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| Recent Blog Post: Long Game Extra: Live-tweeting the Auction |
| My home AL-only keeper league auction is today (12 teams, 5x5, pretty standard roto ultra rules with the addition of an in-season salary cap), and I figured I might as well live-tweet the thing. Why? For reasons!
If you want to follow along, my Twitter handle is @AntonSirius. I'm starting it out with $173 (only three teams have more, with the big stack carrying $208), and the following roster:
C: Salvador Perez $3B, Tyler Flowers $3C
1B: Eric Hosmer $17Y
SS: Eduardo Nunez $6C
CI: Chris Carter $8B
OF: David Murphy $4B, Jonny Gomes $1B
P: Yu Darvish $31B, Matt Moore $10B, Brett Anderson $2B, Felix Doubront $2B
Minors: Bubba Starling, Michael Choice, Jonathan Schoop
(Note: for long-term contracts we bump the letter designation to the end of the alphabet so that they expire at the end of their 'Z' season.)
As you can see, I'm set at catcher and don't have to worry about scarcity there, but I've got no closers so I'll have to pay full retail for a couple. Third base is also an issue, as there are only three good ones (Miguel Cabrera, Adrian Beltre and Evan Longoria) available. All the young middle-tier guys are protected, so the drop-off in talent after the big three is STEEP. If I don't land one of them, I could be looking at a Matt Dominguez as the fallback. That's scary.
Nunez was the only really difficult choice, but with Jeter out for a bit, the other injury issues the Yankees have and me lacking steals, $6 didn't seem like much of an overpay and I could easily see him going for more at auction. The alternative would have been something like Eric Sogard at $1, and that seemed like a much bigger risk.
Posted by Erik Siegrist at 3/30/2013 6:39:00 AM |
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| Shane Victorino (OF) BOS |
5/21/2013 |
| Victorino is not in the Red Sox's lineup Tuesday at the White Sox. |
While the injury to his left hamstring is not considered severe, the banged-up Victorino will sit out for the third time in the past five games (the first two the result of back spasms). His absence will allow Jonny Gomes to man left field, while Daniel Nave slides over to right field. |
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| Rubby De La Rosa (P) BOS |
5/21/2013 |
| De La Rosa was scratched from Tuesday's start at Triple-A Pawtucket after tweaking a muscle in his side, WEEI.com reports. |
This sounds like a rib injury for De La Rosa, though it has not been clarified. He continues to ramp up his workload at Pawtucket, but has totaled just 24.2 innings in his eight starts this season. His stats look nice -- a 3.65 ERA, 1.24 WHIP, and 29:14 K:BB -- though a more robust pitch count is likely required for him to help out the Red Sox's rotation in the coming months. |
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| Jackie Bradley (OF) BOS |
5/21/2013 |
| Bradley doubled and homered in four at-bats Monday night for Triple-A Pawtucket. |
The homer was his first at the Triple-A level. He's hitting .315 since being sent down to Pawtucket. |
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| Jose Iglesias (SS) BOS |
5/21/2013 |
| Iglesias took ground balls at third base before Triple-A Pawtucket's game Monday, the Providence Journal reports. This comes two weeks after Iglesias was given exposure to second base in a pre-game workout. |
The move does not signal a shift away from shortstop to utility infielder for Iglesias, but the organization feels he's too good a fielder and could possibly help at the major-league level should a situation arise at third or second base. Already this season, we've seen the adventures of Pedro Ciriaco at third base when filling in for Will Middlebrooks. The position flexibility also gives PawSox manager Gary DiSarcina options if Xander Bogaerts hits his way up from Double-A Portland. |
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| Franklin Morales (P) BOS |
5/21/2013 |
| Morales (chest) will make his next rehab start Thursday for Double-A Portland, the Providence Journal reports. It had been reported his next rehab start would be with Triple-A Pawtucket. |
If the Red Sox needed another bullpen arm, they could activate Morales right now, but the team wants him stretched out and ready to fill in as a starter if need be. |
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| Andrew Bailey (P) BOS |
5/21/2013 |
| Red Sox manager John Farrell reiterated his desire to avoid using Bailey on back-to-back nights initially upon his return from the disabled list, the Providence Journal reports. "He's had one outing in 19 days. And while he's cleared and fully ready to go, I think it's best that we get a couple of appearances under his belt before we look to do that," Farrell said. |
Farrell will monitor Bailey's workload at the outset, but the closer should eventually get to the point where working in consecutive games is not a concern. Prior to his biceps injury, Bailey had appeared in 13 of Boston's first 25 games. |
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6/16/2010 |
| The Red Sox announced that they will move Thursday's game-time start from 7:10pm to 6:10pm EST, the Boston Globe reports. The shift will allow fans attending the game the chance to watch the Celtics in Game 7 of the NBA Finals. Those in daily transactions leagues will need to make starting lineup decisions involving Boston and Arizona players one hour earlier. |
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9/20/2008 |
| The Red Sox announced that they will shift their High-A affiliate from Lancaster (Calif.) to Salem (Va.), the Providence Journal reports. The move means Boston will have all of its affiliates on the East Coast and rids the organization of the issue of high winds in Lancaster that distorted performances of minor leaguers. |
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Roster
Majors
Bailey, Andrew P
Breslow, Craig P
Buchholz, Clay P
Carp, Mike OF
Ciriaco, Pedro 3B
Dempster, Ryan P
Doubront, Felix P
Drew, Stephen SS
Ellsbury, Jacoby OF
Gomes, Jonny OF
Hanrahan, Joel P(60D DL)
Kalish, Ryan OF(60D DL)
Lackey, John P
Lavarnway, Ryan C
Lester, Jon P
Middlebrooks, Will 3B
Miller, Andrew P
Morales, Franklin P(15D DL)
Mortensen, Clayton P
Napoli, Mike C
Nava, Daniel OF
Ortiz, David DH
Pedroia, Dustin 2B
Ross, David C(7-Day DL)
Saltalamacchia, Jarrod C
Tazawa, Junichi P
Uehara, Koji P
Victorino, Shane OF(DTD)
Wilson, Alex P
AAA
Aceves, Alfredo P
Beato, Pedro P
Bradley, Jackie OF
Brentz, Bryce OF
Butler, Dan C
Carpenter, Chris P
Carter, Anthony P
De La Rosa, Rubby P(DTD)
De La Torre, Jose P
Diaz, Jonthan SS
Doyle, Terry P
Godfrey, Graham P
Hamilton, Mark 1B
Hassan, Alex OF(7-Day DL)
Hazelbaker, Jeremy OF
Henry, Justin OF
Hernandez, Chris P
Holt, Brock 2B
Iglesias, Jose SS
Snyder, Brandon 1B
Sutton, Drew 3B
Villarreal, Oscar P
Webster, Allen P
Wright, Steven P
AA
Almanzar, Michael 3B
Bachanov, Jon P
Balcom-Miller, Chris P
Bard, Daniel P
Barnes, Matt P
Bogaerts, Xander SS
Britton, Drake P
Celestino, Miguel P
Dent, Ryan SS
Gibson, Derrik SS
Hissey, Pete OF
Huntzinger, Brock P
Kurcz, Aaron P
Linares, Juan Carlos OF
MacDonald, Michael P(7-Day DL)
Maier, Mitch OF
Maloney, Matt P(Out)
McGeary, Jack P
Meneses, Heiker SS
Ranaudo, Anthony P
Rowland-Smith, Ryan P
Shaw, Travis 1B
Spring, Matt C
Thomas, Tony 2B
Vazquez, Christian C
Vitek, Kolbrin 3B(Out)
Wilkerson, Shannon OF
Workman, Brandon P
A+
Cecchini, Garin 3B
Coyle, Sean SS
De La Cruz, Keury OF
Jacobs, Brandon OF
Marrero, Deven SS
Owens, Henry P
Pena, Miguel P(Suspension)
Price, Mathew P
Ramirez, Noe P
Ramos, Henry OF
Renfroe, David 3B
Swihart, Blake C
A
Johnson, Brian P
Kukuk, Cody P
Light, Pat P
Maddox, Austin P
Montas, Frank P
Perkins, Kendrick OF
Vinicio, Jose SS
Weems, Jordan C
Younginer, Madison P
Rookie
Almonte, Jose P
Buttrey, Ty P
Callahan, Jamie P
Ibarra, Adalberto C
Jerez, Williams OF
Jimenez, Dedgar P
Lin, Tzu-Wei SS
McGrath, Daniel P
Mercedes, Simon P
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