Expansion Draft

by RoyalsRetro on Dec 21, 2008 11:28 PM EST Comment 24 comments

I'm creating two expansion teams for my sim league this year (Portland and New Jersey). For the expansion draft, each MLB team can protect fifteen players on their 40 man roster, then three more each round. Each expansion team will select 35 players, and no team can lose more than three players.

For this exercise, list your team (or more than one team if you wish) and list the fifteen players you think they would protect. Then list the three additional players they would protect in round two, and the three additional players they would protect in round three.

I would imagine a lot of bad contracts will be exposed, as they were in 1997, so feel free to expose guys like Gary Matthews Jr., Juan Pierre, etc.

Much appreciated. If there is interest, maybe we'll even run the expansion draft together. Wow, I'm a nerd.

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Braves

Jurrjens
Hudson
Gonzalez
Soriano
Vazquez
Morton
Boyer
Acosta
Moylan
McCann
Kotchman
Johnson
Escobar
Chipper
Francoeur

after first round
Reyes
Campillo
Bennett

after second round
Blanco
Prado
Anderson

after third round
Infante
Logan
Diaz

by cajunrevenge on Dec 22, 2008 2:31 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Mariners

I’ll bite.

Protected
Jeff Clement
Adrian Beltre
Yuniesky Betancourt
Jose Lopez
Mike Carp
Ichiro Suzuki
Franklin Gutierrez
Endy Chavez
Wlad Balentien
Greg Halman

Felix Hernandez
Erik Bedard
Brandon Morrow
Aaron Heilman
Ryan Rowland-Smith

Rd. 2
Matt Tuiasosopo
Mark Lowe
Cesar Jimenez

Rd. 3
Rob Johnson
Justin Thomas
Ryan Feierabend

by DrunkIrish on Dec 22, 2008 2:46 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Mets

Protected:

David Wright
Jose Reyes
Mike Pelfrey
Johan Santana
John Maine
Carlos Beltran
Carlos Delgado
Daniel Murphy
Jonathan Niese
Fransisco Rodriguez
J.J. Putz
Ryan Church
Sean Green
Fernando Tatis
Bobby Parnell

Round 2:

Brian Schneider (or Ramon Castro if he gets grabbed)
Eddie Kunz
Pedro Feliciano

Round 3:

Nick Evans
Jeremy Reed
Brian Stokes

by Mark Himmelstein on Dec 22, 2008 3:22 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

I would keep Wagner over Tatis

He may be on the DL, but he is too much of a talent to just let go

by mtk52983 on Dec 22, 2008 8:46 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

i dont think anyone would pick up Wagner.

He is out next season with TJ surgery and I think it is too risky to pick up his 2010 $8 million option as a 38/39 year old.

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by mrmetaa on Dec 22, 2008 11:27 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Exactly

Why would an expansion team want to spend around $20 million (if the point is to pick up his option) for seven months of an old TJS recoveree? Even if they did take him, the Mets would get out of paying him all that money. Meanwhile Tatis is both useful and affordable, a valuable commodity even on a big market club.

by Mark Himmelstein on Dec 22, 2008 1:29 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I'll do the Nats

1st
Ryan Zimmerman
Scott Olsen
Shawn Hill
John Lannan
Jason Bergmann
Colin Balester
Shairon Martis
Jesus Flores
Ross Detweiler
Christian Guzman
Elijah Dukes
Lastings Milledge
Josh Willingham
Mike Hinckley
Anderson Hernandez

2nd
Terrel Young
Garret Mock
Matt Chico

3rd
Nick Johnson
Justin Maxwell
Ian Desmond

Accidentally not thedude925 anymore. I do hate this new name.

by wildthang on Dec 22, 2008 3:58 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Hope I understand this, and

I’ll try the Red Sox.

Josh Beckett
Jon Lester
Dice-K
Clay Buchholz
Kevin Youkilis
Jed Lowrie
Dustin Pedroia
Jacoby Ellsbury
Jason Bay
J.D. Drew
David Ortiz
Jonathan Papelbon
Justin Masterson
Manny Delcarmen
Lars Anderson

2nd Round
Michael Bowden
Oscar Tejada
Daniel Bard

3rd Round
Ryan Kalish
Jason Place
Michael Almanzar

I was really debating Bowden instead of Lars, but ultimately went with the hitter in this case.

by thomasps3 on Dec 22, 2008 9:02 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

40-man

You don’t need to protect Lars, Tejeda, ect…they aren’t on the 40-man roster.

Guys who are on the 40-man who you’d might want to protect:

Junichi Tazawa
Argenis Diaz

by SmokeyJoeWood on Dec 22, 2008 11:26 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Cards

Albert Pujols
Adam Wainwright
Colby Rasmus
Ryan Ludwick
Yadier Molina
Chris Perez
Jason Motte
Kyle McClellan
Rick Ankiel
Troy Glaus
Bryan Anderson
Todd Wellemeyer
Joe Mather
Kyle Lohse
Josh Kinney

Rd. 2
Mitch Boggs
John Jay
Jess Todd

Rd. 3
Clayton Mortensen
Skip Schumaker
Pete Kozma

Off the top of my head. Hopefully I made no egregious mistakes.

Space.

It's a problem we face.

So we never go anywhere.

We just stay in one place.

by hazel on Dec 22, 2008 9:45 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Rangers

I’m assuming that players go with their contracts so I’m not necessarily protecting the best 15 players but rather the best 15 contracts. At least Feliz, Holland, Smoak etc. aren’t on the 40 making this a bit easier although i am sure others will disagree with this

15
Frankie Fransisco
Matt Harrison
Tommy Hunter
Eric Hurley
Vincente Padilla
CJ Wilson
Max Ramirez
Jarrod Saltalamacchia
Taylor Teagarden (no way around protecting all 3)
Chris Davis
Ian Kinsler
Julio Borbon
Nelson Cruz
Josh Hamilton
David Murphy

Add 1
Vallejo
Young
McCarthy

Add 2
Madrigal
Poveda
Blalock

by Dalman on Dec 22, 2008 9:53 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Reds

1. Homer Bailey
2. Francisco Cordero
3. Johnny Cueto
4. Aaron Harang
5. Edinson Volquez
6. Ramon Hernandez
7. Yonder Alonso
8. Edwin Encarnacion
9. Juan Francisco
10. Brandon Phillips
11. Joey Votto
12. Jay Bruce
13. Micah Owings
14. Billy Bray
15. Darryl Thompson

First Round
1. Arthur Rhodes
2. Matt Maloney
3. Paul Janish

Second Round
1. Bronson Arroyo
2. Wilkin Castillo
3. Chris Dickerson

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by mrmetaa on Dec 22, 2008 11:41 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Rays

1st Round (no particular order)
1) Carl Crawford – LF
2) B.J. Upton – CF
3) Matt Joyce – RF
4) Evan Longoria – 3B
5) Reid Brignac – SS
6) Carlos Pena – 1B
7) Dioner Navarro – C
8) James Shields – SP
9) Scott Kazmir – SP (some people may not agree because of contract, but trade bait)
10) Matt Garza – SP
11) David Price – SP
12) Wade Davis – SP
13) Jeff Niemann – SP
14) Andy Sonnanstine – SP
15) A toss up between Balfour/Bradford/McGee/Aybar/Gross/Perez/Ruggiano/Bartlett/Aki. I chose Aybar because hes a cheaper 2B than Aki with similar production

Round 2
1) Jacob McGee – P
2) Fernando Perez – OF
3) Chad Bradford – RP (the contract might raise some eyebrows, but only one year after which the Rays can re-evaluate where they are with the influx of pitching and McGee in particular))

Round 3
1) Grant Balfour – RP
2) J.P. Howell – RP
3) John Jaso – C

wow… I am literally pissed off after doing that because I had to leave off Arb. Eligible Bartlett and 4.5 million dollar Aki… Other notbale players left off are Ruggiano/Thayer/Hammel/Talbot/Wheeler/Gross and Zobrist.
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by Navi's_Navy on Dec 22, 2008 12:31 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Bartlett

has a lot of value as a defensive player., and even if he is arb-eligible, he doesn’t put up the offensive numbers that will land him a big salary. I’d put him at 15 and slide everybody else down a notch, bumping Jaso at the bottom.

by DrunkIrish on Dec 22, 2008 1:01 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Trust me, I love me Bartlett's defense

but that being said, if Bartlett is protected then you have him for only a year because we can assume (or I am assuming) that Brignac will be ready to start every day by opening day 2010, and I think that (unless his defense falls off the table again, which it might), he is more than capable of filling Bartlett’s shoes. He could be trade bait, but I have no idea what other GMs are gauging his value as.

I guess Brignac could be trade bait.

I see your point, although it all depends on what the arbitrator gives him

by Navi's_Navy on Dec 22, 2008 1:30 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Can't say I agree with this one

Overall protects:
Evan Longoria
Willy Aybar
BJ Upton
Jason Bartlett
Reid Brignac
Carlos Pena
Dioner Navarro
Matt Joyce
David Price
Scott Kazmir
James Shields
Matt Garza
Andrew Sonnanstine
JP Howell
Wade Davis

2nd Round:
Grant Balfour
Jeff Niemann
Fernando Perez

3rd round:
Jacob McGee
Akinori Iwamura
Ben Zobrist

Vogt early, Vogt often.

by Brickhaus on Dec 23, 2008 12:46 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

And yes

I intentionally left off Crawford. In a nutshell, he’s only got a year and an option left. It’s unlikely he resigns, and there are just too many other guys who are either integral in the short-term or who have many many years left to go. Besides, I don’t think there’s a huge drop off defensively or offensively to a Joyce-Perez-Upton outfield.

Vogt early, Vogt often.

by Brickhaus on Dec 23, 2008 12:56 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Padres

1st round:
Jake Peavy
Adrian Gonzalez
Brian Giles
Chris Young
Heath Bell
Chase Headley
Jody Gerut
Kevin Kouzmanoff
Matt Antonelli
Scott Hairston
Nick Hundley
Cla Meredith
Wade Leblanc
Will Venable
Cha Seung Baek (gross)

2nd Round
Cesar Ramos
Edgar Gonzalez
Josh Geer

3rd Round
Chad Reineke
Josh Banks
Will Inman

I’m assuming that we are only taking the 2009 season into account. If there are keepers, then Blanks, Kulbacki, Huffman, Buschmann, Miller, Latos, Garrison, Hunter, Dykstra, Decker would get more consideration over some of the fringy guys I listed.

I ♥ Trent Edwards' groin

by Wonko on Dec 22, 2008 2:45 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Yankees

1. Alex Rodriguez
2. Derek Jeter
3. CC Sabathia
4. Chien-Ming Wang
5. Joba Chamberlain
6. AJ Burnett
7. Philip Hughes
8. Mariano Rivera
9. Robinson Cano
10. Nick Swisher
11. Xavier Nady
12. Johnny Damon
13. Damaso Marte
14. Hideki Matsui (though I could see him being left unprotected in the hope of someone taking his contract)
15. Melky Cabrera/Andrew Brackman/Jose Veras? I would protect Veras.

Next 3:
1. Melky Cabrera
2. Andrew Brackman
3. Alfredo Aceves?

Next 3:
1. Brian Bruney
2. Edwar Ramirez
3. Wilkins de la Rosa or David Robertson? Conceivably Brett Gardner

by OccamsRazor on Dec 22, 2008 3:44 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Why bother protecting Jeter?

I doubt too many expansion franchises are going to take on a contract of that size for a player of that production and who’s on the backswing of his career. Johnny Damon falls into that category too for that matter. I realize Jeter has sentimental value in the Bronx, but there aren’t too many teams who would want him for what he’s making.

Vogt early, Vogt often.

by Brickhaus on Dec 23, 2008 12:48 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Rules

Just thought I’d say something. I believe the rule is that anyone with a no-trade clause must be protected and anyone from the 06 draft on would not be eligible (I believe,something like that)

http://yankeesmtom.blogspot.com/

by hallofamer2000 on Dec 22, 2008 5:34 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Just saw this

Chavez would probably have to be protected then and Outman would be bumped down.

by DeJay on Dec 22, 2008 6:53 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

A's

In no particular order….

1. Kurt Suzuki
2. Jack Cust
3. Justin Dushcherer
4. Mark Ellis
5. Matt Holliday
6. Joey Devine
7. Aaron Cunningham
8. Ryan Sweeney
9. Dana Eveland
10. Brad Ziegler
11. Daric Barton
12. Gio Gonzalez
13. Sean Gallagher
14. Travis Buck
15. Josh Outman

2nd Round

1. Henry Rodriguez
2. Dallas Braden
3. Jerry Blevins

3rd Round

1. Santiago Casilla
2. Rajai Davis
3. Cliff Pennington

I deliberately left Chavez off – I don’t think anyone would take him with his contract and recent injury history and performance over the last two years. Hopefully someone would take Crosby though, but I doubt it.

by DeJay on Dec 22, 2008 6:52 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Twins

1. Joe Mauer
2. Justin Morneau
3. Francisco Liriano
4. Carlos Gomez
5. Denard Span
6. Alexi Casillo
7. Joe Nathan
8. Pat Neshak
9. Nick Blackburn
10. Kevin Slowey
11. Jason Kubel
12. Delmon Young
13. Jose Mijares
14. Scott Baker
15. Glen Perkins

After first round
1. Brandon Harris
2. Jesse Crain
3. Mike Redmond

After second round
1. Michael Cuddyer
2. Trevor Ploufe
3. Boof Bonser

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by mrmetaa on Dec 22, 2008 7:37 PM EST reply actions 0 recs