Comments on: Matt Joyce is a Choice Bargain?

By: ED

ED — Wed, 18 May 2011 13:59:00 +0000

I’m pretty thrilled to get him in my league. I actually overpaid ($17) for him late in the draft, because I (and a few other people) had too much money left on the table and there were too few outfielders with any prospects to be decent left (this is a deep 12 team AL only league). He’s kept me near the top on offense through the Hardy and Longoria injuries.

By: Herbstr8t

Herbstr8t — Tue, 17 May 2011 19:38:42 +0000

Matt Joyce ’11 is starting to look very Brad Hawpe ’06-’09.

By: Max

Max — Tue, 17 May 2011 19:03:53 +0000

Three weeks ago I traded Russell Martin and Tyler Colvin for Brett Gardner and Matt Joyce.

Platooning big-split players is something I started doing last year with Seth Smith, with mild success. With the majority of pitchers being RHP’s, I think this strategy works pretty well, even if one doesn’t have the counterpart player (Spilbourgh). This year I have Smith and Joyce in all three of my leagues, except for one in which I recently traded away Smith and A. Soriano for Michael Bourn and Hafner, because I needed SB’s.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 17 May 2011 18:49:45 +0000

You mean Jered Weaver right?

By: Bartaksu

Bartaksu — Tue, 17 May 2011 17:35:54 +0000

Jeff Weaver?

By: sanderson13

sanderson13 — Tue, 17 May 2011 16:42:56 +0000

Unless it’s Jose Bautista. :-D

By: kid

kid — Tue, 17 May 2011 16:28:19 +0000

If Albert Pujols, Joey Votto, Miguel Cabrera and the rest of the best hitters in this game can’t sustain season-long LD rates above 22% or so, how in the hell can you justify Matt Joyce hitting 30% liners??

By: Brad Johnson

Brad Johnson — Tue, 17 May 2011 16:09:40 +0000

By the way, I think you’re misapplying your saber principles if you think a 29.5% LD rate is sustainable just because LD rate begins to have statistical significance at 150 PA.

I did some playing around with LD rate in the leaders page, arbitrarily choosing 2008-2011 with a 110 PA threshold. The highest LD rate is Jamie Moyer’s 29.2%. In fact there are a lot of pitchers on the list. It’s interesting.

But I digress. Expecting a 29.5% line drive rate going forward is like expecting Jose Bautista to hit 70 home runs. It could happen but you should be very surprised by it.

By: Brad Johnson

Brad Johnson — Tue, 17 May 2011 16:04:03 +0000

Both are great bargains. I’m happy to own both in both of my money leagues.

By: Jeff M.

Jeff M. — Tue, 17 May 2011 15:45:33 +0000

He probably was able to get Brantley in his fantasy league and not Joyce.