How about a more positive thread? What did you all do right?
After Chest Rockwell made fun of me for saying that I improve my BA through my catchers, I drafted Mauer and McCann, so he jinxed me into luck there methinks. But seriously, not necessarily drafting the best player in a round as drafting the best player at a position when I picked that position helped. The catchers, Howard, Webb, Drew, Nady, Inge, Jose Lopez, even Thomas when I needed a DH.
I think I did well in the fa market as well, with finds like Cuddyer, Aurilia, Maicier Izturis, and Loaiza.
What went right with your season?
What went right with your season?
Chance favors the prepared mind.
What went right with your season?
everything went right the final 3 weeks, 10th, 9th and 1st in the overall weekly and a division crown. I think no matter how good or bad you think your draft was 27 weeks ago. The free agent pickup, make or break you, Westbrook and Josh Johnson were huge under $50 free agent pickups and really shaped my pitching squad. Eric Byrnes in the 26th round or so, just a solid team, did not win any categories in the league, just 10 points or higher in 8 out of 10 categories. Just a solid season. By the way did you hang on for 2nd in your league?
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What went right with your season?
My first three picks ended up giving me great stats in four categories. Teixeira (who came on big late), Aramis Ramirez, and Carlos Lee each gave me an average of .291 BA, 98 R, 36 HR, 115 RBI. The 19 SB by Lee was also nice. Raul Ibanez was a nice 15th round pick up with .289 BA, 103 R, 33 HR, 123 SB. Even though his BA hurt me (probably too much), Glaus in the 7th round (105 R, 38 HR, 123 RBI) was a good pick.
My main catchers (Barrett and Estrada) were not bad for a 9th and 17th round pick averaging .303 BA, 47 R, 13 HR, 62 RBI.
My best FA pick-up was Otsuka who for me got 2.168 ERA, 1.073 WHIP, 28 SV and 35 K in 45.2 IP.
My main catchers (Barrett and Estrada) were not bad for a 9th and 17th round pick averaging .303 BA, 47 R, 13 HR, 62 RBI.
My best FA pick-up was Otsuka who for me got 2.168 ERA, 1.073 WHIP, 28 SV and 35 K in 45.2 IP.
Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You 'take in' a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.
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What went right with your season?
Originally posted by Bobby J:
everything went right the final 3 weeks, 10th, 9th and 1st in the overall weekly and a division crown. I think no matter how good or bad you think your draft was 27 weeks ago. The free agent pickup, make or break you, Westbrook and Josh Johnson were huge under $50 free agent pickups and really shaped my pitching squad. Eric Byrnes in the 26th round or so, just a solid team, did not win any categories in the league, just 10 points or higher in 8 out of 10 categories. Just a solid season. By the way did you hang on for 2nd in your league? In the NFBC, you mean? Yeah. I was tied on Saturday but my team gained points yesterday even with Webb being a gas can and all. It's funny how the quantitative stats continue to fluctuate but the qualitative ones seem to freeze up as the season wears on. That helped my pitchers as they all decided to suck for the last two weeks.
It's still anti-climatic because I seemed to have a stranglehold on first place last week.
everything went right the final 3 weeks, 10th, 9th and 1st in the overall weekly and a division crown. I think no matter how good or bad you think your draft was 27 weeks ago. The free agent pickup, make or break you, Westbrook and Josh Johnson were huge under $50 free agent pickups and really shaped my pitching squad. Eric Byrnes in the 26th round or so, just a solid team, did not win any categories in the league, just 10 points or higher in 8 out of 10 categories. Just a solid season. By the way did you hang on for 2nd in your league? In the NFBC, you mean? Yeah. I was tied on Saturday but my team gained points yesterday even with Webb being a gas can and all. It's funny how the quantitative stats continue to fluctuate but the qualitative ones seem to freeze up as the season wears on. That helped my pitchers as they all decided to suck for the last two weeks.
It's still anti-climatic because I seemed to have a stranglehold on first place last week.
Chance favors the prepared mind.
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What went right with your season?
Originally posted by bjoak:
How about a more positive thread? What did you all do right?
After Chest Rockwell made fun of me for saying that I improve my BA through my catchers, I drafted Mauer and McCann, so he jinxed me into luck there methinks. But seriously, not necessarily drafting the best player in a round as drafting the best player at a position when I picked that position helped. The catchers, Howard, Webb, Drew, Nady, Inge, Jose Lopez, even Thomas when I needed a DH.
I think I did well in the fa market as well, with finds like Cuddyer, Aurilia, Maicier Izturis, and Loaiza. Brian- trying to improve batting avg through catcher is still a terrible strategy. However you did do it with those 2. So you found the one year you could really do it and found the exact 2 to do it with. Bad strategy but extremely well played.
The thing that frustrates me most is being a Braves fan is how wrong I was on Mccann. I thought he would be exposed by lefties, would have hard time holding up to a full season (not that big for a catcher) and had a swing the league would catch up to. Wrong on all 3-
You seem to by email, private message, or bulletin board remember everything I have given you a hard time on. How about this? You are a much, much better player than I have given you credit for initially. The Sheets fiasco was terrible and I made the mistake of assuming only an idiot would try that turns out it was an isolated incident. Your performance this year showed me a lot. Not just because you finished top 50 or in the money. You do a nice job of evaluating value players ,playing points. I also like the 3 middle of the road closers in a draft and avoiding it with FAAB.
We still have our differences- I hate Pods you love him (although I will give you the benefit of the doubt that you may adjust on that), I like to take bigger dips in to FAAB you seem to use FAAB as a means to tinker, and a couple of other things.
Ole Chest is trying to relieve you of the demons of trying to prove me wrong with this post. Good job this year finishing in the money and having a shot right until the end.
How about a more positive thread? What did you all do right?
After Chest Rockwell made fun of me for saying that I improve my BA through my catchers, I drafted Mauer and McCann, so he jinxed me into luck there methinks. But seriously, not necessarily drafting the best player in a round as drafting the best player at a position when I picked that position helped. The catchers, Howard, Webb, Drew, Nady, Inge, Jose Lopez, even Thomas when I needed a DH.
I think I did well in the fa market as well, with finds like Cuddyer, Aurilia, Maicier Izturis, and Loaiza. Brian- trying to improve batting avg through catcher is still a terrible strategy. However you did do it with those 2. So you found the one year you could really do it and found the exact 2 to do it with. Bad strategy but extremely well played.
The thing that frustrates me most is being a Braves fan is how wrong I was on Mccann. I thought he would be exposed by lefties, would have hard time holding up to a full season (not that big for a catcher) and had a swing the league would catch up to. Wrong on all 3-
You seem to by email, private message, or bulletin board remember everything I have given you a hard time on. How about this? You are a much, much better player than I have given you credit for initially. The Sheets fiasco was terrible and I made the mistake of assuming only an idiot would try that turns out it was an isolated incident. Your performance this year showed me a lot. Not just because you finished top 50 or in the money. You do a nice job of evaluating value players ,playing points. I also like the 3 middle of the road closers in a draft and avoiding it with FAAB.
We still have our differences- I hate Pods you love him (although I will give you the benefit of the doubt that you may adjust on that), I like to take bigger dips in to FAAB you seem to use FAAB as a means to tinker, and a couple of other things.
Ole Chest is trying to relieve you of the demons of trying to prove me wrong with this post. Good job this year finishing in the money and having a shot right until the end.
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What went right with your season?
What went right with my season? Finding 3 of Greg's top 15 for 07 in the draft. Some guys I liked performed well Patterson, Estrada, Overbay and Crede.
Got lucky with Nomar- I did not like him but he fell to a spot where I said I would take him.
You do not finish 6th in your league if too much went right so I will stop there. Learned a lot... and Rich Harden is not on my Christmas card list.
Got lucky with Nomar- I did not like him but he fell to a spot where I said I would take him.
You do not finish 6th in your league if too much went right so I will stop there. Learned a lot... and Rich Harden is not on my Christmas card list.
What went right with your season?
I was more picking on you because of the catcher thing simply because a) I don't think you really ever understood my argument and b) it was ironic that my guys were/looked like batting title winners.
My argument was not about trying to improve BA with good catchers but rather about avoiding bad catchers that will ruin your BA. Since about 50% of people do that, by default you are helping your chances in BA by not picking poor hitting catchers. Trying to compete at that position is at least a far better idea than poor strategies like using backup catchers.
Obviously Sheets didn't work out, but when you look at it simply in terms of taking a second round player in the first I don't know what is so bad about it. If someone took Reyes or Soriano in the first this year, you couldn't realy blame them now. My evaluation of the guy was a bit higher than others. So what? Now that you can't get on me about 'not winning a dime' I'll say it again, I finished in fourth with a flusher of a first round pick. That's not bad. Yes, it was a mistake but everyone makes them.
Never thought you'd get on board with the closer thing.
I hate Pods and I wasn't happy when I took him, but I felt that I needed a speed guy there and he was the only one left. I hated his health prospects and in a sense I'm 'lucky' he stayed on the field (for 2 out of every 3 anyway). I could have told you that I hated that pick the most after the draft. Where you and I differ is probably just more in the general category of whether to take an all speed guy in the second. For me, you can see it made sense because of how I performed. It wasn't like I needed any homeruns and RBI's whereas the potential 20 other stolen bases he might have gotten would have really helped.
Lot of different ways to use faab. I don't begrudge anyone for their methods and even that fool who had a dollar left in July won our satellite league so what do I know?
My argument was not about trying to improve BA with good catchers but rather about avoiding bad catchers that will ruin your BA. Since about 50% of people do that, by default you are helping your chances in BA by not picking poor hitting catchers. Trying to compete at that position is at least a far better idea than poor strategies like using backup catchers.
Obviously Sheets didn't work out, but when you look at it simply in terms of taking a second round player in the first I don't know what is so bad about it. If someone took Reyes or Soriano in the first this year, you couldn't realy blame them now. My evaluation of the guy was a bit higher than others. So what? Now that you can't get on me about 'not winning a dime' I'll say it again, I finished in fourth with a flusher of a first round pick. That's not bad. Yes, it was a mistake but everyone makes them.
Never thought you'd get on board with the closer thing.
I hate Pods and I wasn't happy when I took him, but I felt that I needed a speed guy there and he was the only one left. I hated his health prospects and in a sense I'm 'lucky' he stayed on the field (for 2 out of every 3 anyway). I could have told you that I hated that pick the most after the draft. Where you and I differ is probably just more in the general category of whether to take an all speed guy in the second. For me, you can see it made sense because of how I performed. It wasn't like I needed any homeruns and RBI's whereas the potential 20 other stolen bases he might have gotten would have really helped.
Lot of different ways to use faab. I don't begrudge anyone for their methods and even that fool who had a dollar left in July won our satellite league so what do I know?
Chance favors the prepared mind.