Standard Yahoo league, so 12.

My draft is on Saturday. I get to keep three position players and three pitchers in their average draft position from last year and one free agent from last year's roster for a 25th (last) round pick.
My seven keepers and the rounds are:
1. Cargo
2. Kershaw
3. Price
8. Carlos Gomez
12. Goldschmidt
19. Shelby Miller
25. Zack Wheeler

I probably could do better than Cargo and Price, but Goldschmidt and Miller are steals. 

My draft isn't until next Saturday.  Auction league, you can keep a player for up to 3 seasons, but have to give him a 30% raise.  No bench, everyone plays every day and other than DL moves, you only get 6 drops for the season.  My keepers:

Desmond- $21
Soriano- $13
Swisher- $7
Domonic Brown- $6

Bailey- $10
Burnett- $4
Balfour $3

It's a 14 team league.  I'll be drafting for batting average, and I need 1 very good starter.

We had our draft today.  14 team auction draft.  It didn't exactly go as I expected or hoped.  The top 20 pichers were really overpriced.  I knew the top 10 or so would go for a lot of money, but I thought someone like James Shields, Matt Cain or Gio Gonzalez would slide in for somewhere in the neighborhood of $16-18.  They all went for $20+.  So I ended up with a loaded offense and a so-so pitching staff filled with pitchers in the #20-50 range. 


My roster:

C: Molina- $10 
1B: Swisher- $7
2B: Cano- $30
3B: Wright- $31
SS: Desmond- $21
CI: Cuddyer- $16
MI: Dozier- $9
OF: Heyward- $28
OF: Soriano- $13
OF: Domonic Brown- $6
OF: Pagan- $5
DH: Bourn- $1
DH: A. Gonzalez- $26
SP: Bailey- $10
SP: Moore- $14
SP: Sabbathia- $8
SP: Kluber- $6
SP: Burnett- $4
SP: Corbin- $1 (I picked up Wade Miley, but I can keep Corbin next season for $2)
RP: Balfour- $3
RP: Soriano- $6

I got offered Chase Utley for Kershaw. Think I should take it?

This has become the most absurd fantasy situation with which I've ever been involved. This guy has a hard-on for Kershaw and won't take no for an answer.
I'm in first place in four of the five offensive categories (I'm 2nd in OPS). I'm in the top half in the pitching categories, except for ninth in wins and eighth in saves. The guy who offered me the trade has Utley, Pedroia and Cano. We don't use MI, so one of them is on his bench. So initially he tried to trade me a guy he can't use for the best starting pitcher in the NL, if not in baseball. Kershaw is hurt,  but it's not an arm injury, and he threw off a mound on Saturday. So his return is imminent. 
I already have Kinsler at second base, so until he moves Cano (who he hasn't offered), it's not really much of an upgrade for me. And now Pedroia was scratched last night and flew back to Boston for an exam on his wrist, which I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that he didn't know when we were going back and forth last night and he offered me Champan and Pedroia for Kershaw.
I've told him I need to be adding starting pitching, not subtracting my best starter, and that if I'm going to be dealing Kerhsaw, Felix Hernandez has to be coming back the other way. As of now, the deal is Kershaw for Hernandez, straight up. Which he suggested. And I accepted. And now he says he has to think about it.

Last edited by artie_fufkin (4/14/2014 11:41 am)

Do you have "needs" that the pitchers would fill? 

I have Kimbrel and Romo, but Kimbrel is shaky. I have Lester, Greinke, Teheran and Archer, which has been quite good. I feel with Gio and Street that I would lock up wins and saves, assuming good health.

Ramirez is a game changer on offense, but Lowrie is good, too. Lowrie doesn't stay healthy, though. I'm in a tough spot.

Thanks to Corey Kluber's complete game, 0 earned run, 11 strikeout performance I officially no longer have the worst starting pitching in my league. I've moved out of last in both ERA and WHIP. Wooo friggin' Hooo.

Also, I'd like to be able to tell people I was smart enough to know that Brian Dozier was going to go 50-50 with 160 runs scored, but it was really just dumb luck.