2017 AL LABR Auction results

[Moonlight J]

http://rtsports.com/labr-al-auction

[Ken]

http://rtsports.com/labr-al-auction

Interesting to see Altuve go for $45 with Trout only $42, and Betts $39.

[Moonlight J]

I remember being stunned in AL Tout when Altuve went $43 last year. I had budgeted $38 for him and went to $40 but then bowed out

[Moonlight J]

Fulmer at $12 is the best SP buy so far. Compare him to a $17 Gausman??

[mgwiz22]

Fulmer at $12 is the best SP buy so far. Compare him to a $17 Gausman??

I think Zimmerman at 5 is a very good risk.

[rhd]

2 names jumped out at me:

- $11 Jharel Cotton?? Someone must have accidentally hit the '1' key twice.

- $20 Tim Anderson?? WAY too much risk for that price.

[SlideRule]

Funny that the "good" Fulmer buy and "bad" Cotton buy went to the same team.

Papelbon!?

[mjl]

2 names jumped out at me:

- $11 Jharel Cotton?? Someone must have accidentally hit the '1' key twice.

- $20 Tim Anderson?? WAY too much risk for that price.

heh, I had already guessed that Eno at FG had bought Cotton. He loves that guy.

[mjl]

Gausman did have a better xFIP and one more K/9 than Fulmer last season, so that's not nothing.

Moncada for $14 is nuts, and I was about to say that I liked that team anyway but they have a decent shot at getting 500 total innings and zero saves from their pitching staff.

[TranaGreg]

2 names jumped out at me:

- $11 Jharel Cotton?? Someone must have accidentally hit the '1' key twice.

- $20 Tim Anderson?? WAY too much risk for that price.

I don't know if it's the case here but often prices like this reflect money management issues, not player value (ie a couple of teams had too much money left at the end of the auction)

[Moonlight J]

Eno has been singing Cotton's praises for a long time and believes in him quite a bit.

I like Anderson a lot, but I would have been out if someone beat me to $15. He can have a nice compiling season, but he could also end up back here in Charlotte is he is awful out of the gate.

[Moonlight J]

Gausman did have a better xFIP and one more K/9 than Fulmer last season, so that's not nothing.

Moncada for $14 is nuts, and I was about to say that I liked that team anyway but they have a decent shot at getting 500 total innings and zero saves from their pitching staff.

Gausman's DRA last year: 3.56
Fulmer's DRA last year: 3.51

Season	IP	TBF	HR	AVG	OBP	SLG
2013	24	99	3	0.2796	0.326531	0.445652
2014	46.1	189	3	0.2626	0.301587	0.36
2015	52	224	12	0.2749	0.316964	0.526316
2016	93.2	414	17	0.2842	0.345499	0.466667

Let's not forget Gausman still has terrible problems against righties and has not yet come up with a new pitch to couteract that problem. The AL East is loaded with good righty hitters.

[Moonlight J]

Here is the sequential order of bids from last night: https://t.co/YsrjYYcIVB

[Sharky]

Thanks for posting all of the info, J!

[cool hand]

The LABR AL auction is quietly one of my favorite sports related days of the year. It marks the beginning of my serious draft prep.
Auction calculators are nice, but there is no substitute for seeing actual prices paid in a knowledgeable auction. Love it.