Who should I offer?

Question

I want to get Billy Wagner, but I'm not sure who to offer.

Here's my team.

C K. Johjima
1B P. Konerko
2B B. Phillips
3B C. Tracy
SS O. Cabrera
CI D. Lee
MI J. Kent
OF V. Wells
OF R. Ibañez
OF K. Griffey Jr.
Util J. Dye
BN C. Granderson
BN L. Overbay
BN Pr. Wilson
DL Á. Ríos


SP R. Clemens
SP P. Martínez
RP D. Turnbow
RP T. Saito
P F. Liriano
P T. Wakefield
P Cl. Lee
P B. Penny
BN J. Jennings
BN B. Myers
BN V. Padilla

I'm in DESPERATE need of saves.
Here are some Free Agent RP's, should I get any of them?

A. Burgos
D. Báez
T. Coffey
F. Rodney
S. Camp
J. Sosa

Answer 1

If Rios was healthy, you may have been able to trade him straight up for Wagner. Since he isnt, you might have to throw in somebody else. Maybe Jennings, as your rotation is still solid enough without him.

**Why is Myers still on your team? Phillies are considering permanently cutting him loose, and even if not, he will not pitch for a LONG time**

As for your list, nobody will help. None of them are closers, except for Coffey, and for that matter, Coffey is by far not a very good one.

Answer 2

Thanks again for picking me best answer. I have B. Wagner and since he gives you SOs and SVs, but you need saves, I would try to trade a SP who gets SOs. Try R. Clemens. Big name, gets Ks but wont be productive as
B. Wagner, well atleast to you.Also try to find a hole in our seller. Like my seller needed a 1B, so traded my guy to this other guy for C. Delgado and then traded C. Delgado for my want.
Someone dropped T. Coffey in my league today too. I didn't hear anything about him not being Cinnci's closer, so I would pick him up. Don't pick J. Sosa up, he won;t get that much saves now and after the trading deadline, the Braves are going to trade J. Smoltz for a closer, likely J. Zumaya but, it doesn;t matter for you. S. Camp also, I think T. Walker will be back a little after the All-Star break. F. Rodney isn't the closer for the Tigers. It's T. Jones, and if T. Jones get's injured, then it's J. Zumaya. If Zumaya gets traded, then F. Rodney will be the back-up closer for the Tigers. D. Baez isn't the closer for the Dodgers. T. Saito is. A. Burgos won't give you that much save oppurtunities and his ERA and WHIP will hurt you more than he will give you saves.

Answer 3

The scoring systems in your league would be helpful to know, but really you'd have to look at his team and see a weakness that he'd want to fill....He wouldn't want a SP if he had 5 solid ones already. As far as the free agents,
Coffey is probably the only one who should be on a team, The rest are just questionable weekly pickups to fill in for an injured guy.
Burgos has way to many lapses into a batting practice machine mode.
Rodney won't get much value unless jones goes down.

Answer 4

I would suggest picking up Coffey and Rodney. Coffey has a pretty good ERA for Cinci and while Rodney doesn't get a lot of saves for Detroit, he has a good ERA and if the Tigers had any sense about themselves, would make Jones the setup and Rodney (or Zumaya) the closer.

Answer 5

try packaging derrick turnbow and griffey jr. yes griffey jr. will get u Hrs and rbis but his avg is pretty bad, and as 4 turnbow hes a blown save waitin to happen, i have turnbow as well, but i also have 3 other closers on my team, so i can jus bench him, but wit u i would attempt to tade him. wagner is a great closer.

Answer 6

drop saito for sosa hes better than saito. if you really want billy trade a starter for him like wakefield. as for me i have the best rp in the league. paplebon and jenks. i had to trade manny for paplebon but i also got chipper jones in that trade:)

Answer 7

Trade Konerko, Overbay is doing great right now play him

Answer 8

Give up Pedro for Wagner and pick up another starter.