How do we get Taylor Swift into fantasy baseball? Your 2024 ILX Fantasy Thread! (also, there is an opening for a new manger!)

my injuries are out of control too. IL is full, have dropped two guys already due to being injured, and have two IL guys on my bench

Is it a common strategy to make sure both your catchers are on the same team? I've got Jansen from the Jays and Moreno from the D-Backs right now (while I wait for Sean Murphy to return). There are so many days when they're both sitting.

And honestly, is Jansen that fragile that Schneider has to sit him down when he's so hot? I assume he's 100% mended by now.

i was about to offer some advice, but then remembered i am in 12th place and called Barf Sandwich

Advise away, please. My bouncing-between-9th-and-5th-place ego is under control.

Fyi clemenza Bello was activated off the IL today and pitched five innings with 2 ER

Backup catchers don't produce much at the plate (plenty of first string catchers don't either), I usually don't even bother with a second catcher, let alone worry about whether they play for the same team.

(xpost) Thanks--saw that and reactivated him this morning.

I'll give that some thought. When Murphy returns, maybe I'll just go with him.

Now if I had the Ernie/Buck 1985 platoon, I'd want one of them in there every day.

I'd rather keep Moreno and hope he figures it out than spend a roster spot on a few handy at-bats from Kirk. If the backup guy was significantly better than Kirk is, like when William Contreras was a backup but still raking, that's another story.

i prefer to just find a decent catcher and forget about the off days, i assume if they're good enough i'll get 130-140 starts from them and if the raw numbers are good and the OBP and slugging are solid, i prefer to not waste ABs on what is likely a lesser player who will bring down the latter stats. i also usually assume (unless i draft a star) i might have to find a catcher in the free agent pile anyway, considering the volatility of the position. i rarely carry two catchers except in the case of injury, or if there's a guy who's really solid in the free agent pile and my catcher is a good enough hitter to stick in the utility slot or another position they're eligible for (such as Honey Nut Chourios playing Salvy Perez at 1B right now.)

I'm wondering if I've been playing the whole time under a fundamentally false assumption--that counting numbers matter as much (if not more) than rate stats. That's why I worry about days with an unfilled position. When I look at categories like runs, 2B, HR, etc., are we talking total or on a percentage basis?

include me on the injury train; i've got 7 players on the IL as well as one who's DTD and another on bereavement leave. i'm trying to hold tight because it looks like some of them could be coming off the IL later this week, but it's really hampering my flexibility

Dumped Sal Frelick finally and changed my team name to Celebrity Skenes.

xp those are counting stats, whoever has the most HRs wins the category

On one hand we have more counting stats than rate stats, on the other hand, counting stats are cumulative but rate stats can go up or down. I always worry about starting a third string player because if he goes 5-35 for the week with 2 RBI and a run scored, then my rate stats will certainly go down, and that will hurt my team more than the extra two ribbies will help. At least that's my feeling, am I wrong about this?

To make up for that 5-35, another player would need to go 15-35 and have a monster week, which is not something you can count on. Whereas picking up an extra run scored and two RBIs from a decent starting player isn't much of an ask.

What are the settings in this league? Is it head-to-head weekly matchups? How many transactions and bench spots are there?

didn't you used to be in it?! still a points league with no transaction limit, 6 bench spots and since covid we've been running with 4 IL spots

Yeah it's been a long time though! I didn't remember how it was set up.

You should come back! You won back-to-back years like forever ago, right?

Hmm, I don't recall. Could be. I've been playing since the '90s so there's been a lot of leagues haha.

I thought about playing this year but it's cooler to me seeing people who haven't played before get involved. Plus it's not for money. ;)

didn't you used to be in it?! still a points league with no transaction limit, 6 bench spots and since covid we've been running with 4 IL spots

― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, May 13, 2024 12:48 PM (two hours ago)

Correction: it's a roto league.

Ya thank you. Weird brain fart there. It’s not head to head. That’s the important thing.
We hate h2h.

sorry to ask again but is there a new spreadsheet this season? i need to see which of my players are keeper-eligible before i can decide who to drop :(

now that i've got eight players on the IL, including three of my SPs

bookmark or ctrl-f "sheet":

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hpsG8k76efjA3bMamBZbU_RRa9Wf99KXzrFZHbsKdeI/edit#gid=1545943393

Trying to find a historical IRL analogue for my team... who was one of the great offensively stacked teams but had terrible pitching?

maybe the 2007 or 2009 Rockies?

thanks - i swear i searched the thread

Dumped Sal Frelick finally and changed my team name to Celebrity Skenes.

Immediately Sal hits his first and then second home runs of the season. He just needed me to set him free!

I loved looking at the team compositions and names, impossible to say which one I like best but damn, some of you have been hit hard with injuries. I’ll have to play this next year.

i was worried i'd get hit with a rash of injuries after Royce Lewis went 2 for 2 with a HR and promptly injured himself AGAIN***, but my team has been shockingly healthy. and yet aside from a couple SPs everyone i drafted is really underperforming.

***https://memeguy.com/photos/images/well-ok-then-283717.jpg

♪♫ For ACL or torn hammy, call Jacob Emrani. Call Jacob! ♫

^ this rules, I would also submit a modified version as:


♪♫ For broken wrist or John that’s Tommy, call Jacob deGrommy . Call Jacob! ♫

Lol very good. I wanted to make sure everyone had a chance to experience one of LA's finest ear worms, that omar so thoughtfully reinserted in my ear.

i use "charming" in the relative sense but Jacob is probably the most charming of the billboard lawyers (a million miles better than Sweet James)

he recruited LeBron to come to L.A.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rPmwPMof3hs/maxresdefault.jpg

Jacob is the great guy who helped us through our collective trauma after the bitter Cellino & Barnes divorce. He's family.

(sorry for crashing fantasy thread)

I went to check who had Paul Skenes, and I see he has his own team now!

7 man SP rotation - Spencer Strider (25), Max Fried, Zach Eflin, Shane Bieber (28), Nathan Eovaldi, Triston McKenzie (26), Nestor Cortes (29)

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, March 19, 2024 6:37 PM (two months ago)

Only 3 of the 7 SPs I drafted are currently healthy (Fried, Cortes & McKenzie). 2 of the 4 on the IL will be out not just this season but a substantial part of next season as well (Strider & Bieber).

This must be how the Dodgers GM feels like, it's insane.

Forgot to switch Danny Jansen back into my lineup this morning: 3 hits, HR, 5 RBI.

Wait till that day when you make a calculated decision to sit someone and play someone else and the guy on your bench goes off for two or three home runs

Right up there with dropping a struggling player who immediately it's a hot streak, and then you somehow manage to pick them back up and they immediately go cold again. One of the closer approximations of how the owner of Michigan J Frog must have felt.

Fried, Cortes & McKenzie

And all these guy pretty much have one foot on a banana peel

Yup, you know you're fucked when Cortes is your best pitcher.

Mired forever in 7th-8th-9th place, I forget to check in this morning (possibly the first time) and left Berrios on the bench for his (very good) start today.

haha my team was finally starting to turn the corner

finally got my IL down to four players, but my offense is dogshit right now, and i don't have much hope that getting ke'bryan hayes or tj friedl back off the IL is going to help. if anyone wants to trade me (Naked Ragans) a reliable source of offensive power (especially at 1B but i'm open to other positions as well), i have some decent SP/RP/keeper options available.

Ridiculous--three catchers on my roster, and all are sitting today.

(xpost: I dropped Cedric Mullins today to make room for Sean Murphy's return--you're obviously after more than the numbers he's putting up this year, but maybe as a stopgap?)

NA- I sent you a chat msg via the y! mobile app. Not sure if that made it to ya...

Clem- Clearly the solution is you need to roster a 4th catcher.

I was thinking of going all-catcher.

It's a new variation on the Jays' all-utility strategy.