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Fantasy Question: Cam Maybin or David Price?

A little background on my team:  I am absolutely loaded.  It's a 15 team 5x5 mixed roto keeper dynasty league with 23 actives (14 hitters, 9 pitchers) and 17 reserves (can be anyone - majors, minors, high schoolers, japanese, etc.). 

My team is in a dogfight for first place right now.  As of this morning, I am actually tied for first with one other team.  My team has an absolute monster offense (having 73 out of a possible 75 total points), with pretty solid pitching (63 out of 75 possible points).  My competitor is the exact opposite - dominant pitching and only great offense.

The category I can make up ground extremely quick on is WHIP.  There are 5 teams all bunched together with a team whip of 1.28 - 1.30, and I am on the bottom end of that bunch.  George Sherrill, while helping me out a ton up to this point in saves, has also been killing my team WHIP.  Now that he hit the DL, I need a replacement.  A team out of the picture for this year just put the following offer out on the table:

Bobby Jenks, Cameron Maybin, Andrew Miller and Brandon Inge

for

Russ Martin, David Price, George Sherrill and Brett Wallace

I'm not the biggest Andrew Miller fan, but he refuses to give me anyone else of better value (like a Jed Lowrie or Alexei Ramirez).  Martin and Jenks are pretty equal in my eyes, and I'll need Inge as a replacement for Martin in my lineup.  The real question here is how much of a drop there is from David Price to Cam Maybin.  Despite struggling with pitching this year to some extent, my overall team pitching for the near future is studly.  My rotation for next year is likely to be something like Johan Santana, Scott Kazmir, Tim Lincecum, Clayton Kershaw, John Danks, Johnny Cueto and Ervin Santana.  So basically I can afford to give up Price, but at the same time I don't want to give up the next stud starter.

Any thoughts?  I usually don't post fantasy questions, but this one is really eating at me.

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Outfielders....

what are your other ones? I would stay with Price personally because he will produce sooner than Maybin and like you said Price is suppose to be the next stud.

by ahope on Aug 20, 2008 4:34 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Outfielders

We start 5, with one Utility player as well. My OF’s are Holliday, Kemp, Justin Upton and Alfonso Soriano, with Dexter Fowler in my minor league system. I could technically use one more OF.

by guru4u on Aug 20, 2008 4:40 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Price

I would stick with Price. Seems very short sighted to give him up. Perhaps you can trade other pieces if you want to get an OF. But, since you are doing quite well in offense, why trade a potential STUD pitcher for another hitter?

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by dbimberg on Aug 20, 2008 4:56 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I’m not so high on Price. My take on him is he’ll be a solid #2 starter on a pretty good Rays team – solid W, ERA, WHIP, K numbers. Maybins ceiling is a lot higher – something like a peak as the best CF in baseball – and he’s likely to have a comparable peak as at least a Mike Cameron or Torii Hunter with better plate discipline.

A Maybin, Fowler, Upton, Kemp, Holliday outfield looks pretty good for the next five years plus.

by 17843 on Aug 20, 2008 5:12 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Price

Not even close, IMHO.

Price has such a high floor… and his ceiling is also phenomenal. A starting pitcher like that is just more valuable than an OFin most formats, even though Maybin could be special. I like Maybin, but there are more questions than Price there, and not enough extra upside to justify it. Fantasy Baseball is about minimizing risk. If they had vastly different ceilings Id go Maybin, but their ceilings are similar enough that Id go Price, he’s the safer bet.

by alskor on Aug 20, 2008 5:31 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Wallace

Take him out of that deal and you will only sort of get ripped off versus totally ripped off.

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by strums on Aug 20, 2008 6:36 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

+1

I couldn’t agree more. he is going to hit, and hit, and hit and won’t stop hitting until he’s an old man.

by casejud on Aug 22, 2008 1:36 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

jebus

this post is so artarded i don’t even know where to begin…

complete garbage for russ martin AND david price? is that serious?

also..

“I’m not the biggest Andrew Miller fan, but he refuses to give me anyone else of better value (like a Jed Lowrie or Alexei Ramirez).”

I certainly hope you don’t think that Jed Lowrie and Alexei Ramirez are players that will have any fantasy impact whatsoever.. they are bumbledums… at least andrew miller has upside….

yarbletum, i need a drink

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by Buzz Bissinger on Aug 20, 2008 10:01 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Alexei Ramirez?

Plenty of upside there. Im all over this kid next year. Lots of power. The guy has 14 HRs in ~350 ABs. He’s batting .309 and has 9 SB.

Lowrie? Not as much, but the bar is soooo low for AL Shortstops… Given a full season as starter he’d be a plus in R’s, RBI’s and AVG, and likely around average for HR and SB. That’s valuable.

Miller has upside, too, of course, but I have my doubts about him. Im not sure he’s a better bet than the other two. All things equal Id grab the pitcher, but the best player and best bet of the three is Alexei Ramirez, if you ask me. SS in yahoo already, probably a full time SS next year. A SS who can pop 20-25 in a good offense where he can accumulate R’s and RBI? w/ ~15 SBs? That’s pretty nice to have on your team.

by alskor on Aug 21, 2008 6:38 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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