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7 minutes ago, castolon said:


It’s because you have him in a pitcher slot. He can be in one or the other

That worked. Thanks.

Yeah we forgot to tell you Ohtani is not allowed in this league sorry

Just in case the n00bs don't know.....there is a SP games started cap for your team at 193 starts it looks like (used to be 200 I guess espn lowered it).  

Just in case the n00bs don't know.....there is a SP games started cap for your team at 193 starts it looks like (used to be 200 I guess espn lowered it).  

I prefer when everyone is just surprised by that for the 4th year in a row

Lol well I want to beat yalls asses fair and square 

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9 hours ago, Scraps said:

Just in case the n00bs don't know.....there is a SP games started cap for your team at 193 starts it looks like (used to be 200 I guess espn lowered it).  

I have no idea how it got to 193. It started at 200 and I never touched it. I just set it back to 200.

My team is 5/36 with a .377 OPS

Jfc buncha Martin Maldonaldos fuck me

Breiske single handled destroyed my ERA....thanks bruh

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I need a warm body with 1B or 3B eligibility. Would be willing to trade OF or SS.

I have a number of guys with 1b eligiblity. Let me know if interested.

  • 2 weeks later...

first blockbuster of the year. who’s got next?!?

Edited by Derka

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I always appreciate the wheeling and dealing in these Surly leagues. I've been in other leagues in the past that went the whole year without any trades.

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I want to drop this bum Sonny Gray so bad. But I know that as soon as I do, one of y’all will scoop him up and he’ll pitch to like a 2.75 ERA for the rest of the season. 

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I have too many players on my roster after these trades. I want to trade Pfaadt + a bat for a better bat. Does anyone have a need for that?

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anyone else feel like we could use a third IL spot?

anyone else feel like we could use a third IL spot?

Well you’re in luck, we do have 3
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I did not think when I traded him away that Cal Raleigh was going to continue being Aaron Judge, but at catcher. What a neat little turn of events that is. And by neat, I mean fucking annoying.

  • 3 weeks later...

are the lower ranked teams still active? we’ve sent offers to pretty much all of y’all and they just sit there and expire. we’ve been offering tatis, abbott, devin williams, mike wazowski, etc, but no response. surely the lower ranked teams could use a shake up? holler at us if interested. we’d be looking to give you 3-5 of ours for 1-2 of yours.

gotta be honest- there’s a bunch of y’all who desperately need pitching, and we keep offering you andrew abbott, devin williams, and one of our hitters for one of your hitters, and literally dozens of these offers have just sat there and then expired. no response, no counter offer. the league is basically sitting static. it’s not very fun when nobody participates.

with that said, mine and hg’s team is doing great in pitching and only so-so in hitting, and we are trying to remedy that by trading pitching for hitting. if anyone out there could use some pitching, holler at us.

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7 hours ago, Derka said:

gotta be honest- there’s a bunch of y’all who desperately need pitching, and we keep offering you andrew abbott, devin williams, and one of our hitters for one of your hitters, and literally dozens of these offers have just sat there and then expired. no response, no counter offer. the league is basically sitting static. it’s not very fun when nobody participates.

with that said, mine and hg’s team is doing great in pitching and only so-so in hitting, and we are trying to remedy that by trading pitching for hitting. if anyone out there could use some pitching, holler at us.

I think that's a drawback of the Roto format. If you're down it's hard to mount a comeback and it feels hopeless. Maybe next year we could experiment with doing a 2nd half winner to keep people more interested.

As for trades, I wouldn't mind a pitcher but I'm also chasing OPS just like you. You'd have to give up a fortune to get someone like Greene from me. Have you tried $50 Donation/@UTHornFan014? I heard that guy likes trading lol.

our pitching yesterday:

3 starters, 2 relievers-

22.2 ip, 0 r, 21 k, 3 w, 2 s

someone needs to come take some of this pitching off of our hands…

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5 hours ago, UTHornFan014 said:

Trade #12 accepted

How many can I get to before the trade deadline? 🤣

I'm legitimately curious how many players you have left from the draft. It can't be many.

Whatever you're doing seems to be working for you though. You've only widened your lead on the rest of us since the ASB.

1 hour ago, tokamak said:

I'm legitimately curious how many players you have left from the draft. It can't be many.

Whatever you're doing seems to be working for you though. You've only widened your lead on the rest of us since the ASB.

Whatever I'm doing = Bored having the same lineup/players for too long

The only players still left from my draft are pitchers - Gilbert, Peralta, and Sanchez... and I know I've tried to trade them, too

I don't know what I'll do with myself after the trade deadline 🤣

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Man i am normally whatever on trades but wtf is this Skenes trade that just got accepted lmao

i guess collusion is cool now.

though you can veto if you want. no idea how many vetos it takes to override a bullshit august trade.

this league needs to become a h2h league next year. everyone quit super early this year because of the roto format.

and yeah, that trade is clearly insane. whoever the LM is should just veto it right now.

that trade went through? i’m out. i’m done managing my team, and im done with this league.

if someone offered me that trade (giving me skenes) i would never in a million years accept it. who cheats at low stakes fantasy baseball?

Not that it would have mattered but i tried to go through the email to vote against. It put me on a page and had "vote" labeled but no choices. When i would try to click on that "vote" it would just kick me to my team screen


I tried about 4 times and gave up

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On 8/10/2025 at 7:03 PM, Derka said:

this league needs to become a h2h league next year. everyone quit super early this year because of the roto format.

and yeah, that trade is clearly insane. whoever the LM is should just veto it right now.

Pretty sure Surly already has a H2H league. Guess there's nothing in the rulebook that says we can't have two. I'm certainly open to discussing rule/format changes for next year. Like I said up above, one idea I had was to do 1st and 2nd half winners. I'd have to track it outside of ESPN's software, but I don't think it'd be too difficult.

For whatever reason, this thread doesn't pop up on my activity feed when someone replies. Probably user error. If y'all have concerns you can always PM me on Surly or message me through the league, I'd see those for sure.

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On 8/11/2025 at 2:58 PM, Scraps said:

Not that it would have mattered but i tried to go through the email to vote against. It put me on a page and had "vote" labeled but no choices. When i would try to click on that "vote" it would just kick me to my team screen


I tried about 4 times and gave up

We could also discuss switching to Yahoo next year if people feel strongly. I used to think that Yahoo >>> ESPN, but I've kinda gotten used to ESPN at this point so I don't really care either way now.

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On 8/10/2025 at 11:43 AM, henrygandorf said:

i guess collusion is cool now.

though you can veto if you want. no idea how many vetos it takes to override a bullshit august trade.

Just checked this thread for the first time in awhile and I figured I'd respond to this as I'm the one that ended up getting Skenes in that trade. 

I will stick up for myself when it comes to someone calling it collusion and when the term cheating gets thrown around.

The only person I've ever had any real correspondence with about trades is Tokamak. I don't even know who runs the majority of the teams in this league. 

And the funny thing is that I didn't even propose that trade (and believe me, I proposed a lot of them). It was proposed to me (see the screenshot). 

I didn't realize until just now checking this thread that people were upset about it, so I'll go ahead and sit Skenes out the rest of the year.

In my mind, whoever proposed the trade was hard up for closers and chasing saves and Skenes only had ~8 starts left. But, you'd have to ask them to know for sure what the motive was behind it.

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we don’t want you to bench him. we want you to start him even harder now.

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Good season, everyone. @UTHornFan014 we just couldn’t do anything to catch you. It must’ve been your two-trades-a-week strategy. @Derka & @henrygandorf nice surge in the last couple weeks. I kept thinking that I could close the gap but never got any closer once you took over 2nd. 

I’ll send out payments as soon as I’m in front of a computer. Hope everyone will come back for next year. Happy to talk rule tweaks if anyone has some thoughts. 

My team was losing steam at the end of the season (stupid trade deadline!)

@Derka and @henrygandorf had put together a monster team by the end of the season that would have passed me if the season was a week longer. 

I do wish someone had tagged me in this thread when the Skenes trade went down. I didn't know people were upset about it and could have figured out a way to resolve it to everyone's satisfaction. I never want anyone thinking there was funny business going on. 

@tokamak Appreciate you putting it all together.  I do like the idea of splitting things up to maybe 1st half, 2nd half (post all-star break), and overall for future seasons to keep people more engaged. 

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