The Mastersball gang makes hay during a fairly slow week (unless you bid and won on Joe Panik or Mark Melancon or Edwin Jackson or Yohan Pino), with some sound strategic advice, as well as the listing of winners and losers and what they bid. Read it here!
Category: About Tout Wars
Tout Wars NL: Rotoman’s Pitching Staff
Oh, the problems when everything goes right. Rotoman explains.
The Mastersball.com June 16, 2014 FAAB Report
Todd Zola, Rob Leibowitz, Brian Walton, Zach Steinhorn, and Perry Van Hook explain and analyze the week’s FAAB bidding in each of the four Tout Wars leagues. Informative and fun, especially if you’re aware that there are $0 bids allowed in all TW leagues.
Fred Zinkie Makes a Trade! Scott Pianowski Writes About It!
Actually, Spianow wrote a story over at Yahoo! explaining why he sold low on Shin Soo Choo, by trading him to Jeff Erickson in the Yahoo Friends and Family League and to Fred Zinkie in Tout Wars Mixed Auction. So the headline here could have been:
Pianowski: Ah Choo!
Or ScottP: The Shin Soo Also Sets.
But we chose to go with the Dog Bites Man hed, though it would seem to foreclose on us using it again. Because Zinkie will make another trade. He also promises us his thinking about taking on a bum like Choo later, after he handles some personal business.
In the meantime, enjoy Scott’s Closing Time piece. There really is something good called Selling Low.
UPDATE: Fred’s angle.
Everything You Wanted to Know About Gregory Polanco’s Promotion *and weren’t afraid to ask
By Peter Kreutzer, blog.askrotoman.com
For weeks there has been a lot of chatter about the Pirates uberprospect, Gregory Polanco.
When would he be called up? Why isn’t he being called up? How can a struggling team choose to save money rather than bring up their best prospect? Plus, WHEN WILL HE BE CALLED UP!?!? Dammit.
And then, just as sudden as can be, when the Pirates second baseman suffered an appendicitis on Monday, the world knew. Polanco was coming!
Pirates fans rejoiced, baseball fans were excited, and fantasy baseball players who had taken Polanco on reserve got giddy. One of those was ESPN’s Tristan Cockcroft, Polanco’s owner in Tout Wars NL. Continue reading “Everything You Wanted to Know About Gregory Polanco’s Promotion *and weren’t afraid to ask”
Mastersball’s FAAB Report June 9, 2014: Scott Swanay Props Edition
The Mastervision FAAB report continues to develop, including more opinion and analysis of moves. It has gone from being an invaluable record of bids and winners to a lively commentary on the goings on in Tout Wars.
This week Todd Zola points out the Scott Swanay, bedeviled on auction day in the Mixed auction league with too much money, has managed his team into a competitive position in the first division (barely as of today). This despite losing Jose Fernandez, everybody’s ace, for the season. Keep clawing, Scott!
Brian Walton speaks of my own bedeviled situation in Tout NL. In dollar days I took a flyer on Kris Bryant, the Cubs future slugger, but when he started slowly in Double-A and it became clear that he wasn’t going to be a June callup to the majors, I offered him around the league. Crickets, so I released him in order to hold onto someone I valued more. In May, Bryant got hot, and Mike Gianella picked him up for $1 FAAB a couple of weeks ago.
Apparently, Mike also came to the conclusion that Bryant’s next stop would be Iowa City, not Chitown, but when he offered him up yesterday Gene McCaffrey leaped with $50 of FAAB. What a difference a day (well, more like 45 of them) makes.
Tout Wars Weekly FAAB Report, from Mastersball
The boys at Mastersball look at this week’s excited bids for Rubby De La Rosa, Daisuke Matsuzaka, and Tommy La Stella. Read their comments here.
Mastersball FAAB Report, plus Todd’s Take, for May 26, 2014
As they do each and every week, Mastersball’s writers survey the week’s Tout Wars FAAB action. Recently, the Lord Todd Zola has been adding his two cents, as well. Good stuff from Mastersball.