Chris.sied(@yahoo) wrote:
Admittedly, I am jumping in mid convo here, but in my opinion, I don't leave cards in the FA pile because I don't like them, but because the price that is set for them makes them a poor bargain. So as everyone sits here and nominates cards, I am sure they don't do it thinking they are going to nominate them with no plans to use them, and in fact I bet most people are actually looking forward to using them, but then the price tag comes out and everyone says, "I am not going to use them at that cost". Nominating the best cards is just part of it. The pricing is the part that really sets what cards will eventually get used and that is totally out of this groups control.
fwiw, I feel much the same way.
I know I try to use players I have asked for, check my teams for evidence of my hero Dick Ellsworth, though I never did get the correct Steve Ontiveros (I was hoping for the SH 3b, not the pitcher)
it does seem to me that with the 'propagation' of leagues with special considerations/constraints, a case could be made for just about any player, yes, even Eddie Gaedel (if he is a DH with all walks against LHP and no onbase against RHPs (just a mixture of outs, a mixture of strikeouts, gb(p)As, popups, and maybe even gb(c)As (groundballs fielded by the catcher - a new kind of result)) and is an E, 1-6 on the bases