metsmarathon

but... mr met doesn't speak...

90-72 2nd place lose nlds

1. Reach base safely lagares 2. Get a hit lagares 3. Draw a walk wright 4. Hit a double cuddyer 5. Hit a triple lagares 6. Hit a home run granderson 7. Steal second base lagares 8. Reach by error duda 9. Hit a grounds-rule double granderson 10. Score a run lagares 11. Drive in a run duda 12. Get hit by a pitch wright 13. Drive in more than one run in a single plate appearance duda 14. Hit into a double play wright 15. Get caught stealing OR picked off base murphy 16. Strike out as a batter granderson 17. Bunt for a base hit tejada 18. Get tagged out at home murphy 19. Pinch hit tejada 20. Be pinch-hit for colon 21. Commit an error flores 22. Play a batted ball by an opponent in fair territory flores 23. Hit a sacrifice fly granderson 24. Slide (head or feet first, on the basepaths) lagares 25. Have 2 hits in a game cuddyer 26. Be called on to relieve familia 27. Strike out 6 or more batters in the same game degrom 28. Hit an opposing batter with a pitch gee 29. Win a Schaefer POTG wright 30. Finish a game (with a save or not) torres, alex Bonus/tiebreaker: score the first double play the Mets turn 4-6-3

anything you can do to shut down or close-out the draft? it shows as "in-progress" which puts the kibosh on any waiver-wire auctions.

i blame fakesnukes

dangit! i guess i'll finish off my roster the old-fashioned way.

so... did the draft time out or something...? or does fangraphs hate midnight?

it also appears to be missing a goodly number of starting pitchers. like sonny gray, michael wacha, yordano ventura. i haven't looked to see if the hitters are similarly glitched. but regardless of roster size, it does still only show 150 players with positive value, adjusting only for position and budget. i'm glad i'm not relying on it for anything, that's for damned sure!

you're using a $300 budget instead of hte $400 we have (although some allowance should be made for prospects and the like) regardless, even at $78, he's twice as much as the next highest pitcher. oh, the problem as i can see it, actually, is that even though you've got hte right number of players identified for all the roster slot and what-not, the calculator is still somehow only calculating 150 hitters and 150 pitchers with positive value, for effectively a 25-man roster, (meaning it has too high a floor for the replacement player), and is therefore spreading too much money across too few players. it's also not doing the hr/9, though just looking at hr isn't all that far off. draft friday is fine. i hate to say it, but it's far better to screw over one player than to screw over the whole league. and while it's surely small comfort, lwfs will have an immense advantage in being able to spoil any in-season waiver wire call-ups. i'd love to start up a separate parallel league where we tried the blind auction waiver-wire draft. it seems like a thoroughly interesting experiment to run. but a great way to fuck up an otherwise perfectly good league.

It doesn't do hr/9, and I just use hr, it tells me that kershaw should be priced at almost $130! I mean, it's nice to think Im not overpaying him, but there's no way a full third of a payroll should be tied upon one guy, no matter how good he is. So, what's the plan?

i don't even know what that means, and that calculator is useless for our league.

Ceetar wrote: Ceetar wrote: We _could_ do it entirely off line. I could email out say 20 guys on Monday and have everyone submit a blind bid on them and then manually add to teams. But based on the responses of some I'm not sure that sort of regular work seems acceptable to all. Let's not do it this way. I mean, it's roughly the same as doing it all via waivers, just without the time constraints. there's also the potential for corruption, tomfoolery, and the appearance of tomfoolery and corruption. there'd simply be no way to be sure that you ever really truly did have the highest bid on a player before opening any of the emails.

i don't think we can adjust the timescale on the waiver wire auction unless we take it completely offline. this is a very interesting suggestion that i think could work. there are 200 roster spots that need to be filled, and 10 viable auction days (asuming we start on monday 23 march and run until april 2nd, allowing hte final auctions to close before the first official game on april 5th). if each day, we allow teams to nominate two players for the auction, we should be able to get it done in time. it will be a very weird auction, and some teams will surely get screwed and make colossally bad decisions, and some players will go for insanely reduced rates, but it beats the alternative of having one or more thoroughly uncompetitive teaams because of a missed draft. i'd be okay with going forward with this strategy if we can get buy-in from the rest of hte owners, but ovbiously only if the conventional draft option is impossible. obviously, if a guy is unavailable to participate in the auctions the next two weeks, it all falls apart just as badly.

if it makes you feel better, if the draft were tonight, i would've been royally fucked. i'd forgotten to send myself my latest spreadsheet, though i think i recreated the missing bits. but teh biggest issue is that my internet was shit. i was on the draft with my freaking nook. i think my pc likes my network now, but its hard to say... regardless, i was not in good shape for tonight, so it worked out well enough for me so far. but still, boo on the guys who couldn't make the draft. we should dock them salary or something.

Was Wolfe one of the 2 teams or were there in fact three teams unavailable?

well, bryant went early in the 8th, three picks after i'd selected degrom. i was very tempted to pull the trigger there, but it felt too early. i was hoping he would last until my next pick at the end of the 9th. oh well. i had an interesting draft. i had the 11th pick in a 12-team league, and my first two picks were tulo & cano. i never have a solid middle infield, and didn't quite know what to do with myself. by the middle rounds, i was hunting and pecking throughout my pre-draft rankings, looking for potential values and good fits, and stressed out as the players i wanted disappeared right before my pick. in the late rounds, i think i was a little too focused on picking up future talent that i mightn't be able to keep, and which mightn't play much this year anyways. i have syndergaard and carlos rodon sitting on my bench. they are joined there by a pair of aces recovering from injuries who should help mid-season in jose fernandez (spaztastically selected in the 14th round) and garrett richards (keeper, 23rd round). once the season starts and they hit the DL, i'll be able to back-fill the couple of holes i have. if all goes well, i'll have a juggernaut in the last half with more keepable aces than i can shake a stick at. if, that is, i survive the first half... c d'arnaud (19) 1b abreu (k-10) 2b cano (2) ss tulo (1) 3b alvarez (18) of hamilton (3) of yelich (6) of jd martinez (7) ut zobrist (11) ut baez (13) b pearce(15) b arcia (17) b semien (21) sp scherzer (k-4) sp shields (5) sp degrom (8) sp pineda(16) rp cody allen (9) rp joaquin benoit (12) bp-dl fernandez (14) bp syndergaard (20) bp rodon (22) bp-dl g.richards (k-23)

i have a draft tonight, of a long-time league that recently enacted new keeper rules, in the interest of keeping things interesting. the rules are, essentially: a) up to 3 players may be kept from the preceding year (edited) the first year a keepr is kept, his draft slot is the slot he was drafted in. if a keeper was kept in the prior season, his draft slot will be the average (rounded down) of the prior year's draft position and hte current year's ADP so a player selected in the 10th round last year, will be kept at the 10th round this year. and next year, if he has an ADP in the 2nd round, his draft slot for the following season will be (10+2)/2 = 6th round. c) no player with a draft slot in the first 3 rounds may be kept the following season. so, having made my keeper picks already, and i think i'm happy enough with them... my dilemma becomes... how early do i draft kris bryant and noah syndergaard? with a full 600-at bats, bryant projects to be a 4th round value. with 500 at bats, he's a 10th rounder (assuming his value to be spread evenly thru the year). is it crazy to think of taking him as early as the 10th round? and the other consideration is, the longer i wait on him, the longer i would be able to keep him, as a lower draft slot would take longer to ascend into the 3rd round. but then, how long is too long...? last year, tanaka went in the 9th, and jose abreu went in the 10th round (to me). is it reasonable to think that bryant would go sooner or later? in the same draft, billy hamilton went in the 4th round....!

thre's two sides to the argument about STFU. on the one hand, there's the whole, STFU and do your job. you're not being paid to be a philosopher or a theologist. you're being paid to be a ball player, or a bricklayer, or a dentist. so STFU and do that job, and stop letting your mouth get in the way or hitting a ball, building a wall, or filling a cavity. on the other hand, there's the greater context of expressing differing views in a peaceable democratic society. and in that context, ideally, the expression of differing views can lead to outdated or outmoded ideas being pushed to the wayside, as hearts and minds are changed for the better. and in that context, STFU doesn't really work out so well. instead it can lead to defensive positions being taken, harder stances being forged in the crucible of public ridicule. it can lead to backlash. the end goal is to seek understanding and acceptance, not fearful submission.

With the whole, gay is a lifestyle choice... Doesn't that mean that Murphy also had to choose to be straight? And by that, I mean, that at one point, he had to be looking at dicks and think, "man, they might be just as good as pussy. I wonder if I should give it a try...? No, wait... My religion says it's bad, so I'm not going to give into the temptation of the cock. It's straightsville all the way for me." just like he chose the baseball lifestyle and the dad lifestyle, despite the temptations to go in other directions. It's okay Daniel. We understand. Cocks are tempting. But stay strong, or you'll go straight to hell.

i'd like to look at one of the kids in the 2-hole, but otherwise, i'm pretty OK with vic's lineup. especially the double-leadoff thingy that it presents.

lagares seems to be the potential future solution, and in fact since 2011 his numbers in the minors seem to suggest that he has it in him to get on base at a good clip, but i'm not sure that it's sustainable. i don't think i want to put the pressure on either of the young'uns flores and d'arnaud. that leaves me with granderson, wright, cuddy, duda, and murphy. granderson might be ok there, as he can draw a walk, but his average is so low that his obp is going to be suboptimal. batting him leadoff might be the trick to get him to display more plate discipline, but at this point, i think that he is what he is, and that is a 5- or 6-hitter. cuddy throws up some good OBP numbers, with some less-than-zero speed on hte basepaths. he wouldn't be awful, but he would be better batting lower in teh lineup, at whichever 5-or 6-spot granderson isn't occupying, and pending of course what hte kids do. wright and duda, well, i think we all know where they should be batting. 3 & 4. that leaves me with murphy. yeah, i'm going to nominate him for hte job. he's more of an ideal 2-hitter, but i feel like he does have the obp tool in his kit, he just needs to dust it off.

13-7 2.95 ERA in 180 innings, with 185 k's, better late in the season than early.

i'm thinking 87-90ish, but settled on 88 wins as my most probable.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: CBS Sports wrote: MLB had been unique. Now it has a clock like other sports. mlb is stil unique, in that the clock is not used to regulate the length of hte game, merely the pace of the breaks in the play. it's still ridiculous, to an extent, that hte umpires need a clock to be able to enfore that kind of thing. maybe instead of a big ol' clock, the umpires could have, oh, i dunno, a watch? hell, give 'em all smart watches that are tied into the timing. thye could even use them to track pitch timing, instead of having some big intrusive and incongruous shot clock.

the proposed draft date works well for my crew.