I'm sad that I'm not a top team on opening days. Really thought Kluber+Strasburg was going to be sick.
Nervous, but it's week one and I am still in it with another shot to see Kluber/Stras Sunday.
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I'm sad that I'm not a top team on opening days. Really thought Kluber+Strasburg was going to be sick.
Nervous, but it's week one and I am still in it with another shot to see Kluber/Stras Sunday.
Is Nightmarez taobball on rotoworld forums? I read a lot of that guys posts and just realized he is a) a Cubs fan and b) named CJ Freel and according to our ESPN league Nightmarez is C. Freel.
Anyone know? If so Nightmarez has some wicked indepth insight posts lol
That's him
who reads rotoworld forums, altho I'm on the site 10000 times a day for daily fantasy updates
Lol who reads taoforums :p
francisco lindor is going to win me a million games
My Atlanta and Yankee players are letting me down pretty badly.
Folty bummed out, Swanson isn't doing much, same with Sanchez and Bird. Here's to hoping for a Bird and Sanchez HR a piece later so I can pull ahead this week.
who am I playing this week
Gryph
Yessir. Been working on it for a while, took it a bit more seriously thisyear. Had to take a step back to get some schooling stuff done but starting in May I'm going to be doing some writing for Rotoballer doing blurbs and Idk if they're going to do fantasy analysis with me off the bat but I've had a couple smaller sites reach out. Tis pretty fun. But like teh writing, I'm giong to be a bit busy for this league too pre-May.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hulky
I kind of feel like a dick now for reading a lot of what you write and targeting some of your boys in the draft. Your posts also made me happy about my accident auto pick of Jose Ramirez lol.
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Originally Posted by Hulky
Haha, it doesn't matter. I always put everything I do in the public sphere mostly on RW but sometimes on Reddit so I expect it, but I also wasn't online for our draft for much of it. I actually only knew it was happening because I got out of one draft and the draft room had just opened. ANd I haven't been moving my roster around this week but I"ve set up my lineup for the next week, I've just been busy particularly since about the first or second week of march.
He's too high on Ramirez tho so....
I guess we will see once he ends up a top 2B that was not a top 2 or 3 round pick.
I thought you'd like the guy. I remember you were right on with Brantley near his breakout, and Ramirez is essentially the same player flipping power for speed IMO. Dudes going to K about 8-9% of the time this season man. He's off to a "slow" start but hard to imagine that's even possible to sustain.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spencer 555
Like obviously these numbers mean closer to nothing because of the sample size, but:
12.5% BB% to 6.3% K%? That's nuts. Even flipped that's a really good hitter (6% BB to 12% K%).
He's barely chasing pitches to start the season, his eye is great, his contact skill is great, he has speed, and hit close to 15 last year. I really have no clue why this dude shouldn't be a perennial .310/.365/.450 hitter with 12-18 HRs and 22-25 SBs. That's a stud.
I mean have yo useen my Ramirez facts from 2016? Dude was an absolute stud. I just don't get it. Like don't get me wrong, I prefer Lindor to him and would much prefer to have Lindor, but he was factually better than Lindor last year in about every measurable metric except for raw HR total and Lindor getting more runs, RBIs, and ABs because he bats high in the order. Ramirez had the better Average, he had the better OBP, he had the better SLG, he had the better ISO, going deeper into the advanced type metrics he had the better wRC+ and OPS+ and wOBA and such. Dudes' a stud.
I drafted him at 105 too, so it wasn't even a top 100 pick invested.
Ya I'm just yanking ur chain. I like the dude. I think he's an adjustment away from becoming elite. He and Lemahieu are on the cusp.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightmarez
Hey guys interested to hear what u guys think of this trade. It's a dynasty league, head to head categories for the week with pretty odd but fun (for me) stats. My team is not contending, but I'm not exactly in tank mode either because I'm one of the few teams in the league with good halfway decent pitching (very very deep league). I decided I wanted to trade some of my aging pitching depth and a player who I really don't like to a contending team who needs pitching.
I traded hamels and Bruce for Nick Castellanos and Scott Schebler.
Castellanos is pretty established in the league at this point and showed signs of a breakout last year, so I went for him while his value is still fairly low and I think Schebler has some potential to be an everyday guy in the league at some point soon.
Did I give up too much for 2 players who may not pan out? Would you have preferred to go for younger, higher upside prospects who people in dynasty leagues cover and overvalued?
Personally feel like I probably could have gotten more, but I wanted to pull the trigger as early as possible on Castellanos.
Everyone sucking their own team off after the draft and I'm just over here dropping the most points in the first week.
Castellanos is here to stay, and will be for quite some time. Bruce is one knee injury away (again) from being completely useless for the next 3-5 months and Hamels is starting to break. TBQH I'm interested in Schebler, simply because he was a legit 15-20 HR guy who was also a 15-20 Sb, once he got to AAA he just stopped running, which I'm kinda curious about. If it a club thing, health thing, scouting, y'know?Quote:
Originally Posted by Spencer 555
Kind of a feelsbad when Nightmarez puts 50+ on you on Monday.
Did you see anything I wrote on Castellanos this year? Very odd, one thing he actually regressed in harshly last year is he became a much WORSE hitter against LHPs and he got absolutely eaten up on breaking balls the dipped underneath his hands. It's been something I've been keeping an eye on to see if he can counter adjust.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spencer 555
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Originally Posted by Hulky
Luckily for you Finnegan had just an awful day. Paxton's one of the most underrated starters in the bigs right now. He's going to be special special if he can reach his potential for 2017.
Nope. I've only read the Buxton blurb and the sp ranks. You've been hiding from the tao community mr. "Tao"bball. Hahaha. Gonna read some more of ur stuff one of these days. It's really cool to see you getting some online attention though away from our little forum. Make us proud bitch :').
Yeah well here's it:Quote:
Originally Posted by Spencer 555
2015: .351 v. LHP w/ 24% Ks.
2016: .207 v. LHP w/ 28.7% Ks
Not a huge boost in the Ks, but where he got really eaten up were those down and in breaking ball breaking underneath his hands. He swung through them all year last year. He's going to need to develop laying off htat pitch, not that i think he can't, just want to see him do it.
Trend looks to be continuing here in the small 2017 sample. Very very strange lol.
Yoenis Cespedes 3 HR 5 RBI, thanks for keeping me competitive
2-0.
Sano! *high five*
Rough losing to you in week 1 when I would have beaten 10 other teams that week.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sanosuke
Yeah I feel ya. Can't say I'm sorry about it though haha.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blexican
Wins flowing like a slit wrist, no bandage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sanosuke
We'll revisit that match-up again sometime later this season.
On July 3-16th.
Not that im counting.
Bastard.
Lookin like someone's gonna be losing a tough one this week too blex
gryph and I are battling right now lol gonna come down to the wire
Im already preparing for my loss. I started strong, but the rest of the week looks grim. Having my first round draft pick out is making things difficult.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spencer 555
nobody is posting mad respekts to my team :|
I've had someone absolutely go off everyday for like a week and a half. Today it was Bryce Harper going 4/4 1 HR, 1 more Grand Slam, and an intentional walk. The two non-HRs were doubles.
Yesterday Ramirez: 2/5 2R 12RBI 1HR
Sunday Harper: 3/5 2R 2HR 5RBI
Saturday Ramirez: 4/4 3R 2HR 6RBI
Friday Pence: 3/4 1 R 2 RBI
Thursday Cespedes/Sano Combo: 3/8 4R 3HR 5RBI 5BB
Wednesday Schoop: 2/4 1HR 2RBI
Tuesday Cespedes: 4/6 3R 3 HR 1double 5RBI
Monday Harper: 4/4 2R 3RBI 2BB
Sunday Sano: 2/4 1HR 2RBI
Basically pacing the best teams and my pitching staff has Price, Matz, and Gray on DL (as well as my highly drafted C Sanchez)
I'm also undefeated with the hardest schedule so far of the undefeateds
Not my fault veil autodrafted and didn't manage his team. Can't put much weight into hardest schedule with 2 weeks of baseball
Just saying you guys are hyping the undefeateds and have left my team out of the conversation. My team also has the highest weekly score so far too (overtaking your week 1 score, where week 2 has less SP and batter start limits).
I'm not really hyping anything. Just said I was 2-0 and gryph and I were going at it. Just excited to actually play this year with finally being in the states
more Spencer hating on my team earlier then not including my team in the 2-0 conversation
spencer is a bum tho so it's ok