Comments on: Closer Look

By: big o

big o — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:47:24 +0000

@Shmorgie S. Board: you've got cigarettes in the closet .

By: Shmorgie S. Board

Shmorgie S. Board — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:22:29 +0000

*risk of trade = getting traded to another team where they aren’t going to Close games

By: Shmorgie S. Board

Shmorgie S. Board — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:21:15 +0000

I generally find this kind of Closer report not to be useful. I mean, it’s a ranked list. I know who the good closers are and who the blechy ones are and… it doesn’t matter. If they get saves and they’re cheap or free (FA pickups), they are certainly for me. SAGNOF! for god’s sake.

(I guess it kind of helps if you’re in some wacky shallow league and closers with jobs are on the waiver wire. But then you’re a fag who can’t even find at least 11 other fags to play fantasy baseball with, so you’re stuck with 9 other fags who have nothing better to do. WELL DONE.)

But what IF? What if we applied some method of assessing risk of real-world trade to the list at this point of the season? Nothing fancy. You wouldn’t have to hijack some BP or Fangraphs jerkenstein to script you an algorithm. Take it easy, man, it’s cool.

If we did, wouldn’t the Street become a Brain Freeze? Sherrill too? And also etc?

I’m just saying, that might help people decide who to deal out of their Closer stash and cache, and who to be wary of acquiring.

Then again, this site earns no revenue (so American contemporary, we broke yo!) and I’m up at 2:20 AM writing this. Whatever.

By: Grey

Grey — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:50:19 +0000

@Steve: Away from COL? Decent 12 team start.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:47:42 +0000

@Grey: What do you think of Hammel for tomorrow?

By: Prince

Prince — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:41:05 +0000

With a drop of Frasor I do … Thanks

By: Grey

Grey — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:38:27 +0000

@Prince: Sure, if you have room.

By: Prince

Prince — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:37:21 +0000

Think it’s time to pick up Downs again? Sounds like he’ll be back either on the 3rd or after the ASB…

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:37:19 +0000

@Simply Fred: Oh, I love having him on my team.

Possibly I need to stop expecting him to win every time out

By: Simply Fred

Simply Fred — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:34:14 +0000

@Steve: Criticism deserving, when he gives it up to the pitcher. Just sticking up for Bills. Feel your pain on wins slipping away. I have high-priced pitching that is being matched by low-priced pitching in Wins. To make it worse, he's in first, me in second. May your wins hold up!