Laika

Thanks!

I don't want to potentially skew the last two votes so I'll avoid giving any indication of who the six relevant teams are right now, or where they rank.

18/20 votes. Just need min and speedy (maybe someone can text them?) 4th, 5th, and 6th place have 7, 6, and 5 votes each. So looks like we need everybody to vote to get our final rankings.

If only it were that easy, Kev.

Miguel Castro has filthy stuff. It's a reasonable position to say that, so far, AA has ruined his career.

He's fatter than Bartolo Colon when Bartolo was his age. Bartolo was skinny as a rookie, you know.

Just four left to vote. Looks like jays_fever, havok, min, and speedy.

15/20 votes cast The vote counts are: 15 13 11 7 5 4 2 1 1 1 So, three people are mathematically nominated and four have a chance at the last spot. Although one person might give up their spot for a different league, so the cutoff could be the top five here.

I deleted it. Please resubmit. I would suggest being more serious but you can throw away your votes if it makes you feel beeeg and stronggg.

Yeeesh. Cards probably only signed Fowler because they knew their first couple picks would be gone anyway. Did this saga hurt the Blue Jays?

Still seeking votes from: jaysblue jays_fever havok boxy silvergun therealmin Sammy SpeedyGose No rush at all, but if you haven't voted then please do. This will be up until we get a decisive ranking, which will likely require 18+ voters.

Twitter humans are saying the punishment is light. I do think there's a wink-wink going on between STL and MLB. There's no way Chris Correa was the only person in on this 2.5 year scheme.

wow

That's weird. DDL shows the past standings fine.

Well you can just look at the winning percentage column. I don't think that includes playoff matchups.

Yes. You can also add a qualifier so that people must pick exactly 4 teams to submit.

You'll need to change the question type to 'Checkboxes' so people can make multiple selections

12/20 league members have voted. 10 different people have legitimate votes. It looks like the top 3 are decided with 13, 12, and 11 votes each. But the final spot is very much up for grabs. 4th place has 5 votes, 5th place has 3 votes, 6th place is a three way tie for 2 votes. Interesting race for fourth and fifth place. We'll probably need every vote casted. Based on what Dinger has said, he might choose to rep BORED if chosen so 5th place probably ends up representing the DDL.

6 responses so far 7 teams have received votes there is a three way tie for 4th!

DDL members - please fill out this short survey for the proposed BJMB All Star Keeper League. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1UDFRmSyhzLrabCg9gFGiuLpcKchzNH3n0Pw79M22Rh4/edit This is a new "All Star" fantasy keeper that we might start this year. It will have four teams each from the DDL, LoD, BBDL, and BORED. Each league will select their own 4 representatives. More discussion on the proposed league here: http://www.bluejaysmessageboard.com/threads/7123-The-Big-League-Gauging-interest-in-a-new-keeper Even if you won't get picked this year, there will be a promotion system to the Big League. The best finishing teams from each league not already in the loop get promoted for the following year, replacing the worst performing teams from the All Star league.

The usual six have been made co-commissioners in Yahoo (Dinger, Boxy, BTS, thehurl, z3r0s, Kingkat).

ok bud that's not how anybody reputable rates arms you goof

Reading the MLB FA market isn't an exercise in rational foresight though. It's not simple to just, say, count the DHs and predict that the market will fall out. The MLB FA market is irrational as f***. I support a moderate quick strike strategy, year over year. Identify reasonable targets who could pay dividends and pounce on them. There is always risk in FA investing. It didn't particularly work with Morales (apparently, at this point in time) but it has paid off big for Toronto with JA Happ, should pay off big with Steve Pearce. Paid off big with Estrada (did he ever actually reach FA?) Happ got significantly less money last year than Kennedy, Leake, Chen, Zimmerman, Shark, Kazmir... he outperformed all of them and nearly paid for his whole contract in one year. Heck, he was better than Zack Greinke. Getting slightly less $$ than Happ were guys like Gallardo, Anderson, Pelfrey - pieces of s*** that ended up being worthless. Toronto clearly likes Morales. Maybe there's something in his statistical indicators that isn't obvious to us. We do already know about his hard hit rate being very good. Maybe he'll blow Moss et al. out of the water going forward. Maybe not. It doesn't mean Toronto's free agency policies are mistaken.

Yeah Morales is going to have to significantly outperform his projections to make Toronto not look kind of stupid. Billy Butler risk level Of course, Toronto only targeted him because they have some reason to believe that he is the most preferably option out of all the mid-range DH/1B options that were on the market. They obviously think they landed the best guy for the job, from the pool they were looking in.

Napoli > Moss = Lind = Carter