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How Chien-Ming Wang Ruined my Fantasy Season
Written by Zach Sanders   
Wednesday, 18 November 2009 10:46
During the baseball season, I was in the IIATMS fantasy league and finished seventh. Not great, eh? Well, some of the issues I had came from a trade I made before the season started. Below is the exact trade (if you can't guess, I'm MLBN).

MLBN dropped Jonathan Sanchez, SF SP to Waivers
MLBN traded Shane Victorino, Phi OF to Fool Theory
MLBN traded Tim Lincecum, SF SP to Fool Theory
FOOL traded Adam Dunn, Was OF to MLB Notebook
FOOL traded Elvis Andrus, Tex SS to MLB Notebook
FOOL traded Chien-Ming Wang, NYY SP to MLB Notebook

Ugh. Looking back on the trade, in (of course) a note fashion:
  • Worked out great, didn't it! I made this trade with Jason himself, after a couple of days bartering over Timmys value. I ended up thinking this trade was fabulous, because I needed power (desperately) and expected to provide more Wins then Timmy with a solid ERA and WHIP. To be fair, I had Felix Hernandez, Chris Carpenter, Carlos Zambrano and Jair Jurrjens already on my staff, so I had starting pitching to spare, and felt I got good value for Timmy.
  • After Wang decided to wreck my ERA early on, it was hard to come back from it, but with my stellar pitching staff I prevailed and got second in that category. Wins were another story, as I finished in the middle of the pack without my expected 16+ wins from C-MW.
  • Obviously I would have been better off without the trade, but it was a risk that I was willing to take. Wang ruined many years for owners (including another team of mine, damn it), but no one has any way of knowing he was still hurt.
  • I drafted C-MW on almost all of my teams this year. Thought he was way undervalued. After allowing him to utterly wreck my ERA, I still want to draft him this year. What's wrong with me?
  • Lesson #1: Be careful who you draft this year. Brandon Webb may say he's healthy, but is he really? Stay away if you can, but take him if he falls to where it's worth the risk. By the way, I had Wang and Webb on the same team this year. Luckily, I had King Felix and Lowe, too.
  • Lesson #2: Don't trade with Jason ever again. Guy is sneaky!


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