Blockbuster Trade

[Rob]

12 team standard h2h league with IP and OBP added. In addition, we get four keepers.

 

I've been offered Johan Santana, Jake Peavy, and Carl Crawford for Albert Pujols, Joe Mauer, and Matt Cain.

 

This is my team right now.

 

C - Joe Mauer

1B - Albert Pujols

2B - Howie Kendrick

3B - Alex Rodriguez

SS - Bill Hall

LF - Manny Ramirez

CF - Vernon Wells

RF - Vladamir Guerrero

UTIL - Travis Hafner

 

SP - Felix Hernandez

SP - Rich Hill

SP - Matt Cain

P - Chien-Ming Wang

P - Jeremy Accardo

RP - J.J. Putz

 

Bench - Tim Lincecum

Bench - Andrew Miller

DL - BJ Upton

 

 

If I were to do the trade, I could slide Travis Hafner to 1B and put Crawford or Manny at UTIL. And Ramon Hernandez is available on the waiver wire to be my new catcher.

 

I'm fairly confidant that this makes my team better this season. But if you haven't guessed from looking at my team, I'm already in first place. And I worry that all it does is slightly degrade my keepers next season. So I have two questions I need help with.

 

1. Do you make this trade if you're in my shoes?

 

2. Who on earth would you keep?

[PrimeTime]

Id do this trade..Pitching is big in fanasty baseball which i realized..Its like RB's in football...I traded in my league to have Oswalt,Zambrano,Verlander,Wang,and Hudson...It pays off big..pitching will score you big and you would have a Great staff..do it

[TruffleShuffle]

how on earth in a 12 team league does someone have santana, peavy and crawford? Especially Santana and Crawford... Santana should have gone in the top 5, and Crawford shouldn't make it past 12.

[Tracer Bullet]

how on earth in a 12 team league does someone have santana, peavy and crawford? Especially Santana and Crawford... Santana should have gone in the top 5, and Crawford shouldn't make it past 12.

 

Good question. I'm wondering how anyone in a 12-team league has ARod, Pujols, and Vlad, who went in the top 6 in every single league I was in this year.

[tkenm356]

I'm guessing they were keepers from last year.

 

My question is, how on earth have you not made this trade yet? Your offense is stacked without Pujols and Mauer. Your pitching is kinda weak right now. If you add Santana and Peavy you'll have one of the best rotations in your league. Adding Crawford will give you decent power and lots of SB's, which you lack.

 

Trading Pujols is a big deal, yeah, but your offense is still good without him, and if you do trade him, you should trade him for no more than someone like Johan Santana, except in this deal, you're also getting a pitcher who is pitching better than anyone else on earth, as well as one of the best all-around outfielders in the league, essentially in exchange for Santana, cause Mauer's numbers are decent for a catcher, but rather weak this year, and Cain is crap this year in the w-l department, which sucks cause his ERA/WHIP is decent.

 

Not only do you do this trade, but you do it with a quickness no one has ever seen before

[Friendly Confines]

No kidding, how on earth did you manage to get Pujols, Mauer, Manny, Vlad, Arod, and Hafner? It just baffles me. Anyways, bravo.

[NCCubFan]

how on earth in a 12 team league does someone have santana, peavy and crawford? Especially Santana and Crawford... Santana should have gone in the top 5, and Crawford shouldn't make it past 12.

I'm in a 14-team league and have both Cabrera (Miggy) and Crawford. Crawford actually lasted until #19.

[Rob]

To answer all the questions about how I managed to get this team...

 

I traded:

 

Kelly Johnson and Gary Sheffield for Dan Uggla and Lance Berkman

 

Carlos Guillen and Jered Weaver for Bill Hall (bad trade, I know... but I had to get Bill Hall to set up the next trade)

 

Alex Gordon, Bill Hall, Jake Peavy, Ben Sheets, and Trevor Hoffman for Alex Rodriguez, Felipe Lopez, Scott Kazmir, and Matt Cain

 

Dan Uggla, Lance Berkman, and Scott Kazmir for BJ Upton, Carlos Beltran, and Cole Hamels

 

Mike Napoli, Carlos Beltran, Josh Hamilton and Roger Clemens for Vladimir Guerrero, Nick Swisher, and AJ Pierzynski

 

AJ Pierzynski, Nick Swisher, and Jhonny Peralta for Joe Mauer and Julio Lugo

 

Adam Dunn and Cole Hamels for Manny Ramirez, Bill Hall, and Andrew Miller

 

 

 

I've been doing a real good job of grabbing guys off the waiver wire and flipping them for good value. But the whole chain of events started when I got Berkman while his value was low. I've essentially traded from him up to Vlad by way of Beltran. And since none of the people in my league understand pitching prospects, I'm able to grab those guys off the wire to restock my pitching at will. (Hence why I was able to trade so much for ARod).

 

The only guys on my team that were there after the draft are Pujols, Hafner, King Felix, Rich Hill, and JJ Putz. I guess you could count Howie Kendrick, but I dropped him after his injury and he slowly made his way back around the league to me. Everybody else I've nabbed off waivers or through trades.