Derek VanRiper is now a three-time champion in Tout Wars Mixed Auction, previously winning in 2014 and 2020. He was in second place at the All Star Break, trailing Scott Engel, but broke away from the pack in the second half, benefitting from trades that landed him Shohei Ohtani (pitcher), Gerrit Cole, and Framber Valdez. He traded away Aaron Judge, Paul Goldschmidt, and Alex Bregman!
At midseason, Mike Gianella had a four-point lead over perennial challenger and frequent champion Adam Ronis. The former Tout NL champion made it hold up (though he was challenged by Rudy Gamble, another perennial challenger and former champ in this league). He tells the story of how in a free post at Baseball Prospectus.
It no doubt came as a relief to Doug Dennis to win Tout Wars AL this year with no starting pitchers. Taking advantage of the Tout rules not specifying minimum innings, Dennis dumped out of Wins and Strikeouts and won his league easily. He scored every point possible in the eight categories he played, minus one in WHIP.
Dennis took much the same approach in 2021 and finished 1oth.
Phil Hertz and Scott Wilderman/Tim Prior stayed in the hunt til the final weeks, but Ian Kahn, who led at the All Star Break, held on.
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Tout Wars AL (Draft Sheet: Click here)
Mike Podhorzer writes about his auction.
Jason Collette on his auction.
Ryan Bloomfield’s review of his AL team is here.
Patrick Davitt and Doug Dennis talked at length about Tout AL and Doug’s weird strategy on the BaseballHQ Radio pod.
Patrick Davitt pivots to his own team at baseballhq.com ($)
Tout Wars Mixed Auction (Draft Sheet: Click here).
Eric Karabell wrote about the auction for ESPN+($).
Scott Pianowski’s piece is here.
Scott Engel on his draft is here.
Zach Steinhorn’s draft review can be found here.
Scott Swanay’s team review is here.
Tout Wars NL (Draft Sheet: Click here)
Tristan Cockcroft wrote about his auction for ESPN+($).
Grey Albright hates his team enough to like it.
Tout Wars Head to Head (Draft Sheet: Click here)
Dan Strafford’s pod is here.
Ariel Cohen and Chris Welsh talk about the auction on The Beat the Shift podcast.
Todd Zola and Clay Link talk about Clay’s auction.
The more traditional spreadsheets are linked to in the sidebar later now.
