Laika

spanky, pick you maggot

Okay I gave BTS those two picks he figured were his (55 and 67). Now everybody has 5 except for Abom and FTD who have 6 and 4. Is that correct? Should Abom have 6?

Round 2 begins! The Butt Stallions --> Bryan Abreu Taijuan On! ISO Horny Abomination 25 Year Olds Welcome The Beach Cowboys The True Cardinals The Bryce is Right Saskatchewan 54's A 3rd Leg to Stanton Off Daily (insert clever name) Seniors Circuit A 3rd Leg to Stanton 25 Year Olds Welcome The Eze The War Pigs Burrito Boyz The War Pigs Ten Cent Beer Night

No, we don't snake these. I am up.

Bubic, Balazovic, Manoah, Houser, Thorpe, Ivey

Easiest way to do it is probably just how the LoD does. You can still put red-flagged players on your IL all offseason. Add/drops are legal all offseason. You are not allowed to add a red-flagged player though. Player hoarding really does not become an issue. It all works out in the wash anyway because as soon as a news report comes out that he player is healthy they lose the flag, and the owner can't do anything until they correct their roster.

I'm not saying that you have to care, but you just said that nobody else who feels strongly about it is allowed to if they so much as cheated on a test in high school. You're a trader. On the spectrum of wrong doings, what the Astros did is closer to insider trading than it is to peeking at your desk-mate's answers. They expressly and knowingly chose to play outside of the established rules, and they reaped significant financial rewards in the process. (Also, there are reports that certain players and teams reported their suspicions to the Commissioner a couple of years ago and Manfred did nothing).

Quite a comparison. The Astros are currently being sued for what they did. Not just by damaged players, but I believe by online gambling websites and fans. Bolsinger's lawsuit might have the only chance of going anywhere. I believe he is suing them for "unfair business practices, negligence and intentional interference with contractual relations" which seems appropriate even if he probably can't show damages in a clear enough way to get any money out of them. It doesn't make sense to minimize what they did. It was intentional cheating with multi-million dollar consequences for a host of other parties.

Derek Fisher and Charlie Morton were essentially not even participants in the scheme. They are also making statements like that as personal PR to appeal to their current fan bases. The core position players of the 2017-2018-2019 teams are the ones who need to own up to things. They have not shown adequate remorse. If anything, their public statements have only raised more questions. And we do know how they feel about it because they have all talked about it publicly and what they said was lame as s*** and not credible. Players like Bregman, Correa, and Altuve aren't going to make statements written by Jim Crane. The fact they their opinions are so aligned with the owner's lack of professed responsibility is because they are all in responsibility-bucking cahoots together. A bunch of weasels. An adequate display of remorse would be if the players all came together, auctioned off their World Series rings, donated the proceeds to charity, then held a media event where they talked at length about everything that happened, full disclosure, no two-faced ******** that only peels back the veil as much as Rob Manfred has already lazily done.

The Butt Stallions --> Kwang-Hyun Kim Taijuan On! --> Yoshi Tsutsugo ISO Horny --> Salvador Perez 25 Year Olds Welcome --> Randy Arozarena 25 Year Olds Welcome --> Austin Hays The Beach Cowboys --> Sam Hilliard The True Cardinals --> Mark Melancon The Bryce is Right --> Josh Lindblom Saskatchewan 54's --> EXPIRED A 3rd Leg to Stanton --> Domingo Santana Off Daily --> Ian Kennedy (insert clever name) --> Julio Teheran Seniors Circuit --> Yaz Jr. Jr. The Five Year Plan --> Jordan Hicks The New Matt Olsons --> ???? The Eze 25 Year Olds Welcome Burrito Boyz The War Pigs Ten Cent Beer Night

Sometimes it is an organizational projection, too. Or even a league-wide depth projection. The Blue Jays have one starting shortstop and there are only 30 starting MLB shortstop jobs to go around. Even if a guy like Jordan Groshans could, in theory, handle SS without embarrassing himself, he's almost certainly a 3B on the Blue Jays unless Bichette gets traded. So it's not entirely up to the specific player. They are always getting pressure from other teammates and players UP the defensive spectrum - guys who are better defenders at the premium position they might be able to play. When Vlad ultimately gets moved off of 3B, it might not be because he utterly fails. It might just be because someone else who is a solid 3B has pushed their way onto the roster. It's a bit like position plinko.

No. I don't think "living with shame" is an adequate punishment. Also, they have not even demonstrated that they are honestly shameful! They have stated in public that they don't even think the cheating necessarily helped them win! They haven't owned up to f***ing anything in a sincere way, and essentially all they have said is "we collectively regret doing the things that the report specifically said that we did."

Yeah this is a fairly common issue. I mean, most players can't stick at SS and they do slide down the spectrum, so it's true to kind of generalize that many iffy SS prospects will end up elsewhere, but prospectors are sometimes a little quick to just assume that certain specific players won't stick.

"They've got to live with it. That's more than enough punishment." Highly debatable. The Astros players are hiding behind the Commissioner's report, likely covering up certain other facts and methods of cheating that have not become public, and they are not even admitting that their cheating might have helped them win the World Series.

Will fix this later today, unless Boxy or Spanky or someone else can trace the problem better and tell me what the correct solution is. Boxy currently has 7 picks and you only have 3, so it's likely you are owed 2 somewhere and likely they are 2 that Boxy currently holds.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that success can come in all shapes and sizes. It's the professional sport of physical diversity and inclusion. Altuve, Judge, Bartolo Colon, Jim Abbott, Eddie Gaedel, Pete Gray, Satchel Paige, Jamie Moyer, Moe Berg, Pat Venditte, RA Dickey, Phil Niekro, and every other knuckler, etc. etc. etc. I don't think Kirk owes any kind of debt to the Blue Jays. They've probably paid him like, $50,000 total during his four years of professional employment. There's also an argument to be made for not fixing what isn't broken. MLB has a history of fat catchers, so there might be some unexpected merit to playing fat. He's a bigger target back there! It helps him block the plate! Maybe hitting fat helps with power a little bit? #PlayFat

The Butt Stallions --> Kwang-Hyun Kim Taijuan On! --> Yoshi Tsutsugo ISO Horny --> Salvador Perez 25 Year Olds Welcome --> Randy Arozarena 25 Year Olds Welcome --> Austin Hays The Beach Cowboys --> Sam Hilliard The True Cardinals --> Mark Melancon The Bryce is Right --> Josh Lindblom Saskatchewan 54's --> EXPIRED A 3rd Leg to Stanton Off Daily (insert clever name) Seniors Circuit The Five Year Plan The New Matt Olsons The Eze 25 Year Olds Welcome Burrito Boyz The War Pigs Ten Cent Beer Night

Jim is now on the clock. L54 can pick whenever. His future pick windows are halved and are now 6 hours long.

Stuff wise, it's an appropriate comparison. Severino at his best is about the same as Thor at his best. Really, Thor just seemed like such a good body comp too - they are both 6'6" tanks. Although, Syndergaard is more chiselled and handsome and Nate has some fat power going on. Severino is not as physical, right.

L54 most be AFK. Jim can be on standby to pick at 1 AM.

They are just arbitrary percentile comparisons. We pull them out of our butts. Jon Gray is the 20th best pitcher in baseball since 2016, with 13.1 career fWAR in only 114 games started. We have said that Nate Pearson should be expected to be about that good; we expect him to be a comfortably above average starter. The percentile expression also means that Pearson could be better than that about half the time. That could be too optimistic, honestly. Pitching prospects are a bitch. It takes one major arm injury to ruin them, sometimes. You could nitpick that he has a better than 5% shot to be Syndergaard I suppose, maybe Pearson has a better chance to be that good, but you're talking about a pitcher with 6 WAR upside, who has been top 10 in total fWAR since he entered the league while missing essentially an entire season to injury.

Tyce ended up in a bucket full of pure relief prospects that were very difficult to justify ranking. We tend to value upside, so even the players in the 40-50 range that have a remote chance to be starters or average regulars ended up more appealing than Tice and the other relievers (Jackson Rees, Brad Wilson, Cre Finfrock, Parker Caracci, Kirby Snead, Jackson McLelland, Bryan Baker are a few of the other RP bucket names.) A relief prospect needs to have huge f***ing stuff to be a noteworthy prospect. We ranked some arms who are certainly only MLB relievers, but even they have been MiLB starters (Romano, Perez, Yennsy Diaz, etc.) Most good MLB relievers were minor league starters. I think the only arm in Toronto's projected pen who was only a reliever in the minors is Ken Giles - the rest were basically MiLB starters.

Fat shamer

Largely just rely on other sources and reports.

It's extremely bad. Normally there is some separation for at least a handful of players, but this draft looks flat from start to finish. I don't think you were up though. Eze was re-adding Jordan Lyles who he didn't mean to cut. Goldbull should be up. I highly doubt he was going to take Melancon, but Speedy should be informed that he is not up yet.