Buying and Selling Clayton Kershaw

Source: www.fangraphs.com --- Monday, December 04, 2017
A fantasy Baseball roster is an exercise in educated gambles. There are some players, like Clayton Kershaw , who are capable of singlehandedly delivering your team to the promised land – especially in a format like ottoneu FG points. The problem with Kershaw is that he hasn’t delivered on his over $60 price tag these last two seasons. His 2016 campaign was truncated by injury but also featured a career best 7.09 points per inning pitched. He declined in 2017, once again spending time on the disabled list while performing at a merely good 5.56 points per inning. For those of you who don’t play ottoneu, those values probably don’t mean much. Let’s do the full math. At his very best, Kershaw could provide something like 1,600 points over 230 innings. The bad version of Kershaw is worth about 1,250 points over 230 innings. An injured Kershaw is the worst case scenario. Last year, he supplied under 1,000 points for the first time since 2009. Top performing pitchers typically produce about 1,200 points. Corey Kluber checked in at 1,289.23 points last year. Chris Sale tallied 1,324.87 points. That means a pristine Kershaw season could give his owner 300 to 400 points completely inaccessible to other owners. The easiest way to win your league is to roster top performers at multiple positions. True, there are ways to mimic Kershaw by using a lower inning stud like James Paxton with elite relievers, but such an approach is just a differen ...

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