AL Blockbuster

[virgonomic]

12 team AL 5X5. X contracts expire this year, the rest can be kept for 2016 (no extensions).

A dumping team is after Calhoun 25 and Britton 17. He also asked about Gibson 3.

He is peddling Vogt 1X, Boxberger 3X, WDavis 1X.

Give: Calhoun 26 Weeks 2 EEscobar 1 Gibson 3 Pomeranz 11 Britton 17 Fien 10
Get: Vogt 1X Reddick 14 Bogaerts 19 McCullers 13 Wandy 5 Box 1X Davis 1X

Saves are 48 34 30 28 (me), 26, 23, 17 so trading Britton isn't catastrophic.

SB are the only other category where I don't have much room to improve. W/K/Ratios are my biggest needs.

I'm 7th, 10 out of 4th (the money). Is this enough to go for it?

[overkill94]

Seems like you have your get/give backwards there

I think it's a pretty good deal for you. None of the guys you're giving up have keeper value and McCullers could be keepable at $13. As far as pure talent, you're only taking a minor downgrade at closer (assuming Box keeps the job)while improving your pitching and a minor improvement hitting-wise. Vogt is a very nice improvement over Phegley/Corporan and you definitely need the pitching upgrade (yikes!)

[virgonomic]

Seems like you have your get/give backwards there

Fixed. This is why I didn't buy any pitchers:

Felix 42 Price 35 Kluber 33 Shark 27 Gray 25 Anibal 23 Cobb 23 Quintana 21 Ventura 21 Smyly 20 Weaver 18 Archer 18 Tillman 17 Walker 16 Kazmir 15 Porcello 15 Gausman 15 Salazar 14 Hahn 13 Masterson 9

I'd be regretting buying half of those guys. My potential trading partner here just traded Quintana.

[virgonomic]

He traded Vogt/Davis so I proposed the following:

Give: Calhoun 26 Weeks 2 Gibson 3
Get: Bogaerts 19 McCullers 13 Wandy 5