so we did that Parallel Universe draft instead of our 37th annual auction this year, and now we are about to start looking forward to some sort of relative normalcy in 2021.
any my freeze list is....... brutal. and you don't have to sugarcoat your confirmations of same
as per my signature in this 12-team, NL-only, classic 5x5 league (these are 2019 contracts moved up just one season):
SP Max Scherzer 44-S1 - nobody panic: no chance I keep him, but maybe I confuse a rival til freeze date who knows our bromance
SP German Marquez 10-O - worth less in this no-bench league given home/road splits, but he only turns age 26 in February
SP Caleb Smith 1-O - yes if healthy for DBacks
SP Johnny Cueto 1-S1 - showed more promise in 2020 than his surface stats indicate, and only a buck
SP Jeff Samardzija 1-S1 - FA and presumably unsafe at any speed
RP Ryne Stanek 8-S1 - FA may be lost to AL and a NO barring a new-team bus crash that makes him a closer
C Jacob Realmuto 13-O - wait, this is a good player at a good price! but FA is gone if he signs with AL club
1B-OF Garrett Cooper 10-S1 - minimal upside or downside
1B-OF Brandon Belt 10-S1 - unlikely "breakout" for perennial underachiever. minimal upside or downside
SS Brandon Crawford 8-S1 - unlikely "rebound" for perennial boring player. minimal upside or downside
OF Corey Dickerson 17-S1 - another perennial boring player, with minimal upside
(OF Jarrod Dyson 8-S1 - an option only if he signs with an NL club)
FARM
No. 1 overall pick in April draft - likely will be SF's Luciano
OF Heliot Ramos - rarely have one of my farm "tadpoles" grown back legs before I have traded them away; will keep. 5-S2 the year after rookie status expires
Matt McLain - still have rights to dormant UCLA SS if he gets drafted by NL team
Brett Baty - Mets prospect faces crossroads in minors 2021
No. 13 pick in April draft - likely all NLers from mainstream MLB top 100 lists will be gone by then
No. 19 pick - ditto
still own my own midseason, post-MLB draft pick - um, could be another No. 1 overall
disappointing Nick Neidert, Jhailyn Ortiz, Riley Pint (!)
I only once have ever walked into (or Zoomed into?) an auction playing for "next year" - it was around 25-30 years ago, and I made all bids based on "second-year value" estimates. so closers in waiting, raw toolsy batters and SPs and so forth.
I finished third that year - and first the year after
hey, that's why they play the games!
any my freeze list is....... brutal. and you don't have to sugarcoat your confirmations of same
as per my signature in this 12-team, NL-only, classic 5x5 league (these are 2019 contracts moved up just one season):
SP Max Scherzer 44-S1 - nobody panic: no chance I keep him, but maybe I confuse a rival til freeze date who knows our bromance
SP German Marquez 10-O - worth less in this no-bench league given home/road splits, but he only turns age 26 in February
SP Caleb Smith 1-O - yes if healthy for DBacks
SP Johnny Cueto 1-S1 - showed more promise in 2020 than his surface stats indicate, and only a buck
SP Jeff Samardzija 1-S1 - FA and presumably unsafe at any speed
RP Ryne Stanek 8-S1 - FA may be lost to AL and a NO barring a new-team bus crash that makes him a closer
C Jacob Realmuto 13-O - wait, this is a good player at a good price! but FA is gone if he signs with AL club
1B-OF Garrett Cooper 10-S1 - minimal upside or downside
1B-OF Brandon Belt 10-S1 - unlikely "breakout" for perennial underachiever. minimal upside or downside
SS Brandon Crawford 8-S1 - unlikely "rebound" for perennial boring player. minimal upside or downside
OF Corey Dickerson 17-S1 - another perennial boring player, with minimal upside
(OF Jarrod Dyson 8-S1 - an option only if he signs with an NL club)
FARM
No. 1 overall pick in April draft - likely will be SF's Luciano
OF Heliot Ramos - rarely have one of my farm "tadpoles" grown back legs before I have traded them away; will keep. 5-S2 the year after rookie status expires
Matt McLain - still have rights to dormant UCLA SS if he gets drafted by NL team
Brett Baty - Mets prospect faces crossroads in minors 2021
No. 13 pick in April draft - likely all NLers from mainstream MLB top 100 lists will be gone by then
No. 19 pick - ditto
still own my own midseason, post-MLB draft pick - um, could be another No. 1 overall
disappointing Nick Neidert, Jhailyn Ortiz, Riley Pint (!)
I only once have ever walked into (or Zoomed into?) an auction playing for "next year" - it was around 25-30 years ago, and I made all bids based on "second-year value" estimates. so closers in waiting, raw toolsy batters and SPs and so forth.
I finished third that year - and first the year after
hey, that's why they play the games!
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