On Thursday, I talked about the way I approach making trades at this point in the season. Today, I thought I’d walk you through a real-life example of how I think about trades from one of my own leagues: Tout Wars NL. Below, you’ll find the standings by category and my roster. Before you read about how I’ve been approaching trades, try to figure out what you would do in my situation.
Standings
RUNS
WINS
Phil Hertz
477
Peter Kreutzer
58
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If you are going to dilute the quality of your starting pitching - I would jettison Eric Bedard who is not himself the last 8 weeks - so as to lesson the pressure on keeping points in ERA and WHIP.
Tyler Thornberg? (waiting for Grienke's trade) Matt Harvey? Dan Wheeler? - or Whomever the next Mets pitcher is to get called up.
Trading Frieri - sell high - was great move - LaRoche is typically a very strong fantasy closer.
If Gyorko got called up to play 2B instead of 3B that would be huge.
I like to Ellis deal as he gets to hit in front of Kemp occasionaly and will score runs.
Now - how to replace Janish?
I am guessing the Rockies starting SS is gone.
Maybe you can buy low on Zack Cosart who scuffled recently - Luis Cruz - a sleeper - figured out how to hit in Mexico
I think your idea to trade Cain is good - with the main focus to be getting a high number of Q daily AB's - so as to climb in Runs and RBI
Ultimately unless Upton and Morse get white hot however - theres always next year.
Forgive me if this is obvious in Tout Wars, but in the NL leagues I play in, someone traded to the AL would be worthless, except for speculating that he might get traded back to the NL and you'd then own him again. So with Ernesto Frieri now an Angel, I'm scuffling to see how he's of any value in an NL trade otherwise??
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If you are going to dilute the quality of your starting pitching - I would jettison Eric Bedard who is not himself the last 8 weeks - so as to lesson the pressure on keeping points in ERA and WHIP.
Tyler Thornberg? (waiting for Grienke's trade)
Matt Harvey?
Dan Wheeler? - or Whomever the next Mets pitcher is to get called up.
Trading Frieri - sell high - was great move - LaRoche is typically a very strong fantasy closer.
If Gyorko got called up to play 2B instead of 3B that would be huge.
I like to Ellis deal as he gets to hit in front of Kemp occasionaly and will score runs.
Now - how to replace Janish?
I am guessing the Rockies starting SS is gone.
Maybe you can buy low on Zack Cosart who scuffled recently - Luis Cruz - a sleeper - figured out how to hit in Mexico
I think your idea to trade Cain is good - with the main focus to be getting a high number of Q daily AB's - so as to climb in Runs and RBI
Ultimately unless Upton and Morse get white hot however - theres always next year.