Overloaded on pitching! WHIR!

[ayebatter]

Moving anyone from your bench for an upgrade at MI & CI would be the 1st step I'd take, look for teams in your league that were short on arms last yr and explore trades with them 1st.

[jeffmerk]

Ok, I'm a tad confused. You have 26 players listed as on your roster, but you have to be down to 19 players max or you have to cut three pitchers, which is it? I'd like to help.

Sorry if my post sounds confusing. In our league, we have an active roster of 22 players 13 postion and 9 pitchers (5 SP, 4 RP). We can keep anyone in our ACTIVE lineup as long as we're under our budget of $26. We must drop our any reserves we may have (in my case, 3 pitchers and 1 postion player) before our draft date in March next year. So it doesn't matter who I shuffle into my starting lineup for pitchers, I'm still going to have to move 3 pitchers.

I don't want to cut any of these 3 pitchers out-right, because I know I can get some sort of value in bats in return. My question is, what combonation of pitchers would you look to move to bring in a bat or two? Hamels, to me, would be the least likely for me to move, while I'm waiting to see where Peavy ends up. I'd certainly love to keep Slowey, but I just don't think I can with the big arms in my lineup.

Basically, just looking for some advice what pitchers I have you would move for what bats you'd target. Here are my bench pitchers (Dempster, Slowey, Pelfrey), while my active lineup is in my sig. Thanks for your help thus far!

Hamels carries more injury risk than either Santana or Peavy and his postseason inflated value will never be higher. If you can deal him for a stud hitter with a similar salary, I don't think you'll regret it.