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lol. does not surprise me they kicked a few people out and that's how P2F and i got in.

P2F and myself plan on getting as many BJMB fantasy players in this league. I feel like i have a pretty good shot at winning the title that will hopefully get us some credibility. Unfortunately for P2F he picked up the White Sox which have a very meh MLB roster, no farm and is 20 million over the cap (which is the worst in the league) He has some serious work to do.

Respond to my PM's ya willy. I want the guy you're about to trade for.

^ Drafted Cooper 2nd overall less than a year ago.

BBDL - Jose Altuve - JD Martinez - Bryce Harper - Garrett Cooper - James Paxton - Michael Wacha

Some of my BORED main pieces include - Anthony Rizzo - J.D. Martinez - Buster Posey - Lorenzo Cain - Jean Segura - Blake Snell - Michael Wacha - MacKenzie Gore

I've PM'd a few guys (including Greenwood) but have not had any replies. Also, no one has Pm'd me or posted in the thread to show interest. I would like to find a replacement asap, but i won't leave you guys hanging, i'll look after the team until a suitable replacement can be found.

Spanky, what's your deepest darkest secret that no one knows? I promise i won't tell anyone.

Hi Spanky.

I think i read a report that praised him somewhere, i have so many god damn players on my spreadsheet that sometimes i forget why i put them where i did. Prospectslive has him 29th, BA only does top 10 and he's not on it and i'm too lazy to check other sites so BTS might be correct here

Dom Thompson-Williams is good, he's deffo in their top 20. I have him on my NPD list.

It's been posted but is probably thread worthy _____ The Yankees have struck a deal to acquire lefty James Paxton from the Mariners, according to Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports (Twitter link). Top pitching prospect Justus Sheffield is among the three players coming to Seattle in return, per Ryan Divish of the Seattle Times (Twitter link). This is the first major move of the winter, bringing a top-shelf starter to a New York club that has long been rumored to be seeking to boost its rotation. Having already inked CC Sabathia earlier in the winter, the Yanks now appear unlikely to pursue more than one additional starter, though they’ll still have ample financial flexibility to go after any available pitchers. Meanwhile, the M’s have now kicked off a winter in which they’ll attempt to walk a tightrope act of staying competitive while enhancing their roster’s long-term outlook. Paxton just turned 30 earlier this month, but he’s down to two more season of arbitration control. MLBTR and contributor Matt Swartz project him to earn $9.0MM this winter.

Canada won yesterday. I'm 99% sure they are going to win the world cup.

I know getting a prescription is super easy, not sure about the TUE. I literally had a co worker go see his family doctor and ask for them because he was "having trouble focusing at workl" and got a prescription without any tests or anything, the Doctor apparently was like "well, if you don't have it...it won't do anything, and if it helps, just keep taking them" lol

What's that?

I can confirm as someone who doesn't have ADHD who took adderell this summer before golfing to see if it would help my terrible golf game the effects and boost in performance are real. Might have been a placebo effect but would recommend to any golfer.

You would think guys who are smart enough to go to Duke would also be smart enough to get a damn prescription if they want to pop ADHD meds.

By John Lott Nov 17, 2018 8 When the Blue Jays called Guillermo Martinez about the hitting coach’s job, he replied: ‘Really? Me?’ Yes, really. Guillermo​ Martinez​ was only​ 26​ when​ he​ quit playing​ professional baseball and started​ coaching in​ the Blue Jays’ system. The culture​​ shift was abrupt. “My first year, I still felt like a player,” he said. “I guess a lot of people still think I’m a player when I’m in spring training. I obviously look young enough.” Yes, there may be a few double-takes when the Blue Jays convene for 2019 spring training. Indeed, Martinez could easily pass for a player. He is 34. And now, to his surprise, he is the club’s hitting coach – and the youngest hitting coach in the major leagues. Martinez is hardly the only one surprised at his new posting. Relatively few Jays’ fans had heard his name before Friday brought the news that he is part the club’s revamped coaching staff. No doubt his hiring raised a few eyebrows across the industry as well. Only three other big-league hitting coaches are under 40. Most are over 45. When the Jays told him they were considering him to replace the fired Brook Jacoby, Martinez said his reaction was: “Really? Me?” The club has not yet officially announced that Martinez has been promoted to the big-league staff from minor-league hitting co-ordinator. But new manager Charlie Montoyo, who first met Martinez less than two weeks ago in Arizona, was happy to share his scouting report. “What stands out to me is his ability to connect with different types of players,” Montoyo said in a telephone interview. “I was calling our position players and every time I told them who the hitting coach was going to be, they got really excited. “Guillermo is so humble. His people skills allow him to interact with all of the different players and with the coaches. He’s passionate about using his knowledge to help players become better hitters. I’m really excited about him. He’s just a great kid.” A great kid. That sounds like the way veteran coaches talk about callow prospects. And in a way, Guillermo Martinez is indeed a prospect. But in the past year, he put himself on the coaching fast track, impressing the deep thinkers in the front office and, in a matter of days, the new manager as well. Montoyo said he and Martinez talk on the phone almost daily, discussing their hopes and dreams and plans for spring training. Martinez gets rave reviews for the way he connects with young hitters. He embraces modern metrics and translates them well to his trainees. Born in Nicaragua and raised in Miami, he speaks all three essential languages – English, Spanish and baseball. He is young, which meshes with the trend of the Blue Jays’ reconstituted roster. He has worked with many of the club’s up-and-comers, from Danny Jansen to Vlad Guerrero Jr. “Those guys that got to the big leagues this year, I was (coaching) in rookie ball with them,” he said. “We’re all going to the big leagues together. It’s awesome.” Oh yes, and he also has a World Series ring. Early in November, Martinez visited the Arizona Fall League to work with Jays’ prospects Guerrero Jr., Cavan Biggio and Santiago Espinal, who were all playing for the Surprise Saguaros. He had planned to head home to Nashville on Sunday, Nov. 4, but player development director Gil Kim asked him to stay a few extra days to continue his work. No problem, Martinez said. He later realized that Kim wanted him to hang around long enough to meet Montoyo, who drove north from his Tuscon home on Nov. 6 and spent the day with Kim and Martinez. Their get-acquainted conversations started with a 90-minute breakfast and continued in the shade of the grandstand during the Saguaros’ game against the Salt River Rafters. Montoyo had heard about “the kid” beforehand from Kim and general manager Ross Atkins. “But then talking to him, I thought, ‘This guy’s just great,’” the manager said. “He’s so open-minded and creative with his plans.” By the end of the day, Martinez said, the conversation had turned to a possible promotion. “I wasn’t sure of exactly the role,” Martinez said over the phone from Nashville, where he teaches hitting to local kids in the off-season. “There were some other clubs that were interested in me, but I really wasn’t sure what was going to happen. Honestly, Charlie and I didn’t even talk that much about hitting. We just talked about my family and where I’m from and what I do in the off-season, stuff like that.” The job offer came together quickly. “I didn’t expect it at all,” he said. “I didn’t expect that they would call me and tell me that my name was actually in the mix.” In part, Martinez sailed through this audition because he had established his bona fides during a more taxing test a year earlier. Then he proved his worth with his work across Toronto’s minor-league system in 2018. After Martinez wrapped up his playing career in independent ball in 2011, the Jays gave him a part-time job as a minor-league instructor in 2012. Two years later, the Cubs hired him away as their high-A hitting coach, a post he held for four years. “The Cubs treated me very well,” he said. “They put me with some very good players. I was part of an organization that won the World Series. I also got a ring, and that was awesome.” But his goal remained relatively modest. He wasn’t thinking about the big leagues. What he really wanted to do was work as a minor-league hitting co-ordinator. He liked the idea of roving the system, connecting with hitters at every level and helping them climb the ladder. A year ago, that very job opened up in Toronto. “From personal experience as a player, I felt like I could impact players in a positive way,” he said. “So when Gil Kim called me, I went in for interviews. It was a very, very long process. Gil, (vice-president) Ben Cherington, (field co-ordinator) Eric Wedge and (player-development co-ordinator) Joe Sclafani took a chance on me and I’m really grateful they did.” Last spring in Dunedin, Fla., Martinez began his new assignment – in what was then his dream job – easing into hitting instruction while players tried to figure out whether he was a player or coach. At the start, it was a nerve-racking time. “Spring training was crazy for me,” he recalled with a chuckle. “I didn’t have any experience as a co-ordinator. I was pretending to be mentally under control, but it was chaos going on in my head. Everyone said, ‘You’re so calm.’ And I said, ‘Yeah, you don’t understand what I’m going through right now.’” He got over it. Indeed, Martinez does display a calm, confident air. But he also comes across as a candid sort whose confidence allows him to acknowledge vulnerability as well. Chaos in his head? Yes, he expects a little of that next spring too. Assuming they’re still around, three of his hitters – Kendrys Morales, Russell Martin and Troy Tulowitzki – will be older than he is. “I’m not worried about that,” Montoyo said. “Guillermo connects with everybody.” Martinez was just short of three years old when his father brought the family from Nicaragua to the U.S. to seek a better life. “We were not in the best situation when I was in Nicaragua,” he said. The situation was better in Miami, and then when he went to the University of South Alabama, from whence the Marlins drafted him in the 15th round in 2006. He lasted three seasons in the Marlins’ system, and three more in indy ball before retiring to coaching. Coaching came naturally, even for one so young. Martinez says he does not proffer a one-size-fits-all coaching philosophy. He is more about creating a positive culture – a key reference point in the Mark Shapiro-Ross Atkins ethos – and looking for ways to coax hitters into that ambit. “My biggest goal as a hitting coach is to try to get guys to want to come to work – to create an environment where these guys are happy and they enjoy hitting, where they want to come and learn and work hard,” he said. “The learning takes care of itself if someone wants to come and work and not feel like it’s work.” But his own work is cut out for him. He inherits a woeful offence. Among the 30 MLB teams, the Jays ranked 22ndin on-base percentage and 19thin batting average. They posted baseball’s ninth-highest strikeout percentage and they were middle-of-the-pack in runs scored. Like Montoyo and the rest of his staff, Martinez will undoubtedly enjoy an extended honeymoon period. Short-term expectations are low. The consensus says the Jays are in for at least two hard years as they bring along the kids while seeking to shed the albatross contracts of Martin, Tulowitzki and Morales and back-fill with cheap help while waiting for the right moment to cast for bigger free-agent fish. Meanwhile, as those realities begin to hit home, Montoyo, Martinez & Co. will try to sustain their own feel-good stories while pushing for patience in the fan base. And the feel-good stories do resonate: Montoyo, 53, a big-league skipper at last after managing for 18 years in the minors, and Martinez, 34, a potential prodigy of a hitting coach. Martinez has clearly built a fond following among his minor-league pupils. “I’ve called a few of them already just to give them the news, and they’re all excited,” he said. “It’s awesome to hear that.” And come the afternoon of March 28, Martinez will line up on the third-base line before a capacity crowd at the Rogers Centre and soak up a vibe he could not have imagined a few weeks ago. “I’m very excited,” he said. “I’m pretty sure Opening Day is when it really hits me.” Post script: At the moment, the Jays still have at least one coaching vacancy to fill: first-base coach, after firing Tim Leiper. They’ve replaced bench coach DeMarlo Hale with Dave Hudgens and Jacoby with Martinez. Pitching coach Pete Walker, bullpen coach Dane Johnson and third-base coach Luis Rivera are expected to return. Or maybe not. Asked if more moves are coming, beyond replacing Leiper, Montoyo replied: “There could be, yes. We’re still working that out.”

The Bear's have the best TD celebrations

Yeah just ask if you want me to post anything.

I have no idea why they went for 2 points there but it worked out i guess.

Aha OK! I have a sub it's actually pretty good!

In my new fantasy league the first thing i do is try and trade for Mackenzie Gore and after a few declines the guys PM's me... "You're probably wasting your time, i'm probably the high guy on Gore" FML.

Wagers Betting is encouraged and can encompass any league-asset (players, picks, tags, cap) a team owns. GMs can also wager non-league assets(real money, league fees, a night with their girlfriend). Wagers must be posted in the Wagers thread and agreed to by both parties. The commissioner will enforce payment of league-assets. I need to get BTS in this league

My Boner is ready ____ Player Acquisition Free Agency Free Agency will occur via auction on the Proboards site in the Free Agency board. GM’s can create a thread with the players name, position, and team and then submit their bid. Bids must be formatted in the following structure: Thread title: Player, Position, MLB team In thread: Years AAV Bid points Hardball uses a bid point system to determine the winning bid. GMs can use these formulas to determine their bid points. Any bid of 1-2 years has no bonus attached 3 years : 10% (multiply AAV by 1.1) 4 years: 20% (multiply AAV by 1.2) 5 years: 30% (multiply AAV by 1.3) 6 years: 40%(multiply AAV by 1.4) Each bid must top the previous Bid points by 10% Additionally, bids must also follow this format $0.5M - $0.99M 3 years MAX $1M-$5M 4 years max $5.1M-$10M 5 years max $10.1M and up 6 years max 6 years is the max length you can bid on a player. A bid is considered a win when it remains unchallenged for 24 hours. Winning a Player via Free Agency GMs have 48 hours to post a restructure of the contract and pick the player up on Fantrax during the season. Should a player not be signed on a timely basis, the winning team will be charged a buyout penalty and the player will become a free agent again. In the off season the owner must pick up the player before the season starts before being subject to a buyout penalty. Restructuring free and restricted agent contracts: AAV Deviation At no point in the contract can the AAV deviate 30%. Example: Rangers have the highest bid for Dale Murphy at 3 years $30M ($10M AAV). Rangers can restructure the contract as such: 2015: $7M, 2016: $10M 2017: $13M. Failure to do this in the 48 hour window results in the AAV spread evenly. Offseason FA vs In-Season FA The rules regarding the bidding process are the same. The difference is eligibility. During off-season FA, which will run from February until the day before Opening Day, players that do not have MLB experience, are off limits, with the exception of international free agents that signed MLB deals. During In-Season FA, any player on an MLB 25 man roster can be bid on. The 48 hour rule for picking up a player on fantrax does not apply during the off season. If you over bid for a player you will have to honor the bid. This also helps with roster available roster spots. Typically fantrax and the MLB do not updated players on the DL right away during the off season. Restricted Free Agency (RFA) RFA is a tag that GMs can use on their pending free agents. RFA will occur in January of every offseason and consists of open bidding on players that were given an RFA tag. RFA bidding will follow the same format as free agency in regards to bid points and length of contract vs AAV. After a bid remains unchallenged for 24 hours, the team that RFA tagged the player has the option to match the bid or decline. Each team is given 2 RFA tags per offseason. If a GM matches the winning bid, the only changes he can make is restructuring the AAV. GMs cannot add/subtract years to the winning bid. If a GM declines to match the winning bid, then the player will go to the winning GM. If the GM declines, compensation can be awarded if the winning bid meets the following criteria: Tier 1: If the AAV is at or over 10% of cap space (16.5M), the tagging team is awarded a first round compensatory pick based. Tier 2: If the AAV is under 10% of cap space (16.5M) and at or over 6% of cap space (9.9M), the tagging team is awarded a second round compensatory pick based. Tier 3: If the AAV is under 6% of cap space (9.9M) and at or over 4% of cap space (6.6M), the tagging team is awarded a third round compensatory pick based. Compensatory picks are awarded after contest picks with highest pick going to the team, who's tagged player received most bid points. In the event of a tie the players will be ranked alphabetically by last name A-Z. If a player is tagged and during RFA does not receive a bid, the tagging team has 2 options 1. Release the player 2. Resign the player to a 1 year deal with a 25% increase from previous season's salary Minor League Free Agency (MiLB FA) Minor League FA will run approximately mid-March to the end of the season. See the MiLB FA Board for exact dates. All players eligible for MiLB FA must not be on active MLB 25 man roster, have less than 130AB/50IP, and signed to a minor league contract. Ineligible players include but are not limited to: Players taken in the current season’s June draft, International amateurs signed in the current year's J2 class, International free agents that signed minor league contracts during the season. Minor leaguers can also be picked up on a first come/first serve basis s. HOWEVER, the caveat is that teams may pick ONLY ONE (1) player per week. If a team picks more than 1 per week, the extra players will be removed from the roster and the team will be penalized. A first offense will be suspension of picking the following week. A second offense will be suspension of picking minors for one month. Third offense is suspension of picking for the season.