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The league is not intended to be similar to running a team. It's fantasy baseball. I'm not really that interested in taking a chance one of my players goes down in spring training and not having the ability to cover for it in the draft.
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I'm all for having the draft as close to Opening Day as possible.
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and if our league is intended to be similar to running a real team, we should need to run the risk of Spring Training positively or negatively affecting our roster as constructed.
Caimans 🐊 on
February 3, 2014 1:04 PM
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In general it makes sense to wait longer b/c of ST injuries, etc., but with most "franchise" type players already rostered there's probably less risk than usual to draft a key player that goes down in ST
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I'm with Enrico - let's get it done so normal league activity can commence. We all have the same information.
Caimans 🐊 on
February 3, 2014 12:59 PM
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To me earlier or later draft is completely irrelevant, everyone has the exact same information regardless of the draft, so having more info closer to the season to me doesn't matter since it's competitively the same situation.
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Given the difficulties of scheduling in the past, I think "March" should be our target - I tend to agree with Durham that 3/15-3/25 is my preferred window but we obviously have to prioritize everyone's availability.
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I'd like the season to start sooner too but Opening Day is March 31 regardless of when we draft.
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Nice cut on Hellickson, WGW...
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I don't understand why we do the auction before the middle of March. Why not do it when the most information is available? So we can trade dollars around isn't a very good reason.
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I think we agreed to allow trades but no loans pre-auction. One way to avoid the issue is to hold the auction sooner as EP suggested. You guys let me know what you want to do. Likely our shortest auction yet...
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We should probably check with Knights when he will be in the country then. ;-)
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I'm kinda in the same boat except that I'd go a step further and not do trades either then, though I would also happily do the auction ASAP so normal could commence
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No cap loans, just player trades - at least that's how it's been the past two post-keeper pre-draft periods.
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I don't think we should allow loans pre-auction.
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How do we deal with loans pre auction?
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Hey Commish, can you push trades through between now and the draft? If so, are we all in agreement we'd like to do that?
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That happened like four weeks ago for me.
Eckfords ⚾ on
February 2, 2014 9:29 PM
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+1
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T minus 4 hours until baseball season becomes primary focus...
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Here's what I'll be using this month to begin the Power Rankings. If you want to supply me with your own projections for your players, all the better: http://bit.ly/1n50RIn
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OK, I am ready to draft, let's go.
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I'd toss $1 and a roster spot T-Mac's way!
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Tracy McGrady...yes, the basketball player...MLB pitcher? http://goo.gl/Pld9Oe
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All three are reasonably priced and are rebound candidates who could be worth more than I am paying them.
Caimans 🐊 on
February 1, 2014 12:00 PM
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If those RP were going to cost me similar amounts (or more) at auction, why not hold them? More valuable as trade chips for someone that whiffs on RP at auction.
Caimans 🐊 on
February 1, 2014 11:59 AM
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Don't forget Scooter Gennett.
Eckfords ⚾ on
February 1, 2014 11:54 AM
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I spent my money on Trout and company and was taken down by a Brian Dozier
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that's almost exactly what I did last year except two of my $30 position spots turned into one studly Mike Trout
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That team could look at lot different with six $30 players after the auction. If he can buy his way into early contention in 2014 he's got pieces to move late in the season if he's in it, too
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The most fascinating team in the league to me right now is Knights. Why keep 3 ok RP if you're rebuilding?...unless you've decided to buy up all the available auction talent and actually try to go for it in 2014.
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I guess it hinges on whether you view weak 2013's as down years or signals of decline. AGon and Pujols are old enough where you could worry about that I guess. Butler and Kemp, not so much.
Eckfords ⚾ on
February 1, 2014 10:21 AM
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Irrelevant to me because I can't afford any of these people, but there are great, 900-point-capable players available at just about every position. We'll have to agree to disagree.
Eckfords ⚾ on
February 1, 2014 10:20 AM
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Sounds like you are suffering from a serious bout of recency bias. These are some of the best hitters in baseball.
Eckfords ⚾ on
February 1, 2014 10:13 AM
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Some of the top offensive talent of the past three years available: Fielder, A-Gon, Braun, Kemp, Pujols, Pedroia, Butler, Upton, Hamilton.
Eckfords ⚾ on
February 1, 2014 10:13 AM
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I just don't see that many "safe" offensive players on the board outside of Fielder, Pedroia, Upton, Butler, Desmond, AGon, and Braun. You could argue some of those aren't that "safe", either...
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Sure, guys like Pujols Kemp, Braun are available, but maybe half the teams can afford them. They all have red flags. If you aren't contending this season, do you really want to buy and build around those guys for the next few seasons?
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If I had to bet right now, just looking at the talent pool, I'd say Cespedes goes for more than $22 in the auction
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Yeah but you have to admit that you are fixating on 2013 stats, which eliminates Braun, Kemp, Pujols -- i.e. some of the best players of the decade -- from consideration.
Eckfords ⚾ on
February 1, 2014 10:06 AM
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No matter how you slice it, I don't see a lot of offensive talent available in the auction. I see just 12 hitters available (min 100 G) who scored 5 P/G last year, and that includes two that remain unsigned (Cruz, Morales), a 36 y/o Byrd & 41 y/o Ibanez
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Should I drop the "but I own his jersey" argument on him?
Eckfords ⚾ on
February 1, 2014 10:02 AM
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Great, now I have Mike Newman on Twitter questioning the wisdom of my $56 Kershaw contract.
Eckfords ⚾ on
February 1, 2014 10:01 AM
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I suppose that would indicate that you should ignore 2013 point totals when targeting players in the auction.
Eckfords ⚾ on
February 1, 2014 9:48 AM
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Using 2013 scoring, the Top 10 available free agents includes Kendrys Morales, Marlon Byrd, Alejandro De Aza, and Adam Dunn. That's pretty terrible...
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A few surprising cuts, a few more surprising keeps, but here are the teams as we move towards the draft: http://bit.ly/1kd8SeG
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Lucky Strikes's trade block has been updated!
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Durham Tobacconists's trade block has been updated!
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We Got Wood's trade block has been updated!
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Perfect Pitch, Inc.'s trade block has been updated!
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Auction this weekend?
Eckfords ⚾ on
February 1, 2014 12:56 AM
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