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Rd	Player
4	Bryce Harper
5	Dinelson Lamet
7	Will Smith
9	Gavin Lux
10	Cavan Biggio
12	Ian Anderson
13	Trevor Story
14	Blake Snell
17	Chris Sale
18	Michael Conforto
21	Casey Mize
22	MacKenzie Gore
24	Sixto Sanchez

Edit: Updated to reflect the one round bump for 2021.

Quote from: Andy on July 18, 2020, 12:36:54 PM
My proposal was that the one round bump is prior to next season. So keeping guys in the short season only carries half the ?penalty.?

I thought you meant one round this season and one round prior to next. I'm good with whatever.

Assuming a one round bump for this season...

Javier Baez 3
Bryce Harper 5
Andrew Benintendi 7
Mike Foltynewicz 12
Trevor Story 14
Blake Snell 15
Michael Brantley 17
Michael Conforto 19
Carlos Santana 20

Quote from: Bort on April 05, 2018, 07:41:46 AM

Quote from: Tonker on April 05, 2018, 02:56:58 AM

Quote from: flannj on April 04, 2018, 04:53:24 PM

Quote from: CBStew on April 20, 2010, 04:17:07 PM
Although "Guns of August" is perhaps her best known and most widely read book, I was stunned by "A Distant Mirror", about the final Crusade and its impact on European history.  Had that Crusade not happened, or had it ended earlier we would all be speaking French today.

*Dusts off cobwebs*
I knew there were long lost posts somewhere in the dark recesses of the Desipio fruit cellar about Barbara W. Tuchman.
I'm just starting "Stillwell and the American Experience in China".
Anybody here read it?

No.

No.

No.

Quote from: Tonker on April 05, 2018, 03:03:20 AM

Quote from: Quality Start Machine on April 04, 2018, 03:23:52 PM

Quote from: Saul Goodman on April 04, 2018, 01:49:13 PM

Quote from: ChuckD on April 04, 2018, 10:43:50 AM

Quote from: Quality Start Machine on April 03, 2018, 08:31:01 AM

(shrugs)

If this were the middle of July it wouldn't even be a blip on the radar.

Counterpoint: You'd probably need a team of 25 Tony Gwynns to strike out just 58 times over 3.5 months. There's only one Tony Gwynn and he died several years ago, so I think that would register as a significant blip on all the metaphorical radars to see a team of 25 Tony Gwynns playing baseball together in 2018.

The real question is how many of those Tony Gwynns can dance on the head of a pin?

How big a pin we talking? Gwynn was fatter than Baez.

Easy, now... let's not say anything we can't take back.  Are we talking about Tony Gwynn in his playing days, or just before he died?  Because Baez is probably somewhere in between.

Approx. 3000 PAs by mid-July so 60 SO equals a K% of 2%. We'd need the '95 vintage if we want to make it to bliptown.

(Shrugs)

Quote from: Quality Start Machine on April 03, 2018, 08:31:01 AM

(shrugs)

If this were the middle of July it wouldn't even be a blip on the radar.

Counterpoint: You'd probably need a team of 25 Tony Gwynns to strike out just 58 times over 3.5 months. There's only one Tony Gwynn and he died several years ago, so I think that would register as a significant blip on all the metaphorical radars to see a team of 25 Tony Gwynns playing baseball together in 2018.

Baez 6 (whichever is the later of the two picks)
Schoop 7
Harper 8
Benintendi 11
Russell 12
Hosmer 13
Keuchel 14
Story 17
Snell 18
Swanson 21
Conforto 22
Kopech 23

Quote from: PenFoe on March 19, 2018, 06:07:37 PM
Updates:

- League is now 10 teams.
- Draft is set for Sunday 3/25 at 8pm Central time - open to moving if this doesn't work for people. 
- Please post all keepers here. Don't just list them on Yahoo. 

Draft Order is not set, based on reverse order of last year's final standings:
Ownership should be correct, but let me know if not.
1. Wakanda Team Is This (JD)
2. The Orphans (ChuckD)
3. Mark Lemke Lime Pies (D. Doluntap)
4. Canned Hamms (BigDrinky)
5. Boners Daily (TDubbs)
6. Long Balls (Shooter)
7. Bad Hombres (Yeti)
8. Bozos (Yeti)
9. Muy Valbueno (Andy)
10. Negative TORP (PenFoe)

SetItAndForgetIt'd

Quote from: SKO on December 14, 2017, 08:44:04 AM

Quote from: Canadouche on December 13, 2017, 09:01:38 PM
I'm in the minority here but I think it's kinda cool that Jack Morris got in, despite not deserving so based purely on the numbers.

He has roughly the same career bWAR as Carlos Zambrano and he sexually harassed a female reporter and has never once apologized. Fuck him.

Have a little re2pect.

#3IGZ2018

Quote from: CBStew on December 13, 2017, 04:05:33 PM

Quote from: Saul Goodman on December 12, 2017, 10:32:25 PM
I'd better never hear about Roy Moore again unless he's indicted and/or arrested.

Sorry to make you hear about him again, but his candidacy was unbelievable.  A Republican LOST in Alabama????????????  It was as though the Democrats chose him to run.  A worse candidate is impossible to imagine.   Fortunately for him he lost just in time to get a job as a department store Santa and have little girls sit in his lap.

Unfortunately, he's banned from the mall.

Quote from: Brownie on October 30, 2017, 12:27:05 PM
well-played

Quote from: Brownie on October 30, 2017, 12:27:05 PM
1) 2016 Game 7

I really liked the ending, but the Acts I and II were a dumpster fire.

I wasn't alive in 1960 so I don't know enough about how well that game was played.

Aside from one Lonnie Smith TOOTBLAN, 1991 G7 was basically flawless by both teams. That'd get my vote.

Quote from: R-V on October 18, 2017, 09:13:31 AM

Quote from: ChuckD on October 17, 2017, 08:18:42 PM
I concede that it's basically impossible to convince anyone to do anything on the internet, but if:

1) you're looking for something to watch
2) you enjoy really well-written drama
3) have any sort of interest in technology and/or the 80s/90s

You really should watch this show. I think the first three seasons are on Netflix. The fourth and final season just wrapped up.

It took the place of Mad Men as AMC's period drama. I believe the first season was sort of critically panned although I enjoyed it in spite of the flaws. I remember reading that it's a miracle that they lasted four seasons and after watching the last few seasons, I'm not sure why.

It did change quite a bit over the last three seasons. But, frankly, it's one of the best shows in terms of characters that I can recall. I prefer it to Mad Men because I find the arcs a lot more believable. I got a lot more invested in the characters. And frankly, I got a little choked up a few times during the last few episodes. One of which is hands down the most authentic depiction of post death/grieving/moving on that I can recall seeing ... anywhere?

It's not a show that you could just jump into and get a lot of enjoyment. It's a slower burn. You would need to see the entire story from beginning to end to appreciate the epilogue.

Watch it. Or don't. But seriously. Watch it.

Co-sign. Great show.

I'm going to spoil this -- not because it reveals any plot points, but because I don't think I'd have been able to stop thinking about it while watching him steal scene after scene had I known it before. And those scenes are some of the best parts of the show.

If you already know who Toby Huss is, then this won't blow your mind. I however, did not when I learned this yesterday.

Toby Huss (Bosworth) also played "The Wiz" on Seinfeld and "Artie, the Strongest Man in the World" on Pete and Pete.

Quote from: SKO on October 18, 2017, 06:58:39 AM

Quote from: Tonker on October 18, 2017, 04:36:08 AM

Quote from: SKO on October 17, 2017, 11:00:13 PM
All things considered a division championship and an NLCS appearance is a perfectly acceptable title defense

It is, but that doesn't preclude me from wishing that they'd, just once in this entire offseason, played up to their abilities, collectively.  Speaking as a fan, this last two weeks has been a real fucking slog, man.

It's been brutal, I'm actually relieved they do not appear interested in winning a few of these awful root canals of games and prolonging the misery. Even the series they won sucked. Ranking it TJ Brown-style the 2017 NLDS was the 6th most enjoyable Cubs postseason series win after the 2016 World Series, 2015 NLDS, 2016 NLCS, 2003 NLDS, and 2016 NLDS. This NLCS loss, barring a miraculous comeback, is easily the least painful postseason series loss of my life (2008 NLDS, 2003 NLCS, 2015 NLCS, 2007 NLDS, 1998 NLDS, 2017 NLCS), however.

Did you happen to be passing a stone during October 2008? I don't understand how the 2008 NLDS could possibly be ranked above the 2003 NLCS. Or the 2015 NLCS for that matter.

I concede that it's basically impossible to convince anyone to do anything on the internet, but if:

1) you're looking for something to watch
2) you enjoy really well-written drama
3) have any sort of interest in technology and/or the 80s/90s

You really should watch this show. I think the first three seasons are on Netflix. The fourth and final season just wrapped up.

It took the place of Mad Men as AMC's period drama. I believe the first season was sort of critically panned although I enjoyed it in spite of the flaws. I remember reading that it's a miracle that they lasted four seasons and after watching the last few seasons, I'm not sure why.

It did change quite a bit over the last three seasons. But, frankly, it's one of the best shows in terms of characters that I can recall. I prefer it to Mad Men because I find the arcs a lot more believable. I got a lot more invested in the characters. And frankly, I got a little choked up a few times during the last few episodes. One of which is hands down the most authentic depiction of post death/grieving/moving on that I can recall seeing ... anywhere?

It's not a show that you could just jump into and get a lot of enjoyment. It's a slower burn. You would need to see the entire story from beginning to end to appreciate the epilogue.

Watch it. Or don't. But seriously. Watch it.