Laika

Strong nicknames, thanks for these.

Yeah but it's not like Musgrove and Gardner are chopped liver. Opinions probably vary on all of the pieces going to P2F

silvergums please PM me your preference immediately

Can't get too aggressive with arms IMO. Especially with surgical histories. Too much too fast and before you know it it's all cocaine and boats.

Nate is #1 on the BA HOT SHEEEEEEEEET dicks out, boys

You could also see the potential of the secondaries even in videos. And his mechanics are SUBLIME and I do not say that lightly.

Okay but seriously. I'm sounding the Darrell conch right now. Dinger, Boxy, BTS - you three decide on the new owner however you want.

Which pronoun would you like us to use?

We have no diversity needs. Fantasy Baseball is a post-race activity.

So this L54 vs Orgfiller decision. I'd like to not make it and either defer to someone else or some other method. I could defer to a group of three volunteers that would like to decide. Boxy could chair that trio, since he supported jfl and seems to favour a more rigorous decision process. Maybe they should do a daily fantasy h2h matchup and the winner gets the team, haha.

hahaha what a bitch ok no big deal, the other guys are just as good. well, better than you in light of this garbage lmao.

wait nobody saw that

Pearson is a stud, it was glaringly evident in the f***ing youtube videos. He's going to make a lot of people eat their shorts. Lots of people didn't like the pick much.

dalton pompey is literally dead

I'm pretty sure I already ulilaterally passed a rule banning co-owners

Well I was just going to pick my preferred candidate and then tell everyone that I chose randomly. Not sure what to do now that you posted this. Might have to actually randomize it.

f*** you

That's why Donaldson is getting SS reps, obviously. It's not to get Aoki's bat into the lineup haha. Question is would Tulo be fine at 2B? That's an awful alignment of course. It would only be palatable as a sometimes or short term thing

If JFL can confirm that he is definitely interested then I can pick tonight. Will likely just randomize the choice. Can you three let me know what other leagues you're in? It might be relevant if one of you possibly would be stretched too thin.

I don't even think a vote makes sense. Just find out who is interested and then either pull a name from a hat or pick the guy with the fewest other fantasy commitments.

Gibbers v. the Darrell Dynasty League The vote was as close as possible but the majority of DDL members decided that they no longer want Gibbers to be in the league. I reached out to Gibbers and informed him of this roughly 34 hours ago. I want to take a moment to address the rationale for this unprecedented action. There is no question in my mind that Gibbers was NOT colluding with jaysblue. Obviously there was a long track record of Gibbers giving jaysblue very favourable trades, but I think this was simply caused by jaysblue knowing how to most effectively communicate with Gibbers. For posterity, these are some of the trades between them: August 2017: Zack Cozart to JB for Tulo, Steckenrider, and two late picks. Tulo likely was an addition to the trade after the fact to appease dissenters. July 2017: Roberto Osuna to JB for Luke Weaver, 3 MiLB picks, and 2 waiver picks. February 2016: Shelby Miller to JB for 3 MiLB picks. March 2015: Starling Marte to JB for Heaney, Odorizzi, 1 MiLB pick. June 2014: Buster Posey and Hutch to JB for Profar, Myers, Jhoulys Chacin. Everybody makes bad trades. Taken individually these are largely palatable, but taken as group the trend is a bit uncomfortable. Gibbers made other bad trades with different owners (examples: Kyle Hendricks to me for two draft picks, Kelvin Herrera to Dinger for Andrew Chafin) so collusion seems out of the question, but there probably isn’t a more persistent example of one owner shuffling talent to another specific owner for lesser pieces in the league’s history. Possibly Boxy to me, but we'd have to do the math. Jaysblue’s effectiveness at communicating with Gibbers highlights the main issue that rose to the surface in my reading of the situation: a frustration of the social relationship between Gibbers and the rest of the league. It’s clear that for a handful of reasons, over time, a good chunk of league owners lost any comfort in communication with Gibbers and/or they no longer enjoyed playing fantasy baseball with him. There could have been various reasons for this; most are speculation. Gibbers has displayed a somewhat abrasive personality at times, and his jokes about colluding with jaysblue didn’t sit well with people. His ostensible lack of desire to compete slowly grew very frustrating, evidenced by his obsession with trading all mature MLB assets, even those in their mid 20s, and habit for collecting an obscene and tactically ridiculous amount of draft picks. Perhaps some owners just want a more competitive league. Regardless of each owner’s specific reasons, the vote was called and the results satisfied our voting rules for effecting a significant change to the league. I want to stress that this situation absolutely has nothing to do with jaysblue, who is one of the most competitive members of the league, and should not reflect negatively on him whatsoever. We need to thank Gibbers for being an active owner in the DDL for all these years. I hope this doesn’t bug him too much. It’s just fantasy baseball after all. We can probably find our replacement by referencing the processes for replacing North and Min earlier this year. I forget who the runner-up candidates were.

If you want to be optimistic you can probably comp him to Austin Barnes, who: - was older - always hit in the minors - never really got prospectus love - is good at baseball

Jansen's AAA stint has been bananas. 12 G 8 BB 3 HR 4 2B 1 3B 1 K Eight walks and one strikeout

This thread just got incredibly creepy

Pretty sure his SwStr% should be mostly stable at this point.