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9 hours ago, Overlord said:
DING DING DING
(there are a couple of other extremely obvious candidates for this type of conclusion out there this season ... EXTREMELY obvious)
Yeah, there are, and for the past 3-4 decades this is largely due to PEDs.
Sometimes guys "figure it out" later than the norm and turn it around in their late 20s or early 30s. It does happen, occasionally. A fireballer who struggled with control FINALLY gets his release point figured out. A hitter who partied, drank, and didn't take his craft seriously runs out of bonus money and tries hard. It does happen.
But that's not typical.
Most baseball players, and athletes in general, follow an extremely predictable aging curve. Hitters, in particular, are overwhelmingly likely to have had their best years as professional ballplayers by the time they are 27-28, and usually their careers follow a steady progression before then.
When someone who is nearing 30, let alone passed thirty, suddenly starts showing dramatic performance increases there is usually a pretty damned simple explanation for it (when Nelson Cruz got busted I wasn't surprised in the slightest, and I won't be surprised in the slightest if/when he gets caught again). What, you think Chris Colabello, who was in independent leagues (the lowest rung of baseball) and wasn't even associated with an MLB organization till he was 28 suddenly figured out how to hit a baseball? And made the majors in about a year and then proceeded to break the Twins record for April RBIs immediately? No, of course not, the guy was roiding.
What does this mean for fantasy? Eyeball tests aren't perfect, but are often a pretty good way to tell if someone packed on 15-25 pounds of lean muscle in a hurry. Also, don't be so quick to discount a "fluke" ridiculously good "late career" MILB season.
Not saying Garcia is not on PEDs. I have no idea. But to say that he "suddenly starts showing dramatic performance increases" is not accurate. His slugging percentages in the minors are .517 (2019), .500 (2018), and .476 (2017). He hit 32 HRs in 491 ABs in his last minor league season. I get it that it was the PCL but he hit in the league he was assigned and he slugged .476 in his stint in the Texas league in 2017, his first since defecting from Cuba. If your rebuttal is that he strikes out too much, fine. It's difficult to find power hitters in MLB who don't strike out often. But he did not start showing dramatic performance increases. Dude came from Cuba. It takes a little while to acclimate to the pitching.
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Have a feeling this guy is going to be a great pick up. He hit .375/.389/.781 with 4 2Bs, 3 HRs, and 4 SBs in 32 ABs during spring training. He is a physical specimen with power and speed. He's started the last 3 games after transferring to the 40-man and being called up from the alternate site. He's hit in all 3 games going oppo for a triple last night that looked to be a HR but was reversed after video review. It was almost an inside the park HR as well after review called him out at home. Redeemed himself with an opposite field HR tonight while batting cleanup. Go get him...
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We're looking for an active owner to take over an orphaned team in our 9th year keeper league. The available team has the 3rd pick in the FYPD. We are a head to head points league. Basically, we keep 20 major leaguers and 20 minor leaguers. Some of the vacant team players are:
C- Austin Nola
1B- Michael Chavis, Triston Casas
2B- Ozzie Albies, Jurickson Profar, Luis Garcia (WAS), Brendan Rodgers, Ezequiel Duran
3B- Ryan McMahon, Nolan Gorman, Jonathon India, Matt Carpenter
SS- JP Crawford, Bobby Witt, Ronny Mauricio, Braden Shewmake
OF- Trent Grisham, Jesse Winker, Austin Hays, Drew Waters, Brandon Nimmo, Jordyn Adams, Taylor Trammell
SP- Mike Soroka, Tyler Mahle, Sean Manaea, Kwang Hyun Kim, Daniel Lynch, George Kirby, Edward Cabrera, Luis Medina, Shane McClanahan, DL Hall, Simeon Woods-Richardson, Braxton Garrett
RP- Joakim Soria, Brusdar Graterol
If you are interested, I can send you league details.
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We had 3 owners vacate in the offseason and are looking to fill one more of the vacated teams. There will be a dispersal draft between the 3 new teams for the players and draft picks currently assigned to those teams. The buy-in is $125 plus $7 for the Fantrax website. We are a 3rd year weekly dynasty points league and are looking for an owner who is going to actively manage their team. Our rosters consist of 30 active MLBers and 20 Minors slots. I can send you a link to view the league details if you are interested. We will be holding a 5 round FYPD sometime after the dispersal draft between the incoming owners finishes.
The draft picks that will be available in the dispersal draft along with the player pool are #1, #7, and #10 of each 5 rounds in FYPD.
Some of the better players available in the dispersal draft player pool are:
Pros:
Freddie Freeman Ronald Acuna Manny Machado Christian Yelich Vlad Guerrero Jr. Jose Ramirez Rafael Devers Jose Altuve
Yoan Moncada Luis Robert Giovanny Urshela Carlos Correa Randy Arozarena Kyle Lewis Shohei Ohtani Wil Myers
Luis Severino Lucas Giolito Zac Gallen Jesus Luzardo Patrick Corbin Yu Darvish Mike Clevinger Chris Paddack
German Marquez Trevor Bauer Griffin Canning Dallas Keuchel Carlos Martinez Jose Urquidy Triston McKenzie Dane Dunning
Mike Yastrzemski Nick Madrigal Austin Riley Yasmani Grandal Tim Anderson Clint Frazier Andrew Benintendi Anthony Santander
Alex Reyes Framber Valdez Jose Quintana Miles Mikolas Archie Bradley Kevin Gausman Scott Kingery Jorge Alfaro
Pavin Smith Christian Walker Aaron Hicks Jake Odirizzi David Peterson Randall Grichuk Ross Stripling Kole Calhoun
Prospects:
Adley Rutschman Marco Luciano Jo Adell Triston Casas Drew Waters JJ Bleday Kody Hoese Christian Pache
Matt Manning Forrest Whitley Hunter Greene Mitch Keller Nick Lodolo Brendan McKay Brady Singer Jackson Rutledge
Jose Garcia Alejandro Kirk Nolan Gorman Josh Jung Bobby Dalbec Brandon Marsh Luis Rodriguez Tyler Stephenson
Brayan Rocchio Josh Lowe Brenton Doyle Bryce Ball Peyton Burdick Shea Langeliers Braden Shewmake Logan Allen
Quinn Priester Brusdar Graterol Liover Peguero Aaron Bracho Victor Mesa Gabriel Arias Ryan Vilade Braxton Garrett
Willam Contreras Seth Corry Cory Abbott Brent Rooker Bryan Abreu Jason Groome Jorge Mateo Mickey Moniak
Let me know if you have any questions or want an invite into the league to check out the details.
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1 hour ago, brockpapersizer said:
Hopefully this translates to power
His bat flip is gonna be sick.
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We have an orphaned team in my league. It's a 16 team H2H points keeper league. We keep 20 minors/20 majors. The rest get thrown into the draft pool before the season along with the First Year Players. Buy-in with website fee is $88 on cbssportsline. It's actually a pretty good team. It has some solid major leaguers, but the minors need a little bit of work maybe. Some names on the roster are:
Alex Bregman
Giancarlo Stanton
Javier Baez
Yoan Moncada
Nick Castellanos
Miguel Andujar
Luis Severino
Yu Darvish
Griffin Canning
Matthew Liberatore
Hunter Greene
The team comes with the #2 pick in the FYPD as well and it's a not-snaking draft. The league has been in operation since 2013.
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Hey Steve,
We have an orphaned team in my league. It's a 16 team H2H points keeper league. We keep 20 minors/20 majors. The rest get thrown into the draft pool before the season along with the First Year Players. Buy-in with website fee is $88 on cbssportsline. It's actually a pretty good team. It has some solid major leaguers, but the minors need a little bit of work maybe. Some names on the roster are:
Alex Bregman
Giancarlo Stanton
Javier Baez
Yoan Moncada
Nick Castellanos
Miguel Andujar
Luis Severino
Yu Darvish
Griffin Canning
Matthew Liberatore
Hunter Greene
The team comes with the #2 pick in the FYPD as well and it's a not-snaking draft. The league has been in operation since 2013.
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We have an orphaned team in my league. It's a 16 team H2H points keeper league. We keep 20 minors/20 majors. The rest get thrown into the draft pool before the season along with the First Year Players. Buy-in with website fee is $88 on cbssportsline. It's actually a pretty good team. It has some solid major leaguers, but the minors need a little bit of work maybe. Some names on the roster are:
Alex Bregman
Giancarlo Stanton
Javier Baez
Yoan Moncada
Nick Castellanos
Miguel Andujar
Luis Severino
Yu Darvish
Griffin Canning
Matthew Liberatore
Hunter Greene
The team comes with the #2 pick in the FYPD as well and it's a not-snaking draft. The league has been in operation since 2013.
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Hey Blake,
We have an orphaned team in my league. It's a 16 team H2H points keeper league. We keep 20 minors/20 majors. The rest get thrown into the draft pool before the season along with the First Year Players. Buy-in with website fee is $88 on cbssportsline. It's actually a pretty good team. It has some solid major leaguers, but the minors need a little bit of work maybe. Some names on the roster are:
Alex Bregman
Giancarlo Stanton
Javier Baez
Yoan Moncada
Nick Castellanos
Miguel Andujar
Luis Severino
Yu Darvish
Griffin Canning
Matthew Liberatore
Hunter Greene
The team comes with the #2 pick in the FYPD as well and it's a not-snaking draft. The league has been in operation since 2013.
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Hey Coach,
We have an orphaned team in my league. It's a 16 team H2H points keeper league. We keep 20 minors/20 majors. The rest get thrown into the draft pool before the season along with the First Year Players. Buy-in with website fee is $88 on cbssportsline. It's actually a pretty good team. It has some solid major leaguers, but the minors need a little bit of work maybe. Some names on the roster are:
Alex Bregman
Giancarlo Stanton
Javier Baez
Yoan Moncada
Nick Castellanos
Miguel Andujar
Luis Severino
Yu Darvish
Griffin Canning
Matthew Liberatore
Hunter Greene
The team comes with the #2 pick in the FYPD as well and it's a not-snaking draft. The league has been in operation since 2013.
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Hey Rob,
We have an orphaned team in my league. It's a 16 team H2H points keeper league. We keep 20 minors/20 majors. The rest get thrown into the draft pool before the season along with the First Year Players. Buy-in with website fee is $88 on cbssportsline. It's actually a pretty good team. It has some solid major leaguers, but the minors need a little bit of work maybe. Some names on the roster are:
Alex Bregman
Giancarlo Stanton
Javier Baez
Yoan Moncada
Nick Castellanos
Miguel Andujar
Luis Severino
Yu Darvish
Griffin Canning
Matthew Liberatore
Hunter Greene
The team comes with the #2 pick in the FYPD as well and it's a not-snaking draft. The league has been in operation since 2013.
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Going Jimmy G over Mahomes last minute. Can't take the risk in the playoffs.
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15 hours ago, Tryptamine said:
Miguel Amaya went 4/5 with 3 doubles tonight.
Think you made a mistake here. MiLB doesn't show these stats.
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Khris Davis in last years link led the majors in HRs and he was 5’10”, no?
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Looking to start a dynasty league. Been searching the forum for a dynasty points league with a decent buy-in and haven't had any success so decided to try to start one myself. I've seen a good number of posts looking for the same thing. Some of the finer details of the league are open to suggestions. I would like to get 12-16 teams, but would consider more if there were interest. If you aren't prepared to ride your team through the hard times, should that happen, and try to turn around your franchise through trades, draft, or free agency, please choose another league. I would like to start a league full of competitive and dedicated owners. Welcome to The Rickey Henderson Invitational......
LEAGUE RULES SUMMARY
2019 MLB RICKEY HENDERSON INVITATIONAL
GENERAL
- League Name: Rickey Henderson Invitational
- Duplicate Player Allowance: Not Used
- Scoring System: Head-to-Head Points
- Maximum # of teams: 12
- League Creator Username: Stucci75
- Commissioner Team Name: The Sore Losers
SCHEDULE
- Your league stats begin accumulating on: Thu Mar 28, 2019
- Your league stats end accumulating on: Sun Sep 29, 2019
- Merge first n periods of season: 2
- Merge last two periods of season: Yes
Playoffs
- Playoffs will begin in this Scoring Period: 23 (Sep 9/19 - Sep 15/19) and last for 2 periods (rounds).
- Playoff matchups entered manually: Yes
PLAYER POOL
- Player Pool:All teams
- Players traded out of league's player pool continue to accumulate stats: Yes
- Only include players associated with a MLB team in the player pool: No
- Lock Player Pool: No
ROSTERS
Restrictions
Condition
Constraint
Players have a real-life status of In the minors Must meet to be eligible - Minimum Total Players: 0
- Maximum Total Players: 53
- Minimum Active Players: 0
- Maximum Active Players: 18
- Maximum Reserve Players: 10
- Maximum Injury Reserve Players: 2
- Maximum Minor League Players: 25
- Prevent any transaction that would cause a roster to become illegal: Always
- Allow suspended players to be moved to Injured Reserve: Yes
- Allow players on a bye week to be moved to Injured Reserve: No
- Injured Reserve players count toward roster limitation rules: No
- Only players on the MLB Disabled List may be moved to the Injured Reserve slot: Yes
- Minor League players count toward roster limitation rules: Yes
- Minor League Eligibility:
- Injured Reserve Enforcement type: Lock all transactions
- Number of Lineup Periods until Injured Reserve Enforcement takes effect: 1
Pos
Min Active
Max Active
Total Max
Catcher (C)
0
1
1st Base (1B)
0
1
2nd Base (2B)
0
1
3rd Base (3B)
0
1
Shortstop (SS)
0
1
Outfield (OF)
0
3
Utility (Any Hitter) (UT)
0
2
Starting Pitcher (SP)
0
5
Relief Pitcher (RP)
0
3
Position Eligibility
- Games needed from previous season for a player to qualify at a hitting position : 20
- Games needed from current season for a player to qualify at a hitting position: 10
- Starts needed from previous season for a player to qualify as a starter : 10
- Starts needed from current season for a player to qualify as a starter : 5
- Relief appearances needed from previous season for a player to qualify as a reliever : 8
- Relief appearances needed from current season for a player to qualify as a reliever: 5
- Use Fantrax's default position(s) in addition to any position(s) a player qualifies for based on above criteria: Yes
- Note: If a player does not qualify for any positions based on the above selections, he will qualify at the position(s) played most in the previous MLB season. If he did not play at all last season, then the default position(s) will be used.
SCORING
Scoring Group
Scoring Category
Points
Hitting
Caught Stealing (CS)
-1
Hitting
Doubles (2B)
3
Hitting
Errors (E)
-1
Hitting
Game Winning RBI (GWRBI)
1
Hitting
Grounded Into Double Plays (GIDP)
-0.5
Hitting
Hit By Pitches (HBP)
1
Hitting
Hit For The Cycle (CYC)
3
Hitting
Home Runs (HR)
5
Hitting
Runs Batted In (RBI)
1
Hitting
Runs Scored (R)
1
Hitting
Sacrifice Flies (SF)
0.5
Hitting
Singles (1B)
2
Hitting
Stolen Bases (SB)
2
Hitting
Triples (3B)
4
Hitting
Walks (BB)
1
Pitching
Blown Saves (BS)
-2
Pitching
Complete Games (CG)
2
Pitching
Earned Runs Allowed (ER)
-2
Pitching
Grounded Into Double Plays Against (GIDP)
0.5
Pitching
Hit Batsmen (HB)
-1
Pitching
Hits Allowed (H)
-0.5
Pitching
Holds (HLD)
2
Pitching
Innings Pitched (IP)
2
Pitching
Losses (L)
-4
Pitching
No Hitters (NH)
2
Pitching
Perfect Games (PG)
3
Pitching
Quality Starts (QS)
3
Pitching
Relief Losses (RL)
-2
Pitching
Relief Wins (RW)
5
Pitching
Saves (SV)
5
Pitching
Stolen Bases Against (SBA)
-0.5
Pitching
Strikeouts Pitched (K)
1.5
Pitching
Walks Allowed (BB)
-1
Pitching
Wins (W)
7
Team Minimum and Maximum Requirements per Scoring Period
Scoring Category
Min
Max
Games Started - Pitching
None
9
- If a maximum has been met or exceeded: Do nothing.
- If a minimum has not been met by end of scoring period: Do nothing.
Other Scoring Preferences
- Score Flex positions by the players' actual positions: No
- Count 0-0 scores as wins, losses or ties: Yes
- Stat Correction Handling:No Official Scoring changes will affect your league beyond the default stat freeze time. Official corrections will be applied to your league if they come in within 7 days (168 hours) after the end of that game. Any Official Scoring changes which come in after this time will not be reflected in your league's stats/scores/standings.
TRANSACTIONS
Lineups
- Lineup Change System: Owners enter lineup changes
- Lineup changes are executed: Daily
- Lineup Changes are locked 0:01(hours:minutes) Set amount of time before each player's scheduled game start time of the day
Trades
- Trade System: Owners propose their own trades
- Trading Period: All Year
- Maximum Trades per Team: Unlimited
- Trade Deadline Date:Sun Aug 11, 2019 8:59 PM PDT
- Trade Voting System: Owners
- Days to Vote: 1
- # of Objections Required: 51%
Claims/Drops
Waiver Wire
Bidding Settings
- Claim/Drop Privileges: Owners perform their own claims & drops
- Max # of claims per season:Unlimited
- Max # of claims per week: Unlimited
- Use Waiver Wire process: Yes
- Allow claims/drops before the draft: No
- Can't drop list: Fantrax
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Pending claims/drops are viewable by: One's own team
Free Agents
- Free Agent Claim System: Free for all (1st come 1st serve)
- Free Agent bids are processed on: Sun ,Mon ,Tue ,Wed ,Thu ,Fri ,Sat at 12:00 am PST
- Waiver Wire claim system: Bidding
- Rotate Waiver Wire Claim Order After Each Claim: Yes
- Waiver Wire players are processed: After a selected # of Days
- # of days players remain on waivers for: 2
- Vickrey/Proxy (ebay-style) Bidding: No
- Bid tie-breaker: Earliest Bid
- Player claim budget: $100
- Bid increment: $1.00
- Minimum bid: $1.00
- Show highest pending bids: Yes
- Show team with highest pending bid: No
- Pending claims/drops are viewable by: One's own team
DRAFT
- Draft Type: Live Online Standard (Regular & Slow)
- # of rounds: 53
- Draft Date: Sun Mar 3 2019, 1:00PM PST
- Time limit per pick: 0:01:30 minutes/seconds
- All teams will have the same # of players as the # of rounds when draft ends: No
- Immediately pick for owners not present in draft room: No
- Fill rosters legally when drafting: Yes
- Draft order type: Random - Snake/Serpentine
- Draft order: The Sore Losers
- Undrafted players go to the: Free Agent pool
MISCELLANEOUS
Tie Breakers
Standings Tie Breakers 1. Most fantasy points for entire season
2. Head-to-head record vs. all teams tied with
3. Least fantasy points against for entire season
4. Randomly selected
Matchup Tie Breakers 1. Best Reserve/Bench players
2. Home team gets the win
Playoff Tie Breakers 1. Best Reserve/Bench players
Keeper League
- Keeper league Type: Dynasty
PRIZES
- This league does not use prizes (or they have not been configured yet)
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This is a redraft?
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3 hours ago, shilolg said:Have one opening in Dynasty Keeper, h2h-use cbs-$12 yearly for coast of cbs-50 man minors-winter meetings..interested> email shilolg@yahoo.com
I'm looking for a points league. Thanks though!
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Looking for a dynasty points H2H league. Fantrax or CBS would be preferred. Would like atleast $100 buy-in or close to it with committed owners. Might just try to start one myself if others are looking for the same thing.
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Interested.
aguastucci@icloud.com
Adolis Garcia 2021 Outlook
in Fantasy Baseball Talk
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Or he wasn't on the 40-man roster and management didn't want to make any drastic cuts early in the season. A week and a half later he's added and hitting cleanup. Context matters.