All-Purpose Fantasy Baseball 2018 thread

I dropped Brian Dozier last year (may have been the year before). I'm overcoming my temptation to drop Happ, and have scooped him up in a league where someone else dropped him.

 

It's pretty baffling to see how badly he's struggling. He's striking out nearly 50 percent of the time!

 

Insane. And he doesn't have the resume of a Giancarlo Stanton to fall back on. Still, every year there are players like this. Some turn it around and some don't. Hard to know if and when to pull the trigger. Same with long term injuries beyond the DL slots. I have a league with 5 DLed players and only 2 slots. There are a ton of variables - most important the depth of the league. Good luck; we're all going through it somehow.

 

Yep. Someone just dropped Corey Seager. I'm going to bid on him and see if I can lock him up cheap and stash him on the DL until next season. Only downside is we have pretty shallow rosters and only one DL slot (currently occupied by Daniel Murphy, who will hopefully return soon). Happ seems like the most likely candidate on my roster to get dropped, though. It would probably be between Happ, David Dahl or Jay Bruce (I tend to think Bruce will heat up, though).

 

He's no Giancarlo Stanton though.

It's really painful to watch him struggle at the plate. He's trying to pull every ding dong thing.

 

Interestingly, his pull rate is down from last year and he's actually spraying it to all fields better. His soft contact rate is way up and medium contact rate way down (hard hit rate is about the same). He's basically popping up or striking out all the time.

 

Funny because I seem to catch all the at-bats where he's swinging hard to pull and missing badly.

 

It's probably a valid observation. He could be striking out so often because he's trying to pull it so much, but when he stays back on the ball, he's actually able to put it in play and spray it around. Those Ks obviously wouldn't show up in the spray chart, so the dreaded "eye test" may be telling a different story than his batted ball profile.

 

Bruce has already shown signs of coming around. He's fairly steady. The average may fluctuate, but the 25-plus home runs will be there.

I wish the guy who had Seager in my keeper league was that foolish. No such luck.

 

Well, he laser-beamed one over the right-field fence yesterday and added another massive pull job, and drove in all 4 runs.

On the same day that Betts hit 3 homers and Trout hit one to the moon.

Most 3-homer games ...

6 -- Mize, Sosa
5 -- A-Rod, McGwire, Kingman, Carter
4 -- Pujols, Delgado, Stargell, Aramis, Larry Parrish (lol), Kiner, Bonds, Finley, Banks, Betts

 

In that league, which is pretty deep, tonight I had to drop Steve Pearce - the 6th DL. Leaves me with almost no bench and forced to play struggling players (Happ, Kingery, Duda until today) every day. So now I'm tempted to give up on Holland to grab another bat (probably Alvarez). How long to we wait on him? My gut is that Norris won't last and $14 million means that they'll try hard to make it work for him, ut who knows.

 

Won the auction for Seager at $4, so next year he’ll cost me $6. Total steal, though he’s going to occupy my only DL slot the rest of the season.