From: cabanrf@wkuvx1.bitnet
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball.fantasy
Subject: Re: More trade ideas
Date: 27 Jan 93 22:22:13 GMT
Organization: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY

In article <44066@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, demers@cs.ucsd.edu (David DeMers) writes:
> OK, thanks for everyone who has advised me on various
> trades - here's some more.
> 
> I probably have the second or third strongest winter roster.  
> The league is NL only; BA, SLG, R+RBI, SB-CS; ERA, WHIP, 2W-L, S.
> 
> It will be hard to win the league; one owner just has a rockpile 
> (Finley, Lankford & Reggie Sanders at $10 each, Alou at $1, 
> Larry Walker at $15, Sheffield at $21 [no cheap sleeper in our 
> league!], Schilling and Tewksbury at $1 each, Ken Hill at $3...)

Concur, $72 and good value.

> 
> I have Rijo $26, Barnes $1, Sid Fernandez $8, Harnisch $2,
> Wild Thing $18, Beck $1 and Assenmacher $7 for pitching;
> Oliver $4, Berryhill $5, Karros $10, Colbrunn $10, Pena $5,
> Morandini $1, Dunston $15, Gant $17, Luis Gonzalez $5, Daryl
> Boston $3, Mark Leonard $1,
> and the rights to Pedro Martinez (LA) for $1 in 1993, $10 1994. 

The last week or so's thread on value on r.s.b. really has relevance 
for this, you might want to review it.

> 
> So, starting pitching is good, relief is good, undervalued players
> everywhere but a lot of parttimers (Morandini, Colbrunn, Boston)
> and a couple of non-keepers.
> 
I might disagree as to the value/worth of your relief pitching.  3.78
ERA for Wiliams and perinneal control problems make me leary of him. 
Rumor has it that Assenmacher is being shopped.  That leaves yu with
Beck (the best of the lot IMO)  Still, I don't think it's a strength.

> In the auction will be only Mark Grace & stiffs at 1B (well,
> Conine & Destrade, but who will get the most playing time?),
> Biggio at 2B, junk at SS (Larkin is at $38), lots of big sticks
> in the OF (Bonilla, Straw, Otis Nixon (ok, no stick but big feet),
> the AL players, and tons of pitching (Dibble, Myers, Franco;
> Saberhagen, Drabek, Smiley, Swindell, many more.).
> 
> If I toss back Rijo & cut Leonard & maybe Dunston & Colbrunn,
> I have $38 on 7 pitchers (4 SP, 3 RP) and $60 on 7 hitters
> (2 C, 1B, 2 2B, 3 OF), leaving me $162 to spend on 2 pitchers,
> a 3B, a corner, a SS, 2OF and a UTL.  I'd like to pick up Kevin
> Young, but he might be hyped.  4 other owners need a 3B; three
> owners have two solid 3B each.  
> 
> The main problem as I see it is that I may go into the auction
> with too much money - if I get Dibble for $40 and Roberto Kelly
> for $30 and Gwynn for $30, I still have $63 for 5 players. 
> I'd like to keep $1 at the end for a pitcher I expect to
> be a bargain, so $62 for an OF, a SS and 2 corners.  That must
> be Grace and, say, Alex Cole or Nigel Wilson :-) and maybe
> Dunston...
> 
> If I keep Rijo and Dunston, I'm down to $121 left, but have a 
> helluva starting rotation and all my middle infield.  
> 
> 
> So, I'm thinking of trying to trade some $1 players
> for big sticks.  I've offered Barnes, Morandini and Berryhill
> for Cordero at $10 and Dykstra at $32.  Dykstra is worth about
> his salary and Cordero is probably worth $15; Barnes and 
> Morandini are undervalued but not by that much.  Berryhill is
> overpriced at $5, IMO.  He wants Oliver instead of Berryhill,
> and I think I'm going to take it.

OK, don't bet on Olson being over that broke leg so Berryhill should
get some PT early.

> 
> The Larry Walker deal is still in negotiation.  I countered
> with Pena and Dunston for Walker (at $15, but for 1993 only),
> and wants to add Morandini and Harnisch for Ken Hill at $3.
> I think Hill & Harnisch are a wash, and don't want to give
> up Pena, Dunston AND Morandini for Walker.  There just aren't
> that many MIs in the auction, and I'd like to not have to spend
> $30 for Biggio...  But Walker is a big bat with speed...
> probably worth about $30-$35 in our league.

You might try colbrunn & dunston & Morandini for Walker
I don't think yu can get rid of all your MI for Walker, though he IS
good.
> 
> Any comments?  Will Clark is being shopped,but he's at $45
> and the owner wants something like Pena, Harnisch, Gonzalez
> and Boston for him.  Bonds is at $42 and his owner won't consider
> a trade; similarly for McGriff at $42 - unobtainable.
> There aren't a lot of undervalued players other than those
> already mentioned.  Grissom at $20, Bip at $12, Maddux at $13,
> Hollins at $10, Justice at $30, Zeile at $15, Bagwell at $16,
> maybe Morris at $20, Pendleton at $6, Wetteland at $15,
> Caminiti at $6, Deshields at $20, Avery at $4 and maybe
> Blauser at $13.  Since we have to keep a minimum of 10, that
> means that people will be keeping, say, Wohlers at $10,
> Brian Jordan at $10, Chico Walker at $3, Pecota at $10,
> Bream at $13 and the like just to make their rosters full.
> 
> In addition, we only added one owner - so there are only 11
> of us chasing the available players.  That means that I
> really want to get an everyday player everywhere.  I inherited
> a last place team and finished 7th, then 8th with major injuries
> (Davis, Dunston, many more... one week had 12 players on the DL)
> and would like to finish in the money this time - preferably
> second or first...
> 
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