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I have not been to nearly as many as I want, but I really liked the Rangers ballpark in Arlington (called Globe Life Ballpark now I think). The outfield was wonkey and the food was good. My favorite thing about Arlington is they let you bring your own food/drink in. One of the few stadiums I have b...

I would like clarification on rule 9.a in regards to Jose Iglesias position eligibility in 2015. Jose Iglesias is listed as only SS eligible in the NFBC eligibility page (http://nfbc.stats.com/baseball/player_eligibility.asp). 9.a) Players who played at least 20 games at any position in 2014 will qu...

Looks like an auction draft was uploaded to ADPs. Also when I click on "Slow Drafts" link on the "By Draft Type:" line, nothing comes up.

Message Boards are about opinions. 10 Jason Heyward's WAR is stupid. No way around it. It is about Alex Gordon and not Jason Heyward, but I thought this was interesting article on FanGraphs today discussing the defensive aspect of WAR. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/so-lets-talk-about-alex-gordon/

Tanaka will probably be a second or third rounder next year, while 'acceptable' 4th round players like Craig, Hosmer, or others will not. A little early to throw Hosmer into the "over-drafted" group in my opinion. He is hitting pretty well (.295) just hasn't produced power/speed yet. Last year he w...

Jonanthan Schoop - 6 games at 3B
Logan Morrison - 3 games in OF

I also would like to see more for the 2-20 group.

I have the same reservations about Cabrera. I haven't had the chance to prove it this season yet but if I had the #2 pick, I would take Goldschmidt over Cabrera. I think he can match Cabrera in every category except batting average and Goldschmidt has a clear edge in speed. I choose the rising the s...

I have Braun penciled in at 87 in my early rankings. Do you think he will drop that far?

Fun distraction. Thanks. Here are my guesses.

1. Yelich 10, Moss 15, Kuroda 20
2. Soriano
3. B - Hosmer, Pujols, Gonzalez
4. B - Round 14
5. B - Round 8

I think I would enjoy this idea but I only run one or two teams a year. With all the platoons in baseball, I think this would add more strategy to the game. Plus you could create your own platoons more easily.

I thought it was also fun to look at the players with the highest and lowest pitches per plate appearance (PPPA). Once again this is from 2005-2012 only including players with 400 or more PA. Highest Player (Year) - PPPA Brett Garnder (2010) - 4.62 Nick Swisher (2008) - 4.53 Jayson Werth (2008) - 4....

If you don't mind, I will inject a bit of numerish into the thread. I have been working with a dataset from 2005-2012 only including players over 400 PA (1699 observations) from fangraphs. I ran the correlations of Pitches/PA with batting average, BABIP, OBP, BB%, and K%. Correlation with Pitches/PA...

If I were to draft today for next year, officially he would be on my do not draft list. But realistically (or unrealistically) if he was still there sometime around round 12-15 (I don't think he would still be there), I would consider taking him. My guess is that if a group of people drafted today f...

The thing that gets me the most upset by this mess is the fact he lied well enough to get some people to trust him. I don't think it was majority of the fans, but I think a lot of people believed that Braun was innocent (myself included). I thought he gave reasonable doubt to his use of PEDs. It mak...

Jvetter, I am not in any 12 team leagues this year so I can't check, but I always thought the 12 team leagues will have different percentage owned on your roster page. Many players are just less owned in these leagues. If in the main event percentage owned on roster pages, if 12 team data is includ...

I've always been curious about this so I did a little checking. Based on the percentages I've seen, 99.3% seems to be the highest and 0.7% seems to be the lowest (not including 0 and 100%). So I think the number of leagues we are looking for is between 150 and 153 (based on the 2nd lowest percentage...

They've been perfectly happy running out Bruce Chen, or Gil Meche, or Luke Hochevar for years. Those were the best Starters the Royals have had over the last seven years. What about Greinke? I would consider him the best pitcher the Royals have had in the last 7 years. I am probably proving your po...

First off. I love reading your ramblings. I have been stalking the boards for over two years and finally recently joined them, and your "Daily Stuff" is something I look forward to reading. Second, I am competing against in you in the Online March 30th league main event. I am the Complex Infinity te...

How about this. say there is an obscure player in the free agent pool that has not accured stats and thus does not come up if you search "most at bats last 2 weeks" or "most stolen bases"... If you plug his name into the player search and he comes up, it would be nice if you could click him as a fr...

Cain(First Three Innings) - 7ER, 6H, 3HR, 1HBP, 1K - 0/7 stranded baserunners
Cain(Innings 4-6) - 0ER, 1H, 3K - 1/1 stranded baserunner

I know I am brand new on the boards and don't have any clout, but I wanted to give my two cents. I really like the new format mainly because it gives information on XBH, BB, and K for hitters and hits and walks information on pitchers. It gives a more complete summary of the game for each player the...