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That's bull****. Based on where he's positioned during the shift? He should have to be in the lineup as 2B. LH dude qualifying like that at MI is beyond stupid. It's not the shift, but that he switches gloves (per MLB rule) in the shift. The logical rule change for future seasons is having eligibil...

Greg - any lean to which would be the primary weekend, with the Friday AL/NL drafts? Asking for a friend that's in Tout Wars. I would think the Second Weekend in Las Vegas. It seems like First Weekend would be LV, Chicago and New York. Lots to talk through once we get this official schedule, but th...

Greg - any lean to which would be the primary weekend, with the Friday AL/NL drafts? Asking for a friend that's in Tout Wars.

I have a feeling I know what a section or two will be doing at the AFL this fall...

Greg - I understand the reasoning, always have, just don't agree with it. If you wanted to speculate on Bellinger, pick him before someone else did. How many are there in these leagues that got sniped on Bellinger versus those with no intention of stashing him? My guess is the number not planning on...

The power increase isn't because of the shift - it's likely a confluence of a bunch of things (including the ball) - but there's also the big change in general philosophy of elevating low pitches. This would be the case regardless of the shift. My theory is not all fly balls are created equal. Sure,...

If DL was added, and I'm not completely against it, I'd rather it be a 5 or 6-man bench with 1-2 DL slots, as opposed to shrinking the available FAAB pool with bigger rosters. My main resistance to this has to do with timing issues around designating injured players as officially injured, we all kn...

If the landscape remains the way it is now, middle relievers will organically become more useful as fantasy owners realize having Miller/Devenksi/Betances etc. instead of streaming an SP7 may earn more ratio points than are lost in W and K. There are two rules in the NFBC I'd change. 1. Having DL an...

Here's one... the league's best road ERA (3.31) belongs to the....

Rockies?

I learned how to slide on a blanket on a gym floor. Apparently, my coach got complaints from parents in previous years after their kids came home a little dirtier than normal from sliding practice.

Today, the only sliding I do is down the Main Event standings.

Data on my four Cutlines. There were 158 players picked up in at least one league. That's 15-16 more rounds to get everyone (not suggesting, just pointing it out). Here's the data... Player #CUT DC ADP David Price 1 57 Steven Matz 1 164 Shawn Kelley 1 215 Jarrod Dyson 1 224 Hector Neris 1 234 Addiso...

I think the way to look at it is see when the majority of the Cutline FAAB pickups from both periods were drafted (aka their ADP) in the DC leagues. I'd do it, but I don't have all the Cutline pickups, though, I'm in four leagues and will run it for the players picked up in 3 or 4 of my leagues. Sta...

1. Clayton Kershaw (P) [Edit] $700
a. Chris Sale (P) [Edit] $700

2. Chris Sale (P) Edit] $300

Would be the conventional way to accomplish (what I think is) the intention.

Big City to the rescue!

Called up Rio Ruiz and signed James Loney.

Hey, I'm just the messenger.

FWIW, it's not a shift, but rather a bunt defense where the second baseman holds the runner on first while Rizzo plays in for the sacrifice. The catch is when they did this last year, the Pirates called them out since the mitts were illegal. Zobrist and Rizzo swapped, meaning they each were using a ...

Copy of The Z Book, an on-line compilation of research and strategy essays to everyone finishing ahead of me.

PLEASE don't make me start posting videos to rustle up interest. The camera adds a couple...hundred pounds.

If Andy doesn't have a free drink in his hand at all times in NYC, we've failed him. Plus, it can't hurt if he drafts drunk, one (or two) less team(s) to worry about in the Auction Championship.

There's this web site I know, it doesn't make much, if any money, but it's pretty well respected, that's built on Joomla but had their tech guy disappear. They'd like someone, not really on staff, but on call that could help out. Initially, there's some stuff that could use some tweaking, but genera...

Pretty good chance we need one for the AL only on-line auction on Saturday, March 11. Please e-mail ( do not PM) me

todd dot zola at gmail dot com

if you're interested.

Thanks.

AL Auction will be 4 PM ET

GOOD NEWS -- we're sold out. Now I just have to figure out how to get us set up while on the road/in meetings. PLEASE send me an e-mail, even if you think I have it so I can invite you to the RTS site. We'll deal with paying NFBC later. todd dot zola at gmail dot com AL -- please send your preferenc...

OBP

If Kershaw is available at 1.10 - I'm booting Gonos from the league and taking his spot

And then there was one (opening).

PLEASE be prepared to move quickly once I get the leagues set up on RTS. That is, when I send e-mails asking to sign into the league, do so ASAP in case we have some dropouts etc.

ONE MORE IN THE NL - who wants in?