Is it just me or...

[rburgh]

You've struck a nerve. In a good way.

I think there are some really silly SP card prices in the last few batches. I've looked for come comparable "established" cards, and here's what I found.

Doc White 1906 (10.13) and Hippo Vaughn 1918 (10.06).

Compare their cards with Lefty Grove '31 and Carl Hubbell '33 - I think Lefty and King Carl have them beat. A couple of the new, more modern, cards - Warren Spahn '53 and Wilbur Wood '71 - seem to have been more reasonably priced.

Carl Mays 1917 (9.28) seems to me to be pretty comparable to Mort Cooper and Amos Rusie, who in turn are comparable to McGinnity and Red Faber.

John Smoltz '96 (9.36) looks to me like he should be priced somewhere around Seaver '71 or Clemens '98.

And please explain why the new Saberhagen card is $2 million more than the '94 version.

I also find the new Randy Jones card to be wildly overpriced, but there are no good matches (how many LHP with 3 BPHR against lefties and none against righties and a balance rating of 1L are there?). I'd rather use Ford 58 or Koosman 69, though.

And don't even get me started on the Bart Colon card. Two guys I found with comparable cards are Whitlow Wyatt 1940 and Jim Perry 1960, This is beyond silly.

[FUDU]

I hear ya tomwistar.

My thinking is simply this, in a game that appears to me as even just slightly dominated by offense (then you bring 200mil cap into play) I'll take my pitcher giving up walks all day as opposed to HRs. Yeah ideally none of us want walks b/c it adds base runners (and extends innings). But I see it as only station to station offense, compared to Xtra base hits and HRs. Which can so quickly lead to monster innings.

I am extremely averse to my staff having HRs on their cards.

[The Last Druid]

Hey Nev. I joined in the Central so he's in my division. Let's see if he likes it there or migrates west.

[BDWard]

[quote:9af615778a="tomwistar"]I'm curious if anyone has had a good season with the new Blackwell.[/quote:9af615778a]

Blackwell went 28-10 for me in a $100 mil DH 24 team franchise league:

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team_other.html?user_id=363999

[joeoc]

Tom,

SBDL 23

[url]http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team_other.html?user_id=362545[/url]

Blackwell went 15-16

[gfg001]

Have both the new 10.13 Doc White and the 10.79 Ed Walsh on a franchise league team. After 63 games White"s era is a 1.10 higher than Big Ed's... for what I consider a very similar price.
btw the park is Comiskey 11, a pitchers park, but still should favor a lefty .
greg

[dyork56]

Maybe a dumb move, but I gave the new '77 Leonard card a shot. So far, eh. He's sitting at 5.24/1.42 after around 110 innings. K numbers are good (104). I just picked the wrong park for him....or maybe his card is just eh all the way around.