Fantasy baseball talk - how to value keepers

[philliesfan]

I have a different view on this. If you keep Tucker, then that is your round 2 pick, so you keep him and your second choice.....Strider.
If you elect to keep Strider and Clase you can still get a excellent player in the second round in place of Tucker.
So would you prefer Tucker, Strider and a 20th round pick? Or would you prefer Strider, Clase and a secoond round pick....Austin Riley, or Lindor, or??? depending when your second pick is. If an early round pick, maybe Y Alvarez, B Witt, B Bichette? Or later pick and get Riley or Lindor or...??
I would prefer Clase, Strider and a second rounder.
Please let us know what you decide.
Good Luck!

I am in 2 leagues where we meet in person and do the auction. We do not have keepers as everyone likes the option of getting any one player in a given year. I also need to say......I won one of the leagues last year!

[philliesfan]

After more thought, everyone is probably keeping their number 1 picks so I would keep Tucker in the second round.

[philliesfan]

Last year I drafted auction style and was able to get Sandy Alcantara, Alek Manoah, and Shane McClanahan as three of my SP's. I also had Jordan Montgomery and Logan Webb to round out my 5.

I finished 1st in ERA, WHIP and Strikeouts, about 4th in wins, and 5th in Saves. And ended up winning the league.....two points in front of my brother. It was a close race as the second to the last day of the season, 4 different teams held 1st place at some point in the night.

I am hoping to duplicate getting this kind of staff this year and really hoping to duplicate another championship. I really like Edward Cabrera this year for Miami.

Any suggestions on players who may go at a good price at auction style?

Thanks,
Bob

[BobbyStrawberry]

Hey Bob,

If you're not too risk averse, Chris Sale could end up being a steal at his current price. I think Tyler Glasnow is a bargain where he's going (also some risk, coming off of injuries). On the deeper end of the pool, I really like your team's young phenom Andrew Painter, especially if he breaks camp in the rotation.

Matthew

[philliesfan]

Hi Matthew. Yes I was looking at T Glasnow. I will look into C Sale.....I did not consider him but I will check him out as spring training goes on.

I really like Painter. I may do with him like I did with Rutschman last year. I bid $1.00 and got Rutschman even though he was in the minors. Nobody Else bid so I got him. I drafted Elias Diaz in my reserves and immediately promoted him to my team in place of Rutschman so I did not lose any stats. Then demoted Diaz and promoted Rutschman when he was promoted by the Orioles. I had several inquiries about trading when he was promoted. But all the offers were so lowball offers it was not even worth a counter offer by me. They just wanted to steal him.

Being in a league here in the Philly area, it will be difficult to get A Painter on the cheaper side. If he starts in the year in the minors, I will have no problem drafting him on my team and wait for that call up and hope nobody else has the same idea. If he makes the team, I will have to wait and see what he goes for when the auction comes around.

Thanks again, I will take a look at Sale and Glasnow a little more.
Bob