Me and my friend got a team in an auction league. H2H, 18 teams. We start: C, 1B, 2B, SS, 3B, OF, OF, OF, DH, SP, SP, SP, SP, RP.
$325 salary cap, and we have restricted players which are guys who everyone places a silent bid on, and then the owner of that restricted player can either match the highest to keep the guy, or let him walk to team who bid the highest.
Anyway, me and my friend took a big risk and won the two biggest names in the restricted draft.
along with the keepers we were forced to keep from the other guys team last year, heres our team so far:
C 1B Albert Pujols $84 2B SS Yunel Escobar $25 3B OF Justin Upton $11 OF Alex Rios $39 OF Grady Sizemore $76 DH Carlos Delgado $12 SP SP SP SP RP
Which leaves us with an appalling $78 for 8 guys left.
Now, after we spent twice (or three times) as much money as every other team, we need some pitching BIG TIME! I think with the empty spots, its safe to say we have the best offense in the league no matter what. We're gonna put both Pujols and Sizemore on the block to see if we get any offers, otherwise, we need some big time value pitchers.
So, do you guys think we're completely screwed, or could this work? Feel free to throw in a valuable pitcher you think we might be able to get
Unwittingly perhaps you've drafted a "Studs & Scrubs" team... where you pay a bunch o cash for a couple of monsters (Pujols, Sizemore) and some solid position players (Rios, Upton, hopefully YEsc).
You'll have to keep your wallet in your pocket for a while until everyone else spends their cash.
Look for the guys who are ranked 10-15 in their position and wait for them to come down at $3 to $7 range, if that.
For catcher you might have to go with Chris Snyder or Kurt Suzuki. For 2b go with Orlando Hudson or Mike Fontenot. For 3b how about Mike Lowell or Emilio Bonifacio?
NickyEyes wrote:Me and my friend got a team in an auction league. H2H, 18 teams. We start: C, 1B, 2B, SS, 3B, OF, OF, OF, DH, SP, SP, SP, SP, RP.
$325 salary cap, and we have restricted players which are guys who everyone places a silent bid on, and then the owner of that restricted player can either match the highest to keep the guy, or let him walk to team who bid the highest.
Anyway, me and my friend took a big risk and won the two biggest names in the restricted draft.
along with the keepers we were forced to keep from the other guys team last year, heres our team so far:
C 1B Albert Pujols $84 2B SS Yunel Escobar $25 3B OF Justin Upton $11 OF Alex Rios $39 OF Grady Sizemore $76 DH Carlos Delgado $12 SP SP SP SP RP
Which leaves us with an appalling $78 for 8 guys left.
Now, after we spent twice (or three times) as much money as every other team, we need some pitching BIG TIME! I think with the empty spots, its safe to say we have the best offense in the league no matter what. We're gonna put both Pujols and Sizemore on the block to see if we get any offers, otherwise, we need some big time value pitchers.
So, do you guys think we're completely screwed, or could this work? Feel free to throw in a valuable pitcher you think we might be able to get
Thanks, WHIR
You're going to have to target some under the rader pitchers for sure... I think you can save some $$$ at 3B with Lowell, who is bein very undervalued this year IMO... Think about Mark Teahan, Kaz Matsui, A. Hill, or Fontenot for 2B, decent 2B that might be able to be had for the 3-5 dollar range. At C I'd just go with anybody that starts and won't kill your AVG, don't spent more than 5 dollars here...
I figure you still have about $58 left for pitching now... Lowell ~$10 2b~$5 C~$5
For pitching you'll have to target under the radar guys...
RP Ideas: Motte Ray Downs
SP Possibilities: Ted Lilly Meche Danks Slowey Kuroda (always undervalued, but has very good ratios in a weak division) K. Escobar (will miss time) Carpenter B. Anderson T. Cahill J. Zimmermann
Other guys that should be able to be gotten cheap: DeJesus (always cheap and consistant) J. Schafer (ATL OF) K. Greene Fred Lewis
Hope that helps... just some ideas of guys that may be able to fill your roster within your budget
Unwittingly perhaps you've drafted a "Studs & Scrubs" team... where you pay a bunch o cash for a couple of monsters (Pujols, Sizemore) and some solid position players (Rios, Upton, hopefully YEsc).
You'll have to keep your wallet in your pocket for a while until everyone else spends their cash.
Look for the guys who are ranked 10-15 in their position and wait for them to come down at $3 to $7 range, if that.
For catcher you might have to go with Chris Snyder or Kurt Suzuki. For 2b go with Orlando Hudson or Mike Fontenot. For 3b how about Mike Lowell or Emilio Bonifacio?
Good luck!
Thank you for that article. it was indeed informative. we're looking at mid-level 2b and 3b now, and we already have a list of 15 or so top prospect pitchers.
someone in the league is offering us cap space for delgado and escobar, which we might consider taking (an extra $37 to spend). we were kinda pissed at how much escobar was kept for by the team before us. he has upside, but $25 just seems too expensive.
If you could get a Hardy or someone like that at SS fairly cheap and grab someone to replace Delgado then that trade wouldn't be so terrible I guess.
As far as the rest of your team, when it's your turn to nominate players to draft I would nominate players you know you're not going to bid on but others will bid a lot on. You could get other teams to eat up their cap space and perhaps help lower the prices of players later in the draft so you can afford them as well.
Sandoval, J Lopez, Aviles for position players. SP - Penny, Maine, Marcum, and Buehrle might be a few that others won't name that might come at a cheap price.
I like everyone else's suggestions, too. A lot - just watch your money carefully and don't get hung on one guy too much where you blow your load.
If you can DUMP Delgado, do it in a heartbeat - someone like Mike Jacobs or Helton or Loney or Ishikawa (depending on your immediate needs) can back up Pujols for pennies. Or just go for an outfielder like Spillborghs to fill your Util and be available for injury backup in the OF.
Try and get one halfway decent RP cheap (KWood or CQualls?) and then look for other guys way late (Seattle, Florida, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Detroit for example) where the situation is still a bit unsettled.
Pablo Sandoval Jose Lopez Mat Gamel Elvis Andrus Cameron Maybin Ryan Doumit Chris Iannetta Matt Weiters Howie Kendrick Jed Lowrie Alexei Ramirez
Trevor Cahill Edwin Jackson Franscisco Liriano Brett Myers Andy Sonnanstine Jason Motte John Danks Ryan Dempster Kenshin Kawakami Clayton Kershaw Hiroki Kuroda Justin Masterson Vin Mazzaro David Purcey Chris Volstad Jordan Zimmerman
I know some of these guys are super young and practically irrelevant for a year or two, but i want to get familiar with them anyway. now i'm currently looking through all of the players you guys mentioned as well.
we're hoping the dump Delgado and Escobar to another team for $37 in cap space later tonight. we're hoping we can grab Jed Lowrie and Cameron Maybin for the total cost of what Escobar was, which was $25.
thanks everyone for the support. i'll return the favor if i catch any of your threads.
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by NickyEyes » Fri Apr 03, 2009 12:06 pm 
