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MLB 2010: Hope Springs Eternal

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The Indians? That's one messed up metric. It sounds like a measure of teams their own fans hate the most.
 
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Who hates the Indians? They give away Cy Young winners like they're a dime a dozen! The Indians are like Santa Claus!
 
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Fantasy question (sorry if there's a separate thread for this - couldn't find it).

I'm leading my roto league in HRs and RBIs, but am badly hurting in ERA and WHIP.

I offered Paul Konerko for Ricky Romero (buy low, sell high). He counter-offered Romero and Mark Buehrle for Konerko and Trevor Hoffman. Is there any reason I shouldn't do this?
 
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3W said:
Fantasy question (sorry if there's a separate thread for this - couldn't find it).

I'm leading my roto league in HRs and RBIs, but am badly hurting in ERA and WHIP.

I offered Paul Konerko for Ricky Romero (buy low, sell high). He counter-offered Romero and Mark Buehrle for Konerko and Trevor Hoffman. Is there any reason I shouldn't do this?
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All I know is Konkerko is a 1st half player. Look at his 1st half/2nd half splits. His first half numbers are generally better. A buddy of mine does this strategy. Take it for what its worth.
 
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Not a good night for Joel Piniero:

3.1 IP, 10 R (9 ER), 10 H, 1 BB, 1 K, three home runs, all in the fourth inning, all to players who had not hit a HR this season, two to players for their first ML HRs, including a grand slam.
 
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3W said:
Fantasy question (sorry if there's a separate thread for this - couldn't find it).

I'm leading my roto league in HRs and RBIs, but am badly hurting in ERA and WHIP.

I offered Paul Konerko for Ricky Romero (buy low, sell high). He counter-offered Romero and Mark Buehrle for Konerko and Trevor Hoffman. Is there any reason I shouldn't do this?
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Wait, he WANTS hoffman? Also, romero's WHIP and era were league average for his rookie year. He's pitching great now, but if he regresses to last year's stats, he won't be that lights out. Then again, this is only his second season, so who knows what you'll get.

His bb/9 and k/9 aren't that much better than last year, the biggest increase is giving up 4 less hits per 9, which is usually outside a pitcher's control.

Hoffman is dead weight and a complete disaster this year. Burhle's WHIP is low like usual, but his walks are up and his K's are down, so unless those improve his ERA likely will stay kind of crappy.

On the other hand, Konerko's playing out of his mind, with something like 11 home runs, an ops over 1.000, and walking a lot. There's no way he's keeping this up all year, so by all means sell high, I just think romero and burhle aren't really going to help you that much. Romero could, but it's a roll of the dice. Burhle is declining. And what the heck are you doing with hoffman? Just release him, *someone* out there has to be better.

'Course it all depends how badly you're doing in your categories, how expendable konerko is, what categories you're even using, etc etc etc
 
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Wait, he WANTS hoffman? Also, romero's WHIP and era were league average for his rookie year. He's pitching great now, but if he regresses to last year's stats, he won't be that lights out. Then again, this is only his second season, so who knows what you'll get.

His bb/9 and k/9 aren't that much better than last year, the biggest increase is giving up 4 less hits per 9, which is usually outside a pitcher's control.

Hoffman is dead weight and a complete disaster this year. Burhle's WHIP is low like usual, but his walks are up and his K's are down, so unless those improve his ERA likely will stay kind of crappy.

On the other hand, Konerko's playing out of his mind, with something like 11 home runs, an ops over 1.000, and walking a lot. There's no way he's keeping this up all year, so by all means sell high, I just think romero and burhle aren't really going to help you that much. Romero could, but it's a roll of the dice. Burhle is declining. And what the heck are you doing with hoffman? Just release him, *someone* out there has to be better.

'Course it all depends how badly you're doing in your categories, how expendable konerko is, what categories you're even using, etc etc etc
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IIRC, Hoffman had a rough first month last year, then settled down and became very serviceable.

I accepted the deal, more for any other reason than to shake things up some. However, I'm now left with only Chad Qualls as a saves option, and though I know saves are overrated (doesn't every league have at least one person who repeats this mantra to no end?), I'm probably going to try and swing a deal. Might try and flip Buehrle or Romero right away for a lower-tier closer.
 
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konerko and romero were the only good players in that deal. so it depends on what you value more (or really, what are you lacking more) to decide who to keep.

konerko and romero are probably both sell high candidates. so the swap there is somewhat moot - with konerko probably slightly more likely to retain this value over the course of the season.

try to trade romero for nolasco. love that guy.
 
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3W said:
IIRC, Hoffman had a rough first month last year, then settled down and became very serviceable.

I accepted the deal, more for any other reason than to shake things up some. However, I'm now left with only Chad Qualls as a saves option, and though I know saves are overrated (doesn't every league have at least one person who repeats this mantra to no end?), I'm probably going to try and swing a deal. Might try and flip Buehrle or Romero right away for a lower-tier closer.
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You said you were looking to lower your ERA and WHIP.

Closers don't pitch enough innings in a week to affect that as much as any starter, so if you want to improve those two stats, get a good starter (or upgrade your bad ones to at least decent.) If you wanted more saves, then you should have mentioned that and/or traded for a closer. :p

edit: and right now hoffman's stats couldn't really be lower. His ERA+ is 33. That means he's 1/3 what a random replacement pitcher would do. That's absolutely horrid. For comparison, someone with a .200 average that never walked and only got singles would have a better ops+ than hoffman's era+
 
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Steve:

Already have him.

Another reason I'm having pitching problems is that I've had a few other busts too, like Jake Peavy, whose ERA is over 7.

Good thing I'm leading my league in hits, HRs and RBIs. (I'm in fourth of 14, so it could be a lot worse.)
 
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