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Denny Lyons St. Louis Browns $901,747

Bradsher and vilefileman have both selected their versions of Falkenberg; so, I will take Cy Falkenberg, 1913.

Well, it's all about options with the teammates... This guy gives me a couple options (Zobrist at 2B or Bartlett at SS)... I can skip Bradsher and select...

2009 Carlos Pena, 3,897,366

3.405,435 Pena also 2011

every pick seems to change what my team looks like...

I'm just trying to understand how it is that Darin Erstad had a monumental season at age 26 and then never hit again, yet still managed to play 9 more useless seasons anyway.

Norm Cash could fall into that same catagory

Posted by asdlfef on 4/9/2020 7:32:00 PM (view original):
every pick seems to change what my team looks like...

You are fully realizing the beauty and frustration of this type of draft.

Posted by schwarze on 4/9/2020 7:55:00 PM (view original):

Posted by asdlfef on 4/9/2020 7:32:00 PM (view original):
every pick seems to change what my team looks like...

You are fully realizing the beauty and frustration of this type of draft.

I much prefer 16x16 where teammates can come from anywhere

Posted by Jtpsops on 4/9/2020 7:58:00 PM (view original):

Posted by schwarze on 4/9/2020 7:55:00 PM (view original):

Posted by asdlfef on 4/9/2020 7:32:00 PM (view original):
every pick seems to change what my team looks like...

You are fully realizing the beauty and frustration of this type of draft.

I much prefer 16x16 where teammates can come from anywhere

I'm having a ball with the frustration of being stuck with certain terrible choices and some really good ones personally lol

Yes his defense was still mostly very good. He won GG in '02 in CF and '04 at 1B, so that helped. His dWAR in '02 is a really impressive 4.2. And I guess no one talked about any of those metrics until much later. It just seems like someone should have noticed they had a guy leading off who could barely get on base 3/10 of the time, for a very competitive team. This is just the Mike Scioscia brilliance at work, I suppose.

(Can you tell I'm looking at these lousy seasons and trying to figure out what to do with them?)

Posted by redcped on 4/9/2020 8:04:00 PM (view original):
Yes his defense was still mostly very good. He won GG in '02 in CF and '04 at 1B, so that helped. His dWAR in '02 is a really impressive 4.2. And I guess no one talked about any of those metrics until much later. It just seems like someone should have noticed they had a guy leading off who could barely get on base 3/10 of the time, for a very competitive team. This is just the Mike Scioscia brilliance at work, I suppose.

(Can you tell I'm looking at these lousy seasons and trying to figure out what to do with them?)

You're welcome...

Posted by bheid408 on 4/9/2020 7:54:00 PM (view original):
Norm Cash could fall into that same catagory

Yes and no. I mean, he never approached that amazing 1961 again. I don't think folks appreciated the expansion dilution effect enough at the time.

But he did post 12 straight seasons of 120+ OPS+ from ages 28-39 and then 112 at age 40 before retiring. So he was always an above average hitter, in a pretty soft hitting era.

2008 Peralta 703,303

2012 Carlos Pena - $3,056,921