I am doing my student teaching this semester, and as such my time will be somewhat limited and spotty when it comes to preparing for Fantasy Baseball. I had some time today to go through and take a look at my keepers, so I'm going to go ahead to post that here and try to start the trend of having people openly share what they're thinking to assist in others planning.
This plan to do this early is only going to work if two things happen:
1) These keepers are not final keepers. There obviously needs to be flexibility with these keepers and these are not final. Last year, Darvish and Stroman went down with injuries and there was scores of other things which hurt players value for the season and changed players fantasy value. I'd like to reserve the option to make additions and changes as injuries occur or based on Spring Training performances. I also want to kind of see what you guys are keeping before finalizing mine. Obviously, if everyone is keeping their Second Baseman and there is no one of value in the player pool, I might think about keeping DJ LeMahiu. Or if there are a bunch of OF options, I might want to kick out Heyward knowing I can replace him easily. It's all relative.
2) While keepers are not final, I honestly don't want people to dick off with the keepers as a way of purposely providing false information to fuck up each others plans. That is, putting players you have no intentions of keeping on the list for the reason of messing up other players plans or keepers. I would like to think we are adults and would be above this. Yes, keep your draft plans secret. Yes, make changes to keepers and rosters whenever you want. No, this is not enforceable. But just please, don't dick with people like this.
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Just as a heads up, I want to remind you guys of the rule we used last year dealing with decimals in keeper values.
If your player has an odd number projection value like $9, it will count as $4.5 on your cap and not $5, but any decimal points in the final tabulation will be rounded. So if total of all your keepers values ends up at $90.5, your hit will be $91.
Anyways, here is my pending list of my intended keepers. I will edit this with changes. If anyone wants to do biggie a favor, they could make an open google doc or google sheet to record all these in one place for easy access and post it to the league board. I would now, but I'm pretty gassed from today. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow or this weekend.
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Keeper List (Last Year / Projected)
1. Yoenis Cespedes - $19 (19 / 24)
2. Johnny Cueto - $10 (10 / 15)
3. Todd Frazier - $9 (9 / 16)
4. Cole Hammels - $10 (10 / 16)
5. Jayson Heyward - $17 (17 / 18)
6. Corey Seager - $6.5 (0 / 13)
Total Cap Hit: $72 ($71.5 rounded up, per the rule I quoted)
Auction Budget Left: $188
I'm considering a few of my supporting pieces still such as Severino, Wacha, Miller, and LeMehieu but the rest of the guys like Bautista, Encarnacion, Tulo, Wainwright, Tanaka, and Shields are pretty much locks to be released into the draft pool.