9 Responses to “Fantasy Beat – 2nd Half Pitchers”

1. By Nick on Jul 22, 2012

   13 team roto league… Carlos Santana dropped
   I’m in first place and have Mauer/Konerko… do I have to put in a waiver claim anyway? Thanks.

2. By Ray Flowers on Jul 23, 2012

   Nick – Santana should only be used at catcher. I’d rather have Mauer than Santana. Since it sounds like you are in a one catcher league, he’s not a must add. However, if you have a final roster spot being taken by someone who is so-so, I’d look to add Santana still.

3. By Luke on Jul 23, 2012

   Ive been offered Trumbo and Lincecum for Goldschmit, Bumgarner, and K-Rod. Im leaning toward doing the deal and banking on a better finish for Lincecum. What ya think?

4. By Ray Flowers on Jul 23, 2012

   Luke – Trumbo and Lincecum for Goldschmit, Bumgarner, and K-Rod.

   Pretty easy call on taking MadBum over Lincecum.

   So does Trumbo outpace Goldy and KRod. If KRod keeps closing, hard to say he does. Issue – Krod could be traded OR he could lose the closing gig. Its not like he’s been performing great this year, and the Brewers have already stated they would prefer for Axfrod to return to closing.

5. By Joe M on Jul 23, 2012

   Good Morning Ray

   Hope you had a nice weekend.

   Before I start, I just made a donation since this question is really important.

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   With my league trade deadlines coming up, I need to determine the players I definitely want to keep and possibly make some moves with some of the others.

   League Format
   - 12 team

   - 35 man roster (Starters = 2-C, 1B, 2B, SS, 3B, CI, MI, 5-OF, 2-DH…. 6-SP, 4-RP)
   3 year keepers

   - Scoring 5×7 Roto (Offense 1pt each spot Avg, OBP, R, RBI, SB, SLG —– Pitching 1.4 points each spot W, S, ERA, WHIP, K)

   Draft gets deep very fast since 72 players are being kept. The best pitchers remaining in the draft by round 4 this past season was Cain and Josh Johnson it really gets thin fast with all the keepers.

   These are the players on my team that are possibly worth keeping, I can keep 6, I keep the player in the round drafted.

   Now I know some of these names I can easily cross off, I just figured you opinion might differ given round and value.

   Round 4 – Ellsbury
   Round 5 – Konerko
   Round 6 – Bonifacio
   Round 8 – Gio Gonzales
   Round 10 – Hellickson
   Round 12 – Adam Dunn
   Round 14 – Wandy Rodriguez
   Round 16 – David Freese
   Round 18 – Aroldis Chapman
   Round 19 – Edwin Encarnacion
   Round 20 – De Aza
   Round 25 – Nolan Reimold
   Round 26 – Anthony Rizzo
   Round 29 – Brandon Belt
   Round 30 – Tyler Skaggs
   Round 31 – Dustin Ackley
   Round 35 – Wei Yin Chen

   Thank you
   - Joe M

6. By Ray Flowers on Jul 23, 2012

   Finally, a truly deep league. lol

   My six keepers, from your list, in order

   1 Rizzo 26th – even if not a star, can’t argue with the obvious value.

   2 *** De Aza 20th – 100 runs and 25 SBs coming down the pipe (not a slam dunk though, see below).

   3 EE 19th – My boy finally makes it happen!

   4 Chapman 18th – I dont love the idea of keeping closers. Still he’s been amazing, and solid value to be sure.

   5 Freese 16th – I dont know if he can get any better, but if healthy a .290-15-80 season seems the floor with ability to go .300-25-100.

   6 *** So what to do here.

   No problem with keeping Dunn (12). However, he’s a MASSIVE average risk.

   Gio (8) is likely to be drafted there or earlier barring a meltdown.

   Konerko (5) is getting older, has really slumped last 45 days, and there’s always a chance he retires (I doubt it, but he’s mentioned it a few times).

   Ellsbury (4) – MY CHOICE. Its two of three years where he has been a huge health risk, but he’s still exceedingly talented and worth the risk as 4th round value.

   *** If you wanted to play it a bit more safe, I could see you adding De Aza back to the free agent wire and then keeping Gonzalez if you feel that strongly about having an SP. Could also go Dunn for the counting stats of course. Really about value. De Aza likely represents a bit more than Gio, but certainly no issue with making Gio your lone starting SP as a keeper, an in fact, likely the best move here to make – even with De Aza being so cheap.

7. By Joe M on Jul 23, 2012

   Nice, thanks so much for the reply. The only disclaimer to this is next year we might switch the format from saves to SOLDS. If that’s the case I may not want/need to keep Chapman and add Ells in his place. Then my debate would be Dunn or Gio for the last spot (I may have to go with Gio to have at least 1 starter going in, this league stockpiles starters is very hard to draft guaranteed quality).

   The loss I take with Dunn’s Avg is not as bad considering his OBP and SLG which are both categories in this league.

   Just an FYI (and a thank you)
   I would not have De Aza or EE on my team if not for your draft kit and both have paid off very nicely, so thank you for that.

   Thanks Again
   Joe M

8. By Johnny T on Aug 2, 2012

   Hey Super Ray!

   ok, in a 12 team h2h league, and got offered Andrew McCutchen for Hamilton and Wandy Rodriguez. I have Elsbury and Eithier in outfield. 10 pitching starts max per week. My pitchers are Moore, Wandy, Sale, Cain, Minor,Jordan Zimmerman, Marcum, Medlen, Arroyo, Beavan. Pull the trigger?

9. By Ray Flowers on Aug 2, 2012

   Johhny T – got offered Andrew McCutchen for Hamilton and Wandy Rodriguez

   There’s no way you can turn this down. Wandy is solid, but no difference maker. McCutchen continues to kill it while Hamilton is hitting like he’s a football player. Hamilton last 2 months:

   47 games – .197 average, .281 OBP, .388 SLG = .668 OPS. ABYSMAL.

   Get McC.