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I used the Rick Wolf/Glenn Colton auction draft model

Posted in fantasy, Hitting, LABR, MLB, National League, Pitching, Rotisserie, Rotoworld on March 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The League of Alternate Baseball Reality (LABR) includes experts from the fantasy sports industry. The Rick Wolf and Glenn Colton ownership team has  3 championships in ten years in the NL only league.  I looked at the Wolf/Colton roster composition , and decided to use their model as I approached the Carolina Baseball League (CBL) Auction draft (03/13/2011).  Based on their roster, it seems the strategy was not paying a lot for pitching, and using most of their money around five high end batters who provide multiple categories.

The Wolf/Cotton team spent $148 on five high end bats that included:

  1. $39 Joey Votto
  2. $32 Andrew McCutchen
  3. $30 Matt Holliday
  4. $29 Hunter Pence
  5. $18 Aramis Ramirez

For our draft, Hunter Pence and Andrew McCutchen were not available. I spent $145 for six primary bats:

  1. $39 Joey Votto
  2. $37 Justin Upton
  3. $39 Matt Holliday
  4. $10 Pedro Alvarez
  5. $10 Cody Ross
  6. $10 Logan Morrison

Like Wolf/Colton, I have both Votto and Holliday. For their Aramis Ramirez selection, I already had Pedro Alvarez for that slot. I considered Cory Hart for the Hunter Pence slot, but decided with his injury to move the money else where. Instead, I combined Cody Ross and Logan Morrison for $20.

On pitching, Wolf/Colton  went with three good starters who were nicely priced, and a high end closer:

  1. $20 Brian Wilson
  2. $16 Jonathan Sanchez
  3. $13 Matt Garza
  4. $13 Ricky Nolasco

For my pitching, I had a similar makeup but I went with two closers:

  1. $20 J.J. Putz
  2. $11 Matt Latos
  3. $13 Tommy Hanson
  4. $10 Kyle McClellan
  5. $10 Travis Wood
  6. $6 Craig Kimbrel

Here is my roster for opening day:

Pos Edit Active Batters Salary

C Hernandez, Ramon(C) CIN

4 C Thole, Josh(C) NYM 6

1B Votto, Joey(1B) CIN 39

2B Young, Eric(2B) COL  10

3B Alvarez, Pedro(3B) PIT 10

SS Renteria, Edgar(SS) CIN 2

MI DeWitt, Blake(2B) CHC 2

CI Overbay, Lyle(1B) PIT 9

OF Holliday, Matt(OF) STL 39

OF Morrison, Logan(OF) FLA

10 OF Ross, Cody(OF) SF

10 OF Upton, Justin(OF) ARI 37

OF Venable, Will(OF) SD  4

U Hairston, Scott(OF) NYM 5

Bench

Bench (3B) Baker, Jeff(2B,3B) CHC  3

Bench (SS) Emaus, Brad(SS) NYM 10

Bench (OF) Jackson, Brett(OF) CHC  10

Bench (U) Gibbons, Jay(OF) LA  2

Pos Edit Active Pitchers Salary

P Hammel, Jason(P) COL 7

P Hanson, Tommy(P) ATL 11

P Kimbrel, Craig(P) ATL  6

P Latos, Mat(P) SD 11

P Marquis, Jason(P) WAS  1

P McClellan, Kyle(P) STL  10

P Putz, J.J.(P) ARI 20

P Wood, Travis(P) CIN  10

P Young, Chris(P) NYM  1

Bench (P) Luebke, Cory(P) SD  6

Bench (P) Mejia, Jenrry(P) NYM  7

Bench (P) Rodriguez, Henry(P) WAS 5

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Tape Measure Blog Blast

Posted in Around the Web, Blogging, Braves, Gleeman, Rotoworld, THT on January 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Over the past 5 or so years the baseball blogosphere has really evolved. Today, you look everywhere and everyone has a blog of some sort. Some of players now have blogs, the (Tampa Bay) heckler has a blog, even the print media have blogs . Let me take you back to an earlier time when the baseball bloggers were few and far between. However, there was one baseball blogger, who may have started it all. This person was lucky enough to grab the baseballblog name over on blogspot. You tuned into his blog monday thru friday and he did not disappoint. He was just a college kid that knew so much about baseball and analysis. It seemed somehow he found the time to perform extensive research in his blog posts that made his case that he was trying to prove seem overwhelming. If some writer wrote something stupid, he found a way to crush them with his keyboard and his thought out words. Take for example, one day in 2003 that the Atlanta columnist Terrence Moore made the mistake of saying something dumb about Andruw Jones:

Andruw Jones already is the greatest center fielder of all-time, and I don’t give a Willie Mays what anybody else thinks.”

The baseballblog writer who went by the name of Aaron just let him have it.  Now, looking back at this feature about five years after he wrote it, the blogger was so right and worth the read.  Well, this blogger. His name is Aaron Gleeman who would go on to found The Hardball Times. Over at THT, you did not get the same edge you did at Aarons’s Baseball Blog.  I always thought this  college student Aaron would go on to be a world famous sports writer at some big newspaper or at Sports Illustrated.  He did make the big time as a writer at Rotoworld. But, I miss that sharp and unique writing  from AaronGleeman that we were fortunate enough to read in those early days.  For all those blogs out there now, we learned how to blog by reading Aaron’s early work.

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