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.
Category: Tout Mixed
Mastersball FAAB Report July 28, 2014
As they do every week, the masters at mastersball.com compile and annotate an authoritative report on the week’s bidding in all four Tout Wars Leagues.
This week? Lots of bidding in the NL, where three full time players arrived from the AL.
July 21, 2014 FAAB Report from Tireless Mastersball.com.
When only three days pass between FAAB sessions, as happened in Tout Wars this past week, the reports come fast and furious, though the bidding is weak and limpest.
Mastersball.com’s latest details all of this week’s fun. You can read it here.
One play from out of left field that the Mastersball crew missed was Rotoman’s bid on Cuban free agent Rusney Castillo, who isn’t even signed to a US team at this point! And this isn’t a keeper league! We spoke with Mr. Man, who says the following explains his bidding:
1) To compete for first he needs more hitting, and can’t afford to trade Madison Bumgarner to get it. At the same time, when he proposes to deal his next best starters, Alfredo Simon and Tanner Roark, to owners for mediocre sluggers like, say Adam LaRoche, they laugh and say they’ve been offered good pitchers for, um, LaRoche. Lenny Melnick today traded LaRoche and Drew Storen to Mike Gianella for Cameron Maybin and Tim Hudson. Fair enough, it’s a tough market.
2) Rusney Castillo is 27 years old and has been working out in Florida since being cleared to sign with a US team. He will have an open workout on Saturday and presumably sign shortly thereafter. He he signs with an AL club, Rotoman is SOL, but if he signs with a NL club, Rotoman will hope he is promoted quickly to the big league club.
3) Like Yasiel Puig and Jose Abreu, Castillo is a mature hitter, though more a speedster than a slugger. It is thought that if he signs fast enough he’ll spend a short amount of time in the minors and be promoted to the big club by the end of August. Regular at bats in September could be big for Team Rotoman.
4) The cost for all of this is $1 FAAB and a reserve slot, plus having to keep Castillo active for one fruitless week. If Castillo were to sign next Saturday, after the workout, with a NL club, his price would be much higher. And if Rotoman didn’t have Castillo active he would have Nate McLouth’s two AB instead. It seems worth the risk, he said.
The April 28th Transactions Report, courtesy of Mastersball.com
As they do each week, mastersball.com has compiled the week’s Tout Wars transactions and added commentary. A pleasant way to keep up with this week’s moves.
Mastersball FAABxtravaganza for April 21
See this week’s FAAB results, with commentary from Mastersball.com writers, here.
Swanay Song: Does Lawr Hear a Melody?
Lawr Michaels ventures into dangerous territory, giving Scott Swanay advice how to handle the FAAB he gained by cashing out Brandon Beachy.
His advice is here.
Scott cannot actually redeem the extra dough until after this weekends claims, with the money being added on April 13. That shouldn’t change much.
Here at team Tout Wars we’re rooting for Scott to find a path to, well, if not victory, respectability. Go Scott.
TOUT Mortems: How Do They Like Their Drafts 2014?
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.
Mixed League Chat Transcript
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: Good afternoon. The auction will begin at 3:15 ET
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Hi nando |
| 3:10 |
Emack’s breath smells like a fart that farted. |
| 3:10 |
What the? I smell like pizza. That smells amazing. |
| 3:10 |
draft Kershaw #1! |
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