I’d have gone 5/90 or 6/100 on him after 17. People forget, after a bad April where he was clearly pressing, he hit .330 the last 5 months with an OBP over .400 and wRC+ north of 150.

He seemed a cinch to do a 3/2/2/2/1/0 war run. So 10 wins @8M = $80M value as a certainty, with upside (he did 4.1 his walk year).

It’s easy to armchair QB this one but holy hell his first 2 years in SD have been shockingly bad.

The dude got a ring, delivered in clutch moments, delivered in his most clutch (contract) year, married Kacie, earned a 144 million dollar deal and by all accounts is treating it as a retirement on the beaches of San Diego.

Thank God the Royals got outbid here, even thought I have to admire Hosmer’s swag and stubbornness through this process (it’s who he has ALWAYS been).

No doubt, Faux-Hawk played the system perfectly.

I haven’t seen him play since he left (when is SD on anyway?), but the stats were showing an alarming inability to make contact. He and Moose always had good eyes, didn’t swing at much garbage and when they did could make contact. Hosmer went from 15% K to like 24% last year. If it came with 30+ jacks you could accept the “empty calories” as selling out for power. But didn’t even provide that.


Justin Smoak, 33, is the same player now, a few years older but a good comp. Smoak was non tendered by Toronto after a 20HR 101 wRC+ season and signed a 1/5 deal with Milwaukee. That’s what Hoz deserves.

Yeah, that was where I was at.

Would have ended up similar to the Gordon deal - looked like great value at the time, ended up being underwater in a hurry.

Alec Lewis Roster Projection:

Catchers (2)
Salvador Pérez, Cam Gallagher

Infielders (5)
Ryan O’Hearn, Ryan McBroom, Nicky Lopez, Adalberto Mondesi, Maikel Franco

Outfielders (5)
Alex Gordon, Whit Merrifield, Hunter Dozier, Bubba Starling, Brett Phillips

Designated hitter (1)
Jorge Soler

Starting pitchers (5)
Brad Keller, Danny Duffy, Jacob Junis, Mike Montgomery, Jorge López

Relievers (8)
Ian Kennedy, Scott Barlow, Tim Hill, Trevor Rosenthal, Greg Holland, Glenn Sparkman, Josh Staumont, Jake Newberry

These FA moan about the lack of interest but look at these deals that don’t work. They kill you. About 5 clubs can absorb these deals without submarine for themselves. You can’t win without making at least SOME fA deals but can’t make big ones over 100m anymore.


Yelich just got 9-213 as a 7war guy. Betts was prob pissed. Losers like Hoz don’t help anyone.

I decided to watch my first Royals Spring training game today. We won 9 to 7, but we were LOL bad. Three or four pop ups simply dropped, miscommunications, etc. The Padres were better for 8 and a half innings, but the Royals somehow got 6 in the first and hung on.

Hosmer and Eric Berry crackin blunts together

Anyone have fantasy resources that are top notch?

Find the most reliable 9 position players and load up on pitchers.

Great so who figures out who those thirteen guys are before the season starts and where do they publish this information?

Pitcherlist
Friends with Fantasy Benefits
The Sleeper and the Bust

What formats are you looking at? I’m pretty good in traditional snake drafts and dynamite at auction/keeper (if I do say so myself).

Asking the wrong guy. I've always played leagues with unlimited waiver pickups. I was dropping and adding starters daily lol.

Same one I've PM'd you about repeatedly over the last half decade.

Since it’s slow and I’m in fantasy baseball mode at the moment (I’m commish-ing so hard), a few things to think about:

1) don’t overpay for rookie SP this year. There’s no one so good you want to take them at current ADPs (but keep an eye on Nate Pearson and pounce when he’s about to get the call)

2) Nab an ace early ... unless you can get Acuna or Trout or Yelich, I think deGrom is one of the best values in round 1. Then you wait on pitching, IMO and spend the next 4-5 rounds building your lineup

3) don’t buy elite closers early if you have unlimited moves.

4) don’t sleep on Nellie Cruz. He’s still a beast and generally really undervalued in drafts.

5) keep an eye on Masahiro Tanaka. He didn’t have his split last year but looks to have found it this year (likes the ball better)

5b) don’t count on cheap Hr power. If the ball has higher seams (what Tanaka needs for his splitter) the trampoline ball may be gone.