Laika

I just don't have the time to do that right now. Too busy with s*** like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popov_v._Hayashi

Re-Announcement: I've set the league up as a keeper league this year. Select whichever of your 20 keepers are on your Yahoo imported end-of-year roster from 2014. Doesn't matter if it's 2 or 20 - we will manually add the remaining after the keeper deadline (if this doesn't work for whatever reason, we will just manually add all rosters). Feb 15th at midnight is keeper deadline. You should have your 20 selected in Yahoo and posted here or on ProBoards before then. Rule 4 draft starts on the 22nd. We'll still do 12 hour windows I think. You can post your cuts now if you want.

Forgot about Burnett. He looked like a huge bust but the Pittsburgh bounce-back made him worth / nearly worth the contract --> 12.4 fWAR would probably have been worth something approaching 80M in that time frame. Agree that I'd name Buehrle and Burnett (+ inflation) as the lower and upper limits.

James Shields is 33 years old this year. There's basically no precedent for a 33 year old pitcher getting something around 5/$100 unless you go back to Mike Hampton. Can anyone think of the biggest contracts given to pitchers aged 33 or older in their first year of the new deal? Cliff Lee - 5/$120 for his age 32-36 seasons (vesting option for age 37) Adam Wainwright - 5/$97.5 for his age 32-36 seasons. Cliff had three 6.5+ fWAR seasons in a row before his deal. Waino went 5.3, 5.6, (missed year), 4.1, 6.3 before his deal kicked in. Shields has never had a 5 WAR season, but in an 8.5 year career he's had 7 years between 3.5 and 4.5 fWAR. He's also the most durable looking SP in the league right now, more or less - pitched the most innings in baseball since 2007 (regular season) and the only SP with more starts is Verlander, who is kind of broken. The durability is a plus but the "wear and tear" is a negative. If he's a durable, 33 year old SP that is very good but decidedly not great, then what he is, essentially, is a sexier version of Mark Buehrle. If all we look at is fWAR (or RA9-WAR) and IP, Shields and Buehrle are almost twins. Buehlre got 4/$58 from Miami for has age 33-36 seasons. 4/$60 + some market inflation should be Shields' floor, assuming the market didn't overspend greatly on Buehrle (we've also seen lesser talents like Ervin Santana get something close to the Buehlre deal already this offseason). And as a "sexier" version of the same Buehrle type of talent, Shields can make a strong case for more money. A 5th year might be a major point of disagreement though between the Shields' camp and potential negotiating teams. But, if a team comes out and give's Shields 75M for four years of work, I'd say that that's basically his market value right now.

I could see him getting something barely better than the Garza contract. Maybe 4/60

It's weird and super rare that a 5'8" guy can have clean mechanics + throw with plus velocity as a SP. He's a unicorn!

Hmmmm I think Lindholm is quite good. Nice rebuild trade for Gourd, even if Baertschi is a bust (likely) and the second rounder isn't worth anything.

The impression I've been getting from him for the last few months is that he just doesn't really like interacting with most of the people on this message board anymore, including a chunk of LoD people. Can't really blame him.

Silvergun has been booted from the league for tardiness, and he will be replaced by an algorithm written by JFaS which is called: Computerization Hellbent On Darrell Extermination. CHODE Not the best name/acronym choice, IMO.

Silverdum

I'd give him $5.something but yeah, can't really justify it with the Phaneuf deal still there.

I'm hoping for McDavid in Buffalo. I think a Buffalo resurgence would be really good for the NHL. With the new lottery odds though, the Leafs could finish 21st-25th overall and still have a 5% - 7.5% chance of winning the lottery. The worst four teams lost about 14% to "the field" in the new weighting. Sum of worst 4 team's odds is now 54.50%, used to be 68.70%

How much does he want? He's a good defenseman and he's only 27. If they can get out of the Phaneuf deal somehow then it might make sense.

The Min is in! And he's not even last!

I'm not seeing an option to make the finals 2 weeks. We can have a 21 week season instead of 22 weeks though, so our finals week is the 24th week (Sept 21-27) instead of the 25th (Sept 28-Oct 4)

How about same day add/drops this year?

Coincidence. Their fancy stats have been better with him. Shooting% is like 3%, lol.

Yeah I feel like a lot of my cuts are pretty good, as far as cuts go.

These guys are cuts and are available for pick upgrades. Save yourself a waiver pick on one of them and send me a pick upgrade instead... Shae Simmons Jim Henderson K. Graveman A. Simon C. Ruiz A. Colome J. Kelly E. Cabrera C. Quentin T. La Stella M. Moustakas

We will deal with roster input. Just select any keepers that you happen to still own before the cutdown date, if you please.

What dates do you guys like for the cutdown and rule 5 drafts? Cutdown by Feb 15th at midnight, start the rule 5 on the 22nd? Not that it matters much. You can always cut before the deadline and the draft is offline so the start date is not a big deal. I rebooted the league as a "keeper" league so people can just select the keepers that they still own from the end of year rosters last year, and the commissioners will add the rest of your 20.

Yeah I missed your team. With Gallo and Sano, you'd be in that group. I might have one of the best farms as far as "playoff teams" go, but it's all arms so I'm not that excited about it.

wow my apologies. I thought you finished like 11th or something in year1 pretty "impressive" tear down of a playoff team, if you don't mind me saying so

Sammy has a pretty sick farm. Crawford, Tapia, Renfroe, Kolek, Pentecost, Chi-Chi, Robertson, Travis, Alfaro, Piscotty. Deep! Hard to beat Havok's top end of Buxton and Seager though. z3r0s has Giolito and Russell + some other relevant guys. Boxy obviously has a few elite prospects + a stockpile of high picks. At a glance, those might be the top 4 farm systems.

yeah your farm is not great for a cellar-dweller team. Seven guys that could be fantasy relevant but none of them are stud prospects (at least not yet. a couple have a chance to be).