Hooray for my not-so-knowledgeable friends

[tkenm356]

Just got done with a draft in my fraternity league. One of the guys who wasn't there for the draft just dropped:

 

Morgan Ensberg in exchange for Rich Aurillia

Delmon Young in exchange for Mike Gonzalez

Nick Markakis in exchange for Brad Hawpe (wash)

Rich Harden in exchange for Brad Penny.

 

It's like free pickens. I had to drop Tulowitzki just so I could pick up Harden...

 

My team, after early roster adjustments, now consists of (10 team, H2H, no K's to count against people like Dunn):

 

C Victor Martinez

1B Prince fielder

2B ian Kinsler

SS Michael Young

3B Aramis Ramirez

OF Vladimir Guerrero

OF Magglio Ordonez

OF Pat Burrell

UTIL Mark Teahen

BN Adam Laroche

BN Russell Martin

BN Ryan Freel

BN Alex Gordon

BN Delmon Young

 

SP Johan Santana

SP Felix Hernandez

CL Mariano Rivera

CL Brad Lidge

P Chris Young

P Kelvim Escobar

P Rich Harden

BN Ian Snell

 

I'm also trying to trade Magglio Ordonez and Kelvim Escobar for Huston Street. The guy with Street also has BJ Ryan, Chad Cordero, Bob Wickman, and Octavio Dotel... he also picked up Mark Prior so he's SOL, and the only SP he has are Dontrelle Willis and Chris Capuano... he wasn't there for the draft obviously. Hopefully I can get Street, and my team will be stacked I think.

[tkenm356]

I decided not to make another thread about the people making dumb transactions in my fantasy league, but this is just weird, and it came form someone who knows about baseball. I suppose he was just upset about his performance thus far, but the dude dropped Mark Teixeira. I immediately picked him up in exchange for Adrian Gonzalez. Yeah, Gonzalez is performing better than he is now, but it's MARK TEIXEIRA.

 

Did he get injured and I not know about it? My lineup/rotation as it stands now in a 10-team league. I say this so you realize how ignorant some people can be by dropping good players. My team is ridonkulous...

 

C Russell Martin

1B Prince fielder

2B Ian Kinsler

3B Aramis Ramirez

SS Michael Young

OF Vladimir Guerrero

OF Delmon Young

OF Ryan Church

UTIL Mark Teixeira

 

BENCH

C/1B Victor Martinez

2B/3B BJ Upton

2B/3B/OF Ryan Freel

OF Pat Burrell

 

ROTATION

SP Johan Santana

SP Felix Hernandez

RP Mariano Rivera

RP Huston Street

P Ian Snell

P Rich Hill

P Al Reyes

 

BENCH

SP Chris Young

SP Rich Harden

 

 

It almost doesn't seem fair, but it's very uncharacteristic because a lot of the guys in the league are smart enough to know good players from bad ones.

[dacheezwhiz]

get young and martinez off your bench

[rawaction]

get young and martinez off your bench

 

Agreed. And you should have kept Gonzalez, dropped Freel, and make a trade for somebody needing a C or 1B, because you need a better 3rd OF than Church.

[tkenm356]

Young and MArtinez were on the bench because

 

A) Young had an off day when I wrote that

B) Martinez was still on the DL when I wrote that

 

I actually dropped Teixeira and picked up Gonzalez again. I needed a boost, and waiting for Tex to come around wasn't working for my offense. Someone else picked him up, which sucks, I was hoping someone would leave him and let him collect dust. Ohs vell.

 

Oh, and I dropped Church and picked up Hamilton. He's done well.

 

It's weird, I've been real high on my pitching, and so-so on my offense. So far the past two weeks, my offense has picked up steam and been real productive, but my pitching has blown donkeys