C:\u00a0Hunter Goodman<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 $1
1B:\u00a0Vinnie Pasquantino<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 $11
2B:\u00a0Luis Rengifo<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 $5
SS:\u00a0Gunnar Henderson<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 $36
3B:\u00a0Junior Caminero<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 $16
MI:\u00a0Ezequiel Tovar<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 $11
CI:\u00a0Jazz Chisholm Jr<\/a>. \u2013 $27
OF:\u00a0Yordan Alvarez<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 $31
OF:\u00a0Lawrence Butler<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 $20
OF:\u00a0Steven Kwan<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 $7
OF:\u00a0TJ Friedl<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 $1
OF:\u00a0Parker Meadows<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 $1
UTIL:\u00a0Lars Nootbaar<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 $1
Bench:\u00a0Ha-Seong Kim<\/a><\/p>\n
P:\u00a0Cole Ragans<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 $25 I came in 5th. That was with massive underperformance from my top two hitters and Cole Ragans<\/a>, who did, well, whatever that was. This year I decided to stay under $30 and spread risk and reward around a bit more. As you can see from last year\u2019s team, you may think the \u201cexpensive\u201d players are the answer, but look at my team\u2019s bright spots: Yamamoto, Eovaldi, Vinnie Pasketti, Hunter Goodman<\/a>, Aroldis and, welp, that\u2019s about it! $35 worth of my $260 budget last year got me 5th place. Let one of my \u201cgood\u201d players actually perform this year and daddy\u2019s going to repeat my LABR league win from 2024. (Was that a slightly awkward way to mention I won this league two years ago? P to the erhaps!) Okay, let\u2019s now look at my team for this year. But first, he says like an informercial salesman, the league\u2019s rules. Besides being an auction, weekly and two catcher, it\u2019s very similar to our RCL leagues (spots available to take on me and all of your worst frenemies, and win prizes; it\u2019s free \u2014 sign up for a Razzball Commenter League<\/a> under that linkie-ma-whosie or at the end of this post.) Anyway, here\u2019s my LABR 12-team, mixed league draft recap:<\/p>\n C: Logan O\u2019Hoppe<\/a> \u2013 $2 P: Jacob deGrom<\/a> \u2013 $22 Bench: Masyn Winn<\/a>, Jordan Lawlar<\/a>\u00a0 OKAY, I FEEL LIKE YOU WANT TO GIVE ME YOUR\u00a0WAR ROOM<\/a>\u00a0VALUES, SO LET\u2019S GET THAT OUT OF THE WAY.<\/p>\n Appreciate you teeing me up there, Mr. Al Capps.<\/p>\n I AM LOL\u2019ING AT YOUR ERA SO FREAKIN\u2019 MUCH. YOU\u2019RE LIKE A WIZARD OF DUMB. YOU SPUN YOUR DUMB WAND AND PULLED OFF AN EXCELLENT WHIP WITH A GARBAGE ERA. WELL DONE, WIZARD!<\/p>\n So, yeah, I don\u2019t know how I managed that.<\/p>\n BY BEING THE WIZARD OF DUMB, I LITERALLY JUST TOLD YOU.<\/p>\n Yeah, maybe. Like Tarantino might say, nice feat. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s just a random quirk in the projections I managed to find, but I can\u2019t imagine my WHIP is that good or my ERA is that bad. As the Boomer ladies say when you ask them their favorite movie, something\u2019s gotta give. I will say my pitching staff, or as I like to call them, the 2016 All-Stars, should be solid if they don\u2019t start \u201cfeeling their age.\u201d For what it\u2019s Wuertz, pitching in this league is a 12-team mixed league by name only. It\u2019s actually an 11-team league, because someone in the league only spent $8 on all of their pitching. Here that is (there\u2019s some free bench pitchers in this):<\/p>\n Honestly, I don\u2019t know why one would punt pitching in a 12-team mixed roto league. H2H? Sure, I guess. Not my preferred method, but okay. In a deep league like an Only league? Yes, then you can try to sneak through because a few teams will have bad pitching. In a 12-team mixed roto league? No. Any hoo, back to my hitting:<\/p>\n WAIT A SECOND, I SEE PETE CROW-ARMSTRONG ON YOUR TEAM! YOU DIRTY FILTHY LYING SACK OF EXCREMENT!<\/p>\n You\u2019re right, I wrote a Pete Crow-Armstrong overrated<\/a> post and\u2013<\/p>\n AND?! EVERYTHING YOU\u2019VE EVER SAID HAS BEEN A LIE TO ME AND EVERYONE ELSE, BUT ESPECIALLY ME. I MATTER!<\/p>\n So, he was my first pick and I was playing around with the \u201cmax bid\u201d button \u2014 it\u2019s when you enter your top amount you wanna spend and it will keep bidding up to your max bid until someone outbids you \u2014 and PCA is down for $23.6<\/p>\n on the War Room, so I put in $21 and, lo and behold, nobody had him for more than $21 on their sheet, I suppose. Honestly, I was surprised by that. Live and learn, as someone said after they totally screwed up. On a brighter note, my hitting kinda fudges, only it didn\u2019t say fudges, it said the mother of all curse words. I might lead the league in plate appearances, which in a weekly league is tr\u00e9s bien (sorry, been watching the WBC, and rooting for the French with their baseball bat-shaped baguettes or is that baguette-shaped bats). Only real out nowhere pick is Kevin McGonigle<\/a> for $4 (Konnor Griffin<\/a> went for $6, which is a good price). Had to cover for him with Masyn Winn<\/a> or Jordan Lawlar<\/a> in the freebies or hope McGonigle breaks camp (moved him up in my shortstop rankings<\/a> recently). In reality, as you see from my previous year team, it\u2019s a 12-team mixed league, so there\u2019s guys on waivers, and anyone sent down can\u2019t be picked up while they are in the minors, so it was draft McGonigle or wait until he was called up and drop $20+ in FAAB (out of a $100).<\/p>\n I LEGIT FELL ASLEEP DURING THAT LAST PARAGRAPH. I\u2019D ASK YOU TO RECAP BUT ONE NAP PER DAY FOR ME.<\/p>\n This is a weekly league, and you have to dominant at-bats and innings. There\u2019s guys on waivers for starters, the \u201cWell, he\u2019s not great, but he\u2019s getting two starts\u201d starters are abundant. Most weeks I find myself starting only one closer, and going with eight starters. Last year, there was prolly weeks when I went closer-less. To win this league, or any 12 teamer, you want to dominant hitting and hope your pitching is just good enough in ratios and saves while taking down Wins and Ks. It\u2019s really that easy. 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P:\u00a0Yoshinobu Yamamoto<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 $18
P:\u00a0Josh Hader<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 $17
P:\u00a0Sonny Gray<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 $12
P:\u00a0Robert Suarez<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 $9
P:\u00a0Nathan Eovaldi<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 $5
P:\u00a0Bowden Francis<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 $1
P:\u00a0Clarke Schmidt<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 $1
P:\u00a0Ronel Blanco<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 $1
Bench:\u00a0Aroldis Chapman<\/a>,\u00a0Kyle Harrison<\/a>,\u00a0David Peterson<\/a>,\u00a0Brandon Sproat<\/a><\/p>\n
C: Agustin Ramirez<\/a> \u2013 $11
1B: Matt Olson<\/a> \u2013 $22
2B: Ozzie Albies<\/a> \u2013 $6
SS: Kevin McGonigle<\/a> \u2013 $4
3B: Manny Machado<\/a> \u2013 $24
MI: Jose Altuve<\/a> \u2013 $13
CI: Vinnie Pasquantino<\/a> \u2013 $19
OF: Jackson Chourio<\/a> \u2013 $29
OF: Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a> \u2013 $21
OF: Cody Bellinger<\/a> \u2013 $15
OF: Tyler Soderstrom<\/a> \u2013 $15
OF: Chandler Simpson<\/a> \u2013 $4
Util: Otto Lopez<\/a> \u2013 $7<\/p>\n
P: Kevin Gausman<\/a> \u2013 $13
P: Luis Castillo<\/a> \u2013 $6
P: Brandon Woodruff<\/a> \u2013 $5
P: Matthew Boyd<\/a> \u2013 $4
P: Andrew Abbott<\/a> \u2013 $2
P: Robbie Ray<\/a> \u2013 $2
P: Ryan Helsley<\/a> \u2013 $8
P: Raisel Iglesias<\/a> \u2013 $6<\/p>\n
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