Neowin Fantasy Baseball Season 2007

[virtualmadden]

I guess I've missed out on all the fun this year so far. I haven't taken a look at the trades people are putting up, saw them pop up in gmail though. It seems like good pitching is a little harder to find this year.

[Veedems Veteran]

I'm offering Sammy Sosa and Mark DeRosa (or Khalil Green or Shawn Green) for one good pitcher.

[Prosidius]

So I take a leave of absence from my team for 2 weeks and they suddenly get hot. I'm doing that more often. Everytime I leave they do good. :)

[L3thal Veteran]

This article sums up my season so far: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?id=2910803

3 of those 5 pitchers are mine :(

[fascist]

If anyone wants to give up Pettite... I can give you some decent pitchers.

[Fred Derf Veteran]

So... I've had Michael Cuddyer on my roster all this time but I never watch Minnesota play.

As a result I've always thought it was "Cudd-yer" but, since they are playing my home team tonight on TV, I see that his name is pronounced "Cudd-eye-er".

The more you know!

[golfantastic]

I thought Michael Cuddyer is pronounced "Cud-Dye-Yer"

[....]

I thought Michael Cuddyer is pronounced "Cud-Dye-Yer"

It is.

[L3thal Veteran]

I just found out that's how you pronounce it after I played the Twins in interleague play last night on MLB 07 for the PS3.

[Fred Derf Veteran]

I thought Michael Cuddyer is pronounced "Cud-Dye-Yer"

Yeah, that's what I meant. The point was that it wasn't cudd-yer.

[fascist]

Im sorry but there is no way I could accept that. I am in no need of a short stop and giving up one of my best out fielders wouldnt work out for me.

[L3thal Veteran]

I need a bat or two on my lineup with decent stats. All my players are open to trade.

[Fred Derf Veteran]

I need a bat or two on my lineup with decent stats. All my players are open to trade.

I think I just offered the riskiest trade that we'll see in fantasy baseball this season.

[L3thal Veteran]

I think otherwise. I would be giving up Vlad and 2 pitchers with 150K's combined and an ERA of around 3.30 for 2 average hitters and a rather good pitcher.

[Fred Derf Veteran]

I think otherwise. I would be giving up Vlad and 2 pitchers with 150K's combined and an ERA of around 3.30 for 2 average hitters and a rather good pitcher.

That's fine. All I know was that the current rankings of the players I was offering were twice as good as the players I was requesting.

[L3thal Veteran]

You were judging them by overall rank and not O-Rank because your players' o-ranks were in the 300's and mine in the 80-100's :|

I am still looking for a bat or two if anyone has something to offer. I need to make a jump to 6th place in the coming weeks.

[Fred Derf Veteran]

You were judging them by overall rank and not O-Rank because your players' o-ranks were in the 300's and mine in the 80-100's :|

Well, 20 odd posts ago you told me that considering their O-Ranks was naive.

What is good for the goose doesn't seem to be good for the gander. :p

:D

[L3thal Veteran]

Very good point, however, those ranks are well on par with the numbers they are putting up whilst before, my players' O-Ranks were in the 300's but they were putting up good numbers and frequent multi hit games.

[Fred Derf Veteran]

Incidentally, our trade of Lance Berkman for Eric Byrnes and Troy Glaus is finally paying dividends for me. Lance Berkman was my best player during the last month.

Eric Byrnes hasn't exactly been underperforming for you either but for a while there our trade had seemed extremely lopsided. Troy Glaus hasn't been much of a factor.

[L3thal Veteran]

Byrnes has been pretty solid for me and Glaus has cooled off the in the past 1 1/2 weeks.

Interestingly, I picked up Dmitry Young from FA and look at his stats. He has hit in nearly every game for the past 2 weeks with Runs and RBIs as well. He's definitely the best pick up I've had as of yet.

[fascist]

When Verlander has an ERA of 10 I know its going to be a bad week for me.

[Fred Derf Veteran]

A lot of my starters had two starts last week which will limit my options for this week.

Granted I needed all of those starts to get the 4W and thus get the win for wins. However, I could have used some of those 82 strikeouts this week. 61 of them were wasted last week. :(

[L3thal Veteran]

I have plenty of strikeouts to offer you, especially Erik Bedard. He leads the AL in strikeouts per 9 and maybe the ML.

[Fred Derf Veteran]

I'm going away for a little bit and I need my players to have a good night tonight. I don't want to leave down 9-1 to virtualmadden.

I won't have internet access so Mr. Franchise should benefit a bit. Luckily the all-star break is making this all fairly painless.

[Fred Derf Veteran]

I'm back. Rich Harden is back on the DL and, although that isn't a good thing, it does allow me to exchange Rickie Weeks for another player without having to drop an extra player to do it.

It doesn't seem like I missed anything. I had my few available players all set to play last night but, in retrospect, perhaps I shouldn't have.