I think a lot of people just forget and have Arenado somewhere 6-10 without much thought, but I think he could have an argument for going higher than that

What is the ideal way to handle Ohtani?

NFBC has been drafting him as a pitcher only. Obviously, you can't just change the rules for one guy and count all pitchers hitting stats. You could set him as a pitcher or hitter, but that would really mess with weekly lineups. What if he was listed on both the hitters list and pitchers list?

Yahoo said they'd have him as SP/OF. He'll get pitching stats when started in SP (or P, etc) slot, hitting stats when started in OF (or UTIL, etc) slot

so if hes in your P slot, he can only accrue pitching stats and vise versa? so if hes in your UTIL spot and pitches, you dont get the stats?

that kind of does make sense, and makes him super valuable in daily setting leagues, and i feel like a nightmare in weeklys

So you are basically punting his hitting stats on the days he pitches?

Also really sounds like a nightmare in my AL only league where we have no bench and weekly lineups.

well, in weeklys, yeah it sounds like youre either just using him for his start(s) or for his hitting.

in daily lineups, sounds like a gem. basically a solid util guy and then you get kind of an extra pitcher as well every week

I'm mostly in weekly leagues run by the same group of guys. We're allowing him (and really anyone for that matter) to be slotted in as both a hitter and pitcher.

I'm becoming less interested in him by the day as a fantasy asset. I don't know what the price will be, but it looks like it will surely be higher than I'll be willing to pay.

The Angels are a really good candidate to go to a 6-man rotation. I think Ohtani gets around 22-24 starts and 250-275 plate appearances. There's definitely value in both of those, but I think it's quite a bit lower than what his price will be.

Nevermind, my post was kind of bad.

Agree 100%, Ohtani has no hitter value in any weekly league (mostly what I do) short of something real deep or an AL only. He should only be drafted as a pitcher and there's probably gonna be some dummy in most of my leagues to way overpay for him.

Oh and now he's got some sort of UCL problem already? Yeah .. no thanks

Yep. Spoorer and Eno ranked him around SP 30 with 140-160 inning cap, and that was before the UCL news (and loose bodies), so what, 35-40th now?. He'll fall past 35th in approx 0 leagues but draw a lot of oohs and ahhs whenever a monkey picks him in an ace slot. He's a fun players delight.

Sounds like Ohtani is being split into 2 players on Yahoo now, havent seen anything confirmed yet though..

What a nightmare it would be in keepers/dynasties if any platforms used one SP Ohtani and one OF Ohtani this year, and then next year decided that way to do it sucked and went with a single player with dual eligibility.
Or vice versa.

True, although will anyone actually run a league that way? My one league is a slow auction on CouchManagers and whoever gets Ohtani is getting them both. Having two separate teams own him is sorta ridiculous IMO

I am hoping CBS will allow me to grant an extra roster spot to the Ohtani owner to make up for this but if not we'll figure something out.

So it looks like the projections for Acuna are going to be 15-20hr/30sb with a 100 wRC+ right outta the gate (I'm extrapolating based on Steamer a little bit, plus rumors the guy(s) running ZIPS say his projection was nuts). Not sure the Kemp trade will accelerate his promotion but it certainly can't hurt.

Anyone have any insight (or a Braves fan) on when he shows up?

Well they just cleared Kemp from LF so he could conceivably win the LF job in the Spring. If anyone starts there ahead of him I doubt he'll hold Acuna off for long.

Inciarte is pretty well entrenched in CF, and Markakis is a serviceable if fantasy-useless RF

I think he's gonna be fantastic but I'm pretty biased.

Does anyone know of any MLB keeper leagues firing off this year?

Looking for anything in the $500-5k range. preferably higher.

I don't think I agree with this. So your saying they would then have have Ohtani as a pitcher and a separate ohtani batter. And then also an extra spot? Why?

I agree with Ohtani being both a hitter and batter, but I don’t know why there is a need for an extra bench spot.

Can't make up my mind for my last keeper:

Adam Duvall

or

Corey Dickerson?

6 categories adding OPS

Leaning Duvall ever so slightly.

Batting average and OPS? Eh its close.

Do you have any concerns about the different OF the Reds have? Winker and Ervin mostly. Roster Resource is penciling in platoons for LF/RF between those two, Schebler and Duvall.

Dickerson led off almost 60 games last year which really hurt his RBI. I doubt that happens this year without Longo and adding Span. I might go Dickerson here but its really close either way

https://playnfbc.sportshubtech.com/adp

NFBC ADP finally up!

Oh wow they added the deal at the top where you can limit it to drafts in a certain date range which is really nice for closers, FA signings or injuries to see the trends

And see position eligiblity and downloadable? Nice work NFBC .. thanks for posting it

Not sure if I buy into Betts ahead of Stanton, Correa, Bryant, Blackmon.

Lindor at #20 seems a bit high imo.

Surprised Bellinger is as low as he is at #26 (relatively speaking compared to Judge), but cant argue with the guys taken ahead of him ion that format. Most non-NFBC leagues wont have as many SP going that early so his true ADP will be mid 2nd I suppose.

Also LOL at Turner #4 overall, but I suppose thats expected in roto leagues where steals are exponentially more valuable than H2H and you cannot pick up FA's during the season.

1B falling further than in previous years.

Otherwise there doesnt seem to be any big surprises in the top ~40 or so that Ive noticed yet.

Where do you see Judge going?

Cole to Astros, interesting, but not sure it's a good thing for him