BNL #8 Draft - APB! Topic

Posted by ermocito on 3/24/2024 6:56:00 PM (view original):
I think the strikethroughs are up to date. Thank you all for the occasional backchannel when something is incorrect!

I try to update in real time, which means using my phone and the strikethrough feature is rarely offered except when I am at a full size computer.

The list of teams taken (3rd post) is usually the most up to date option (besides reading each pick and keeping track, of course). But I know that the strike throughs are helpful so I am trying to keep caught up on them as well.
Appreciate all of your hard work.
3/24/2024 7:16 PM
seay00 - gets the 1948 Browns

They provide no pitching but do provide good players at 2B and 3B….he already has them there.
3/24/2024 7:30 PM
It was inexcusable on my part not noticing 1968 Washington Senators a few posts above ... And certainly won't offer hints on who to Dagger again

3/24/2024 7:33 PM
Sorry. For some reason, I thought I had overnight. Jonstephens25 gets the 38 White Sox. Why? His 48 Red Sox has good hitting, including Teddy Ballgame aka the Splendid Splinter and I nearly took this team myself. However, there's not much pitching. The 38 White Sox have a couple of ok OFs and a couple of lower salary options too but the pitching is similarly weak. Plus, everyone knows not to mix White and Red Sox in the wash!
3/25/2024 1:21 PM (edited)
Posted by Ribbentrop on 3/24/2024 7:33:00 PM (view original):
It was inexcusable on my part not noticing 1968 Washington Senators a few posts above ... And certainly won't offer hints on who to Dagger again

You are definitely not the first person to assign a team previously picked - I think that happens more than once in both drafts.

Thankfully, we have a lot of people paying close attention so it is usually noticed immediately!

I copied round 3 to the top of the front page. We have a few hours break but the first person is on the clock at 4pm MON.
3/24/2024 8:20 PM
Posted by jonstephen25 on 3/24/2024 7:30:00 PM (view original):
seay00 - gets the 1948 Browns

They provide no pitching but do provide good players at 2B and 3B….he already has them there.
nice one there. the 48 Browns are horrible. well done.
3/24/2024 9:16 PM
C-Burns - you have no real stars so you get to continue that trend with the 1988 - California Angels

Wally Joyner, Johnny Ray, and Bryan Harvey may help an avg team but not a good one…
3/24/2024 10:43 PM
seay00, I gift you the '78 Indians. They have a decent Andre Thornton at 1B and a few low salary options but not much else. You may have some salary cap options here but not a lot of guys who'll make your team better. Good luck.
3/25/2024 12:59 AM
C_Burns04 gifts jonstephen25 the 1968 Philadelphia Phillies. Enjoy!
3/25/2024 3:44 PM
Posted by ermocito on 3/25/2024 3:44:00 PM (view original):
C_Burns04 gifts jonstephen25 the 1968 Philadelphia Phillies. Enjoy!
Ribbentrop, you should be grateful because those Phils might have been yours if they’d lasted a couple more picks.
3/25/2024 4:18 PM
Posted by seay00 on 3/25/2024 6:38:00 PM (view original):
For jpeterso, I was having a hard time trying to find the perfect compliment-- to his solid hitting group with the first pick of the 38 Red Sox. I was not able to find a completely terrible pitching staff from top-to-bottom. So, the 1948 Philadelphia Phillies will have to be your treasure.

You will have the option of SP Dutch Leonard at a reasonable price, but that's about it wrt your hurlers. I'd rather throw you 1 decent starter than 3 or 4 useable arms. There is some filler there to eat innings if it strikes your fancy. I'll admit I'm not crazy about Ashburn and Ennis as nice OF options, but this roster doesn't have much else to help you, and Ennis is not exactly "eureka" out there to back up your aces on the hill. Oh, you might notice that Ashburn isn't the most durable that year either. They do have a couple cheap bench dudes with a sweet 152 ABs combined. CANNONBALL! Better have some exceptional everyday stamina to take on that frugalness.

I'm hoping I did a better job this season with your gift. And just remember, that.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9tH_GX9oHo
It appears I made it 34 years without seeing or hearing that. I am committed to a longer streak, beginning right now!
3/25/2024 6:59 PM
Posted by ermocito on 3/25/2024 6:59:00 PM (view original):
Posted by seay00 on 3/25/2024 6:38:00 PM (view original):
For jpeterso, I was having a hard time trying to find the perfect compliment-- to his solid hitting group with the first pick of the 38 Red Sox. I was not able to find a completely terrible pitching staff from top-to-bottom. So, the 1948 Philadelphia Phillies will have to be your treasure.

You will have the option of SP Dutch Leonard at a reasonable price, but that's about it wrt your hurlers. I'd rather throw you 1 decent starter than 3 or 4 useable arms. There is some filler there to eat innings if it strikes your fancy. I'll admit I'm not crazy about Ashburn and Ennis as nice OF options, but this roster doesn't have much else to help you, and Ennis is not exactly "eureka" out there to back up your aces on the hill. Oh, you might notice that Ashburn isn't the most durable that year either. They do have a couple cheap bench dudes with a sweet 152 ABs combined. CANNONBALL! Better have some exceptional everyday stamina to take on that frugalness.

I'm hoping I did a better job this season with your gift. And just remember, that.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9tH_GX9oHo
It appears I made it 34 years without seeing or hearing that. I am committed to a longer streak, beginning right now!
Yeah, that should have come with a content warning.
3/25/2024 7:24 PM
thanks seay00. I just threw up a little in my mouth.
3/25/2024 10:23 PM
My time slot is open, which means we are skipping a pick for now ...

Ribbentrop, you drafted the 1978 Royals and then received the 1978 Twins. You've got a handful of usable pitchers, headed by a stout Larry Gura, but after him the rotation starts to jump above the 3.00 ERC# line. You've got a few relievers who are solid enough, though a few of them walk a lot of guys. So one of my goals is not to help your pitching staff out much, if at all.

On offense, you've got several good quality guys to fill your lineup who have good gloves, too, assuming you have money and spots for all of them. The Twins actually gave you two nice starters in Carew and Smalley to go with Porter, Brett, and Otis from the Royals. I can't take any of that away from you at this point, only try to make it harder for you to roster them all and surround them with talent.

Let's also look at areas of roster construction that could be issues. Your two teams each have just one Catcher and one Shortstop. I don't want to make those problems go away for you, if I can avoid it. Alas, just two other teams left have just one Catcher on them, and they're otherwise decent teams, so you're spared there, but not entirely if I can help it. It wasn't too hard to find teams that don't have a backup SS, so I plan to leave you with that problem.

I narrowed down my options to two teams. I can't name the other one, of course, but it did have just one SS and two not-cheap catchers. The problem was it had a few useful pitchers, and I just couldn't bring myself to do that. What is interesting is both the teams I considered here were actually kind of good, at least 10 games over .500 in fact.

So let's meet a rather surprisingly not-useful team, the 83-71 Pittsburgh Pirates of 1948.

Starting with the pitching. You've got 11 guys to choose from. The problem is none of them are actually any good. The best ERC# among them is 3.60. By all means, stick some of them on your staff. We'll all be grateful. They're not horrible, but they're not what you want out there either.

As for the hitting, well I do have to give you their one very good player, Ralph Kiner. He's an affordable masher with a decent glove. But he is a $6M player, and several of your other good hitters are in that range, too. Hopefully this means you have to settle for lesser choices in a couple spots.

After that, though, things really tail off. You've got a couple other replacement-level outfielders in Westlake and Walker, and then it's a hitting desert. Only Kiner and Westlake even slugged .400 for this squad, with Kiner hitting 40 of their 108 HR that season. It's not all that hard to build an outfield in this league, so if I have to give you any talent at all it's best put there.

As for the SS situation, well you get one more full-time player and no cheap backups, so you've now got just the 3 guys there. And behind the plate, adding to Porter and Wynegar will be a platoon of $1.5-2M guys. So at best right now you're wasting a decent chunk of cash on the backups while trying to fill all the other holes with your final team and avoiding daggers.

If making your job harder is my top job here, I think I did the best I can. Good luck!
3/26/2024 11:29 AM
Picking now
3/26/2024 12:57 PM
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