Baseball 2013

[CountDeMoney]

   That is an awesome find.

[Admiral Yi]

Quite well done.

[CountDeMoney]

Rate my ESPN fantasy team Hawt or Nawt.

10 team league, standard scoring, I was drafting 10th; I got the double dip with Fielder and Verlander with the 10th and 11th picks, so I did what I could with all that waiting in between double picks.

GangstaKitty's Knuckleballers (MEOW)

C   Joe Mauer, Min C, 1B, DH   
1B   Prince Fielder, Det 1B
2B   Rickie Weeks, Mil 2B   
3B   Ryan Zimmerman, Wsh 3B
SS   Jose Reyes, Tor SS
2B/SS   Erick Aybar, LAA SS   
1B/3B   Ryan Howard, Phi 1B   
OF   Jay Bruce, Cin OF   
OF   Desmond Jennings, TB OF
OF   Carlos Beltran, StL OF
OF   Torii Hunter, Det OF   
OF   Alfonso Soriano, ChC OF   
UTIL   David Ortiz, Bos DH

Bench   Kendrys Morales, Sea 1B, DH   

PITCHERS   
P   Justin Verlander, Det SP
P   Johnny Cueto, Cin SP
P   James Shields, KC SP
P   Jonathan Papelbon, Phi RP
P   Mike Minor, Atl SP
P   Edwin Jackson, ChC SP
P   Trevor Cahill, Ari SP
P   A.J. Burnett, Pit SP
P   Alex Cobb, TB SP
Bench   Clay Buchholz, Bos SP   
Bench   Jason Vargas, LAA SP   

[Ed Anger]

Waive the Boston shit.

[sbr]

Rate my ESPN fantasy team Hawt or Nawt.

10 team league, standard scoring, I was drafting 10th; I got the double dip with Fielder and Verlander with the 10th and 11th picks, so I did what I could with all that waiting in between double picks.

GangstaKitty's Knuckleballers (MEOW)

Pick 10 sucks, with all of the guys that come off the board between your picks you really have to take more chances than you would in other positions. 

My comments are probably only relevant if you are doing a weekly head-to-head league, your method is probably much better for a rotisserie league format where a balanced team is much more important.  You do seem to have a decent balance between speed and power.  You have a couple of guys who are doing to really hurt your batting average, but hopefully the rest of your team can pull them up.

It is hard to judge your team because it is so far from my normal philosophy (which is neither good nor bad).  I don't like pitchers in fantasy baseball and don't draft them high at all, I prefer to draft a bunch of stud hitters who play every day and MacGyver together a pitcher staff of late round boom or bust/rookies/older players/guys coming off injury and play the free agent and waiver wire market hard.  I also like to have 3-4 mid to low tier closers.

I pretty much punt the pitching ratio categories and try to win 3-4 offensive cats each week.  Then with 3-4 closers you should be in the running on Saves and then I try to win Wins and Strikeouts just through sheer numbers by streaming a bunch of trash from the waiver wire through the last spot or two in my rotation on a weekly basis.  It looks like you are punting saves though so that wouldn't work; maybe you could completely give up saves and trade Papelbon for another stick in your outfield.

[sbr]

Oh yeah.  Opening Day.   

[CountDeMoney]

Pick 10 sucks, with all of the guys that come off the board between your picks you really have to take more chances than you would in other positions. 

My comments are probably only relevant if you are doing a weekly head-to-head league, your method is probably much better for a rotisserie league format where a balanced team is much more important.  You do seem to have a decent balance between speed and power.  You have a couple of guys who are doing to really hurt your batting average, but hopefully the rest of your team can pull them up.

It is hard to judge your team because it is so far from my normal philosophy (which is neither good nor bad).  I don't like pitchers in fantasy baseball and don't draft them high at all, I prefer to draft a bunch of stud hitters who play every day and MacGyver together a pitcher staff of late round boom or bust/rookies/older players/guys coming off injury and play the free agent and waiver wire market hard.  I also like to have 3-4 mid to low tier closers.

I pretty much punt the pitching ratio categories and try to win 3-4 offensive cats each week.  Then with 3-4 closers you should be in the running on Saves and then I try to win Wins and Strikeouts just through sheer numbers by streaming a bunch of trash from the waiver wire through the last spot or two in my rotation on a weekly basis.  It looks like you are punting saves though so that wouldn't work; maybe you could completely give up saves and trade Papelbon for another stick in your outfield.

I dispensed with last year's strategy of trying to pile up Ks and SVs and ERA with relievers and closers, runs, RBIs, OBP and steals as far as sticks went;  didn't work out, and I finished 9th.  I went back to a more balanced team (scoring is daily, not weekly), since I've seemed to fare better in previous seasons with that approach.

I skimped on OF, since keeping an eye on guys getting hot on waivers is, IMHO, more productive than sacrificing than the every day position players.  I prefer doing that than trying to Kreskin pitchers like you do:  all it takes is one bad outing to totally fuck up a pitcher that only gets one start a week.  And OFs are a dime a dozen, I'll burn through them all season long.  You never know when you uncover the next 2011 Mike Cuddyer or something.

[katmai]

[Valmy]

Good old A-Rod.  Best thing to ever happen to Yankee haters (yes there is 2009 but every other year more than makes up for it)

[The Minsky Moment]

Why Jeffrey Loria was ever permitted to get near a baseball team is still one of the world's great unsolved mysteries.

[CountDeMoney]

Why Jeffrey Loria was ever permitted to get near a baseball team is still one of the world's great unsolved mysteries.

Does MLB require approval of the other owners for somebody to purchase a team, like the NFL?
Not that the NFL has ever done anything to stop assclowns with money to ruin franchises or anything, but still.

[derspiess]

Well it stopped snowing and the sun is out.  And it got above 40F.  Game isn't til late afternoon but so far so good

[CountDeMoney]

Watching the BoSox-Yanks; pretty ironical how they played the Imperial March from Star Wars during BoSox intros, and the Throne Room during Yankee intros.

I mean, really now:  just who is the Evil Empire here after all?

[The Minsky Moment]

Yankees opening day lineup would be lucky to score against a team of Ewoks.

[Syt]

Volquez for Padres is at over 45 or so pitches after two innnings.