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Greg Holland, Ernesto Frieri, Kenley Jansen. I only have one Bench spot, being used by Alex Cobb, because we don't have a DL spot. I need to move one, hopefully via trade.
Frieri is a distant 3rd here. That said, he is still pretty good, so I would move whomever you can get the most for in trade. That would likely be Jansen since there are a lot of Dodger fans and guys like me who would pay way too much for him.
Thank you for (unintentionally) showing me that I read the question wrong, and then answered wrong as well.
The joys of being criminally sleep deprived.........
As such, I rated Jansen best, and, for me, it is by a good margin. As such, use that to see who you want to move, and who you want to keep, and, what roster need are you trying to fill.
I could see moving Holland as the way to go, so you can keep Jansen. However, I would think that Jansen would give you a better player in return, so.....?
Theoretical Closer question for fantasy:
Would you rather have a closer who gets saves but has a below average ERA/WHIP/Ks or a closer who has a good ERA/WHIP/Ks but does not have too many saves...
Example: 65 innings 40 saves 3.7 ERA, 1.7 WHIP,59 Ks
vs. 65 innings 30 saves 2.7 ERA, 1.01 WHIP, 72 Ks
Both players were closers all season
The way i see it, closers dont pitch enough to focus on the other stats besides saves... of course it would be preferable to get an entire package, but I would choose someone who gets saves no matter how good of a pitcher he is...
Theoretical Closer question for fantasy:
Would you rather have a closer who gets saves but has a below average ERA/WHIP/Ks or a closer who has a good ERA/WHIP/Ks but does not have too many saves...
Example: 65 innings 40 saves 3.7 ERA, 1.7 WHIP,59 Ks
vs. 65 innings 30 saves 2.7 ERA, 1.01 WHIP, 72 Ks
Both players were closers all season
The way i see it, closers dont pitch enough to focus on the other stats besides saves... of course it would be preferable to get an entire package, but I would choose someone who gets saves no matter how good of a pitcher he is...
Well, I ended up getting Nava for Frieri. Hopefully he'll be a decent fill-in for good ol' Mr. Braun...at least he'll be better than the warm bodies i've been using. Thanks for the input, guys.
20/100/.280 looks very doable for him. Sucks that he does not run, but, he's a Red Sox, so, it is not surprising.
I have to say my feelings trend towards the opposite. In fantasy, especially in Roto, saves are just one of 4 or more scoring cats. And, as such, I would not want a guy on my team that will just help in only 1 single area. As such, if I had a closer that was killing me everywhere but saves, I think I would consider punting the saves stats all together, and change out the one closer, if not all of my closers, and turn then around for starting pitchers that will likely help me in all cats excpet saves.
No real right or wrong way to go here, just detailing how I owuld tend to go
To use a this season example- Jim Johnson vs Jonathan pappelbon, who is having a better season... I say Jim Johnson is...
In getting him, I was able to drop Lorenzo Cain who has gone from serviceable to absolutely horrible. George Brett must not have gotten around to him yet.
Are you SURE????
Small sample size caveats apply, of course, but since firing their hitting coaches and replacing them with George Brett the Royals have actually scored fewer runs.
Kansas City scored 4.0 runs per game and hit .261 with a .689 OPS in 50 games before firing hitting coach Jack Maloof. And in 23 games since Brett took over the Royals have scored 3.7 runs per game and hit .247 with a .658 OPS.
To use a this season example- Jim Johnson vs Jonathan pappelbon, who is having a better season... I say Jim Johnson is...