trade advice

[bryanbutler]

our keeper deadline is sunday, and i have a decent crop (posted earlier for advice - thanks again ), but am a bit heavy in power and light in speed.

another owner has offered his Everth Cabrera at $1 for my Eric Hosmer at $4, both in their option years.

i turned down his offer initially, but he has sent another query, and i'm wondering if other folks here agree with my initial rejection, or whether i should reconsider.

FWIW, it's a deep league (12 GMs, 17 ML teams taken from both AL and NL) with hitting categories: R, RBI, SB-CS, OBA, EBA.

[Sour Masher]

You were right the first time. Try to find speed in the auction. EC for Hosmer is not a fair swap at those prices. If you really want EC, maybe you can work out a 2 for 2 where you get more value back, but 1 for 1, you can't pull the trigger.

[mjl]

man, I thought I knew baseball. What is EBA? Expected batting average?

[bryanbutler]

thanks for the responses. i tried to make some adjustments to the trade, with different players thrown in, etc., but he didn't go for any of them. i'll stand pat with hosmer.

for mjl, EBA = Extra Base Average = EB/AB. branch rickey's original article explaining the advantage of OBA over BA also explained the advantage of using EBA (although he calls it "Extra Base Power") - and used the combination of the two, presaging OPS. see http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/...o_old_idea.htm (the original article was in Life magazine in 1954).