Angels
Another week, another list of drops in the NFBC Main Event. I’m not sure if it was owners moving onto football or the lack of news, but there weren’t many moves this week. For that reason, I wrote up any player dropped in eight or more of the 38 leagues instead of the normal 10 leagues.
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: Sorry for the delay, I lost track of time.
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: Here are the results of tonight’s Tout War bidding
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: Auction:
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: MBrosseau: 51
JSuarez: 33 RGarcia: 22 MCanha: 21 APlutko: 13 MYastrzemski: 3 JJunis: 3 CBurnes: 2 TWolters: 0 |
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: Draft
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: DPoncedeleon: 87
JSamardzija: 22 VVelasquez: 22 DanNorris: 18 DAgrazal: 7 MBrosseau: 7 RGrossman: 1 |
It looks to be another calm week for adds if last night had not happened.Daniel Hudson got the first Save chance with Ken Giles out. He hasn’t had a chance to see his ownership jump so he’s not on the list, but he could garner decent bids for teams in need of Saves.
The projection guidelines:
I’m not sure how helpful this article will be this week. There are just so many players coming back from the IL after the break, it’s tough to guess how each situation will shake out. It’s such a nightmare but the overall picture should be clearer come Monday.
Angels
Another week, another set of closer rankings. The following ranks are based on accumulating Saves with talent as a secondary consideration. The order is the ranking I would prefer to roster them. In some instances, I wasn’t sure (e.g. Ken Giles), I made a note.
I had a tough time ranking #12 to #30. Each of these pitchers has some questions surrounding them mainly be traded or being replaced by someone the team trades for. It’s a tough balance.
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With the July 4th holiday and All-Star game, the waiver wire activity was down in the 38 NFBC Main Event leagues.
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: I may have a shorter chat but not sure. Not Tout Wars FAAB since the leagues run the pickups Wed night.
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: I have to check my smoker and I’ll start answering questions.
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: Which current closers should we be looking to deal now because they won’t be closers after the trade deadline, and vice versa for current no closers.
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: Will Smith, Shane Greene, Colome.
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: I have two closer spots and i got kimbrel, diaz, and neris, what should i do?
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: You can stream them in depending on the games that week. Or trade one
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It’s never a good week for adds when catchers take the top billing. Owners may want to focus on drops from last week and maybe gamble on some bullpen arms.
The projection guidelines:
From now until the trade deadline at the month’s end, I will be publishing a weekly post on overall closer rankings. The focus is not the best closers, but the combination of talent, opportunity, the chance of being traded, other bullpen arms, and mainly accumulating Saves. These rankings could change on a dime but at least they provide some structure for speculating on Saves.
I find the rumor mill boring but usually where there is smoke, there is fire. For that reason, I’m basing the chances of being traded on MLBTraderumors and The Athletic’s most likely traded lists. If they are wrong, I’m wrong.
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