FANALYTICS: The year I bought a $41 pitcher
Mar 26 2015
A week ago Tuesday, I was a guest on SiriusXM Radio with Glen Colton and Rick Wolf, talking about the then-upcoming Tout Wars drafts. Glen and Rick have their own well-publicized, deftly-acronymed draft strategy called the SMART System, and they have been very successful with it. They are the defending Tout-AL and FSTA experts league champs, and have won LABR three times.
When someone wins consistently—like Larry Schechter a year ago—you have to pay attention.
The "A" in their SMART plan refers to "Anchor." Their teams always include a top level starting pitcher to anchor their staff. But in looking over the team they drafted in the LABR-AL league three weeks ago, their most expensive starter was a $13 Chris Tillman.
In my prep for...
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