New Fantasy Baseball League

Doesn’t hurt to ask for the third prospect. You’re looking at the future.

Would anyone else in the league object?

 

I can't see anyone complaining. I'm just unsure how to value Woo and Neto.

 

Does the other team have a young, but more established player? If so, maybe ask for them.

 

That’s a good idea.

 

Gotta love fantasy baseball. Alek Manoah did all sorts of damage to one of my teams until I finally benched him. Even against the Tigers, I couldn't bring myself to start him for his return to the majors today. Of course, he dominated.

 

It looks like I'm in the same position the Pirates recently faced. My league holds a supplemental draft for only players taken in this year's MLB FYPD. We can keep seven minor leaguers each offseason, so this can be very valuable. The draft order is generated randomly and I got the first pick. My first instinct is to take Dylan Crews, who I wanted the Pirates to take going into the draft, but Paul Skenes could also be special. My logic for Crews is that I trust hitters over pitchers in terms of development and health. The argument for Skenes is I think he is more likely to be a dominant major leaguer. He also might be up sooner, but I don't care as much about that. I'm more concerned with the long haul

What do y'all think?

 

I’ve moved from 16-games below .500 to maybe having a chance and now Musgrove gets a dead arm. Great.

 

Did you ever make the trade?

 

I didn't make that trade, but I did manage to unload Musgrove and just about every veteran who was too expensive to keep in deals this past week. Our deadline in that league was Thursday.

I had a deal on the table for Musgrove when the Padres scratched him from his start Wednesday. I technically could have gotten away with clicking accept, but that seemed wrong. I ended up trading him along with Cristian Walker, who was also too expensive to keep, for Ha-Seong Kim and Heston Kjerstad. Kim is only $1 and Kjerstad will be one of the seven prospects I keep. (We hold on to eight veterans and seven minor leaguers.) I went out of my way to make sure the other owner knew about the shoulder issue. The trade looks terrible on the transaction wire, but it improved my keeper list. Of course, the deal looked a lot better a day later when the news about Musgrove came out. The commissioner of the league commented on it by writing, "Fantasy Baseball 101: Do not trade for an injured pitcher."

 

That sucks, and it certainly seems like more than a dead arm. Remember, he needed a cortisone shot for his shoulder in April. He aggravated it while rehabbing from the toe injury. He also had bursitis in his elbow.

I had him in two leagues this year. One team is still in contention. In the other, I am out of contention and I was in trade negotiations with two teams about Musgrove when the news came out that he was scratched from his start. As you can imagine, I was quite displeased at that moment, but also very happy to get any value at all when I did trade him.

 

I somehow managed to trade Musgrove, Taj Bradley and Jasson Dominguez for Shohei (pitcher) in one of my Yahoo leagues the other day. I guess the other manager really likes Dominguez (as a Yankees fan, I'm becoming leery of him) and Musgrove and Bradley are both keepable, but I don't have much doubt I got the better end of that deal, even with Shohei not dominating on the mound. My offense pretty consistently wins all or almost every category, but my pitching stinks, so even a 3-something ERA is an improvement for my staff.

In my dynasty league I traded Alonso ($12 next year) and Ashcraft ($3) for Gallen ($12) and Bobby Miller ($3). Again, I was pretty overloaded offensively, with the combination of Seager, Bichette, Guerrero and Alonso sharing my 1B, SS and UTIL slots. I was consistently leaving one of those guys on the bench, while my pitching has stunk. I'm in 7th place in that league (4th in points scored), so I felt like I needed to make a move to get more SP points.

 

He might be figuring it out: