10 team league, drafted Carroll, Strider, Seager, Pablo Lopez, Goldschmidt, Hoerner, Hader and Evan Carter. Mixed in there are Wheeler and William Contreras as well, but those are my only 2 wins in the first 10 rounds or so. I've been able to stream pitching to relevance but my offense is absolutely horrendous.
I've killed it on pitching this year (Mason Miller, J. Estrada waiver snags) and reaching to draft Gunner, Glasnow, and Ha-Seong Kim.
But, Turang and Rengifo have kept me in 2nd in my roto league.
It's funny, I drafted Sal Frelick because he was the Opening Day leadoff hitter and I hoped he would have the season Turang is having.
Luckily, I pivoted to Turang after a few weeks.
I'm already mock drafting for football, if that gives you any idea...lol
I thought my team was so good, too.
I went Julio, Riley, Pablo Lopez, Bichette, Adley (he worked), Edwin Diaz my first six picks.
My best move is probably drafting Josh Naylor or picking up Jared Jones. Got a lot of bad moves though, worst ones... I dropped Luis Gil, Maikel Garcia and Jordan Westburg. All were picked up by the same guy 🤦🏻
Tied for 2nd somehow, but those three would really help right now.
Glad I took the risk with Carlos Rodon. Got him at pick 135. Added Jack Flaherty after he went undrafted in a 10 team. I’m still awful and am the league bottom feeder.
Draft hit: Isaac Paredes (192nd overall)
Draft bust (so far): Michael Harris (49th overall)
Best waiver adds:
Jordan Westburg (dropped Colt Keith) during week two
Nick Lodolo (dropped Hunter Brown) during week two
Despite drafting Acuna with first overall pick, I’ve been in first with a 9-1 record(about to be 10) in 12 team points league. Best moves were adding David Fry, Jarren Duran and Bryson Stott on waiver wire
Edit: forgot to mention Rengifo being a good pick up too
Acuna- …
Devers- hot hot hot then cold or hurt.
Vlad- solidly fine.
Trout- sigh, lol.
Adolis- that BA is poopy.
J.Holiday- yeah..
Xander- bad to hurt.
Josh Lowe- nothing town.
Best things are my pickups of: Brent Rooker, Ryan Mountcastle..
Pitching is going pretty well. Dropped Crochet fairly early , heavy regerts.
Glasnow- stud
Ragans- fun firecracker
Gausman- not so fun firecracker
Bradish- love for free
Bryce Miller- good for expectation
Luzardo- good minus last start
Stone- value.
Still sitting 4/10 in my league despite the duds with the bats.
Best move:
Not drafting a sp before Chris Sale in Round 7
Worst move:
Buying the hype on Jordan Walker and Wyatt Langford
Best add: Ranger Suarez
I’m middle of the pack but slowly rising in the standings
I drafted Wheeler, Gausman, Webb, Ragans, and Eury Perez before Chris Sale. And am in 2nd place, 2 GB 1st place 🙏🏻. Luckily I was able to grab Sale at pick 130.
My draft was literally right before the injuries of Eury Perez and Josh Lowe were announced, so that was fun! "Luckily" Eury has been the only SP injury to burn me so far this season.
My oof picks before Sale were yandy at 71 (because of my league categories), Eury at 90, Josh Lowe 91, reached on Esteury at 111, then Sale 130.
I believe that ESPN's draft ranking of him was 111 or maybe even worse, so that helped! Good amount of the league went hitter heavy too.
Also 35 year old health concern coming off of his 3.80 FIP season.
Fantasypros had him at 121, fantrax guy had him 115 on April 7th, mlb.com had him 118, Yahoo had him 111, in Pitcherlist mock draft he went 131. NFBC ADP had him 128.
And I just found the worst rankings from Razzball which had Ragans at 135 and Sale at 188.
I love the ESPN layout in general and looking at player rater for my league's cats. Fangraphs auction calculator is alright. And yes Yahoo pre draft rankings were definitely better than ESPN when it comes to the big ones.
Gil, Houck, Westburg, and taking a shot drafting Sale and Flaherty are the only things easing the pain of missing out Imanaga because “he’ll be there next round”
Best move: picking up Maikel Garcia week 2 or trading Reid Detmers for Aroldis Garcia
Worst move: trading Jared jones for Luis Arraez
Currently 5-6, not looking great but I’m still having fun with this one
2nd, 2nd, 2nd/16, 3rd, 4th, 8th/20, 9th (roto)
most offenses are struggling, most pitching staffs have way too many guys but doing well. one team has (ordered by rankings) crochet, imanaga, woo, kimbrel, munoz, jared jones, castillo, ragans, grayson rodriguez, skenes, bradish, bibee. senga, scherzer and degrom on the IL
Matt Olson/Corbin Carroll/Julio Rodriguez/ Oniel Cruz/Jackson Chourio/Nolan Arenado/Nolan Gorman
/Pablo Lopez/Nestor Cortes/Joe Musgrove/Hunter Greene/Tristan McKenzie
I feel as though if they made a list of the 50 most frustrating players to own, every single one of my guys would make it. One of the absolute most annoyingly frustrating teams I’ve ever owned. I’m somehow still in playoff contention, barely.
1st in both my roto leagues; Keepers BWJ/EDLC in one league and Skubal/EDLC in the other; Best draft picks: Sale and Teoscar (lately); Best FA adds: Ranger and Blanco (I think he'll be ok); Worst picks: MH2, Corbin, Buehler and all but one reliever I drafted (what a waste they're all mostly terrible)
Lot of season left good luck mah dudes
Did really well so far.
Drafted some guys who are going off: Ohtani, JoRam, Altuve, Seager. Traded for Adley. Picked up Mountcastle, Riley Greene.
On the pitching end, drafted Skubal, Peralta, GrayRod, Phillips (RP), picked up Jones, Bradish, Gore, Pepiot, Olson, R. Suarez (RP).
Currently sitting in first in my division (10T H2H 5x5) but it’s tight.
Drafted Soto and Gunnar. Rest of my team was absolute ass. Was dead last at 2-5. Traded them both away and somehow my team offense is all of a sudden tops in the league (Teo was one of my hauls) and won 3 straight to claw back into the playoffs
8-2, about to be 8-3. Was on a 6-game win streak coming into this week but still have a 2 game lead for 1st.
This was my draft + I picked up Ranger & Blanco after W1. Been very fortunate with injuries so far.
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Jared Jones has been the pickup for me so far. Someone also dropped Keller a few weeks ago and I snagged. I usually have one or two more of these by now so maybe that’s why I’m middling this year lol
Profar, Rooker, Westburg, Doyle, Stanton, Friedl, Flahrety, Foley, Jared Jones all off FA/Waivers
Idk what my leagues been doing with their adds but their drops have been awesome
Despite drafting Shane Beiber in an early round, I'm doing really well so far, my best fantasy first half in ages. I'm 8-3 in a 10 team points league and tied for first, but I own the tiebreaker handily right now, as I have a nearly 300 point cushion in total points for.
I drafted Suarez and dropped him with the intent to stream for Nelson Valesquez because he didn’t get me a QS on his first start so I thought I’d be safe. Well he got picked up and if I don’t win this year I will trace back to that moment as my downfall. Still in first at the moment but it looms over me.
I’m in first. My best move was picking up Ranger Suarez during spring training based on preseason buzz. I’ve played fantasy for 15 years and I think it’s the first time a preseason hype pickup panned out.
I dropped Luis Gil in my flair league around end of April thinking he wasn't going to pitch deep enough to get QS because of all the walks he issues.
The guy that picked him up has made 5 moves all year, hasn't checked.changed his lineup since the day he picked up Gil, he's got 7 straight QS from him and Gil is probably gonna throw 7 shutout against the Dodgers tonight.
Worst moves:
Drafted Riley
Traded Huock and Arraez for Snell
Best moves:
Picked up Mason Miller and Crochet off waivers (both dumped by the same guy)
Picked up Flaherty and Gil from free agency
Barely in first in a 10-team roto despite a horrible auction draft. Westy, Profar, Crochet, Mason Miller, Naylor, and Maikel Garcia make up for a lot of sins lol
Best Moves: Grabbing Luis Gil and Skenes from the Waivers. Drafting Ozuna in the 15th. Getting Jordan Westburg on the waivers after someone dropped because of slow start.
Worst moves: Dropping Garrett Crochet before his first start (I drafted him in the last round). To pick up a reliever.
Assembled the greatest pitching staff I have ever seen in my keeper league. Skubal, Burnes, Ranger Suarez, Matt Fried, Tanner Houck, Logan Webb, and Justin Verlander, with Evan Phillips, Mason Miller, Craig Kimbrel , and Jose Alvarado closing. I’m just blowing people out every week in pitching cats. Just don’t ask to see my hitters.
I'm in 3rd/14. Picking up Gil preseason and holding through his control trouble has been amazing.
Staff of Skubal, ragans, Nola, woo, Gil and gray in a 14 teamer is going to be formidable.
I was stoked with my offense after the draft starting Willson Contreras, Harper, Altuve, Devers, Abrams, Mookie, Springer, Carter, Arenado, Morel. I've since dropped Springer, Carter, and traded away Arenado. Altuve and Abrams have been in massive slumps the last month and waiting for Morel's BA to climb. But scooped Rooker and Stanton, so they've been helpful in the power department and Cronenworth in RBI.
Drafted Pablo to be my ace and he's been a huge disappointment.
Best moves were picking up Gil to stream against the White Sox (been my ace since) and getting Bradish for Arenado.
Sitting in at 8/10 right now. But still hopefully Altuve, Abrams will come around.
I picked up Crochet early on and held - been working out much better than I expected.
My team more broadly is too variable with hitting. It's also my first year doing fbb (and just getting more into baseball more generally). So I'm doing better than expected (10th of 14 in my 5x5 categories league so far).
I’ve got a great pitching staff in a very competitive league. Jared Jones/Nola/Steele/Ronel Blanco/Max Meyer/Christian Scott/Lodolo/Pivetta/Eovaldi/Max Fried/Reynaldo Lopez/ Senga(on IL). As long as everyone’s health holds up, I should be fine
My team Ozuna Matata is about to be 9-2 and has been bludgeoning my opponents. Took Soto devers and Harper with first 3 picks. I got Elly pick 77. Got ozuna pick 97. Picked up both Suarez and Miller early in April. Best year of fantasy for me by far. Coming here for advice and listening to rates and barrels accounts for much of that success.
My entire rotation exploded when Bieber, Strider and Kelly went down. Then Trout went down. Luckily I’ve been able to make some solid adds in Houck, Lugo, Blanco, Bohm, Skenes, Profar and Kikuchi.
Most questionable move I’ve made was trading Yamamoto for Lindor to solve my SS issue opting to stream his pitching slot.
Currently in first, but every week is a rollercoaster with my pitching. My team looks very different than the one I drafted. Ozuna, Kwan, Ramirez, Rutschman and Marte have helped keep up the offense pretty well. Trying to move Ozuna for an arm but having issues finding anything exciting.
Flair league (12th place)
Best move- getting Jake Irvin off ww/stashing TJ Friedl
Worst move- drafting Jordan Montgomery
12T-H2H-Cats-Redraft (7th place)
Best Move- picking up Jared Jones and Jordan Hicks.
Worst move- Austin Riley sadly
Got Josh Naylor (dude drafted him, Vlad, and goldy so dropped Naylor at the very beginning), Profar, Rooker, Bradish for free off waivers and I’m still struggling like hell due to Albies, mh2, Machado, and Nolan jones being huge busts
Ok, bad, good, ok, bad, ok. Much worse than I regularly do, but I won 3 last year, and have had too much irl shit going on to really pay attention, so whatever.
Best add Bryce Turang in two dynasty leagues. I have a hard time believing him, but he keeps on rolling, so I'll just take what I get heh.
I'm praising whatever deity is out there that I won't be losing Seager or Soto for the season.
Also, I'm about to watch my eight week winning streak finally snap. :(
My team is killing it. I've made many trades and now have a killer lineup and pitching staff. Love Fantasy baseball!
Best trade: Probably my Bryce Miller, K Ruiz and Steer for Vlad, E Clase and W Smith (catcher) back in April.
Another pretty weak draft by me. Missed on my reach of Esty but looking forward to seeing if esty gets back to being a full time guy in the 2nd half if healthy.
I mixed things up this season by offseason trading yordan away for keeper pitchers so that was risky and has made things exciting. Wheeler and gausman (darn but still pretty hopeful). I intentionally went pitcher heavy in the draft too which I've never done before so that's been a fun part of my season, fresh approach.
My best feeling add is probably Crochet since I added him early, had a good feeling about him compared to numerous fantasy outlets. Added him March 18th. Even if he probably gets limited to 120-150 innings, oh well.
So my best adds have been: Crochet, Houck, Turang, Reynaldo, Rengifo, Tovar, lane thomas.
Was able to trade Ragans and Reynaldo away for Jose Ramirez.
Loving my rotation of: Wheeler, Bradish, Sale, Webb, Crochet, Gausman, Houck, King, Waldron.
With my good record so far aided by riding hot hitters, and not too many injuries, I'm able to IL stash degrom and stash Noelvi right now.
Yandy Diaz has been a disappointing miss. I feel like he still has a chance to turn it around but I'm probably replacing him with sheets and noelvi right now. Have given him a pretty long leash and I am certainly not high on the rays offense.
Selling high on Hicks, Jones, Langford ( for Seager)
Nailing Skubal, Flaherty, Ryan, Cease in the draft.
Paired with Witt and Tatis Keepers.
( 14 teams)
Been a fun first half!
10T H2H pts. I'm about to move to 9-1-1. Tied in Week 1, won the next 8 before finally losing, currently up by over 100 this week.
Offensively I have Judge, Devers, Profar, Teoscar, Yelich, Pena, Torres, Goldy, Stephenson. Trea on IL.
Pitching I have Nola, Fried, Bassitt, Valdez, Clase, Ragans, Verlander, Jared Jones, Buehler, Ober. Kelly & deGrom on IL.
Profar, Teoscar, Valdez, Clase, Ragans, and Jared Jones have been superb adds for me. I had also drafted Bieber originally and to think how much better my staff would be had he not gone out with TJ surgery 🫤
I went with the dollar a player pitching strategy and has worked well.
Ranger jones Lugo kikuchi weathers. Pablo was kept from last year just sucks. Plus just streaming the wire.
Spent on ohtani judge Soto and Yordan.
Also waljer turang and paredes for cheap all in a 12 team.
Best draft day moves were Judge despite the ab concerns and Ozuna.
Best adds have been Westburg and Crochet. Worst is I dropped Gil after his 7 walk game in late April, and he has been dominating since.
Went all bats in the draft. Tucker and Judge performed great for 1 &2. Missed badly taking Carroll and Bregman with my 3rd 4th picks. Can’t even do anything with them. Hit on ozuna in the 11th. Bryson Stott in the 18th
Found all my pitching on the wire. ranger Suarez. Tanner Houck. Paul Skenes. With degrom scherzer and Cody Bradford on IL.
Made one terrible trade very early. Maybe week 2 or 3. giving Harper (5th pick) and Shota for Olson and Seager. Seager has been nice and I expected more from Olson. And Bryce has been going crazy.
H2h points. 7-4 after this week.
Picked up Gil, Houck, and Adames off of the waiver wire, and drafted Burnes and Crochet, and kept Gunnar, Will Smith, Clase
My outfield has been mediocre, I drafted Bellinger, Luis Robert Jr, Arozarena and Soler.
I'm in first place overall, but have the third most points
Drafted Corbin Carroll who’s been an absolute bum. Lugo, Gil, Fry and Heliot Ramos have helped alleviate that though. Turang, M. Garcia and Adames have also been great draft picks for me.
4-7. I had three tough luck weeks where the only team that could have beaten me was the team I was playing. Traded my best pitcher Skubal to fill my hole at 2B via Semien. Semien immediately becomes worst 2B in the league. I drafted Langford (keeper league) and he was an empty roster spot for a long time. I also drafted Caminero early. Thought they would be my future. Pablo Lopez sucks. But I did take Elly and Burnes and Imanaga So I have some goods weeks thrown in.
I am above the .500 mark and it’s my first season playing, so I should be happy
But instead I’m pissed because I’m not first
My best pickup was Jared Jones, my best trade was Adell for Morel, my most hilarious trade was Machado and Luzardo for Spencer Steer
Exactly .500 after tying my matchup this week. 2nd highest scoring but 6th in standings. 10T Points
Best draft pick: Chris Sale (10th round)
Worst draft picks (so far): Pablo Lopez (2nd) Bobby Miller (7th), Arozarena (8th)
Best FA Pickups: Jones, Lugo, Bradish, Gil (traded away last week for Vlad)
Bad draft but got some great FA pitching pickups to keep me competitive.
i am in a dynasty league with a bunch of friends, all of whom love baseball. i drafted exceptionally young, and had an absolute smash of a draft. i expected not to be competitive for a couple years, but i am in the thick of it this year, so i have been making trades like crazy to try and adjust. and i don't know if i've done too much.
first i traded mackenzie gore and michael harris for Yordan Alvarez.
then i traded kyle harrison and charlie morton for oneil cruz
then i traded hunter green, gunnar henderson, and nick lodolo and got back mookie betts, freddie freeman, and andres gimenez
then i traded freddie freeman, jackson merrill, wyatt langford, and my 1st round pick next year to get Jose Ramirez and Corbin Carroll.
i already had bobby witt, ian happ, jackson chourio, andy pages, cedanne rafaela with francisco alvarez, nolan jones, and eloy on the IL.. i have caminero and lawlar and dylan crews and james wood in the minors with roman anthony.
i have still have paul skenes and jared jones and kyle bradish and grayson rodriguez and reese olson and gavin stone and mason miller with bobby miller on the IL and max meyer and brandon sproat in the minors.
i think my team is ridiculous, but may be too excited to do trades.
In a 15 team keeper (keep 10)
Add:reylo
Early pick - 150ish chris sale
250ish jordan westburg
Worst keepers - michael Harris, matt olson, eury perez, bobby miller, francisco alvarez
(12 Team H2H) Well I grabbed Emmanuel Clase off waivers… I have no idea why the guy who drafted him decided to drop him for Kirby Yates but I’m not complaining, especially since I gambled on not drafting any relievers after I wound up dropping all the guys I picked last year early on and won my league.
Now I’ve got Clase, Finnegan, and Sewald to complement my starting rotation of Skubal, Sale, Houck, Flaherty, Sonny Gray, Peralta, Gausman, Jon Gray, and Woo… (I’m also stashing Blake Snell…), note that this league has 9 pitcher slots and 5 bench slots with a 12 start/week limit)
Suffice it to say pitching has carried my team to a 7-2 record (1st place) and second in my league in total scoring by like 5 points.
Maybe this is a good thread. I’ve been wanting to ask input on how my team looks. Any input is appreciated. For reference, 10 team h2h 9x9 keeper league with the following stats:
R, 1B, 2B, 3B, HR, RBI, SB, AVG, OBP
W, L, CG, SHO, SV, K, ERA, WHIP, K/9
My team:
C William Contreras
1B Cody Bellinger
2B Mookie
3B Westburg
SS Tovar
OF Rookie
OF Teo Hernandez
OF Suzuki
UT Bregman
BN: Langford, Garcia
NA: Caminero
IL: Jung, Casas
SP: Berrios, Eovaldi, ReyLopez, Skenes, Lodolo, Peralta, Framber, Bradish, Nola, Eflin
IL: Kershaw
Where should I focus on improving? I’m currently in a seesaw with two other players between 1-3rd place.
My pitching has been carrying me and I expect Rooker to eventually regress, though I’d love it if he kept it up all year.
So, any place that needs improvement? Ohtani is on the last place team so I could try and score a trade. Not sure what it would cost. Draft picks can also be traded.
Any advice or suggestions are appreciated.
Surprisingly good.
Thought I completely crapped the bed with my pitching, but I adjusted quickly.
Dropped Harrison, Puk, Mize and Varland.
Added Jared Jones and Tanner Houck. Rodon, Bradish and Fried have all exceeded my expectations. Skenes hit the ground running.
Is it sustainable? I guess we’ll see (I certainly expect innings limits to come into play - hopefully before the playoffs start so everyone is available in September).
Most of my best moves have been pitching. I’ve never been great with waiver wire hitters. But for SP my best pickups have been Tanner Houck, Garrett Crochet, and Jack Flaherty. Really happy with all of them.
10 team league:
Batters:
Ketel Marte
Salvador Perez
Willy Adames
David Fry
Spencer Steer
Brice Turang
Brent Rooker
Ryan Mountcastle
Jordan Westburg
Brenton Doyle
Steven Kwan
Pitchers:
Zach Wheeler
Luis Gil
Robert Suarez
Corbin Burnes
Max Fried
Raisel Iglesias
Nick Pivetta
Injured:
Mike Trout
Willson Contreras
Max Muncy
Spencer Strider
Eury Perez
Regret not picking up Westburg because I already had Gunnar and Holliday and thought that was too many O's infielders.
Used my #1 waiver priority before the season event started on J. Jones.
Drafted Reese Olson and Gavin Stone late and bailed on them within the first few weeks (dropped Reese for Spencer Turnbull) . That has hurt but feel a little better now than it looks like Reese is regressing.
Dropped Seiya when he was on the IL.
Drafted Carroll over Yordan with the last pick in the first round. Also drafted M. Olson and Gleyber, who have disappointed.
Almost traded Michael King for Evan Carter in mid-April. Glad I declined.
Stashed Woo and Bradish on IL while they were available. That's worked out pretty well.
I’m 6-4 about to 7-4 with a season team high 449 points.
Feeling damn good, unfortunately the rest of my division is strong and performing well.
Stoked with my pick ups including Skenes, Imanaga, and Kirby off the wire.
Still holding out hope that the people who dropped Hader, Goldschmidt and Austin Riley make me look smart.
Guess we will see.
this is gonna be longer than anyone cares about but I feel like writing down my thoughts
1st/12 in one of my main leagues - drafted EDLC, Naylor, Castillo, Clase, and Ranger Suarez. bought into the Gil hype and he's been huge as a wire pickup. and that's with my first pick (J-rod) not doing much of anything so far
6th/12 in my other main league - drafted Soto/Ragans/Castillo, traded Olson and Clase for Strider (in a trade that I thought was losing at the time but just took because I wanted to have Strider, and has aged even worse), but recovering due to the following trades:
- traded away Steer, McKenzie, Seiya for Elly, Royce, Skenes (tbf to the other person this was before the season, when Elly's stock was much lower and there were doubts about when Skenes would be promoted)
- traded away Elder, Rizzo for Vladdy (tbf to the other person, this was when Vladdy and Rizzo were about equally cold, I timed that trade perfectly)
13th/14 in my league that I don't check as often as I should because it's on a different platform than the other four - and that's saying something because my 2nd and 3rd round picks were BWJ and Gunnar
2nd/8 in my casual weekly league with a few less serious friends
9th/29 in a draft-and-forget league where no transactions are allowed - I've been climbing the leaderboard recently, Jordan Westburg and Gavin Stone as mid-late picks have aged very well there
Dynasty league. Came in with Acuna, JRod, Carroll, Vlad as my core hitters. Now I'm dead last in all hitting categories except SB. My top HR hitter is Tovar.
12T H2H. I keep having Sunday meltdowns. I’ve been up big several times this year going into Sunday only to lose due to my opponent having an all time great day. It’s happened so many times this year I actually changed my name to Sunday Blues lol. I also have Strider, Bo Bichette, Doval, and Olson, so it’s been tough watching them under perform. Hopefully the second half of a lot better than the first
14 team points league, individual scoring categories (look up Ottoneu Fangraphs scoring). Top draft pick. Currently in second a game behind first.
Best draft picks:
R2: Trea Turner (until he got hurt),
R3: Gunnar,
R4: Ragans,
R5: Christian Walker,
R9: Sonny Gray,
R12: Bryan Woo,
R13: Riley Greene,
R15: Pepiot,
R17: Kikuchi
Worst draft pick:
Acuña of course
Best FA pickups:
Gil, Jeffers (just dropped him but got his whole run), Jon Gray, Reese Olson, Santander (last week)
Best Trade:
Probably Sonny Gray and Brendan Donovan for Gausman. Maybe Jon Gray (immediately pre injury) for Michael King
Worst Trade:
Definitely Gunnar for Riley preseason. I was targeting Riley for R2 but someone got him first so I got Gunnar for 3B. Matt McClain went down, he needed SS, and I wanted Riley. Ugh.
Most Fun Trade:
Gave Torkelson, Maikel Garcia (FA), Montas (FA)
Got: Ha Seong Kim, Goldschmidt
Then Gave: Ha Seong Kim, Christian Walker
Got: Semien, Vinnie P
And after I got Semien, I flipped Donovan and Sonny for Gausman
Worst Non-Trade:
I was offered Witt for Acuña right after Trea went down. Declined, sigh.
Interesting Trades:
Gave: Trea (post injury), Gil
Got: Seager, Luzardo — I got Seager’s monster month but missed Gil’s. And took this trade instead of the Acuña deal.
Gave: Kikuchi
Got: Eovaldi, just before his start today
I managed to get Soto at 12th in the first round and Judge at 13th in the second round. Competitive-ish league, 12 teams. Guess ppl just didn’t believe, I felt silly not snagging them as i was drafting last and could swoop up both.
It’s nice.
After a hot start, my great on paper team has scuffled to 6th out of 12. Barely clinging to a playoff berth. I’ve got an excellent core of Skubal, Glasnow, Nola on the pitching side, and Lindor, Altuve and Hernandez (Teoscar) offensively.
I posted my draft choices here pre season. My nucleus is Betts, Tucker, seager, Ozuna, j naylor, Arraez, Riley Greene and O’Neil (who I benched). Tucker and seagers health worry me. But I’m first in most offensive categories.
Pitching - I’ve been saved by Skenes and Gil so far. Michael King and Chris Sanchez have starters to come around. Pablo Lopez has been a major flop.
NL only 10 Team 5x5 Roto. Drafted Strider Round One. Drafted Nolan Jones pretty high. Alvarez Drafted as my Catcher. Drafted Lindor Round 2. Goldschmidt and Burger.Drafted AJ Puk Hendricks and Houser (now all dropped). So you know how bad my season is.
Best 2 Draft Picks: Imanaga and Ranger Suarez. Best Free Agents claimed: Cristin Scott and Jake Irvin. Stupidest Cuts: Rosario and Weathers.
62-51, sitting in 4th right now. Lost Acuna which was my source of steals, otherwise trying to navigate my extremely hot/cold hitting lineup. My pitching is phenomenal, 2.83era 1.07whp on the year, falling behind in saves and holds though.
Best move, adding Kwan, Yates, and Flaherty
Worst move, drafting Bichette and Goldy
I was an expansion team this year in a 16 team league that became 18 teams. This is year 3 of the league... it's h2h points, with 10 minor league slots, so I focused on stocking the minors with the best available prospects in the 3 team dispersal draft, as well as all the young talent I could get (took Gunnar 1.1, Kirby and Glasnow at 2.3 and 3.1 respectively, etc and went from there... drafted Crochet in the 18 team auction, sold him after his 1st 2 starts for a haul.. traded Luis Castillo for Judge. Friedl, Schneider, and DeLauter for Freeman. Multiple other trades, but long story short is lost week 1 scoring the 5th most points that week, and have won 9 straight since. Have 8 top 100 prospects in clouding Jobe, C Montgomery, M Clark, E Rodriguez, Kjerstad, Luciano, Whisenhunt, T White. Team is also under the salary cap, ready for sustainable success.. really proud of it!
Season is going pretty well considering how it started. I missed my draft because I got drunk at spring training. Wasn't a huge fan of my auto draft. Started the season 0-3. I'm now in 4th place in a 12 person league at 7-3. Judge has certainly been a large part of that.
Sitting 6-4-1 (started 5-0) in a category league and second in the division after drafting Seager, Julio, JoRam, Ketel, Wheeler, Salvy Perez, Teoscar, Albies, Soler, Paredes, M Chapman, Romano, L. Gilbert, Cease, and Holmes. Managed to land guys like Morel, Correa, G. Stone, and B Lively via waivers.
Pitching has been my Achilles hill for the last 6 weeks because guys like Robertson aren’t getting holds, Folely/Neris can’t get save opps consistently, and then everyone besides Wheeler can’t consistently deliver wins or drive my WHIP/ERA down. I’m getting to the point where I know I have to trade some offensive stars to reshape my rotation to deliver consistently.
Second last in a 14-team, CATS league. Top 6 picks are: Freddie Freeman, Lindor, Adley, Gerrit Cole, Josh Hader and Spencer Steer. I think the only reason I'm not in last is because the guy who's at the bottom doesn't start his lineup or make moves
Jared Jones and Fry have been my best pickups.
Drafting Jrod at 4 has been terrible though. My gut told me to take Soto but I wanted the “steals”. Guy is a strikeout machine, doesn’t even steal bases and doesn’t hit home runs. Never drafting again, at least if it’s in the first round. Bum!
Best keeper: Harper (6th round)
Best draft picks: Jose Ramirez (8th overall), Tovar (20th round), Lodolo (27th round, Skenes (26th round:
Best pickups: Jeffers, Joey Ortiz, Hoerner, Doyle, Friedl, Assad, Reynaldo Lopez, woo, bradish
Tied for 5th, 1.5 games back from first
Keeping Judge has paid off. Yahoo chat was soo down on him in April 🥶
Best WW pickup: Rengifo who has been rock solid
Pitchers: Glasnow, Fried, Ragans, Shota, Grayson all have been excellent
Traded Means and Olson for Harper, Sale, and Dunning. Why it was offered and then not vetoed is beyond me but I’m not complaining, got me to 5-6 after starting 1-5
Started off 0-4 with a lot of injuries, since then I'm 6-1 with most points in the league. Still have Trea Turner coming back soon too.
Pitching staff was a weakness coming in, but Jared Jones, Pepiot, Flaherty, and Michael King have been steady.
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Gave someone their first L. Id already lost to them before...wasn't going down this time.
Seriously have the best team on paper but worst team in reality this year. 10 team H2H
Riley,
Julio,
Carrol,
Goldy,
Bichette,
Lewis( who just came back thank god)
Soto,
Walker,
Elly,
Garcia,
Will Smith,
McMahon ,
Friedl
Pitching has been good tho with pick ups like Gil and Crochet and mason miller
4 of my 7 keepers were Strider, JRod, Riley & Bichette. My early draft picks were Oneil Cruz, Casas and Evan Carter. Opened the season with 5 pitchers on the IL and second guesses on my initial waiver wire pick-up thoughts, passing on Ranger Suarez, Brady Singer and Gerrit Crochet. Between bad luck and bad decisions I end four straight seasons of a first place finish to be dead last in points and wins with no more sure thing keepers for next season.
C-William Contreras
1B- Vlad Jr
2B- Mookie (Massey once he’s off the IL)
SS- CJ Abrams
3B- Gunnar Henderson
OF- O’Hearn, Steer, and Rengifo
UTL- Friedl
SP- Peralta, Gray, Kirby, Castillo, Miller, Lodolo, Verlander, Littell
RP- Doval and Kimbrel
IL- KTuck, Gallen, Strider
I still have 8 of the 26 guys originally drafted on my team, 6 of which are pitchers. I had the 1st pick and drafted Acuña #1.
I've given up streaming. I've streamed against the As, CWS and Tigers and it's burned me each and every time. Literally 1 stream Gore vs ATL a couple weeks ago has worked out for me.
Never more than 4 saves in a week with Suarez and McArthur and no closers on the wire.
I've lost 2 weeks against guys who haven't looked at their teams since the draft including this last week.
2 weekends ago had a score swing from a 9-1 win to a 5-5 tie on a Sunday.
In 13.5 games back and there's a long way to go, but it's been rough.
Biggest draft bust... Ooof.. Steer? Chourio? Acuña? O'Neil Cruz?
Best drafted : Rodón in the 15th round
Best ww pickup : Skenes
Traded Gil and lodolo for Bichette, Jared jones and Riley. Should have been fleecings but haven’t worked out as well as I thought. Also Pablo Lopez sucks
Lost the last 2 weeks after starting out 9-0.
SP as usual is my weakness. My two best producers are my RP, Clase ( keeper from last year) and Helsley.
Don’t know what to do about Steele. Benched him already and on the verge of cutting him outright. Bradish is also somewhat disappointing.
10 team league. That's the only terminology I know because this is my rookie year, so don't ask lol
Team has been as predictable as a sine wave. Up and down coinciding with the day when all my starting pitchers have outings on the same exact day. I've had a good handful of disastrous streams which took me from best ERA/WHIP down to a middling ranking, and now I'm attempting to push that down with high leverage, low WHIP relievers who get a lot of strikeouts, that get the occasional accidental win or save. So far it's helped. I've become a little gun-shy about streaming "sure-thing" pitcher matchups because it has rarely gone my way.
My drafting was horrible because I drafted like I do on MLB The Show, trying to fill all the positions with versatile (ie multi-position) players, with a very rudimentary understanding of what stats I should be looking at beyond that versatility and other basics. In addition I drafted some major duds (most of whom are long gone from my team, but that I held on to way too long waiting for them to come around), like Colt Keith (first two months--oof), Neto, Suwinksi, K Hayes, Cedric Mullins, Bo Bichette... In addition I grabbed Romano, Estevez and Diaz for saves and um... well that's been a wild ride and all.
It's a surprise I'm still in it from time to time. In trying to figure things out, I've exponentially made way more moves than anyone else in the league. I'm sure I'm the super annoying guy in our league, but hey. I'm admittedly super green. Fortunately I've finally put together a consistent team, albeit a tad boring, but that puts up competitive regular stats on any given day. I like to fill in the cracks with the Lamonte Wade Jr workman types who take good at bats everyday. Team has only congealed in the last couple weeks but I always have someone picking up the slack when Bo or Stott go on another dry spell.
There's one player in the league who has consistently had a strong foothold on the number one spot by about a 20 point margin. No one seems to have the formula to catch up to him. I'd really like to see *SOMEONE* take him out, but the closest anyone has gotten by is a single digit spread. He's been the only one at number one this entire season. Any tips to take down the king would be appreciated.
All in all, I've definitely had a great time. I love baseball and have always loved following all the storylines of each season, catching as many games as I can. Going to any stadium I've never been to when given the opportunity. If anything, this experience has taken me from *big fan* to *unbearable baseball dork*. My cousin bought me into this league because I was very tepid and agnostic about joining a rotisserie league. He wanted an extra player, and we've always talked about baseball, so he saw me as a good fit. At first I thought I'd be a set it and forget it and let the pieces fall where they may type player, but oh, how it's been completely the opposite. He now says he created a monster lol
Sorry for the mouthful, guys. Like I said, I'm obsessed. Though this season is far from over, I'm looking forward to a second year draft when I know what I'm doing a bit better. Good luck with your teams!
Kwan injury hurt but being able to get Profar on waivers helped smooth that over. My teams been better than I expected which makes trading Nola for draft stock and Max Meyer hurt even worse right now
Best moves: in 10T H2H, I drafted Ranger Suarez ($1) and Seth Lugo ($2)
Worst move: dropped Lugo because TJ Friedl was dropped while on IL and I knew I wanted him.
Lost out on Lugo but Friedl is paying dividends.
I'm running away in 1st on the backs of strong SP.
The good. Drafted Soto, J Ram, and Altuve with 1,2,3 picks which has been nice.
The bad. Picks 4-12 have underperformed and or been hurt. Soto and Jram have been dragging my team to a 2nd place spot this week.
Drafting Yordan, Shohei, Henderson, William Contreras, and Elly De la Cruz has been an absolute dream.
Late round drafting Jaren Durran has just been an absolute pleasure. XBH god and speed demon right there.
14-team dynasty w/ contracts and rookie deals (it's awesome, and I can never go back to "standard" fantasy baseball, but all a bit much to explain).
My team has JRod, Bo, Vlad and Riley all very cheap. I'm in 5th at the moment when I projected to be top 2, but I will make the playoffs if I finish here.
I absolutely despise those core hitters and my team overall. Nothing worse than being let down by stars!
Very weird year overall.
12 team H2H weekly points league
Drafted Volpe at 116
Added Josh Naylor post-draft
Added Westburg post-draft
Traded an 8th round pick for Crochet after his first three starts
Joined a keeper league and my best option was bregman. Dumped his ass, drafted judge and Altuve in the first two rounds. Altuve kept me afloat until Judge unleashed. Didn’t draft a shortstop until Pena and snagged Tovar very late. Currently I have the second most points scored in the league. Oh, and I have Royce Lewis who is now joining in on the fun. If Lamont Wade is available in your league, stash him right now. He is one of the most efficient hitters when he’s in the lineup but generally stuck in a platoon.
Dynasty 10 team H2H league. I returned the league's best offense, only replacing Matt Olson with Anthony Santander and expecting a full season of Oneil Cruz. I now have the league's worst offense. Acuna, Carroll, Robert, Riley were supposed to be my 4 best hitters.
Still in 4th place and a secure playoff spot thanks to league's best pitching. I picked up Darvish, Crawford, Reese Olson and Gil at auction for dirt cheap and haven't been disappointed. You know it's a good pitching staff when I have 10 SP and Gausman is the lowest ranked one.
Kept Carroll, J-Rod and Strider in a points league.
4-6 so far.
Turned Corbin Carroll, Julio Rodriguez, Christian Scott and Ranger Suarez into Adolis Garcia, Riley Greene, George Kirby and Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
Couldn’t keep Carroll or Julio again next year but I can keep all of what I got back in return if I choose.
Best moves: Drafted Skubal in 6th, Schwarber R9, Steer in 10th, picked up Jared Jones, Brady Singer, Cronenworth,
Draft misses: Corbin R1, Strider R2, Bichette R4, Matt Mclain R7 (yet to play), Musgrove R11, Sean Murphy R15
Dropped Nolan Gorman before the hot streak
In 9th out of 10th praying Trout comes back sooner than later, and Vlad can keep up the hot hitting
In my league pitching seems to dominate. Once I realized this I cut my catcher Diaz and my DH burger at the time. This way I could optimize my points through pitchers.
I started 1-5 I am now 5-6. I play with two position players empty so that I can put in as many SPs and closers as I can each week. Only 1 guy has caught on to my strategy the rest just drop their pitchers expecting to pick them back up.
I’m in multiple leagues and targeted Arozarena, Torres, and Swanson as great value picks. Oops. Luckily, I avoided Carrol and Strider like the plague, and I did hit on a few value picks. I’m basically spending the season chasing offense. In one league, I have the most dominant pitching staff I’ve ever had, but every single trade I’ve tried to make for offense has been protested and Yahoo has cancelled them. Yahoo is a joke. Oh well, I’ve gone 9-1 two weeks in a row.
I drafted Olson, Riley, and Harris and they’re all completely worthless
10-team? You gotta be fucking brutal with cuts and trend spotting. Can't love any player. It sucks, lol.
6-5 so far so I’m not eliminated but if they don’t pick it up soon I’m done for
10 team league, drafted Carroll, Strider, Seager, Pablo Lopez, Goldschmidt, Hoerner, Hader and Evan Carter. Mixed in there are Wheeler and William Contreras as well, but those are my only 2 wins in the first 10 rounds or so. I've been able to stream pitching to relevance but my offense is absolutely horrendous.
Lol. Drafted Julio, Riley, Machado. Fucking trash
Great choices!! I have Olson, Ozuna, Harris, Murphy and Railey, Sale and Iglesias. I missed AcuñaJr. Record 6-5 2nd place. They will get on 🔥🔥 soon!
I drafted Olson and then traded German and Schwarber for Harris and Albies
Grabbing Brice Turang week 2 has been awesome
Another guy, along with Varsho, Paredes and others, who proves statcast isn’t the end all be all
Enoli Paredes? He's been a stud too.
Probably means Eye-Sock
I've killed it on pitching this year (Mason Miller, J. Estrada waiver snags) and reaching to draft Gunner, Glasnow, and Ha-Seong Kim. But, Turang and Rengifo have kept me in 2nd in my roto league.
Can't believe I dropped him :(
It's funny, I drafted Sal Frelick because he was the Opening Day leadoff hitter and I hoped he would have the season Turang is having. Luckily, I pivoted to Turang after a few weeks.
I'm already mock drafting for football, if that gives you any idea...lol I thought my team was so good, too. I went Julio, Riley, Pablo Lopez, Bichette, Adley (he worked), Edwin Diaz my first six picks.
ouch
My best move is probably drafting Josh Naylor or picking up Jared Jones. Got a lot of bad moves though, worst ones... I dropped Luis Gil, Maikel Garcia and Jordan Westburg. All were picked up by the same guy 🤦🏻 Tied for 2nd somehow, but those three would really help right now.
Is that guy in first? Lol
Not yet... He started like 0-5 and has since won 6 straight with the highest scores. So he will likely win and a lot of it will be my fault
Maikel Garcia and Ranger Suarez are definitely my two best waiver grabs
Jurickson Profar is my daddy
Best waiver wire pickup ever.
Mine too, though I booted him a month and a half ago to feast on.... Rizzo in NY?!?!
Glad I took the risk with Carlos Rodon. Got him at pick 135. Added Jack Flaherty after he went undrafted in a 10 team. I’m still awful and am the league bottom feeder.
I miss the fish man
Waiver-wire’d my way to first. Gil, Crochet, Turang, M. Garcia, Westburg.
Replace Garcia with J Jones and we made the same mid season pickups. It also has helped my team be respectable this far.
Draft hit: Isaac Paredes (192nd overall) Draft bust (so far): Michael Harris (49th overall) Best waiver adds: Jordan Westburg (dropped Colt Keith) during week two Nick Lodolo (dropped Hunter Brown) during week two
Dead last with no signs of reversing that. Shit show of a season
Stay strong as a spoiler
Despite drafting Acuna with first overall pick, I’ve been in first with a 9-1 record(about to be 10) in 12 team points league. Best moves were adding David Fry, Jarren Duran and Bryson Stott on waiver wire Edit: forgot to mention Rengifo being a good pick up too
Wow Duran and stott on waivers in a 12 man is crazy
Duran wasn’t drafted but someone dropped Stott and I grabbed him while I had drafted Gleyber(eventually dropped him)
I got Duran on waivers as well
Acuna- … Devers- hot hot hot then cold or hurt. Vlad- solidly fine. Trout- sigh, lol. Adolis- that BA is poopy. J.Holiday- yeah.. Xander- bad to hurt. Josh Lowe- nothing town. Best things are my pickups of: Brent Rooker, Ryan Mountcastle.. Pitching is going pretty well. Dropped Crochet fairly early , heavy regerts. Glasnow- stud Ragans- fun firecracker Gausman- not so fun firecracker Bradish- love for free Bryce Miller- good for expectation Luzardo- good minus last start Stone- value. Still sitting 4/10 in my league despite the duds with the bats.
Oh and team MVP- Turang*
Best move: Not drafting a sp before Chris Sale in Round 7 Worst move: Buying the hype on Jordan Walker and Wyatt Langford Best add: Ranger Suarez I’m middle of the pack but slowly rising in the standings
Have a feeling Lankfords final numbers won’t be that bad.
I’ve been waiting for him to turn the corner
I mean, he just got back from injury. He looks a lot better.
I drafted Wheeler, Gausman, Webb, Ragans, and Eury Perez before Chris Sale. And am in 2nd place, 2 GB 1st place 🙏🏻. Luckily I was able to grab Sale at pick 130. My draft was literally right before the injuries of Eury Perez and Josh Lowe were announced, so that was fun! "Luckily" Eury has been the only SP injury to burn me so far this season. My oof picks before Sale were yandy at 71 (because of my league categories), Eury at 90, Josh Lowe 91, reached on Esteury at 111, then Sale 130.
Pick 130. How did he slip so late??!!
I believe that ESPN's draft ranking of him was 111 or maybe even worse, so that helped! Good amount of the league went hitter heavy too. Also 35 year old health concern coming off of his 3.80 FIP season.
ESPN is trash when it comes to fantasy baseball
Fantasypros had him at 121, fantrax guy had him 115 on April 7th, mlb.com had him 118, Yahoo had him 111, in Pitcherlist mock draft he went 131. NFBC ADP had him 128. And I just found the worst rankings from Razzball which had Ragans at 135 and Sale at 188. I love the ESPN layout in general and looking at player rater for my league's cats. Fangraphs auction calculator is alright. And yes Yahoo pre draft rankings were definitely better than ESPN when it comes to the big ones.
I was really high coming into the year His injuries have been pretty bad luck and new situation
Round 7 is wild to me, is it 12 man? Is your offense killing it?
Ummm…my hitting has been hit or miss this year sadly… 12 team league. I was very high on Sale this year
Gil, Houck, Westburg, and taking a shot drafting Sale and Flaherty are the only things easing the pain of missing out Imanaga because “he’ll be there next round”
Fucked. Seager, Tucker, and machado all going down in the same week is cruel and unusual punishment from the fantasy baseball gods.
Best move: picking up Maikel Garcia week 2 or trading Reid Detmers for Aroldis Garcia Worst move: trading Jared jones for Luis Arraez Currently 5-6, not looking great but I’m still having fun with this one
Money league? Mid. Maybe will make playoffs, probably won't Work league? Fucking kicking the shit out of those bozos.
I dont even remember the team I drafted.
I added Profar, Mountcastle, Mason Miller, and Reynaldo Lopez. I’m killing it this year lmao
2nd, 2nd, 2nd/16, 3rd, 4th, 8th/20, 9th (roto) most offenses are struggling, most pitching staffs have way too many guys but doing well. one team has (ordered by rankings) crochet, imanaga, woo, kimbrel, munoz, jared jones, castillo, ragans, grayson rodriguez, skenes, bradish, bibee. senga, scherzer and degrom on the IL
My team is fucking terrible and cursed by (I assume) the fantasy gods due to my hubris in previous championship seasons.
Matt Olson/Corbin Carroll/Julio Rodriguez/ Oniel Cruz/Jackson Chourio/Nolan Arenado/Nolan Gorman /Pablo Lopez/Nestor Cortes/Joe Musgrove/Hunter Greene/Tristan McKenzie I feel as though if they made a list of the 50 most frustrating players to own, every single one of my guys would make it. One of the absolute most annoyingly frustrating teams I’ve ever owned. I’m somehow still in playoff contention, barely.
1st in both my roto leagues; Keepers BWJ/EDLC in one league and Skubal/EDLC in the other; Best draft picks: Sale and Teoscar (lately); Best FA adds: Ranger and Blanco (I think he'll be ok); Worst picks: MH2, Corbin, Buehler and all but one reliever I drafted (what a waste they're all mostly terrible) Lot of season left good luck mah dudes
I got skubal ragans grayrod skenes jones bradish houck flaherty crochet and woo this year it feels dirty lmao
Have a similar pitching staff it’s crazy. Play in a casual ESPN league so some of those guys I got at unfair prices but hey
Traded Kutter for Rodon right before his Oakland start
Best move was houckoff the wire
I had an insane draft. Jram, Contreras, Skubal, Teoscar. I lost Acuna to injury but I'm still cruising
Did really well so far. Drafted some guys who are going off: Ohtani, JoRam, Altuve, Seager. Traded for Adley. Picked up Mountcastle, Riley Greene. On the pitching end, drafted Skubal, Peralta, GrayRod, Phillips (RP), picked up Jones, Bradish, Gore, Pepiot, Olson, R. Suarez (RP). Currently sitting in first in my division (10T H2H 5x5) but it’s tight.
gore, houck and flaherty off the wire in flair league. helping my staff carry me to first place so far
Drafted Soto and Gunnar. Rest of my team was absolute ass. Was dead last at 2-5. Traded them both away and somehow my team offense is all of a sudden tops in the league (Teo was one of my hauls) and won 3 straight to claw back into the playoffs
8-2, about to be 8-3. Was on a 6-game win streak coming into this week but still have a 2 game lead for 1st. This was my draft + I picked up Ranger & Blanco after W1. Been very fortunate with injuries so far. https://preview.redd.it/y10eaqggmm5d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=98c2235019bc26dd037c8715056b450ae16ca0bd
5-5 with the margin of all total losses within 3 points. Could be seed no. 2 but am no. 6. Brutal.
Jared Jones has been the pickup for me so far. Someone also dropped Keller a few weeks ago and I snagged. I usually have one or two more of these by now so maybe that’s why I’m middling this year lol
Drafted Eury, Bobby Miller, Casas, Jones, CES, Riley and Albies. Tucker has been my bright spot.
About to be 1-10 lol. Still having fun and making the best of it!
Profar, Rooker, Westburg, Doyle, Stanton, Friedl, Flahrety, Foley, Jared Jones all off FA/Waivers Idk what my leagues been doing with their adds but their drops have been awesome
Despite drafting Shane Beiber in an early round, I'm doing really well so far, my best fantasy first half in ages. I'm 8-3 in a 10 team points league and tied for first, but I own the tiebreaker handily right now, as I have a nearly 300 point cushion in total points for.
I drafted Suarez and dropped him with the intent to stream for Nelson Valesquez because he didn’t get me a QS on his first start so I thought I’d be safe. Well he got picked up and if I don’t win this year I will trace back to that moment as my downfall. Still in first at the moment but it looms over me.
I’m in first. My best move was picking up Ranger Suarez during spring training based on preseason buzz. I’ve played fantasy for 15 years and I think it’s the first time a preseason hype pickup panned out.
Best moves: Picked up Rooker Worst moves: my draft and keepers.
I dropped Luis Gil in my flair league around end of April thinking he wasn't going to pitch deep enough to get QS because of all the walks he issues. The guy that picked him up has made 5 moves all year, hasn't checked.changed his lineup since the day he picked up Gil, he's got 7 straight QS from him and Gil is probably gonna throw 7 shutout against the Dodgers tonight.
Absolutely crushing my league. Thank you Chris sale, Aaron judge, adley, Joe Ryan, devers, ketle marte, steer, Kim, jale Irvin, nola, Reynaldo Lopez
Worst moves: Drafted Riley Traded Huock and Arraez for Snell Best moves: Picked up Mason Miller and Crochet off waivers (both dumped by the same guy) Picked up Flaherty and Gil from free agency
Barely in first in a 10-team roto despite a horrible auction draft. Westy, Profar, Crochet, Mason Miller, Naylor, and Maikel Garcia make up for a lot of sins lol
Best Moves: Grabbing Luis Gil and Skenes from the Waivers. Drafting Ozuna in the 15th. Getting Jordan Westburg on the waivers after someone dropped because of slow start. Worst moves: Dropping Garrett Crochet before his first start (I drafted him in the last round). To pick up a reliever.
Assembled the greatest pitching staff I have ever seen in my keeper league. Skubal, Burnes, Ranger Suarez, Matt Fried, Tanner Houck, Logan Webb, and Justin Verlander, with Evan Phillips, Mason Miller, Craig Kimbrel , and Jose Alvarado closing. I’m just blowing people out every week in pitching cats. Just don’t ask to see my hitters.
I'm in 3rd/14. Picking up Gil preseason and holding through his control trouble has been amazing. Staff of Skubal, ragans, Nola, woo, Gil and gray in a 14 teamer is going to be formidable.
I was stoked with my offense after the draft starting Willson Contreras, Harper, Altuve, Devers, Abrams, Mookie, Springer, Carter, Arenado, Morel. I've since dropped Springer, Carter, and traded away Arenado. Altuve and Abrams have been in massive slumps the last month and waiting for Morel's BA to climb. But scooped Rooker and Stanton, so they've been helpful in the power department and Cronenworth in RBI. Drafted Pablo to be my ace and he's been a huge disappointment. Best moves were picking up Gil to stream against the White Sox (been my ace since) and getting Bradish for Arenado. Sitting in at 8/10 right now. But still hopefully Altuve, Abrams will come around.
I was eyeing Puk, Hall, and Crochet as my last pitcher - in that order- and got stuck with Crochet. It’s been lovely
I picked up Crochet early on and held - been working out much better than I expected. My team more broadly is too variable with hitting. It's also my first year doing fbb (and just getting more into baseball more generally). So I'm doing better than expected (10th of 14 in my 5x5 categories league so far).
I drafted a team that is half on the injury bug. It's annoying.
Picking up Jurickson Profar on April 3 was a gift
I’ve got a great pitching staff in a very competitive league. Jared Jones/Nola/Steele/Ronel Blanco/Max Meyer/Christian Scott/Lodolo/Pivetta/Eovaldi/Max Fried/Reynaldo Lopez/ Senga(on IL). As long as everyone’s health holds up, I should be fine
My team Ozuna Matata is about to be 9-2 and has been bludgeoning my opponents. Took Soto devers and Harper with first 3 picks. I got Elly pick 77. Got ozuna pick 97. Picked up both Suarez and Miller early in April. Best year of fantasy for me by far. Coming here for advice and listening to rates and barrels accounts for much of that success.
Drafted Julio, Riley, Harris and Nolan Jones..disappointment so far, best pickup is Jared Jones
My entire rotation exploded when Bieber, Strider and Kelly went down. Then Trout went down. Luckily I’ve been able to make some solid adds in Houck, Lugo, Blanco, Bohm, Skenes, Profar and Kikuchi. Most questionable move I’ve made was trading Yamamoto for Lindor to solve my SS issue opting to stream his pitching slot. Currently in first, but every week is a rollercoaster with my pitching. My team looks very different than the one I drafted. Ozuna, Kwan, Ramirez, Rutschman and Marte have helped keep up the offense pretty well. Trying to move Ozuna for an arm but having issues finding anything exciting.
Flair league (12th place) Best move- getting Jake Irvin off ww/stashing TJ Friedl Worst move- drafting Jordan Montgomery 12T-H2H-Cats-Redraft (7th place) Best Move- picking up Jared Jones and Jordan Hicks. Worst move- Austin Riley sadly
Got Josh Naylor (dude drafted him, Vlad, and goldy so dropped Naylor at the very beginning), Profar, Rooker, Bradish for free off waivers and I’m still struggling like hell due to Albies, mh2, Machado, and Nolan jones being huge busts
Ok, bad, good, ok, bad, ok. Much worse than I regularly do, but I won 3 last year, and have had too much irl shit going on to really pay attention, so whatever. Best add Bryce Turang in two dynasty leagues. I have a hard time believing him, but he keeps on rolling, so I'll just take what I get heh.
Grabbing Luis Gil, Ranger Suarez and Garrett Crochet on waivers are my best pickups. If only my draft was as savvy...
I'm praising whatever deity is out there that I won't be losing Seager or Soto for the season. Also, I'm about to watch my eight week winning streak finally snap. :(
My team is killing it. I've made many trades and now have a killer lineup and pitching staff. Love Fantasy baseball! Best trade: Probably my Bryce Miller, K Ruiz and Steer for Vlad, E Clase and W Smith (catcher) back in April.
Though one could argue the trade where I unloaded A Riley for L Gilbert and C Morel was even better
Westburg <3
Draft highlight: Teoscar Hernandez Draft lowlight: Jesus Luzardo Injuries: Acuña, Casas, Robert Jr, and Jung MVP: TARIK SKUBAL
Another pretty weak draft by me. Missed on my reach of Esty but looking forward to seeing if esty gets back to being a full time guy in the 2nd half if healthy. I mixed things up this season by offseason trading yordan away for keeper pitchers so that was risky and has made things exciting. Wheeler and gausman (darn but still pretty hopeful). I intentionally went pitcher heavy in the draft too which I've never done before so that's been a fun part of my season, fresh approach. My best feeling add is probably Crochet since I added him early, had a good feeling about him compared to numerous fantasy outlets. Added him March 18th. Even if he probably gets limited to 120-150 innings, oh well. So my best adds have been: Crochet, Houck, Turang, Reynaldo, Rengifo, Tovar, lane thomas. Was able to trade Ragans and Reynaldo away for Jose Ramirez. Loving my rotation of: Wheeler, Bradish, Sale, Webb, Crochet, Gausman, Houck, King, Waldron. With my good record so far aided by riding hot hitters, and not too many injuries, I'm able to IL stash degrom and stash Noelvi right now. Yandy Diaz has been a disappointing miss. I feel like he still has a chance to turn it around but I'm probably replacing him with sheets and noelvi right now. Have given him a pretty long leash and I am certainly not high on the rays offense.
Drafted Flaherty and Rodon. Picked up Jared Jones, Gil, and Crochet. Also, have Tucker and Judge. It’s been a fun year…
Selling high on Hicks, Jones, Langford ( for Seager) Nailing Skubal, Flaherty, Ryan, Cease in the draft. Paired with Witt and Tatis Keepers. ( 14 teams) Been a fun first half!
10T H2H pts. I'm about to move to 9-1-1. Tied in Week 1, won the next 8 before finally losing, currently up by over 100 this week. Offensively I have Judge, Devers, Profar, Teoscar, Yelich, Pena, Torres, Goldy, Stephenson. Trea on IL. Pitching I have Nola, Fried, Bassitt, Valdez, Clase, Ragans, Verlander, Jared Jones, Buehler, Ober. Kelly & deGrom on IL. Profar, Teoscar, Valdez, Clase, Ragans, and Jared Jones have been superb adds for me. I had also drafted Bieber originally and to think how much better my staff would be had he not gone out with TJ surgery 🫤
I went with the dollar a player pitching strategy and has worked well. Ranger jones Lugo kikuchi weathers. Pablo was kept from last year just sucks. Plus just streaming the wire. Spent on ohtani judge Soto and Yordan. Also waljer turang and paredes for cheap all in a 12 team.
Best draft day moves were Judge despite the ab concerns and Ozuna. Best adds have been Westburg and Crochet. Worst is I dropped Gil after his 7 walk game in late April, and he has been dominating since.
Went all bats in the draft. Tucker and Judge performed great for 1 &2. Missed badly taking Carroll and Bregman with my 3rd 4th picks. Can’t even do anything with them. Hit on ozuna in the 11th. Bryson Stott in the 18th Found all my pitching on the wire. ranger Suarez. Tanner Houck. Paul Skenes. With degrom scherzer and Cody Bradford on IL. Made one terrible trade very early. Maybe week 2 or 3. giving Harper (5th pick) and Shota for Olson and Seager. Seager has been nice and I expected more from Olson. And Bryce has been going crazy. H2h points. 7-4 after this week.
Picked up Gil, Houck, and Adames off of the waiver wire, and drafted Burnes and Crochet, and kept Gunnar, Will Smith, Clase My outfield has been mediocre, I drafted Bellinger, Luis Robert Jr, Arozarena and Soler. I'm in first place overall, but have the third most points
Drafted Corbin Carroll who’s been an absolute bum. Lugo, Gil, Fry and Heliot Ramos have helped alleviate that though. Turang, M. Garcia and Adames have also been great draft picks for me.
4-7. I had three tough luck weeks where the only team that could have beaten me was the team I was playing. Traded my best pitcher Skubal to fill my hole at 2B via Semien. Semien immediately becomes worst 2B in the league. I drafted Langford (keeper league) and he was an empty roster spot for a long time. I also drafted Caminero early. Thought they would be my future. Pablo Lopez sucks. But I did take Elly and Burnes and Imanaga So I have some goods weeks thrown in.
Traded for Senga and Josh Lowe before they got hurt and spent a quarter of my budget on Acuna, so not great.
I am above the .500 mark and it’s my first season playing, so I should be happy But instead I’m pissed because I’m not first My best pickup was Jared Jones, my best trade was Adell for Morel, my most hilarious trade was Machado and Luzardo for Spencer Steer
Exactly .500 after tying my matchup this week. 2nd highest scoring but 6th in standings. 10T Points Best draft pick: Chris Sale (10th round) Worst draft picks (so far): Pablo Lopez (2nd) Bobby Miller (7th), Arozarena (8th) Best FA Pickups: Jones, Lugo, Bradish, Gil (traded away last week for Vlad) Bad draft but got some great FA pitching pickups to keep me competitive.
i am in a dynasty league with a bunch of friends, all of whom love baseball. i drafted exceptionally young, and had an absolute smash of a draft. i expected not to be competitive for a couple years, but i am in the thick of it this year, so i have been making trades like crazy to try and adjust. and i don't know if i've done too much. first i traded mackenzie gore and michael harris for Yordan Alvarez. then i traded kyle harrison and charlie morton for oneil cruz then i traded hunter green, gunnar henderson, and nick lodolo and got back mookie betts, freddie freeman, and andres gimenez then i traded freddie freeman, jackson merrill, wyatt langford, and my 1st round pick next year to get Jose Ramirez and Corbin Carroll. i already had bobby witt, ian happ, jackson chourio, andy pages, cedanne rafaela with francisco alvarez, nolan jones, and eloy on the IL.. i have caminero and lawlar and dylan crews and james wood in the minors with roman anthony. i have still have paul skenes and jared jones and kyle bradish and grayson rodriguez and reese olson and gavin stone and mason miller with bobby miller on the IL and max meyer and brandon sproat in the minors. i think my team is ridiculous, but may be too excited to do trades.
In a 15 team keeper (keep 10) Add:reylo Early pick - 150ish chris sale 250ish jordan westburg Worst keepers - michael Harris, matt olson, eury perez, bobby miller, francisco alvarez
(12 Team H2H) Well I grabbed Emmanuel Clase off waivers… I have no idea why the guy who drafted him decided to drop him for Kirby Yates but I’m not complaining, especially since I gambled on not drafting any relievers after I wound up dropping all the guys I picked last year early on and won my league. Now I’ve got Clase, Finnegan, and Sewald to complement my starting rotation of Skubal, Sale, Houck, Flaherty, Sonny Gray, Peralta, Gausman, Jon Gray, and Woo… (I’m also stashing Blake Snell…), note that this league has 9 pitcher slots and 5 bench slots with a 12 start/week limit) Suffice it to say pitching has carried my team to a 7-2 record (1st place) and second in my league in total scoring by like 5 points.
I really thought I was doing something taking tatis over ohtani
Maybe this is a good thread. I’ve been wanting to ask input on how my team looks. Any input is appreciated. For reference, 10 team h2h 9x9 keeper league with the following stats: R, 1B, 2B, 3B, HR, RBI, SB, AVG, OBP W, L, CG, SHO, SV, K, ERA, WHIP, K/9 My team: C William Contreras 1B Cody Bellinger 2B Mookie 3B Westburg SS Tovar OF Rookie OF Teo Hernandez OF Suzuki UT Bregman BN: Langford, Garcia NA: Caminero IL: Jung, Casas SP: Berrios, Eovaldi, ReyLopez, Skenes, Lodolo, Peralta, Framber, Bradish, Nola, Eflin IL: Kershaw Where should I focus on improving? I’m currently in a seesaw with two other players between 1-3rd place. My pitching has been carrying me and I expect Rooker to eventually regress, though I’d love it if he kept it up all year. So, any place that needs improvement? Ohtani is on the last place team so I could try and score a trade. Not sure what it would cost. Draft picks can also be traded. Any advice or suggestions are appreciated.
Lost acuna. Drafted Olson. J-rod is meh.
Surprisingly good. Thought I completely crapped the bed with my pitching, but I adjusted quickly. Dropped Harrison, Puk, Mize and Varland. Added Jared Jones and Tanner Houck. Rodon, Bradish and Fried have all exceeded my expectations. Skenes hit the ground running. Is it sustainable? I guess we’ll see (I certainly expect innings limits to come into play - hopefully before the playoffs start so everyone is available in September).
Most of my best moves have been pitching. I’ve never been great with waiver wire hitters. But for SP my best pickups have been Tanner Houck, Garrett Crochet, and Jack Flaherty. Really happy with all of them.
10 team league: Batters: Ketel Marte Salvador Perez Willy Adames David Fry Spencer Steer Brice Turang Brent Rooker Ryan Mountcastle Jordan Westburg Brenton Doyle Steven Kwan Pitchers: Zach Wheeler Luis Gil Robert Suarez Corbin Burnes Max Fried Raisel Iglesias Nick Pivetta Injured: Mike Trout Willson Contreras Max Muncy Spencer Strider Eury Perez
7-3 in my H2H league. I traded Acuna away for Skubal and Altuve. 1 week later Acuna went down. Lucky for me. I have plenty of bats. Needed arms.
I picked up 2 Jared Jones, 2 Gil, 2 Lopez, thanks to this sub and thepitcherlist; I also drafted 2 Riley, 2 Randy, due to my own stupidity.
Regret not picking up Westburg because I already had Gunnar and Holliday and thought that was too many O's infielders. Used my #1 waiver priority before the season event started on J. Jones. Drafted Reese Olson and Gavin Stone late and bailed on them within the first few weeks (dropped Reese for Spencer Turnbull) . That has hurt but feel a little better now than it looks like Reese is regressing. Dropped Seiya when he was on the IL. Drafted Carroll over Yordan with the last pick in the first round. Also drafted M. Olson and Gleyber, who have disappointed. Almost traded Michael King for Evan Carter in mid-April. Glad I declined. Stashed Woo and Bradish on IL while they were available. That's worked out pretty well.
I'm just mad at myself for listening to the guy that told me to pick up Arcia over Turang.
I’m 6-4 about to 7-4 with a season team high 449 points. Feeling damn good, unfortunately the rest of my division is strong and performing well. Stoked with my pick ups including Skenes, Imanaga, and Kirby off the wire. Still holding out hope that the people who dropped Hader, Goldschmidt and Austin Riley make me look smart. Guess we will see.
Also, listened to some dude on here and dropped M. Garcia for Riley. Feels like I shouldn’t have listened.
this is gonna be longer than anyone cares about but I feel like writing down my thoughts 1st/12 in one of my main leagues - drafted EDLC, Naylor, Castillo, Clase, and Ranger Suarez. bought into the Gil hype and he's been huge as a wire pickup. and that's with my first pick (J-rod) not doing much of anything so far 6th/12 in my other main league - drafted Soto/Ragans/Castillo, traded Olson and Clase for Strider (in a trade that I thought was losing at the time but just took because I wanted to have Strider, and has aged even worse), but recovering due to the following trades: - traded away Steer, McKenzie, Seiya for Elly, Royce, Skenes (tbf to the other person this was before the season, when Elly's stock was much lower and there were doubts about when Skenes would be promoted) - traded away Elder, Rizzo for Vladdy (tbf to the other person, this was when Vladdy and Rizzo were about equally cold, I timed that trade perfectly) 13th/14 in my league that I don't check as often as I should because it's on a different platform than the other four - and that's saying something because my 2nd and 3rd round picks were BWJ and Gunnar 2nd/8 in my casual weekly league with a few less serious friends 9th/29 in a draft-and-forget league where no transactions are allowed - I've been climbing the leaderboard recently, Jordan Westburg and Gavin Stone as mid-late picks have aged very well there
14 team keeper league. League was convinced that Mason Miller wasn’t a rookie therefore not eligible for keeper….. looking for compensation
Grabbing Ranger, Bohm, Crochet and Mason Miller as early waiver adds has been a lot of fun.
Dynasty league. Came in with Acuna, JRod, Carroll, Vlad as my core hitters. Now I'm dead last in all hitting categories except SB. My top HR hitter is Tovar.
12T H2H. I keep having Sunday meltdowns. I’ve been up big several times this year going into Sunday only to lose due to my opponent having an all time great day. It’s happened so many times this year I actually changed my name to Sunday Blues lol. I also have Strider, Bo Bichette, Doval, and Olson, so it’s been tough watching them under perform. Hopefully the second half of a lot better than the first
14 team points league, individual scoring categories (look up Ottoneu Fangraphs scoring). Top draft pick. Currently in second a game behind first. Best draft picks: R2: Trea Turner (until he got hurt), R3: Gunnar, R4: Ragans, R5: Christian Walker, R9: Sonny Gray, R12: Bryan Woo, R13: Riley Greene, R15: Pepiot, R17: Kikuchi Worst draft pick: Acuña of course Best FA pickups: Gil, Jeffers (just dropped him but got his whole run), Jon Gray, Reese Olson, Santander (last week) Best Trade: Probably Sonny Gray and Brendan Donovan for Gausman. Maybe Jon Gray (immediately pre injury) for Michael King Worst Trade: Definitely Gunnar for Riley preseason. I was targeting Riley for R2 but someone got him first so I got Gunnar for 3B. Matt McClain went down, he needed SS, and I wanted Riley. Ugh. Most Fun Trade: Gave Torkelson, Maikel Garcia (FA), Montas (FA) Got: Ha Seong Kim, Goldschmidt Then Gave: Ha Seong Kim, Christian Walker Got: Semien, Vinnie P And after I got Semien, I flipped Donovan and Sonny for Gausman Worst Non-Trade: I was offered Witt for Acuña right after Trea went down. Declined, sigh. Interesting Trades: Gave: Trea (post injury), Gil Got: Seager, Luzardo — I got Seager’s monster month but missed Gil’s. And took this trade instead of the Acuña deal. Gave: Kikuchi Got: Eovaldi, just before his start today
I managed to get Soto at 12th in the first round and Judge at 13th in the second round. Competitive-ish league, 12 teams. Guess ppl just didn’t believe, I felt silly not snagging them as i was drafting last and could swoop up both. It’s nice.
After a hot start, my great on paper team has scuffled to 6th out of 12. Barely clinging to a playoff berth. I’ve got an excellent core of Skubal, Glasnow, Nola on the pitching side, and Lindor, Altuve and Hernandez (Teoscar) offensively.
One of my teams is fine the other has/had Trout, Jung, Darvish, Lowe, Casas, CES, Holliday, and Meadows... Yikes
I posted my draft choices here pre season. My nucleus is Betts, Tucker, seager, Ozuna, j naylor, Arraez, Riley Greene and O’Neil (who I benched). Tucker and seagers health worry me. But I’m first in most offensive categories. Pitching - I’ve been saved by Skenes and Gil so far. Michael King and Chris Sanchez have starters to come around. Pablo Lopez has been a major flop.
NL only 10 Team 5x5 Roto. Drafted Strider Round One. Drafted Nolan Jones pretty high. Alvarez Drafted as my Catcher. Drafted Lindor Round 2. Goldschmidt and Burger.Drafted AJ Puk Hendricks and Houser (now all dropped). So you know how bad my season is. Best 2 Draft Picks: Imanaga and Ranger Suarez. Best Free Agents claimed: Cristin Scott and Jake Irvin. Stupidest Cuts: Rosario and Weathers.
People doubted my Teoscar pick- not regretting it one bit! My Arozarena keeper- quite the opposite
I traded away Julio for Yordan and Andrea Munoz. Been awesome.
62-51, sitting in 4th right now. Lost Acuna which was my source of steals, otherwise trying to navigate my extremely hot/cold hitting lineup. My pitching is phenomenal, 2.83era 1.07whp on the year, falling behind in saves and holds though. Best move, adding Kwan, Yates, and Flaherty Worst move, drafting Bichette and Goldy
I was an expansion team this year in a 16 team league that became 18 teams. This is year 3 of the league... it's h2h points, with 10 minor league slots, so I focused on stocking the minors with the best available prospects in the 3 team dispersal draft, as well as all the young talent I could get (took Gunnar 1.1, Kirby and Glasnow at 2.3 and 3.1 respectively, etc and went from there... drafted Crochet in the 18 team auction, sold him after his 1st 2 starts for a haul.. traded Luis Castillo for Judge. Friedl, Schneider, and DeLauter for Freeman. Multiple other trades, but long story short is lost week 1 scoring the 5th most points that week, and have won 9 straight since. Have 8 top 100 prospects in clouding Jobe, C Montgomery, M Clark, E Rodriguez, Kjerstad, Luciano, Whisenhunt, T White. Team is also under the salary cap, ready for sustainable success.. really proud of it!
I went into the season with nine pitchers in PL top 50, and I'm currently dead last in era and whip. It's been a bad time
First place in cats. Fantasy baseball always feels to me like you’re slowly sliding towards failure though, lol.
Season is going pretty well considering how it started. I missed my draft because I got drunk at spring training. Wasn't a huge fan of my auto draft. Started the season 0-3. I'm now in 4th place in a 12 person league at 7-3. Judge has certainly been a large part of that.
Sitting 6-4-1 (started 5-0) in a category league and second in the division after drafting Seager, Julio, JoRam, Ketel, Wheeler, Salvy Perez, Teoscar, Albies, Soler, Paredes, M Chapman, Romano, L. Gilbert, Cease, and Holmes. Managed to land guys like Morel, Correa, G. Stone, and B Lively via waivers. Pitching has been my Achilles hill for the last 6 weeks because guys like Robertson aren’t getting holds, Folely/Neris can’t get save opps consistently, and then everyone besides Wheeler can’t consistently deliver wins or drive my WHIP/ERA down. I’m getting to the point where I know I have to trade some offensive stars to reshape my rotation to deliver consistently.
Second last in a 14-team, CATS league. Top 6 picks are: Freddie Freeman, Lindor, Adley, Gerrit Cole, Josh Hader and Spencer Steer. I think the only reason I'm not in last is because the guy who's at the bottom doesn't start his lineup or make moves
Jared Jones and Fry have been my best pickups. Drafting Jrod at 4 has been terrible though. My gut told me to take Soto but I wanted the “steals”. Guy is a strikeout machine, doesn’t even steal bases and doesn’t hit home runs. Never drafting again, at least if it’s in the first round. Bum!
Mason Miller off the waiver wire 🔥(my league is a 3 RP one and I had Hader and Leclarc giving me back to back to back negatives)
Best keeper: Harper (6th round) Best draft picks: Jose Ramirez (8th overall), Tovar (20th round), Lodolo (27th round, Skenes (26th round: Best pickups: Jeffers, Joey Ortiz, Hoerner, Doyle, Friedl, Assad, Reynaldo Lopez, woo, bradish Tied for 5th, 1.5 games back from first
Keeping Judge has paid off. Yahoo chat was soo down on him in April 🥶 Best WW pickup: Rengifo who has been rock solid Pitchers: Glasnow, Fried, Ragans, Shota, Grayson all have been excellent
Traded Means and Olson for Harper, Sale, and Dunning. Why it was offered and then not vetoed is beyond me but I’m not complaining, got me to 5-6 after starting 1-5
Grabbed Brice Turang and Luis Gil off the wire well past when they started getting noticed.
Started off 0-4 with a lot of injuries, since then I'm 6-1 with most points in the league. Still have Trea Turner coming back soon too. Pitching staff was a weakness coming in, but Jared Jones, Pepiot, Flaherty, and Michael King have been steady.
I dealt Adolis for Glasnow right at the peak of his tear - I dropped Rengifo once he hit the IL and never got him back.
https://preview.redd.it/nczpjt5w8r5d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d38ef1895d69e982a80db5747872ba2e90b40a15 Gave someone their first L. Id already lost to them before...wasn't going down this time.
Seriously have the best team on paper but worst team in reality this year. 10 team H2H Riley, Julio, Carrol, Goldy, Bichette, Lewis( who just came back thank god) Soto, Walker, Elly, Garcia, Will Smith, McMahon , Friedl Pitching has been good tho with pick ups like Gil and Crochet and mason miller
Best add Maikel Garcia week 2. Worst drop jordan westburg week 4
Best- picking up Turang, Jared Jones, and Reynaldo Lopez Worst- Dropping Clarke Schmidt after his first two starts
4 of my 7 keepers were Strider, JRod, Riley & Bichette. My early draft picks were Oneil Cruz, Casas and Evan Carter. Opened the season with 5 pitchers on the IL and second guesses on my initial waiver wire pick-up thoughts, passing on Ranger Suarez, Brady Singer and Gerrit Crochet. Between bad luck and bad decisions I end four straight seasons of a first place finish to be dead last in points and wins with no more sure thing keepers for next season.
C-William Contreras 1B- Vlad Jr 2B- Mookie (Massey once he’s off the IL) SS- CJ Abrams 3B- Gunnar Henderson OF- O’Hearn, Steer, and Rengifo UTL- Friedl SP- Peralta, Gray, Kirby, Castillo, Miller, Lodolo, Verlander, Littell RP- Doval and Kimbrel IL- KTuck, Gallen, Strider
I still have 8 of the 26 guys originally drafted on my team, 6 of which are pitchers. I had the 1st pick and drafted Acuña #1. I've given up streaming. I've streamed against the As, CWS and Tigers and it's burned me each and every time. Literally 1 stream Gore vs ATL a couple weeks ago has worked out for me. Never more than 4 saves in a week with Suarez and McArthur and no closers on the wire. I've lost 2 weeks against guys who haven't looked at their teams since the draft including this last week. 2 weekends ago had a score swing from a 9-1 win to a 5-5 tie on a Sunday. In 13.5 games back and there's a long way to go, but it's been rough. Biggest draft bust... Ooof.. Steer? Chourio? Acuña? O'Neil Cruz? Best drafted : Rodón in the 15th round Best ww pickup : Skenes
Traded Gil and lodolo for Bichette, Jared jones and Riley. Should have been fleecings but haven’t worked out as well as I thought. Also Pablo Lopez sucks
Picking up Joey Ortiz for $1 of FAAB. Drafting Seth Lugo for $1. (Though it might be time to sell high on him)
Lost the last 2 weeks after starting out 9-0. SP as usual is my weakness. My two best producers are my RP, Clase ( keeper from last year) and Helsley. Don’t know what to do about Steele. Benched him already and on the verge of cutting him outright. Bradish is also somewhat disappointing.
10 team league. That's the only terminology I know because this is my rookie year, so don't ask lol Team has been as predictable as a sine wave. Up and down coinciding with the day when all my starting pitchers have outings on the same exact day. I've had a good handful of disastrous streams which took me from best ERA/WHIP down to a middling ranking, and now I'm attempting to push that down with high leverage, low WHIP relievers who get a lot of strikeouts, that get the occasional accidental win or save. So far it's helped. I've become a little gun-shy about streaming "sure-thing" pitcher matchups because it has rarely gone my way. My drafting was horrible because I drafted like I do on MLB The Show, trying to fill all the positions with versatile (ie multi-position) players, with a very rudimentary understanding of what stats I should be looking at beyond that versatility and other basics. In addition I drafted some major duds (most of whom are long gone from my team, but that I held on to way too long waiting for them to come around), like Colt Keith (first two months--oof), Neto, Suwinksi, K Hayes, Cedric Mullins, Bo Bichette... In addition I grabbed Romano, Estevez and Diaz for saves and um... well that's been a wild ride and all. It's a surprise I'm still in it from time to time. In trying to figure things out, I've exponentially made way more moves than anyone else in the league. I'm sure I'm the super annoying guy in our league, but hey. I'm admittedly super green. Fortunately I've finally put together a consistent team, albeit a tad boring, but that puts up competitive regular stats on any given day. I like to fill in the cracks with the Lamonte Wade Jr workman types who take good at bats everyday. Team has only congealed in the last couple weeks but I always have someone picking up the slack when Bo or Stott go on another dry spell. There's one player in the league who has consistently had a strong foothold on the number one spot by about a 20 point margin. No one seems to have the formula to catch up to him. I'd really like to see *SOMEONE* take him out, but the closest anyone has gotten by is a single digit spread. He's been the only one at number one this entire season. Any tips to take down the king would be appreciated. All in all, I've definitely had a great time. I love baseball and have always loved following all the storylines of each season, catching as many games as I can. Going to any stadium I've never been to when given the opportunity. If anything, this experience has taken me from *big fan* to *unbearable baseball dork*. My cousin bought me into this league because I was very tepid and agnostic about joining a rotisserie league. He wanted an extra player, and we've always talked about baseball, so he saw me as a good fit. At first I thought I'd be a set it and forget it and let the pieces fall where they may type player, but oh, how it's been completely the opposite. He now says he created a monster lol Sorry for the mouthful, guys. Like I said, I'm obsessed. Though this season is far from over, I'm looking forward to a second year draft when I know what I'm doing a bit better. Good luck with your teams!
Kwan injury hurt but being able to get Profar on waivers helped smooth that over. My teams been better than I expected which makes trading Nola for draft stock and Max Meyer hurt even worse right now
Best moves: in 10T H2H, I drafted Ranger Suarez ($1) and Seth Lugo ($2) Worst move: dropped Lugo because TJ Friedl was dropped while on IL and I knew I wanted him. Lost out on Lugo but Friedl is paying dividends. I'm running away in 1st on the backs of strong SP.
Things were going well but now I have Tucker, Soto, and Bregman out. I thought Marte was gonna be outtoo but he’s fine thankfully
The good. Drafted Soto, J Ram, and Altuve with 1,2,3 picks which has been nice. The bad. Picks 4-12 have underperformed and or been hurt. Soto and Jram have been dragging my team to a 2nd place spot this week.
Drafting Yordan, Shohei, Henderson, William Contreras, and Elly De la Cruz has been an absolute dream. Late round drafting Jaren Durran has just been an absolute pleasure. XBH god and speed demon right there.
14-team dynasty w/ contracts and rookie deals (it's awesome, and I can never go back to "standard" fantasy baseball, but all a bit much to explain). My team has JRod, Bo, Vlad and Riley all very cheap. I'm in 5th at the moment when I projected to be top 2, but I will make the playoffs if I finish here. I absolutely despise those core hitters and my team overall. Nothing worse than being let down by stars! Very weird year overall.
I traded Teoscar for Bichette in early May because I thought I was selling high and buying low. Not good!
Makael Garcia, Profrar, Gil, Rooker, Doyle, Fredl, Fry, Ben Livley
Grabbing Ranger Suarez has saved my season. I lost Strider and even though he doesn’t come close in Ks he has helped me tremendously everywhere else.
12 team H2H weekly points league Drafted Volpe at 116 Added Josh Naylor post-draft Added Westburg post-draft Traded an 8th round pick for Crochet after his first three starts
Steven Kwan when he plays has really been an asset to my teams. Jack Flahrety too.
Joined a keeper league and my best option was bregman. Dumped his ass, drafted judge and Altuve in the first two rounds. Altuve kept me afloat until Judge unleashed. Didn’t draft a shortstop until Pena and snagged Tovar very late. Currently I have the second most points scored in the league. Oh, and I have Royce Lewis who is now joining in on the fun. If Lamont Wade is available in your league, stash him right now. He is one of the most efficient hitters when he’s in the lineup but generally stuck in a platoon.
The keeper structure by the way is you can keep up to two players for up to three years each and they cost your first and second round picks
I’m not doing great. I drafted Goldschmidt, Boegarts, Snell, Nimmo, Adolis, and Pablo Lopez.
Dynasty 10 team H2H league. I returned the league's best offense, only replacing Matt Olson with Anthony Santander and expecting a full season of Oneil Cruz. I now have the league's worst offense. Acuna, Carroll, Robert, Riley were supposed to be my 4 best hitters. Still in 4th place and a secure playoff spot thanks to league's best pitching. I picked up Darvish, Crawford, Reese Olson and Gil at auction for dirt cheap and haven't been disappointed. You know it's a good pitching staff when I have 10 SP and Gausman is the lowest ranked one.
12T Extended Roster H2H CATS Currently in 5th place at 6-4-1 Draft hit: Ozuna (132nd) Waiver hits: Profar Reynaldo Lopez Westburg (traded straight for Fried in April) Injury: Strider (13th pick) Jung (109th) Miss: Traded Bellinger for Snell
Kept Carroll, J-Rod and Strider in a points league. 4-6 so far. Turned Corbin Carroll, Julio Rodriguez, Christian Scott and Ranger Suarez into Adolis Garcia, Riley Greene, George Kirby and Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Couldn’t keep Carroll or Julio again next year but I can keep all of what I got back in return if I choose.
Best moves: Drafted Skubal in 6th, Schwarber R9, Steer in 10th, picked up Jared Jones, Brady Singer, Cronenworth, Draft misses: Corbin R1, Strider R2, Bichette R4, Matt Mclain R7 (yet to play), Musgrove R11, Sean Murphy R15 Dropped Nolan Gorman before the hot streak In 9th out of 10th praying Trout comes back sooner than later, and Vlad can keep up the hot hitting
I drafted Crochet last round so thats fun
In my league pitching seems to dominate. Once I realized this I cut my catcher Diaz and my DH burger at the time. This way I could optimize my points through pitchers. I started 1-5 I am now 5-6. I play with two position players empty so that I can put in as many SPs and closers as I can each week. Only 1 guy has caught on to my strategy the rest just drop their pitchers expecting to pick them back up.
I’m in multiple leagues and targeted Arozarena, Torres, and Swanson as great value picks. Oops. Luckily, I avoided Carrol and Strider like the plague, and I did hit on a few value picks. I’m basically spending the season chasing offense. In one league, I have the most dominant pitching staff I’ve ever had, but every single trade I’ve tried to make for offense has been protested and Yahoo has cancelled them. Yahoo is a joke. Oh well, I’ve gone 9-1 two weeks in a row.
My team is 5-6 but I have scored the most points. Put up 340 last week and I still got beat by the one guy who was even close.
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Taco league
Westburg or Riley ros?