Well, well, well...Yahoo finally got their collective craps together and got the Fantasy Baseball 2015 up and running. So, I too have gotten my crap together and set up the league. It will not let me import player costs until your team is in the league, so I will try to keep up with that. The 5 teams that are in now have all costs in place. Please set your keepers here BUT ALSO LET ME KNOW WHAT THEY ARE. I cannot see anyone's keepers and I would like to be able to get some of the prework done before the draft when I have time to do it so it doesnt get constricting.Also, trades will not work in the league until after the draft is complete and I enter the rosters. Which is a problem since trading is open (and we have had our first trade of the "Getting Crispy" Season). I can manually update the rosters though, so if you agree to a trade, please let me know so that I can make sure everything is in line before we get to draft night.
Real MLB has the Hot Stove League season, which always involves a lot excitement (this year especially if you were a San Diego Padre fan...well...if there were any San Diego Padre fans) and mucho trading. In the Tater Tot league, were going to call the Feb 1 through March 1 the Getting Crispy Season, hopefully it will have a lot of the same excitement and maybe someone will trade away the farm.
The first ever Gettin Crispy trade was relayed to me on the first day trading was open:
BySs gets 2b Jose "How Many" Altuves ($20) and OF Nelson Cruz ($8)The Attack of the Zack (TAOTZ) gets 1b Anthony Rizzo ($20) and OF Justin Upton ($34)
Rizzo has officially become the town bicycle, which is strange because he has the high OBP/SLG stats that play perfectly in a league like this one and his AVG wont ill you (like license to ill, bitches). Put him in a lineup where people actually get on base occasionally and you have a guy who is going to be very helpful in 4 categories, be a net average in a 5th and pretty much completely useless in the 6th, SBs...but really, arent almost all 1b not named Paul Goldschmidt pretty useless in stolen bases?
Had Rizzo been traded straight up for Altuve, I probably would have called this trade a draw (and I hate doing that). Altuve was the best offensive 2b in baseball last season behind his .341/377/453 slash line and 56 steals. Altuve was the better, and more well rounded player last year, but he has some red flags coming into 2015 as 2014 was by far the best year of his career to date in every possible hitting category. If his average comes down to his career norms, he will still be a very valuable player, just not the potential top 5 fantasy player that he was last year.The inclusion of Cruz and Upton confuses me. Cruz is coming off a season where he led the majors in HRs, finished 4th in RBI and managed respectable avg and obp stats (271/333/525)...he is changing teams (again!) but for a bargain price of $8 he can fall off hard and still turn a profit. If Cruz is able to hit 249/310/457 (which is what Steamer is currently projecting for him) this year hitting in a surprisingly loaded Seattle lineup, he should be a startable player...and if he isnt, $8 isnt a crazy amount to have spent on the chance he repeats last season.
Anyways, BySs gets the carrot in this one. BYSS >>>> TAOTZ
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