[USML Announce] Ask Brad Jansen - September Edition

Brad Jansen bljansen at gmail.com
Sun Sep 11 12:44:48 EDT 2011


On a related topic:
 Jeffrey Winick has assigned me the task of compiling trade histories this
season for an analytical piece he's writing for Rotoboy. Am I missing
something on the site? I can see each team's moves but is there a single
link that lists the trades? It's quite an onerous task otherwise.

--Brad
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Andrew Klein <anrklein at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dear Brad Jansen,
>
> QUESTION #1
>
> Please rank the following Top Ten in order of stupidity:
>
> 1.  Retaining Franklin "Tummy Ache" Gutierrez instead of Matt Joyce at $7.
> (Joyce is .283-16-64-12 for the year.)
> 2.  Waiving Casey Kotchman in April because he was blocked by Manny
> Ramirez.  (Ramirez retired less than week later.  Kotchman is hitting .312
> for the year.)
> 3.  Trading Jeff Francouer at $1 for the miserable, rotten Fausto Carmona.
>  (Francouer is .282-17-77-20 for the year; Carmona's ERA is approaching the
> size of the national debt.)
> 4.  Picking up the phone when Kerber called to convince me that I should
> trade for Kevin Gregg.
> 5.  Picking up the phone when Kerber called to convince me that I should
> trade for Julio Borbon. (Had I waited 15 minutes, I would have known that
> Borbon was undergoing season-ending ankle surgery.)
> 6.  Activating Joel Piniero after Kerber traded him to me for Buehrle,
> suggesting that pitcher was a "nice, safe pitcher, just like Buehrle."
>  (Piniero ERA since trade:  6.49; Buehrle ERA since trade: 3.88.)
> 7.  Believing Gammons when he told me that John Lackey had "turned it
> around."
> 8.  Giving up on Juan Pierre at mid-season (.308, 15 steals after I dealt
> him.)
> 9.  Waiting for Scott Baker to regain his health (Like waiting for Godot.)
> 10.  Thinking that Blocker would make a trade.
>
> QUESTION #2
>
> Are the 2011 Red Hots the most dominant team in USML history, likely to
> finish with about 95 points in a ten-team league.
>
> Thank you in advance for your answers.
>
> -Andy
>  Owner of the the Klein Nine, second -- scratch that -- probably
> third-place finisher, 2011
>
>
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