Fantasy Baseball 2024 Running Thread

[Baron Scicluna]

Since last night, I also received the following offer:
Carroll ($5)
Houck ($1)

for

Tatis ($18)
Alvarez ($12)

Nah. I like the first deal better.

 

[bigpern23]

Same. Don't want to give up two OFs and I hate the Red Sox lol

 

[bigpern23]

Gerritt Cole for Jose Ramirez straight up. I have Machado as a backup 3B. Would you do it?

 

[Guy_Incognito]

Gerritt Cole for Jose Ramirez straight up. I have Machado as a backup 3B. Would you do it?

no

 

[bigpern23]

no

Yeah, I agree. I turned it down last night.

 

[bigpern23]

Different league, keepers with similar rules to our baseball addicts league where keepers move up two rounds in the following season draft.

Got offered Glasnow (a 13th rounder next year) and Lindor (7th) for Burnes (17th). I'm tempted because I'm running Volpe out at SS, but Glasnow is a step down in most categories except Ks and he's injury prone. Wondering if I risk the injury bug for five weeks and improve at SS or turn it down.

 

[Guy_Incognito]

Different league, keepers with similar rules to our baseball addicts league where keepers move up two rounds in the following season draft.

Got offered Glasnow (a 13th rounder next year) and Lindor (7th) for Burnes (17th). I'm tempted because I'm running Volpe out at SS, but Glasnow is a step down in most categories except Ks and he's injury prone. Wondering if I risk the injury bug for five weeks and improve at SS or turn it down.

I think I would do that

 

[outofplace]

I missed this. I would take that deal, too. All pitchers are injury risks. Take the hitting upgrade.

Then again, I've been in trade mode in my money league. I made three in the last four or five days and tried one more that was turned down. I saw a market inefficiency. The league has eight minor-league roster spots. I had a strong group, but noticed far too many quality prospects on the waiver wire, so I moved Ethan Salas and Cade Horton for much-needed offensive upgrades.

I got O'Hoppe, Raleigh, Miranda, and Rengifo for Horton, Bailey, and Higashioka. It's a two-catcher league and I've been struggling to fill those all season. There is some chance I will keep O'Hoppe, but it is likely Horton will be the only player from that deal kept by either team. It is worth it.

I also traded Salas and Hjersted for Tyler O'Neill, Eugenio Suarez, and Daniel Hudson. Like the addicts league, we use saves+holds, which makes Hudson useful. Also, my bullpen is a mess. I'm still trying to find one more reliever before our deadline tomorrow. That one bugs me a little now that they sent Hjersted down. I expected him to lose minor-league eligibility and wasn't going to keep him as a veteran, but that is unlikely to happen now. Oops. I still needed the offensive upgrade and bullpen help. Also, Salas is a top-rated prospect, but he's a long way away. He is only 18 and he's having a terrible year in High-A ball.

That last move also created space to pick up another minor league prospect I like as much as Salas. Market inefficiency.

After all that, I got an offer of Ryan McMahon for Chris Morel. I need OBP help more than I need power, so I took it.

I do love making trades. It's the area in which I would most like to see the addicts league improve. More trading.

 

[outofplace]

I got one game and part of a second one from Rengifo before he aggravated his wrist injury. He had season-ending surgery today. Gotta love this forking game.

 

[outofplace]

I do love this game.

My money league scores roto style instead of head-to-head. I was in second place to start this week, which is a decent prize. The guy ahead of me went over the innings limit, so he wasn't accumulating more pitching stats. We use wins+quality starts. After an entire season, I am going to finish one behind him. The Royals clinching early cost me starts by Lugo and Ragans. I also had two pitchers lose wins to ugly blown saves by their bullpen this week. I also entered today in fourth place in saves+holds, only to have the guy behind me get two and I got none. darn Dodgers didn't use Trenien with a one-run lead today.

I'm currently in third place, two points ahead of fourth. Third place makes a little money. Fourth gets their league fee back. I'm leading the league in home runs and runs, but only by two in homers and three in runs. There is still the Mets-Braves doubleheader tomorrow. The guy behind me has multiple Mets. I have only Matt Olson. The league is so deep that every player worth a darn on either team is owned.

I do so love this game.

 

[outofplace]

To follow up on my rant, I finished third, just 1.5 points out of second and half a point ahead of the guy in fourth place, though I would have won the tiebreaker (more categories.)

Edit: I really could have used that start by Ragans. That alone would have gotten me second place. How dare they clinch a playoff before I got starts from my pitchers! lol

On to keeper decisions!