2K21 AL Only Keepers

[BuckyBuckner]

Keepers are due on Friday. It's a 12 team 6x6 AL only league; AVG, OPS, R, HR, RBI, SB x QS+1/2W, ERA, WHIP, K, SV, HD. We can keep 12. $265 to spend, 14 hitters and 10 pitchers. Normal hitting positions; but 4 OF, 1 UT and 1 DH. This year due to the weirdness of last year we decided to roll over all kept players contracts. So all B contracts stay be and anyone would was originally a dead C20 contract can be kept this year. C21 can be pushed to C22, etc, though I don't have any of those. F players can be kept for one year. I'm going to skip most of my roster (defending champs!)

Vladdy Guerrero $10B
Luke Voit $19A
Rowdy Tellez $3B
Josh Donaldson $30A
Marwin Gonzalez $3A
Brandon Lowe $16B
Marcus Semien $31A
Adalbeto Mondesi $13C21
Eddie Rosario $29C20
Stephen Piscotty $5A

Alex Colome $16B
Emmanuel Clase $1A
Jake Odorizzi $4B
Justus Sheffield $3A
Shane Bieber $38A
Tyler Duffy $10F
Yusmeiro Petit $1B

Prospects are not a plentiful as the NL team:

Julio Rodriguez $10M
AJ Puk $10M
Triston McKenzie $5M

What do you guys think?

[cool hand]

I'd cut Duffy (although I dont know where he falls on the hold-o-meter), and likely Donaldson.
Otherwise, very solid.

[chancellor]

Vladdy Guerrero $10B ---> Um, yeah
Luke Voit $19A ----------->Um, yeah, again
Rowdy Tellez $3B -----> I'd roll the dice on him
Josh Donaldson $30A
Marwin Gonzalez $3A
Brandon Lowe $16B ------> Yup
Marcus Semien $31A
Adalbeto Mondesi $13C21 ---> Yes
Eddie Rosario $29C20
Stephen Piscotty $5A

Alex Colome $16B ----> Yes
Emmanuel Clase $1A
Jake Odorizzi $4B -----> Yes
Justus Sheffield $3A ---> Him too
Shane Bieber $38A ---> Staff ace
Tyler Duffy $10F
Yusmeiro Petit $1B

Prospects are not a plentiful as the NL team:

Julio Rodriguez $10M
AJ Puk $10M
Triston McKenzie $5M

What do you guys think?

One more, assuming minor leaguers don't count against your total. If they do, then I'd toss over Tellez and keep Julio Rodriguez and McKenzie. If they don't, I'd be inclined to keep Rosario though there's not a lot of profit there.

[Redbirds Fan]

Nice list.

Vladdy Guerrero $10B - yes
Luke Voit $19A - yes
Rowdy Tellez $3B - yes
Josh Donaldson $30A - no, too pricey
Marwin Gonzalez $3A - no
Brandon Lowe $16B - yes
Marcus Semien $31A -no, too pricey
Adalbeto Mondesi $13C21 - yes
Eddie Rosario $29C20 - yes
Stephen Piscotty $5A -no (there is a little bit of profit there, I think, but I'm not a fan)

Alex Colome $16B - no (seems pricey for half a closer)
Emmanuel Clase $1A - yes
Jake Odorizzi $4B - yes
Justus Sheffield $3A - maybe
Shane Bieber $38A - yes
Tyler Duffy $10F - no
Yusmeiro Petit $1B - yes (always worth having around)

Prospects are not a plentiful as the NL team:

Julio Rodriguez $10M - maybe
AJ Puk $10M - yes
Triston McKenzie $5M - yes

Clase and Petit are tough ones. They are definitely the type of guys I would buy at auction, but not traditionally the type of guys people freeze. You won't get them any cheaper though.

[BuckyBuckner]

Nice list.

Thanks!

Clase and Petit are tough ones. They are definitely the type of guys I would buy at auction, but not traditionally the type of guys people freeze. You won't get them any cheaper though.

We have holds as a category. Clase is worth $11 in our format and Petit $7. I've had multiple teams trying to trade for Clase, though none have come close to making an offer that is worth considering.

[BuckyBuckner]

I did not include Framber Valdez on my list cause I figured he was done for the year but now he might be back in June. He's $10F so I could only keep him this year. I don't think this news makes much of a difference and he's still not a keeper. He might go for $10 in the draft but that's because you can keep him on new contract.

[chancellor]

I did not include Framber Valdez on my list cause I figured he was done for the year but now he might be back in June.

I'm letting him go at 10 in my AL only, 10-team.

[BuckyBuckner]

Here's what I ended up with, * for keepers:

C Wilson Ramos $13A
C Tom Murphy $10A
1B Vlad Guerrero $10B*
CI Rowdy Tellez $3B*
3B Yandy Diaz $10A
2B Brandon Lowe $16B*
MI Andrelton Simmons $8A
SS Adalberto Mondesi $13C23
OF Eddie Rosario $29C21*
OF Stephen Piscotty $5B*
OF Willie Calhoun $13A
OF Adam Eaton $10A
DH Luke Voit $19B*
UT Freddy Galvis $5A

P Shane Bieber $38B*
P Jake Oddorizi $4B*
P Justus Sheffield $3B*
P Jose Urquidy $20A
P Jonathan Loasiga $5A
P Andres Munoz $1A
P Ken Giiles $1A
P Yusmeiro Petit $1B*
P Emmanuel Clase $1B*
P Rafael Dolis $15A

I left $14 on the table.

Minors:

Triston McKenzie $5M
AJ Puk $10M
Julio Rodriguez $10M
Simeon Woods-Richardson $5M
Jack Leiter $5M

Inflation was insane going into the draft, about 50%. I've never seen it that crazy high. The crazy thing is players went for more than those inflated prices. To get anyone worthwhile you had to overspend, and start drinking at 11 AM. Trout went for $66, Jameson Tallion went for $29!! Robbie Grossman $17, Taylor Trammell $16, Aaron Hicks $25, Miles Straw $22, Trevor Rosenthal $30, and Raisel Iglesias $26. There were very little bargains at the end. Someone snagged Odor for $1, that could be nice. Based on the profit in RotoLab Joley Rodriguez at $1 is the most profitable player drafted, with Simmons and Galvis close behind.

I know that Tom Murphy at $10 was too much but I had a really hard time spending my money and felt he was the best catcher left and there just wasn't anywhere to spent it, as evidenced by leaving $14 on the table. The crazy thing, that wasn't the highest total. One team left $29, $16 for another and one more team also left $14 (and that was with spending $25 on Luis Patino; he and the guy who left $29 got into a bidding war and it just became silly and not real money).

I'm light on starters but I have McKenzie I can plug in for Munoz and I figure Puk could get a look in the rotation at some point. There are few on the FA pool I can pick up too.

So let me have it, what say you all? I need saves, I know. I should get some next year with Giles/Munoz . That's an easy fix through a trade.

[virgonomic]

It's a good looking team. IF stronger than OF but stats are stats. I really like the Calhoun and Urquidy buys given inflation. You need saves but they can be found. Great start.

[BuckyBuckner]

It's a good looking team. IF stronger than OF but stats are stats. I really like the Calhoun and Urquidy buys given inflation. You need saves but they can be found. Great start.

Thanks. Yeah, the OF is an odd collection of bodies, but fixable if needed. By the time Urquidy was called out the difference between him and the next guy was really steep. But I'm still so pissed about not spending all my money. I was saving some of it to get Shane McClanhan at the end but he went for too much. In retrospect, I should have gone the extra dollar but at $11 was he ever going to be a keeper?

[chancellor]

Galvis, Eaton, and Simmons are all good buys in my book. With saves and holds as separate categories, though, you had to get a closer, even at outrageous prices. Or, if you're not going to consciously spend on a closer (possibly a good call, given prices), you need to get in the SP mud before Urquidy or the OF mud before Calhoun and spend some serious cash.

Munoz and Giles - especially Giles, given his name recognition - was a slick move.

[BuckyBuckner]

Galvis, Eaton, and Simmons are all good buys in my book. With saves and holds as separate categories, though, you had to get a closer, even at outrageous prices. Or, if you're not going to consciously spend on a closer (possibly a good call, given prices), you need to get in the SP mud before Urquidy or the OF mud before Calhoun and spend some serious cash.

Munoz and Giles - especially Giles, given his name recognition - was a slick move.

Urquidy was the SP mud. The available pitchers were Grienke $31, Kluber, $27 Paxton $22 and Taillon $29. Then it dropped to Garrett Richards, Robbie Ray, Quintana types.

I like Calhoun, but I agree that a better outfielder should have been had, I just got too timed in spending my money.

RotoLab still projects me to be in first, so there is that.