Category: AL

Winding Down FAAB Report for September 8, 2014

Mastersball.com keeps compiling our FAAB reports, as we head into the season’s last three weeks (only two more FAAB periods).

Unless something dramatic happens, our AL winner will be Rick Wolf and Glenn Colton, while the NL will fall for the third straight time to Tristan Cockcroft.

But you can follow the tight races in Tout Mixed Auction (Zinkie leads Van Riper by a half point, while Al Melchior and Zach Steinhorn trail by six and seven points respectively) and Tout Mixed Draft (Tim McLeod 109, Brent Hershey 107, Perry Van Hook 106.5 are clustered up top) by clicking the links.

Tout FAAB Report, September 1, 2014

Mastersball.com does its usual bang up job on this week’s claims. You can read them here.

I do think there’s a bit of a story about Dilson Herrera. I track minor leaguers, but I’m not obsessive. A 20 year old in the Mets organization, Herrera wasn’t on my short term radar. And obviously he wasn’t on anyone’s, because Tout NL has been sucking up minor league talent weeks before they get called up all season long.

When Herrera was called up I looked at his stats and was sure he was worth a claim. As I went over the options, I moved him to the top of my list, past Tabata and Grichuk. As I looked at it closer I upped his bid from minimal to the teens. I thought he had some chance of being something, and we don’t get that many chances for that. Especially in September.

I made some trades, which negated my bid for Herrera, but the bidding on him is instructive. This is a young hitter without much experience. The odds yesterday were that he would not be a big contributor. But the odds yesterday were that there weren’t many major players coming. Herrera ended up being the object of much affection.

DiHerrera, NYM 26 Seth Trachtman 37 Lenny Melnick 25 Derek Carty 21 Tristan H. Cockcroft 15

Herrera homered today, which has to make Seth Trachtman happy. He’s clearly a major prospect, but he wasn’t coveted. What was his market value? At this time of year, golden, at least for a team that needs help and has nothing to lose.

All Schechter for All Shandler: No news is bad news, and other FAAB news

Mastersball chronicles a slow FAAB week. In the NL a total of $2 was spent. But the inside commentaries of Todd and company are never slow.

In other news, Schechter and Shandler didn’t make a trade.

All Shandler for All Schechter Trade Update!

Friday’s big news became a big snooze over the weekend, as Larry went up by four and a half points on Saturday and withdrew, then fell back into a dead heat on Sunday. Larry said it was like the Universe speaking that the time is right, but at that point Shandler wasn’t so sure.

By the time the two reconnected on it the midnight trading deadline had passed, and the two will have until next Sunday to come to an agreement.

Today, before Tuesday’s games, Schechter leads Shandler by two games. Here are their rosters:

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Mastersball.com FAAB Roundup August 18, 2014

A relatively quiet week in FAAB, but lots to talk about, as three leagues (not Tout AL) have active pennant races going on.

The boys from Mastersball.com give you the scoop.

Breaking News! All Shandler for All Schechter Trade?

The wires started rumbling earlier today. With Glenn Colton and Rick Wolf’s Tout Wars AL team lapping the field more times than, um, Mario Andretti, Larry Schechter proposed to Ron Shandler—one point and place behind him in the standings—a swap of their entire teams. Ron says he rejected the proposal as ridiculous, but then found the possibilities gnawed at him.

He’ll explain why he liked the deal, whether or not he does it, later, I’m sure. One of his reasons, however, was surely the possibility of turning things upside down, and having something novel to write about.

Support for a deal from members of the LLC and some tout owners has been immediate. Larry tweated:

Fred Zinkie, not a shy one when it comes to trading tweated back:

Ron is thinking about it. Tweet your views @ronshandler @LarrySchechter @toutwars @kroyte!

August 4 Mastersball.com FAAB report

Lot’s of action in the post-trading deadline FAAB period. Todd Zola and the lads at mastersball.com have all the bids and commentary about what went down.