A Busy Ottoneu Offseason

Real baseball is over and ottoneu roster review season is in full swing. Brandon Warne and Chad Young have already revealed where their rosters stand in FanGraphs Staff  Two, and I touched upon the challenges facing me while gloating about my championship win. It’s going to be a difficult offseason.

My present roster includes $548 spread over 42 players. That excludes roughly $30 to $33 from arbitration allocations. Obviously, I dealt a lot of cost effective talent to upgrade my roster. Like Chad suggests, I do my best to acquire keepers when trading away cheap players. Here are the biggest names I acquired during the season. Prices reflect the time of trade.

April 9
Clayton Kershaw ($61)
Kenley Jansen ($15)
Brandon Moss ($9)
June 18
Anthony Rendon ($25)
June 27
Jeff Samardzija ($17)
July 29
Brock Holt ($1)
August 10
Zack Greinke ($31)

I parted with a variety of future building blocks including Robbie Ray ($1), Drew Smyly ($6), Evan Gattis ($6), Stephen Piscotty ($1), Christian Yelich ($6), J.P. Crawford ($2), Edwin Encarnacion ($26), and Dellin Betances ($3). However, Kershaw, Rendon, and Greinke should help me to recover a similar quantity of low-cost core components.

Only seven players on my roster look like cuts, and they’re all cheap filler like Chase Utley ($6), Jimmy Rollins ($5), or Ryan Madson ($3) (prices reflect current state). My most expensive cut, Greg Holland, would have been an easy trade asset at $13. I suppose I have two choices – I could cut keepable players or make a lot of trades. Obviously, we know which route I’ll take.

Let’s start with position players. I’ve listed everyone by position, but the table is sortable. You may prefer to sort by price. This does not include allocations.

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