[IBL] Talk me off the ledge
Paul Schneider
badgermaniac339 at gmail.com
Mon May 26 13:48:46 EDT 2025
I know...just having a laugh. It is crazy that all of them have found their
groove at the same time. Still, it is pretty crazy how many of MLB's
"overperforming riff raff" are former Wallbangers. Probably doesn't help
that my actual team has had a disastrous season. Bottom line is you either
laugh about it or cry. I prefer to laugh.
On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM Robert Barnes <roblbarnes67 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> It's a long season and all of these players have proved their uselessness
> over the past few years. They still might reach their typical performance,
> if not this year, probably next year. On the other side of the coin, if
> someone plays well, do you trust it and keep them or flip them at their
> highest value??
>
> On Mon, May 26, 2025, 11:40 AM Paul Schneider via Members <
> members at lists.ibl.org> wrote:
>
>> I am sure the veteran members of the league all have similar stories, but
>> as a relative newbie, feel free to talk me off the ledge about Javy Baez,
>> Miles Mikolas, Gavin Sheets (and probably Spencer Horwitz once he gets some
>> AB under his belt). I mean, we all make trades that don't quite work of
>> have draft picks that bust, but if someone can find four guys that
>> basically nobody wanted (and for good reason), that were THAT bad, and have
>> turned out to be SO good (this year), feel free to share and join me in my
>> misery.
>>
>> I guess the lesson is that you really should be scouring my (long) list
>> of underperforming players to make me a lowball offer so that they can find
>> the fountain of youth or change their career paths once they are removed
>> from the obvious constraints of Wallbanger management.
>>
>> Carry on. (Just wanted to publicly vent and share how the baseball
>> universe hates me.)
>>
>
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