The Mastervision FAAB report continues to develop, including more opinion and analysis of moves. It has gone from being an invaluable record of bids and winners to a lively commentary on the goings on in Tout Wars.
This week Todd Zola points out the Scott Swanay, bedeviled on auction day in the Mixed auction league with too much money, has managed his team into a competitive position in the first division (barely as of today). This despite losing Jose Fernandez, everybody’s ace, for the season. Keep clawing, Scott!
Brian Walton speaks of my own bedeviled situation in Tout NL. In dollar days I took a flyer on Kris Bryant, the Cubs future slugger, but when he started slowly in Double-A and it became clear that he wasn’t going to be a June callup to the majors, I offered him around the league. Crickets, so I released him in order to hold onto someone I valued more. In May, Bryant got hot, and Mike Gianella picked him up for $1 FAAB a couple of weeks ago.
Apparently, Mike also came to the conclusion that Bryant’s next stop would be Iowa City, not Chitown, but when he offered him up yesterday Gene McCaffrey leaped with $50 of FAAB. What a difference a day (well, more like 45 of them) makes.