Thank you Kotchman!
LOL Milton mad.
I’ll take the Aardsma save for a Mariners win. That pick kinda contradicts my goal of trolling the Mariners the whole year though. :sad:
imo.
Well it seems the astros are going to be taking the strategy of only showing up in the 9th and score runs, but ignore the first 8.
I’m going to go ahead and attribute that to facing Lincecum for the first 7 and then scrub relievers until Brian Wilson came out.
imo.
Don’t worry, Aardsma has a good chance of not closing by midseason.
Also, still no power hitters in that lineup.
The same could be said about a lot of closers. 'Tis the nature of the beast.
imo.
That’s why I think the great closers are underrated in fantasy baseball. It seems simple enough for experts to say “don’t pay for saves you can find them on the waiver wire”. The problem with that is everybody else is looking for closers too so it’s not easy to just get that guy. The long baseball season is enough of a mental drain as it is. I for one don’t need anymore stress playing chase-a-closer.
So in what round would you take Mariano Rivera, going by that logic? As much as I love the guy he is being taken WAY too early for a closer imo.
Also, Billy Wagner’s comeback season? Got him for nothing late in one of my other leagues. I could see him having a 30 save season.
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Assuming he stays healthy, and isn’t booted out of the closing spot for Takashi Saito.
Yeah, we see different high-profile players taken too early in any fantasy sport. This doesn’t change the fact that it’s a better idea to, at the very least, anchor your RPs with a Mariano, Papelbon, Joe Nathan, Francisco Rodriguez, etc. etc. SOMEBODY is going to get them. So yeah, enjoy your 10% chance of actually getting them. And even then, look at Joe Nathan’s replacement battle. You’re going to be battling somebody to get, generous estimate, 10 saves this season, if you pick the right guy. Repeat this 15 times and you might actually make top three in a rotisserie league.
As Matrix said, it’s always going to be a fight for fight for those penny stock RPs that could get five to ten saves a season. Or you could just draft Jon Papelbon in round 7 and get more saves than five of them combined.
Remember that time Brad Lidge was a no-doubt Top 5 closer or when Joe Nathan was unquestioned Top 3 closer a few weeks before the season? There is no reason to take that sort of risk on the most irrelevant position in fantasy baseball.
imo.
Yeah, you can say that it’s an irrelevant position all you like and keep saying it into last place because you end up with 2 points in saves.
Lidge had his moments but he’s been a bad closer at times also. I don’t know that anytime recently I would have considered him an elite closer. Joe Nathan is definitely in that class though. What happened was tragic but luckily it was several weeks before the start of the season. Nothing that could have been done about that.
I get that closers really only get you one stat but on that same token it’s the only position that gets one stat (besides relievers in general). So if you’re going to compete in that areaand the guys who you feel most comfortable about are available at a good price then I think it’s worth passing up good but not necessarily great players at other positions for the relative piece of mind you get from knowing where your saves are coming from.Guys like Broxton,Rivera, and Papelbon were getting drafted in around the 70th pick or so. For me that’s a fair price for an elite closer. Sure they could get hurt but that could be said for players of any other position.
Pitching is inherently riskier than batting and then you are combining that inherent risk that closers have. I’d much rather gamble on 3-4 much later round guys that have the chance of becoming top tier closers than use my early pick taking a closer that has to do exactly what they did the year before to justify the pick.
imo.
And again, you can take that and ride it right into last place in Saves.
Also, there are leagues that actually record holds and blown saves, this is my first year in one of these leagues. Strikeouts and errors on hitters are counted too, so it brings a whole other aspect to drafting players. It’s interesting, but it’s a bit too involved for my taste. I probably won’t join it next season.
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M’s are on pace for 162 wins.
Yes that’s right Lothar I can troll too.
:rock: on!
M’s are on pace for 162 wins.
Yes that’s right Lothar I can troll too.
:rock: on!
And Milton Bradley’s on pace to break 162 bats by slamming them on the ground after striking out. :rock:
I, personally, hate that. The only scoring cats I’m really open to that fall outside standard are hits and OBP.
Holds are fucking stupid.
I was gonna bring up a team like the Marlins, but that’s a much better example lol. Although I was wrong about the Sox, I didn’t realize their salary had dropped by about 50 million in 2009. But they still did better than the Cubs and the Mets who outspent them, so we can all just lol at that.
Besides, if you won 4 fucking rings you’d expect to get paid too. I won’t even acknowledge Jeter haters though, that’s the dumbest shit ever.