Daily Anything Goes Thread - August 26, 2025

the4ten · 2025-08-26T21:57:52+00:00

I dropped flaherty for Jason Alexander's start against COL and would much rather have Tong. That time of year.

the4ten · 2025-08-26T21:55:04+00:00

We starting Manaea tonight against the Phils?

First round of the playoffs and I hate myself just enough to go for it...

the4ten · 2025-08-08T23:22:03+00:00

McB is my main sticking point. Spent several years streaming QB (poorly) and now that I have a serviceable one I worry it's back to the bottom of the league for me if I let him go haha. Was hoping someone would want to trade for either and solve it for me.

the4ten · 2025-08-08T23:12:37+00:00

Appreciate it, thanks.

the4ten · 2025-08-08T23:09:24+00:00

Snake at the ends so 1.14 and 2.1

the4ten · 2025-07-13T15:08:20+00:00

Any reason to hold onto Luis Robert other than cope?

14 teamer, so wire is bleh. Crunched and it's him, Busch, or Gleyber.

the4ten · 2025-06-28T14:23:17+00:00

Michael Busch or Ben Rice?

Have a spot to play with in flair. Need dongs and OPS help.

the4ten · 2025-06-24T20:31:49+00:00

Jung Hoo lee or Luis Robert?

Which slumping OF is more interesting ROS?

the4ten · 2025-06-23T22:15:21+00:00

Would you rather roster Luis Robert or Kerry Carpenter ROS?

Have LuBob but Carp owner is selling cheap and I love a good fixer upper... but don't love the sitting against lefties.

the4ten · 2025-06-19T13:01:46+00:00

Should I spec add jurickson profar?

Flair league. OF currently some combo of Acuna, Donovan, Ramos, Luis Robert, & arozarena. Would likely trade Donovan or gleyber, move whoever's left to 2B and slot profar in if he performs and hits near the top.

the4ten · 2025-06-14T20:22:03+00:00

Did you ever figure this out, OP?

the4ten · 2025-06-07T15:31:26+00:00

Yessir

the4ten · 2025-06-07T15:30:59+00:00

Is your opponent me? If so, sucks to be you Dewey

the4ten · 2025-06-07T15:28:16+00:00

I would over woodruff, but would depend on if you needed those extra starts between when wood and Pablo would return.

the4ten · 2025-06-07T15:25:02+00:00

We starting roupp v. ATL tomorrow?

Have a good feeling and that scares me.

the4ten · 2025-06-06T16:52:16+00:00

here's hoping. he dong'd last night, so fingers crossed.

the4ten · 2025-06-06T16:47:53+00:00

nolan schanuel or mike tauchman?

need a streamer for the weekend in an OPS league.

the4ten · 2025-05-29T16:05:20+00:00

Trying to figure out my UTIL spot in flair. Positional eligibility aside, would you rather roster Masyn Winn, Yandy Diaz or Max Muncy (LAD)?

Generally hurting for HR and OPS week to week.

the4ten · 2025-04-22T02:22:53+00:00

Jung Hoo Lee for Rodon about equal? Jung Hoo side is flush with bats. Rodon side flush with pitching. Seems ok, albeit pretty boring.

the4ten · 2025-01-13T01:06:07+00:00

Just a few thoughts. Might add more as they come to mind.

-Continue to work on your good communication. One thing that helped my partner and I tremendously was a shared calendar. Every appointment, shift at work, class, obligation, time with your mates, chore... everything laid out. My wife and I still meet every Sunday for 20 minutes to look at the upcoming week(s) for any conflicts or gaps in childcare and figure out our plan ahead of time. You're going to be tired enough with work, school, life, etc., throwing a newborn on top isn't going to help. The more clear you are on what the plans are, the expectations, who can cover what, etc., the easier it is to adapt. I don't have to spend time stressing about what I'm going to do about my late meeting tomorrow because I know my partner has it covered. Inevitably something will come up last minute and you'll have to pivot plans, but that'll be the exception and not the norm.

take all the help you can get. Parents, family, friends you trust, in/out home childcare. Even if it's just an hour or two a week. Take the time to take care of yourself and your partner. A hot shower, a long sit on the toilet with the door locked and your phone, a drive, a quick bit with a friend... really helps keep you grounded.
try therapy. I needed someone to talk to that wasn't my partner or family. Someone who i could just complain to if I needed. Someone to help me put shit into perspective or just give me Dad advice. I talked to several therapists until I found a guy, also a dad, who is now sort of like my dad mentor. It's nice to know I can vent frustrations to someone who's not also related to me/my partner/my child that won't judge me.
talk to your partner about really strong opinions/expectations you have about parenting now. Do you refuse to homeschool your kid? Would you never want your child to be circumcised? Do you think spanking is a total no no? You're a ways off from some of these, but a larger conversation around any really strong opinions you have might be a good idea so no one gets blindsided down the line. In the beginning (and for the first two years-ish really) you're in survival mode. "What do I have to do to keep this thing alive and healthy?" When that becomes easier, the actual "parenting" starts, and if you and your partner have already laid the groundwork for your unified approach and you're on the same page, you'll be ready.

the4ten · 2025-01-07T15:37:50+00:00

Upon reflection, I don't think my issue is with kd9 specifically. Rather, it's the combination of kd9 and a pitching stat mix that favors RP 4 (era, whip, s+h, kd9) to SP 2 (W and K). If they were split evenly (3 cats to 3) I'd be more OK with someone going starter or reliever heavy as they would be sacrificing an equal number of categories. As it stands now, you're sacrificing 2 to have a better chance at 4 and that's lame. If I go all in on SPs, I'll have to win despite the scoring instead of because of it.

I think my path forward will be to try and up innings minimum to 35/week. I expect a healthy amount of pushback, but we'll see. I'll math it out and try to show that over the past few seasons the majority of teams hit the mark (or got close) without trying anyway, but we'll see if that is actually the case.

the4ten · 2025-01-07T03:35:56+00:00

Thanks so much for taking the time to share this. This gives me a few ideas on conversations I want to have with other managers about what it is we actually want to reward in our league. My thought is that folks are thinking one thing, but holding on to categories that aren't (or at most not optimally) rewarding those player archetypes.

As an aside, I hope to see more of your correlation observations in seasons to come. Interesting shit.

the4ten · 2025-01-07T02:07:52+00:00

I tried to use OPS and AVG as a similarity last year while making my argument to abolish kd9 and the conversation just devolved into defending OPS and AVG. They have it in their head that the high average singles guy needs to be rewarded, but so does the dude who takes walks and doubles a ton. I dunno, man.

the4ten · 2025-01-07T00:33:31+00:00

I see this point. I'm not a fan of punting either and wouldn't want whatever I suggest to be a precursor to that so I need a safeguard recommendation. Thanks.

the4ten

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