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<\/a><\/p>\nThis afternoon the Towel and I completed a trade in the Denslow Cup that we had been discussing since last week.\u00a0 It involved David Wright<\/a><\/strong> and Ryan Zimmerman<\/a><\/strong> as the centerpieces, and since I had Zimmerman, my side was going to be bigger.\u00a0 We play in a league that uses both OBP and Slug% as well as the traditional rotisserie categories.\u00a0 Obviously Wright\u2019s projected numbers year in and year out are going to give him a little more spring value than a guy like Zimmerman in our league because the couple percentage points Wright walks more than Zimmerman essentially cancels out the 5 or 6 extra points of contact percentage that Zimmerman will throw up come October.\u00a0 Wright will steal roughly 10-15 more bases most years than Zimmerman, though, which gives him the edge.\u00a0 Both are injury prone to an extent as well.<\/p>\n What I\u2019m getting at here is that a trade involving these two guys should simply not involve any other truly valuable players beyond these two guys because they are strikingly similar players in a league like The Cup.\u00a0 To further solidify my point, Wright\u2019s ADP in ESPN league\u2019s right now is 36.0, and Zimmerman\u2019s is 39.0.\u00a0 It does not take much value to square up a trade between two players that are 3.0 draft positions apart.<\/p>\n What that means is that I got hosed, because I threw in Josh Beckett<\/a><\/strong> and John Axford<\/a><\/strong> to go along with Ryan Zimmerman to bring back an oft injured 29-year old whose best season was now five years ago.\u00a0 What\u2019s more, Wright is in the middle of one of the hottest periods of his career at the dish and has a fractured finger.\u00a0 Finally, the Mets are awful.\u00a0 There is no realistic reason to think that anyone in that lineup will bang in 100 runners or score 100 runs himself because it\u2019s basically a lineup comprised of refuse, Wright, Ike Davis<\/a><\/strong>, and Daniel Murphy<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Beckett is currently being taken at the 103 spot on average and Axford is going ten spots earlier.\u00a0 What that means is that according to ADP, I gave up three guys in the top 100 for the guy I just described.<\/p>\n How could I do that?\u00a0 Well, in short, I didn\u2019t like looking at my squad every day and not seeing Wright\u2019s name.\u00a0 I hated watching highlight shows of him performing so well and playing so courageously through injury while on another manager\u2019s squad.\u00a0 David is my favorite player.\u00a0 As I write this, I occasionally drift off and take in the objects in my room.\u00a0 Directly under my television is an autographed photo of David driving in Luis Castillo<\/a><\/strong> from second that Whitney got me for my 26th<\/sup> birthday.<\/p>\n David Wright is my favorite baseball player ever (tied with Nomar\u2026duh), and I don\u2019t mind if I got hosed in April to get him on my squad, because he is the kind of player that will keep me motivated and interested for the next six months.\u00a0 If I didn\u2019t already have Jimmy Rollins<\/a><\/strong>, Andre Ethier<\/a><\/strong>, or Shane Victorino<\/a><\/strong>, I\u2019d be making the same kind of boneheaded moves to get them too.<\/p>\n That brings me to my final thought of the day.\u00a0 I love the squad that I drafted this season more than any season in the past.\u00a0 I have an entire lineup of my kind of guys.\u00a0 When I say that, I mean that my squad collectively knows how to hit.\u00a0 They crush strikes and take balls.\u00a0 They hit the ball in the air.\u00a0 They are either terrific athletes or young enough that it doesn\u2019t matter yet.\u00a0 And now, I have David.\u00a0 If I don\u2019t win this season, I\u2019m going to be pretty upset, but what I\u2019m fairly sure of is that my team hits, and that\u2019s a really, really big deal to me, because for the next six months, they are an extension of myself.\u00a0 When I look at my lineup before I go to bed, my team\u2019s performance over the previous 24 hours is going to have a large and meaningful impact on the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n That\u2019s just life in The Denslow Cup, bro.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This afternoon the Towel and I completed a trade in the Denslow Cup that we had been discussing since last week.\u00a0 It involved David Wright and Ryan Zimmerman as the centerpieces, and since I had Zimmerman, my side was going to be bigger.\u00a0 We play in a league that uses both OBP and Slug% as 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