MoFo Fantasy Baseball - The 2013 Regular Season

A healthy Granderson at a 5th round 10th pick would of been the pick of the Century. Thats still not a bad pick though, he probably still could hit 25plus homers for u.

From Yahoo

Fri, Mar 22Reds general manager Walt Jocketty and manager Dusty Baker officially announced Friday that Aroldis Chapman will be the team's closer this season.

Advice: Jocketty also denied that he had been pushing for Chapman to move into the rotation, which has been the common thought. Although it would have been interesting to see what the lefty would have done as a starter, he prefers to close, and it's possible that's the role he's best suited for. Jonathan Broxton will now be used as a setup man, while Mike Leake will be the club's fifth starter.


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Whew. He wouldve been a good starter but hes a great closer, and thats why I grabbed him. Now I need a 6th starting pitcher and Ill be all set.

Ellsbury in the 4th is a steal.

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"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." - Michelangelo.

I see the annual tradition of "TONGO drops someone he picked up literally 3 minutes ago" is alive and well.

I noticed this phenomenon, myself...

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Yeah well I was waffling between some pitchers. Decided to go with Chad Billingsley. I know nothing about him. I do know though the Dodgers may grant him more wins than what the A's could for AJ Griffin. Anyway Im going with Billingsley.

Now one of you will probablky give me an education on these players, and Ill be back to waffling again.l

Why is hanley not on the DL?

Teixeira isnt either. I think theyre not officially on the DL till regular season begins.

They're waiting to see how they're doing next week. Some people are already on the DL, but most are on the 60-day.

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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. - John Wooden
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Players don't usually get officially placed on the DL until the season starts, since they haven't had to set their official rosters yet, I don't believe.

Ahh ic. what a difference a week makes draft wise. If we were drafting this weekend, i probably go Braun Reyes Kinsler 1.2.3.

Hanley likely falls to 6th round i'd say.

Damn Im so ready for this season to start lol! This pitching investment may blow up in my face, and I gotsta know! I just gotsta! Omigosh I think Im having a half assed panic attack cause if half of these studs tank Im thoroughly screwed! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

On a more lucid note I do want to read RA Dickeys book moreso now that I drafted him. Has anyone read it?

Lohse to the Brewers - 3 year contract.

WHEW!

First game's on the 31st. Normal schedule on April 1st. Nevermind that there's still snow on the ground here.

I'll be at the Pirates' first home night game, a week from today. Woohoo.

Believe it or not its even cold down here in Florida. Like in the high .50s! Thats cold for us. Gonna be a cold opening day. Never did get to see the Pirates play at McKechnie Field this spring.

my 2 predictions for this season:

-Tongo leads the league in transactions with well over 300.

-Tongo also leads the league in trades, including trading for Tampa Rays, actually trading away Longo and/or Price, but also trading back for them. In the end, look for about 4-5 players maximum that were drafted by him to end up on his final roster.

I am ready for some baseball.

Im actually interested in seeing how Chad Billingsley does. Mark had him last year and did incredibly welll in the pitching categories. So at least he didnt hurt him. I might have to kick him to waivers though if I get another injury. 2 fragile Yankees on my pine with Jeter & Teixeira, and my attempt to have Wil Myers when hes called up. I saw when Desmond Jennings came up and just exploded in all categories for 6 weeks. Adam felt vedy vedy good as he had him. Ill need that type of offense with how incredibly lean my offense is, and pitching so deep.

I hope its deep. Dont want Cole Hamels to pull a Jon Lester on me

Alright everyone lets start bragging about our teams, cause in 3-4 weeks reality sets in and all these sure-things we have might not be so brag worthy.

Evan Longoria



David Price



Cole Hamels



Mariano Rivera



Jonathan Papelbon



Aroldis Chapman



R.A. Dickey



(A correctly held knuckleball is very blurry)

Jordan Zimmermann



Derek Jeter



Mark Teixeira




My sleeper pick for my squad this year is someone I didn't draft, but nabbed off waivers. Jon Jay centerfielder for the St Louis Cardinals!

The Undisputed P4P greatest 5 category fantasy monster over the last 3 years, The defending Champeens had the brains to get the Braun.



Jose can you see



Hanley is down for several weeks, but yanno id rather this than him trying to gut it out each day, not knowing whether a late scratch is in the offing. Plus when he returns...good times. Good times indeed.



The Devil Rays came along much later, so i really have no animosity for them whatsoever (though Wade boggs looked silly in that uni, in the same way Emmit Smith in a Cardinals uni...just not right imo) Anyway it explains 2 things, first that I'm tickled to have

Benny Z anchoring 2nd base



while at the same time internally churning at having a fricken Bosoxer to cheer for. But the upside was too wonderful to pass up.



last year was a downer for these guys and the folks that draften em, but i forecast a healthy bounceback from







40 saves easy easy peasy for



I mean obviously his mom isnt biased.



and besides Axford is Canadian, though i did have to settle a locker room beef between he and Ryan, as he apparently maintains the porno stache with a Remington.