That should be the end of the jeanmear Gomez reign

Freeman is a god

Manaea with the best terrible game I've ever seen

10 ks in 5.1, 5 combined hits and walks, 6 earned

Why in the world did I draft shoemaker

He did get the Win though

I'm rooting for Benoit (3 shares) but will be happy with Neris (2 shares)

another haniger bomb

also dickerson secretly off to a start

So would you entertain trading Lucroy for Castro while trying to upgrade somewhere else? I need another closer.

Ok the Castro love fest has gone way to far now. Guys, stop overreacting to 1 week of play.

i would not have done this

Me neither

I watch more Rangers stuff than everything. One thing I did some research on:

Over the WBC, Rangers SP Martin Perez was told to throw his sinker more by Felix. There was a whole segment on him talking about it during their game today. Here is the Brooks Baseball blurb on his pitching profile:


Perez was at one point a very highly rated prospect, but his major league results have been rather mediocre. A large part of this is due to a k/9 at that level of 5.46 and 4.67 over the past two seasons. However, during some stretches in the minors, his k/9 rate was much higher. It was 9.12 over 99 innings in double A, 10.09 over 93 innings in single A, and 8.46 over 88 more innings in double A again.

He struck out 4 in 6 innings in start #1 and then 6 in 5.1 in #2.


This doesn't mean go pick him up. It means keep an eye on him and see how it progresses over the next few weeks. Today he threw 48 sinkers out of 92 pitches and 15 changeups (with a 26.7 whiff % on them). If the next couple of weeks progress with him throwing half his pitches as sinkers and the K-rate stays up, he can potentially provide some value.

Note also: The defense behind him should improve when Beltre returns.

.500 or better in all 7 leagues after week 1!

8-4 in both money leagues

feels good man

those rain outs earlier this week/me not checking in time to swap in a player cost me 2 games so far. GODDAMN GLOBAL WARMING IS RUINING LIVES

If Mitch Haniger is available in your league you should probably scoop him up.
Seems locked into the #2 hole in front of Cano, Cruz, and Seager so hes going to score a ****ton of runs, and hes already flashing his plus power. Will chip in some steals too.
In OBP or OPS leagues especially, there is no excuse for him not being owned. Has very solid walk rates the past 2 years in the minors and is drawing walks in the early season this year.

Im off to a rough start. All 4 of my teams started off the week on fire and were crushing through Thursday. Ended up losing 3 of the matches with abysmal weekend performances.

Most annoying part is that I had 34 match winning streak going back to '15 in my 20 team dynasty league and it immediately gets snapped in week 1. Weak.

He was one of my late round targets among others. How do you guys rank:
Haniger
Shaw
Healy
Kiermaier
They all seem to have pretty good upside with good batting order spots. I have lots of shares of these guys but may have to move some to make room for more pitching.

TRADE OFFER:

I trade: Kyle Seager, Kiermier, Salazar, Storen.
I receive: Healy, Chris Archer, Cody Allen

5 SP, 3 RP no utl (one dh instead) h2h league.

thoughts?

I love archer this year and decent chance he's the best player in this deal but you're getting zero value on Healy and selling low on Salazar

Counterpoint: 4 more ABs without a strikeout

I honestly don't even need Healy, but I'm just picking him up for depth. I have Longoria as my DH and Gallo on my bench. Just in-case Longoria gets hurt- because I'm going to move him to 3B and put either Piscotty or Owings as my DH.

my SP lineup would be:

Bumgarner
Archer
Harvey
Hill (when back)
T. Anderson
Bench: Hammel, Chatwood.

RP:
Allen
Reed
Nerris
Bench: Capps (DL), Pressly

I'm definitely trading high for Archer. He has Holland too but I think Allen is overall going to be better by YTD.

dead body count so far across a few leagues

Jackie Bradley
Carlos Rodon
Josh Donaldson
Xander Bogaerts
Ian Desmond
Adrian Beltre
Drew Pomeranz
Gary Sanchez
Trea Turner
JD Martinez
Rich Hill
Junior Guerra
Chris Tillman

A week ago (and I'm not sure this isn't still true), you could have gotten Archer, Healy and Allen for Seager. Why would you do this?

Also, he went 4-5 with 2 HR and 7 RBI in the fourth game of my The Show franchise last night if that's helpful at all.

A week ago that's a bit of a stretch (seager's ADP was a round or less earlier than archer's) and currently there's no way that (should be) is possible

Solarte's another last call pickup especially with a coors series incoming