Comments on: Billy Beane Holds Off On Manny For ‘Pedes

By: chata

chata — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:10:47 +0000

@Mr Baseball,

nice job !

By: Confused Guy

Confused Guy — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:25:06 +0000

Don’t really know why I’m even writing this because I’m pretty sure I know what u and your mustache are going to answer but what the hell I need someone to just give a boot in the right direction. I’m in a 16 man, 5 keeper man league. My five are Hosmer, McCutchen, Beltre, Price and Felix. Another person in the league offered me Ellsbury for Price straight up. Before you move on to the next question thinking this confused guy is dumb as shizz, let me do a little explaining on why I’m debating this. I don’t trust Ellsbury one bit not sure if it’s cause he is injury prone or if it’s cause without 20 bombs he’s just another Brett Gardner. If u could just let me know what to do and maybe a little explaination on why you think it would be the right move. P.S. Huge fan Gery and this website was key in me winning this league last year. Keep it up cause their ain’t anyone better.

By: PWNightmare

PWNightmare — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:10:18 +0000

The Ces Tape lets us know that Yoenis can catch a pop up behind his back and leg press two Cubans. Does baseball have an equivalent to the Harlem Globtrotters?

By: PWNightmare

PWNightmare — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:08:06 +0000

@Grey, He owns Dimples.

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:04:15 +0000

***THERE’S A NEW POST.****

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:04:04 +0000

@Goose, I’d bump up younger guys a few rounds depending on who they are. That top ten looks solid, I wouldn’t mess around too much with F-Her over Lee type changes. You still want to win this year.

By: Terrence Mann

Terrence Mann — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:02:47 +0000

@Terrence Mann, Ackley

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:02:03 +0000

@theguarantee, Ha

By: Goose

Goose — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:52:11 +0000

Grey, thanks for all the great prep work for 2012. Got a general question and then a couple specific ones. Specific-ish anyway. You’ll see.

General: do you have some insight / are you going to do a post on keeper-league rankings and draft strategy? Our 6×6, 14t roto league rebooted this offseason, so we’re starting from scratch. Just looking for some draft strategy help, esp about balancing youngsters vs oldsters.

Thus, specific-ish: how much higher do you bump young guys (eg: Strasburg, Heyward, Darvish, Ackley, etc)?

And specific-er: Would you put guys like Hosmer and Lawrie late in Rd 2 (again, 14-team league), above an older pitcher like Adverb? Do you bump F-Her above Adverb?

My top ten looks like: Miggy, Pujols, Longo, Votto, Tulo, Kemp, J-Up, Bautista, Fielder, Stanton. Agree/dis?

Thanks, Grey for any thoughts!

By: Terrence Mann

Terrence Mann — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:51:15 +0000

@Grey, His guess is Lackey but he said he wouldn’t be surprised if it was still Ichiro.

By: theguarantee

theguarantee — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:44:22 +0000

This entire deal is just entirely weird. That is an awful lot of luchini Billy Beane tossed at him. Color me a sucker but I’m going to make an assumption that Billy Beane has some sense of what he’s doing still…despite all the evidence pointing to the contrary. Drafting Yoenis all over for the fun of it.

By: Random Collmenter

Random Collmenter — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:36:07 +0000

@ChillmanCometh, not to mention dave duncan’s reliance on computer analysis.

yeah, in the paperback version there’s an epilogue basically dissing the “Moneyballistas.” pretty entertaining.

By: ChillmanCometh

ChillmanCometh — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:32:15 +0000

@Random Collmenter, My dad read that a few years back, and he gave it high praise. I’ll have to see if he still has it.

And I’m only basing this off of your comment claiming some viewed this as a response to Moneyball, but it’s funny that it would be seen as a response now considering Tony relied so heavily on matchup data (though unsuccessfully or because we watched Tony go through the early stages of dementia) this October.

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:31:33 +0000

@Mr2Bits, Youk

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:30:35 +0000

@L-Boogie, I use flyer.

By: Mr2Bits

Mr2Bits — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:30:03 +0000

Grey :

Which do you prefer?

Hamilton (7th round Keeper) for McCann(21st round keeper)

Youk (15th round Keeper) for McCann(21st round keeper)

Guy in my league is looking to deal McCann

Here are my keepers

Roy Halladay – 1st round – Keeper
Josh Hamilton – 7th round -Keeper
James Shields – 15th Round – Keeper
Kevin Youkilis – 15th round – Keeper
Chris Young – 21st round – Keeper
Jose Bautista – 23rd round – Keeper
Lance Berkman – FA – Keeper
Howie Kendrick – FA – Keeper

By: L-Boogie

L-Boogie — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:21:37 +0000

If AJ gets traded to the Pirates, does he move up from a 26th round flyer to a 25th round flyer?

More importantly, is it “flyer” or “flier”?

Thanks, dude.

By: Mr2Bits

Mr2Bits — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:21:30 +0000

@Grey, Awesome…thanks

By: mic

mic — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:20:43 +0000

@Mr Baseball, sticking with the A’s theme: brad peacock, tom milone…

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:03:33 +0000

@Curt, Eh

By: Curt

Curt — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:58:44 +0000

Kealleper league……I was offered Pedroia(2nd round) and his 11th pick for Putz(8th round) and Pineda(23rd round)……all comments welcome.

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:56:09 +0000

@Random Collmenter, Less obvious than pumping his fist.

By: Swaggerjackers

Swaggerjackers — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:55:45 +0000

@Random Collmenter, I get it Random C. Clever.

By: Paul Wilson

Paul Wilson — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:51:37 +0000

@Grey, thanks!

http://tinyurl.com/cubanraftees

By: Random Collmenter

Random Collmenter — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:49:38 +0000

@Grey, yeah, i wish kirk gibson would stop calling the suicide squeeze by pinching his junk.

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:49:06 +0000

@anon, HA! That’s awesome! Too bad you can’t say anything to your friend prior to the call but he should ask Mr. Belding what’s the deal with Dimples. It’s a karaoke bar that he goes to in Hollywood literally 5 nights a week.

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:46:24 +0000

@Random Collmenter, Oh, it’s by Buzz Bissinger? I’ve never read anything by him. Like the show created from his book, though I doubt that had much to do with the book. Interesting that a manager makes that many decisions, when it seems like they’re not doing much but scratching themselves.

By: anon

anon — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:45:00 +0000

So, it took longer than the 7 days that were advertised, but Lou Ferrigno just called my friend and gave him a motivational pep talk. He said it was incomprehensible, which makes both of us think it was actually Ferrigno. One of my other friends (a longtime razzball reader) is having a kid as we speak and he is getting a congratulations on the baby call from Mr. Belding.

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:44:52 +0000

@Random Collmenter, Ha, nice image!

By: Random Collmenter

Random Collmenter — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:41:40 +0000

@Grey, BOOM! (thanks)