Fantasy Baseball 2024 Running Thread

That sucks. Been there. Waited too long for that.

 

Is it me, or are there a lot of players already injured? It seems like many of them are closers, too.

I'm sure many of us have stories similar to mine. News of Matt McLain's mysterious shoulder injury broke two days after I kept him. My cheap pick-up of Garrett Mitchell was looking good in another league until he broke his hand while being jammed on a swing Sunday. Oy.

 

And more. I think we notice it more bc we have to wait to il.

 

You just know some of these teams will be waiting until 10 minutes before their first game Thursday, too, for no good reason. I get it if there is hop that the player might avoid the IL, but for someone like Devin Williams, who is out until at least June, what the heck are they waiting for?

 

Nice for Paul Sewald to get hurt right after I took him in both of my drafts.

 

Sometimes, I wonder if teams are just being stubborn about not putting a player on the IL. I understand the Braves waiting a few days on Austin Riley, but he hasn't played since May 12. He isn't even swinging a bat yet, so he is easily going to blow past 10 days. And yes, this is screwing over my fantasy team. Two of them, to be exact.

 

Have my pitching lined up just the way I want it in a pitching-heavy, saves/holds-heavy Yahoo league.

Yamamoto/RSuarez/Skenes/Crochet/Steele/JJones/Stroman

MMiller/McArthur/Yates/EPhillips (when he gets off the DL)

It has me off to a 6-2 start and the highest overall point total in the league.

Then yesterday, I saw a games limit which I never knew existed in this league -- 12 games started for pitchers. That's freakin' ridiculous. I suppose it means I'm going to have to start turning starters over in the next few weeks.

 

12 games started for the whole season? Or a weekly starts limit for your team?

 

It says 12 games started for pitcher limit, and it says nothing about it being a weekly number.

Believe me, I hope you're right. But I am concerned.

Even worse, Yahoo! no longer has the chat feature in its fantasy leagues, from what I can tell. So there's no way to question that setting, or to see if it can be removed. There's no contact with other league members without chat.

 

If it was a weekly thing it would show on your weekly box score - check there.

 

You nailed it. That's exactly what it shows ... that I used five of 12 starts last week. Thanks, sir!

 

I was wondering because 12 starts for a pitcher in a season would be ridiculous. I also can't fathom what the reasoning would be for such a rule. Limiting a team to 12 starts makes a little more sense. It is a way to restrict streaming without restricting roster moves. I might even suggest it for a couple of my leagues.

One of my leagues has a total innings limit for the entire season. We had an owner who was in his second season in the league last year who had no idea about the rule. He ran out of innings in August. I had to point it out to him, which ended up working in my favor. He traded me a couple of starting pitchers.

By the way, I hate innings limits. If you can manage to use lots of starting pitchers without destroying your ratios, go for it. Of course, I have 10 good starters in a league with a limit, so I may be biased.