Tomorrow
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 11:27 am
Tomorrow, we go from projection to production.
Value, will actually have value.
Tomorrow, we forget about being sniped, the so-called value picks, and really, about drafts altogether.
Where we drafted a player doesn't matter. All that matters now, is that that player is on OUR team.
I've taken the first day of baseball season off as long as I can remember.
Back in the day, the Cincinnati Reds had the first game because of tradition.
Now, tradition means little. Little matter though.
We have technology where we can see any game at any time. LOVE THAT
The NFBC has jaded my baseball experience.
I used to be a purist, looking at baseball games as the grand sport it is.
I had no ties to players or teams. A fan of none and all.
The NFBC makes me look at things differently.
Now, I can't watch my pitchers throw live in a game.
Drives me crazy. Even a 2-0 count was reason to berate my twirler.
Somehow, it easier to 'watch' my pitcher through updates or after knowing what happened in his game.
I can watch my hitters all day. If making an out, I'll revert back to Little League coaching days, pretending he was the ninth hitter in my lineup..
"That's ok, you'll get him next time!"....and sometimes, I'll even believe myself.
It's too early in the season to root against another player.
Every fantasy team is still in the race. Just like real baseball!
On the first day of the season, I can handle just about anything my players want to do to me.....except one thing.
It drives me crazy when a pitcher puts up this kind of line...1/3 inning, 6 hits, 5 ER, 1 BB, 0 K
I hate it because it puts a team dead last in two categories for not only a day, but probably a lot longer.
It seems like we never get outta that hole.
One thing that is different from past year's is that teams aren't sending kids down to obtain another year of service time.
That rule is generally nagged about by fans to the MLB, but it is the Union wanting the rule.
They believe a veteran at more pay will be used over a kid getting minimum.
It's not a problem this year because of money.
Players like Tatis Jr, Guerrero Jr, Eloy Jimenez, and Peter Alonso will/would start at the Major League level.
Before this year, the mindset was to send kids down to get the extra year. Now, the mindset is that these kids will be signed to extensions any way, like already has been done with Jimenez, so why not start them in the Majors. A plus for us.
I love drafting season, but I'm glad it's almost over.
The podcasts and articles with projections have long since been turned off or ignored.
The time has come to put up or shut up.
Tomorrow, we won't care what round we drafted Yu Darvish in.
We won't care if it was the ninth, 10th, 11th, or 12th.
We'll be more concerned in who he faces and the real value we receive from his Start.
When drafting him, his blister was not known about or slight thought.
Now owning him, we are concerned as if our own child had a cold.
An average of 14 players drafted before tomorrow, will not be on your roster at the end of the year.
Hard to fathom. Each pick, Gold! Or so it seems.
Alone, more than half the Closer's who started with the job last year, did not finish the season with same job.
We find out that drafting only serves to give us the base to win.
Tomorrow, we start the season with a full 30-man roster with trust in each player.
Before we know it, those players will be shredded by injury and under performance.
At the end of the year, our Cadillac of a roster has turned into a Subaru.
The dreams, the projections, the 'value' won't mean shit.
What does matter is if we won.
A Main Event win is a true feather in our cap.
If winning the Main Event league, we're ecstatic.
If losing, we cope.
Either way, on that last day of the regular season, the winners and losers will be looking forward to the same thing we're looking forward to right now.
Tomorrow.
We are full of hope that the next season will be better than the last.
And that starts happening....
Tomorrow.
Value, will actually have value.
Tomorrow, we forget about being sniped, the so-called value picks, and really, about drafts altogether.
Where we drafted a player doesn't matter. All that matters now, is that that player is on OUR team.
I've taken the first day of baseball season off as long as I can remember.
Back in the day, the Cincinnati Reds had the first game because of tradition.
Now, tradition means little. Little matter though.
We have technology where we can see any game at any time. LOVE THAT
The NFBC has jaded my baseball experience.
I used to be a purist, looking at baseball games as the grand sport it is.
I had no ties to players or teams. A fan of none and all.
The NFBC makes me look at things differently.
Now, I can't watch my pitchers throw live in a game.
Drives me crazy. Even a 2-0 count was reason to berate my twirler.
Somehow, it easier to 'watch' my pitcher through updates or after knowing what happened in his game.
I can watch my hitters all day. If making an out, I'll revert back to Little League coaching days, pretending he was the ninth hitter in my lineup..
"That's ok, you'll get him next time!"....and sometimes, I'll even believe myself.
It's too early in the season to root against another player.
Every fantasy team is still in the race. Just like real baseball!
On the first day of the season, I can handle just about anything my players want to do to me.....except one thing.
It drives me crazy when a pitcher puts up this kind of line...1/3 inning, 6 hits, 5 ER, 1 BB, 0 K
I hate it because it puts a team dead last in two categories for not only a day, but probably a lot longer.
It seems like we never get outta that hole.
One thing that is different from past year's is that teams aren't sending kids down to obtain another year of service time.
That rule is generally nagged about by fans to the MLB, but it is the Union wanting the rule.
They believe a veteran at more pay will be used over a kid getting minimum.
It's not a problem this year because of money.
Players like Tatis Jr, Guerrero Jr, Eloy Jimenez, and Peter Alonso will/would start at the Major League level.
Before this year, the mindset was to send kids down to get the extra year. Now, the mindset is that these kids will be signed to extensions any way, like already has been done with Jimenez, so why not start them in the Majors. A plus for us.
I love drafting season, but I'm glad it's almost over.
The podcasts and articles with projections have long since been turned off or ignored.
The time has come to put up or shut up.
Tomorrow, we won't care what round we drafted Yu Darvish in.
We won't care if it was the ninth, 10th, 11th, or 12th.
We'll be more concerned in who he faces and the real value we receive from his Start.
When drafting him, his blister was not known about or slight thought.
Now owning him, we are concerned as if our own child had a cold.
An average of 14 players drafted before tomorrow, will not be on your roster at the end of the year.
Hard to fathom. Each pick, Gold! Or so it seems.
Alone, more than half the Closer's who started with the job last year, did not finish the season with same job.
We find out that drafting only serves to give us the base to win.
Tomorrow, we start the season with a full 30-man roster with trust in each player.
Before we know it, those players will be shredded by injury and under performance.
At the end of the year, our Cadillac of a roster has turned into a Subaru.
The dreams, the projections, the 'value' won't mean shit.
What does matter is if we won.
A Main Event win is a true feather in our cap.
If winning the Main Event league, we're ecstatic.
If losing, we cope.
Either way, on that last day of the regular season, the winners and losers will be looking forward to the same thing we're looking forward to right now.
Tomorrow.
We are full of hope that the next season will be better than the last.
And that starts happening....
Tomorrow.