Dr. Dinger

Here are the rules: http://www.bjmbleagues.com/#!rules/qf076

You're in a playoff spot and you're up 12-2 this week.

Velo is also up like 2 MPH. He's definitely been a season changer for me.

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Hmm, good point. GO BOXY!

Why yes I would like to acquire Cespedes.

I'd say owning Tanaka worked out pretty well for you. Mazara is going to be a Cargo-esque monster in the very near future.

I would also take first place, if I'm not mistaken. I'd prefer a Boxy/jfas split, but currently boxy is laying down a thrashing also.

An elite walk rate is great, but his line still only adds up to a 114 wRC+. That's not the kind of hitter you can sink $20M+ per year into when it comes with atrocious defense and major age-related decline risk.

VMart got 4/$68M, which is about equal with inflation. However he was younger and coming off a better season.

Wh... hw... who... hwow? how? WHAT?

Man, Bautista has really mangled his walk year. I never believed the $150M ask, but at this point, it might not even be half that.

I can see it now: stoner washes out of baseball and works a ski lift, then quits drugs and makes his glorious comeback as a one-dimensional slugger who bounces around a few teams while winning nothing of importance and not getting a major contract at any point. You write the screenplay and I'll get Seth Rogen to start doing CrossFit for the role.

xFIP pretty much just creams itself for high K guys while completely forgiving their HR and BABIP transgressions as bad luck and park factors. I think more and more we're starting to see with Statcast metrics like spin rate that BABIP outliers like Estrada and Pineda maybe have a lot more to do with their BABIPs (good or bad) than we thought even 2 or 3 years ago. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying extreme BABIPs won't regress over time, just that pitchers have more influence over them than we thought.

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Sadly, I think Gattis will be out of baseball soon anyway. Having C eligibility is nice for fantasy purposes, but IRL he's kind of a disaster of a player.

You'd be passing on the next Betances.

Tradesies-backsies Montas for Gattis?

Any reliever winning would be really gross IMO.

It's sort of a weak/muddled field this year in the AL. I think Kluber will take it.

Higher SwStr% than Chapman, Diaz, Miller, Britton. It's bizarre how sometimes pitchers can just halve their walk rate overnight and become elite. Something must have clicked for him.

Carl's Jr. Edwards is quietly morphing into an elite reliever.

Happ really shouldn't be in the conversation, but at this rate, he will be. If he lands at like 22 wins with an ERA under 3, the voters will blow their collective loads.

You don't really 'develop' an elite hitter like Bryce Harper, Kris Bryant, or Manny Machado. Those guys are generational talents who would have succeeded in any organization. To get a guy like that, you just need to be a terrible for several years and also a bit lucky. Or you can hit the 1 in a million jackpot and get Mike Trout late in the 1st round.

And what difference is that? We still have Travis for 6 years of control. Elite hitters get taken at the top of drafts, we haven't exactly had many high draft picks in recent years. Furthermore, why are we even talking about the supposed draft shortcomings of the AA and Ricciardi administrations? We are under a completely different regime now.