RJ PONY Auction

[joncarlos]

Next 2 rounds

31 Yelich 14
32 Sale 29
33 Price 27
34 Choo 32
35 Y Molina 22
36 Kinsler 21
37 Aramis 23
38 M Carpenter 27
39 K Jansen 24
40 Kemp 26
41 Papelbon 13
42 J Weaver 19
43 Panda 19
44 B Butler 21
45 Balfour 15
46 N Cruz 25
47 Anibal 21
48 Andrus 26
49 Bourn 18
50 Rajai 12
51 Ajax 21
52 Greinke 25
53 Lucroy 17
54 Grandy 21
55 Teix 11
56 Dickey 9
57 Rasmus 9
58 Zobrist 17
59 C Hart 9
60 Hamels 12

[joncarlos]

Breaking for lunch. I'm out of money. Some people have a lot.

61 Gee 6
62 J Abreu 32
63 S Castro 18
64 Swisher 12
65 M Ozuna 4
66 Liriano 15
67 N Walker 11
68 J Zimm 21
69 Pierzynski 9
70 Wieters 17
71 Latos 16
72 R Martin 5
73 Markakis 8
74 Morneau 10
75 J Shields 20
76 Morrow 3
77 M Cain 25
78 Alexei Ramirez 14
79 C Crawford 12
80 Cueto 15
81 Napoli 18
82 Gardner 18
83 Salty 6
84 W Castillo 6
85 Victorino 21
86 A De Aza 14

[Don Quixote]

Haven't bought a pitcher yet today. My team sucks--computer says I'm in 14th out of 15.

[joncarlos]

76 players to go, and half will be pitchers.

[joncarlos]

Lots of bargains now.

87 Reddick 11
88 M Montero 11
89 A Cabrera 15
90 Jim Johnson 10
91 Tillman 10
92 Gallardo 4
93 Lind 7
94 BJ Upton 13
95 Minor 9
96 E Aybar 10
97 Sabathia 9
98 H Kendrick 13
99 Zunino 7
100 A Simmons 19
101 L Lynn 10
102 Masterson 11
103 A Guerrero 8
104 N Jones 7
105 N Feliz 7
106 K Johnson 11
107 Jh Peralta 3
108 Aoki 12
109 Eaton 14
110 Grossman 5
111 Laroche 13
112 Lincecum 10
113 AJ Ellis 2
114 AJ Burnett 6
115 R Howard 15
116 Rollins 10
117 Arenado 17
118 Rodney 8
119 Haren 7
120 Pagan 14
121 Ruggiano 3
122 Byrd 7
123 Loney 2
124 Kazmir 8
125 Grandal 7
126 Saunders 3
127 Peavy 4
128 C Ruiz 5
129 Ervin 8
130 D Gordon 2
131 CJ Wilson 6
132 Dominguez 6
133 Infante 6
134 Moustakas 12
135 C Johnson 8

[joncarlos]

Some really reasonable pitcher prices there. I like Latos at $16 a lot and Tanaka at $18, too. Zimmerman and Shields at $21 and $20 are pretty cheap rotation anchors. Odd that Kenley Jansen went for more than any of them. Hell, Kershaw at $34 is pretty nice, too.

It appears like you guys have less inflation than the RJEL. I wonder how that is....

How many teams and how much do minor leaguers cost?

15 teams. Minor leaguers are $5 once activated but guys like Hamilton are still in the minors and free. We also let teams buy farm guys on MLB contracts which makes the farm systems a little less impressive but also boosts inflation when someone hits a guy like Trout and locks him up forever.

[joncarlos]

Just a thought...

Spoiler!

There will be a lot of money left on the table.

[Sharky]

Carlos Gomez go yet? Is this 5x5?

[joncarlos]

Gomez was kept.

[Erik]

Hamels 12 is either going to be one if the league's best bargains or a headache for his owner all year.

[heyelander]

Hamels 12 is either going to be one if the league's best bargains or a headache for his owner all year.

I bought Kemp too

[Don Quixote]

A total of $83 was left on the table, five and a half dollars per owner. I left no money out there--and have a sh**ty team. My computer's program has me in 14th and I'm surprised I'm that high up.

[mjl]

In any kind of keeper league, Hamels 12 is pretty nice.

[joncarlos]

This isn't quite all of it because it started going too fast for me to write down, but here goes.

136 Castellanos 10
137 Ackley 3
138 Melky 5
139 G Soto 3
140 I Nova 5
141 Joyce 2
142 I Kennedy 4
143 D Navarro 3
144 Miley 6
145 Ike 1
146 Jaso 2
147 Arcia 11
148 Jeter 1
149 Moreland 1
150 Ethier 1
151 WY Chen 1
152 Avila 1
153 Henderson 11
154 Garza 5
155 Nava 6
156 Axford 5
157 T Hudson 1
158 Alonso 6
159 T Hunter 1
160 Asche 5
161 J Garcia 1
162 Smyly 11
163 Lohse 1
164 E Johnson 3
165 A Wood 11
166 Mesoraco 4
167 C Allen 1
168 Josh Johnson 12
169 R Weeks 1
170 Doumit 1
171 Morse 1
172 Colon 1
173 Beckett 2
174 Quentin 1
175 J Soria 7
176 Niese 1
177 G Parra 1
178 H Santiago 1
179 Smoak 1
180 Lackey 3
181 Benoit 1
182 Pinto 1
183 Nolasco 1

[joncarlos]

It was an interesting auction. As DQ noted, a lot of owners left money on the table, which seems to be the way that PONY folks deal with inflation.

I saved my last few dollars until the very end, so I had the hammer to top the last few picks. Unfortunately I worked a little too hard to keep the hammer and passed up a few interesting guys. I used my hammer on a $2 Nate Eovaldi but I did get G Parra, Cody Allen and Jose Veras for a buck each.