Official fantasy baseball sleeper thread

Is that the most pretentious-sounding name you have ever heard?

I mean, you write fantasy baseball for fuck's sake, drop the fuckin H.

 

;D

I've made no secret of my identity on this board, though I'm 99.55537% anonymous to most people anyway. The (very, very) few folks who have read my books here know that I'm not Tristan, though (A) I have written about fantasy sports and (B) coincidentally, I did sit next to him in a mock football draft for ESPN the Mag last year -- I was at the #11 spot and he was at the turn -- and listened to him good naturedly curse me for taking Reggie Wayne (3rd round), Frank Gore (5th) and Joseph Addai (8th) ahead of him...this took place in April, mind you, pre-NFL draft and training camps, hence guys like Addai and Gore going later. I also got Brees in the 11th. Needless to say, with a core of Brees, Gore, Dillon, Addai, T.O., Reggie Wayne, I would have done pretty well had we played out the league.

Oh, and for what it's worth, Tristan was/is a really good guy. OK, back to baseball...I like that Kouzmanoff kid a lot.

 

You guys want sleepers? These two have gone completely Rip Van Winkle on everyone & both are in the Brewers organization: RHPs Yovanni Gallardo and Carlos Villanueva. Villanueva has incredible stats at three levels last year, including with Milwaukee AND is lights-out in ST (for whatever that's worth). Gallardo is probably the stud nobody is talking about, with all the buzz going to Hughes, Bailey, and Miller.

 

Yovani Gallardo is in the minors.

Is Tim Lincecum in the minors, too?

I can't find that confirmed anywhere in print.

Does anyone know of a site that has that up-to-date info.

Rotoworld and rotonews are sucking balls on that sort of stuff.

 

Rotoworld sucks balls? It's by far the most current site on the Net. And all free (though the Draft Guide is well worth the few bucks).

I think Linecum is headed for the minors, but he seems like a Grade-A stud in the making.

 

BYH,

I mean in telling me who is on the ML roster right now, and who isn't; in that very-important sense (I can't make plays on guys in the minors) it is sucking balls.

You're right, though, it is the most current site I have found out there.

 

Well, technically, it can't tell you who is on the big league roster since it hasn't been determined yet.

Some players with little or no big league experience, like Alex Gordon, are obvious ironclad locks to make the big league team. for Linecum, though, you gotta go on blind faith if you're drafting before next weekend.

I feel your pain. Two years ago, I traded for the top reserve pick in our draft because I figured Huston Street wouldn't make the A's. He did. He went for $9 in the draft. Not to me. Fuck me.

 

I have taken over a guy's awful, putrid team in an NL keeper league, and I want to pop the endgame with guys such as Lincecum.

Like you said.... you feel my pain.

 

Well, I listened to you all on "sleepers" so it better pay off. Here is my team. I play in a 12-team, head to head league where we start 9 hitters, 5 starters and 1 reliever.

SP: Roy Oswalt, Carlos Zambrano, Felix Hernandez, Ben Sheets, Tim Hudson, John Patterson, Phil Hughes, Mike Pelfrey, Randy Wolf and Adam Eaton
RP: Billy Wagner
1B: Jason Giambi and Adrian Gonzalez
2B: Tadihito Iguchi and Jorge Cantu
SS: Felipe Lopez and T. Tulowitzki
3B: Alex Rodriguez and Alex Gordon
C: Johnny Estrada
OF: Andruw Jones, Barry Bonds, Michael Cuddyer, Delmon Young and Chris Duncan

I think my offense is kind of weak, but I am absolutely loaded in pitchers.

 

I don't know what to make of my team, which picked eighth out of 10. Must have one guy at every position, three outfielders, one DH/utility and five pitchers with at least one closer, no more than three:

C) Mike Piazza (13th rd)
1B) Todd Helton (11), Adam LaRoche (16)
2B) Chase Utley (1), Ty Wigginton (23)
3B) Garrett Atkins (4), Alex Gordon (15), Morgan Ensberg (17)
SS) Rafael Furcal (7), Stephen Drew (18)
OF) Lance Berkman (2), Jason Bay (3), Rocco Baldelli (9), Carlos Quentin (19), Chris Duncan (21)
SP) Ben Sheets (6), Jason Schmidt (8 ), Jeremy Bonderman (10), Chris Young (14), Dan Cabrera (22), Phil Hughes (24)
RP) Joe Nathan (5), Chris Ray (12), Tom Gordon (20)

My league is allowed two keepers, both after the 10th round. What say ye?

 

Some combination of Gordon and LaRoche/Hughes/Young (assuming we're talking about the Chris Young in SD), maybe? You could do worse than Chris Ray, too.

 

That is correct, I am talking about the Princeton-grad and current Padre. The dumbest pick, hands down, of our league was one guy taking Dan Uggla in the FIFTH round! BTW, he doesn't have a single pitcher that will sniff 200 K's.