I didn’t see a current thread to discuss fantasy baseball so I thought I’d start one. In a 10 team NL only 5x5 league, I was proposed a trade for me to trade Heath Bell for Roy Oswalt.
My starting pitchers are: Cliff Lee, Roy Halladay, Derek Lowe, Ryan Dempster, Shaun Marcum and Barry Enright (who I’d drop). RP’s are Bell, Clay Hensley, and Jonny Venters.
I’m currently in 1st place by .5 and I haven’t gotten anything out of Bell so far this season. If the Padres are out of it, I can see Bell getting moved at the deadline. So, I"m inclined to do this trade and just pick up whatever RP scraps I can find on the waiver wire.
What is the appeal behind weekly lineups in fantasy baseball? I’d never join a league with that scoring system. Baseball is a daily game, so setting daily lineups is a ritual for me.
Huh? Bell had 3 saves going into today, and picked up another one. He’s also added a win, and has great ratios. It’s April 17, don’t overthink this. He’s an extremely solid closer to have.
With that said, I think Bell for Oswalt is a fair trade for both teams, and I’ll always get rid of a 1 category player for a 4 category player every time.
Can I get some opinions on a trade that I am working on right now?
He is offering Carlos Santana, Bobby Abrau, Kyle Drabeck and Mitchell Boggs for Sin-Soo Choo, Nick Hundley, and Tim Hudson. Or the same deal minus Drabeck for Ted Lilly.
Its a standard 5x5 league with 13 teams.
I feel like trading for Santana is a serious upgrade for me on the one hand, on the other I think that I am still not really getting full value for Choo out of this deal. The pitching is a bit better for me, but honestly mostly a wash I think.
My lineup:
Nick Hundley - C
Miguel Cabrera -1B
Brian Roberts - 2B
Casey McGehee - 3B
Jamey Carroll - SS
Matt Holliday - OF
Sin-Soo Choo - OF
Chris Young - OF
Howie Kendrick - UTL
Martin Prado - UTL
Logan Morrison - BN
Ike Davis - BN
Coco Crisp - BN
Adam Jones - BN
Santana, Abreu and Boggs for Ted Lilly? Yeah, I’d do that trade - but you need to try to consolidate your offense at some point. You have a lot of semi-decent talent on the bench that could be packaged together for an upgrade somewhere. I wouldn’t get rid of Choo, though.
Sorry, it’s Lilly, Hundly, and Choo. This guy has come at me with a bunch of offers for Choo, so he clearly wants him and I am not opposed to parting with him if I get the right value out of the trade. But right now I think everything he is sending me is a lowball offer.
Does anyone here play fantasy baseball at [ur=http://www.gamedayritual.com]Gameday Ritual?
I thought I had a great team going in to this season (rotation: Wright, Lester, Kershaw, Arroyo, Nelasco with Buchholz floating; Roe, Soriano and Capp as RPs; Pujols and Bautista anchoring the lineup) but I’m in last place in my division after three weeks :-(.
Who else is on your offense? If Lester and Kershaw are your #2 and #3 SPs (pending identification of this Wright fellow), it looks like you spent too much too soon on pitching. How many are in this league?
Sorry, that’s what I get for typing and having a work conversation at the same time. David Price and Kameron Loe. Price I drafted as a prospect years ago, so I have him under contract for only .5M/yr. I drafted Kershaw the year before so he’s cheap too. The only starter I really paid top dollar for was Lester. I fogot to mention I have Lilly on the bench.
My lineup is off to a slow start. I have to go from memory since I can’t get to the site from work, but it’s Pierre, Rios, and Vlad in the OF, Butista, Tejada, Freddy Sanchez and Pujols around the horn and Y. Molina catching. Carlos Lee is DH. My bench is weak except for Jed Lowrie who I am going to put in for Tejada next week if the Sox keep putting him on the field.
That’s a really impressive bunch of pitchers. Trade one or two of them for some offense. I don’t have any faith in Vlad, Tejada, Sanchez, Lee or any Molina. Lowrie could be good, but he’s not going to keep hitting .500. Try to upgrade C. Lee - he’s the most tradeable of that bunch. Maybe Lee+Lilly for J. Upton?
(Though in an auction keeper league, you’ll have to find the pairing that makes the most sense in your environment - there’s really no good way to evaluate prices/value without being familiar with your setup.)
I might get someone to go for Lilly + Lee, although neither has had a great start. But Lilly’s contract is low, so someone might want to pick it up just to have another lefty on their staff. I’ll see what I can do. It’d be nice to have a big bat in the outfield, and I’m sure someone must have a surplus.
Oof. Well you won’t be upgrading there… Maybe try to upgrade at Util. Kendrick’s off to an absurd start that will only fade or get injured. Or do nothing. If B. Roberts has rediscovered his power swing, you could have already found your HR upgrade.
What do you guys think of Asdrubal Cabrera? I just got offered him for Howie Kendrick straight up. I have plenty of power and am in desperate need of a SS (just picked up Erick Aybar, but the pickings in the league at Short Stop are slim, many people are carrying 2. I don’t know why.)
I know Cabrera is playing well now, but is that something that is likely to last or am I trading away while Cabrera is being overvalued?
I traded away Cabrera for A-Rod and Price Fielder, a trade I am fairly happy with. I am now consistently in the top 3 of the hitting stats, but am way behind in pitching stats, so I have been shopping around some deals for pitchers like Gio Gonzales and Matt Garza since I really need Strikeouts. No one seems to want to deal with mid level players right now (though I am surprised no one is biting on Ike Davis or Coco Crisp considering the years they are having so far), but my discussions with others in my league have put these trades on the table for me:
Prince Fielder (and probably a replacement level pitcher like Ted Lily) for Paul Konerko and Tim Lincecum
This feels like a good trade to me, Konerko isn’t anything near Fielder in terms of power, but I do have a fair bit of power on my team. But it’s such a big trade that I am worried I am not evaluating things correctly. What do you guys think?
2)Jordan Walden for Bartolo Colon and Jose Contreras.
This is a different trade with a different guy
This one I am having problems with because I don’t really know how I should value a closer in a trade. Jordan Walden is proven and both Colon and Contreras are risks right now but both could pay off really well. Also to do this trade I would have to drop someone else since I don’t have an extra bench spot open. I would probably have to drop Johnny Venters to do this (I picked him up for some extra k’s and stabilization of ERA and WHIP)