Ottoneu 2015

[Ceetar]

TEAMS
Brettanomyces Tart-ans (this is a beer joke) - Ceetar
Greenpoint Lunchladies - mbtn01
Alpine Albatrosses - Mets Marathon
smg58 - Not sure who this is.
Stony Brook Devil Toads - seawolf
Mohawk Red Flyers - mgmlax85
Muddy Chickens - ryanflc
Hungrypup - j1mbo15
Giant Gay Liberal Media Deathship - LWFS
Easton Assassins - bootlucky
Snukes - SaltyGary
Miracle Monks - transmonk




I don't know if anyone's interested in a second league, but the other league I'm in appears to have an abandoned team (Spa City Nine League of Lev)

http://ottoneu.fangraphs.com/claimteams

metsmarathon has found us a replacement for ABNS, but if anyone else is planning on dropping out, let me know?

Also, Arbitration. Got another 2 weeks or so to make everyone elses rosters more expensive.

Edited October 28, 2014 by Guest

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yeah, gotta keep up with these announcements. Is there a date at which I'm supposed to drop my guys?

[Ceetar]

after arb which I think is 11/15. I mean, you can drop 'em now but on the off chance someone wants to give a +$1 to a guy you're going to drop, you save money by waiting.

And before 1/31. That's the keeper deadline.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

OK thanks. Gonna screw all you guys with big $$ raises

[Ceetar]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: OK thanks. Gonna screw all you guys with big $$ raises

put it all on David Wright please.

[metsmarathon]

tick. tock. tick. tock.

time is rapidly running out to punish my roster.

i mean, i'm okay with not having my guys escalate in cost too rapidly. i just figured some of you might not be feeling the same way...

[TransMonk]

Yeah, punish his roster...feel free to go easy on mine.

[seawolf17]

Okay, I'm in.

Can we put a list in the top post of this thread as to who's who over there?

[metsmarathon]

Brettanomyces Tart-ans (this is a beer joke) - Ceetar Greenpoint Lunchladies - mbtn01 Alpine Albatrosses - Mets Marathon smg58 - Not sure who this is. Stony Brook Devil Toads - seawolf Mohawk Red Flyers - mgmlax85 Muddy Chickens - ryanflc Hungrypup - j1mbo15 Giant Gay Liberal Media Deathship - LWFS Easton Assassins - bootlucky Snukes - SaltyGary Miracle Monks - transmonk

real-world friends of mine in bold.

as opposed to you virtual-world friends of mine, who i still all assume to be axe-murderers, despite having met a fine number of you. its the internet, afterall. how can i be sure those people i met were really you, hmmm?

[TransMonk]

smg58 is a Cranepooler who uses the same handle here.

[smg58]

I was assuming (hoping) he was being sarcastic. But yes, I'm an axe murderer.

[seawolf17]

smg58 wrote: I was assuming (hoping) he was being sarcastic. But yes, I'm an axe murderer.

I'd both assumed he was kidding AND can confirm that smg is an axe murderer.

[metsmarathon]

i [u:1te3x9vy]knew [/u:1te3x9vy]it!

[Ceetar]

I prefer to do my murdering with a scythe myself, so I'm definitely not an axe murderer.

[metsmarathon]

hmm... there have been some interesting cuts already in the league. players i would definitely (or likely) have kept at their going salaries are being shed left and right.

a $3 darren o'day, an $8 drew stubbs, a bargain-priced $17 adrian gonzalez, and even a reasonably priced $26 matt kemp with a fair amount of upside...

obviously, difficult decisions are being made, and i'm myself not yet ready to make my own massive mistakes. thanks to all your arbitration efforts, i've got some hard work to do. jerks.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yewah, Darren o'Day was a mistake. His box was somehow prechecked or inadvertently checked when I made cuts.

I didn't wanna make a big issue of it.

[metsmarathon]

ah. sorry, then.

i did that the first year of hte league. i forget which player. maybe johnny venters, though i struggle to think of why i would have wanted to keep him at $20. anyways, he blew up his elbow in spring training the follwing season, and has yet to pitch again so it all worked out, ofr me at least.

hopefully o'day does not see the same thing happen to his own career.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I don't much care about relief pitchers anyway. $3 a good deal I guess but there will be others.

[Ceetar]

I feel like you can generally pick up the 'one-year wonder' type relievers for pennies in May if you're paying attention.

[metsmarathon]

i've probably over-invested in relievers in the past few years. though, it hasn't hurt me too much. yet...

[Ceetar]

metsmarathon wrote: i've probably over-invested in relievers in the past few years. though, it hasn't hurt me too much. yet...

It's such a delicate balance. Technically you don't need them, can just stack SP and get your innings, but RP generally have higher K rates(and lower ERA) so really you need them to win those categories.

[metsmarathon]

i'm finding htat this year, more than most, i'm really struggling with deciding who to cut and who not to cut.

part of it is that i see there are a lot of teams with, potentially, a ton of money to spend, and i've got some players that that money could get spent on. so my chances of redrafting a player at a reduced rate seems slim. it's worked in the past, and for some reason our league seems to have depressed salaries for the top players, but i'm not expecting htat to hold for much longer.

so right now, i'm looking, i think, at a stars & scrubs lineup, and a fair number of bench slots to fill for not a lot of money in the draft. my team does look rather stacked, though.

i'm happy to entertain trades for some of my more expensive players, of course, but i'm still in win-now mode, perhaps moreso now than ever. if, for instance, you think you might want to own your very own $60 clayton kershaw, and have something truly compelling to offer, i'm a-listening. the same holds true for a $39 future-met troy tulowitzki.

[Ceetar]

I might be interested in TT. Hmm.

[smg58]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Yewah, Darren o'Day was a mistake. His box was somehow prechecked or inadvertently checked when I made cuts. I didn't wanna make a big issue of it.

It's not like you're the first person to make a mistake by cutting Darren O'Day.

I've done a good job of grabbing prospects and making cheap investments on good players, but none of my big investments have paid off. I have plenty of money for a small number of spots, but I feel like I need to grab somebody big who then plays up to the salary.

[metsmarathon]

Ceetar wrote: I might be interested in TT. Hmm.

i've made a tulowitzki-based offer to whet your whistle.

[Ceetar]

Welcome Troy. Sorry, you can't wear #2 here because it's been permanently soiled.


Anyone want to take a flyer on Brian McCann? feels like a prime candidate for a bounce-back in HR at least.

Lester?

How about Segura? SS, also a young bounceback type guy.

[Ceetar]

believe keeper deadline is Friday or Saturday, better drop those bums you hate.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I got a must-renew-by-Feb.-14 message so make sure you don;t expire.

[metsmarathon]

if not, it'll make more work for the commish, as he'll have to kick out anyone whose expired team is snapped up by some random dude, as i think happened last year.

[Ceetar]

metsmarathon wrote: if not, it'll make more work for the commish, as he'll have to kick out anyone whose expired team is snapped up by some random dude, as i think happened last year.

yeah. though that was kinda fun too.