Fantasy Baseball: UBA Keeper League Roster Update
I have written several times about my off-season bailing strategy to build a championship team in the UBA NL-only keeper league here, here and here. Since my last update on May 4th, I have made the following deals:
1. Traded $38 S2 Carlos Lee, $28 S2 Chad Qualls, $1 L0 Clayton Richard, and $1 Blake Dewitt for $7 S1 Nyjer Morgan, $10 S2 Felipe Paulino, $10 S2 Pedro Feliciano and $4 S2 Christian Guzman
2. Traded $7 S1 Nyjer Morgan, $10 S2 Mike Pelfrey, $10 S2 Mike Leake, $1 S2 Ryan Hanigan, $7 S2 Jonny Gomes and $4 S2 Christian Guzman for $5 S2 Jason Heyward and a few "whatever" type guys to fill my roster.
3. Trades $1 S2 Brendan Ryan for $10 S1 Cameron Maybin
4. Traded $5 S2 Ramon Hernandez and $10 S2 Joe Thatcher for $19 S1 Trevor Hoffman, $10 S2 Nick Stavinoha and a second round pick in the 2011 minor league draft
5. Traded a $10 S2 Derek Lowe for $10 S2 Hisanori Takahashi and a second round pick in the 2011 minor league draft
6. Traded a $10 S2 Travis Wood, $10 S2 Carlos Silva and a $10 S0 Clint Barmes for $21 S2 Carlos Gomez, $10 S2 Arthur Rhodes, $10 S2 John Ely and a second round pick in the 2011 minor league draft
7. Traded a $10 S2 Jonathan Lucroy, $10 S2 R.A. Dickey, $10 S2 Vicente Padilla and a $1 S2 Jason Hammel for $4 S1 Ubaldo Jimenez, $10 S2 Joe Beimel, $12 L1 Samuel Demel, and $1 Brendan Ryan
8. Traded a 2011 second round pick for Erik Kratz
All of these deals, along with my offseason deals, leave me with the following keepers going into the 2011 season:
$5 S2 Ike Davis
$5 S2 Pedro Alvarez
$5 S2 Jose Tabata
$5 S2 Domonic Brown
$5 S2 Jason Heyward
$5 S2 Mike Stanton
$4 S2 Chris Johnson
$5 S1 Andrew McCutchen
$10 S1 Cameron Maybin
$5 S1 Kyle Blanks
$10 S1 Mat Latos
$4 S1 Ubaldo Jimenez
$5 L1 Dan Hudson
$5 S2 Drew Storen
And 3 possible closer candidates-$10 S2 Craig Kimbrel, $10 S2 Zach Braddock, and $10 S2 Kenley Jansen, along with Demel and Storen. Storen seems to be the only one who has a "good' shot at closing in 2011.
In alot of these deals, I took advantage of trading alot of guys i picked up on the waiver wire (the $10 S2 guys like Padilla, Pelfrey, Silva and Dickey).
I have solid power guys in Davis, Stanton, Heyward, Alvarez and Brown, and enough speed with McCutchen, Brown and Tabata. I now have two ace starting pitchers in Latos and Ubaldo, and a cheap closer in Storen, i hope. Through offseason trades and the 2011 draft I should be able to tweak the roster with some BA guys or more speed and maybe some pitching.
So, how have I done in my rebuilding strategy? Can this team compete in 2011 with a few offseason deals and a solid draft?
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in this league we assign $5 salaries to all minor league players drafted. They are raised to $10 after their first full year in the majors, if I am stating it correctly.
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by itkonlyyou224 on Aug 9, 2010 11:39 PM EDT up reply actions
Kratz
I should have mentioned that in the previous trade, I dealt Lucroy and did not get a catcher back, so I was in a bind, and the other team knew it. The 2nd round pick I traded was toward the end of the 2nd round, based on today’s standings.
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by Ray Guilfoyle on Aug 3, 2010 12:34 PM EDT up reply actions
in addition
I did not want to burn a waiver claim with all the deadline trades happening last week.
As a result, I was able to claim Dan Hudson with a $5 bid.
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by Ray Guilfoyle on Aug 3, 2010 12:37 PM EDT up reply actions
I'd tweak your keeper list
While I would keep Alvarez and Stanton, both may struggle with batting average given their poor plate discipline, and that being said, there’s no way I’d also keep Kyle Blanks, who combine terrible plate discipline with playing in hitter-unfriendly Petco field.
I love your pitchers and much of your lineup.
Good luck next year.

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