Silver Lining

One positive side-effect of the Red Sox's diminishing post-season prospects:

Losses are piling up for scalpers

Last minute blockbuster?

I'm looking to add one solid and preferably cheap keeper before the deadline. I'm willing to empty my team for the right player, salary cap issues aside.

Happy to trade any combo of:

Papi
BJ Upton
Kevin Gregg
Erick Aybar
Curtis Granderson
JD Drew
Adam Lind
Buehrle
Braden
Jackson
Hunter

And Taylor takes the lead!

at least during the day today...

To Buy or to Sell?

I don't know what I'm doing at this point. Might be looking for keepers, or might be looking to trade them away. Feel free to send me offers of either sort between now and the deadline on Sunday.

Keeper Question

Morrow was drafted for $1, dropped, and then picked up. If he's kept is it $10 or $1?

The best trade you didn't make

I thought it might be interesting to see what the best trade that you had turned down in the league. Since I'm pretty active in trade discussions, I've definitely turned down a few that would have been awfully good, but the deal I was discussing with Taylor before last year's draft certainly takes the cake. I would have traded away my 3rd round pick (who ended up being Joakim Soria) and Alexei Ramirez for Taylor's 1st round pick (#1 overall, so it would have been Mark Teixeira) and Zach Greinke. That one would have stung an awful lot if I hadn't won last year. This year I've managed to turn down Rios for Sizemore, as well as a deal centered around Cano for Sizemore and Smoak.

Fun with starting pitching decisions

Lackey nearly throws a no-hitter on my bench last week.

Garza allows 7 runs in 6 innings against BALTIMORE.

So I bench Garza, throw in Lackey....argh.

Not like I needed good pitching anyway. Not at all.