Comments on: ESPN’s 2012 Fantasy Baseball Rankings Rankle, Should Be Ankled

By: junker23

junker23 — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:17:21 +0000

@Rudy Gamble, Agreed. Why Cockcroft didn’t say anything, beyond me.

By: Grey

Grey — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:24:43 +0000

***Take followups for me to the newest post****

By: Grey

Grey — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:24:37 +0000

@Amish G, My projections are in my rankings. ***Take followups for me to the newest post****

By: Grey

Grey — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:24:16 +0000

@James L Legade, Thanks!

By: Grey

Grey — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:23:28 +0000

@Eng, Non-keeper

By: RK

RK — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:54:13 +0000

And I see your projections have 19 more runs; that actually brings him up from the to the 6th ranked 2B, all the way up from 9th, which is in the ballpark of Brandon Phillips.

So, if you are thinking about taking Phillips, just wait for Kendrick.

(FYI my math is based on extrapolating 2012 projections into player rating values like ESPN does, since they don’t provide player ratings for 2012)

By: Eng

Eng — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:50:39 +0000

Please answer this: if you could only play in 1 12-team league league for the rest of time, would it be a non-keeper or a 4-keeper league?

By: Rudy Gamble

Rudy Gamble — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:45:32 +0000

Grey does his own rankings. Point Shares are my thing. You can find Grey’s rankings at: http://razzball.com/2012-fantasy-baseball-rankings/

By: RK

RK — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:39:59 +0000

Which ranking of yours are you talking about? I see Kendrick at 146 in your Point Shares, not 46. Excluding positional arguments, I’ve got his projections ranking him #121 overall.

By: Rudy Gamble

Rudy Gamble — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:35:39 +0000

He seems to be over-thinking it. I remember worrying about that kind of thing with Carl Crawford when he was on TB. Or with Carlos Beltran. Never mattered.

Hanley has been about 30 SBs the last 3 years and players tend to creep down on SB vs. up. I’d say best bet is 25 except for the Ozzie Guillen wildcard factor which maybe gets him to 30….

By: Grey

Grey — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:29:04 +0000

The Mass-hole up to his old tricks…

By: junker23

junker23 — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:26:56 +0000

Holy shitballs. Newest segment’s on Hanley Ramirez and almost made my head blow up.

AJ Mass argues Ramirez won’t reach the number of steals ESPN projects (30) because he’ll be batting third now, and too preoccupied with driving Reyes in, second won’t be open if he’s intentionally walked to load the bases (!?), etc…

To see if this blathering might actually be based on any real data regarding lineup position and steal attempts, I did some Googling. Three seconds or so, in fact. Only article I read was penned by someone literally sitting across the table from Mass – http://sports.espn.go.com/fantasy/baseball/flb/story?page=mlbdk2k11_stealsinlineup. His conclusion? Probably shouldn’t worry about Hanley’s steals because of his lineup spot.

By: Public Enemy #1

Public Enemy #1 — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:14:10 +0000

@chata, Good question. We get to keep a player for two additional years after the initial year they were purchased. Bautista was a nobody when I first got him back in 2010. Then he blew up that year and I kept him in 2011. This will be my final year I get to have him as a keeper. Same thing with CarGo, AGonz and DHudson.

Trout and Bauer will hopefully be my chance to re-stock on keepers since I have to release my sexy keepers I got to start this year with.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:12:29 +0000

@Grey, Yeah, I figured it’d be way easier to manipulate pitching, especially in a H2H league. I wanted to make sure I had a solid foundation on offense before I started worrying about pitchers.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:05:26 +0000

@chata, I was definitely thinking about weekly leagues but it’s a great point for daily transaction leagues….especially NL- only. Thanks

By: James L Legade

James L Legade — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:00:55 +0000

thanks Grey! I just downloaded the podcast and will listen to it in the gym.

I don’t drive an iPhone so yer iTunes ranking won’t pop… but when you are talking to advertisers feel free to tell them “And you can +1 those rankings due to this guy I know listening on some cheap assed android phone…”

By: Amish G

Amish G — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:56:29 +0000

I see you like Valencia this year? I have him a bargain basement price in a 3 year keeper league. What are you projecting? I’m thinking of throwing him back to get the extra year out of him…worth the gamble? I have to draft 1st/3rd this year…not likin who’s out there at 3rd. Have Freeman at my corner slot.

By: Grey

Grey — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:55:54 +0000

***THERE’S A NEW POST***

By: Grey

Grey — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:55:44 +0000

@James L Legade, I don’t know how accurate it is outside of what is in the post: http://razzball.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Grey_ESPN_Rank_Comparison.xlsx

By: chata

chata — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:52:02 +0000

@Jeff,
what if your 3rd baseman had monday off ?
or one of your OF-ers ??

By: chata

chata — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:40:02 +0000

@PublicEnemy#1,

how the heck do you get to keep bautista for a dollar ??

really like your trout and bauer picks .
and boesch for a dollar is a steal .

By: johnny o

johnny o — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:17:07 +0000

@Grey, we have 10 teams

By: 3FingersBrown

3FingersBrown — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:17:06 +0000

@Grey, I’m thinking MMD may have some value as the starting 3B for The Cubbies.

Would you take MMD or Davis over Carp or J.D. Martinez?

By: TheNewGuy

TheNewGuy — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:12:36 +0000

@Grey, I see he’s going up by $1.2 but how many places in the rankings is that?

By: James L Legade

James L Legade — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:08:58 +0000

Hey Grey-

Howzabout giving us a spreadsheet we can sort with this info. I’d like to make a list of “Grey’s Guys” in order of the round they are likely to be picked. I like this format to as it tells us how much more you like/dislike each individual dood… but I have to be able to sort this shizz.

I guess I could enter it by hand but you and I BOTH know that ain’t gonna happen.

-LeGade

By: Grey

Grey — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:01:16 +0000

***THERE’S A NEW POST***

By: Grey

Grey — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:01:03 +0000

@Son of a Beachy, Cool, no problem… Your pitching looks stronger than your hitting, which isn’t a great thing. Lester was overkill with Greinke… Then don’t love Shields and Beckett…. Fowler and Crisp are the same thing, don’t need both.

By: Grey

Grey — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:59:07 +0000

@letsgobravos, http://razzball.com/2012-fantasy-baseball-draft-prep-pairings/

By: Son of a Beachy

Son of a Beachy — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:54:29 +0000

Ha, great article. I love seeing the disparity between your rankings and yahoo/ESPN’s. I will make sure to use these in my upcoming draft to get some steals (pun point?).

Anywho, I was wanting your opinion on my 14 team H2H keeper league with OBP and Total Bases added for offense and L added for pitching…we kept 14 (yes, 14!) from the year before, and I kinda blew up my team in trades. Here’s the roster:

C: Salvador Perez
1B: Albert Pujols
2B: Michael Cuddyer
SS: JJ Hardy
3B: David Wright
IF: Adam Lind
LF: Vernon Wells
CF: BJ Upton
RF: Shin-Soo Choo
OF: Dexter Fowler
Util (2): Coco Crisp/Jason Kubel

SP: Zack Greinke/Jon Lester/James Shields/Josh Beckett/Jordan Zimmermann/Tim Stauffer
RP: Joel Hanrahan/Rafael Betancourt/Jim Johnson/Brett Myers

Thanks, and also, thanks a ton for these almost daily articles. You guys helped me a ton last year with finding those diamonds in the rough.

By: letsgobravos

letsgobravos — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:53:37 +0000

Grey & co.

Just found out I have the #2 overall pick in my 12 team 7×7 (standard cats+OBP, 2b, GIDP, HRs allowed) H2H draft on Wednesday night.

Question 1: I know you have Braun and Miggy as your top 2 overall so is Braun the definite pick if he’s available? I like Miggy a little more between those two because I don’t really want to be stuck with a 2nd tier 1st baseman.

Question 2: Can you give me a few names you’d be targeting in the 2nd round with the 23rd pick?

Thanks in advance. Looking forward to another fun season of humorous commentary and solid advice.