Category: News

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!

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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”

This Week’s (May 12) Transactions from Mastersball.com!

Big bidders:

NL: Kreutzer: $8, reduced to $5 for Eric Campbell, $8, reduced to $1 for Chase Anderson. Kreutzer wrote about his moves here.

AL: Shandler: $36, reduced to $38 for Roughned Odor.

Mix Auc: Heaney: $17, tied with DiFino for Drew Pomeranz.
Davitt: $19, reduced to $15 for Tyler Lyons.

Mix Draft: Sarris: $11, reduced to $10 for Bryan Shaw.
Ambrosius: $10, essentially tied with Charlie Wiegert’s $9 bid (who also bid $9 on Bryan Shaw), for Juan Francisco.

Mastersball.com has compiled all the action, with commentaries. Read it here!

League Links Live!

There are live links now to each of the league’s standings, transactions and stats in the right nav.

If you want to see what this week’s FAAB results are you can check the View Bidmeister Results item in the Transaction Logs menu at 12:01 am Monday morning.

TOUT Mortems: How Do They Like Their Drafts 2014?

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The Tout Wars auctions are in the books. The lobby of SiriusXM once again looks like a sophisticated and refined business space, rather than a Phi Epsilon Tout frat basement. (But what happened to the Keith Richards and Paul McCartney autographs on the wall?) All the partygoers made it home from Foleys safely, though there were close calls. And some people are writing about their teams.

The spreadsheet with all results is here.

NL: Gardner Kreutzer Gianella Zola Hertz || RotoAdvice

AL: Jason Collette Podhorzer Erickson Leibowitz Michaels Behrens Erickson and Liss Shandler || RotoAdvice

MIXED AUCTION: Swanay Gonos 1 Guilfoyle Flowers Singman Heaney Zinkie Steinhorn Davitt Gonos 2|| Michaels

MIXED DRAFT: Van Hook Minnix Sporer Ronis Murphy

The Baseball Prospectus Flags Fly Forever podcast Episode 12 has extended Tout Wars discussion about NL, AL and Mixed Auction, featuring Bret Sayre, Mike Gianella and Mauricio Rubio.

You can hear of more by following #toutwars on Twitter.

Tout Wars NL: 2014 Owners Lineup

Competing in Tout Wars NL Auction in 2014

In order of reserve round pick (available FAAB in parenthesis)
* new to league this year

Tristan Cockcroft (100)
Mike Gianella (100)
Todd Zola (100)
Gene McCaffrey (100)*
Steve Gardner (100)
Seth Trachtman (100)*
Brian Walton (100)
Phil Hertz (100)
Peter Kreutzer (100)
Lenny Melnick (97)
Scott Wilderman (93)
Derek Carty (89)

Tout Wars NL Auction will be held on March 22 at 9am in NY, and broadcast on SiriusXM.

Tout Wars AL: 2014 Owners Lineup

Competing in Tout Wars AL Auction in 2014

In order of reserve round pick (available FAAB in parenthesis)
* new to league this year

Larry Schechter (100)
Mike Podhorzer (100)*
Joe Sheehan (100)
Jeff Erickson (100)
Rick Wolf/Glenn Colton (100)
Lawr Michaels (100)
Andy Behrens (97)
Jason Collette (95)
Rob Leibowitz (91)
Steve Moyer (90)
Ron Shandler (90)
Chris Liss (89)*

Tout Wars AL Auction will take place March 23rd in NYC at 10am ET.

Tout Wars Mixed Auction: The 2014 Owners Lineup

Competing in Tout Wars Mixed Auction in 2014

In order of reserve round pick (available FAAB in parenthesis)
* new to league this year

Fred Zinkie (100)
David Gonos (100)
Scott Swanay (100)
Eric Mack (100)
Tim Heaney (100)
Patrick Davitt (100)
Scott Pianowski (100)*
Ray Guilfoyle (100)*
Nando DiFino (100)
Al Melchior (99)
Zach Steinhorn (94)
Paul Singman (93)
Derek Van Riper (89)
Cory Schwartz (83)
Ray Flowers (76)

Tout Wars Mixed Auction will be held March 22 at 3pm ET in New York City, broadcast live on SiriusXM.