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- Charlie Morton (ADP 119) instead of Blake Snell (30)
- Ketel Marte (220) instead of Lorenzo Cain (66)
- Matt Olson (109) instead of Khris Davis (45)
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- Eloy Jimenez (117) instead of Vlad Guerrero Jr. (46)
- Zack Greinke (66) instead of Aaron Nola (25)
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- Mitch Garver (435) instead of Francisco Mejia (249)
- and on and on…
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This is a sponsored post from Ron Shandler.
Is this a new policy of not identifying sponsored posts in the title?
No, here’s a similar post from over seven years ago:
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2012/07/enter-the-draftstreet-mlbtr-freeroll.html
Ahh, ok. I know I’ve seen it identified in the title in the past, but I’ve been reading you guys for years and I guess it all blurs together at this point. Either way, I figured it was a sponsored post after the first 2 seconds of reading. Thanks for the clarification!
What is this?
This is called nerds sucking the fun outta baseball.
Baseball would be dead if it weren’t for nerds.
that is just completely untrue. this sort of thing really should – and probably does – have no effect on the game
Sometimes people enjoy reading fantasy baseball articles, sometimes people call people nerds for enjoying things like reading fantasy baseball articles, if your fun has been sucked out of baseball because of other people reading an article I think it certainly says more about the commenter than it does the nerd reading the article
clickbait
ew
Is this an ad displayed as actual content?
I mean… if you’ve been here for years, this Ron Shandler stuff has made an annual appearance at the start of fantasy baseball season. It’s not like this is anything new.
This a hack?
First, they hack our election. And now this. What could possibly be next?
Greenland collusion !!!
@cjelpis
What next?
How to explain to an English area manager why I spat coffee at my screen, please?
ew
I’m all for you guys making money. Capitalism is great. But at least give me “this is an add” on the thumbnail.
Poor babies. Subjected to an ad on a free site.
its like thinking Google is completely free. that’s not how anything online works.
Wtf? Yea I will definitely erase mlbtr if they start posting sponsored ads and disguising them as actual content.
damn you’re salty lol. sad
Ads are how they make money. It’s how any “free” site makes money. Good luck finding any site that doesn’t have ads.
To each their own. I find the information here to be the best free baseball info on the internet. Easily worth ads, whatever else.
Goodbye!!!!
Bye Felicia!
Love this site. That however, caught me off guard.
Quit whining! This site is FREE. It’s not like every other post is an ad. Get over it!
Everyone feels so entitled anymore.
Just because of how this was set up, I promised myself I’d never go to baseball or whatever this is.
I think the most insulting part was some of the suggestions were obvious. Try to sell me something that’s completely useless.
Title is stupid because you can’t draft Trout in round 3 in any league.. I get that it is intended to be click baity but at least find a better title.
the only reason id see it is in a very small league and each player is afraid of Trout getting injured. (because he has been more injured in recent seasons)
The article does NOT say you can draft Trout in the third round (title is click bait). What they are saying is that you can find someone who has similar value to Trout in the 3rd round.
Of course, that is silly unless Trout gets hurt or suffers major regression. Even with Trout missing 40 games he produces about as much value as any other player that goes the whole 162.
I created a one team league last year and drafted Trout in the *fourth* round!
And I won the league!
And I draft first again this year!
I thought what is was saying is that you can make up for not getting Trout by gaining the amount of points Trout will get by selecting the right players in other rounds.
Tim, next time release a thread like this while you have max participation like in yesterday’s Mookie deal. Then you make more money.
Tim Dierkes name fronts this article-that’s simply wrong.
“How To Draft Mike Trout In Round 3
By Tim Dierkes | February 10, 2020 at 10:00am CDT”
I’d whip old Ronny in any league.
Doubtful.
I don’t know a thing about fantasy sports but anything that has Mike Trout in round 3 is a croc of bs.
To be fair, Ron Shandler is one of the brightest minds in baseball. He doesn’t just do fantasy. He’s been in front offices. To write this off as some nerd idiot ad post….is simply ignorant.
At least they got rid of the down vote.
For all of the guys you predicted correct, who did you get wrong?
Cham-pion-shiiiip!
Trout is overrated.
lol no
Maybe he said that because despite being the best player in baseball, he has just as many playoff victories as Marvin Lewis did as the Bengals head coach.
Dang, I didn’t know that one baseball player could carry an entire 25 man roster.
So is the complaint here in the headline, or in the existence of the sponsored post at all? If the headline was Sponsored Post: How To Draft Mike Trout In Round 3, would most of you be fine with it?
Don’t fret it, if people don’t like it, they don’t have to read it, nobody is forcing them. I guess saying sponsored post would help though. I just think that the issue is since MLBTR doesn’t post articles like this very often (or ever), people are freaking out about it. Like I said, don’t fret, but I would put Sponsored Post.
Sure Tim, we get you have a right to make a buck,it was just seeing your name (by Tim Dierkes) up front, seemed wrong.
To be fair, they probably have to put a name down to put up something on the website. It’s probably something they can’t control.
You realize that’s not the real Tim right?
Some people will complain about anything and everything, and those people should be ignored.
People complaining about this are likely just complainers in general life
Now how about they post all their wrong predictions from 2019.
How DARE Tim and the other contributors want to EAT!!!!