WHIR need to get over the 5th place hump! WHIR

[Dave8603]

10 team H2H, standard cats, non-keeper, 3 max pickups per week.

I've finally made it to 5th place in this league after a season of moving back and forth between 6th and 8th place. I think I have the team to get into the top 3, at least, but I need some help. Trades are very hard to come by so I pretty much need to do this on my own. There's not much out on the WW - I'm thinking of picking up Demel for saves in AZ but if that doesn't work out, I might need to punt saves altogether.

Some of the people available - Demel, Volquez, Dickey, Trevor Hoffman, Wandy Rodriguez, Dice-K, Luke Scott, David Freese, Francouer, Marlon Byrd, Seth Smith, Gaby Sanchez...

What should I do at this point? I'm close to dropping Cuddyer. His avg is lower than I'd like and he probably won't reach 30 hrs again. I think at best, in this league, he's a 5th outfielder and I just grabbed Quentin since he's starting to heat up finally. Basically, I need to decide if there's anyone I should pick up/drop, if I want to drop Rauch (and Lindstom, but I don't really care about him) and punt saves, or try to trade for something.

C - Carlos Santana
1B - Adrian Gonzalez
2B - Casey McGehee
3B - Jose Bautista
SS - Hanley Ramirez
IF - Troy Glaus
OF - Carlos Lee
OF - Adam Dunn
OF - Manny Ramirez
OF - Carlos Quentin
OF - Colby Rasmus
UTIL - Aubrey Huff
DL - Ryan Ludwick
DL - Michael Cuddyer

SP - CC Sabathia
SP - Justin Verlander
SP - Carlos Zambrano
SP - Brandon Morrow
RP - Matt Lindstrom
RP - Jon Rauch
P - John Danks
BN - Shaun Marcum
BN - Phil Hughes
BN - Colby Lewis
BN - Jon Niese
DL - Chad Billingsley
DL - Josh Beckett

WHIR, leave your link.

[FrankieYankee]

Pick up Volquez or Byrd.



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[Dave8603]

Thanks. I'm probably picking up Volquez next week to stash when Bills comes back but what I'm really on the fence about is whether to drop Cuddyer/Ludwick/Manny and whether to punt saves (I'm 4-7-0 in saves on the year).

[Dave8603]

*BUMP* Justin Smoak is available too.