Category: About Tout Wars

The Dark Arts: Handling Biogenesis, Injuries and the Trading Deadline

Steve Gardner’s latest in Sports Weekly looks at uncertainty and our fantasy fascination with it, with a little Tout Wars twist.

Mastersball FAAB Report: Trading Deadline Part 1 Edition

The AL acquired a couple of impact players, and the Tout Warriors were willing to spend on them. Read all about it here.

Maybe next week the NL will join in.

TOUT NL Trade (and more): Hertz So Good.

Phil Hertz made another trade this week, swapping Julio Teheran to league leader Tristan Cockcroft for $24 FAAB (after which Tristan still had more FAAB than anyone). But before that deal Phil wrote about his flurry of pitching trades in USA Today. You can read that here.

The July 22 Mastersball FAAB Report

Read about all the goings on at mastersball.com.

The big news in the NL was that Tristan Cockcroft redeemed Ben Revere (out for season) and BJ Upton (out for a week more) last week, giving him a huge FAAB advantage over everyone else. There’s a good chance Upton will be the first or second most valuable hitting addition in the NL this month, so the money flew.

Do breakouts help?

I just posted a story on the Askrotoman.com blog called The Overachievers (or are they?): What to expect from the first half’s most surprising hitters. It occurs to me that maybe we would learn something by looking at who drafted the year’s monster offensive profit generators and see where they are in the standings:

The Top 12 Hitters By Profit, Their Cost, The Drafting Team, Its Place In The Standings

Jean Segura, 15, Steve Gardner, 4th
Chris Davis, 20, Wolf/Colton, 2nd
Josh Donaldson, 10, Jason Collette, 7th
Nate McLouth, 3, Andy Behrens, 11th
Everth Cabrera, 17, Scott Wilderman, 12th
Daniel Nava, R, Larry Schechter, 1st
Manny Machado, 14, Joe Sheehan, 4th
Domonic Brown, 15, Phil Hertz, 3rd
Matt Carpenter, 14, Steve Gardner, 4th
James Loney, 7, Wolf Colton, 2nd
Yasiel Puig, 1, Lenny Melnick, 10th
Carlos Gomez, 25, Tristan Cockcroft, 1st

One thing for sure is that it’s good to have two of these guys.