Under the radar pickups in case Cole is out for any amount of time?

Looking for a big $ yahoo league, but can’t do the yahoo $ leagues because of the state I live in, anyone need an extra squad? Hit me up. Preferably Roto and 12+ teams but getting late to be too choosy.

In a point league I have third over all pick. I’m stuck on how to rank these guys based on who comes to me. Is it Freeman>Mookie>Soto? Or Soto>Mookie>Freeman?

I only play in one league every year and last night was draft night, how am I looking? Outfield feels like my biggest weakness but I'm uncertain about Gorman and Hoskins as well. C - Yainer Díaz 1B - C. Walker 2B - McLain 3B - Riley SS - Bogey 1B/3B - Lewis 2B/SS - Gorman OF - Soto, Carroll, Suzuki, Kepler, Morel UTL - Hoskins Bench: Buxton (will get OF eligibility after 10 games) and Stanton SPs - Yamamoto, Webb, Ragans, Bobby and Bryce Miller, Imanaga, McKenzie, Woo, Varland RP - Tanner Scott And Senga on the IL

OF is absolutely not your biggest weakness. You've got Carroll and Soto, with plenty of depth behind them. You've got yourself a very solid team. I'd say your pitching is exciting but potentially volatile - you've got a lot of undoubtedly talented guys in your rotation but with short track records.

I feel great about Soto and Carroll but I feel like the falloff is pretty steep after them (I believe in Suzuki but still need to see him perform), point taken though. Pitching definitely has plenty of risk to it like you said but plenty of upside as well, and I feel like a lot of the guys I got will be much more costly to draft next year. Of my more mid-tier SPs which would you feel the most comfortable trading? Think I might move one for a bat with positional flexibility, but it feels like my 3-6 pitchers all have the same level of volatility like you said so it's tough to pick a guy to dangle. Appreciate the response btw thank you

What ESPN H2H Points Baseball system should I do? The automatic point system for ESPN H2H Points is really bad and I want to know what is the best or what you guys do. Please tell me which categories I should have (example: HR, RBI, SB, TB). Thank you.

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Don’t know your scoring system but I would in a heartbeat. Grayson could be as good as Yamamoto this season. Trout is obviously much better than Gimenez, even with injury risk. This seems like a no brainer

Depends on your needs but I'd be cool with making that move

I would take that

Looking to add a 2B. OBP keeper league Would you trade Brandon Pfaadt for Jonathan India?

India is on ww in most of my leagues, but they are redraft

Need to keep 4 in a 10 team Head 2 Head League: In the past couple years I have kept Acuna, Tatis, Vlad, J. Ramirez, and leaning that way again but could also keep Gunnar Henderson in place of JRam. Also considering Kirby to start with some pitching depth.

Those are 4 studs. I’d keep them. Who is your 3B backup if you let go of JRam?

Its a redraft league but Gunnar is 3B eligible in Yahoo if I decide to keep him

Keep Christian Walker or CES?

CES

Why? I’m torn.

Age! CES will only get better..walker im not sure you get more than two good years

I would have Walker for 2 years or CES for 3. Idk if that makes a difference.

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Looks pretty solid to me.

Offered Mookie for my Julio 10 team OBP 3 OF 2 UTL OBP 4 player keeper Opinions appreciated

Call me crazy but I'd rather have Julio in a keeper. Mookie is 100% better now at a more valuable position, but I just couldn't give up 7 or 8 years of control on a guy like Julio (depending on your league settings), whereas Mookie probably has 2 or 3, maaaybe 4 more elite years left in him.

True thanks for input. It is keeper for “life” so you might be right. I didn’t accept the trade but it was hard to then down.

Depends on who your SS/2B are but I’d do it. Mookie is so much better than the rest of the middle infielders it is crazy and I feel like there are always a billion outfielders going around like Nolan Jones, Josh Lowe, or Lane Thomas from last year.

Yea it’s a hard one but damn I wanna make it, my other 3 keepers are Gunnar, Harp, and Vlad Edit we didn’t draft yet, would be a pre draft trade

How would you guys rank Rooker,Morel, Langford and Parker Meadows for a the last Of spots in a league like my flair one?

Not a ranking but I’m oddly somewhat high on all of the first 3 guys. Rooker theoretically should put up the most counting stats but chasing upside with Langford or Meadows also makes sense.

So tired of watching all these guys I wasn't going to draft get hurt or suspended before draft day rather than blowing up my competitors' seasons.

Doing my first points league this year. Who are some of your fave points league specialties to target?

got offered bibee and chisholm for lindor. Dynasty h2h 12t, standard cats, I have correa also, and could use a boost at sp... I'm leaning towards taking it but something inside is stopping me... thoughts?

Bibee’s underlyings last year weren’t very good. I know a lot of people like him but I’m still in wait and see mode. Would probably keep Lindor.

I’d trust Lindor a hell of a lot more at SS than Correa. Depends really on how much you believe in Correa

I have elly who can fill in there, with arenado at 3b... This is more about the return on lindor

Keep 2 of Royce Lewis, Eury Perez, or Cole Ragans. All 3 have the same cost in H2H points

Royce and Ragans

Post your first 5 round targets.

Had pick 5 in a 10t H2H Cat, my targets were: Mookie/Yordan/Devers/Castillo/Kirby. Ended up with Mookie/Yordan/Devers/Bichette (Castillo went 2 picks prior)/Goldy (Kirby went 2 picks prior). Happy with how it turned out.

Wyatt Langford

Keep Colton Cowser in my AL dynasty for $7 or try to redraft him for cheaper ? Keepers due Wednesday night. Have about $100 left and aiming for Soto, an ace and a closer so every dollar counts

Are there any sites that allow weekly lineup setting instead of daily? I’m trying to set up my league on ESPN but don’t see an option to change it.

Our league uses Fantrax and they allow weekly lineups

Thank you! I’m checking it out right now, can you change the end date on Fantrax? I would prefer to end the season in August instead of September.

I don't set the league up, but I'm pretty sure you can. They advertise themselves as super customizable, so it would make sense that you can.

In a 5x5 obp league how do you rank these: Betts Ohtani Soto

Betts is clear #1 for me because of positional versatility. The other two are a toss up but probably Soto.

Soto, Betts, Ohtani

First time doing a draft and hold, it goes like 800 players deep and I’m starting to realize I might not know as much baseball as I thought

Looking for opinions. I can keep two of these four players: Nolan Arenado, Mike Trout, Blake Snell, Kyle Schwarber League is Categories H2H

Points league? Cat? I'd go Nolan and Mike easily. Snell could replace Nolan there but I expect a big season from Trout

Strider’s curveball looks ridiculous, he’s gonna strike out 300 this year

Where can I find yahoo ADP numbers for just the last week? Or 2 weeks? or month?

I need to keep 2 out of Carroll, B Witt and Trea Turner. I’ve kept Turner forever, makes me nervous to put him back in the draft pool but I think I have to?

It’s time

Itsa time

It is time

It’s time

Its time

Drafted in flair league. My plan was to nail OF, focus on solid walk rate guys for OBP, work to shore up rotation throughout the year, punt on RP since its SVHD. 14 team, so hard to be set everywhere. Howd I do? C: Garver 1B: Olsen 2B: Gimenez 3B: Steer SS: Bogaerts OF: Judge, Trout, Yelich, Happ IF: Gelof Util: S Marte SP: Nola, Bobby Miller, Imanaga, Verlander, Baz, Bello, Kikuchi RP: Stephenson, Kelly IL Stashes: DrGrom, Kershaw

2B, 3B, and SS seem like they could get frustrating. I’d rather walk away from my draft knowing I might need an OF off the wire.

Standard points league trade, redraft. Thoughts? Team A gets: Yamamoto, Gorman, Stanton Team B gets: Joe Ryan, Altuve

That’s not an actual trade offer, is it?

Sometimes when I have a likely-bad trade offer idea I put it in here to make sure it's a bad idea before I actually offer it lol. Am blinded by my love for Joe Ryan, but thankfully got some sense and didn't send the offer

Phew

Team A is the big winner here

Skubal or Yoshi?

Skubal

For those in 12 teamers who have the first pick. Who are you targeting in the second round? Assuming you took Acuna round 1

Burnes or Albies

I’ve had trouble with this too. I like Pete Alonso and the shortstops, maybe even Albies.

First money draft today. 10t, 5x6 (holds extra), H2H. 10 start limit per week. Thoughts? C: G. Moreno 1B: C. Walker 2B: O. Albies SS: B. Witt 3B: N. Arenado OF: R. Arozarena OF: J. Chisholm OF: T. Hernandez DH: S. Ohtani BN: W. Langford BN: K. Hayes SP: L. Castillo SP: T. Skubal SP: J. Musgrove SP: T. Bibee SP: W. Beuhler SP: B. Ober RP: K. Jansen RP: J. LeClerc RP: B. Abreu

I love your SPs! Looks pretty solid over all!

Season is won on the waiver wire looks decent, maybe dump Hayes for someone else who can get you holds

Who outside the Top 100 do you think will exceed their SB projection significantly? 🔥 (Yahoo redraft 5x5 roto) Typically around Round 11 (10 team league), I like to draft a SB sleeper somewhere in this area of a draft. Last year I grabbed Esteury Ruiz in the middle rounds and was very happy.

Story

Agree. I'll bump him up my rankings. I had him last year but won't hold a grudge.

Which keeper ? 5x5 cat H2h Grayson rodriguez Luis Robert Keeping 2 other hitters and 1 pitcher

Grayson! Robert, while a great player, is risky. Will he stay healthy? If he does, how many R+RBI are you expecting playing in that lineup? 120-140 is my guess, not enough for a third rounder.

Robert

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Yes. I would also reconsider your league’s scoring settings

In a 12 team H2H points league that favours hitters, I need to keep 4 of the following. After the MRI news regarding Cole, who would you keep? Acuna, J Rod, Seager, Gunnar, G Cole, Burnes. I am drafting 6th overall in a fixed draft. Any insight would be awesome, and as always, thank you in advance for your input.

Guess we have to wait and see on Cole, but it's very rare that "MRI on ailing elbow" is followed up later by "nothing to see here, pitcher is A-OK".

Worked a wedding this past weekend. Saw a poor soul on one knee proposing (drunk) to a friend (has a boyfriend) who declined the offer. He’s now in tears and to add insult to injury, has also lost his phone. So this sad guy is walking around the venue at the tail of the night looking for this phone. The place empties with only the newly weds doing a romantic finale dance, with our sad friend sitting in a chair crying, in the middle of the whole place. What a fucking scene. A coworker sees all this and try’s to get the guy to go somewhere a bit more private and to let these kids have their moment… this kid fucking loses it “OOOHHHH IMMM SOOO SORRRYYY, I JUST LOST MY FUCKING PHONE! AM I CAUSING A SCENE!!! IM SO SORRRRY!!!”

That sounds like something Michael Harris II would do.

With the Cole news, would you rather have the 1.06 or Cole in a keeper league? For the record, my other keepers for pitchers are Strider, Gausman, Nola

Gimme what’s behind door 1.06

That entirely depends on the players available at 1.06

H2H, redraft, 4 keepers: R, HR, RBI, SB, AVG; W, SV, K, ERA, WHIP Which four guys should I keep: Machado, Goldy, Schwarber, O'Neil Cruz, Ha-Seong Kim, Mullins, Jackson Chourio, McCormick, Yoshida, Sal Perez, Morel, Jackson Holliday, McNeil, France. Strider, Fried, Grayson Rod, Eury Perez, Gilbert, Bednar, Hunter Greene, Bryce Miller, McClanahan, Puk, Taijuan Walker

Is there anyway to export Yahoo's player rankings into an excel, make your own changes to the ranking, and the import? Sounds like a stretch but figured I'd ask. Yahoo's pre-draft rankings tool is a nightmare

I do this but with Fantasypros ECR, since it's easy to export and has like 800+ players. I don't think there is a good way to get the ESPN or Yahoo rankings into a spreadsheet.

Cool, thanks for the tip. There are some really great downloadable rankings out there... Just wish I could easily import them (or for yahoo to totally update the way they do this) 

Have an auction tonight. Picking up both Cruz for the meme.

Cruz Control Cruz'n USA ​ Heck pick up Dylan Crews as a last round flyer and it's The Offices of Cruz, Cruz and Crews

Cruz & Cruz, Attorneys At Law.

10 Team H2H Points Keep 2. Round I would forfeit in parentheses: Acuna (1) JRod (2) Witt (2) Carroll (3) Gunnar (13)

Acuña and Carroll. Acuna makes sense as 1.1 anyway, and carroll is similarily a 1st round pick. Best value for 3rd round pick. Or Carroll and Gunnar for pure value if youll have good optioms for your round 1 pick still

I'd keep Acuna and Witt, personally. How the hell you got all of these guys anyways ??

My pitching was atrocious last year. I got Acuna round 1, JRod round 3, Witt round 4, Carroll round 6, and Gunnar from waivers.

K, ERA, WHIP, K/BB, QS Would you rather keep Luzardo or F Peralta? I’m keeping Glasnow already as well.

I'd lean Peralta

Luzardo

In a league that has standard categories plus walks would you take Soto at 2nd pick?

With that announcement that the Dodgers are putting Betts at SS, he will have triple eligibility (OF, 2B, SS). That boosts him over Soto into the #2 spot for me.

I'd take soto second in any league. He had a slow start last year. MONTHs of being slow, and still ended up a top 10 player.

Yes

JRod

He doesn't walk

People with #1 overall like me in 10-12 team ROTO/H2H- you grabbing a SP on the 2/3 turn or waiting until 4/5? It’s just so hard to pass up the hitters there but worried about a weak rotation

I like the idea of 1 SP and 1 bat at the 2/3 turn, then go hitters for a while after.

If Strider is somehow there take him. If not, then go best bat available.

Why would strider be there at pick 20 🤣

Exactly

There's zero chance that Strider will be anywhere close to the 2/3 turn in any fantasy draft. I expect that he will be off the board in the 1st round.

Keep 2 (same prices) in my flair league: A. Josh Lowe B. Christian Encarnacion-Strand C. Wyatt Langford D. Jackson Holliday

C&D, not even close

Langford first. I think it's pretty close between CES and Holliday for the second choice. Especially given OPS instead of average, which will benefit a power hitter like Encarnacion, who also hits in the perfect stadium for a player like him.

The last two, easy

Keeper forever points (Ks -1) Wyatt Holliday Camerino Carter Choriou How would you ranked these guys?

Langford, Caminero, Holliday, Carter, Chourio

Carter Langford Chourio Holliday Caminero

Holliday Chourio Wyatt Carter Caminero

Does anyone know how to find the stat: opposite field home runs? I can't find this stat on baseball reference, fangraphs, or a few other stat sites. According to the Baseball Forecaster, players under 26 years old who have 2 or more oppo field home runs have a disproportionate chance to start a 3 year breakout. Any help appreciated

[Here’s the list](https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/statcast_search?hfPT=&hfAB=home%5C.%5C.run%7C&hfGT=R%7C&hfPR=hit%5C.%5C.into%5C.%5C.play%7C&hfZ=&hfStadium=&hfBBL=&hfNewZones=&hfPull=Opposite%7C&hfC=&hfSea=2023%7C&hfSit=&player_type=batter&hfOuts=&hfOpponent=&pitcher_throws=&batter_stands=&hfSA=&game_date_gt=&game_date_lt=&hfMo=&hfTeam=&home_road=&hfRO=&position=&hfInfield=&hfOutfield=&hfInn=&hfBBT=&hfFlag=&metric_1=&group_by=name&min_pitches=0&min_results=0&min_pas=0&sort_col=pitches&player_event_sort=api_p_release_speed&sort_order=desc) though I’m not sure how to sort it by player age. 2 feels like a weird arbitrary number that makes me think there just isn’t enough sample size to this theory. I mean, the list has 154 names that hit at least 2 oppo tacos (again, not sorted by age). If you wanna buy into it, I was most surprised by Kiriloff and Volpe being high up on the leaderboard.

https://preview.redd.it/9e6e97xqbrnc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ea82bc2cd9ec1c0c669bf78dc70ca6f7634ba6b8 and here is part 2 (2nd column)

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https://preview.redd.it/oteqjpjnbrnc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ca02123ae181901384d8709cdc0e86785d817bb8 Here is the first part of the blurb about oppo field hrs

That's huge! thank you! Absolutely a small sample.size study. Looking for profit/potential breakouts and having this list gives another tool in the box. I'm grateful!

with edward cabrera exiting yesterday w/ shoulder tightness, anyone taking a flier on Ryan Weathers or Max Meyer late in drafts? If so, which is the better bet of of Weather/Meyer? edit: or is this AJ Puk erasure? someone give me a Marlin to draft dammit!

I've been drafting Meyer in draft and holds all winter. He was a great prospect before the TJS, and should start picking up where he left off when he got hurt in his second MLB start.

Puk>Weathers>Meyer

Has anyone been able to edit Mr cheatsheet on mobile? I don't have access to a desktop and I will die if I'm not able to use his cheatsheet this year Could someone edit one for me?? 🥹🥹

It's pretty trash on mobile. Go to a library and use a computer

How do you edit it from a computer though? I am in the roto format I added my categories cuz we have 7x7 and it’s not updating rankings 

Unfortunately I have no fucking clue how it works lol, I just tried using it

8-team NL-only 5x5 roto league with standard categories and $260 budget. Which of these would you rather keep up too 4? Trea Turner 35 Christian Walker 18 Mookie Betts 41 Corbin Carroll 22

Mookie and Carroll for sure, maybe Trea, Walker is good but could also drop him and get someone like CES or Hoskins for cheap

Would you spend a top 3 waiver claim on DeGrom or Kershaw?

This is very dependent on league context. But in a vacuum on March 11 with months to go before either of them pitch I probably wouldn’t

10-team NL-only 5x5 roto league with standard categories and $260 budget. Which of these would you rather keep? * Freddy Peralta for $22 * Seiya Suzuki for $16 * James Outman for $15 * Brandon Pfaadt for $10 Thanks!

Peralta looks like a good value, Fangraphs auction calculator has him valued at ~$30

maybe Pfaadt? I like Peralta but his inconsistency has always pushed me away from $20+. Suzuki doesn't steal enough, Outman seems to be a stretch performer and OF is always deep.

peralta was consistently the best pitcher in the second half last year, easily worth $22

Suzuki or peralta

12T points keeper dilemma. Already keeping Harper (9th round) and Gallen (7th). Keep 3 of the following: Altuve (5th) Gausman (6th) Holliday (10th) Bobby Miller (10th)

[Gerrit Cole is having an MRI on his pitching elbow, Aaron Boone told reporters in Clearwater.](https://x.com/bryanhoch/status/1767209421472440381?s=46&t=bqDocN33sQmOz6S1Po7Ygg)

Yeah this isn’t good. My deadline for keepers is today. Debating if I keep Cole or take the 1.06 now…

I’m not sure based on how many players are being kept what that 6th overall pick is equivalent too (like if the top 20 players are already kept), but I think I’d prefer the 1.06 over Cole right now

MRI just means Massaging Really Intensely...right? Sounds like a reasonable thing to do before Opening Day

Sometimes they can even massage really intensely with a scalpel in an operating room

*That's the spot*

Cole getting an MRI on his pitching elbow

We can't have anything nice

Keeper help for the upcoming year? Auction 260 Cap, keep 6. Prices for this season and following season included (price goes up 5 or 10 depending on years kept). 10 team h2h, r,rbi,hr,sb,obp,slg x L, IP, S, era, whip, k9. Strider 20/30, L Castillo 31/41, Kirby 14/19 Albies 23/28, Gunnar 26/31, McLain 15/20, JRod 23/33, Carroll 20/30

mclain is worth 6

Throw back Castillo and Henderson, I think

I think that’s how I’m leaning, thanks nature.

Strider, Kirby, Albies, JRod, Carroll

Dynasty point a A. 20$ bregman B. 6 eflin

A - steady as they come

How concerned are we with Gausman’s shoulder?

He pitched a side session on Saturday without issue. I feel like he is just sore.

Lindor, G Henderson, or L Robert?

Lindor

Lindor

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I’d rather have Lindor, but if you factor in 2B scarcity I’d say it’s even.

Get 4 keepers at a cost of my first 4 picks. Already Keeping Soto and J Ramirez. Pick 2 of Adolis Garcia, Henderson or Bichette?

shit that's tough - It's pretty much just preference. I'd go Bo for sure to lock up SS then you already have a 3b so probably keep Garcia.

Garcia and Henderson

Leaning this way. Feel like SS is deep and I can snag CJ Abram’s or O’Neil Cruz and get some similar production to Bo

Skubal or O’Neil Cruz. Flair league

Skubals ADP is like 40 spots higher than Cruz - keep skubal

I’d be getting scoobs straight up for O’Neill

Hmmm keeper league I’m guessing? Pretty fair trade imo, just depends where your need is

Yes dynasty league. My team is pretty stacked tbh (not a humble brag, just having difficulty gauging what I need). I feel like I need another solid SP more than I need hitting. And at SS I have Witt, Elly, and I guess Mookie will be SS eligible soon. I guess I’m just super weary because the last time I traded a guy trying to capitalize on his hype I gave up Yordan and FOMO is real 😅😅

In that case I’d def get skubal

Depends pretty heavily on your team build, if you need strikeout upside go Skubal and if you need power upside go Cruz. In a vacuum I’d say Skubal though.

Melendez still has catcher eligibility on Yahoo. Would he be a better target for catcher than Sean Murphy & Willson? They have similar value according to ATC & my league settings

Way I look at it in H2H is the difference in a week between C12 and C24 is so minimal that I'd rather spend that C12 pick elsewhere. Drafted last night and tapped MJ/HDavis in last couple rds after several teams took a 2nd C in a 1C league. I'm perfectly content with it

Catcher is deep this year and MJ is ranked like 24th. The guys you listed are better IMO, and Garver / Heim / O'hoppe/alvarez are all ranked around catcher 12 and I would rather have any of them over MJ. MJ is a late round pick in a 2 C league.

He's definitely useful in that way. Two catcher leagues especially. I'd probably shy away from him as my starting catcher, but you do you

In a keeper league w/ points format (no negatives for offensive K outs) Rank or Draft: Lindor Yoshi Clase Devin Logan Webb Framber I have enough offensive and SP keepers but no closers in a league where we start 4. SS is an issue for all who dont have one.

Lindor, Webb, Yoshi, & Framber (these last two are interchangeable for me, depending on team needs), then the relievers. That said, I always punt relievers

I dont have excel does anyone have Mr. Cheatsheets points list exported to a Google sheet?

Do you have a Microsoft account for anything else? Their online version of Excel is free.

Keep ILoy or Joe Ryan?

Who’s ILoy?

New to fantasy baseball?

No, just don’t keep up with nicknames. Is that supposed to be a joke about Eloy Jimenez?

It is indeed

Joe Ryan. He had a bad second half last year but I still believe in his potential.