From: hankwong@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Y. Wong)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball.fantasy
Subject: Re: Top Picks, Trades, and etc.
Date: 8 Oct 1992 00:12:30 GMT
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In article <ahn-031092210718@branford-college-node.net.yale.edu> ahn@pop.cis.yale.edu (Eugene R. Ahn) writes:
>I'm running an NL rotisserie league and just wanted to bring up some sweet
>picks and trades that occurred. Perhaps others would like to share their
>duds and "I knew he was going to be good (jaah!)" picks.
[...]
>Picked up Doug Jones for a $1. Knew he would get saves (expecting 15), but
>11 wins and 35 saves and a sub 2.00 ERA! Thanks to Doug, I won the saves
>category with only two closers, Lee Smith (41) and Doug. Closest behind 76
>is 65.

After failing dismally last year for two teams in our league (one of them was
mine)  Doug Jones was the joke of my league and the reason I finished last
in ERA last year.  However, with him going to Houston in the offseason, I 
figured he would have a good chance to re-establish himself on a team w/o
a closer.  So I took a deep breath... and drafted him this yearin the second
round of the MINOR LEAGUE draft.  Believe me, there were some chuckles, but
I'm the one laughing now.

Other good acquistions for me were:

Mike Deveraux:  Picked him in the teen rounds of the MINOR LEAGUE draft.
What a year he had.  Too bad I traded him though before he got hot.

Chris Hoiles:  I had a hunch about this guy, picked him up like in the 20th
round of our minor league draft, and traded him for Mike Mussina after his
stupendous April.

John Smoltz:  Most of my fellow owners thought I was psycho for picking this
psycho (therapy-needing ) guy in the sixth round of the Major League draft,
but it turned out his good second half last year was not a fluke.

Pedro Munoz:  Good solid year for someone I picked up in the 24th (next to
last) round of the minor league draft.

Tony Fernandez:  Can you believe I got him in the 25th round of the minor
league draft????
>Serious DUDS! Paul O'Neill. Acck! Sure, I hear he can't hit lefties, but
>still, he never was THIS bad. 
>
>Bret Saberhagen. Right after I picked him someone told me, are you sure
>about that? You just picked the man with the evenyearitis! Sure enough, he
>gets the mysterious finger injury. 
>
	Yeah, I had the misfortune of trading for him in August, only to see
him go on the DL afterwards.  Fortunately, he did have a couple of quality
starts in September that made the difference for me (I finished 4th in ERA
0.01 ahead of the fifth place team)

My Duds were:

Glenn Davis:  Ouch.  I picked him in the 3rd round of our major league
draft, only to watch him go on the Dl and then sit on the bench for half the
year.

Tommy Greene:  Lost year due to injury.  I hope to protect him for next
year, though- the guy sure has potential.

Orel Hershiser:  Guess he isnt quite back from his injury yet.

Randy Johnson:  Enuff' said.
>
>--
>Eugene "Mos Eisley" Ahn     ahn@suncis.cis.yale.edu
>"What did you think of that reply?"
>"No sir. I don't like it."


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Henry Yuan-sheung Wong <hankwong@ocf.berkeley.edu> 
"Throws as wild as Randy Johnson, as hard as Frank Tanana"
Manager, Wasteland Warriors softball team (when not busy being a ME student)
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