Welcome ladies, gentlemen, and those who've yet to decide, to the 2012 TBLA Fantasy Baseball League! It's going to be fun, it's going to be awesome, it's going to be super great.
Start here. The league name is True Blue Los Angeles (ID# 22409), our custom URL is http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/league/trueblue. The password is drematic.
It's a head to head league, with a live draft. The draft will be Thursday, March 1st at 8pm. There is a limit of 12 teams, so I'll update this fanpost as teams are taken. An FYI on the first week:
The Major League Baseball season opens this season on March 28, with the Mariners and Athletics playing a two-game series in Tokyo, Japan. As a result, Yahoo! has combined those two games with the abbreviated opening week for all other teams that begins with the Cardinals-Marlins game on April 4.
Week 1 of the Fantasy Baseball Head-to-Head season will run from March 28-April 8.
**Update**
Ladies and Gentlemen we've got nine teams now, that's three quarters of the league full. Super proud y'all, like a peacock. Get 'em while they're hot!
I'm not sure if you guys normally do this sort of thing and if so, feel free to do anything you want with it but if not, let's just have some fun!
First I'll give you my projections and then let's hold a voting and see how close we get to what's going to happen.
Here are my All-star starting roster predictions.
Now, can people name their two top picks for each position in the comments, and I'll count 'em up and see what we've got. Get started!
(The voting should be open for about a week.)
Who's job is it to "verify" the Dodgers Depth Chart on Dodgers.com. Today's depth chart looks just like the Feb. 7th verified depth chart and they both have H. Kuo out of the bullpen! There are others errors as well and they may have not updated it, but why would it say it was verified today. It is misleading to the casual fan and they should pay closer attention to these things. It is better for TrueBlueLA, because people here give a damn about getting things right and fans know where to get the truth!
Pretty sure it's behind the paywall - but Keith Law's farm system rankings put the Dodgers at #12. I was pleasantly shocked to see that. John Sickles, who I really trust but was also ranking systems for the first time, put the Dodgers at 22. That was more inline with my expectations.
Law didn't get into a detailed analysis, only referencing the strong pitching and weak hitting, but "If pitching wins championships, the Dodgers are in pretty good shape."
Update:
These are the players who responded to my email:
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Josh Schoenwald |
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AJ Henning |
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Bobby Down |
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Brandon Lennox |
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Brenton, W, Knapp |
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David G Young |
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Joe Benardello |
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Joshua Bramlett |
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Josie M Becker |
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Madeleine, C, St. Marie |
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Matthew Josephson |
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Phil Gurnee |
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Russell Frye |
These are the players who did not:
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Mike Kanaly |
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Albert Martinez |
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Naeem Chaudhry |
Mike, Albert, Naeem chime in here if you plan on going. You paid but you did not respond to the email I sent out. So either you gave a bogus email, I typed it in wrong, the email went directly to your spam filter, or you simply did not reply.
We want to carpool as much as possible to not only save gas but for camaraderie sakes since spending eight hours together is not enough, might as well add a few hours of car time. Going to the game we can talk about how stupid the manager is going to be, and on the way home we can talk about how stupid the manager was.
People who have volunteered to carpool are:
Joe - seats 4 - Hollywood
David - seats 4 - NorthWest San Fernando Valley
Phil - seats 4 West San Fernando Valley
From what I understand Josh (Deliasman) is picking up Josie so they are covered.
Josh Schoenwald lives on the Westside and would like to carpool. I'd suggest he contact HJ who is in Hollywood. Matthew also resides on the Westside. So that looks like a good match.
I'd suggest Bobby drive with me.
I'd suggest David pickup Maddz and Gary unless they want to drive themselves.
AJ lives in SB and would be welcome to carpool with me but I think he's leaving later and I'll be leaving at a time that will get me to the park by 07:30AM or sooner.
This is the extent of my suggestions. Use the comments to make arrangements.
Below is the information I provided in the Email.
We are using ASA bat rules, USSSA Rules
USSSA Softball Ruleshttp://www.usssa.com/usssa/usssa-general/2011SPRuleBook.pdf
I'd suggest you hardball players check out the rulebook, many things you do in hardball will not play in softball.
It looks like we are using a 3, -1 Home run rule. Which means that only 3 home runs per team per game will be allowed, and only one home run more then the other team. Any other home runs would be considered outs. I don't anticipate that being a problem for us.
Key Rules:
Contact Info:
Big League Dreams - West Covina, California
2100 S. Azusa Ave.
West Covina, CA 91792
(626) 839-1100
info@bigleaguedreams.com
http://westcovina.bigleaguedreams.com/
They have four batting cages for practice before the game or during the breaks.
Policies:
http://westcovina.bigleaguedreams.com/park-policies
Entrance Fees
- Patrons 13 years and older pay $3.00 upon entry and will receive a token worth $1.00.
- Children 12 and under participating in a sport pay $1.00 upon entry and will receive a token worth $1.00
- The token is redeemable at the park stadium club restaurant or concession stand
Guidelines
- If you leave the park, and plan to return the same day, please get a hand stamp for re-entry.
- NO FOOD, BEVERAGES, or ICE CHESTS/COOLERS may be brought into the park.
- NO Overnight Recreation Vehicle parking is allowed at any Big League Dreams Facility.
- Spectators 12 and under are admitted FREE!
- Alcoholic beverages are NOT permitted to be consumed in the parking lot area at any time.
Hopefully it will be a full days worth of five or six games and not the three game minimum.
Any questions leave them in the comments.
I am a long time season ticket holder looking to sell 1/4, 1/2 or even full season at face (my cost). I have Field level, Section 19, Row C. They are padded seats on the aisle between home and third, behind the Dodgers dugout. Preferred parking too -- Lot F. Prices have come down a bit for the 2012 season. The seats are $80 each, and parking is $16, for a total of $176 per game. If interested, please call Matthew at (818) 985-2525 or email me at dpfp1@hotmail.com. Thanks much.
The idea that Joe Torre's group might gain control of the Dodgers scares the hell out of me because he seemed to work well with Ned Colletti. If Ned stays, nothing really changes. Ned reminds me of the way my mother was when she played cards. She never took a card from the face-down deck (the unknown quantity) when she could take one from the discard pile face-up (the known quantity). Colletti is a nightmare worse than any Halloween movie. Why take a chance on a rookie when you can get an over-the-hill veteran? Rookies can either improve dramatically or go bust. Old players are already busted. You might get what you had last year, but usually you get less and less.
We need a rookie owner with a general manager who has something to prove. Please, please don't let Joe Torre loose on Los Angeles again!
[A lot of time and effort went into this. There is an absolute ton of great information in this document. Nice work by DodgerBlue8188. -Eric]
This is the completed version of my 2011 excel scrapbook of the Los Angeles Dodgers organization. You can find my final 2010 version here 2010 Dodgers Excel Scrapbook. For comparison my 2010 version had about 25 worksheets while my 2011 version has about 125 worksheets. My goal was to not only present regular data but also data that could give people interesting stats that you can't find as easily on baseball web sites.
You can download my 2011 Dodgers Spreadsheet here. It's about 6.5 MB.
Statistical Features:
Player profiles/Prospect Watch
Team review
Here's a weekend game to play, just received my copy of the 2012 Baseball America Prospect book so here's the game you loved to play last year, name the top 30 (and 31st) Dodger prospects by the hints I give.
Now, last month, BA published the Dodger top ten prospects so I will give their grades and risks (described here) that BA is using in the book.
1. RHP Zach Lee - 60/Medium
2. RHP Allen Webster - 55/Medium
3. RHP Nate Eovaldi - 55/Medium
4. OF Alfredo Silverio - 55/Medium
5. LHP Chris Reed - 55/Medium
6. RHP Garrett Gould - 55/Medium
7. RHP Chris Withrow - 55/High
8. RHP Josh Limblom - 50/Low9. OF Joc Pederson - 50/High
10. Tim Federowicz - 45/Low
11. Raw, strong defense - 50/High
12. Power arm, no mechanical issues, potential no. 3 - 50/High
13. Above-average power, struggles to maintain consistency - 50/Extreme
14. Sits 90-93, touches 94, projectable frame - 50/High
15. Herky-jerky delivery, ceiling as a set up man - 50/High
16. Incomplete season - 50/High
17. Lack of command but array of promising pitches - 55/Extreme
18. Young, intriguing tools - 50/High
19. Potential for average power, above average speed and good arm - 45/Medium
20. Draws comparison to another player with one of his names - 45/Medium
21. Solid power to all fields, adequate defensively - 45/Medium
22. Gap power may not equal HR, lacks speed and athleticism - 45/Medium
23. Better pure stuff than his brother - 50/Extreme
24. Troncoso replacement (my words) - 45/High
25. Good pitch recognition skills, more raw than usual for his position - 45/High
26. He's still here (my words) - 40/Low
27. Nothing flashy about his game, consistent defender - 40/Medium
28. Size may be an issue, contact-oriented approach - 45/High
29. Sound swing, generates plus bat speed, defense is fine - 45/High
30. Above-average power, test will be next level - 45/High
31. Former intern - 45/High
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