This marks the fourth year of the Second FanGraphs Staff ottoneu league, and we are setting up for a highly competitive year. Before each season, I set up projected standings to help me understand where my team stands and what I need to do to improve.
This year, based on the FanGraphs Depth Charts projections, my team has its work cut out for it, sitting within striking distance of first, but chasing two teams.
Episode 1 – The Sister Podcast
The premier episode of “Field of Streams” is live!
In this episode, Dylan Higgins and Matthew Dewoskin make their RotoGraphs debut with Season 2 of the Field of Streams podcast. “The contest” is explained, Kyle Kendrick is mentioned unfavorably, Masahiro Tanaka is doubted, and Matt expresses his Southside cynicism.
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Agenda
Opening day is finally upon us! I conclude this year’s (condensed) Pod’s Picks series with starting pitchers. If you missed them, here are the infielders and outfielders. The bullish group will only include those I ranked within my top 75 and the bearish only players the consensus ranked within their top 75.
The starter’s pistol was fired yesterday, and now the bulls are loose and preparing to trample stupid Spaniards today.
On today’s agenda:
1. Melvin Upton swaps teams with Carlos Quentin, Cameron Maybin
2. Fun with 2014 April Stats
3. Streaming Pitcher Options
Episode 213
The latest episode of “The Sleeper and the Bust” is live!
In this episode, Paul Sporer and Jason Collette discuss the massive trade between San Diego and Atlanta as well as roster decisions on Kevin Gausman, Micah Johnson, and Eddie Butler.
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• I had planned on bringing out the Bullpen Report for its nightly debut already today, but the vast majority of my time was involved in massive closer grid updates to cover all of the DLs/demotions of the last few days (sidenote: if you see someone listed on the big league roster below, but throwing meatballs in Triple-A, please leave a comment). But, whoa, A.J. Preller just downloaded his latest copy of Out of the Park Baseball 16 and needed to make some big splashes after importing his already crazy offseason from OOTP15 (more sidenotes: OOTP is like another level of crack if you like this site).
Baseball’s back today, baseball’s back today, yeah, yeah, yeah.
On today’s agenda:
1. Yasmany Tomas to the minors
2. Decision on Eddie Butler to come today
3. Fun with spring stats
4. Streaming Pitcher Options
Today marks the return of the daily Roto Riteup. Opening Night isn’t until tomorrow, but the news never stops. As you may now have guessed, I’ll be guiding you through the weekends this year, so buckle up and enjoy the ride.
On today’s agenda:
1. Fun with spring stats
2. Travis Wood locks up a job
3. Nick Ahmed makes the Diamondbacks
4. Jon Gray optioned
It’s been a bit more than a month, so it’s time to update my rankings, maybe in time for your last draft. Mostly injuries have moved the needle, but a few spring training strikeout rates and pitch changes may have factored into the moves. I gave you the new NFBC ADP and my old rankings so you could see the movements in the rankings.
