My little brother's fantasy team went up bc of Josh Hamilton.

[Edited on July 13, 2008 at 11:44 PM. Reason : 17]

7/13/2008 11:44:48 PM

^^i thought they said his struggles were due to some injury, not 100% positive though but yeah he was sick 2 years ago (liriano)

i got lucky by picking up Pelfrey last night...went from tied in wins and losing in era and whip, to winning all 3

[Edited on July 14, 2008 at 12:08 AM. Reason : .]

7/13/2008 11:58:37 PM

This coming short week could suck for those of us in H2H match ups trying to get our pitching in order and getting some starts.

7/14/2008 1:08:58 AM

i'm in 2 pay-leagues. 2nd place in both here at the break. not bad.

7/14/2008 12:52:29 PM

I got Peavy on Thursday...not positive about others

7/14/2008 12:53:01 PM

since it will be a short week, here are the Thursday games (no games Mon, Tues, Wed...short schedule Thurs...full schedule Fri, Sat, Sun...Thursday games could have some make or break stats)

Tigers Orioles 7:05 p.m. Rogers (6-6) Olson (6-4)
Mets Reds 7:10 p.m. Santana (8-7) Cueto (7-9)
Padres Cardinals 8:15 p.m. Peavy (7-5) Lohse (11-2)
Pirates Rockies 9:05 p.m. Maholm (6-5) TBD

I have 4 batters going on Thursday, my opponent has zero

7/14/2008 1:49:17 PM

I have been offered Zambrano and Youkilis for Price and BJ Upton. Upton is my DH so Youk could fit right in and you can't get much better return than Zambrano for a kid that hasn't thrown a pitch in the majors. This is for a non-keeper H2H points league. I need the starting pitching badly. Zambrano would become my instant ace (Shields and Harden my no.2 and 3). It seems like a no-brainer right?

7/14/2008 9:53:04 PM

who is Price? You don't mean Fielder you mean some minor leaguer?

7/14/2008 11:10:36 PM

David Price.....the phenom pitching for the Rays' AA affiliate. If you havent heard of him, I suggest you run quickly to your league (any league) and see if he's available. He will arrive on Aug 1st and should be a good one.

7/14/2008 11:24:33 PM

i searched for Price on Yahoo and didnt pull up anybody

7/14/2008 11:49:59 PM

david price is a bad ass. like, pretty much every other minor leaguer thats been a huge splash exept better. he'll be one of the top 3-4 pitchers in the MLB in like a year or two.

7/15/2008 12:47:54 AM

i need to drop someone since Putz is off the DL... who do you drop?

Matt Cain (SP)
Garza (SP)
Percival
Putz
Gregg
F. Cordero
Lyon

i'd like to hold onto the SP's if possible... Startin' to think I should just drop Putz but I don't want it to backfire. Cordero?

7/22/2008 12:14:04 AM

i'm not activating putz until i have to or he starts closing again. I don't know if your league will give you the option to leave him on the DL, but I can do that on yahoo. it gives me the benefit of holding an extra player. of course if i need to make a pickup/drop (like when price is called up), I have to activate him...

7/22/2008 5:34:04 PM

thanks to the short week i lost 2 games of my lead... damn it.

7/22/2008 5:34:35 PM

this trade was proposed in my league...seems fair enough that I probably won't veto...thoughts?

Sizemore
CJ Wilson
V. Padilla

for

Vlad
George Sherrill
Zambrano

7/24/2008 9:39:32 AM

Hope you let that through, seems fair enough.

Wilson = Sherrill
Sizemore = Zambrano
Vlad = Padilla

Or there abouts....even enough.

Marte is out in Pitt, so now who closes? Grabow?

7/26/2008 12:22:05 AM

whoa tho, vlad is 10 thousand times better than vicente padilla. id let that trade go through, but vicente padilla sucks ass and vlad has been arguably the best player in the league the past 2 months.

7/26/2008 12:47:45 AM

Quote :

"vlad has been arguably the best player in the league the past 2 months"

if anyone tried to argue that, they would lose

Vlad's a great player, but he's having a down year... (which is still a good year for most players)

7/26/2008 12:57:03 AM

hes raised his average like 50 points over the past 2 months, for one month he was batting something like 421 and now hes hit something like 10 homeruns in the past 30something games. He had an awful start to the year, but saying hes equal to vicente padilla, a pitcher who sucks every year, is ridiculous.

7/26/2008 11:55:45 AM

The point was the trade was equal....Sherrill is better than Wilson also....

7/26/2008 12:54:35 PM

Quote :

"hes raised his average like 50 points over the past 2 months, for one month he was batting something like 421 and now hes hit something like 10 homeruns in the past 30something games. He had an awful start to the year, but saying hes equal to vicente padilla, a pitcher who sucks every year, is ridiculous."

You're not even close on any of those stats.

He's raised his average 30 points over the past two months and his OPS in that time is "only" .916, hardly making him the hottest player in baseball. His best month was June where he batted .375; and he's hit 10 HR in his past 41 games.

[Edited on July 26, 2008 at 1:02 PM. Reason : ]

7/26/2008 1:01:03 PM

he was batting .246 on may 31 so thats a .41 increase sorry i wasnt completely accurate

7/26/2008 4:14:25 PM

I was just going by what you said. Two months ago he was batting .262, that's a .025 change. Even I was wrong in my last post!

[Edited on July 26, 2008 at 4:33 PM. Reason : ]

7/26/2008 4:32:07 PM

this argument is getting too gay, so i'm just going to end it and say i think the trade is fair i guess,but the guy getting vlad, zambrano and sherrill is getting the better end of the deal for sure.
sizemore is better than vlad
sherrill is better than cj wilson
zambrano is 10 times better than padilla

[Edited on July 26, 2008 at 6:35 PM. Reason : .]

7/26/2008 6:35:13 PM

i'm glad i forgot to start Duscherer today

7/26/2008 7:41:00 PM

Soriano, Haren for Utley in my keeper league.. I would get utley, thoughts?

7/27/2008 12:27:46 PM

yes

7/27/2008 2:29:36 PM

take utley

7/27/2008 6:29:50 PM

Who do you have at 2nd??? And if you have the pitching to give up Haren, then go for it.

7/27/2008 11:04:19 PM

Ending up doing it - I had casillia at 2b. My OF was pretty strong with Dye, Damon and Ordonez. I had Thome in my Util slot, I could've put Soriano there but I really needed to upgrade my infield. Its a 16 team league so its pretty thin. I still have Webb, Lohse, Kenny Rogers and Hudson as my starting pitchers. Not great but it will work.

7/28/2008 7:31:51 AM

Quote :

"Wilson = Sherrill Sizemore = Zambrano Vlad = Padilla "

lol

someone doesn't know shit about baseball

Vlad >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Padilla

7/28/2008 7:36:53 AM

I would've said it more like (based on this season)

Sherrill > Wilson
Vlad < Sizemore
Zambrano > Padilla

and for anyone who thinks Vlad is a better player than Sizemore, I don't care, Sizemore is clearly having a better season this year

But anyway, San Diego Padres SP Chris Young will get the start tomorrow against the Diamondbacks. Young's last MLB action was when Albert Pujols drilled a line drive off his face.

7/28/2008 9:45:53 AM

^^Actually I know more than about 95% of posters on this board but thanks anyway.

^This was more of the point, that the trade is equal. Obviously Sherrill is better than Wilson and Sizemore is better than Vlad and Zambrano is better than Padilla. Point was he shouldn't veto it.

And FYI I have seen some of your fantasy players and team.....it can't compare to mine. I am 13-4 in a weekly league. 3 games up on everyone. So I don't really care what you think.

7/28/2008 12:03:39 PM

Chris Carpenter (2005 NL Cy Young winner) is getting the start tomorrow versus Atlanta. He is coming off Tommy John surgery and hasn't pitched since opening day last year.

7/29/2008 11:24:14 AM

Good news for San Diego Padres SP Chris Young owners ^^^ (holla)

He pitched 5 scoreless innings tonight with 2 hits allowed, 2 walks, and 8 strikeouts...he left after 5 with a scoreless game versus the Diamondbacks, so he'll get a no-decision, but its good to see him get a strong start against a decent offense in his first action in over a month

7/29/2008 11:32:01 PM

Carlos Guillen will get the day off and sit out tonight's game versus the Indians...theres certainly a chance he could pinch hit, but he's not starting

7/30/2008 11:28:20 AM

thank god we traded pudge

[Edited on July 30, 2008 at 5:57 PM. Reason : ,]

7/30/2008 5:46:47 PM

but for Farnsworth?

7/30/2008 6:13:33 PM

we need pen help and trading him saves us like 3-4 mil for the rest of the season

7/30/2008 6:24:12 PM

salary wise its good, clubhouse ego wise it could be good ( i dont know much about pudge's personality or the tigers chemistry), but farnsworth? i dunno...time will tell...cant do much worse than your current bullpen i guess, especially with your bats not swinging like they were the last couple years

Brandon Phillips out of the starting lineup today (as if anybody with Phillips has a backup 2B)

[Edited on July 30, 2008 at 6:34 PM. Reason : .]

7/30/2008 6:25:37 PM

I'm in first place in my league, and recently made a trade with the 2nd place team.

I had Putz on my DL and didn't want to activate him before he started getting saves and was in some sort of a groove. However, I needed to make a pick-up to add more power to my line-up.

I traded Putz for Kerry Wood straight up. Wood is on the DL right now. Thoughts on the trade?

7/30/2008 7:00:40 PM

Great for you....Putz may not be the closer, right now him and Morrow are sharing, and the Cubs win and the M's don't.

7/30/2008 10:58:07 PM

I need to drop one of these guys who should it be:

Javier Vasquez
Chris Young
Mike Pelfrey
Chris Carpenter

I also have Beckett, Peavy, Volquez and Duchscherer but I don't think I'm going to drop any of them

7/31/2008 10:58:32 AM

Vasquez has been terrible....

Milton Bradley might be headed for the DL.....but Hamilton is now DH eligible for me. LOL.

I picked up Billy Butler who has been raking.

8/4/2008 11:57:24 AM

i picked up tatis (over butler) who is the hottest hitter in the mlb right now. he's still available in most leagues too.

Quote :

"OF Fernando Tatis led all major league hitters with a .397 batting average for July. The last Met to lead the majors in a month was OF Rickey Henderson (.410) in August of 1999."

i picked up matt kemp a few weeks ago and he has been ridiculously hot lately...i just dropped jim thome because i can't afford missed starts with the adding of griffey to the DH spot.

8/4/2008 1:16:15 PM

^^i ended up dropping Pelfrey...and BJ Ryan...then taking Carpenter off the DL and adding him to my active rotation, and adding Liriano

- Ryan
- Pelfrey

+ Carpenter
+ Liriano

I held onto Vasquez for strikeouts

8/4/2008 3:00:34 PM

i hope you guys listened to me and picked up tatis as he's 2/3 with 2 homeruns and 4 rbi's already tonight. he's by far the hottest player in baseball at the plate at the moment.

8/5/2008 8:55:40 PM

that .294 august OBP is sizzzzzzzling!!!!!!!!

8/6/2008 5:06:54 PM

Quote :

"i ended up dropping Pelfrey"

Really? In favor of Carpenter and Vasquez?

I'd be pretty surprised if Carpenter outperforms Pelfrey down the stretch...

^ yeah, he was in a mini slump before last night..

[Edited on August 6, 2008 at 5:14 PM. Reason : x]

8/6/2008 5:13:53 PM

^Vasquez just for K's

I thought Pelfrey had been overperforming...he's been great the last month and a half or so but I didn't think it would continue...and in his first 2 starts Carpenter has looked good...not 2005 Cy Young good, but damn good

8/6/2008 5:43:58 PM