Tag Archives: Fantasy Baseball

Mo for Santana?

Posted by on 5/6/2010 No comments

JOHANBeen offered Johan Santana for Mariano Rivera straight up in my keeper league… that’s a no brainer right???

the downside would be that afterwards, i’d have jack shit for the Saves category.. which doesn’t bother me that much… I need the wins and strikeouts that santana could get me more than the saves…..

pretty solid.. i’m not really worried about being in 8th place after a month.. once my hitters heat up in the summer i’ll be good… my pitching is pretty good.. i have a solid era and whip, i do need more strikeouts and wins…

picked up Cecil, Harden, and Lowe recently, with the trade i’ve got an ace to go with CC.. yeah i think i’ll do this trade

the question then is…

Santana is still Santana right?

here’s today’s pitching lineup.

SP CC Sabathia (NYY – SP)
SP Tommy Hanson (Atl – SP)
SP Derek Lowe (Atl – SP)
RP Mariano Rivera (NYY – RP)
RP Jon Rauch (Min – RP)
P Kevin Gregg (Tor – RP)
P John Lackey (Bos – SP)
P –empty–
BN Max Scherzer (Det – SP)
BN Brian Matusz (Bal – SP)
BN Aroldis Chapman (Cin – SP)
BN Brett Cecil (Tor – SP)
BN Rich Harden (Tex – SP)
DL Jair Jurrjens (Atl – SP) DL
DL Brett Anderson (Oak – SP) DL

— a couple minutes later…

I’m taking it.

This recovers me from the opposite world trade i made a couple years ago with this guy…. where I traded away Dontrelle Willis for Dan Kolb.. the year Willis was decent and Kolb was horrible…

I really enjoyed having MO on my team.. I drafted him 2nd right after I took Jason Heyward… I just wanted that 1 stat to have 1 reliable guy who could keep me in the middle of that stat… Now i’ll have a pile of guys trying to pick up saves or mid inning strikeouts & wins for me.. which is fine too… Plus, Santana will be a keeper for a few years while Mo could retire at any year and was never a consideration of mine to keep next year…

MO

Sign up now!

Posted by on 2/22/2008 No comments

or MLB B-SMITH OPEN LEAGUE INVITE

http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1
League ID#: 69036
Password: open

DO IT!

B SMITH HERE! SERVING UP ANOTHER PLATTER OF TODAYS HOT NEW THING!

ITS MY OPEN LEAGUE! OPEN TO ALL!

you are all welcome to join! first come first served

great fun! great times! and more

Baseball people heads up

Sign up soon for good fun

Maybe you have previously been in one of my OPEN LEAGUES (it’s a four sport sport) or maybe you were in one of my other leagues..The truth is I’ve drastically reduced the number of leagues I run, and if you are up to the challenge and want to face off with some trouble then you found the right spot.. but thats the nature of the game.. its the b-smith open league, and thats how we roll

lets go..

otherwise and still even

SO DO IT!

SIGN UP FOR THE ANNUAL B-SMITH MLB OPEN LEAGUE DUDES

DO IT!

http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1

In order to join the league, follow the link above or go to game front page, click the “Sign Up Now” or “Get Another Team” button and follow the links to “Join a Custom League”. When prompted, enter the League ID# and password below.

League ID#: 69036
Password: open

http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1

Open Baseball League

Posted by on 2/12/2008 2 comments

If any of you out there like the BASEBALL and are interested in joining my OPEN Invite League, follow the below instructions to represent your skills.

In order to join the league, follow the link below, click the “Sign Up Now” or “Get Another Team” button and follow the links to “Join a Custom League”. When prompted, enter the League ID# and password below.

League ID#: 69036
Password: open

http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1

Yay!

Posted by on 10/1/2006 3 comments

Last day for fantasy baseball and it couldn’t have come faster. I’ll report on how my teams did sometime this week. Now I can concentrate on my football, hockey, and basketball teams. All of which don’t require as much tweaking, so lots of time will be freed up to do other things.

A Couple Things

Posted by on 7/1/2006 No comments

Okay so a couple things here…

1). The Tour de France just started. It’s awesome. I love it. I really want to try and watch it this year even without Lance Armstrong in it. He won 7 in a row and it was great to actually watch a good percentage of the last couple years. The Tour is on OLN in the mornings and that is real good for me. I usually have all morning and most of the early afternoon before I have to go to work, so that works out. The big big news this year is that Ivan Basso of Italy, Jan Ullrich of Germany, Francisco Mancebo of Spain, and others were all banned from the Tour de France a day before it started (yesterday) because of their involvement in a doping investigation in Spain. So with Lance out, and these favorites to win in Lance’s absense also out, it’s anyone’s race!

2) Fantasy Baseball is nutty. I am still chugging along with my teams. All of them. Many of them are doing quite good actually. I have received stellar seasons from players like Alfonso Soriano, Ryan Howard, Miguel Cabrera, Carlos Zambrano, Francisco Liriano, and many more. I’ve made a lot of moves in all of my leagues and in many cases I am atop the standings sitting pretty. It’s nuts and it takes up a good chunk of my mornings. But I have the time and I dig it so whatever.

3) My quest continues.

4) Live actions sports in the morning (like Tour de France, the World Cup, Wimbledon, and others) is awesome. Whoever invented sports in Europe so I could have something awesome to watch on TV in the mornings was a very very smart man. It’s bad enough that Cold Pizza is still in the middle of a 6 week hiatus.

5) The World Cup is awesome. Looks like an all European finale. Germany vs Italy and Portugal vs France. Who do you think will win?

Okay thats all for now..

MLB Fantasy Overload

Posted by on 6/12/2006 No comments

Okay so I just realized that now I have a grand total of 64 Fantasy Baseball Teams. All on Yahoo. Recently midseason leagues have been forming and I signed up for a lot of those. Yahoo allows you to have 4 teams per yahoo id for each fantasy sport of the year. I play all the big ones. (shakin head in a sideways-swivel motion). I am the Big One.. Anyway.. Before the midseason drafts which started a few weeks ago I had only 24 teams on 6 ids. Well, I got caught up in the midseason drafts cause I love drafting, and I just love having super sick teams of players who are just heating up right now. I had several big big targets and several key drafts that should enable all of those teams to succeed well. It’s not like I just pick the teams and them leave them. (although i did forget about 4 of my basketball teams last season, only did 12, got bored, forgot).. Anyway. most of my original 24 are doing pretty well, many of them are leading their leagues or very close. I do have a few sticky teams that I am trying to finangle because my guy I took in the draft either isn’t performing or hasn’t yet. I’m expecting a big second half for many key players.. Okay so anyway, I drafted 40 more teams and now have 64 teams.. Here are a few of my key targets and many of the players I have on my fantasy teams..

In the drafts this would have been my top 5 regardless of what position I had.
1. Alfonso Soriano, Washington Nationals, 2B-LF-OF
2. Alex Rodriquez, NY Yankees, 3B
3 .Vladimir Guerrero, Los Angeles Angels, RF-OF
4. Manny Ramirez, Boston Red Sox, LF-OF
5. Jason Bay, Pittsburgh Pirates, LF-CF-OF

A typical team of mine looks like this.
C Joe Mauer / Brian McCann / Johnny Estrada
1B Ryan Howard / Paul Konerko
2B Alfonso Soriano / Chase Utley
3B Nomar Garciaparra / Chipper Jones
SS Miguel Tejada / Edgar Renteria / Hanley Ramirez
OF Grady Sizemore / Carl Crawford / Carlos Lee
OF Vlad Guerrero / Andruw Jones / Manny Ramirez
OF Jermaine Dye / Corey Patterson / Eric Byrnes / Scott Posednik / Jeff Francouer / Johnny Damon / Alex Rios
Util David Ortiz / Jose Castillo /Jose Reyes / Travis Hafner / Dan Uggla / Felipe Lopez / Chone Figgins / Jimmy Rollins / etc
SP Carlos Zambrano / Pedro Martinez / Mike Mussina / Roger Clemens / CC Sabathia / Bartolo Colon / Francisco Liriano / Jerad Weaver / John Smoltz / Tim Hudson
RP Jonathon Papelbon / Mariano Rivera / BJ Ryan / Bobby Jenks / Akinori Otsuka

Top 20

Posted by on 5/23/2006 No comments

TOP MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Fantasy Players (as of right now via Yahoo’s Rank)

1 A. Pujols (StL – 1B) – 47/149, 46 r, 22 hr, 54 rbi, 2 sb, .315 avg
2 S. Kazmir (TB – SP) – 64.0 ip, 7 w, 67 k, 2.39 era, 1.28 whip
3 P. Martínez (NYM – SP) – 60.2 ip, 5 w, 70 k, 2.82 era, 0.84 whip
4 M. Mussina (NYY – SP) – 66.2 ip, 6 w, 59 k, 2.57 era, 0.98 whip
5 C. Schilling (Bos – SP)- 66.1ip, 7 w, 58 k, 3.80 era, 1.07 whip
6 T. Glavine (NYM – SP) – 65.1 ip, 7 w, 51 k, 2.48 era, 1.13 whip
7 T. Gordon (Phi – RP) – 18.2 ip, 2 w, 13 sv, 26 k, 1.45 era, 0.91 whip
8 B. Webb (Ari – SP) – 73.2 ip, 7 w, 48 k, 2.44 era, 1.10 whip
9 J. Papelbon (Bos – RP) – 22.1 ip, 0 w, 15 sv, 19 k, 0.40 era, 0.63 whip
10 B. Arroyo (Cin – SP) – 70.2 ip, 6 w, 53 k, 2.29 era, 1.06 whip
11 C. Capuano (Mil – SP) – 68.0 ip, 5 w, 60 k, 2.78 era, 1.07 whip
12 Jo. Santana (Min – SP) – 61.1 ip, 4 w, 70 k, 3.23 era, 1.08 whip
13 A. Harang (Cin – SP) – 66.0 ip, 5 w, 67 k, 3.82 era, 1.23 whip
14. A. Soriano (Was – 2B,OF) – 51/181, 28 r, 15 hr, 30 rbi, 10 sb, .282 avg
15 J. Thome (CWS – 1B) – 44/151, 38 r, 17 hr, 41 rbi, .291 avg
16 K. Rogers (Det – SP) – 58.2 ip, 7 w, 31 k, 2.91 era, 1.14 whip
17 B. Ryan (Tor – RP) – 21.0 ip, 10 sv, 22 k, 0.43 era, 0.67 whip
18 F. López (Cin – 2B,SS) – 56/185, 34 r, 5 hr, 18 rbi, 16 sb, .303 avg
19 J. Smoltz (Atl – SP) – 69.1 ip, 4 w, 57 k, 3.12 era, 1.11 whip
20 H. Ramírez (Fla – SS) – 54/157, 39 r, 2 hr, 18 rbi, 14 sb, .344 avg

Midseason Baseball League Signup

Posted by on 5/23/2006 No comments

http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/
League ID#: 379643
League Name: AXA Midseason League
Password: fun
Season Type: Midseason
Draft Type: Live Draft
Draft Time: Sun May 28 9:00pm EDT
Max Teams: 12

FIVE to Ponder

Posted by on 4/27/2006 No comments

FIVE Super HOT Fantasy Players to look at picking up as soon as you can, but it’s probably too late.

1. Johnny Gomes OF Tampa Bay – 19R 10HR 21RBI .300AVG
2. Nick Swisher OF Oakland – 18R 9HR 20RBI .333AVG
3. Jason Giambi 1B NY Yankees – 15R 7HR 20RBI .340AVG
4. Nick Johnson 1B Washington – 19R 5HR 11RBI 2SB .378AVG
5. Alex Rios OF Toronto – 12R 6HR 18RBI 1SB .396AVG

Big Time

Posted by on 4/11/2006 1 comment

This is the toughest time of the year for fantasy players like me.
Baseball just started (i have 20 teams)
Hockey and Basketball fantasy playoffs have been going on for the past few weeks (i have a bunch of teams in both)
It’s tough. But I’m doing okay. So that’s good.

First Half Results

Posted by on 7/14/2005 No comments

Most of my teams are in good shape with balanced rosters. Most of my teams have injury problems. Some of my teams have bigger problems. Here is how my fantasy baseball teams are doing.

TEAM Name / LEAGUE Name / Rank

Scatterbrains / Rezijam / Rank: 1 of 8
AXA / Foleyboard / Rank: 3 of 10
Fessenden Ave / TCW Ball / Rank: 2 of 8
Brain Waves / Foleyball Z / Rank: 2 of 10
Squirrelmen / cubbies / Rank: 6 of 8
Llama Taboot Taboot / fantasy studs / Rank: 6 of 6
Dodo Birds / Flyball 2005 / Rank: 1 of 6
Dodo Bugs / Flyball HtoH / Rank: 2 of 6
Yeah Yeah Yeah / Six Piece / Rank: 1 of 6
Fatcats / Experimental / Rank: 1 of 4
Orange Crush / 4 by 4 / Rank: 2 of 4
Foursome Fighters / Four More / Rank: 1 of 4
midseason leagues ==>
REZI / Rock n Roll league / Rank: 1 of 7
Rezifunksoulbrothers / Midseason Heros / Rank: 1 of 6
REZI JAM / Slamming / Rank: 1 of 6
Falcon Fury / Passing Time Till Football / Rank: 1 of 6
Ride the Wave / Mid Season / Rank: 11 of 20
Pondo Mondos / MLB 05 / Rank: 1 of 8
Ice Cold / Picture Pefect / Rank: 2 of 6
Sage / Better Late Than Never / Rank: 5 of 6
Yost Field / Ultimate Fantasy Baseball / Rank: 5 of 12
AXADazzle / Breakfast / Rank: 1 of 4

Mid-Season Fantasy Baseball?

Posted by on 5/25/2005 No comments

Anyone?

If you’ve never tried it this is the perfect chance to see what it’s all about. Draft or let the computer auto-pick your team. Let it ride or follow it all season. I don’t care. I just need a few other people to join my league cause I wanna rock some new mid-season fantasy teams. 12 just wasn’t enough. Right? Anyway, here are the details if you are interested..

Go to http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1
Press “Sign up now”
Press “I agree
Press “Join Existing Custom or Public League”
Press “Join a Custom League”
Type in League ID#: 353783
Type in Password: pitcher
Fill in Team Name
Press “Continue”
Press “Register My Team”

And you are set.

Right now, the draft is set for this coming Saturday at 10 AM which means if you do nothing but sign up you will have your team by the end of the weekend. If you can’t want to make the draft but don’t want the computer to just pick your team, you can choose to pre-rank players. The third option is you can just be at the draft. I’ll be there and i’d love to see you there.

Please sign up.
http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1

My baseball teams

Posted by on 9/4/2004 No comments

I’ve posted my current baseball teams to my fantasy log.