Quick summary of rules:

AL-Only, standard 5x5
Auction league, $260 salary cap for the auction (Must stay above 175 during season, and below 315 -- fluctuates due to FA pickups and trades)
9 Pitchers, 2 Catchers, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, CI, MI, 5x OF, 1 Util

Once you buy a player at the auction, you have to keep them in your lineup unless they get sent down to the minors or go on the DL. Otherwise, you can't pick up players from the free agent pool unless they're on waivers.

Keeper Rules:
1. You can keep unlimited number of players, but salaries go up $5 per year. You can "franchise" one player per year, his salary doesn't go up. Can't franchise same player twice in a row, but if a player gets traded he can be franchised again. (So if someone franchised Mike Trout, then traded him to me, I could franchise him again to keep his price the same).
2. Players in the free agent pool are $10 when you pick them um




NOW, this is what I need advice on... I currently have the following pitchers:

Yu Darvish $12 to keep
Carlos Rodon $6 to keep
Danny Salazar $6 to keep
Corey Kluber $19 to keep


I got offered the following:

Lorenzo Cain ($19 to keep), Matt Wieters ($17 to keep), and Sonny Gray ($25) to keep

For ANY one of the pitchers above (all 3 for one). I can pick which one.



I'm leaning towards accepting for Kluber or Rodon... but I'm on the fence.

I'd probably do it for Darvish. Rodon's value at 6 dollars is way too high. You could potentially do Kluber too if you want to dump a little more salary since you are taking on a lot, but Darvish is a good middle point and of course coming off the injury you don't know exactly what to expect.

Darvish only gonna be $17 next year though..
But he won't be back until May or so, so I miss 5-6 starts off the bat with him.

Plus you can't expect him to be to form until 2017, where he's basically the same price as Kluber this season. So it's trade away your best pitcher for $17 to keep what figures to be a 70% darvish(and pay the same price you'd be paying for kluber the previous season), Or have Kluber for this season and probably one more before he's too expensive. Rodon you can keep for 3 or 4 years probably until he's too expensive, that's way too much value to move.

Same with Salazar.
Last year I set up for the future by getting those two in trades

If you take it at all I'd go Kluber to even out some of the salary. I don't know if I'd do it at all depending on what your team looks like. Wieters is really expensive

I wouldn't give up Rodon at that price.. to me he could be the next up and coming Price.. no pun intended.

This post was edited by Schwarber on Feb 2 2016 08:42pm

I don't have much besides those guys.
Lindor at $1, thats about it

E: wieters isn't too bad actually... After the top couple catchers go, people get desperate. Tyler flowers went for like $10 at the auction last year.

This post was edited by xVitality on Feb 2 2016 09:45pm

If you're dead set on making the trade, shipping darvish out makes the most sense since he's coming off surgery and will be monitored closely.

Personally, I wouldn't do it though. OF is really deep and I'm not sure I trust Cain to repeat last year, wieters doesn't give you much if any value at that price, and sonny Gray doesn't have the strikeout potential of any of your starters, not to mention he's more expensive.

I'm not dead set on it, but I'm strongly considering it.
A lot of top players get kept. Like last year, David Price and Chris Sale were the only pitchers in the top 30 pitchers (yahoo rankings) that were available at the auction.

Rosters are deep

My advice is to stop posting this shit and make the picks you like