Your best and worst buys

[Ryno84MVP]

Not including any of your retained players, who were your best and worst buys of this auction season?

From my 12-team 5x5 NL-only and AL-only league auctions yesterday…

BEST - $3 - Colby Lewis - the only player that I targeted going into the auction, very minimal risk for a potential big return both in the second half of this year and long-term

WORST - $15 - John Axford - only other closer available was Soriano ($24), I try not to put too much weight into one week of stats, but maybe I should have gone for Fujikawa ($13) instead

[Erik]

10-team hybrid league (using some AL teams, some NL teams), essentially equivalent to a 12-to-14-team mixed value-wise. 5x5 with OBP.

$75 cap instead of $260, bids in quarter increments instead of dollar increments.

BEST -- $.50 -- Mark Reynolds. Yes, he strikes out a ton, but there's no extra penalty for that and he's better at OBP than AVG. You don't let the bidding on a 30-HR guy stop here.

WORST -- $1.50 -- Jhonny Peralta. He's extremely "meh" at this point. This was about 3/4 of the way through the auction and I was getting nervous about filling the MI slot, but it turned out there were equivalent or better MIs who went for less or weren't even drafted.

[Judge Jude]

BEST - Hamels 35 and Phillips 28 in a wildly inflated NL-only auction

WORST - maybe Headley 24, as reduction to 15 NL teams left me replacing him for a month or more with ..... Lillibridge (blows chunks)

[Gregg]

Good idea for a post.

The purchase I am least happy about (but needed at the time) is Alexi Amarista $10.

I actually have a player that goes is going from my worst to best and back about every ten minutes. I bought Lincecum for $15.

[Rush]

AL 4x4
Best
My last two pitchers.
Iwakuma $1 - Still can't figure this one out. Must have been Seattle bias.
Pettitte $1 - I know why no one else bid on him - the other owners were giving me a bad time the moment I said his name, that he'd get hurt right away, that the Yankees were going to terrible, etc.

[TranaGreg]

AL 4x4
Best
My last two pitchers.
Iwakuma $1 - Still can't figure this one out. Must have been Seattle bias.
Pettitte $1 - I know why no one else bid on him - the other owners were giving me a bad time the moment I said his name, that he'd get hurt right away, that the Yankees were going to terrible, etc.

wow, Iwakuma went for $11 in my AL league & many of us (with no money left) thought that was a big bargain.

for me, I didn't really get any good bargains; price enforcement was in full effect, and with big inflation I was just happy to get players around cost. Probably my favourite buys are speculative picks in the end game - I got both Carter Capps & Josh Fields for 2 & 4. Would love to see one (or both) get the jobs for next season.

re: worst buys, probably Andrus at 27. I really wanted him ... probably a bit too much.

[joncarlos]

15-team mixed: Too easy to say that spending $32 on Hanley was a mistake, since I did it before he got hurt. Michael Brantley at $2 was probably the worst because it filled my UT spot and cost me some better players. Or spending $24 on Mo Rivera when I didn't really need a closer (since traded for Brandon Phillips, though). Best purchase was probably Trevor Rosenthal for a buck.

12-team NL only: Colin Cowgill for $9 might be the best, liked Cody Ross for $17 too but he needs to get back on the field first. Worst was probably Jordany Valdespin for $13, I thought he was the last guy with a job, but the Mets had other ideas and he doesn't actually have a job.

[wombat104]

12 Team, AL-Only, 5x5 scoring, low to moderate inflation
Best: Colby Lewis $2, Mark Trumbo $16
Worst: Nolan Reimold $17 (that darn +$1 button is just so easy to hit in the heat of bidding)

16 Team, Mixed, 6x6 (HR, R, SB, RBI, OBP, SLG, QS, K, ERA, K/BB, Save+Holds, WHIP), high inflation
Best: A. Caberera $22, E. Jackson $3
Worst: Brett Gardner $31, Chase Utley $23 (if he gets 500 AB's then it moves to the best, until then it is all risk)

[JudeBaldo]

RJEL: Brett Wallace for $8. I hate myself for this. I'm happy I bought CC but shouldn't have done it for $35.
NL-only: I wish I bought more starters.

[Ryno84MVP]

12 Team, AL-Only, 5x5 scoring, low to moderate inflation
Best: Colby Lewis $2, Mark Trumbo $16
Worst: Nolan Reimold $17 (that darn +$1 button is just so easy to hit in the heat of bidding)

I'm trying to figure out how this happens...Reimold went for more than Trumbo?

[Gregg]

I'm trying to figure out how this happens...Reimold went for more than Trumbo?

My guess would be Mark Trumbo early. Late gamers with money. Reimold best player late in the game?

[Bostonianboy]

AL Only 10 team Auction/keeper (some inflation)
Best: Morse $20, Herrera $1, Hammel $3
Worst: Andrus $23 , Blanton $3

Mixed 11 Team Auction/Keeper
Best: Harvey $5, Cobb $5, Fujikawa $1, Belt $1
Worst: Howie Kendrick $16, Felix Hernandez $28 (got caught price enforcing)

[Erik]

RJEL: Brett Wallace for $8. I hate myself for this.

I suspect the same will be said by anyone who bought him for any price in any format.

[Ryno84MVP]

My reserve round pickup of Daniel Nava (to replace my questionable addition of a $7 A-Rod) is looking pretty good so far

[SlideRule]

AL 10-team.

I was happy (and surprised) with my $7 Jeter at the time, but now I'm starting to hate that pick more and more...

I like my $20 Lester - was willing to go to $25.
I like my $7 Jannsen
I like my $7 Brantley

I hate my $14 Jason Castro. Yes, $14 - too much money left and nobody to spend it on.
I also hate my $5 Brett Wallace. I expected more but already can tell that's going to be a bust.
$4 Drew Stubbs was cheap but already he has pretty much sucked.