“…and the Fantasy Baseball Overlord smitten thee with wheat, maize and Christian Yelich, then said, ‘You can’t have all three, you must choose two,’ and the people of Jerusalem, Wisconsin, a small city outside of Milwaukee, received their bounty of corn and wheat to make beer and dispatched Yelich to a nearby hospital.” — The Book of Uecker. *makes sign of the cross* Sadly, it’s written, therefore it is, as they say in elementary schools using fifteen-year-old textbooks. The bright side to come out of Yelich’s body issue — not the one that your sister touched herself to, the other one — is Trent Grisham should leadoff and play every day. Remember, he was a guy who hit 13 HRs and stole six bags, while hitting .381, in only 34 minor league games, and could be worth a pick up in all leagues for the stretch-run. Anyway, here’s some more players to Buy or Sell this week in fantasy baseball:
BUY
Robinson Chirinos – Fun fact! Rob-Chiri is not related to Neneh Cherry, but sometimes when he gets in the crouch, he calls it his Buffalo Stance. Also, on the Player Rater, Uh-Oh Chirinos is a top 11 catcher, so if you’re in a 12-team league, he should be at 100% owned. Of course, he’s not.
Garrett Cooper – Nope, there are no 1st basemen this week to add, just like there were no 1st basemen last week to add. Don’t worry, there’s about forty-five 2nd basemen. Let’s get to it, shall we?
Starlin Castro – On the 7-day Player Rater, Castro is a top 10 bat, which is something we all saw coming two weeks ago. You remember two weeks ago, when Hot Girl Summer ended and thus began Fat Boy Fall.
Robinson Cano – Me buying 2nd basemen the last two weeks can be compared to me buying vape products. “Yes, I’m here to meet with a same-day loan specialist. I’m looking to borrow $10,000 to buy vape products in case they get outlawed. For starters, I need a 4-liter container of Kiwiberry juice.” If you think this does not affect you, let me paraphrase my favorite poem, “First they came for our Juuls, and we did nothing.”
Ryan McMahon – Whee! He’s in Coors! And I’m drinking Kiwiberry vape juice cuz DGAF!
Kolten Wong – I was looking at Wong and he surprised me. His launch angle is up and he’s more than a streamer–Sorry, I’m typing this up in a highway rest stop. His stats did surprise me, however. 10/20/.280? I know offense is goofy, but that’s not bad at all.
Nick Solak – Sure, we’re all excited that the Slovak Olympics baseball team has a new 2nd basemen for the 2020 Olympics, but I’m also excited for Solak in the next two weeks and 2020. Yo, Rangers, get some Odor-eaters and clean out your clubhouse!
Scott Kingery – Was mentioning this to a commenter the other day after Kingery sped around the bases on an inside-the-parker, Kingery has 30+ steal speed, in addition to the 25-homer power. Feel like I’ve already started writing my Kingery 2020 sleeper. Inject 25-homer, 30-steal guys directly into my veins.
Hanser Alberto – Fun fact! His full name is Hanser Alberto Canada. His brother, Edmonton, misses 100% of the shots he takes.
Nico Hoerner – Already gave you my Nico Hoerner fantasy. It was written while wondering why the Green Day guy sings with a British accent.
Hernan Perez – Will the middle infidels ever end this week? I’m guessing yes, but it’s simply a guess and I am a simple man like Simple Jack who dresses like Slingblade every Halloween.
Mauricio Dubon – Here’s what Prospect Itch wrote the other day, “(Dubon) could provide a spark at the keystone in San Francisco. Dubon’s probably not as good as his .302/.345/.477 AAA line, but he’s popped 20 home runs and stolen ten bags across 123 games and should be tracked in all leagues, like I’d like a sniper to track Grey.” What the hell, man?
Harold Castro – He’s hitting near-.420 in the last week, or as Ted Williams’s Frozen Head once said, “A bad season.”
Victor Reyes – Boku Tigers hitters this week gonna take me down to Paradise City! Where the grass is green and their pitchers are shitty. By the way, why does Axl keep wanting to be taken home to Paradise City? If that shizz was paradise, why’d you leave, bro? Couldn’t afford it due to skyrocketing rents? You can’t earn a livable wage elsewhere, then expect to get back to paradise. Doesn’t work that way. You need to stay there and eat the cheese off of discarded pizza boxes.
Kyle Tucker – Already gave you my Kyle Tucker fantasy. I wrote it while getting black market Gucci loafers from some guy named Gustavo. Also, gave you my Gavin Lux fantasy, while bartering with Gustavo.
Kyle Lewis – This guy being called up and outproducing Tucker and Lux, combined, is so baseball that baseball is filing a trademark infringement case.
Justus Sheffield – This weekend’s streamers are a mess, so not sure how much I trust Sheffield, but he’s a Streamonator call. Like the call it makes to True Value Hardware.
Ivan Nova – Same thoughts as Sheffield for Nova, but it’s a Streamonator call. “Do you have any nuts and/or bolts that look like they’d make nice friends?”
Nick Wittgren – Here’s what I said this morning, “(Hand) left the club to get an MRI. It came back clean, which is misread as more proof by the old Greek mother who uses Windex to ward off disease. Not, clean like that, Athena. Francona said Hand will be day-to-day and might need to be built back up to the closer role, so the 9th inning is wide open, and I mean that literally. The Indians have a gorgeous bullpen behind Hand, but a bit too gorgeous because they can go a bunch of different ways. I grabbed Nick Wittgren, but there’s also Adam Cimber, Oliver Perez, Tyler Clippard and Nick Goody.” And that’s me quoting me!
Jairo Diaz – *teases hair straight up with four cans of Aqua Net, grabs microphone* Belting, “Holding out for a Jairo ’til the end of the night! He’s gotta be strong! He’s gotta throw fast! And he gotta be *mumbles* something-something fight…I need a Jairo!”
Shaun Anderson – Is Will Smith’s back issues okay? *sees ten years worth of magazine covers about Will Smith joining Scientology* So…not sure, but Anderson might be worth stashing if desperate.
SELL
Lorenzo Cain – On the 30-day Player Rater, Cain is ranked around 225 overall. Uh, Booboo Stewart, that is not good. That’s about the same as Pedro Severino. Pedro Severino is not the name of Luis Severino. The Pedro and the Luis are different. The long journey that is a fantasy baseball career is coming to the end for Cain…Sugar! and, if you still own him, you’re the guy wearing the captain’s hat on the Titanic pointing to the lifeboats.
Joey Votto – Was shocked to see Votto owned in 88% of RCL leagues. You’re nostalgic for a better time. I can understand that. If you’re feeling nostalgic, find some clean drinking water, use your AOL username, RossNRachel4Evr and only use 140 characters in your tweets, but lose Votto.
au rizz is done, you don’t leave screaming from ankle sprain then come back in less than 14 days AND be useful while playing mostly everyday. 12 teamer 5×5
C vaz
1B alonso
2B mondesi
SS story
3B chapman
OF (3) conforto, rosario, acuna
util (2) meadows, antana (2B/SS/1B/OF)
BN rizzo
options: solak, odor, cano (about to go to COL, however would maybe have to hold him as here it’s only 6 moves a week and i ran out of moves getting some closers (have both of magill/bass, will drop one for streamer shortly, had mckay and heaney to drop, the other dropped for alexander @ BAL tomorrow), sano (gets WSOX and KC pitching upcoming, that’s nice). also in 3 days kepler comes off WW’ers (somebody dropped, another guy WW’d him today, then dropped since he needed somebody actually playing in his matchup, probably only had off day since he played both games of double yesterday)
Wittgren Bradley or Lugo, drop hand.. last week of fantasy championship…
Bradley
Or Jimenez Detroit as well is available.
Bradley
out of that group only even bradley/lugo even arguable. and since lugo gets off days after going multiple innings (and the mess NEED him to go multiple whenever he does one usually) it’s easily bradley. CLE isn’t using only wittgren there anyway (all year they’ve moved around guys when hand had off day etc). o.perez, goody, cimber (earlier in year) now with 2 more call up guys, it’s a shit show to decipher
I’m making it to my 10 team h2h cats league finals on a tie! Here’s my question for you guys – do you think I should continue to stream? Cats: w, qs, k’s, hr allowed, era, whip, k/9, and svhd
My staff is scheduled for 19 starts – scherzer, verlander, flaherty, buehler, syndergaard, Bauer, darvish, and sonny gray.
His staff is scheduled for 10 starts – cole, Castillo, minor, Yarborough, and Luchessi.
He hasn’t streamed all year. My three options are to 1) continue streaming, 2) hold onto Gallen (putting me at 21 starts for the 2 week matchup), or 3) drop Gallen to roster my first catcher since May (would grab Sean Murphy). Thoughts?
Keep doing what’s been working
Congrats on the final!
Nice! I don’t see why you would need to stream up 9 extra starts, but can’t you make that decision during the week? I’d hold Gallen, but I don’t know his matchups
Gallen has SD in petco then SD in chase. Was thinking adding a catcher would give me a boost in hitting cats. Up 9 starts I figured k’s, w, qs were in the bag. Maybe I could stream catchers on days with no good pitchers available and only add slam dunk streams?
Curious what your thoughts are on Rizzo? Done for the next two weeks?
Rizzo seems questionable at best… those Gallen starts seem pretty good…
Fair point on the Gallen starts. So if I hear you right – hold Gallen, no need to stream, if I fall behind in hitting grab Sean Murphy next sunday (at the cost of that second Gallen start).
Replacements for rizzo: canha, Pujols, belt, Votto. Top two?
Any faith in hiura contributing over the next two weeks?
I need 3 Ks from Justin Wilson and Pedro Baez to sneak into the final – it’s tough relying on MRs to flip the script, but here we are!
Quintana is forever on my do not play list – I don’t care who the opponent is. He singlehandedly sunk me.
Damn, that sucks
The Grey magic just wasn’t in the cards this year – back at it next year!
I do have some tough choices on which 2 to keep out of: Betts, Lindor, Bellinger, and Yordan Alvarez
At least you have good keepers!
This is going to be a classic blowup inning for Bauer: an error and an infield garbage hit. Just awaiting the Escobar 3 run hr.
Don’t say it!
It’s a miracle. He made it out unscathed.
Whew!
The old Trevor Bauer picked a pretty good week to show up.
14.1 IP
17 Ks
1.88 ERA
0.77 WHIP
2 x QS
Yessir!
Agreed!
With Rizzo going down, I need to add someone. I have Goldy at 1B so can grab anyone I want for Util. My unscientific analysis suggests that Odor and Eloy are two of the hottest guys over the last 7-14. Gotta go Eloy, right?
I mean of those guys left on the wire…
Eloy
Thanks. I’m into the semis, but my team is leaking oil!
Hopefully, this breaks the recent swirling torrent of negativity for my pitching on that team.
Haha
Tucker or Grisham for 2 weeks?
Tucker if he’s playing, but no sure we can trust that
Wong
Braun
Currently down by 5 but I have Sheff, Cueto, and Gallen going right now. He has Yarborough going. Later I have Wheeler going, but I also have Bellinger and Muncy. Would you bench Wheeler in order to minimize the risk of him getting shelled?
Sure
I’d wait till lineups are announced
AU RIZZ! i don’t need this shit about to enter post bye playoffs in one spot, at least i have alonso there. that almost certainly is a fantasy season ender. can pick up big willie or somebody and move alonso to 1B.
I’ve turned off baseball for the day – FOOTBALL all day in this household!
On a related note – when I read Moneyball and Billy Beane mentioned that when the As play, he is at the gym with no access to the game, I was like “isn’t that a bit much???” – right now I understand it…
Haha, been there!
my opponent told me Quintana shat all over me in the 3rd so now I’m f’d… I knew not to trust SON there, but I submitted to the computer overlord
Oh well – 3 championships in 4 years ain’t bad
Damn!
how are your teams doing today? hopefully better than mine!
I had Quintana going too, so not great, Hung
My only saving grace will be that the Cubs let Q off the hook for the L
Doesn’t help me, but rooting for ya
Looks like the Cubbies bailed out Q – see the score is 10-6 in the 4th
Nice, if it helps you
i used to be in a league with losses, wins are bad enough of not being a pitcher stat, degrom was what the best SP (last year) in like 30 or something years, lost all the damn time.
The Twins D lineup are stretching Bieber’s WHIP early on here. Tighten up there Shaners.
Agreed
Well, that was just awful. How do you walk Astudillo, and then give up a home run to the completely terrible Lamont Wade Jr., who had all of 5 home runs in 3 stops in the minors this year?
Ridiculous
Bench two (points league)
McMahon vs SD (Quantrill)
Muncy & Lux @ NYM (Wheeler)
Santander @ Det (Jackson)
Newman & Reynolds @ CHC (Quintana)
Franmil vs Min (Berrios)
Newman, Franmil
berrios supposedly isn’t starting today, dobnak is in. don’t listen to yahoo’s little arrow.
I’m thinking of using Chad Green today – do you think he’ll help with my Ks and ERA? I need to lower my 2.5 ERA
I’m also rolling the dice on Quintana… YOLO!!
Yeah, I could see Green helping… YOLO
Here is the lineup I’m rolling with – I need to somehow get to an .280ish avg – I think that’ll help me win the category:
C- Empty
1B- Voit
2B- Mondesi
3B- Empty
SS- Lindor
OF- Alvarez, Castellanos, Empty
UTIL- Story
B- Contreras, Bellinger, Kingery, Betts (hurt)
I’m playing Bellinger tonight if I fall behind in BA
SP- Green, Quintana (YOLO x2)
RP- Hendricks, LeClerc, Melancon, Wick, Justin Wilson
Spare P spot
B- Magill, Neris, Flaherty, Hendricks, Paxton
I need Green to dominate and then hopefully take some pressure off Quintana – my opponent is countering with Gallen and then Rogers, Hader, Workman, Jimenez, Gallegos
I’m hoping Rogers and Hader won’t pitch today since they’ve pitched a lot the last 2 days.
Hopefully Betts getting hurt doesn’t impact me and I can sneak into the finals… I have the most uneasy 9-5 lead going into today. I can easily lose 7-6
Yikes, okay, rooting for you!
if yr benching contrereas and kingery since you are worried about average as it appears….
– mondesi is up against HOU pitching (it’s only miley of course) and has had about 5 or 6 Ks and no hits the last 2 days against other HOU pitching
obviously if you also need steals benching him is batshit town.
yeah trying to luck into some steals from Mondesi – plus Mondesi and Voit are nostalgia-town owns for me right now – had them from start to finish in my playoffs last year and their heaters won me the championship
I benched Contreras cause he wasn’t starting today – didn’t want to risk anything with a pinch hit appearance, plus if worse comes to worse and I need to pick up last ditch hail mary players – Kingery and Contreras are cuts
why wouldn’t you have neris or magill in that last pitcher slot if you are starting all the other ones
Neris has gone a lot lately and didn’t look great last night. Magill just came back from injury and pitched b2b days already. Don’t trust him for a 3rd in a row
if you had the very possible chance to lose by like 2 K’s maybe playing one last RP would’ve been a thing. it’s not like magill or neris are like s.greene in past years, utter ratio likely death left in lineup to get saves.
Yo Grey, looking for a waiver pickup to help preferably in HR and Runs (SB are bonus). No keeper considerations obviously, so who would you grab for ROS? Depending on the position of the player I pick up, this guy would replace either Travis Shaw (if 3B or OF eligible) or Joey Wendle (if 2B eligible). Wendle sucks, but at least he’s playing and scoring runs, unlike Shaw.
David Fletcher (2B, 3B, SS, OF)
Kevin Newman (2B, SS)
Dexter Fowler (OF)
Hanser Alberto (2B, 3B, SS)
Nick Solak (2B)
Brian Goodwin (OF)
Anthony Sandander (OF)
Trent Grisham (OF)
Kyle Lewis (OF)
Grisham
Is it time to drop Benintendi in a redraft? He’s been a black hole of production lately and is starting to lose starts. Could you please rank Hoener, Eloy, Heyward & Solak bases on preference?
Util 5×5
Thanks
Eloy, Solak, Hoerner, Benintendi
Need to drop a bat for pitching
Beninteni
Segura
Newman
Pederson
Who goes
Thanks
Newman
Need to drop a bat for pitching
Beninteni
Segura
Newman
Pederson
Who goes
Thanks
Newman
holy crap, didn’t know it was just friday the 13th.
AL only with OBP over AVG, net steals over steals, total bases added h2h 10 teamer, keep 3 at previous season’s ADP’s. otani getting the lazy team out ROS but no DL slot business, i already dropped upton here for lewis in same situation since i had no intention of keeping upton at his this year price
C t.murphy (might just go romine here shortly, murphy’s been getting jerked around again lately even though he’s a steady as all hell hitter, must really suck at catching)
1B antana (2B/SS/OF, possible LAST round keeper)
2B altuve (not keeping at 1st round price)
SS villar (he’s about break even now, DID keep this year as i’m pretty sure around an 8th)
3B vlad (3rd rounder)
CI rowdy
MI odor
OF (4) mercado, grichuk, k.davis (FINALLY, we had to only wait about 4.5 months where he was too hurt or freaked out that he impregnated somebody till he’s hitting again, not paying his keeper price though, traded away bieber to get him and ed-rod), k.lewis
util (1) s.brown
BN otani (hitter ONLY here, if pitcher + hitter i’d just keep him for SURE at his 9th round price)
DL: box wine (5th), pence
possible keeper pitchers but almost certainly not doing them: paxton (3rd), ed-rod (8th)
i’m coming off bye now (gallo is back soon too supposedly), i’d assume vlad (3rd), gallo (5th) but for the last slot is antana (last) worth throwing away otani hitter (9th) here? i can wait till tomorrow to see if LAA do what’s right, but they are pretty much the worst team in entire league based on past stuff for trusting them to do that. by the way look at how utterly horrible their lineup is now with trout/upton/otani out of it. yikes.
possible obtained players if i drop otani by tomorrow: sogard (2B/SS/OF, back now), astudillo (they’re benching cron for this fat guy, but does qualify at a lot of spots C/1B/3B and could sub for s.brown (he faces just a TON of lefties upcoming, or t.murphy), c.stewart, h.castro, guzman, romine (similar to astudillo except he doesn’t qualify at 3B but IS hitting well all year, i’ve done quite well during kraken’s other DL stints with him in deep leagues)
villar would be a 5th round keeper, bumping box wine to 4th. seems expensive.
That is expensive for Villar
Yeah, you can lose Ohtani — Astudillo
that was villar’s this year ADP, here without actually counting his AL only ADP generally it’s just divide by 2 (removes the NL half of players) then divide by 10 (10 picks per round), and round up. it was somewhere in the 5th. he was an 8th last year so i took the value. if not for antana doing this AND otani hitter being ROS out but no DL tag i’d definitely still want otani hitter in the 9th (his this year ADP so his next year keeper price). if antana even does half of this next year 20th whatever round is awesome. i had vlad this year at that price.
Yeah, agreed
Hey there Grey,
12 Team H2H Categories
Alright Grey back here on Sunday. so this next week is the finals, so could you rank these hitters for next week for the championship. Top 4 if you could please!
1.
Grisham: (7)- 4 vsSD, 3 vsPIT
Kyle Lewis: (6) – 3 @PIT, [email protected]
Thames: (7) – 4 vsSD, 3 vsPIT
Kyle Tucker: (5) – 2 vsTEX, 3 vsLAA
Willie Calhoun: (5) – [email protected], [email protected]
Avisail Garcia: (5) – [email protected], 3vsBOS
Nico Hoerner: (7) – 3vsCIN, 4vsSTL
2. And could you give me your top 3 of this two start group please
John Means – @DET, vsSEA
Marco Gonzales – @PIT, @BAL
Severino – vsLAA, vsTOR
R. Lopez – @MIN, @DET
3. With my season ending this coming week, dropping Hiura now would be alright yea? Seems they are being extra cautious, his spot may be better used elsewhere.
Thanks for everything this year!
1. Hoerner, Grisham, Lewis, Avisail
2. Means, Marco, Lopez
3. Yeah
3 depends on what you’d be dropping him for, some reports he’ll start batting monday
Hey Grey quick follow up here, with the above news of Hiura possibly starting Monday and the Brewers having 7 games at home this week. I am looking to add Hoerner and was considering dropping Hiura for him but would Willie Calhoun be the better drop for this week since he only has 5 game and the first two are against Verlander and Cole and the next 3 are in with one against Manaea
Sure, drop Calhoun
Melacon or Neris down the stretch here?
Thanks brotha
Melancon
In the semis going for the three-peat championship (thanks Razz/Grey!).
Need a W and QS for tomorrow. Which misfit toy gets me into the finals?
Nova @ SEA
Sheffield vs CWS
Wojci…Wojecho…Woj… Asher @ DET
I’m gonna go Sheff, good luck!
Are we trusting Quintana tomorrow? SON has him at +19 but I am not sure about that…
I am — what’s your matchup at?
Batting:
Rs – I’m up 15
HRs- I’m up 11
RBIs- I’m up 18
SBs- I’m down 2
Ks- I’m down 14
AVG- I’m up .017
OBP- I’m down .024
Pitching:
W- Tied
Ls- I’m up 1
SVs- Tied
Ks- Up 1
ERA- Up .001 (He has Gallen tomorrow plus bullpen, I have Quintana plus bullpen)
WHIP- down .020
K/9- down 4
Current score – I’m up 7-5
His bullpen is ridiculous – headlined by Taylor Rogers and Hader – he also has Workman and Joe Jimenez who is suddenly in shutdown mode
Lots of potential for me to lose – especially with Gallen playing at 4 and Q playing at 2:20 so if Q gets blown up, then I’m F’d pretty hard as that will flip ERA and I’ll tie Ls and he can bench Gallen – plus if Q doesn’t K anyone like he did last time then Gallen can get him Ks as well… I’m essentially pinning the hopes of me making the finals on Q
Damn, that is too close for comfort… yikes…hopefully you get some luck…
Would it be reasonable to drop Aquino forLaureano (it appears that pitchers have now figured him out).
In ab=nother league, semi-finals end tomorrow and I am behind 4-5-1 (behind 1 HR and 1 RBI). Kole Calhoun is available (and Aquino is often benched on Sunday). Would Kole have a better chance to save me tomorrow? If sao, need to make the move tonite.
I’d go Aquino
Nah
Thanks!
No problem
Hi GREY…for ROS, would you prefer JD Davis, Solak or Hoerner? Cubs have 7 home games next week and Davis seems to be occupying the 2 hole for the Mets again. Thanks for all your help!
Hoerner
Just noticed Davis goes to Coors next week. Change anything? Thanks
Yeah go Davis
drop cooper for hoerner?
Yes
Grey,
Would you drop Seth Brown for Matt Beaty?
Sure
thanks as always
No problem
in keeper league, which side do you want?
Jose Ramirez
vs
Lucas Giolito
JoRam
Odor or Segura for the home stretch?
Or Castro
Castro
Segura
Happy Saturday Grey!
Thoughts on Nola at home today vs BOS? SON seems to like it but I’m not so sure it’s not going to be Austin out there throwing instead of Aaron today.
Thanks!
Ha, I don’t trust him
Who has a better chance to get a win tomorrow
Woj @ Det (Jackson)
Sheffield vs CWS (Nova)
Sheff
1B – Pujols or Canha?
Canha
If Paxton and Hendricks does what SON expects them to do, I should be in the finals… LETS GO SON!!!!
I also have Flaherty going tonight, but I’m 100% benching him if those first 2 dominate as expected. I didn’t realize how much home cooking Hendricks has done this year
Let’s go SON!
Please rank Voit, Myers and JD Davis for next week.
Also, separately, would you drop Bell for Voit or Davis at this point? He’s day to day but guessing he’s not going to rushed back so may not be that useful down the stretch.
Thanks…
Voit, Davis
Sure, can lose Bell
Voit or Sano for the stretch run?
Voit
Mancini!
He’s homering before games even start now?!
Last night.
Mancini!
Speak it into existence.
Doing my best!
Mancini!
We/You made it happen.
We are so money!
Hi Grey. Would you drop Will smith for chirinos or alfaro or maldonado, pedro severiono? next week
I wouldn’t
Conforto vs Ryu
DeJong vs Lyles
Solak vs Fiers
McMahon vs Lauer
H2H points. Can only start one.
Have a great weekend Grey!
McMahon, you too!
That asshat isn’t even in the lineup tonight!
Ugh
It’s taken til now but I’m finally glad I drafted both Rizzo and Goldy.
Ha, yup
Aushizzzzzzz x2 let’s go!!!
Yeah baby!
Au Shizz!
Don’t mind Moncada’s 4 RBI either!
Haha, nice!
has anyone been more disappointing this week than Trevor Story? Dude is at Coors!
Besides Arenado the whole Rox team has been disappointing
Reverse jinx worked! 2 run bomb! Lets gooooooo
Nice reverse jinx!
McMahon got me -6.5 so far this week.
Any idea yet on how you are going to rate guys next year based on the juiced ball? MLB is bound to take the ball away, so would 2019 be considered an outlier and devalued or even disregarded. Maybe deduct 15-20% of 2019 stats when figuring out 2020 stats? What does your greydar tell you?
MLB has already said they’re keeping ball the same until 2021
They also said there was no straw in it too. Ha
Haha!
wasn’t there some espn or yahoo douchebag who said soto was a HUGE AVG risk this year, even after what he did last year in a full season at 19, pretty sure i remember somebody mentioning that in preseason.
Not sure, but sounds about right for them
Emotional game a Wrigley. When Brault gave up his 5 hr in the third inning Ray Searage was overwhelmed by his young pitchers efforts to pitch the right way.
HA!
10 team OBP/QS 7 moves left for this week and next
1) With Muncy back, would you hold onto Lux and see how the playing time shakes out (maybe he plays all over the place?) or drop now for: Grisham, Pollock, Canha, Eloy, Newman, W Calhoun, Gregorius?
2) Like any of these streamers this weekend?
Norris BAL
Kelly CIN
Duggar @ SF
Folty @ WAS
Wojciechowski @DET
Thanks and have a great weekend!
1. Eloy
2. Not especially, but I guess Kelly
You too!
Hello Grey,
H2H 6×6 QS Finals Week
I have one move left and my opponent has none so the choice between Cueto and Sheffield is mine.
Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated
Cueto
Thanks for everything this year sir! Looking forward to your first sleeper post. Early December?
Yup! No problem
After trying to trade for him for nearly 3 months, Eugenio’s owner plopped him on waivers and I scooped him up June 27th. My team log for him is 45/29/53/2 .299 in 234AB… that’s just sick!
Haha, nice!
Would you rather cut d Murphy or hiura? Rockies are in Coors until middle of next week. Hiura wont play until their upcoming home stand from what I read. Dont know how true that is
Hiura
Do you trust cueto on Sunday against miami? What about means next week for 2 starts at detroit and vs seattle
I do
After a great stretch, catcher is now becoming useless again. Chirinos or Tom Murphy?
Chirinos
Oh great Grey:
I’ve got Hiaru coming back. Can you rank him along with Lux and Starlin at 2B?
Castro, Lux, Hiura
1B options – you choose.
League-1. Canha or Cano? Loser (Bat bench) vs Grisham.
League-2. Muncy or Cano?
1 – Cano, Grisham
2. Muncy
Who do you think gets more Ks this weekend
Felix Hernandez against the white Sox
Or
Ivan nova against the Mariners.
H2h so trying to win Ks to advance to next round
Nova
Hey Grey,
12 Team H2H Categories
Looking ahead, could you rank these hitters for next week. I know I’m getting greedy here but top 5 if you could please! Thank You!
Eaton: (6) – [email protected], [email protected]
Grisham: (7)- 4 vsSD, 3 vsPIT
Kyle Lewis: (6) – 3 @PIT, [email protected]
Thames: (7) – 4 vsSD, 3 vsPIT
Jason Kipnis: (6) – 3vsDET, 3vsPHI
Kyle Tucker: (5) – 2 vsTEX, 3 vsLAA
Willie Calhoun: (5) – [email protected], [email protected]
Avisail Garcia: (5) – [email protected], 3vsBOS
Nico Hoerner: (7) – 3vsCIN, 4vsSTL
I’d want to ask this Sunday night or Monday morning if I were you… But Grisham, Eaton, Calhoun, Avisail, Lewis
Alright I think I will circle back and ask this again on Sunday night. Appreciate the answer now though too. Thanks!
No problem
Gotta drop S. Martel and Brad Hand if they’re not playing meaningful innings by Tuesday since it’s the playoffs, right?
Yup
Thanks. Who do like better as replacements for marte, solak or odor and for hand j. Diaz or Kennedy?
Solak — Kennedy
Thanks again
No problem
Shootout in Wrigley today. Both pitchers getting squeezed and wind is howling out to center
Giddy up, knoche!
Yeah, over came in early.
Oh my goodness, Castellanos does it again. People are probably winning leagues with him on their roster. So much winning right now. Serious FOMO.
He’s long past Greek God of Hard Contact now, I petition for calling him Shazam! hence forth.
I’m FOMO’ing all over the place on him… Can’t believe the surge…
oof… 15 hr 26 rbis in 40 games. wow. the only hitter hotter might be Saurez.
so if you had to pick 1 starter to throw in a tight era/whip race (we’re both currently under 2.00/1.10), Heaney tonight vs TB or Ryu tmw @ NYM? I’m torn *thinking emoji*
correction – 29* rbis
Heaney — Ryu seems mechanically off
yeah thats what Roberts was saying, the skipped start and given the extra time to work stuff has me debating myself…. grrrr damn these adult decisions!
Haha, yeah, I don’t know, I hate the idea of someone working on getting right
As I’m watching the Cubs game right now – I’m wondering who is worse: J.A. Happ or Jon Lester?
Happ
Monday batty call, Schwarber home vs Sonny Gray $3 or Ian Desmond home vs Matz $53? Hittertron obviously says Desmond being home but I fear him actually gettting the start and I need to add him Saturday to play him monday( yes stupid rule in my league).
Tough to say now, but I guess Desmond
I was able scoop up Odor in a league today. I eagerly await him going cold immediately, like he has so many times before. It’s good to have some things you can count in this crazy fantasy world.
Hello, 0-for-5 with 4 Ks!
I’m currently in the playoffs….J Rojas or Willie Calhoun for the rest of playoffs?
Calhoun
You’ll want to stock up on flavored alcohol too. If the vaping body count has undies in a bundle, you can imagine how upset people are going to be when they learn about the effects of alcoholism.
Wait a second, alcohol is bad?!
sugar kills more than all. Vape on.
Thank you, Darth! You are the voice of reason I’ve been looking for!
I don’t know what’s more stressful…losing Encarnacion in my championship match or wondering if this vape is gonna kill me.
Darth, we must band together to take back our vape! Or start an underground vape juice network
How would you rank the following OFs: Aristides, Avisail, Grisham, Canha? I currently have Aristides, Avisail and Canha, and thinking of dropping one of them for Grisham.
Thanks, and have a good weekend!
You ranked them — you too!
Do you anticipate any remaining value out of Glasnow in an RCL?
Just cut loose Javy Baez and Yelich. It was tough to pull the trigger even though I’ve already gotten all the value from them.
Nope, no value
HeytotheHey, Grey!!!!!
Any idea what’s up with S. Marte? Sprained wrist? He’s clogging up my ability to stream every hotbat in the majors. Sorta like Hoskins and the hard-slumpin Eddie-Ro. We are still a little early to start dropping such guys, no?
Lurrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Hey lurvey! Marte’s got a wrist injury but beyond that I don’t know… it’s not too early to drop them if you have better options…
Hi grey!
I’m out of the playoffs in my keeper league and I’d like to add Pederson and Kyle Lewis dropping Kyle Seager and Nate Lowe for their 2020 possible value, What do you think about?
And, McKay or Urias for next year?
Thanks a lot for all the help you gave me this season and thanks for the pleasant awakenings in the morning (I’m from Italy) with your articles.
Sounds fine for 2020
McKay
No problem! I love Gomorrah!
Ahahahaaha! I love it too!
If you love Gomorrah you should see Romanzo criminale – La serie! It’s about a criminal organization in the 70s in Rome.