As t🍰he fantasy baseball head-to-head playoffs and the final month of a grueling, six-month battle in the rotisserie format crank up in September, your determination must rꦇemain fierce and your attention to every statistic needs to be laser-focused.
Most importantly, there is zero 🦄room for emotion.
The excit💦ement for a new crop of rookies needs to be tempered, and your feelings toward certain veteran players must be put in check.
If a player isn’t performing to ꦇtask, he must go. There is no time left for hope regardless of n🍌ame, reputation or past performances.
Parting ways with veteran players can beไ difficult for fantasy managers.
We get nostalgic for the days when a player did something big ☂for us, and we all have a tendency to cling to꧙ what once was.
Just get any group♚ of fantasy baseball managers in a room together and start naming players from 10 years ago.
Remember that time Ben Revere stole 49 bases and led ♏you to a championship?
Or that time Adrian Gonzalez led the league in RBI and was cl༒utch down the stretc♛h for you?
It becomes comical, but also a very dangeꦿrous game.
Paul Goldschmidt has long been a staple on f𒀰antasy championship squads.
Remember those two seasons from 2015-16 when he combined for 57 hom⛦e 🅺runs and 53 stolen bases?
Those were tremendous years.
ಌBut how are we feeling about his .236 average with just 20 homers and eight steals this season?
Better yet, how ꧋do we feel abou𓄧t the measly seven home runs and 17 RBI he has produced here in the second half?
Goldschmidt was a tremendous pl🔯ayer, but his time is over in faꦺntasy.
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August has been disastrous for so many veterans, and you need to starꦓt cleaning up your roster and make some tough cuts.
How else are you going to add the lik♍es of Roman Anthony, ꦍMatt Shaw or Quinn Matthews?
Forget about emotion.
Forget about the names. Take a long, hard look at the numb✃e✱rs and figure out what you need most.
If Luis Robert is on your team and you don’t n൩eed speed, how is his .217 average or two home runs helping you? So long.
How long did you stash Josh Jung on your IL o𒉰nly to receive a .232 average and two home runs this month? Farewell.
Randy Arozarena? Auf Wiedersehen!
Christopher Morel? Goodnight.
Bౠe the real life general manager you ne♉ed to be on a championship run.
Take all emotion out of your decision-making and stickꦬ to th꧃e numbers.
With one mo🙈nth to ♔go, they are your only reliable help.
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