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by CALI CARTEL » Tue Apr 03, 2012 12:30 am
I like both those rosters, lots of quality buys there. You may not like buying 3 closers, but those 3 were terrific values, $24 for that trio? Sign me up any time, Guerra is part time optional if you don't want to fall behind in Wins/Ks, but there's a good chance someone from that group misses time due to injury (or job loss with Guerra or even Motte), so the opportunities to go 7 SP will be there. Solid starters for a 15-teamer, but I probably prefer Gekko's value at SP, with some great buys in Tim Hudson, Nicasio and Bauer. Hitting wise, Gekko's got Tulo/Kinsler/Hosmer, but I wasn't ecstatic with the choice of $8-$13 guys you filled in with, did like the cheap Wigginton & Parmalee selections though. Overall however, I think the more balanced purchases of McCoy are gonna win out here, Lawrie, Jennings, A.Gordon, Kendrick, Aybar, Posey and a few guys I liked as better cheap values in Freese/Ackley/Revere/Lucroy, plus the Pena and (hopefully) Alonso power bats, puts together a deep and balanced roster that should do well. Both teams are pretty damn solid, but I'd give a slight edge to McCoy overall.
I was able to put this together in the Vegas Sunday 10am league that consisted of a very savvy group of owners...
C: W.Ramos (4)
C: R.Hernandez (2)
1B: E.Hosmer (27)
CI: J.Morneau (8)
3B: B.Lawrie (26)
2B: R.Weeks (14)
MI: S.Drew (2)
SS: T.Tulowitzki (41)
OF: M.Cuddyer (17)
OF: J.Heyward (13)
OF: L.Morrison (4)
OF: M.Moreland (2)
OF: A.Craig (1)
DH: D.Freese (5)
Reserves: C.Figgins, R.Davis, R.Andino, J.Rivera, C.Nelson
SP: D.Haren (24)
SP: Y.Darvish (17)
SP: D.Hudson (15)
SP: M.Minor (9)
SP: B.Colon (3)
SP: T.Bauer (2)
RP: J.Valverde (12)
RP: J.Guerra (9)
RP: G.Holland (3)
Reserves: A.Harang, C.Richard
Some of my thoughts...
Pretty happy with the roster, but it's WAY LIGHT in steals, tried to begin addressing that with the early reserve picks of Figgins/Rajai. Obviously need some SP depth as well, but not too worried about that with my top 4-5 guys, can find a few bodies off waivers. Didn't expect to get stuck with Allen Craig at $1, thought someone else would take a stab for $2, but we were willing to take him for the $1 if they didn't -- however it locked up our final OF slot and we already had 4 Corners (got Freese before Morneau). We were targeting a group of speed guys for that last slot, but were thinking if we got stuck with Craig at least one would survive until Reserves. After we finished out our roster, we sat there and watched all four of Ben Revere, Nyjer Morgan, Eduardo Nunez and Alexi Casilla get selected as $1 fillers -- needed at least one of those guys to get to us in the reserve round, would've helped out a lot.
Don't usually like to park more than one guy on the bench, but these guys (Craig, Drew & Bauer) were great values at $5 total and I don't think any one of them is going to be out of service for that long. Craig is nearly back already and should only be out 1-2 weeks; Drew is way ahead of his original time table for return and now is looking to be back in mid-to-late April; and if you've seen Josh Collmenter or Joe Saunders pitch this spring, then you have to believe Trevor Bauer is going to be up sooner than later if the D-Backs want to repeat as NL West Champs.
Daniel Hudson $15 was the last of the #2 SP (Top 30) left on the board when he was called, the other options at that time were guys like Anibal Sanchez, Clay Buchholz, Neftali Feliz, Shaun Marcum, etc. We had Hudson pegged at $15, but were actually probably willing to go $17 on him if someone topped the $15. The edge getting a horse as our #3 at that point was way bigger than the extra few dollars we'd save grabbing a $10-12 SP as our #3.
Javy Guerra $9 was one of the last 3 closers off the board, and the other two were Matt Thornton and Jim Johnson, both of whom we hate the situations. Got into a bidding war with Brady Schiller for Guerra's services, we hoped to get him at $7, but wasn't really too upset having to go 1 more round when Brady went $8.
The catcher situation was God sent, we were completely resolved to punting catchers and planned on spending $1-$3 on each guy. We had a MI, P and 2 C positions to fill and $11 left to spend; we bid $2 and got Ramon Hernandez after the Magner/Lindy team called him out. Had been waiting and waiting for someone to call Ramos in the miracle chance that we could steal him for $7 or less (our max bid), when he finally got called for $1 someone else bid $2, the original bidder went $3, we threw out a $4 with the intention of trying to get him at $6 after someone bid $5, but the room went silent and we somehow got him for only $4. It turned out to be a fairly important $2, because with our last pick we called Bartolo Colon for $3 and shut out Jon Stademueller who had a $3 max bid and told us later that he was dead red on grabbing Bartolo for his last pitcher. It was even better when a few players later two teams got into a battle for Ryan Doumit that ended at $11, I'm sure the winner of that one is really happy now that Parmalee has taken his job, could've had Ramos for $7.
