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Renewing might set everybody's notification settings to the default. You might have to move some sliders around in the wonderful Fantrax app

Yes you can. We've all played sports. Being down a game can actually be motivating. You can't at all say that a team being up 1-0 has any type of positive effect on them or the other team. It can't be said. You can't assume the direction of the intangibles. To assume a direction is to say that you can touch an intangible in at least some respect, which is categorically BS. You're not God. Who do you think you are?

2021 season is now open. Both of the votes passed. We will be expanding to a 26 person MLB roster and a 14 person MiLB roster before the 2021 season begins. The exact timing of the roster expansion is TBD. I will probably try to do it fairly so it's not some free agent free-for-all with short notice. We may wait until around the New Player Draft to expand. We need to decide as a league what to do with the IL. A few options: - Go back to a 5 player limit - Set it to some other numerical limit - Keep it unlimited with no other rules. The only limitation is Fantrax's built in option that prevents you from making a roster move if there is an active player on the IL. - Keep it unlimited with a rule that nobody can add a player with a red-flag (this needs to be manually enforced in a free league) - Keep it unlimited but all IL players need to be dropped or added to the active roster before the NPD (with or without the restriction on adding red-flag players) Also, if anyone refers to BTS as the 2020 Champion* they need to include an asterisk. *fluke champion during a shortened season where it was impossible to establish a real deserving champion

You could say the same thing about the team being up. They could get complacent. The non-quantifiable BS kind of cancels out.

The number might be right if you assume the team that tends to win game 1 is the better team. If we are talking about a coin flip matchup the odds of the game 1 loser winning 4 of the next 6 would be like 11/32. So ~65% chance the game 1 winner wins the series. Grant's number is a 73.6% series win percentage, not far off that. What the figure does not prove is the importance of game 1 over any other game. The numbers are probably the same if you look at game 2 instead.

When does Fantrax typically let you create the next season?

No. In my opinion you took a super risky and misguided interpretation on the rule. I’m just not really sure how it’s a reasonable stance to say that Tucker Davidson was active yesterday. Davidson and all of those players are just on waivers now.

I understand the ambiguity now that you state it that way but no, he wasn’t on their active roster yesterday. I mean, Tucker Davidson did not get a day of service time for Friday. Their active roster was the 26 players active for their game that day. Any transactions the Braves made after the game were for the next day

In other words, Boxcar can f*** off and be a full time NFL fan.

Yes, but he wasn't on the active roster for their game on Friday. They made the transaction after the game.

Yeah, after their game.

Tucker Davidson add is not legal. He was not active for the Braves yesterday. What should TCA’s punishment be?

Can confirm this is not true lmao

For a few years Toronto was sending a handful of prospects to play for Canberra in the ABL. That stopped, for whatever reason. I think Toronto didn't see much return on the arrangement (the prospects were not getting a lot of playing time?). Baseball players typically retire in their 30s, like most major sports. Manny Ramirez will probably be bad. Super old and I don't think he's played for like, 6 years. Don't go out and buy a jersey.

They are all good teams. Not sure how you pick a preferred opponent among them. Rays: Snell, Glasnow, Morton + 11th best position player assortment in MLB + #1 bullpen (well rounded opponent) Indians: Bieber, Carrasco, Plesac, Civale + #3 bullpen + 17th position player assortment (great pitching) White Sox: Giolito, Keuchel, Dunning + #9 bullpen + #2 position player assortment (great lineup and two good SP) Twins: Maeda, Berrios, Pineda, Hill + #5 bullpen + #7 position player assortment (well rounded opponent) Toronto is #16 position player assortment, #12 bullpen, + Ryu and crap. Clear underdog against any of them. Need to rely on players who did not really help them much during the regular season (as far as total fWAR is concerned) like Pearson, Ray, Kirk, Villar, Stripling, Shoemaker, and Vlad.

Toronto just doesn’t care if they finish 8th or 5th. Right now New York would play Cleveland. I’ll take the Rays, thanks!!!

You’re exposing yourselves as a bunch of insecure little twerps. Ross could be in a Just For Men ad. This is a man, father, husband, leader.

I imagine that this will go down as the least watched Stanley Cup finals of the era. Just a terrible matchup. And competing for viewers with every other sport

Anyone who ever called him a Beta needs to apologize to Ross. Look at this man.

Definitely thread worthy

Huh, no structural damage for Clevinger. Might pitch again this year.

In baseball a team controls a new player for their first six full MLB seasons. Players also make only the league minimum salary for the first three years, and then get gradual increases in salary for the next three. Because of this good young players are extremely valuable... an okay rookie is often "worth" more than a very, very good veteran. Yes, it is likely Toronto does not trade a piece from their young core for a while. They would only really do it if they are getting back another young, controllable player OR an elite player in a playoff push.

I'm not sure it has been confirmed just yet that Huckaby or Hentgen are gone. I think they were offered part-time coaching positions. Although, they will likely turn those down for obvious reasons. It's worth noting that basically every MLB team has been trimming their operating costs top to bottom this year. Most have been firing large numbers of scouts. Not sure we have seen a story yet of Toronto canning a dozen professional scouts, so maybe this is part of a slightly different approach. Lots of reasons here. Decreased revenues this season, changes to the minor leagues on the horizon, rapidly changing opinions on player evaluation and development.......

It's inevitable when a short-sighted GM sells most of the farm to build the oldest team in baseball.

I don't think so. Tampa will use Snell, Glasnow, and Morton probably in that order. They won't pull Snell early if he is pitching well. They will only pull Glasnow early if there are warning signs. In game 3, if it gets there, I guess I could see an early hook for Morton being part of the plan. If Tampa advances then you might see some shenanagins when they have to use other SP.