He had one hit in his only two career plate appearances as a Giant.

two days ago i woke up around 5:30am with the worst cramps i’ve had in YEARS, definitely since before i got my IUD placed. it was constant, the pain levels coming in waves but never completely stopping, and it hurt in my stomach, back, and anus (those shooting lightning bolt bootyhole cramps, except it was almost constant). i paced my living room for 30 minutes because walking usually alleviates cramps for me, but the pain eventually got to be too much and i had to lay down. i was bedridden almost all day clutching my heating pad. by 4pm or so i was able to get up and walk around comfortably enough. i got up twice to use the restroom that day and had probably the most painful bowel movements i’ve ever had. felt like i was literally gonna shit out my entire stomach.
yesterday and today, i experienced no actual cramps but my insides feel sore, as if someone took out my organs and beat them with a barbed wire baseball bat and put them back. when i bend/twist it’s sore, and it definitely hurts my stomach a bit to shit still. i assumed the pain while pooping was due to the action causing my uterus muscles to contract, but now i’m worried it may actually be a stomach issue 😬 since my IUD, my actual flow has been pretty light, and i was bleeding a tiny bit, but it wasn’t near as much as i would expect to accompany cramps that bad. anyone had an experience like this? i’ll probably be fine right?

Any time I can get three rhyming HOF’ers on the same grid, I must.

Right off the bat, I’m not a baseball player and I’m not even sure if I’m in the right community. Any pointers are appreciated.
We own a large facility whose main revenue generating operation right now is an indoor golf driving range. However, we have a huge amount of outdoor space which was previously used as an outdoor driving range but was shut down due to a court order over balls landing on the adjacent property.
We’re trying to figure out what to do with what we have. On the property are a series of batting cages already set up. It’s a concrete structure, in a recessed semi-circle arrangement.
So my question is: do people even use batting cages anymore? Would it be worth developing these given foundation has already been laid so to speak?
Again any advice is appreciated!

The Undraftables: Week 4 Update (Going into/during Week 5)
I initially undertook this challenge with the NBA and decided to extend it to MLB as well. The rules are simple: I cannot select any player who has an Average Draft Position (ADP), regardless of how high or low it may be. Even if a player's ADP is 250+, they are off-limits if they have any average draft position. My draft took place on Sunday, April 7th. Admittedly, this was after the start of the season, but my focus had been primarily on the NBA season, leaving me with limited time to prepare for baseball. Nevertheless, I managed to squeeze in most of my MLB prep work within a few days/week. This is a standard 12 team head to head category league on yahoo with 6 adds per week. The buy-in was lower than my usual, but not free (inactivity and too easy).
Here was the draft results:

1. (6) Lance McCullers Jr. (HOU - SP)
2. (19) Drew Rasmussen (TB - SP)
3. (30) Dustin May (LAD - SP)
4. (43) Ronel Blanco (HOU - SP,RP)
5. (54) Brady Singer (KC - SP)
6. (67) Paul Blackburn (OAK - SP)
7. (78) Cody Bradford (TEX - SP,RP)
8. (91) Chad Green (TOR - RP)
9. (102) Steven Matz (STL - SP,RP)
10. (115) Tanner Houck (BOS - SP)
11. (126) Tyler Anderson (LAA - SP)
12. (139) Spencer Turnbull (PHI - SP)
13. (150) Connor Joe (PIT - 1B,OF)
14. (163) José Caballero (TB - 2B,SS)
15. (174) Gio Urshela (DET - 1B,3B,SS)
16. (187) Will Brennan (CLE - OF)
17. (198) Jake McCarthy (AZ - OF)
18. (211) Jorge Mateo (BAL - SS)
19. (222) Dairon Blanco (KC - OF)
20. (235) Jacob Young (WSH - OF)
21. (246) Bubba Thompson (CIN - OF)
22. (259) Trevor Williams (WSH - SP)
23. (270) Reese McGuire (BOS - C)

Recent Additions from Last Week:

• Luis Campusano (1 FAAB) APR 23
• Nolan Jones (3 FAAB) APR 24
• Maikel Garcia (6 FAAB) APR 25
• Hector Neris (3 FAAB) APR 26

Recent Additions for this Week Mon to Thurs:

• Bailey Falter (1 FAAB) APR 29 (two starts)
• Jon Gray APR 29 (two starts)
• Jameson Taillon APR 29 (two starts)
• Garret Crochet APR 29 (two starts)
• Yandy Diaz (4 FAAB)
• Erick Fedde (2 FAAB)

Recent Drops Last Week and This Week:

• Will Brennan
• Connor Joe (sorta regret)
• Reese McGuire
• Jonatan Clase
• Jorge Mateo

Trades that I performed since my last update last MON:

• Traded away Jordan Hicks and Martin Perez Received George Kirby
• Traded away Tanner Houck, Seth Lugo, Spencer Turnbull Received Kevin Gauseman, Bobby Miller
• Traded away Javier Assad, Brady Singer, Paul Blackburn Received Cole Ragans
• Traded Away Bryce Elder Received Chris Bassitt

Current Roster and why I choose to own them:

• C: Luis Campusano (for AVG)
• 1B: Yandy Diaz (Runs, AVG) (even though he struggled so far)
• 2B: Ahmed Rosario (SB, AVG)
• 3B: Maikel Garcia (SB, Runs, maybe AVG, somehow RBI?)
• SS: Jose Caballero (SB, maybe AVG)
• OF: Sal Frelick (Runs, AVG, SB)
• OF: Jake McCarthy (AVG, SB)
• OF: Jacob Young (AVG, SB) (underrated and WAS runs a lot)
• UTL: (currently empty waiting for next week more adds)
• UTL: (currently empty waiting for next week more adds)
• SP: George Kirby (Aces Gonna Ace, I bought while struggled)
• SP: Kevin Gauseman (Aces Gonna Ace, He was struggling)
• RP: James McAurthur (closer)
• RP: Kirby Yates (closer)
• P: Kevin Ginkel (closer for now)
• P: Hector Neris (closer)
• P: Cole Ragans (Ace? Was struggling when I traded for him)
• P: Chris Bassit (Again been struggling, track record solid?)
• Bench: Ronel Blanco (no-hitter, and keeps pitching well)
• Bench: Jon Gray (2 start, plus possible sell high asset)
• Bench: Jameson Taillon (2 start, plus possible sell high asset)
• Bench: Garret Crochet (2 start streamer, may hold, huge K)
• Bench: Bailey Falter (2 start streamer with good matchups)
• Bench: Bobby Miller (Ace? Still hurt tho on bench)
• Bench: Erick Fedde (Numbers look elite like in Japan)
• IL: Jacob Degrom (ELITE when healthy)
• IL: Max Scherzer (ELITE when healthy)
• IL: Drew Rasmussen (almost ELITE when healthy, bit underrated)
• IL: Nolan Jones (Now that I have Yandy, possibly expendable?)

So here we are! I made it through another week with this "bad team". I would like to talk about last week's matchup: I pulled off a useful 5-5 TIE! I hit .272 and had 8 SB for winning two offensive categories. I won saves barely 5-4. Extremely close strikeouts battle where I won 71 to 68, then had an ERA of 2.38. The pitching was in large part due to guys like Kirby, Gauseman, Blanco, Elder, Assad, Houck, Turnbull, even Singer with his 11k was helpful! On offense I was carried by Maikel Garcia, Jacob Young and Jake McCarthy (high avg), Nolan Jones too went .500 in 6 at bats. I"m now 18-12 overall and in 2nd place!
I would like to discuss my trades for a bit. I send out a very high volume of trade offers which is why I have been able to get so many trades done here. There is much communication and sometimes back and forth that happens. I type very much to my fellow managers. I been lucky they have worked with me and communicated back and forth. I could write another very long piece about "The art of the fantasy trade", but that's a different topic or post. (Coming soon someday). If you look at the trades I was able to make you can see that I took a risk to buy low on every single SP that I received. In addition to selling high on SP that were overperforming. (Classic buy low, sell high) I played on the fears of fantasy managers and the early struggles the SP were having and banked that they would turn it around to what their track record usually is. The only guy who doesn't have that major track record is Cole Ragans, but I'm still happy to have him. There is significant stuff metrics he has and Royals are a better team than we thought they would be. In addition, there appears to be quite a major following, making him a high value trade asset I think? I will miss Tanner Houck who has been marvelous! Same with Seth Lugo, Javier Assad, Spencer Turnbull and Jordan Hicks, (Bryce Elder in 2 starts) who have all continued to be awesome! So it's not entirely certain yet if I "won every trade" even though I'm sure many of you would freak out that I pulled off some of these? There might be arguments to be made that I should have focused my upgrades on hitters instead of obtaining more pitching? Discuss if you wish? (But to that I sorta say that the waiver wire have some useful assets with sneaky value to my team build). The issue I sort of have ran into though is "Running out of adds" by performing these bulk trades.
My matchup for this current week features an opponent with many starting pitchers. So again it will be a difficult one for those pitching counting stats like wins and strikeouts, yet keeping the ratios low!!! For the rest of the week, they have 5 more SP going, but I have 8 more SP scheduled to start. They only have 2 closers vs my 4 closers. So I like my odds! I'm ahead in wins 2-1. We are tied in strikeouts and ratios are very low for both of us. 2.79era, 0.76whip for me and 1.95era, 0.87 for them!!! Offensively I will likely win SB and AVG since I already have the leads and those are my strong skills. I want to address why I chose to currently ride with 2 empty hitter spots. It is because my opponent has so many SP and our pitching numbers are too close! I needed to prioritize my adds based on the matchup. It's a bit more of a "short term focus" but it has been proven to win matchups in past. I may not need to start all my SP on Sunday though, well see how it goes!
In terms of my future moves for next week, (out of adds for this week) I'm still targeting more strong SP that is still available that I would like on my team, but obviously I may need to fill those hitter positions. It will depend on my matchup. I wanted Tyler Black quite badly, but because I traded away so many pitchers I needed to replace them and add those 2 start SP that I added on Monday morning) I just didn't have enough adds! (especially with Yandy and Fedde out there) I will try trading for Mr. Black. His contact skills and speed are exactly the things that are appealing to me. (His grades were ranked a 60 grade hit tool and 60 grade speed tool according to MLB top 100 prospects list). I am shocked the brewers are batting him 4th in the lineup. We shall see if that remains. I view him more as a 2 or 3 hitter. Also Jung Hoo Lee was available and I strongly debated adding him because his expected very high average (like in the KBO) and maybe strong runs batting leadoff. That might be something for next week. Plenty of bats are still intriguing to me and truly with this style of build it's easier to find AVG, SB types. (Eventually I want to be competitive in RUNS too, but highly unlikely with current team. Yandy Diaz certainly could help in that regard if he gets it going!). Will Benson on radar.
As far as my drops it would be those SP streamers like Falter, Gray, Taillon, however if Taillon does well this week will be a higher trade asset and I might even hold onto him. (Cubs team context, fairly solid track record 2022 and before). Jon Gray would also become a higher asset trade piece or I could just hold and enjoy his services on a strong TEX offense. I do regret dropping Connor Joe because he has been just fine (and since Nolan Jones got hurt) where I may look to re-add him later in the season. Will Brennan is another useful contact bat that I still have my eye on and miss on my team. Jorge Mateo will be missed only for his speed skills, (3sb last week) but also doesn't get many at bats and limited upside so he was expendable.
The strategy here is punting HR, RBI (punt power). I have won with it in many head to head leagues for over 3 years now and because of that success I decided to employ it here with an "Undraftables" team!!! Appears to be working well so far! (I did also run a few mock drafts for "power versions" of the Undraftables type team. I wish I would have done that build too!) If you look back at the end of the year there will be an extremely high amount of strong players that were all waiver wire pickups or undrafted! (I made a post last year about it). Anyhow, the goal of a punt power build is to win 2 offensive categories (Ideally 3 eventually, by winning runs) and win 4-5 pitching categories. (If you are able to obtain closers you have upside to win 5 pitching cats, if you punt saves then your upside is 4 and you would be more consistently likely to win WINS and K categories) I technically currently have the upside to win all 5 pitching and 2 hitting categories. (If I gain runs value I would even have maximum upside of 8 categories! 5+3=8) Remember that in category leagues you ONLY NEED TO WIN 6 categories folks! This is the benefit of punting! (And technically in h2h playoffs you can have a tie 5-5 and still advance to next round due to season standings and matchup ranking!) I think punting gives you less variance than other builds? Or maybe this less variance is just from having high AVG contact hitters? Discuss?
Of course, I'm also aware that I have been benefited by being very active on the waiver wire (and bidding the correct amount of FAAB to win players) as well as some advantageous trades. I'm aware that some of you may not be able to pull off these kinds of trades in your leagues. I guess it is easier to pull off more trades in yahoo public money leagues than various private leagues? That is a whole other discussion though. I do send out MANY OFFERS and communicate very much to help make a trade occur. (Even though this exact team is on the lower priority of my time devotion, because I have 9 other more important leagues inside yahoo as well as a few on other sites) I typically spend between 2-5 hours per day managing my teams.
Overall, I'm quite happy with my team's performance and strategy, even though it's considered a tougher challenge. As mentioned my goal is to win by a score of 6-4 or tie 5-5, but eventually will have upside to win 7-3 or even 8-2. I'm willing to make adjustments for each week and consider player recommendations to achieve that goal. So far, this has gone better than I expected (whereas this was tougher in the NBA)! One of the bigger takeaways you can glean from this strategy is that there are numerous ways to win a category league. (Notate that this punt power strategy has NOT been tested in Roto YET. I plan to test that next year. Is this the best way to "punt power"? No, remember this was an "extra challenge" that I set forth upon myself.) Also another takeaway here is that you don't necessarily "need" superstars, but instead to have the right build or combination of players and a focus on matchups. (In fantasy and MLB) There are various "useful" players with skill sets that are still worthy. You don't need "The best player" in everything. (At least NOT IN A CATEGORY LEAGUE) If you have suffered severe injuries to some power hitters (like Trout, Casas, Royce Lewis, Josh Jung) you could transition and/or trade into a "punt power build" to try it out? (Or that could be something you consider further down the road in the season too) If you need help on how to do it, I'm your guy!
I'll provide weekly updates on Monday mornings (sorry, I was too busy this week) on the team's progress, so let me know if you'd like to follow along or have any suggestions! Thoughts on the team? If you want the previous updates on the team with "How I ended up here" and each week breakdown you can find them in a FB group or I can send them to you in a message. (I wasn't able to post early in season because I changed reddit profiles (hated my username) from last year which had bunches of karma!) (Can't post if you don't have enough karma) Additionally, I'm recruiting for next year, (although this is NOT the central goal of this post) where this unique drafting strategy will be the league's standard for each owner.

Need to remember more Negro League pitchers for next time.

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Honestly, if it weren't for OOTP 25, I wouldn't have known any of the Negro League stats, George Carr, or Nip Winters. Hugh Duffy came directly from my experience playing Perfect Team as well.

A cuppa Pirates greats make the cut

What are some good places to go after midnight?
I’m looking for something peaceful to help my mind so nothing like a lively baclub for this purpose.
Asking for things like: a hill with a view to park in (like the movies), a safe cozy restaurant/cafe, a 24 hour store if there is any, recreational center (batting cage? arcade?), nice drives to clear your mind, etc.

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