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Bringer of Rain Elite Dynasty - - bjmbleagues.com
Laika replied to spittin's topic in Fantasy Sports
Schimpf slugged .300+ at various levels, in various seasons. He played important positions. He walked a lot and didn't strike out an egregious amount. The mistake was labelling him an org/utility player. A massive but not uncommon scouting failure. There was probably some ageism and same batting average bias skewing all opinions of him. -
Okay, that's my bad. I'll drop Bettis (your worst player) and give you Crawford. You'll have the rights to Bettis until the season starts or until you make any other acquisition that is not Bettis (because having illegal Blanton would have prevented such moves anyway.)
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Okay, the league is reset. I was able to enter the majority of the rosters through the offline draft tool. Please check your roster via https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15xd1v6IbtyDrTBxks1ZLQj9OLbwu5YiChPb3wXBmc7s/edit#gid=1654393122 and let us know if there are any missing players or errors so we can fix. I was only able to enter 25 players so teams with NA stashed players right now might be missing a guy. Also, some recent trades might not be processed. I just need to fix waiver priority. Honour system - who made a waiver claim after the draft? Players right now are back on waivers for fairness. They'll process Saturday. After that, business as usual.
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If any other commissioners are up late and Yahoo exits read-only... Commissioner Tools >>> Submit Draft Results The tool is actually pretty quick. It only takes ~2 minutes per team. The archived rosters are six posts up ^^^
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Reset the league. History is still there. I put in 50% of the rosters through the offline draft before Yahoo went into "read-only mode" and prevented any more input. I'll finish up tomorrow. Rosters will probably be 98% correct. I'll ask everyone to make sure their roster matches the March 8th save tomorrow.
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Who here uses MLB TV to watch the WBC?
Laika replied to CJ-Freeway's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
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Saved today's rosters: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15xd1v6IbtyDrTBxks1ZLQj9OLbwu5YiChPb3wXBmc7s/edit?usp=sharing. I'll probably reset the league tonight and see what happens. My big worry is that resetting the draft will delete our old league histories, somehow.
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I think I just broke the league. I was fiddling with the roster settings to see if you can add BN spots after a league drafts (trying to think of ways to reduce auction time in the new league.) I switched our BN slots to 10 and added some players to test. Turns out you can. I then dropped the players and went to switch it back to 6. Nope. You can only add BN slots after the draft. Seems like there's no way to reduce it without resetting the league. And it even says this in the fine print of the commissioner tools... Sooooo we might have to reset the league and re-add everybody's roster lol. In my defense, this is a really stupid technical limitation that should not exist
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Miggy is so locked in already that he's literally murdering babies Bernie Pleskoff @BerniePleskoff Home run to right/center field for Miguel Cabrera-his first of the spring. Hit a small child sitting on the berm in the head.
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I think you are absolutely correct. Scouts absolutely LOVE to talk about guys "filling out" and moving down the defense spectrum. Whether that be 3B --> 1B, SS --> 3B, CF --> LF... it seems like every prospect who is is 6'2", 6'3" or greater gets some caveat about it. There are probably historical examples of this happening, but "filling out" is almost never the primary cause. Players age, lose range, wear down, are no longer competent at positions... even the one example that comes immediately to mind, Miguel Cabrera, wasn't a case of him all of a sudden being too big to play third base. I think the myth of "filling out" and losing defensive skill or utility is just a weird way for scouts to express that they don't think the player is good enough at a position to play there long term. Like, if you have a fringe capable shortstop, of course if he gains 20 pounds and loses a bit of range, you'll move him off the position.
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To be completely fair to the Twins, Brian Dozier exists and they were 7th in MLB in FB% last year. Perhaps it is just Kepler who is dumb. And Buxton - I've read in other places that his approach is super old school and awful. And yes of course, players like DJLM who have decidedly below average power should probably not max out their FB rate. Kepler has pop though.
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What does "long ground balls" even mean? He tries to roll them to the outfield wall? lmao
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SELL SELL SELL all of your shares in Max Kepler! The Twins are awful. I bet Buxton spends his entire BP trying to squirt groundballs through the right side.
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No I meant the storage space filled with popularity
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Wow, Lourdes seems extremely tall. Wasn't expecting him to look that... tall. Supposedly he is 6'2" but in that video he looks bigger than that. Height listings for MLB have to completely bogus. There's a lot of talk about how rare Tulowitzki is to be playing SS at this size for this long, but look at these listings (Fangraphs): Seager 6'4" Correa 6'4" Bogaerts 6'3" Tulo 6'3" Didi 6'3" Alexei 6'3" Machado 6'2" Crawford 6'2" Is it possible that Tulo kind of kick-started a "Taller Shortstop" trend? Anyway, it's possible that Lourdes might have some personal structural limitations in manning shortstop long-term.
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The five tools of music are Instrumentals, Vocals, Looks, Personality, and Creativity. (Present/Future) 40/40 - Instrumentals - it is what it is at his age. he's not an average guitar player. 40/50 - Vocals - he needs to find himself on the mic but the tools are there for him to be a league average Tom Petty cover singer. 30/35 - Looks - an important tool in a market based business where you have to sell yourself. Barry's stature is a huge obstacle, but HDMH and he's not like, classically hideous or anything. 30/30 - Personality - he's a shrill little dweeb... the cachet from being on TV will sell some tickets and keeps this from being a 20 grade. 20/20 - Creativity - he's in a cover band... I definitely think he's a tool. OFP - 40. I think Barry Davis can front a slightly below average Tom Petty cover band in the Ontario market. There will be the odd stinker of a song, so he needs to find a track list that suit his personal tools (or lack thereof.)
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Dinger is having a weird, NJH style offseason - spinning his tires in both directions.
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He probably should break. Team looks thin af
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The American Girl cover was actually good. Learning to Fly was kind of awkward. Barry will find his groove. No doubt he has some tools.
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We Ain't Reporting
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It's true. His team is actually mediocre now. The test will be - can he resist selling the core pieces long enough to actually do anything?
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I thought about offering Correa, but I figured he'd want Correa + something else and I don't know how much sense it would make to add a piece in order to create a longterm SS hole and go from like the #6 overall dynasty asset to the #2...
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three people in our league have made 26 or less trades in their entire league history, apparently. that is probably a low number because some wouldn't have been counted, but still.
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I should trade more draft picks. I don't think I've ever had a good draft.
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Conner Greene is the quintessential thrower... might be an MLB reliever, some day? Maybe. He's like 20 year old Sanchez, except with worse command, not nearly as much movement, and worse secondaries. Great body though.
