Read Rob Leibowitz, Brian Walton and Zach Steinhorn comment on this week’s AL, NL and Mixed picks.
Category: AL
Mastersball June 18 FAAB Round Up
Peruse the logs, appreciate the commentary, from Mastersball!
Interested in Mastersball’s LABR Faab report? It’s here.
Really FAAB: Hound Dog or Heartbreak Hotel?
(Read the Mastersball FAAB REPORT here.)
The big fight in this week’s NL FAAB showdown was Alex Presley. As a player with some major league success last year, demoted after a slow start this year, and off to a good start since he was promoted last week, he’s the ultimate cojones test. How good is this guy? Or, more importantly, how good will he be the rest of the way this year?
I bid $18 in Tout NL, not expecting to get him, I didn’t actually have a hole to fill, but I didn’t want anyone to get him cheap. I shouldn’t have worried. The bids, from least to most:
Walton 4, Wilderman 5, Gardner 9, Kreutzer 18, Peterson 18, Ravitz 19, Cockcroft 31, Pianowski 38, Carty 53, Gianella 60
Carty has a woeful offense right now, and his bid was an attempt to fill a hole.
Gianella’s team is also lacking offensively, but is somewhat better poised to strke, so his bid is an attempt to add a real offensive player to his team. Both big bidders had a big need for some hitting.
The interesting thing is that both Carty and Gianella basically bid all they had (each bid $5 less than their budget) on Alex Presley.
Which one do you think will wind up In the Ghetto?
Considering the Swingman…
Baseball Prospectus’s Derek Carty takes a look at how the Swingman has been used in Tout NL this year, and he likes it.
June 4 Mastersball FAAB Link
All the Mastersball analysis of AL, NL and Mixed league FAAB play, along with a recounting of picks, right here.
May 7 Transaction Report
Mastersball’s invaluable survey of the FAAB bidding in all three Tout leagues can be found here.
Rotowire on Sirius XM: Vickery and Hector Santiago in Tout AL
Jeff Erickson (85), Andy Behrens (51) and Chris Liss (45) talk about their bids this week on Hector Santiago, how Vickery changed them, and just how good Santiago might be. Plus a bonus: A theory that other White Sox closers manque have lost all their lustre.
The Bidmeister!
Tout Wars uses the onRoto stat service, and you can follow along with each league via the public page links in the right navbar here at toutwars.com.
At onRoto you’ll find the standings and rosters for each league and all team. You’ll also find the weekly Bidmeister logs, under Transactions Logs in the League Pages.
The Bidmeister is onRoto’s exemplary automated FAAB system. Each week team owner’s enter blocks of bids, starting each by designating a player on the active roster to reserve, release or disable, then listing free agents and bid prices for each. Of particular interest this week was Jeff Erickson’s approach in Tout AL. Of his $100 annual FAAB budget Jeff bid $85 in block 1 and $15 in block 2.
Because Tout Wars uses a modified Vickery bidding system, Jeff actually paid $52 for Hector Santiago ($1 more than Andy Behrens’ bid), and $10 for Vicente Padilla (the floor for bids of more than $10 that aren’t challenged by a bid of $9 or more.) Jeff now has a bullpen.
Lawr Michaels snuck through Fernando Rodney for $16.
Jeff Erickson:
- dis DMcGowan Tor:
- pur HSantiago CWS 85
- pur FRodney TB 23
- pur VPadilla Bos 15
- pur FMorales Bos 5
- pur LMendoza KC 1
- pur TWilhelmsen Sea 1
- pur JHowell TB 1
- pur JMcGee TB 0
- rel CRuffin Sea:
- pur FRodney TB 15
- pur VPadilla Bos 15
- pur FMorales Bos 5
- pur LMendoza KC 1
- pur TWilhelmsen Sea 0
- pur JHowell TB 0
- pur JMcGee TB 0
- res KFukudome CWS:
- pur JHannahan Cle 0
- pur RBrignac TB 0