A Very Darrelly Dynasty League

[Dr. Dinger]

Looks like Mike Zunino is for real, he's crushing the ball. I'm thinking 2017 is gonna be a 30 homer season.

 

I'd put your eggs in the A.J. Reed basket, that's a breakout that might actually happen.

[Boxcar]

Wow, Dominic Ficociello is for real, guys. Dude is crushing the ball, will probably go 20/20 at least this season.

[Laika]

Milwaukee could have one of the league's best fantasy OF

 

Braun: 30/15 with big slash

Broxton: 20/30 with walks

Domingo: 20 HR with walks

 

Add in a little Thames and Villar, and you've got a stew going.

 

Too bad they aren't playing fantasy

[Boxcar]

Wow, Jake Bauers is having an incredible spring, moonshot after moonshot. Too early to call him as ROY?

[Laika]

Jabari Blash has a 1.500 OPS this spring with five dingers. Post-hype rule 5 breakout and power star?

[Laika]

Jose Martinez is destroying baseballs this spring for St. Louis. Big minor league numbers in the past. Late bloomer? add add add buy buy buy

[Boxcar]

Looks like Fatt Adams is back, guys. 3 dingers and a .300 avridge to go with an OPS over 1. Whoever landed him in the late rounds is going to be laughing.

[Dr. Dinger]

Looks like Fatt Adams is back, guys. 3 dingers and a .300 abridge to go with an OPS over 1. Whoever landed him in the late rounds is going to be laughing.

 

He might actually be an interesting spec play, as I assume the Rockies are going to trade for him any day now.

[Boxcar]

Wow, where did Brock Stassi come from? How has this guy flown under the radar for so long? 4 dingers and a .400 avridge? Incredible, dude crushes the ball.

[BTS]

I don't really understand why Boxy is mocking people for being encouraged that a guy who hasn't played since breaking his hand has come back healthy and is showing signs that the gains last year may have carried over.

[Laika]

Anyway, real talk about Keon:

 

20/35

.225/.310

 

That's my prediction, and I suppose that's a pretty valuable CF in our OBP league.

 

But his "huge spring" is so utterly irrelevant.

[Boxcar]

I don't really understand why Boxy is mocking people for being encouraged that a guy who hasn't played since breaking his hand has come back healthy and is showing signs that the gains last year may have carried over.

 

Because getting excited over spring stats is retarded. I thought this was self evident but apparently not.

[Dr. Dinger]

I don't really understand why Boxy is mocking people for being encouraged that a guy who hasn't played since breaking his hand has come back healthy and is showing signs that the gains last year may have carried over.

 

Probably just because boxy gets triggered exceptionally easily and gets super bothered when other people have nice things. When you've had as much fantasy failure as he has, it's just natural to try to drag other people down.

[Dr. Dinger]

But his "huge spring" is so utterly irrelevant.

 

It's relevant insofar as it's better than seeing him K 50% of the time and do nothing. Nobody is expecting him to be Ken Griffey Jr based on Spring Training.

[Boxcar]

Probably just because boxy gets triggered exceptionally easily and gets super bothered when other people have nice things. When you've had as much fantasy failure as he has, it's just natural to try to drag other people down.

 

Watching you go on another one of your obnoxious "dinger helium guy" trips is annoying.

[Dr. Dinger]

Watching you go on another one of your obnoxious "dinger helium guy" trips is annoying.

 

Why? I already traded him. What is it to you? I am allowed to like players. I don't own any shares of Broxton so you can take your nefarious assumptions and be gone.

[Spanky99]

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[Laika]

Dinger, you should be pumping up Ryon Healy. You actually own him and he's way more gooder than Keon Broxton.

[Boxcar]

Why? I already traded him. What is it to you? I am allowed to like players. I don't own any shares of Broxton so you can take your nefarious assumptions and be gone.

 

What's it to me? I have to read it since I enjoy your dumb ass far too much for me to stick you on my IL.

[Dr. Dinger]

Dinger, you should be pumping up Ryon Healy. You actually own him and he's way more gooder than Keon Broxton.

 

I've pumped those tires a bit and no one cares. The projections don't know he changed his swing last year, so the boxies of the world will dismiss him out of hand.

[Dr. Dinger]

What's it to me? I have to read it since I enjoy your dumb ass far too much for me to stick you on my IL.

 

This is exactly like your fat person/scale argument. You may have to be fat, but you don't have to step on my scale.

[Boxcar]

I've pumped those tires a bit and no one cares. The projections don't know he changed his swing last year, so the boxies of the world will dismiss him out of hand.

 

I tried to pry Healy away from you earlier you dumb f***

[Boxcar]

This is exactly like your fat person/scale argument. You may have to be fat, but you don't have to step on my scale.

 

If you'll recall, I argued that fat people shouldn't have to look at a bigger number when they step on a scale.

[Dr. Dinger]

I tried to pry Healy away from you earlier you dumb f***

 

Learn how to spell dumn.

[BTS]

Because getting excited over spring stats is retarded. I thought this was self evident but apparently not.

 

March isn't devoid of useful information. When a guy displays that he's healthy after returning from something tricky like a broken hand, that's good. And as Dinger says, a high-variance player hitting the ball hard for a month is better than that same player making bad contact and striking out at a 50% clip. If, say, Devon Travis was healthy and mashing right now, people would rightfully be encouraged given a lot of the questions about him that lingered through the offseason.

[Boxcar]

March isn't devoid of useful information. When a guy displays that he's healthy after returning from something tricky like a broken hand, that's good. And as Dinger says, a high-variance player hitting the ball hard for a month is better than that same player making bad contact and striking out at a 50% clip. If, say, Devon Travis was healthy and mashing right now, people would rightfully be encouraged given a lot of the questions about him that lingered through the offseason.

 

whatever

[Fearthedoc]

Milwaukee could have one of the league's best fantasy OF

 

Braun: 30/15 with big slash

Broxton: 20/30 with walks

Domingo: 20 HR with walks

 

Add in a little Thames and Villar, and you've got a stew going.

 

Too bad they aren't playing fantasy

 

Colorado, Pittsburgh, Miami, Boston in that order.

 

Colorado has a nasty fantasy OF in Cargo, Dahl, Blackmon (with Parra off the bench).

[Dr. Dinger]

March isn't devoid of useful information. When a guy displays that he's healthy after returning from something tricky like a broken hand, that's good. And as Dinger says, a high-variance player hitting the ball hard for a month is better than that same player making bad contact and striking out at a 50% clip. If, say, Devon Travis was healthy and mashing right now, people would rightfully be encouraged given a lot of the questions about him that lingered through the offseason.

 

It's kinda funny how velo for pitchers in Spring Training is pretty widely accepted as an important precursor and yet since we don't have access to ST exit velo, it's assumed we can glean nothing from hitter performance. All we're doing is looking at the early performance of a hitter who showed elite exit velo last year and has the tools to be a fantasy relevant. Nobody is pumping up a one-dimensional AAAA DH, we're actually talking about a player who is locked into a starting role for the first time and has been talked about substantially by the analytics community this offseason.

[Cyborg]

Mitch Haniger is crushing baseballs and is actually good. Gonna have a huge year.

[Dr. Dinger]

Colorado, Pittsburgh, Miami, Boston in that order.

 

Colorado has a nasty fantasy OF in Cargo, Dahl, Blackmon (with Parra off the bench).

 

I might put Boston first of that group. Betts is unreal.