Spring Training has started and Fantasy Baseball Opening Day has arrived. Call me a Geek if you will, but I’m excited.
I love it. It gives me an excuse to keep up with MLB all the way from Spain (where we get about three games a week on satellite TV and they’re usually aired about two days after they happen). And it gives me an opportunity to flex my math muscles. This is where I think I have the advantage over other managers: I imagine they play with their hearts whereas I play with my noggin. I gobble up those statistics and then spend hours working out multiple possibilities. I’m Geeking out just thinking about it!
The season doesn’t start until April and I’m already signed up to play in two different leagues (the same ones as last year). One is a “keeper league” so I have the same players that were on my roster at the end of last season: Pudge, Tejada, Beltran, Schilling, and Oswalt (just to name a few). It should be a good year.
Dude, you will destroy all in your keeper league, how the hell do you manage to keep that many players each season? Most I have been involved with let you keep 4-5 per season, and after a 2-3 seasons, you have to let them go into the draft. However you manage it, you have a hell of a team already even before the draft…good luck!
I’ve got more players than that! We were able to keep all of our starting positions from last year but we had to drop all bench spots. My teams’ pretty hefty, but there are some other powerhouses out there too!
Six months… out of every year, I might as well be made of stone.
Six months… out of every year. When I’m with him, I’m alone. (Damn Yankees)
Those lines have never spoken truer to me than since I’ve started playing fantasy baseball. At least I’m not on the road for 162 games – I just update my roster for 10 minutes every night before I go to sleep.