From: demers@cs.ucsd.edu (David DeMers)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball.fantasy
Subject: More trade ideas
Date: 27 Jan 93 04:19:46 GMT
Organization: =CSE Dept., U.C. San Diego

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...)

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?),
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.

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.

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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