The best keepers out of anyone!

At least in AAA. Woo! Travis Snider and Brian Matusz hanging out in the International League. Awesome. No doubt they'll be $17 well spent next year, as well.

Hamilton for an ace?

Anyone want to deal me a pitching ace for Josh Hamilton?

I also want power

Jeremy Hellickson for a power hitter anybody?

Looking for power

Hey everyone - I've already e-mailed some of you, but I'm looking to trade for some power, particularly in the outfield. No one is off limits, but I will say that it'll take an absolute blockbuster to get Hosmer.

Who has the best team?

And by best team, I mean as ranked by rankings that are not specific to our league and may or may not accurately represent value in our league.

ESPN just released their top 250 for the remainder of the season. I was curious to see who fared best, according to their rankings. I wanted to rank the teams by a few simple ways of looking at them. First, I assigned each player a point value. Of the 250 players, 124 were from the AL. I assigned 124 points to the best player ranked (Miguel Cabrera) and one for the worst player ranked (Matt Capps). This probably doesn't reflect real value perfectly in the league, I doubt, for example, that Caleb would be able to trade Rajai Davis and John Danks for Evan Longoria, but it is simple and easy to get at. Another point, this system only gives value to the top 124 players, meaning that with our 24 man rosters there are 68 players who are rostered who are "worthless". These include any non-closer relief pitcher, and starters like Brandon McCarthy or Bartolo Colon.

I come out on top based on total points and number of players ranked (20). That isn't all that surprising, since I've managed to turn players who the ESPN rankings consider fairly low rank (Walden at 19 points and McCarthy at 0) into CC Sabathia (101 points). Our league values AL closers a lot more than these rankings do, for a ten team mixed, closers are pretty fungible, so this may not really reflect reality. Kate comes out on top with the highest average player value (73). Taylor, Mark, and Luke bring up the rear in terms of total points and our actual standings.

Team	Points	Avg. Points	Players	Rank
Bill	1262	63.1	20	3
Caleb	1041	61.2	17	1
Kate	1023	73.1	14	3
Spencer	1004	62.8	16	5
Andrew	915	61.0	15	2
Taylor	911	70.1	13	7
Luke	835	55.7	15	6
Mark	759	54.2	14	8

Let's make a deal!

Hoping to make a deal? You'd better be talking to me, Luke, or Spencer. All eleven of the trades since the draft have involved one of us, and three trades have happened between the three of us. Spencer and Luke are leading the way, with six apiece, and I've made four.

Also, Spencer has to stop collecting injured players at some point, right?

Also, I want to trade an OF for a pitcher

Not sure what happened to my previous post. Hamilton, Adam Jones, Delmon Young, Vernon all on the table.