Bob Sacamano
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Eephus
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so far, not so good x3Woodruff, Burnes and Peralta all make the Brewers' rotation. At least one will be a good fantasy option this year. I'm guessing Burnes because of the goggles
CletiusMaximus
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CletiusMaximus
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True, the fans are great. The Cards have just always been a massive thorn in our side, unbeatable force most years.
Doctor Detroit
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He's definitely not Sonny Gray but he is maddeningly inconsistent. Sometimes he looks like a top ten pitcher, sometimes he looks like an average pitcher, and sometimes he looks like Ubaldo Jimenez.
Eephus
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Paxton has been consistently maddeningly inconsistent for most of his career, except when he's been hurt.
fred_1_15301
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shadyridr
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Chemical X
Footballguy
callaway is god awful at what he does. riggleman gonna wiggle in by july.
Chemical X
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this is what pitching is now.....maddeningly inconsistent outings and 175 innings max. for some reason, 100 is some magic pitch number because it’s triple digits. every game is 5 innings of relievers.fred_1_15301 said:
Eephus
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Encyclopedia Brown
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Jacob deGrom 
Dan Lambskin
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Eephus
Footballguy
Forget it Jake, it's Mets pitchers.Kid had a good run Jacob deGrom
Encyclopedia Brown
Footballguy
Hader had Hernandez down 0-2 and then grooved a high fastball. It's always funny to see the stunned look of disbelief on the face of a dominant pitcher when they give one up.
Cowboysfan8
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Encyclopedia Brown
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Cowboysfan8
Footballguy
Yelich is ridiculous 
Chemical X
Footballguy
is there anyone left not injured?
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
really starting to kill my love of fantasy sports. i'll probably still do it cuz the two long-season sports are how i get my head focused each morning, but there's no love no mo. i've never been less of a factor in fantasy playoffs than i was this yr - even tho i made it to all of em - and it was mostly down to tickytack bull#### & load mgmt. now baseball's breaking out the same wayChemical X said:
Chemical X
Footballguy
it’s brutal....in 15 team leagues there are no replacements. it comes down to lots of luck. and not drafting yankees apparently.
Encyclopedia Brown
Footballguy
The Rangers have a player whose last name is Wisdom.
Try breaking the season into mini-seasons. We have adopted that format and it works really well. We have two 6 team divisions and play 5 week seasons (you play each team in your division once). It's a head to head points format but could be done roto style if preferred. At the end of each season 3 teams get promoted from the lower division and 3 teams get relegated from the upper division. It allows you to not be decimated by early season injuries that affect your full year performance. After 5 weeks everyone starts over. It really makes the fake baseball much better as every team stays tuned in because nobody is every out of it for very long.
We do it on Fantrax but have to reset the standings every "season". Since we are altering the divisions as well it isn't that big of a deal but does take extra work.
Not even close. Our seeding for the playoffs is based on number of times in the upper division so there is a rather large advantage to maintain your place in the upper division. The benefit is you don't get teams losing interest half way through the season where you have dead teams that don't do anything. Since you reset every 5 weeks there is big incentive to stay active and to keep your team as best as possible. It makes for a much more competitive league from top to bottom and helps keep the league from becoming stagnant. You actually have to be more active because you have to figure out bad/good streaks a lot quicker because it has a much bigger affect on your outcomes.
It has been the best addition to fantasy baseball I have been a part of. We have been doing this for about 10 years and it keeps all teams competitive throughout the season.
It doesn't exactly work that way. You can't just wait 5 weeks or you will be in the exact same situation as you started. You have to make moves and stay on top of things. or you get passed on by. Baseball is a game of streaks and the shortened season means owners have to be extremely active or they get left behind (every season). You cannot just set it and forget it and get by. You will get hammered. You must be active or you get nothing and end up in the bottom every "season".
Each season winner gets minimal award....usually enough to pay for a few free agent adds and the biggest pot is the world series at the end of the year. Top 4 seeds (based on times in upper division) get a bye and then single elimination weeks until the world series - which is two weeks long.
Typical season long leagues get boring because 3 to 8 teams start off bad and give up on the season so it affects the entire rest of the year for everyone. Great you start out strong and everyone else quits so you win because nobody else is paying attention. What kind of competition is that?
MAC_32
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This is why I am not following @tank's argument. Should they quit? Different question. I've actually dug my way out of holes before and finished in the money after disastrous starts. I think part of that is because others floating around in the cellar with me stopped checking in and as I passed others they followed suit. That isn't the point though. The point is that happens every season in every leeg. It's human nature. This format prevents that while still chasing after multiple different titles throughout the season. From a high level I'd think this increases the competition in the leeg; not the other way around.
I'm intrigued.
You aren't really chasing multiple titles. The league winner is the winner of the world series at the end of the year. However, each "season" (we actually call them pods) has a bit of a monetary reward for finishing first in your division (top division winner gets more than the bottom division winner) and top seed gets a percentage (kind of like winning the regular season in a playoff football league). The World Series winner still gets the biggest single percentage of the winnings.
Changing to this format really helped keep everyone engaged and active and solved what we thought was the biggest detriment to fantasy baseball (inactivity after a poor start). We have been doing this for about 10 years and it works great to alleviate that concern. We haven't had anybody give up mid season. Everyone stays active. The only thing I haven't really been able to increase is trading. I love trading but in a points league it is very hard to get anybody to pull the trigger. I think roto style would help because there is an obvious trading point at times but there are a few owners that hate roto style so they don't want to try it with the pod system.
If you don't like the long season format and the inactivity that accompanies it you should give this a try for a season or two. We are a salary cap league that keeps 15 players year to year with a 5 spot minor league system. That also helps keep the owners active as well.
Capella
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Northern Voice
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I kind of want the Royals to be good now because their current style of baseball is fun as hell when it works like today. Even with a couple TOOTBLAN's
gianmarco
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I disagree. I think that data should be used to help select postseason umpires, especially for the WS. Not having the most accurate umps when it matters most isn't good for the game.
This stuff should also be tracked and there should be consequences for falling below a certain level of proficiency. More importantly, not related to this, there should be consequences for umpires that behave badly, let things get personal, and/or affect the game due to a short fuse/temper, especially when they are wrong. That's the frustrating part.
I don't mind the errors. It's human nature. But repeated mistakes with no consequences, especially when below a certain standard? That needs to be improved, IMO.
E-Z Glider
Footballguy
Looks like its gonna be a fun year for the Phils/Mets.
First game, Phils pitchers unintentionally hit 2 Mets players en route to losing an ugly, rain-delayed, late game where Harper got ejected and Arrieta calls out the team for being flat.
Second game, the Phils get absolutely owned by Wheeler and lose 0-9 in a humiliating loss. At the end of the game, Jacob Rahme fires 2 seeds straight at Rhys Hoskins earhole in retaliation for the Mets batters hit the night before. Both benches come to the top of the steps, but nothing erupts.
Third game, Phils have a 4-0 lead when Rahme faces Hoskins again. Rhyse goes yard and takes a 34.23 second home run trot. The longest HR trot since they started tracking it in 2010.
This one is far from over.
First game, Phils pitchers unintentionally hit 2 Mets players en route to losing an ugly, rain-delayed, late game where Harper got ejected and Arrieta calls out the team for being flat.
Second game, the Phils get absolutely owned by Wheeler and lose 0-9 in a humiliating loss. At the end of the game, Jacob Rahme fires 2 seeds straight at Rhys Hoskins earhole in retaliation for the Mets batters hit the night before. Both benches come to the top of the steps, but nothing erupts.
Third game, Phils have a 4-0 lead when Rahme faces Hoskins again. Rhyse goes yard and takes a 34.23 second home run trot. The longest HR trot since they started tracking it in 2010.
This one is far from over.
shadyridr
Footballguy
cheese
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Half my posts on this site are about Billy Hamilton. Watching him play every day was the most interesting baseball I’ve watched since I was 12. Ironically, I’m a stats nerd and not very convinced it’s a winning brand of baseball, but I’m 100 percent with you that watching 1 team do that is way more fun than anything else happening. It’s the baseball equivalent of Paul Johnson running triple option 30 years after it made sense. It’s fun to watch as an outlier.
It's a good question. The first pitcher off the top of my head to compare him to was Mussina who took like 6 ballots get in and I was kind of marginal on him anyway. I was fine if he was in there, I was fine if he was left out. I went to BP and BOOM, Mussina and Petitte are his two comps.
I actually am less sold on CC now than Mussina. Mussina has 270 wins vs 247 currently for CC. Mussina spent the first ten years of his career on awful Baltimore teams. CC has pitched on good teams his entire career mostly. When he started in Cleveland, they were still good and made the playoffs 3 of the 7 years or so he was there. so basically half of his pitching years he has pitched for playoff caliber teams. Mussina also won a bunch of gg's.
Oh and Mussina has a career WAR > 20 points higher than CC.
But I suppose the gold standard now is Baines is the HOF so CC a definite lock because I am sure CC was better than Baines.
General Malaise
Footballguy
AJ Pollock to the DL? Boy, I did NOT see that coming.
shadyridr
Footballguy
250 wins, 3000ks, a cy- young, a WS champ. I agree on his comp being mussina. I think he'll get in. It's amazing the way he's reinvented himself.
E-Z Glider
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