BTS

The Drunks have been vanquished. L54 is going to be extremely tough, especially with Trout officially shut down.

Massive homer from Rosario. This is insane. Like 8 cats could still flip on a single inning or PA.

Goddammit, Trout is out again.

Not you

Big day today Drunks. It's basically a coin flip. Apparently Trout wants to DH today, and I'm really hoping he does.

Huh?

Keep your stupid political s*** to the Politics thread. Nobody wants to read it anywhere else.

E: not worth an argument. If you s*** up our thread again by posting in it you’re getting a week.

Oakland should fine him.

I dunno, I think that 2021 guarantee is more than he can expect. Last offseason he was non-tendered with an expected arb salary of 4.5M or so, and then signed a 1/3.5 with the Jays. After yet another lost season in 2019, you have to think he'd be thrilled to get 4M guaranteed in 2020, even it it came with a 4M team option in 2021.

Just re-up Shoe at least year's rate with a team option and buyout for 2021. 2019 - 3.5 M 2020 - 4M team option with 500k buyout. This year's injury wasn't an arm or shoulder problem, and he's a decent bet to provide some value from the back of the rotation. Take advantage of the injury to get a cheap option on his first FA year.

Kevon looney

Not sure if it's being discussed elsewhere, but Tim Mayza is getting TJS. Probably doesn't really hurt the team I guess.

Remember when we used to mock the FC or whatever it was called for being a bunch of our of touch old men and doing things like counting hits and batting average? Even they’ve moved to Fantrax.

The Angels won't DL him though. So enjoy not only losing the best player in baseball for the playoffs, but also letting his corpse sit on your roster and prevent you from at least replacing some of the counting stats. But Fantrax's look takes getting used to, which is far more important. Yes, this is my meltdown thread.

Like, the last note on Javy Baez in Yahoo states that he's not expected back in the regular season, but he's still not eligible for the DL. That's f***ing stupid.

This infuriates me because it's so f***ing stupid, and such an easy fix. They incorporated IR+ in their NHL leagues years ago. Giving MLB leagues the option to use the regular DL or the DL+ is a no-brainer. MLB teams don't use the IL in September, and it legit f***s with fantasy playoffs in a meaningful way if you can't DL players listed as DTD. Yahoo just does't give a f*** about making their service user-friendly for the dynasty crowd.

Jerami Grant

Just going to update the sheet, then I'll make my pick.

On the other hand, Alonso is 24, Alvarez is 22, and Bichette is 21. Tatis is 20, but he's also showing some red flags offensively and is being boosted significantly by a very high BABIP. Being an above-average hitter in MLB at 20 is still extremely rare. It just seems less impressive now because we saw two HoF track players explode onto the scene at 20 last year, and then to a lesser extent Tatis this year. We all expected Vlad to produce like Soto with the bat, but that was probably a case of expectations that were a bit too high. His performance might seem disappointing, but it's actually indicative of a guy who's going to mash at the MLB level. Where I think he's actually been disappointing is everywhere else. People were wondering out loud if his defense could approach league average and if maybe he was pretty quick given his size. Well, the defense is terrible, and he runs the bases like Wilson Ramos and Jose Abreu. There's no benefit of the doubt now that we've seen 500 PA of Vlad at his current size. He's going to absolutely bleed value on the bases, and at 3B if he stays there. He's too fat, and it hurts his value. If he doesn't lose weight, the most probable outcome looks a lot like what David Ortiz did most years, or what Nelson Cruz has done recently. Outside chance that the bat gets to Miguel Cabrera levels and he contends for MVPs, but you can't really expect that kind of progression.

lol, I was thinking the same thing. Definitely would have activated him with like 20 days left if the responsibility was mine.

Orgfiller resigning from a league that he commishes because a change that he could have forced through unilaterally wasn’t forced through would be... unusual.

Yeah, the response has been about 50/50. I think a significant majority would have to want to switch for us to disrupt the status quo. I’m considering the issue settled. That said, I think all you remain voters are very dumn and I hate each and every one of you.

Looks like progress has to wait at least another year. My 2019 Yexit campaign (thanks Laika) is dead in the water.

Took Lou Williams