Had my auction today--it went really well except I saved some money late for a guy and the only team with $1 more nabbed him, leaving me with money on the table, which I hate. I landed Jose Ramirez and Marcus Semien at good values, but the thing that threw me early was I was bidding up Gausman just to move things along and I froze the room at a price that seems too good to be true. My league has a $400 budget, so the pricing won't translate, but he went way cheaper than Castillo, Valdez, and Nola, and just a little more than Fried. It seems my league really discounted for any kind of sp injury this year, but my read on Gausman is he should be fine. Did I not properly discount him? Even with the shoulder fatigue, I had him right behind Castillo as the 2nd best arm available in the auction, but Valdez and Nola both went for a good bit more and while Fried went for a little less and Musgrove and Sonny Gray went for a lot less, they all went for what I thought were good values too, with the extra bucks going to bid up sleepers like Puk.
I'm thinking all four of these guys got injury discounts, but my thoughts of Gausman before I landed him were that his injury risk was minimal. After, I began looking to see if recent trends line up with Gausman being moved behind Valdez and Nola and I did fine one guy down on him--our old forummate Paul Sporer has Guasman ranked 23, behind Valdez and Nola and just ahead of Fried and Gray, who also went for well below my projection. My league bidding basically lined right up with Paul's rankings. I feel good about getting Gausman, but my leageumates weren't impressed and it has me doubting myself. What does everyone else think about Gausman?
Besides feedback on Gausman, I wanted to post this as a heads up to others--don't bid up arms with any type of injury risky or you might land them! I was still well short of my projected value on Gausman but when I jumped up his bid $5, I got crickets. An example of price enforcing gone right, I hope.
I'm thinking all four of these guys got injury discounts, but my thoughts of Gausman before I landed him were that his injury risk was minimal. After, I began looking to see if recent trends line up with Gausman being moved behind Valdez and Nola and I did fine one guy down on him--our old forummate Paul Sporer has Guasman ranked 23, behind Valdez and Nola and just ahead of Fried and Gray, who also went for well below my projection. My league bidding basically lined right up with Paul's rankings. I feel good about getting Gausman, but my leageumates weren't impressed and it has me doubting myself. What does everyone else think about Gausman?
Besides feedback on Gausman, I wanted to post this as a heads up to others--don't bid up arms with any type of injury risky or you might land them! I was still well short of my projected value on Gausman but when I jumped up his bid $5, I got crickets. An example of price enforcing gone right, I hope.
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