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Monday, July 16, 2007

There's Always Next Year.

I'm giving up on this season everybody so I will be trading players off for keeper talent. First I have a couple questions about the keeper rules:

1) What happens if after a trade you happen to have two players who were drafted in the same round and you want to keep both of them? If they were both drafted in say round 5 would you lose that pick and round 6 too?

2) What happens when you keep a player who you picked up on waivers? Do you only lose your last pick?

Anyway, Lee, Mussina, Santana, Colon, Damon, Ellis, Varitek, and Inge are all available for not much. Pretty much everyone else other than Guillen, Kazmir and Matsuzaka are available at a higher price, and those other 3 aren't out of the question if it's a good enough offer. I'm looking for good keepers who were drafted late.

6 comments:

Spencer said...

Correct me if I'm wrong about either of these Mark.

1) Yes, if you keep two from the same round, you lose that round and the next.

2) Yup, 25th round. Or if you keep 2 undrafted, then you lose the 24th and 25th.

Z said...

hmmmm.

If you keep 2 5th rounds should you lose the 5th and 6th or the 5th and 4th?

That's the only point of contention I can see. Not sure what the best way would be. My instinct says the later, but not sure.

Spencer said...

yeah i think it's gotta be the later. keeping two second rounders and getting the first taken away is a pretty big punishment.

Andrew said...

Wait- which do you mean? The later would be 5th and 4th, the former would be 5th and 6th. I'd say 5th and 6th- it's not like you'd really be able to scheme and try to hoard as many 3rd rounders as you can get your hands on or something like that.

Luke Murphy said...

I say 5th and 6th not 5th and 4th. I like the idea of encouraging keepers rather than discouraging them.

Z said...

Ok, i guess it works to take the 5/6 over 4/5. It just gives keepers a little more value, which is fine.