Wow, total overhaul and now in 1st

[WhiteHot]

Is that Scotty Manram in your OF?

I thought he was still in Single-A ball.

[tianyihe]

Of the trades you made, the only good one was the jose reyes one. Personally, I think the trades made your team a little worse than it was before.

[teddy ballgame]

Traded Berkman/Kearns/Miceli(who i piked up for R. Wagner) for Gomes

Wait what?

Berkman for Gomes? How are you in first?

hindsight that one was a bad trade, he was equal until he injured his shoulder.

WTF? Gomes was never equal to Berkman, despite any hot streak. Then you gave up Kearns on top of it.

[tianyihe]

You had a huge downgrade in 1B, going from fielder and berkman to helton. Huge downgrades in OF, going from Beltran, Crawford, and Holliday (3 top notch OF with great stats in all 5 categories) to manram, crawford, gomes, and patterson. Out of those OF only crawford is considered top notch, and only crawford and patterson are playable. Upgrading SS from rollins to reyes doesnt make this up, especially when you lost kearns. So your offense took a big hit from these trades.

You SP got an upgrade but I don't think it balances out your offense's huge downgrade. With your original team, you will still be 1st and probably with a bigger lead.

[Los_Dodgers]

Here we go:
Original drafted team:
C: Josh Willingham
1B: Todd Helton
2B: Felipe Lopez
3B: Garrett Atkins
SS: Miguel Tejada
OF: Carlos Beltran
OF: Johnny Damon
OF: Bobby Abreu
Util: Ryan Howard
Util: Coco Crisp
BN: Chris Shelton
BN: J. Mourneau
BN: Julio Lugo

SP: Jason Schmidt
SP: Brandon Webb
SP: Curt Schilling
SP: Cliff Lee
SP: Jeremy Bonderman
SP: Scott Kazmir
RP: Francisco Liriano
RP: Justin Duscherer
RP: Armando Benitez
RP: Derrick Turnbow
RP: Reitsma

NOW, the team that is in first place by over 30 games:

C: Varitek
1B: Ryan Howard
2B: Chase Utley
3B: David Wright
SS: Derek Jeter
OF: Bobby Abreu
OF: Carl Crawford
OF: Adam Dunn
Util: Garrett Atkins
Util: Julio Lugo
BN: Chris Shelton

SP: Jake Peavy
SP: Jason Schmidt
SP: Francisco Liriano
SP: Felix Hernandez
SP: Jered Weaver
SP: Jeremy Bonderman
SP: Cliff Lee
SP: Freddy Garcia
SP: John Patterson
RP: Derrick Turnbow
RP: Armando Benitez
RP: Duaner Sanchez
RP: Juan Rincon

Wow, I've only kept like 7 of my drafted players...and a couple of them I've traded and then had traded back to me. Wow.

[Los_Dodgers]

You had a huge downgrade in 1B, going from fielder and berkman to helton. Huge downgrades in OF, going from Beltran, Crawford, and Holliday (3 top notch OF with great stats in all 5 categories) to manram, crawford, gomes, and patterson. Out of those OF only crawford is considered top notch, and only crawford and patterson are playable. Upgrading SS from rollins to reyes doesnt make this up, especially when you lost kearns. So your offense took a big hit from these trades.

You SP got an upgrade but I don't think it balances out your offense's huge downgrade. With your original team, you will still be 1st and probably with a bigger lead.

Dude, ManRam is another name for Manny Ramirez...he's definetly considered "top notch"...am I missing something here? Did he get injured?

[deerayfan072]

You had a huge downgrade in 1B, going from fielder and berkman to helton. Huge downgrades in OF, going from Beltran, Crawford, and Holliday (3 top notch OF with great stats in all 5 categories) to manram, crawford, gomes, and patterson. Out of those OF only crawford is considered top notch, and only crawford and patterson are playable. Upgrading SS from rollins to reyes doesnt make this up, especially when you lost kearns. So your offense took a big hit from these trades.

You SP got an upgrade but I don't think it balances out your offense's huge downgrade. With your original team, you will still be 1st and probably with a bigger lead.

Manram= manny ramirez so i hope he is playable

[deerayfan072]

You had a huge downgrade in 1B, going from fielder and berkman to helton. Huge downgrades in OF, going from Beltran, Crawford, and Holliday (3 top notch OF with great stats in all 5 categories) to manram, crawford, gomes, and patterson. Out of those OF only crawford is considered top notch, and only crawford and patterson are playable. Upgrading SS from rollins to reyes doesnt make this up, especially when you lost kearns. So your offense took a big hit from these trades.

You SP got an upgrade but I don't think it balances out your offense's huge downgrade. With your original team, you will still be 1st and probably with a bigger lead.

Dude, ManRam is another name for Manny Ramirez...he's definetly considered "top notch"...am I missing something here? Did he get injured?

thank you someone knows their baseball

[Belle4Hall88]

Origonal Draft:
1. Big Papi
2. D-Wright
3. Pronk
4. A-Jones
5. R. Halladay
6. M. Holliday
7. Konerko
8. Isringhausen
9. Gomes
10. Zito
11. Lowry
12. Mulder
13. Kazmir
14. Davis
15. Hermida
16. Jacobs
17. Escobar
18. P. Wilson
19. C. Young
20. L. Gonzalez
21. Cedeno
22. Crosby
23. Ray
24. Duffy
25. Cabrera
26. Big Hurt
27. McCann

Trades Made:
1. Traded Konerko & Jacobs for V-Mart
2. Traded Isringhuasen & Crosby for J.Rollins
3. Traded Chris Ray for Willy Mo Pena(still on reds)
4. Traded Zito/C.Young/Hermida for A-Ram
5. Traded Moises Alou & Mike Jacobs for A.J. Burnett & Shawn Chacon
6. Traded A.J. Burnett for Randy Winn
7. Traded Craig Wilson for Kenny Lofton
8. Traded Jeff Suppan & A.Jones for F.Liriano & J.Valverde
9. Traded Johnny Gomes & Lowry for Burrell and Brandon Webb
10. Traded David Wright, Mark Mulder, Cole Hamels for Billy Wagner, Garret Atkins, Omar Vizquell
11. Traded Rollins and Otsuka for A.Dunn
12. Traded Kenny Lofton & Mike Maroth for John Lackey
13. Traded David Ortiz & Marcus Giles for Chase Utley & Ben Brossuard
14. Traded John Lackey for J.J. Putz
15. Traded Kelvim Escobar & Bill Hall for Jason Giambi
16. Traded Brandon Webb, David DeJesus for Carl Crawford
17. Traded Pat Burrell, Anthony Reyes for Ken Griffey Jr.
18. Traded Robinson Cano, Randy Winn, Aramis Ramirez, David Ross for Grady Sizemore, Ian Kinsler

Current Team: 2nd place, 91.5 points (1st place = 97 points)
P Roy Halladay
P Scott Kazmir
P Fransisco Liriano
P Tim Hudson(FA)
P Billy Wagner
P J.J. Putz
P Mike Gonzalez(FA)
P Eddie Gurardado(FA)
P Jorge Sosa(FA)
P Brian Meadows(FA)
P Fausto Camona(FA)

C Victor Martinez
1B Jason Giambi
2B Chase Utley
3B Garrett Atkins
SS Ian Kinsler
Util Travis Hafner
CI Adam Dunn
OF Carl Crawford
OF Matt Holliday
OF Grady Sizemore
OF Ken Griffey Jr.
OF Andre Either
Bench: Johnny Gomes(FA)
Bench: Frank Thomas
Bench: Willy Taveras(FA)
Bench: Joey Gathright(FA)
DL: Edwin Encarnation(FA)
DL: Jay Gibbons(FA)

[daullaz]

My starting lineup went from this:

J.Morneau, T.Iguchi, A.Rodriguez, M.Young, Ja.Lopez, J.Damon, M.Holliday, P.Burrell.

M.Buerhle, B.Zito, J.Patterson, B.Penny, B.Radke, H.Street, A.Burgos, J.Verlander.

To this:

J.Thome, Jo.Lopez, E.Chavez, M.Tejada, C.Crawford, M.Holliday, T.Hunter/S.Green.

D.Haren, M.Buerhle, B.Penny, M.Morris, J.Verlander, H.Street, C.Cordero, T.Saito.

Morneau is still with the team (sitting behind Thome) but the rest of the guys are gone.