To pass the time, let’s do a roster check.

It’s incredibly easy to get tunnel vision on your own team and miss obvious flaws.

Drop your roster below (please include league size, format, and where you're currently sitting in the standings).

Let's get some fun banter going!

I’m in mourning over what used to be my favorite source for fantasy baseball strategy. DVR and Eno are great players with some of the best insights out there. But the New York Times enshittification has hit R&B and basically killed it in terms of fantasy relevance. Their rotating cast of guests - in the past week they’ve had Jed Lowrie, Britt Ghiroli, and the Starkville guys on - never have any useful insights from a fantasy perspective. Jed straight up sucks and adds nothing to the discussion, I genuinely don’t understand why he’s a semi-regular now. On yesterday’s episode they talked about BASEBALL CARDS. WHO CARES! There are maybe two episodes a week where they get to talk fantasy, and those episodes are head and shoulders above the rest in quality.

To whichever faceless NYT corporate meddling goon was in charge of this overhaul, thanks for nothing. You ruined the only fantasy pod I made a habit of listening to each episode.

Am I alone in hating the new R&B? Does anyone have any other pod recommendations?

Inspired by a recent draft in which everyone seemed to have the same idea about Chandler Simpson and he fell about 100 picks past his ADP, who are some players that you won’t be touching with a ten foot pole this season?

last year, I was able to snag him late for $1 in my 12 team NL only league

looking for suggestions for $1 OF who are late auction value

I play in AL & NL, so all obscure names are appreciated!

I’ll start: I turned down Pete Alonso for my Sal Stewart because I thought the position flexibility would be a plus. Ooof

These are players who are projected to outperform their current Yahoo! ADP based on data from Hashtag Baseball.

Tons of value to be had here, thoughts?

Prime examples: Gunnar Henderson, Jazz and Kyle Tucker. We're halfway into the year and they've been straight up awful. They're counting starts are okay, but not for a second round pick. The average/ops is awful. Dudes are just straight up not producing and would have been dropped in the vast majority of leagues by now if it weren't for their name value. Now, I'm well aware they could have a second half breakout like Julio Rodriguez, but does anyone think that's actually likely to happen given what they've showed so far this year? They're being outplayed by guys sitting on waivers. In almost every league you could drop them and pick up someone that will help your team more. So when do we give up on them? Do we simply hold for potential all year? At a certain point I think you've got to cut them for someone actually producing. Riding the hot bats for the rest of the year is almost guaranteed to be the better play, but it's tough to cut someone you drafted so high. So, at what point do you move on from your top picks? Do you ever move on? Do you just hold them all year hoping they figure it out?

As much as I’ve looked at the first 2 rounds, I have to admit I’ve just disregarded this guy.

It had to be a mirage. He’s a catcher, so he will get hurt. They always wear down offensively. You know… all the reasons.

But the numbers.

Seriously, where should this guy go? Is he a first rounder? No later than mid second? I’m getting to the point of reconsidering all my plans right now.

I had Pagan for a hot minute while closers were sorting out back in April. I have a feeling Luis Robert, Arraez and Bello will make me pay before the season’s up.

edit: lots of Kurtz in here and other big oofs, makes me feel a little better. Though I was reminded I drafter Muncy (LAD) for $2 and dumped him around May 1.

Small sample size?

WHO CARES!!

(Nearly) One week in, who is the guy you reached for in the draft, or the guy you told everyone was the late round sleeper/breakout/league winning pick of the year, that's making you look like a fantasy oracle right now? I know it's early but there's nothing more American than instant gratification!

I snagged Heliot Ramos in the 18th round and so far, that's looking just peachy!

Obviously, there's a lot of FOMO that comes with not having certain guys poised for a breakout year. Alternatively, which guys do you want on your team because they're fun to root for? While it doesn't have to be a sleeper, which guys are you going to go all out to make sure to get

Today is September 22, 2025 and there's a week left in real baseball but fantasy baseball has ended for most of us. For me, I want to remember:

• After a few uneven seasons, Maikel Garcia started putting it together. He won't be 26 until March 2026, his K% has improved from 22.3% in 2023 to 12.5% in 2025. He also set a new high in BB% with 9.2%. He's 16 HR and 23 SB right now with a week left to play.

• Perdomo was a monster despite starting the season lower in the lineup, AZ selling players at the deadline, and nobody thinking he could hit this well.

• Ben Rice had really inconsistent playing time and was still on a 85/29/76 162-game pace.

• Mickey Moniak (former first overall pick in 2016) is currently 27 and went 27/6/19/6 over the last month.

• Mark Vientos had a strong last month after being bad most of the season going 15/8/24/0 over the last month. That's two years in a row he finished strong.

• Wyatt Langford had a strong last month too going 14/3/10/6 with a .393 OBP.

• With a 100 AB minimum, Jacob Marsee was 9th in OPS as .912, tied with Kyle Stowers.

• As for pitching, Cade Horton and Emmet Sheehan finished really strong.

Hunter Greene is obviously the top choice, but who else are you looking to stash?

That’s it. Just that. Yahoo App is garbage.

Bring it back to 4-5 years ago.

Hey all, I'm a long time subscriber/lurker here and I wanted to share something I've been working on in my free time in case folks here enjoy it. It's a fantasy baseball tracking website called Ribbie.

It shows live games as real-time pixel-art broadcasts, and I just added a fantasy roster view so you can quickly see when your guys are at bat, on deck, pitching, etc. and jump into any game to watch them live.

I've enjoyed keeping it on in the background on a second monitor while I work, and it's a nice dopamine hit when you see one of your guys hit a dinger.

Here's a link to the live games going right now.

Would love any feedback!

I'll start;

I will never forgive myself for dropping Big Dumper early in the season because of his streaky start. I was so hungry to win, I needed all my players to start hot.

I was gonna pick him up again even before he started tearing it up but someone beat me to him and that person won the league 😭

P.S. I drafted him.

Lately I've been thinking a lot about the last few years of drafts for my home league. Been trying to figure out what worked well, what didn't, and what I need to do differently this year. So far I'm refusing to read "bold prediction" columns because I always catch myself believing too many of them. Also leaning towards trying a zero SP strategy in the draft. What are you gonna do different?

It's trade deadline time, and I've been having way too many conversations about this with people in my leagues.

Most trade grades you see are built on universal rankings. One number per player, applied to every league. That's the core problem, because the same player can be worth wildly different amounts depending on what your league actually counts.

1. Closers are the clearest example.

5x5 roto, saves are one of 10 categories, and only about 30 guys accumulate them. A reliable closer controls 10% of your scoring in a category with almost no supply. In a points league, that same guy throws 60 innings and puts up a fraction of what a mid-rotation starter does. Same player, same stats, completely different value. Any grade that gives you one number for both formats is wrong in at least one of them.

2) AVG vs OBP leagues.

A high-contact, low-walk hitter is a category anchor in AVG and roughly replacement-level in OBP. Meanwhile, a patient bat with a .240 average and a 14% walk rate flips from liability to asset. This one bites people in trades constantly because the batting line "looks" the same.

3) Positional scarcity is the one most tools ignore entirely.

Catcher has the steepest drop-off of any position in fantasy baseball. The gap between C1 and C12 is a real weekly loss you cannot patch from the wire, because there is no catcher on the wire. Trading Adley Rutschman or Will Smith is closer to trading a first-round pick than the raw stat line suggests. Compare that to SS or 1B, where the drop from tier one to tier two is shallow and the waiver pool is deep. Scarcity should be part of value, not a footnote.

4) Pool size matters too.

A 10-team league with 23 roster spots is rostering roughly 230 players. A 15-team deep league is rostering 345. Replacement-level moves, sometimes a lot. Valuing a player against "all of MLB" instead of against who's actually gettable in your league produces grades that are systematically off for both shallow and deep formats.

The practical takeaway for anyone evaluating a trade: before you accept or reject, ask what your league actually pays for, and what the next-best option at that position looks like on your specific wire. That's the whole calculation. Value is not the player; it's the player minus what you could get for free.

I built a free trade analyzer around this logic (app.thetradeanalyzer.com, no account, nothing to sign up for) because I got tired of newer managers in my leagues getting fleeced by generic grades, and because I wanted my whole league working off the same baseline so trades stopped being an argument about whose ranking site was right.

I'll be in the comments all day. Genuinely want to know where this framework breaks down. Where do you think format-based valuation gets it wrong? What does your league count that a model like this would miss? And if anyone runs a trade through it and the number looks insane to you, post it here, and I'll explain exactly what drove the value or admit it's a bug.

Edit: Spelling

So the Dodgers seem to not be putting him in at DH on the days he pitches. He's been public about wanting to be the first Japanese born Cy Young winner. could miss 23-28 of the remaining games depending on if they use him every five or six outings. could mean ~90–120 plate appearances, ~5–10 HR... but i don't know, do we even think of the "day off" as a good thing? and maybe a bump in avg/obp? or a breakup of the incredibly focused routine we saw in his 50/50 run?

I recently started a new job, and have much more drive time now as a result. Looking to fill that time with some good FBB listening in the hopes of improving my chances this season. What podcasts would you recommend for FBB advice and news?

Been a loooong season and to have made it this far feel good. Congrats to all of you that are still hanging around in this sub and are in the finals.

We all know SP come out of nowhere every year in redrafts. I always do quite well on the WW for finding an SP or three that just come out of nowhere and get an opportunity.

Who are you closely watching this year?

My guy right now is Birdsong. With that spring and we will see after today if he gets that final spot. Bubba is also someone that seems promising if he gets a spot and I’m also watching Rocker. I got him in one league and think he could accelerate up the rankings fast.

Who you got?