Strat-O-Matic Baseball 365

Last season I was sweating out, alone, Severino getting 29.2 IP to be carded. He ended up making it easily but that experience got me to thinking about having a thread here in the ILC where KL managers could communicate with each other.

We all have our league threads but nowhere to get advice on trades or ask questions such as ...."Should I give Jameson Taillon one more chance or cut him loose?" Was your top prospect sent to AAA? Commiserate here. Think you have the best team ever? Post it and see how it stacks up to others who think likewise. Need a replacement? Advertise here.

Just for kicks I'll track the drafts and see which are the fastest to 12 and 60 picks. So far we have.....

12 Picks

D2D - 18 hrs. 51 min.
Superkeeper - 20, 38
GMKL - 23, 40
Pesos de Beisball - 24, 25
Page2 AL - 27, 5
USKL3 - 28, 44
WBKL - 34, 20
Pre-Card - 54, 26
HCKL - 58, 0
Orig. 24 - 67, 8


60 picks

Page2 AL - 3, 5, 46
Pesos de Beisball - 3 days, 18 hours, 56 min.
SuperKeeper - 3, 19, 20
D2D - 3, 23, 24
GMKL - 4, 2, 8
HCKL - 4, 23, 35
Pre-Card - 5, 3, 0
WBKL - 5, 17, 8
USKL3 - 5, 19, 41
Orig. 24 - 8, 9, 26

Great idea for a thread...
I wonder about the new injury stuff
will that make Strohman ad Waino carded?
the D2D league is skewing young with the top 24 picks ....

Yeah the new injury rules will make things interesting. In a keeper, I think you are more willing to live with injury guys because you can have a deep bench to replace them, sometimes with other injury players. I wonder how these new rules will change that strategy.

Bob, thanks for the thread, great idea.

I expect I might use it as a place to recruit replacement owners when needed and also as a place for new players to ask about keeper leagues. I'll try to answer questions, I have knowledge of when i can. Seems most leagues use some variation of the rules that Sandlotshrink, kaviksdad ( miss those guys ) and I have created and tweaked over the years.

we are early in the drafting process
interesting draft IMO
just a bit too early to decifer strategies

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

Here are some stacked teams that were posted in the 200X forum. Any others out there?

Ninersphan

C Swihart 3e1
1b- Rizzo -1e9
2b Kinsler -1e14
3b Arrenado -1e18
SS Bogarets - 2e14
lf Cespedes -2e8 -5 arm
Cf Inciarte - 2e8 -1 arm
RF Calhoun - 2e4 -2 arm
DH Cruz or Morales

SP deGrom
SP Syndergaard
SP Carlos Martinez
SP Carlos Carrasco
SP Hahn
SP Tanaka


Jerlins

C-Grandel
1st-Rizzo
2nd-Gordon
SS-Correa, Lindor
3rd-Arrenado, Machado
lf-Gordon
cf-Trout
rf-Stanton, Betts

DeGrom and Gray


Champ

C - Posey/d'Arnaud
1B - Colabello/Teixeira/Freeman
2B - Lemahieu
SS - Iglesias
3B - Machado/Carpenter
OF - Harper/Trout/Cargo/Upton/Zobrist

SP - Keuchel/Sale - not much
RP - Chapman/Davis

I just posted this team in that thread:

C - Vogt, Cervelli, Wieters
1B - C. Davis
2B - Altuve
SS - Correa
3B - Turner, Franco, Blanco
LF - Gardner, Blackmon
CF - McCutchen
RF - Harper, Calhoun
DH options - Encarnacion, Choo, Braun

Rotation - Arrieta, Gray, Cole, Scherzer (yes - that's 4 of the top 10-12 starters)
Pen - W. Davis, Giles, Clippard, Warren

Catcher Cervalli
1b Votto
2b Altuve
3b Arrenado
ss Simmons
LF Brantley
CF Trout
RF Markakis
DH to be drafted or Duffy/frazier/pompey/ozuna

Schrezer
Price
Tanaka
Carrasco
Ventura
Wacha
Straussburg
Jansen
Capps
Giles
Rosenthal


ready to roll

C - Vogt/D.Norris
1B - Freeman/K.Morales
2B - Cano/Panik
SS - Bogaerts/Tulo
3B - Frazier
LF - D.Peralta/C.Young/A.Gordon
CF - Cain
RF - JD Martinez
DH - Ortiz/Ozuna
SP - J.Garcia/G.Richards/A.Warren/Wacha/E.Rodriguez
RP - Betances/Chapman/W.Davis

And for next year: Add in Wainwright, Stroman to the mix.

Or Another team

C - McCann
1B - K.Morales/V.Martinez
2B - Pedroria/Odor
SS - A.Russell/Andrus
3B - M.Carpenter/K.Seager
LF - Upton
CF - Trout
RF - JD Martinez
DH - J.Abreu/Springer
SP - Richards/F.Hernandez/A.Warren/Wacha/Ventura, with J.Fernandez, Wainwright for next year.
RP - Kimbrel, A.Miller, Siegrist, McGee
Team has 4 1st round prospect picks this year and 4 1st round FA picks next year.

And I have a team that I think will be better than that next year, if they can stay healthy

Rotation: Kershaw, deGrom, J.Fernandez, Wainwright, Stroman, Y.Ventura
C: S.Perez/D.Norris
IF: Freeman, Cano, Bogaerts, Carpenter/K.Seager
OF: Upton, Cain/Pederson, JD Martinez
DH: Stanton, Schwarber, Springer, V.Martinez

I have a few I like

C- Vogt
1B- Rizzo
2B- Lemahieu
SS- Bogaerts
3B- Donaldson
LF- Schwarber
CF- Burns
RF- J.D.Martinez
DH- Votto

Bench

C-Swihart
2B-Dozier
SS- Simmons
3B-Bryant
3B- Turner
3B- Wright
LF- Khris Davis
LF- Coghlan
CF- Dyson
CF/DH- Eaton

SP-Arrieta
SP-Cole
SP-Estrada
SP- Strasburg
SP- Fernandez
CL- Davis

C- Posey
1B- Rizzo
2B- Kipnis
SS- Bogaerts
3B- ???
LF- Schwarber
CF- Betts
RF- Heyward
DH- Sano

Bench

Freeman
Paulsen
Lindor
Gregorius
Dickerson
Span
Burns
Polanco

SP- Greinke
SP- Kershaw
SP- Gray
SP- Sale
SP- Strasburg

RP- Sipp
RP- Allen
RP- Jepsen