Will617

Check your email then, Dipre.

They're also different for pitcher WAR, I know fangraphs uses FIP while BR uses something like tERA? I'm not sure exactly what BR uses. Dipre, have you tried opening the TS page in a different browser?

Miggy for Ryan Howard? Lol

Dipre, interested in Werth or Choo for Oswalt? Although if you agree, I can't really finalize it until my picks since it really depends on who I can pick up next.

Willing to trade: Shin-Soo Choo (OF, $461,100), Jayson Werth (OF, $7,000,000), and Ryan Howard (1B, $19,000,000) Looking for: Pretty much any position not already filled besides relief pitching, but would like to acquire a quality pitcher Can eat some big contracts

I could be persuaded to move Choo or Werth for a high quality pitcher, if anyone's interested. It's not a necessity, though.

Stfu you Ike Davis thief.

Having the "stuff" to be a top-5 pitcher means more than having just 2 electric pitchers. You said that he had the stuff to be a top-5 pitcher, I doubt that he has the right pitches to do it. If you're a starting pitcher, you won't succeed based on a fastball and curveball alone. Furthermore, can he sustain 100 MPH of velocity and still remain healthy? There are a lot of pitchers that cannot. There are a few that can (Verlander, Josh Johnson, and Ubaldo Jimenez, off the top of my head), but of the three that are list, all of them throw their secondary pitches about 40% of the time, all three of them throw at least an average changeup (in fact, Verlander and Jimenez's changeups have very strong run values). Feliz has not shown the ability to throw an average changeup, and until he does left-handed hitters will destroy him. Having two very good, electric pitches does not automatically make you a top-5 pitcher. He has two pitches that could very well exist in the arsenal of a top-5 pitcher, but he doesn't come close to having the stuff that a top-5 pitcher would.

I think that is definitely a stretch. There is no doubt that his stuff is very good, but there are very few people that can throw 100 MPH as a starter. He's been heavily reliant on his fastball as a closer, and although it's possible that he makes the adjustments, he pretty much has just an amazing fastball and a good curve, and a so-so change. There are pitchers that have had much better secondary stuff than Feliz, and even they couldn't make the adjustment properly. There's no doubt that Feliz has the potential to be a great starter, but to say right now that he could be a top-5 starter in the future, seems like a stretch to me.

Yeah, I mean I wanted him, so I think it was a good pick on your part. I was just surprised that I wasn't able to get him, given that the general consensus around TS and RSN (I thought) was that Beckett was terrible and everyone hated him. Well, not terrible, but not worth the money.

Wow, someone took Beckett? I was certain he'd fall to me at a much later round.

Just passing bad luck around. I had Ike Davis and Roy Oswalt taken in consecutive picks.

Not for a 3-year contract, they're not.

Oh, whoops, my bad. It works out, though.

Matt Kemp, CF, Dodgers, $4,000,000 Ryan Howard, 1B, Phillies, $19,000,000

Go go yrtb

lol

I'm fine with Okajima's resigning. He really suffered from bad luck and I expect him to bounce back and perform decently.

Great minds think alike. Do you have the pick of the guy that goes right before me/whether it conflicts with either of my first 2? (I don't know who most of the teams belong to)

Alright, I sent my picks.

I've got one pick down, but I'm still deciding on my second. I'll be here for awhile, though.

Bro, I've been getting my picks taken for the last 5 rounds lol. That's the problem with going first and then last.

I'm going to eat dinner, so I'll be back in 30 minutes-1 hour, so don't kill me.