every day Chris Taylor was the easy drop, right?
Now he’s batting lead-off and he’s been better than either Solak or Gurriel.
Every. Damn. Year.
/rant
Ha, I know, I hope it doesn’t stay like that tho
Solak seems to be on track again.
Lourdes has to start hitting. This has been ugly.
Yeah
Trade question in a 10 team dynasty league. Heavily weighed towards obp guys (obp instead of average and walks as an additional stat).
What side of this trade do you prefer?
Javier Baez and Lamet for Bogaerts
Thanks!
Xander
Thanks Grey!
No problem
Thanks Grey!
No problem
Grey, 10 team 5×5 categories
Nate Lowe or Colin Moran ROS?
Thanks
Moran
How would you rank these 5 going ROS: Swanson, Moncada, Hoskins, McMahon, Hosmer?
Moncada, Swanson, Hosmer
Grey, do u think Yordan starts tonight in Colorado?
I’m seeing yes from the Stros beat reporter on Twitter
Yes
Hey Grey,
I was proposed Machado/Seager/Marco Gonzales for J-Ram/Tim Anderson/Alec Bohm
What’s the move? Thanks.
Seager?
10 redraft
Didi over Deux Dong?
Thanks grey!
DeJong
Grey, you’re handsome, smart and other words for those two traits, but I got a few questions…
12 Team, 6×6 OBP
1) Could you pick 3…Renato Nunez, Manual Margot, Joc Pederson, Luis Urias, Jose Marmolejos, Adolis Garcia, Kike Hernandez,
2) Any of these more than just a streamer…Kohei Arihara, Taylor Widener, Aaron Sanchez, Huascar Ynoa, Anthony DeSclafani, Tejay Antone
3) Have you dropped all your Dylan Moore shares, or are you waiting it out?
Thanks for your time!
HA, thanks!
1. Renato, Enrique, Margot, all these depend on needs
2. Kohei, DeSclafani
3. Dropped in some leagues
Finally it’s Kyle Lewis time. Going to be interesting to see what the M’s do with Lewis, Haniger, Trammell, Marmelejos and eventually Kelenic when he comes up. Trammell hit a couple of scorchers last night – 104 and 106 mph exit velo – but is still striking out too much. But he’s holding his own for someone who skipped AAA. Also I dumped D Moore this morning so he can get good now, mysteriously. Ha!
Marm and Trammell will platoon
Marm’s on the bench for today. LF Trammell, CF Lewis, RF Haninger. Have Robles on my bench to put in for Trammell when he doesn’t play but Robles hasn’t done squat yet so not sure that’s an upgrade over a DNP. LOL
Ha
ROTO 6 x 6 OPS
Santander or Canha?
Jazz or Gimenez?
Canha
Jazz
Yelich & Adalberto
FOR
Trevor Story & Greek God of Hard Contact
Which side?
Story/Cast, fair tho
Thanks, Grey. I’m the Story/Cast side, and thought it was fair, too. Really hesitating with it!
No problem
Should I be looking to make any adjustments to my pitching staff at this point?
My starters include:
-Brandon Woodruff
-Hyun Jin Ryu
-Kenta Maeda
-Kevin Gausman
-Dylan Bundy
-John Means
-Noah Syndergaard
Available on the waiver wire: Pablo Lopez, Huascar Ynoa, Dane Dunning, Jose Urquidy, Luke Weaver.
(ESPN, 12 teams, H2H categories- ERA, WHIP, W, QS, K, SV)
Also, still keeping an eye on Kelenic on the waiver wire. Should I pull the trigger and drop one of my bench bats (Dylan Moore, Austin Riley, Andres Gimenez)?
I would hold that staff, but definitely find a way to add Lopez. No way should he be a FA in any size league right now. Criminally underrated. Drop a bench bat.
Lopez over Noah
Actually, lose Moore and Riley for Lopez and Kelenic
Thanks, Grey! Syndergaard is in one of my IL slots, so no worries there for now.
If I drop Moore, Gimenez would be my everyday 2B. I think I can probably do better than that. Possible waiver replacements include Jazz Chisholm, Adam Frazier, and Jed Lowrie. Jazz seems pretty impressive so far. Thoughts?
Jazz
Jazz
What kid gf league still has Chisholm available on waivers ? A 4 team league ?
starting patrick corbin today? 12-team, h2h, 6 x 6.
HELL no.
I will watch Corbin today & see if he’s worth re-adding, but after the last 2 starts, velo down, control issues for days, nibbling & when he did pitch to contact they hit the cover off of it. Also I watched every moment of the horror show that was his last start. He had no movement on his pitches – everything was as flat & hittable as Zoe Saldana.
You couldn’t pay me to start him. If he throws a gem I could live with that a lot easier than eating another 10-spot.
What was that dog? Last time i listen to you
No way
Any way for a Canadian to get their hands on your ebooks? Billing address is locked to America, eh? (Ya, ya I said “eh” in casual conversation… laugh it up y’all)
Love the content, thanks!
Oh, you can just put any address in there, I send over email
Awesome thanks, order placed!
No problem
No baseball question today so: Better under-appreciated hip hop group: 3rd Bass or Poor Righteous Teachers?
3rd Bass
Agreed, though Strictly Ghetto was an incredible album.
Also, speaking of underrated, Special Ed (Oakland, CA) had one of the greatest tracks of that era with Think About It. “Would you join the Navy if you didn’t like the gravy & rice? Think about it.”
Imma go listen to that ish right now & pack some orders cuz I can’t be screwing around on here all day. lol
Yeah, such a great track
“Not from France but I eat french toast” is one of my favorite rap lyrics of all time.
Ha, it is pretty awesome
With K Lewis back I’m looking at having to drop a player to make room between Naquin, Conforto, and DeJong.
I’m guessing Naquin is the odd man out? I’m banking on Conforto to get things going sometime soon hopefully?!
Please assist.
Thanks!
NyQuil has been a drop for a week+. He was good to ride while he was smokin hot & Winkler was out, but now he’s hitting 6-7 and not playing every day. He carried my team while Schwarber had that ro ro, but yeah – safe & easy drop now. He’s been meh since his little hot streak.
Naquin
NL Only 5×5 Weekly:
Start Crichton or Sims?
Crichton
Good morning Grey!
Nate Pearson throwing BP today, rumblings he is near a return, I have Kyle Lewis coming off the DL. Would you drop Kikuchi to stash Pearson? H2H QS league.
Thanks!
Yeah
Do you think kiriloff will be up by the end of the month? I drafted him as a reserve OF and thought he was going to be playing on opening day (earlier draft). I have him sitting on my bench. I could use this spot for someone else. We have daily lineups and cycling that last OF spot with off days, postponements, etc has been a chore. Is he worth holding in a 12 teamer while his status is in limbo? Thanks
Yeah
Oh, but not worth holding yet