Came here for a google search on Grandstand fantasy baseball which came up in a 2011 thread.... Have a run a league playing Grandstand style format and scoring on various semi-custom platforms since AOL discontinues the game back in 99 or 2000.... Over the years, our ownership group has morphed and dwindled with time. Its hard to convince folks about the awesome-ness of this format and am reaching out to those who remember. We have a spot or two open for the 2014 campaign. In addition, I'd like to connect with folks who loved the Grandstand game either for my curent league, new league, or for the future. Im not too savvy how this site works and expect contact data is taboo but I can be found on the web via googles for Ted Gross Realtor R5Realty Keller Williams.
-GFBase Ted!
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On Oct. 19th. 2013, SSI published The David Price Scenario. In this article, we foolishly presumed that it was David Price OR a major addition to the Mariner offense. Little did we know that Zduriencik was scheming to add David Price and ... Rogers Hornsby.
In this piece, we talk about teams that fielded dubious lineups, great rotations, and went to the playoffs. Notably, Price's own team in 2012. Notably, most of Billy Beane's teams.
There's a long comments section, including a poster named "Garry" who draws up a roster based on David Price. As well, Mo' Dawg continues to fire 3-irons into the middle of the fairway, saying NO! NO! NO trades of Taijuan or Paxton, even for Mike Trout....
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There's a funny comments section in this Lookout Landing thread, in which hardcore sabermetricians (including David Corcoran) argue that Joe Saunders is a fun-sucker and that we watch baseball for fun. Ergo no Saunders.
I trust you to see where we're going with this little inversion, vis-a-vis the Felix-Price-WBC-Paxton-Taijuan rotation.
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Here is the general SSI tag on David Price, with all its posts on the lad.
I'm starting to get worried. Every time you pull up an SSI player tag, there are 30 articles on the player. On my deathbed, I seriously doubt I'm going to say "I wish I'd written more DOV articles...."
On the other hand, neither will I say "I sure regret making virtual friends will all those sorry blog-o-sphere denizens" ... :- )
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In December already, CBS Sports tagged 3 teams as extremely interested in Price. Dodgers, Rangers, and you-know who.
:: taps fingers on desk ::
C'mon. Are the Mariners talking to the Rays, after having signed Robinson Cano?! Wouldn't that be something?
If the Mariners had a Cano/Price winter, you would want to be really, REALLY careful about reading authors who are limited to the WAR paradigm. That's free advice. Life is tough; baseball is an escape from life. As Jim Halpert asked Dwight Schrute, "let me get this straight: in your greatest fantasy, you don't own the hotel?"
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Whoops, speak of the devil .... just kidding. But the next link I ran across was this mathematical demonstration that you wouldn't want David Price. Wrong answer.
(I know, LrKrBoi29. The article doesn't say that you wouldn't want Price under any conditions. It just says you wouldn't want him in the real world, the one that has actual conditions.)
I don't try to do this. I just check that site once in a while, always firmly resolved to be nice, and things like that just fly out of my mouth.
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Here's a Feb. 5 Prospect Insider piece -- after the Cano signing, we do believe -- that votes "Price might be gettable without Taijuan or Paxton."
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Saving the best for last. Here's my man Sully with an article titled, "The David Price Equation." Jeffy points out that the "trade market never materialized" -- read, nobody is offering Taijuan Walker or his ilk -- and that the Rays' 2014 payroll is "unaffordable."
As the winter drags on, it could be Andrew Friedman who is sweating cannonballs.
Let's hope,
Dr d