Keeper Help

I have the last pick in the 1st round. In my league you can only keep one player for a maximum of 2 years. My choice is to keep Braun for a second year as my 1st round pick (10th overall), or Cespedes as a 15th round pick with the possibility for keeping him again in that round in 2014.

I'm leaning Braun because he's the #1 overall player to me and there is no way he falls back to me at 10. I could always try to get Cespedes back in the draft. Still, I'm intrigued by the value. What would you do?

Braun plus your 15th round pick will be so much better than Cespedes and who ever you get in the 1st. Take into consideration that 10 other studs are being taken. So by the time you get to pick 10th there will be 19 studs taken (10 total keepers and the 1st 9 picks). There is no way that Cespedes plus the 20th best player comes close to Brauns value. You will not get a "Very good player in the 1st round".

Keep Cespedes for 15th and get to keep him again next year for another 15th rounder. You don't have to worry about a suspension and you will also get a stud in the first round back. I am sure you wont be the only one keeping a guy for the great value. Cespedes in the 15th blows the value away of Braun in the first.

Who Would you keep Michael Morse at 1$ of Aaron Hill at 6$

It all depends on what kind of players you can get in the first. If you can get another elite player like Kemp, CarGo, Pujols, Votto, or even Harper I would keep Cespedes with your 15th round pick. Cespedes had potential to end up in top 25 and you pair him with another elite player. In the 15th round you are less likely to find a good player to pair with Braun. If the drop off is significant from Braun you should keep him. Use the last few years to see what kind of player you will be able to get.

Originally posted by lvtdude You have to drop Braun. You'll get a very good player in the first round. The difference between Braun and that pick is far less than the difference between Cespedes and anyone you can hope to get in the 15th.

+1 I think Cespedes has room to grow.

No doubt Cespedes in the 15th round is great value, but Braun at #10 is great value also! Don't forget, guys like Encarnacion were taken later than 15th round last year in 12-team leagues and he definitely wasn't a keeper! There are always diamonds in the rough late in drafts, you just have to put in your work. But passing up on a guy like Braun at #10 would be ludacris, of course my opinion. I would never pass up on getting a top-3 fantasy player at #10, that is how you win leagues--by having top talent somehow fall through the cracks.

What Blue said.