Discuss the draft

[Scrantonicity]

Sheets signing with the A's has to affect some draft picks. Ducheserereererererere, Anderson...who else is affected?

Just curious: how do you see this affecting Anderson's value, even a little bit?

It doesn't- not a bit. If anything, makes him more valuable- team's more competitive with Sheets, leading to more confidence in the clubhouse.

[Vogel]

From MLB.com depth chart for rotation:
Braden
Cahill
Mazzarro
Anderson
Duchsherer

One of those guys is the odd man out.

[Vogel]

BTW, can we put a cap on during draft trades? This is getting a tad ridiculous.

[wsuguay]

BTW, can we put a cap on during draft trades? This is getting a tad ridiculous.

Agreed. I can understand moving up to snag Adam Lind, Nelson Cruz and other players that have clearly slipped and won't make it back, but we're talking about trading up to picks in the upper 300's to select your 4th RP.

Fucking up my fuckin' speadsheet....fuck.

[heggos]

From MLB.com depth chart for rotation:
Braden
Cahill
Mazzarro
Anderson
Duchsherer

One of those guys is the odd man out.

I was gonna make an "Outman is the odd man out, man" joke, but then I remembered he had TJS.

I think the rotation goes like this:

Sheets
Anderson
Duchscherer
Cahill
Gio

With Braden and Mazzarro in long relief or Sacramento.

[heggos]

BTW, can we put a cap on during draft trades? This is getting a tad ridiculous.

Agreed. I can understand moving up to snag Adam Lind, Nelson Cruz and other players that have clearly slipped and won't make it back, but we're talking about trading up to picks in the upper 300's to select your 4th RP.

Fucking up my fuckin' speadsheet....fuck.

This.

[Pocket full of Posey]

Agreed. Also, is this effecting our number of transactions to go towards the regular season?

[ucancallmedavis]

Could have sworn we were in a month long, 'baseball obsession', laid back winter draft. All of a sudden there is a premium on time limits, and draft day trades. Seems contradictory.

[ucancallmedavis]

How I currently feel about this draft/leauge----> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3lGKMXYOG8

[Scrantonicity]

I am the unofficial "Trader Jack" of this board, and unapologetically so. The wheeling and dealing aspect of this draft has made the past 18 rounds significantly more fun for me, which ultimately is why we are doing this thing in the first place, right? Being that I'm one of the quickest, and proactive drafters on this board, I take offense to the suggestion that I might somehow being slowing this thing down. It's certainly not the case from my perspective. As far as the spreadsheet goes, I have a hard time believing that adding a trade to the sheet is such an off-putting activity. I'd be happy to volunteer my services as the spreadsheet organizer for the remainder of this draft, or next year's if that's any consolation.

[wsuguay]

Being that I'm one of the quickest, and proactive drafters on this board, I take offense to the suggestion that I might somehow being slowing this thing down. It's certainly not the case from my perspective.

I didn't think anyone was bring up time as an issue.

As far as the spreadsheet goes, I have a hard time believing that adding a trade to the sheet is such an off-putting activity. I'd be happy to volunteer my services as the spreadsheet organizer for the remainder of this draft, or next year's if that's any consolation.

I'm not talking about THE spreadsheet. I'm talking about MY spreadsheet, and I was joking. Honestly though, it gives me a headache to see these trades being thrown around, especially when they seem so trivial. Not trying to spoil anybody's fun, but it's coming across as excessive.

As far as the suggestion that draft trades count towards overall activity in-season- Eat me! That's bullshit, and you know it.

I think this is a stupid suggestion. These moves shouldn't count against the limit. As a matter of fact, I was under the impression that trades during the regular season wouldn't be factored into the 20, just FA pickups. Am I incorrect?

[Scrantonicity]

Being that I'm one of the quickest, and proactive drafters on this board, I take offense to the suggestion that I might somehow being slowing this thing down. It's certainly not the case from my perspective.

I didn't think anyone was bring up time as an issue.

As far as the spreadsheet goes, I have a hard time believing that adding a trade to the sheet is such an off-putting activity. I'd be happy to volunteer my services as the spreadsheet organizer for the remainder of this draft, or next year's if that's any consolation.

I'm not talking about THE spreadsheet. I'm talking about MY spreadsheet, and I was joking. Honestly though, it gives me a headache to see these trades being thrown around, especially when they seem so trivial. Not trying to spoil anybody's fun, but it's coming across as excessive.

As far as the suggestion that draft trades count towards overall activity in-season- Eat me! That's bullshit, and you know it.

I think this is a stupid suggestion. These moves shouldn't count against the limit. As a matter of fact, I was under the impression that trades during the regular season wouldn't be factored into the 20, just FA pickups. Am I incorrect?

I appreciate this response. I'm glad that your not feeling as if I'm dragging out the draft- but disagree that you feel my moves are excessive.

I'll use my last pick, Nick Masset, as an example. I feel quite confident that he was not going to last 20 picks with the way RPs are flying off the board. He's the #2 guy in Cincy (behind a very average Cordero IMHO) and is a positive 3 category player with K's, ERA and WHIP. Quite honestly, he was the number one player on my board. And yes, I think I might have to move this post to "toot your own horn" because I'm loving that pick

EDIT: I just reread the "question" about whether or not the trades should be counted. If it was an honest question, and not an implied suggestion masking itself as a question, then I apologize for the last point in my rant.

[S-Man]

Transactions = FA pickups

Trades do not qualify as "transactions" in the yahoo format.

[Pocket full of Posey]

Being that I'm one of the quickest, and proactive drafters on this board, I take offense to the suggestion that I might somehow being slowing this thing down. It's certainly not the case from my perspective.

I didn't think anyone was bring up time as an issue.

As far as the spreadsheet goes, I have a hard time believing that adding a trade to the sheet is such an off-putting activity. I'd be happy to volunteer my services as the spreadsheet organizer for the remainder of this draft, or next year's if that's any consolation.

I'm not talking about THE spreadsheet. I'm talking about MY spreadsheet, and I was joking. Honestly though, it gives me a headache to see these trades being thrown around, especially when they seem so trivial. Not trying to spoil anybody's fun, but it's coming across as excessive.

As far as the suggestion that draft trades count towards overall activity in-season- Eat me! That's bullshit, and you know it.

I think this is a stupid suggestion. These moves shouldn't count against the limit. As a matter of fact, I was under the impression that trades during the regular season wouldn't be factored into the 20, just FA pickups. Am I incorrect?

I appreciate this response. I'm glad that your not feeling as if I'm dragging out the draft- but disagree that you feel my moves are excessive.

I'll use my last pick, Nick Masset, as an example. I feel quite confident that he was not going to last 20 picks with the way RP are flying off the board. He's the #2 guy in Cincy (behind a very average Cordero IMHO) and is positive 3 category player with K's, ERA and WHIP. Quite honestly, he was the number one player on my board. And yes, I think I might have to move this post to "toot your own horn" because I'm loving that pick

And yes, the original suggestion about trades being counted as transactions was really ignorant. I can't emphasize this enough, for all the reasons you pointed out.

EDIT: I just reread the "question" about whether or not the trades should be counted. If it was an honest question, and not an implied suggestion masking itself as a question, then I apologize for the last rant.

Yeah, being called ignorant when I was just asking if something counted towards a rule we set before the draft started isn't sitting really well with me. I wasn't implying anything with my post, I just wanted to know.

You guys all really need to lighten up. Seriously.

[Vogel]

Wow, sorry to start all this.

[Scrantonicity]

Yeah, being called ignorant when I was just asking if something counted towards a rule we set before the draft started isn't sitting really well with me. I wasn't implying anything with my post, I just wanted to know.

You guys all really need to lighten up. Seriously.

Consider me 10 pounds lighter (I wish). And please accept my apology- thought for sure you were trying to fire me up, as I was getting a hail storm of critique for my trading ways, and assumed that you were suggesting that we account for the trades as transactions. The timeliness of the question certainly put me on-guard- and for that I apologize again.

[RoidRager]

This is hilarious. Please keep calling each other names. I feel like I'm getting my $25 worth now.