AOFBB 20-team Keeper - Who is returning in 2012?

[yankeetripper]

Originally Posted by The Arbitrary

I'm interested too... but looks like I'm waitlisted. Let me know via PM if I get the spot.

Is Cecil Fielder kept?

If you draft Cecil we'll let you have the Kila Monster for free.

[Is This Wilt Chamberlain?]

I'll play if you need another person. If not, I guess just add me to the wait list.

[The Arbitrary]

Actually, drop me off the wait list. I'm possibly going to miss a good portion of June, and that's probably not a great idea in what looks like a daily league.

[Matt406]

I'm on the waiting list and am still interested for this year.

[Big Pete]

Originally Posted by Matt406

I'm on the waiting list and am still interested for this year.

Awesome. So we have plenty of waitlisters, right? Besides getting a final response from harvma, we're pretty much set for the start of our preseason activities, right?

[trondogss]

Think so.

[tometom]

harvma needs to make a decision. With the trading starting next week, it would be nice to know that he is in or not. Also, allows all the new managers to start at the same time. I think the new managers that are smart enough to trade for some decent keepers usually do a better job in this league than those that just sit with their picks, but a lot of it does come down to luck.

Also, if you are a new manager, you might want to look at last year's preseason trades (if you can find them, I'm too lazy) and get a sense of what you should be offering for a keeper. There is no real rule, you just want to make sure you get a good deal. Obviously you don't want to give away a 5th round pick for a 10th round keeper unless of course that 10th round keeper is projected to be a top 100 player, than I guess that might make sense.

[tometom]

By the way, I've got the 1st pick, which I have no clue who I will be picking. I haven't done a single bit of analysis yet and don't even know who is available to me. But I am going to entertain offers for it. So, let me know.

[greenman]

Mat406 shows up, so we are just down to harvma's decision. Italian Halibut, your future is in harvma's hands.

Current draft order(s) would be:

Spoiler:

With harvma
1) tometom
2) Big Pete
3) yankeetripper
4) Cynical Realist
5) Linus
6) trondogss
7) JA6
8) harvma
9) Digweed
10) udjw
11) rekrap
12) strategygamer
13) New Manager #1 (Oddsox)
14) New Manager #2 (Agadefe)
15) New Manager #3 (Mat406)
16) accobra_kid
17) glitto2
18) Ezzard Charles
19) greenman
20) Ultimate Anyone?

Without harvma
1) tometom
2) Big Pete
3) yankeetripper
4) Cynical Realist
5) Linus
6) trondogss
7) JA6
8) Digweed
9) udjw
10) rekrap
11) strategygamer
12) New Manager #1 (Oddsox)
13) New Manager #2 (Agadefe)
14) New Manager #3 (Mat406)
15) New Manager #4 (Italian Halibut)
16) accobra_kid
17) glitto2
18) Ezzard Charles
19) greenman
20) Ultimate Anyone?

[greenman]

Originally Posted by tometom

By the way, I've got the 1st pick, which I have no clue who I will be picking. I haven't done a single bit of analysis yet and don't even know who is available to me. But I am going to entertain offers for it. So, let me know.

Just to get a quick idea of who would be available, here are the guys inelegible to be kept this year:

Joey Votto
Roy Halladay
Troy Tulowitzki
Miguel Cabrera
Robinson Cano
Joe Mauer
Adam Wainwright
Ubaldo Jimenez
Jayson Werth
Felix Hernandez
Tommy Hanson
Buster Posey
Neftali Feliz
Brett Anderson
Andrew Bailey
Andrew McCutchen

One guy jumps out to me as the #1 pick, closely followed by a couple others...