Main Event
Max bid = 772
Min bid = 403
Average bid = 581
Standard Deviation = 89.8
All Leagues
Max bid = 929
Min bid = 347
Average bid = 566
Standard Deviation = 96.8
What I see in the numbers is that several teams cashed in their hopes of winning the whole thing yesterday. There are about 7 teams total in the Main who now have less than a $100 left to last the rest of the season. All I can say is good luck guys. There are still 5 months left and there will be several great pickups over the last two months of the season.
Scherzer will probably see around 175 total innings pitched this season(being optimistic), and he already has 27.1 out of the way. That leaves about 145, so let's just say he might get 150 from here on out. Research on Scherzer shows that at no point in his career to date has he ever put up many innings. One of the reasons that Arizona hasn't really developed a role for him is that no team that he has played on has ever had a set role for him.
But in his own words -
"I like being a closer because you can be as intense as you want. You can't let a hitter get on," Scherzer said. "Starting, there's going to be runners on. They're going to get hits. You're going to walk people. The game's going to happen, you have to be a lot more low key. You can't blow it out in the first inning because the seventh inning really matters. I like it because it really feels like your game and you can give your team a chance to win a lot more."
Many, many people just paid a lot of money for a closer. Too bad that Brandon Lyon has been pretty good so far. But, you can do a little research and start expecting that Lyon will most likely lose the job around the end of July. With Scherzer in the pen, maybe Lyon will lose it a little sooner. Scherzer most likely won't last more than 5-6 innings in any game that he spot starts in. That way he is conserved for that role. If Lyon doesn't explode, I would certainly expect that he will be traded to make room for Scherzer.
And, don't forget... Scherzer missed all of 2006 due to a biceps injury When he went to A-Visalia in 2007 he had great stats, but his tour with Mobile later in that year wasn't that stellar with a 3.91 ERA and 1.41 WHIP.
Yesterday I bid pretty heavy in every league that I needed closer help in. Any other league, he didn't really offer much so I kept the bid low. Rather than put in one of those NL-only type bids that everyone else put in, my bids were in the $300-$325 range.
Seriously guys, most of you would never draft a pitcher in the first one or two rounds. Then why would you pay over half of your money to get one! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I think that my chances in the overall just got a lot better
I can't believe that Gekko went that high, even after he put up that analysis. He knew the deal!
Didn't he?!