Your best and worst buys

[madducks]

In my 14 team mixed.

Best buys:
Fujikawa $2
Homer Bailey $4
Carlos Ruiz $1
Garza $4

Worst buy:
Johan Santana $6

Another manager in my league spent $27 on Oscar Tavaras. To put it in perspective he had $27 and one bench spot left to fill on his roster and several people (including me) had more money left than him at this point. I guess he expected someone to outbid him but his opening bid was met with crickets. I wasn't about to spend that kind of cash for less than 3 months from a rookie.

[cool hand]

AL 10
is it bad to say i was happy with every drafted player? seems normal this early in the game. this would be a whole different thread by june.
paid too much for miggy @ $48, but i could afford it and how can you be unhappy with miggs?
paid $22 for morse - would have had him $5 cheaper if he didnt have the huge spring.
paid $13 for a.ramirez - fair price.
ellsbury went a bit high @$31 - but i had him in '11 and he's worth every penny if he stays healthy.
LOVE my end game pitchers - $1 al al, $1 d.holland, $2 j.mcgee (although jakey looked a bit shakey last week)
the only mild regrets that i have are $1 smoak & $1 bradleyjr - and only because i had enough money to buy someone better. i rolled the dice on their $1 contracts solely because i like them. (i've rostered smoak three times @$1... sooner or later it has to pay off, no??)
now, ask me how i feel about these picks in june/july and i might have a different answer...

[wombat104]

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

Bingo, I targeted Reimold but got caught in a bidding war with an O's fan.

[bryanbutler]

my league is equivalent to an 11-team only, but we have mixed AL and NL. 5x5 keeper league (about 30% inflation) with some some modified categories: SB-CS, OBA, and XBA for hitting; SV-BS+Ho/2 for pitching.

best: brandon belt at $19. not necessarily because of his price outright, but at the point he came up in the auction, he was the *only* quality left at 1B, several GMs still had holes at either 1B or CI, and my projections had him at an inflated $27 anyway.

worst: darwin barney at $6. there was absolutely nothing left in the MI, and i had a few $ to spare near the end-game. still, not happy with that purchase. i should have just got a warm body and spent more on my setup guys. and i'm even less happy with my FAAB pickup of lillibridge as his replacement. sheesh.

[bweiser831]

When all is said and done I like

Matt Adams - $1
Trevor Rosenthal - $1
Evan Gattis - $4

in my NL-only 10-team league.

[ThatRogue]

12 Team 5x5 (OBP) NL-only, 25 active 12 reserves $280 budget with high inflation:

Best: I don't love any of my purchases, but I'm happiest with Choo at $37. A 20/20 leadoff hitter with .390-ish OBP moves to a hitter's ballpark and a very good surrounding lineup.

Worst: Tyler Colvin at $9. One of my fellow owners kept "talking down" every player he wanted before bidding an extra $1 on them, and I kind of got tired of it. He was chasing Colvin cheaply so I priced enforced him $1 more than I should have, and I wound up missing out on three end-game pitchers I really liked.

[ThatRogue]

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.

$22 combined for Cowgill and Valdespin? I knew you were a closet Mets fan.

[Long John]

15 team mixed 5x5
Best: tough call here because it's still really early - Maybe getting Mark Reynolds for $3 as my end game Util guy.
Worst: Ike Davis $29 - I had plenty of money (probably too much) at the time and needed a 1B that could get me 30 HRs. Time will tell.

[gcstomp]

NL 12TO, with bench,
Best: Wilson Ramos $8, Travis Wood $2, the pair of Crawford $34 + Choo $39 seemed shockingly high but I am very glad I posted high bid.
Worst: M Scutaro $22, D Dejesus $14 both look to be huge flops in the early going

[hacko]

I been pretty Happy picking John Buck off the waiver wire - so far

[Moonlight J]

Josh Johnson - $12, Stephen getting Evan Gattis for $3 for me this weekend
purchasing any Oakland middle infielder (Nakajima $8, Weeks $4)

[Moonlight J]

Is it too late to add a $12 Josh Johnson to this list?

asshole killing my ratios

[SlideRule]

Hah, yeah - was Johnson on your "best buy" list here as of this morning? Ouch.

[mjl]

10-team NL-only 5x5:
best: Ramos $8, I guess? I don't have anyone else that I bought at auction that is actually overperforming. Ugh. At least most of my keepers have been decent.
worst: Haren $11 unless he's decent tonight, otherwise Votto $53 until he remembers how to hit for power

12-team mixed 5x5:
best: Ramos $1, Morse $4, Samardzija $8
worst: Marmol $1, Rondon $4, Hanley $20 (probably too much given the injury)