Fantasy Baseball Commiseration Thread

[AstroEric]

Commiseration means that we all collectively feel misery over our fantasy league teams. Mine should be pretty decent, but everyone on my team is tanking so far.

I'm in a 12-team keeper league that I finished second-to-last in last year, and had hoped to improve this year. It was a bad year for free agents, however, and after the guy before me picked A-Rod, the next best was Torii Hunter. I took Howie Kendrick instead, having foolishly dealt away Chase Utley last year. Kendrick's putting up good numbers, but he's one of the few I have that is, plus he keeps getting hurt.

The team looks like this:

C - Russell Martin

1B - Ryan Howard

2B - Howie Kendrick

3B - Ryan Zimmerman

SS - Troy Tulowitzki

OF - Carlos Lee

OF - Carl Crawford

OF - Adam Dunn

UTIL - Delmon Young

BENCH - Hunter Pence

BENCH - Mike Jacobs

BENCH - J.R. Towles

BENCH - Orlando Hudson

BENCH - Edgar Renteria

SP - Roy Oswalt

SP - Jeremy Bonderman

SP - Francisco Liriano

SP - Javier Vazquez

SP - John Lackey

SP - Felix Hernandez

SP - Livan Hernandez

SP - Joe Blanton

SP - Jair Jurrjens

SP - Clay Buchholz

SP - Micah Owings

RP - Mariano Rivera

RP - Joaquim Soria

RP - Chad Cordero

Lately, I've been starting Renteria over Tulo, and Jacobs over Howard. And I've been sitting Oswalt and Liriano, who I'd hoped would be the aces of my team this year.

ARGH!

[Mav3rek]

My team is terrible. It's a rotis league, and I'm in dead last and going nowhere quickly.

It's not that the talent I picked is bad, it's just that everyone is struggling at the same time.

Ortiz, Sabathia, Pudge, Andruw Jones, Phil Hughes, Dontrelle Willis (who's now on the DL), Dan Uggla.

All of these players are just really bad right now and it's killing my team.

[kgbaseball]

I'm in the same boat as Mav. I just think I have a bunch of notoriously slow starters, and once the weather gets warm, their production will heat up.

[JP_Frost]

excuses, excuses ;)

[superciuc]

Well, i have 3 players on the DL.

Here's my team.

C McCann

1B Pujols

2B Cano

SS Guillen

3B Iwamura

OF Guerrero

OF Byrnes

OF Ankiel

P Los Angeles Angels

Bench

Willingham

De Rosa

Lugo

Lowell (DL)

Granderson (DL)

Kaz Matsui (DL)

MLB open sucks.

[AstroEric]

I'm in the same boat as Mav. I just think I have a bunch of notoriously slow starters, and once the weather gets warm, their production will heat up.

I kind of have this feeling about my own team, but the equal fear is that everyone else's team will heat up too.

[angryrat]

AstroEric, how many players do you keep each year in your league? And also... What is A-Rod doing not being kept by somebody?

The best guys available in my keeper league draft this year was Eric Bedard and Carlos Lee. (10 team league and we keep 5.)

[AstroEric]

We kept 15 this year, but we're also doing this thing where free agents in the MLB are free agents in our league. So someone was sad to see A-Rod go, even though he could've re-signed with the Yankees before filing.

[RaptorQuiz]

Thread resurrection! lol.

My crappy fantasy baseball team, as of today:

C Brian McCann (ATL)

1B Mark Teixeira (ATL)

2B Brian Roberts (BAL)

3B Scott Rolen (TOR)

SS Edgar Renteria (DET)

OF Rick Ankiel (STL)

OF Matt Holliday (COL)

OF Adam Dunn (CIN)

UTIL Troy Glaus (STL)

UTIL Milton Bradley (TEX)

Bench David Murphy (TEX)

Bench Yadier Molina (STL)

Bench Stephen Drew (ARI)

Bench Jose Lopez (SEA)

DL Alfonso Soriano (CHC)

DL Josh Willingham (FLA)

SP Tim Lincecum (SF)

SP Ben Sheets (MIL)

RP Huston Street (OAK)

RP Trevor Hoffman (SD)

P Ervin Santana (LAA)

P Erik Bedard (SEA)

P Justin Duchscherer (OAK)

Bench Jesse Litsch (TOR)

Bench Jonathan Sanchez (SF)

Bench Daniel Cabrera (BAL)

This trainwreck is good enough for a 46-40-4 (.533) record. That's 19 games back from first place, in 5th place (out of 10).

My head-to-head stats thus far in the following categories:

R: 4-5-0 (303)

HR: 6-3-0 (85)

RBI: 5-4-0 (313)

SB: 3-4-2 (38)

AVG: 4-5-0 (.279)

W: 5-2-2 (26)

SV: 4-5-0 (24)

K: 4-5-0 (365)

ERA: 6-3-0 (3.93)

WHIP: 5-4-0 (1.34)

Yuck.

[MudvayneRocker]

sorry to make you guys jealous, here's mine:

C - Geovany Soto

1B - Derrek Lee

2B - Brandon Phillips

3B - Alex Rodriguez

SS - Jose Reyes

OF - Alfonso Soriano

OF - Josh Hamilton

OF - Nate McLouth

Util - Dan Uggla

Bench:

Chris Young (ARI)

Kosuke Fukudome

Miguel Tejada

Pitchers:

Tim Hudson

Ervin Santana

Ryan Dempster

Mariano Rivera

Carlos Zambrano

Cliff Lee

Edinson Volquez

bn - Daisuke Matsuzaka

bn - Tim Lincecum

...yeah i'm WAY in first place, the tards i played with dont know how to draft at all...

[RaptorQuiz]

sorry to make you guys jealous, here's mine:

OF - Alfonso Soriano

Bench: Kosuke Fukudome

Yeah... well one of those is on the DL and the other one sucks, so :rocklicker: !

:lol:

[HFLR]

My Yahoo league lineup:

Batters:

C- Jason Varitek

1B- Prince Fielder

2B- B.J. Upton

3B- A-Rod

SS- Derek Jeter

OF- Manny Ramirez

OF- Grady Sizemore

OF- Curtis Granderson

UT- Jeff Francoeur

BN- Dustin Pedroia

BN- Kenji Johjima

BN- Jim Thome

BN- Joey Votto

Pitchers:

SP- Brandon Webb

SP- Dan Haren

RP- Billy Wagner

RP- Joba Chamberlain

P- Edinson Volquez

P- Chien-Ming Wang

P- Hiroki Kuroda

BN- J.J Putz

6th place right now (15.5 pts behind leader) :(

[MudvayneRocker]

Yeah... well one of those is on the DL and the other one sucks, so :rocklicker: !

yeah pujols just went on the dl too.

fukudome far from sucks, he is the biggest reason the cubs have the best record in baseball, he's one of the best all-around players i have EVER seen. he's got gold glove caliper defense, and can hit for as good of an average as anybody, plus he has power. its not just the way he plays, its the way he's taught the entire cubs lineup how to have more patience at the plate and draw many more walks. he's elevated the play of the entire cubs team.

[SpaceFlare]

Just when my team is starting to heat up and I thought I could have a solid chance of becoming good again. Alfonso Soriano goes down. So I have 2 players on the DL with only one DL spot on my team. The other hurt player I have is Rickie Weeks.

So much for that I guess. Back to being 6th place again, after I managed to climb up to 4th in my h2h league/

[superciuc]

Here's m team now

C McCann

1B Giambi

2B De Rosa

SS Guillen

3B Lowell

OF Bradley

OF Quentin

OF Murphy

P Los Angeles Angels

Bench:

2B Cano

Util Scutaro

OF Guerrero

OF Quentin

OF Giles

1B Pujols (DL)

OF Willingham (DL)

[wolfy6finger]

Just when my team is starting to heat up and I thought I could have a solid chance of becoming good again. Alfonso Soriano goes down. So I have 2 players on the DL with only one DL spot on my team. The other hurt player I have is Rickie Weeks.

So much for that I guess. Back to being 6th place again, after I managed to climb up to 4th in my h2h league/

You could have my team. The Disabled All*Stars. Seriously, I'm trying to figure out how I'm 9-1 with all my injuries.

I just lost 3 players this week to the DL (Pujols, Soriano and V-Mart).

And, I had Holliday and Wells on the DL last week. Good thing they came back, because I need to use those spots for the two of my other guys (we allow 2 DL spots)

I just acquired Soriano for an Burnett last week.

Plus, Wagner blows back-to-back saves. I just realized my other closer (Percival) is still on the DL.

Good thing my starting pitching and free agents signings have worked out well.

Conor Jackson/Carlos Quentin were nice pickups.

Two Teams

First one (9-1, 10 team league):

C Martinez (DL)

1B Pujols (Keeper, DL)

2B Phillips

SS Reyes (Keeper)

3B Rameriz

LF Holliday (Keeper, just off DL)

CF Wells (just of DL)

RF Quentin

DH Hamilton

Backup

C Pierzynski

1B Jackson (FA signing)

2B/SS/3B Escobar (eligble at all 3)

1B/SS/3B Guillen (eligble at all 3)

LF Soriano (just acquired when Wells/Holliday went down, now DL)

RF/CF Rios

Rotation

Halladay (keeper)

Harden (waiting for the injury)

Sabathia (keeper, back in draft pool next year, slow-start)

Hernandez (new keeper for next year)

Volquez

Closers

Wagner

Wood

Bullpen

Percival (DL)

Ervin Santana

Sheets

Minors

Evan Longoria and Bartolo Colon (have kept them in the minors)

We have 5 keepers signed to contracts (1 through 5 years); each year keepers drop a year and the 1-yr goes back in the draft pool and we get a new keeper at 5-years

Second Team (6-4, 1 Game Back, 14 teams)

C V-Mart (keeper, DL)

1B Jackson

2B Lopez

SS Escobar

3B Rolen (picked up when Blalock went on the DL the 2nd time)

LF Holliday (keeper, just got bacl)

CF Ellsbury

RF Franceour

DH Ankiel (all OF)

Bench

SS HArdy (shoulder injury)

C Molina

1B Votto (playing quite abit actually, because Ellsbury/Ankiel have been dinged up)

Pitching

Halladay (keeper)

Hernandez (new keeper)

Wainright (DL, was gonna be my new keeper)

Cook

Francis

Perez (just picked him up, when Wainright went DL)

Baker (i've picked him 3 times this year, every other guy keeps getting injured) (I had Westbrook, Pineiro and someone else)

Carpenter (DL)

Bullpen

Wagner (ughhhh)

Wood

Percival (DL)

SAme rules as above, but only 3 keepers and 1 DL spot

[RaptorQuiz]

yeah pujols just went on the dl too.

fukudome far from sucks, he is the biggest reason the cubs have the best record in baseball, he's one of the best all-around players i have EVER seen. he's got gold glove caliper defense, and can hit for as good of an average as anybody, plus he has power. its not just the way he plays, its the way he's taught the entire cubs lineup how to have more patience at the plate and draw many more walks. he's elevated the play of the entire cubs team.

WTF are you talking about? I was referring only to the fantasy team.

Soriano is on the DL, so he can't help your fantasy team, and Fukudome does not put up quality fantasy numbers, despite solid REAL-LIFE play.

Settle down there, trigger. I wasn't talking about the Cubs. :roll:

[ro290190]

4th in my league, my offence is mashing but my pitching apart from my closers is hurting me

C McCann

C Barajas

1B Teixera

2B K.Matsui

3b C.Jones

SS H.Ramirez

CI Delgado

MI M.Reynolds

OF Manny

OF Dejesus

OF Cust

OF Swisher

OF Bruce

Util Wigginton

and on the bench and DL Alou Gathright and Pujols

My staff is

K-rod

Lyon

Morrrow

Dotel

Betancourt

Sean Green

Todd Wellermyer

A.J Burnett

Jered Weaver

Joe Saunders

Phil Dumatrait ( i pitch and ditch with this spot)

and Fausto Carmona on the DL

[RaptorQuiz]

Wow. My fantasy team has been struggling - but tonight was pretty amazing - led by 2 or 3 guys.

Here's who was in for tonight, I included stats that count for my league:

C: Brian McCann (ATL): 2-4, 2 runs, 1 RBI, 1 homerun.

1B: Mark Teixeira (ATL): 3-4, 3 runs, 4 RBIs, 3 homeruns.

2B: Brian Roberts (BAL): 1-3, 1 run, 1 stolen base.

3B: Troy Glaus (STL): Nothing.

SS: Stephen Drew (ARI): 1-4.

OF: Matt Holliday (COL): 1-4.

OF: Adam Dunn (CIN): Nothing (sat, had no replacement).

OF: Rick Ankiel (STL): Nothing.

UTIL: Edgar Renteria (DET): 1-4, 2 runs, 1 stolen base.

UTIL: Scott Rolen (TOR): 1-2, 1 run, 2 RBIs, 1 homerun.

SP: Justin Duchscherer (OAK): 7.2 IP, 1 ER, 3 K.

SP: Tim Lincecum (SF): 5.0 IP, 5 ER, 8 K.

So not everybody had a GREAT evening, and I was forced to play Dunn even though he had a day off, since my other FOUR outfielders weren't playing either: David Murphy (TEX) day off, Milton Bradley (TEX) day off, Alfonso Soriano (CHC) DL, Josh Willingham (FLA) DL... and Lincecum had a short day but lots of K's...

oh well. With my crappy team, all that offense qualifies as a great night. lol.

[SpaceFlare]

Made some trades on my team, hopefully I can start raking around the all-star break. Recently made trades:

Give: Cliff Lee (his last start for me was his 11 K performance), Adam Dunn

Get: Francisco Rodriguez (needed a solid closer), Joba Chamberlain, Carl Crawford

Dunn's averages are killing me and he gives me no speed so I deemed him expendable. I can't help but think Lee will fall back down to Earth, but the Indians fan in me wants Lee to keep producing the way he has.

J.J Putz has been horrible. Jon Rauch and BJ Ryan were my only closers so I went for K-Rod. Joba's more of a throw-in. I still think this'll pan out as a steal of a deal.

Give: Jay Bruce, Zack Greinke

For: Robinson Cano

Greinke's been terrific for me, and he's a big loss. On the other hand, I got a then struggling Robinson Cano for him.

And it appears I timed the trade well. Cano's first game for my team, he went 3 for 4, with 2 doubles and 3 RBI. (My league counts doubles) Next game he went 1 for 3 with a homer lol. Hopefully his bat stays hot and he can deliver for my fantasy team.

My team atm:

C Joe Mauer (Min - C)

1B Jason Giambi (NYY - 1B)

2B Robinson Canó (NYY - 2B)

3B Evan Longoria (TB - 3B)

SS José Reyes (NYM - SS)

OF Chris Young (Ari - OF)

OF Ãlex Ríos (Tor - OF)

OF Carl Crawford (TB - OF)

Util Rickie Weeks (Mil - 2B)

BN Chipper Jones (Atl - 3B)

BN Milton Bradley (Tex - OF)

DL Alfonso Soriano (ChC - OF) DL

SP Jo-Jo Reyes (Atl - SP)

SP Manny Parra (Mil - SP,RP)

RP B.J. Ryan (Tor - RP)

RP Francisco Rodríguez (LAA - RP)

P Jon Rauch (Was - RP)

P Félix Hernández (Sea - SP)

P Dustin McGowan (Tor - SP)

BN Jorge Campillo (Atl - SP,RP)

BN Joba Chamberlain (NYY - SP,RP)

BN J.J. Putz (Sea - RP) DL

I'm only riding the hot hands with starting pitching. Hernandez being the only true stud among my starting pitching. But it's an h2h league so I can just lean on adding a bunch of 2 start pitchers every week (to help with the "Apperances" category) or hope my offense rakes so I can get wins.

[yankeekid987]

your teams look good on paper kinda like mine.... I'm suprized how this year the big names havent done much!!