From: kbanaian@bernard.pitzer.claremont.edu (King Banaian)
Subject: Re: More trade ideas
Organization: Pitzer College
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:53:59 GMT

In article <44066@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> demers@cs.ucsd.edu (David DeMers) writes:

>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.
>
>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. 
>
>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.
>
>In the auction will be only Mark Grace & stiffs at 1B (well,
>Conine & Destrade, but who will get the most playing time?),
Conine can go into the outfield, with Destrade only at 1B.  If Conine can 
qualify later at OF, he's an exceptional choice IMO.

>
>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...
But still, you can have Rijo back at close to that price, maybe less.  
Inflation is a fact of life -- you'll have to accept that you aren't 
drafting players to keep.  (P.S.  Pass on Kevin Young.  He's not the name I 
hear from Pirate fans -- hell, they'll talk about Al Martin before him!)

>
>If I keep Rijo and Dunston, I'm down to $121 left, but have a 
>helluva starting rotation and all my middle infield.  
>
You can have that rotation anyways, since pitchers are plentiful.  So keep 
Dunston and pray very hard that he smartens up and goes to the OF.

>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.
>
I lost the line about available catchers, but I think Oliver had a great 
second half, and is worth more than $4.  If you trade him, you have to keep 
Berryhill.  That's a killer.

>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.

But Biggio will return $20 in a down year.  And you obviously have inflation 
big time.  I'd say this is contingent on getting Cordero in the other deal.  
If you do make that trade, then OK this one, you have solidified the 
outfield and really only have to sign Biggio and a third MI.