I picked up Glaus 2 minutes before the deadline. Grabbed Pedro just after the deadline. Duchs and Lowe available on waivers. Worth a 1?

I don't know. Duchs maybe.

I myself waived Lowe to get an extra starter in and am claiming him back myself with a #2 since he starts tomorrow.

I am sick of how everything is going. I said I have 6 and 5 starts today. Well on both of those teams Harden was one of them and he was winning 6-1 in the fifth and now he fell apart, gave up 4 earned, and then the bullpen finished off the meltdown themselves in the seventh where I already have a bad start for the day. Hopefully the others will offset him and his 8 k's could turn out valuable. His whip was right around 1.50 so not a killer yet.

Ok now I see Duchs, Lowe and Victor Martinez all become available on wed morning. Who's the top out of those 3?

Probably duchener but depends what you ened.

I just picked up Victor as a FA ina elague. I may even put him in active now since ramon hernandez has started doing bad again, I figure the extra roster space may be worth another week of having a hurt guy as a backup catcher.

All of my moves still are backfiring. Now my starters for today are doing bad. Nothing I do seems to work out this year. Any time I have a dominant start someone else gives up 6 runs and ruins it.

So far today the bullpen has already blown leads for harden and young for me. Carpenter is ina tie. Beckett is in a tie and somehow they call his run earned even though after it scored via an error he got a flyout and then the third out so the run would not have scored. Jackson is BARELY holding on for the rays so far. Then I have sanchez pitch later. I could very well have no wins out of 6 starts and if that happens I wouldbe tempted to give up. If I can't get any good stats when I have 6 starters going then how would I ever gain almost 30 points!

edit: I am just giving up. There was still some hope, but I've had enough. I am not evenw aiting around to see if Isringhausen keeps his job. I waived him for Franklin. I picked up Guardado also. But I don't care what happens from now on., I had FIVE pitchers leave games with leads and 3 of them were blown by their bullpens. My offense is fine in all of the leagues, but I can't buy a win or good pitching ratios even though I DRAFTED PITCHING and others ignored pitching and then they end up doing better by trusting waiver wire crap.

Told you I thought cbs was dumb to say Vlad would do bad still, he is exploding now that texiera is there and getting on basde ahead of him.

Also told you Heilman sucks. Immediately did horrible once Wagner was DLed.

My offenses are so so so hot, but I can't buy wins and it is ruining me. In that league where I had 3 leads blown yesterday I have the 1 in wins and could not afford that.

Another Santana start, another day without a win. Guess you still stand by your comment that he and Peavy are above everyone else as they keep losing or getting no-decisions game after game? Wins is a category, ya know. I am destroying my chances in a league by USING santana and peavy. If I was using pitchers who could actually get a win I would be much better off than those two who are doing nothing. In fact they ahve even had some horrible starts since the ASB too where they gave up 4,5, or 6 runs.

I don't think I had a single homer on any team today and Peavy had ANOTHER bad start. He and Santana can't even get over .500 records yet somehow they are on a higher level than all other starters? I definitely will remember how they did this year in the futuire and not draft pitching quickly. Although my season shows how horrible it is to have bad pitching. My offenses are great and my pitching has ruined all of my teams.

Guess Aaron was abducted by aliens.

Anyway guess what I did in 1 league? I keep adding and dropping like crazy each day just for the fun of it and also becuase it will hurt the big mouths who talked down my team.

Well in just EIGHT days of doing this I already have 142 strikeouts. Yesterday alone I had 27.

In my weekly league I started the week 27 behind first and ended it 19 behind. I am considering dealing for Webb which would give me santana, peavy, and webb all on the same team while still managing to have pujols, texeira, vlad, dunn on the offensive side. Just not sure if I need Webb more than keeping Manny or not.

In the past 2 weeks I had 262 k's in one league. lol

I really can't decide whether to trade. In the weekly league for the past week I had 9 wins, an under 2 e.r.a., and about a 1 whip. I need a ton of wins. Thus tempting to deal manny and ibanez for webb and taveras. I have like a 3 or 4 in steals and NOT A SINGLE good base stealer in my lineup.

But since I got 9 wins in a week by adding 2 start starters and having santana, peavy, lackey, cain as permanent starters I am wondering if I have enough there already and should keep Manny to move me up in rbis and runs.

What do you think of this team? Would you personally deal Manny to get Webb on it? I need a few points in homers, rbis, runs, wins, whip, k's., So in otehr words I need every type of thing... so it comes down to "can I agin in power with this offense minus manny and ibanez?". And keep in mind a few of these starters are picked up only for 2 start weeks.

Hitters

Molina, Bengie

Navarro, Dioner

Pujols, Albert

Theriot, Ryan

Mora, Melvin

Hairston, Jerry

Dunn, Adam

Guerrero, Vladimir

Ibanez, Raul

Matsui, Hideki

Ramirez, Manny

Teixeira, Mark

Winn, Randy

Pitchers

Arroyo, Bronson

Cain, Matt

Jimenez, Ubaldo

Lackey, John

Lidge, Brad

Peavy, Jake

Santana, Johan

Valverde, Jose

Wilson, Brian

Bench

Longoria, Evan

Hoffman, Trevor

Also I need speed. Someone offered me victorino for lackey. How ould my team look if I ended up dealing manny/lackey/ibanez for victorino/taveras/webb?

Once AGAIN listening to cbs cost me. They claimed the TB pitcher may get skipped totally due to the tropical storm, so i waived him at the deadline and didn't use him for this week and now he has dominated the angels for 5 innings so far. Every player I pick up seems to be gold now and once again I chose a wise one and I then listened to cbs and lost that valuable start.

I personally think Id rather have Manny then Webb. I would do tavaras for ibanez though

what 2 start starters are available to you?

I meant in that lineup arroyo is and jimenez is for this current week and I just couldn't find a better alternative to waive him for.

I offered ibanez for taveras already yesterday but he has not responded and I doubt he will do it.

The only offer to me is victorino for lackey at the moment.

I also offered vlad for sizemore and he has ignored that. Same guy who always says I overvalue and he is now losing kinsler for the season.

Basically I could win the league if I gain right around 7 wins, 20 k's, 0.03 whip, 0.10 e.r.a., 2 saves, like 7 homers, 25 rbnis, 20-30 runs, and 0.0003 in average.

So there's an idea of what I need. That would probably give me a comfortable victory. In steals nobody is going to catch me, but if I could gain 15-20 steals I could get 2 more points there. I could punt steals and not worry about those 2 points and take the 4 or whatever I have in it currently. But if I do that then I am not so sure I gain the runs I need either. I could make sure I gain those bis I guess though.

I think it would be harder to get the hitting categories without manny. It would be easier to get the pitching categories thru good FA pickups. If you use the proboble starter link you can sort of predict who is an upcoming 2 starter ahead of time. I dont know why vlad for sizemore is ignored.

Here go my bad decisions again Lastw eek I used kaz matsui then he got DLed and I didnt get a single at-bat from him. Then I replace him by picking up hairston and moving theiroyt to second and now hairston isnt playing tonight. It's mighty hard to come back when I add guys to repalce hurt people and then they dont even play either.

yea that does suck in weekly cbs leagues. Im sorry

I may have to just ignore your advice about manny. This guy who's a jerk got both sheets and harden for arod and junk and now look what sheets and harden combined for today as far as k's plus the win plus the great e.r.a. and whip.

He has a 1.29 whip now and me a 1.30. He has 72 wins and I have 72 wins. I almost have to deal for webb since he got harden, sheets, and hamels ind eals. Hamels he doesn't get to count until next week.

Three owners publicly said I have a "mediocre team" and can't come back and win. This with a team that could be single digits out within a week or so. And since when is it mediocre to be 1 save from the 10 in saves, be near the top of e.r.a. and whip and k's and soon to be in wins, have santana and peavy at the top of a rotation, and have pujols, teixeira, manny, vlad on offense? Then picked up longoria also.

sometimes a team looks shitty because it has no name value. You named 5 studs and whats surrounding them could be shitty names but are producing. I have a team that looks like shit but for some reason its tied for first. Some owners are just idiots.

Check this out. The guy with Sizemore claims he is worth two of the following (manny, dunn, vlad). TWO. Manny is about even value wiith him. If I dealt the OTHER two it would be trading him DOUBLE the power I get back in exchange for 20-25 steals gains! So that is like saying vlad or dunn is only worth a guy like pierre! Because my only gains wouod be pierre numbers!

I am really frustrated wuth these crazy owners.

I wonder if Olsen is worth using against ATL and NYM next week or if I should keep Harang for 1 where i will ahev him for his 2 start week the week after and he ks more if he gets back on track than olsen would.

Swisher has 3 homers in his past 6 games and Cameron is hot also. So i really don't necessarily agree that replacing hitting would be harder than replacing pitching.

I am trying to decide whether to forget about steals and stay where I am in them and then put players like jose lopes and jj hardy at middle infield slots to help me gain a lot of rbis for those positions or if I should stillt ry for speed and use guys like weeks and theirot at middle infield slots and trade in thatd eal for taveras and webb.

Thinking of dropping matsui for swisher if matsui doesn't do something soon.

Now Peavy is getting bombed.

I may very well trade for Webb becuase my players such as vlad, dunn, mora, etc... are all hot so maybe I should deal Manny.

Man my moods go back and forth with my team. lol All the ground I lost on a couple teams the past couple days I already have gained back and I am at the moment 16 and /12 out with 5 more hitters going today and lackey pitching. Wilson just got me a win and hopefully lidge will do something today if philly is playing.

So I have officially cut more than half of the deficit which was once at 34. Unfortunately, however, nobody has dealt with me yet.

hows dunn doing in arizona?

.300 in 8 games and his only 2 games at home he has homered in both including a 3 runner off of Peavy.

I really think I messed up listening to you this year because I traded for Peavy and Santana and neither is doing anythign worth having. And you say don't deal manny to get webb, but Manny is sucking again lately power-wise and Webb keeps winning.

I am now losing ground in pitching constantly because the other guys have pitchers who keep K'ing a TON. One guy has harden, sheets, and halladay for example and those three are EASILY outperforming santana, peavy, lackey as my main three.