[theox05]

Ok, so just wanted to run some of my strategy by the gurus here so you can tell me what I’m doing wrong. Not that I’m not winning games, I doing alright, but looking at some optimization. I’m playing as the Rockies, 2017 start. I’m in early August of same year.

I traded C Tom Murphy for C Carson Kelly (I added good prospects into the trade to get Carson). I’ve played with Tom before and he’s a .225-.250 hitter, but when he does hit its usually a HR. I wanted someone who could get on base and Carson is batting close to .300 with 10 HRs by All-Star break. I think this was a good trade, but interested in thoughts.

I also traded away Ian Desmond, Charlie Blackmon (great hitter, but he fields like my grandma) and some prospects and got Richard Urena, Rowdy Tellez and Jake Bauers. Rowdy is starting and I have Jake behind Carlos Gonzalez (I plan on letting him and his 20 mil contract go for a compensation pick at end of year).

After thinking long and hard about Hunter Greene (I traded up for the No 1 pick) I took Jeren Kendall with the No 1. I have Ramiel Tapia in LF and once Jeren reaches prime I’m planning on moving Dahl to LF for Jeren in CF and trading Tapia, or trading Jeren if Ramiel just dominates. Jeren is batting like .225 in AA, not sure what his deal is.

Gerardo Parra's contract is just terrible and I couldn’t get anyone to take the guy. I just released him around mid-season after a slew of injuries and ate the remainder of his contract. Oddly enough, the Diamondbacks picked him up for the league minimum. Jerks.
I have Richard Urena coming up to replace DJ LeMahieu, I plan on trading DJ in the offseason before arbitration. I couldn’t get a fair price for him by July 31.

Trevor Story. What can we say about Trevor? Sometimes he’s awesome and other times he gets 5 SOs in a single game. I am considering what I’l do if Brendan Rogers pans out over the next few years. Seems like a Urena/Rodgers middle IF would be pretty awesome.

My pitching blows. I have Jon Gray and Tyler Anderson is decent, but the rest is Chatwood, Dylan Covey (got him for Tony Wolters I think, he was sucking pretty bad for the CWS) No one will trade a P prospect for any price. I could offer a free night with Ariana Grande and the Hope Diamond and I couldn’t get a P prospect. Going to have to draft for it.

Anyway, interested in your thoughts. I am probably going to end up about 5-6 games over .500 this year and miss playoffs, which is ok since my plan was to contend next year.