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I didn’t get back to it soon enough yesterday and the other owner canceled the offer. Apparently he spoke to another owner in our league who advised against it. I’m pretty pissed.
 
Look upon it as achieving a degree of parity in the league overall. Because you would have taken him to the cleaners on that deal. ;)
 
bigpern23 said:
I didn’t get back to it soon enough yesterday and the other owner canceled the offer. Apparently he spoke to another owner in our league who advised against it. I’m pretty pissed.
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That sucks. Been there. Waited too long for that.
 
Is it me, or are there a lot of players already injured? It seems like many of them are closers, too.

I'm sure many of us have stories similar to mine. News of Matt McLain's mysterious shoulder injury broke two days after I kept him. My cheap pick-up of Garrett Mitchell was looking good in another league until he broke his hand while being jammed on a swing Sunday. Oy.
 
outofplace said:
Is it me, or are there a lot of players already injured? It seems like many of them are closers, too.

I'm sure many of us have stories similar to mine. News of Matt McLain's mysterious shoulder injury broke two days after I kept him. My cheap pick-up of Garrett Mitchell was looking good in another league until he broke his hand while being jammed on a swing Sunday. Oy.
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And more. I think we notice it more bc we have to wait to il.
 
Guy_Incognito said:
And more. I think we notice it more bc we have to wait to il.
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You just know some of these teams will be waiting until 10 minutes before their first game Thursday, too, for no good reason. I get it if there is hop that the player might avoid the IL, but for someone like Devin Williams, who is out until at least June, what the heck are they waiting for?
 
Sometimes, I wonder if teams are just being stubborn about not putting a player on the IL. I understand the Braves waiting a few days on Austin Riley, but he hasn't played since May 12. He isn't even swinging a bat yet, so he is easily going to blow past 10 days. And yes, this is screwing over my fantasy team. Two of them, to be exact.
 
Have my pitching lined up just the way I want it in a pitching-heavy, saves/holds-heavy Yahoo league.

Yamamoto/RSuarez/Skenes/Crochet/Steele/JJones/Stroman

MMiller/McArthur/Yates/EPhillips (when he gets off the DL)

It has me off to a 6-2 start and the highest overall point total in the league.

Then yesterday, I saw a games limit which I never knew existed in this league -- 12 games started for pitchers. That's freakin' ridiculous. I suppose it means I'm going to have to start turning starters over in the next few weeks.
 
JakeandElwood said:
12 games started for the whole season? Or a weekly starts limit for your team?
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It says 12 games started for pitcher limit, and it says nothing about it being a weekly number.

Believe me, I hope you're right. But I am concerned.

Even worse, Yahoo! no longer has the chat feature in its fantasy leagues, from what I can tell. So there's no way to question that setting, or to see if it can be removed. There's no contact with other league members without chat.
 
You nailed it. That's exactly what it shows ... that I used five of 12 starts last week. Thanks, sir!
 
jr/shotglass said:
You nailed it. That's exactly what it shows ... that I used five of 12 starts last week. Thanks, sir!
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I was wondering because 12 starts for a pitcher in a season would be ridiculous. I also can't fathom what the reasoning would be for such a rule. Limiting a team to 12 starts makes a little more sense. It is a way to restrict streaming without restricting roster moves. I might even suggest it for a couple of my leagues.

One of my leagues has a total innings limit for the entire season. We had an owner who was in his second season in the league last year who had no idea about the rule. He ran out of innings in August. I had to point it out to him, which ended up working in my favor. He traded me a couple of starting pitchers. :)

By the way, I hate innings limits. If you can manage to use lots of starting pitchers without destroying your ratios, go for it. Of course, I have 10 good starters in a league with a limit, so I may be biased.
 
outofplace said:
I was wondering because 12 starts for a pitcher in a season would be ridiculous. I also can't fathom what the reasoning would be for such a rule. Limiting a team to 12 starts makes a little more sense. It is a way to restrict streaming without restricting roster moves. I might even suggest it for one of my leagues.
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Yes, you can see how my head exploded a little when I saw it. I should have known, though, that it was for the week.

With 12 starts a week, you can certainly still do a lot of streaming. In fact, if I were streaming that many pitchers, I'd question if I had any untouchable guys. Right now, I feel like I have four starters and a closer who I can't waive for any reason, because they'll get gobbled up fast.
 
jr/shotglass said:
Yes, you can see how my head exploded a little when I saw it. I should have known, though, that it was for the week.

With 12 starts a week, you can certainly still do a lot of streaming. In fact, if I were streaming that many pitchers, I'd question if I had any untouchable guys. Right now, I feel like I have four starters and a closer who I can't waive for any reason, because they'll get gobbled up fast.
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It depends on the depth of the league. I'm in one 14-team league with 10 active pitching spots (can be starters or relievers) and 12 bench spots. I have 10 starting pitchers and Bobby Miller probably coming off the IL some time in early June. I'm not streaming at all. I'm actually sitting pitchers with questionable matchups so I don't run out of innings too early. I've missed four or five great starts, including Bibee's gem a few days ago. I'm trying to trade one, but no luck so far. I'm not even just trying to trade my fringe guys. I've got every starting pitchers except Jared Jones on the block.
 
You're in a better league than mine, I think. It appears only four of 10 owners take hard looks at roster movement. But I still don't want to give those other three guys a shot at a Paul Skenes or a Ranger Suarez. They're my main competition.
 
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