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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2012 23:14:01 GMT -5
My 5 tentative keepers:
Dustin Pedroia (2, 2nd) Adrian Beltre (2, 3rd) Jered Weaver (2, 4th) Ian Kennedy (2, 17th) Ricky Romero (2, 18th)
Almost 100% certain these are my final keepers.
Keeping 3 young, stud starting pitchers makes it extremely easy for me to forget about drafting starting pitcher for basically the first 10-13 rounds or so.
And getting to hold onto two top 3 players at shallow-ish positions is great.
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Post by NoPepperGames on Feb 7, 2012 23:47:15 GMT -5
And we're off!!
Nice core set of players Anthony.
Note to league: As Anthony mentions...if you post keepers before the official due date, you are free to change them at any time up until they are due.
Also, an additional note...when posting your keepers, please post the round you are keeping them, as well as the time left on the players contract AS OF RIGHT NOW (not including 2012). In other words, if you are keeping a guy that your team had in 2010 and 2011, then he has 1 year remaining on his contract. In that case, please indicate "1 year" next to his keeper draft position. Thanks. New guys, if you can't figure that out for your guys, I can help you. It's definitely something you should be considering when choosing keepers, though.
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Post by playerx3d on Feb 8, 2012 14:11:59 GMT -5
My tentative Keepers for 2012
Verlander (Round 4, 2) Strasburg (Round 22, 2) Bautista (Round 23, 1) Hosmer (Round 24, 2) Lawrie (Round 25, 2)
Hosmer and Lawrie are FA pickups from this previous season and slot into my final 3 positions. Verlander was my #4 pick last season. Strasburg was drafted in Round 22, and Bautista rides out his last season on my squad as a 21st Rounder FA pickup from our inaugural year.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2012 18:17:43 GMT -5
I thought that, even though he was dropped, the decision for Wainwright was that he was going to be kept based on round drafted?
I could be wrong, it has been quite some time since that discussion took place (middle of the season when he was picked up, even though he was a keeper coming into the draft).
Anyway to 100% clarify the situation?
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Post by playerx3d on Feb 8, 2012 20:04:27 GMT -5
Wow. Wish I had realized that before I held onto him for the entire season. I will Modify my post. I was on the fence about this one anyway.
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Post by arch on Feb 9, 2012 13:24:37 GMT -5
Probable keepers for 2012
Tulo (rnd 2, 1) Kershaw (rnd 6, 1) Panda (rnd 8, 2) Kimbrel (rnd 15, 2) Stanton (rnd 21, 1)
Championship year, baby! I kinda wanted to keep The Donkey, but really have no room for him. Tulo, Kershaw and Stanton are locks (last seasons, oh the sadness), Panda is huge value (monitoring his weight reports, so hopefully no pun intended) and how am I not gonna keep a top closer this late ? Kimbrel has probably the least value given our format, but I'm going elite closing material this year. That's right, Mo in the 4th.
Now I just have to hope for no season-long injury to my 1st rounder or season ending injury to my elite keepers before we even start...(don't jinx it, don't jinx it, don't jinx it)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2012 13:43:26 GMT -5
Tentative Keepers
Justin Upton (1, 2nd) Andrew McCutchen (1, 7th) Starlin Castro (1, 24th) Jordan Zimmermann (2, 15th) Evan Longoria (1, 1st)
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Post by NoPepperGames on Feb 9, 2012 14:34:15 GMT -5
Tentative Keepers Justin Upton (1, 2nd) Andrew McCutchen (1, 7th) Starlin Castro (1, 24th) Jordan Zimmermann (2, 15th) Evan Longoria (1, 1st) Sweet set of keepers. No way this team should have finished in 8th last year...and I have no idea why this team would have been abandoned.
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Post by johnwhorfin on Feb 10, 2012 9:46:25 GMT -5
I am only keeping 3 players: Roy Halladay (2nd, 1) Adrian Gonzalez (3rd, 1) CJ Wilson (15th, 2) This may change, as Scherzer is a nice deal at the cost of a 9th round pick, but that would go against my philosophy of not keeping pitchers for the most part unless they are an absolute stud ace or a real bargain.
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Post by tvaclavek on Feb 10, 2012 14:49:17 GMT -5
My team sucks pretty hard but at least I have Pujols...
Pujols 1, 1st Lester 1, 4th Napoli 2, 8th Gardner 2, 24th Avila 2, 25th
These are subject to change but that is what Im feeling right now.
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Post by NoPepperGames on Feb 10, 2012 15:07:18 GMT -5
My team sucks pretty hard but at least I have Pujols... Pujols 1, 1st Lester 1, 4th Napoli 2, 8th Gardner 2, 24th Avila 2, 25th These are subject to change but that is what Im feeling right now. I kinda don't think this sucks. Maybe not top of the line awesome, but it's something to work with for sure, IMO.
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Post by chanwise on Feb 11, 2012 17:34:49 GMT -5
Question...if you have a player that you decide not to keep and you end up re-drafting him in another round, would that be considered a restart of the 3 years from then on or would the previous year that you had him count if you picked him up through draft and/or FA?
Hopefully that makes sense...
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Post by NoPepperGames on Feb 11, 2012 19:10:36 GMT -5
Question...if you have a player that you decide not to keep and you end up re-drafting him in another round, would that be considered a restart of the 3 years from then on or would the previous year that you had him count if you picked him up through draft and/or FA? Hopefully that makes sense... As soon as a player becomes available to the rest of the league via being dropped or not kept, his contract is terminated. Were you to redraft such a player, a fresh 3-year contract would begin. Now, I do see potential loopholes in such a rule. For example, this year Jack is drafting first. He could conceivably decide not to keep his 1st rounder from last year (Hanley) and then keep 5 other guys and simply redraft Hanley in the #1 spot, get a new contract for him, and effectively have 6 keepers for the year. Such are the benefits of finishing in last place, right, Jack? I'm kidding. There is also the loophole whereby someone drops someone of middling value toward the end of the season and re-adds them after they pass through waivers so that the player's value is potentially increased when kept in later rounds. This case I'm not as worried about since everyone has a clear shot at that player. So perhaps we need a rule to limit the first scenario from happening? I kinda feel that that's getting a bit too "rule-y" if you know what I mean. We don't want to end up with 20 pages of rules. The circumstances where doing something like that makes sense for a manager are somewhat limited IMO. If other league members have concerns about this subject, we could start a poll and potentially have a new rule.
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Post by chanwise on Feb 11, 2012 19:24:31 GMT -5
I'm okay with the first rule. I just wanted clarification on whether the contracts restarted due to a drop/not kept. So if the rule is once the player becomes available to the rest of the league, he's new blood essentially and a new contract is made. I'm good with that. Yeah, I agree that we don't need any more rules since that makes sense. It just helps me decide on my keepers now :-)
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Post by NoPepperGames on Feb 11, 2012 20:15:45 GMT -5
My tentative keepers include: Prince Fielder 1, 1st Robinson Cano 1, 4th Mat Latos 1, 23rd Michael Morse 2, 24th Desmond Jennings 2, 25th Here's to praying Braun's suspension doesn't get overturned! Decided to forgo Braun's final year due to the impending suspension. It's a gamble...but I feel I've mitigated that by adding big Prince. This also allows me to play Morse in the OF where his bat plays better rather than at 1B. Cano in the 4th is a no-brainer. Pitching may end up being a dilemma...we'll see how it unfolds! Good luck to whomever ends up with Brauny. He should be a nice keeper for the next 3 years.
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