this may be a record

[mjl]

it certainly is for our league, anyway.

12-team NL, auction tomorrow, one team is coming in with this keeper list:

Joey Votto $33
Casey McGehee $2
Hanley Ramirez $40
Angel Sanchez $2
Albert Pujols $43
Emilio Bonifacio $1
Ryan Braun $35
Matt Diaz $1
Hunter Pence $21

John Axford $3
Chad Billingsley $22
Madison Bumgarner $15
R.A. Dickey $2
Clay Hensley $2
Josh Johnson $21

8 players to go and $17 remaining.

[schlesinj]

Is he coming to the auction or letting a monkey fill out his roster?

[swampdragon]

Is he coming to the auction or letting a monkey fill out his roster?

He can show up 2 hours late.

Diaz?
Angel Sanchez?

why protect these guys?

[Ryno84MVP]

I went into an NL-only auction with $30 a few years needing something like 8 players and won the league. We had very high inflation that year, so going in with a fairly set roster worked to our advantage. Having money was a bad thing that year because there wasn't much quality to spend it on. We won the championship...

[Pauly]

this guy has votto, pujols, hanley, braun and pence! All he needs are scrubs for the offense anyway.

[YourPalChrisMal]

I went into an NL-only auction with $30 a few years needing something like 8 players and won the league. We had very high inflation that year, so going in with a fairly set roster worked to our advantage. Having money was a bad thing that year because there wasn't much quality to spend it on. We won the championship...

My NL-only league had a guy do this same thing about 10 years ago. I forget what it was, but something silly like $20 to spend on 9 players. The first guy he purchased was for $12, and then he had $8 to spend on 8 $1 players..........and wound up winning the league.

[mjl]

this guy has votto, pujols, hanley, braun and pence! All he needs are scrubs for the offense anyway.

Depends on the league format, I think... given that this is a 12-team NL only, the $1 players are going to be backups or players on the short end of platoons mostly. I don't know if (for example) Braun + Matt Diaz outperforms Chris Young and Jason Bay.

- Mike

[Hammer]

I am in a 12 team only where we can keep 15. One guy did and had $10 to spend on 8 players. His team has stars but is pitiful overall.

[mjl]

also, I talked to the guy who was doing this before the keeper lists were due, and the take-it-or-leave-it offer he made me was Pujols ($43, expiring) for either Rasmus or Stubbs (both $5 in option year) and either Freeman ($2 in option year) or Neil Walker ($5, second year). I decided that that sounded a little silly and that all things considered I was okay with one person having most of the hitting stars and sabotaging himself.

[Hammer]

Here were his buys

1 Zach Cox (minors so he loses him)
1 Reese Havens (minors so he loses him)
1 John Mayberry (minors so he loses him)
2 Thames
1 SaunderS
1 Enright
1 Chris Yong
1 Matt Lindstrom


Arroyo, Bronson(P) CIN 5
Garland, Jon(P) LA 1
Myers, Brett(P) HOU 5
Oswalt, Roy(P) PHI 21
Jansen, Kenley 7

Montero, Miguel(C) ARI 9
Posey, Buster(1B,C) SF 19
Pujols, Albert(1B) STL 47
Espinosa, Danny(2B) WAS 13
Ramirez, Hanley(SS) FLA 47
Huff, Aubrey(1B,OF) SF 23
Braun, Ryan(OF) MIL 42
Craig, Allen(OF) STL 5
Gomes, Jonny(OF) CIN 1
Neal, Thomas(OF) SF 5



So he needs to replace 3 bats


He came in with

[B-Fly]

also, I talked to the guy who was doing this before the keeper lists were due, and the take-it-or-leave-it offer he made me was Pujols ($43, expiring) for either Rasmus or Stubbs (both $5 in option year) and either Freeman ($2 in option year) or Neil Walker ($5, second year). I decided that that sounded a little silly and that all things considered I was okay with one person having most of the hitting stars and sabotaging himself.

I'm not sure he's sabotaged himself. That's a potentially winning NL only roster, assuming he spends his remaining $17 wisely. He doesn't just have hitting stars. In a 12-team league, he's got three SPs who could easily be top-15/20 guys plus a $3 closer. Add back in that he's got four of the top six hitters plus Pence and McGehee and that's a dominant core of studs. I'm not sure I'd have kept Diaz, Sanchez and Hensley, but they're defensible end-gamers in an only-league and probably just as good as whoever he'd otherwise get to finish off his roster.

[gcstomp]

That core of players is amazing for a 12 tm NL. And no ugly overspends to speak of, just monster players and fair salaries. I dont think he screwed up at all, assuming it is a league with any kind of normal trading activity, he will be in great shape.

[Hammer]

especially with the inevitable inflation coming in this auction I would say he is stacked nicely.

[Erik]

1 John Mayberry (minors so he loses him)

Uh, no. Mayberry made the team and had the GW pinch-hit yesterday.

[Judge Jude]

"I'm not sure I'd have kept Diaz, Sanchez and Hensley, but they're defensible end-gamers in an only-league and probably just as good as whoever he'd otherwise get to finish off his roster."

I'd have kept Diaz in his shoes, but not Sanchez or Hensley. But yeah, it probably doesn't make much difference. If there is a bidding frenzy - probably for offense, since he took so many of the best - that only expands his edge. Also, the easier it is to slash-and-burn scrubs in this league, the better this approach is.