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Yeah, Brock Holt would also be my guess. I think you guys nailed it

Would anyone be interested in a fantasy baseball league for the website? I figured I would post here and move to appropriate forum later on so more people see this. I know this site used to have a yearly fantasy league and I’ve played in it multiple times but last year I believe A700 didn’t have interest in continuing to run it and it sort of fizzled out, so I’d like to gauge interest in it this year with the season around the corner. I believe it was a money league with a somewhat low buy in ($20 or so? Correct me if Im wrong for those who remember) but we could also just play for fun if that’s a deal breaker for some people. I typically like having at least some kind of prize to keep people engaged and active. Id be down to run it since I currently already commish two football leagues (1 yearly redraft, 1 dynasty), 1 dynasty basketball league and 1 dynasty baseball league. I typically use sleeper or Fantrax for dynasty league and ESPN for redrafts, but I’m not opposed to Yahoo or another website. If interested I guess just post here and also which website you prefer if any and if you’d want to play for money.

Good point. I’ll probably make a more in depth post in the main forum this weekend to gauge interest and so more people see it.

I have literally 0 expectations for Grissom. If he contributes, great. However, he’s done nothing at all to make me think he’ll make MLB roster, much less be a positive contributor.

Does anyone have interest in doing fantasy baseball on here again? I’d definitely be down to play and could potentially run a league if there is enough interest and no one wants to actually be commish. Just figured I’d test the waters

I know it’s spring training but the White Sox might actually be worse than last season. They look awful and looking at their projected roster doesn’t give me much hope for them either!

I try traveling to multiple cities per year and attending games/concerts if I can. Me and my friends want to attend a game at every stadium at some point. Last year I attended 8 MLB games (Boston, Baltimore x3, Cleveland Cincy x3) 3 NBA Games (Wizards/Spurs, Wizards/Nuggets, Wizards/Nets) 3 NFL games (Steelers/Jets, Steelers/Commanders, Steelers/Ravens) 2 college basketball games (MD/Wisconsin, MD/USC) 10 concerts - Taylor Swift, Tate McRae, Olivia Rodrigo, Sabrina Carpenter, Gracie Abrams, Blink182, Jason Derulo, J Cole, Post Malone and MGK.(most of these are girlfriends picks and I don’t kind pop so I’ll go with her) MLB games are pretty cheap compared to concerts and NFL. I spent more on one Taylor Swift concert and one Steelers/Jets Sunday night game than I spent for all the MLB games combined and one of the MLB games was monster seats which were expensive lol. It might just be because the Wizards are absolute dog s*** but NBA tickets seem cheap too. I usually attend a few games just to see other stars in person like Jokic. Wemby, Giannis, etc.

I didn’t even think and just clicked it at work!

I feel like the Orioles have a LOT of former stars sign there at the end of their career or for a random 1 year pit stop that is forgettable or bad. You mentioned Evans and there is also Sosa, Vladdy, Reggie Jackson, Tim Raines, K-Rod, Jim Thome, Justin Turner, Derek Lee and even recently they had Kimbrel and even signed Felix Hernandez before he decided to sit out during covid.

I’ve mainly been box score watching and haven’t really actually sat down and analyzed too much. Has Rafaela’s approach looked better this spring?

I like Guerrero a lot and really hope and think he could be an elite reliever.

Big game for Rafaela today

That pretty much sums up his career. Consistently inconsistent

One of the most weird careers I can remember. He Played for literally half the league. He would be good one year, one of worst pitchers in league the next year, and then be bad or average. He’s put up a 4 WAR season and two seasons of -2.3 WAR or worse. He’s led MLB in losses. He’s thrown a 149 pitch no hitter with 8 walks. Just an incredible amount of randomness.

Jim Edmonds as a Brewer, Sammy Sosa on Orioles, Miguel Tejada on Royals and Javy Lopez on Red Sox are more fun ones.

My friends do a similar one with the teams played for. They’ll name a player and we have to name every team he plays Ed for. It gets tough for the guys like Curtis Granderson, Fernando Rodney, Edwin Jackson and etc, or even just the guys who play for a random team you forget (Ken Griffey Jr on White Sox, Manny on Rays, Adam Laroche for 3 days on Red Sox, etc)

Great idea for a game by the way. Reminds me of what me and my friends do when drinking sometimes. Well just see who can name a more obscure player, guess players colleges or try guessing random sports trivia lol

I was going to say Youk because the right arm looked pretty big. But the fact the body type doesn’t match up and it looks like the guy is playing SS. I was thinking Marco Scutaro or Stephen Drew with a lean towards Scutaro. Xander manned SS for so long and the skin complexion doesn’t match him and the picture looks aged enough to not be Story. All the other guys over the last decade and before/during Xander I remember playing SS were either older or not white (Deven Marrero, Yamaico Navarro, Marco Hernandez, etc)

He definitely has things he can work on, but I’m sure a lot of teams would take him as a 5th starter. He probably has at least some trade value, or at the very least is a good depth piece to have with the injury histories of some of our starters

We’ve had some really bad starting pitchers over the years so I think Crawford has value. You obviously don’t want him being your ace or anything but he is a very solid back of rotation guy who can eat innings, is durable and doesn’t kill your team or the bullpen.

That’s on him then. Hes done nothing at all to improve his defensive abilities or show up in better shape. When the Sox signed Story, Xander was considered an average to below average defender. He wanted to keep the SS job so he came out in 2022 and had the best defensive season of his career.

The thing with Devers is when he was signed, he was already a bad defender and a little pudgy. You’d like to hope he’d get in a little better shape but I think it was kind of known going into that deal he was getting signed for his bat and eventually would need to switch positions or just become a DH.

The point is, with how good technology is, the umpires become pretty replaceable. Regarding check swings, I’m pretty sure they just guess most of the time anyway, especially since the check swing “rule” is so vague and kind of differs from game to game and umpire to umpire

Yes but it would make the job so easy to the point where any random person could do it. We probably also wouldn’t need 4 umpires anymore. That is why they are against it.