Category: Tout Draft and Hold

Your Tout Wars 2024 15-Team Mixed League Winners!

Scott Swanay won Tout Wars Mixed Auction 2024, decisively winning behind excellent seasons from Yordan Alvarez, Willy Adames, and Jose Altuve at the bat, and George Kirby and Emmanuel Clase on the mound.

Rudy Gamble is Tout Wars Mixed Auction champion. This is his third title in this league. He had a dominant draft, winding up with Yordan Alvarez, William Contreras, and Wyatt Langford on offense, and Framber Valdez and Chris Sale on the bump. He had only Evan Phillips as a closer but managed to scramble together enough saves for four points.

Ray Flowers is the 2024 Mixed Draft Alt Categories champion. MDAC uses IP instead of Wins and Holds+Saves instead of Saves. Ray had the 11th pick of the draft and took Shohei Ohtani. Enough said, though he took Trea Turner on the way back and picked up Framber Valdez and Joe Ryan in the next two rounds, which didn’t hurt.

Alan Harrison has won the Tout Wars Draft and Hold this year, his third championship in the last four years. He dominated across the board, with Elly De La Cruz, Tyler O’Neill, and Jurickson Profar on offense, and Paul Skenes, Hunter Greene, and Emmanuel Clase pitching.

We Have Winners! Vlad Sedler Holds on to Win Tout Wars Draft and Hold!

Looking at the draft day standings coming out of last winter’s slow draft, Vlad Sedler and Brad Johnson looked like the league’s best. At midseason Sedler had opened up a sizeable lead, but Johnson chippped away in the second half causing Vlad agita, and he ultimately held on for victory. It is Sedler’s second Tout championship. The previous was in 2017 in the Head-to-Head league.

Tout Wars Draft and Hold is over!

Check out the draft board here.

Nando Di Fino talks about his team with Derek VanRiper on their podcast.

Michael Stein’s article about his team.

James Anderson writes about all his industry leagues, including Tout Draft and Hold.

Brad Johnson writes about his draft.

This Year’s Touts!

With one exception, this year’s Tout Wars leagues are filled. See who’s playing who on the Touts 2022 page.

This year’s Tout Wars Draft and Hold league kicks off on March 1st. We’ll have a link to monitor the slow draft once we begin.

Tout Wars Draft 12 league also kicks off on March 1st, starting at noon, covered by the Rotowire show with Jeff Erickson and Todd Zola on SiriusXM fantasy sports radio.

Tout Wars Draft 15 league will take place on March 8 at 8pm, covered by Colton and the Wolfman on SiriusXM.

This year’s live auctions, on Tout Wars weekend, will be remote again, alas. They take place on March 19 (AL at 10am, Mixed Auction at 3pm) and 20 (NL at 10am and H2H at 3pm). More details the week before Tout Weekend.

Some other announcements:

Head to Head will again play by CBS Sports H2H Points scoring system, as selected by 2021 winner Frank Stampfl. Unsurprising if you know who Frank works for.

To address the mess of major league free agents because of the lockout, who may or may not have signed by draft day in the AL-only and NL-only leagues, the Touts in those leagues may roster anyone on a major league roster of their respective league, as usual. But in 2022, while they may also draft free agents, any free agents who then go on to sign in the other league may be kept active accumulating stats even as they play. In prior years those players would have had to be released. While the extra talent is going to dilute the draft day pool if the labor issues aren’t solved soon, allowing the stats of the talent acquired to accumulate seemed the fairest way to deal with the issue for all involved.

Finally, this year Tout Wars is acknowledging that for a variety of reasons, some temporary and some permanent, some Touts need partners. We’re now accepting proposals from Touts in some cases, if there is a good reason and both partners meet Tout Wars’ eligibility standards. In the future you’re likely to see more partnered teams than just Colton and the Wolfman in Tout AL. Once we go back to live events, however, with the grandfathered exception of the Colton/Wolf team, only one of the partners will be allowed to sit at the table during the auction.

The Touts: In their own write (or radio, or podcast)

Each year we publish links to the Touts writings and ruminations about what happened in the season that just ended. Here they are for 2021:

Draft and Hold: Michael Stein |

NL: Fred Zinkie | Phil Hertz |

Mixed Auction: Zach Steinhorn |

Head to Head: Frank Stampfl |

Tout News: Games On!

Tout Wars Draft and Hold League began March 1 as a slow draft. You can follow the picks here on the public draft board.

Tout’s new 12-team Mixed Draft kicks off today, March 2, at 12 noon live on SiriusXM, hosted by Jeff Erickson and Todd Zola. You can follow the picks here on the public draft board.

Want to know who is playing in which league? Click here.

Tout Wars Draft and Hold 2020 Champion, Brad Johnson

Starting with the season’s first full week, there was one thing the Touts in the Draft and Hold league could count on each Monday: Brad Johnson would be in first place.

There were a couple of weeks in late August when he surely slipped behind Mike Florio, who dogged him all season long, but by Monday Johnson was once again atop the standing.

The same is true today, the Monday after season’s end.

End Of Season Round Ups: The Touts Describe What Happened

TOUT MIXED AUCTION: Sayre | Hershey | Flowers | Steinhorn | Zimmerman | Melchior |

TOUT AL: Davitt |

TOUT NL: Hertz |

BaseballHQ did a five part series featuring Brent Hershey, Patrick Davitt, and Phil Hertz in the final weeks of their respective (Mixed Auc, AL, NL). Read them here. Part one | two | three | four | five.

TOUT MIXED DRAFT: White | Short |