BigbadB

They have yet to come up with an exact science into the mysteries of abuse of a pitching arm. How much can an MRI detect? Does it show nerve damage? It very well could just be coincidental that the youngest pitcher with the most pitcher abuse points hasn't been right ever since. But, the evidence is there that suggests that it wasn't just coincidental. You can toss it out there that the likelihood that the pitching abuse points in 2003 had nothing to do with what's wrong with Prior now, but it doesn't make your point any more correct than anyone elses.

Good luck from me, also.

Team A: has 7 starters each scheduled to pitch once during the week and the limit happens to be 7. Team B: only has 5 starters and only has 5 starts scheduled for the week. Team A can switch out their starters to get their 7 starts, but Team B with only 5 starters can't make any offensive roster moves to offset the extra players Team A is running out there? I'm just asking why we can make pitching roster moves, but not offensive roster moves. I think it's a valid question. More than anything, it's apparent to me that the rules need clarification. My opponent last week added a pitcher mid week and inserted him into his rotation and got points when he already had 6 starters on his roster. Yet, I can't switch out a player for a postponed game because we don't want this to turn into a competition of who makes the most roster moves each week? I think teams either need to go with 5 set starters and a set line up, or allow internal roster changes daily. When you introduced a limit on pitching starts, I think you changed the dynamic. If one team is using their reserves to get an extra start or two for the week and the other can't use their reserves because they are offensive players, it gives a clear advantage to a team with extra pitchers.

Between an off day for several teams, a postponement of another game and apparently a day off for another couple of guys, Jimmy Rollins is my only offensive player playing today. So far: 2-2, 2 HR's Go Jimmy, you fantasy stud! Only 13 more home runs today and we'll catch NSBB.

Hey. What happened to all my Uggla points? Talk about a kick in the crotch. Cool. Another Seattle postponement. ](*,)

My feelings on the subject are that we should be able to make any roster move we want as long as it doesn't involve adding a free agent that then gets into a line up that same week. In other words, if I want to bench Rolen because he's nursing a sore back and replace him temporarily with a different 3b on my roster, I should be able to do that. If I want to promote someone mid week from my minors or activate someone from the DL, I should be able to do that. All of these options would preclude that my team stays legal for any roster changes I make, of course. If someone has 7 different pitchers they want to use in a different week to get their 7 starts, I don't see a problem with that. Why not allow any roster moves that pertain to your own roster at any time of the week? I really got abused last week not having a 1b, an OF and a RP for a whole series due to snow outs. Couple that with another guy who got relegated to bench duty, and I had 4 players in my starting line up that didn't play Friday, Saturday and Sunday. With only 3 reserves and limits on pitching starts, it's not like anyone gets any significant advantage by switching out players daily, especially if they aren't allowed to add a free agent and insert them in the line up. But, if I was able to make a change, I could have put Ryan Shealy in for Richie Sexson and Rocco Baldelli in for Jose Guillen while Seattle sat out a whole series over last weekend. And as I bring this up for debate, it just occured to me that my opponent from last week added a free agent and stuck him in the line up against me last week, even though he already had 6 starters on his roster. And the added player did not replace a SP, but rather a reserve 1b. I don't really care about it since my team won, but had I lost because of it, I might have pitched a whiny baby fit. :D How about either clarifying the rules in a sticky thread or consider simplifying the rules and allowing more roster flexibility? To me, limiting starts to just 7 for every team puts teams that have guys sitting on the bench offensively at a disadvantage. Does that make sense? Last year, I didn't care if I had guys in my line up that didn't play if I was getting 10 starts out of my pitchers. This year, limited starts could have cost me the first week because half of my offensive players weren't playing.

I don't see the issue with NC's moves. I'd actually like to see more flexibility with rosters.

Well what the heck has he been doing the last 2 weeks? I'm going to guess that he's been on the phone trying to order his MLB EI package.

Amazing fact #23: Dan Uggla offensively has more points so far this week than the rest of my offense combined.

It appears that the Cardinals want Adam Wainwright's arm to fall off before the all star break. 101 pitches in game 1, 113 in game 2. This for a guy who pitched out of the bullpen throughout 2006. [-(

My QS streak ends at 8 with a very poor outing by Ervin Santana against, of course, Cleveland.

It won't be hard for the affiliates to figure out which "Home Improvement" episodes to air in place of the Cubs game. :D

Per Rotoworld. They really don't get it, do they? The team ERA is almost 8.00 and they aren't looking to deal for starters?

Ah yes, but will he double his previous career-high when he gets into his late 30's? Sounds easy enough. :P

Sweet Lord 900 Homers, anybody? Psh, he's gonna hit 1000. :shock: and Yankees fans will still boo him He'll be in Cubbie blue by then ;) And Barry Bonds WILL NOT show up. Book it. :D he will have long since died from all the damage he did by taking steroids. Yeah, I didn't think of that. Good point. :D

Personally, I'd be furious that the Cubs left a starter in all year long that couldn't provide better numbers than that. I don't care if they have to promote Veal or Gallagher to make it happen. 5.40 ERA/1.60 WHIP is for AAA, not the major leagues.

Sweet Lord 900 Homers, anybody? Psh, he's gonna hit 1000. :shock: and Yankees fans will still boo him He'll be in Cubbie blue by then ;) And Barry Bonds WILL NOT show up. Book it. :D

Looks like A-Rod is about 150 HR's ahead of Bond's pace.

Yep. Too classy to say what he really means. I'm thrilled with his decision. Besides, Bonds won't have the home run record for very long anyway.

Apparently, my team only believes in scoring points via pitching. 32 pitching points, 12 hitting points. Ugh.

This is the same argument that people were making about Rich Hill last year. Who is questioning whether Rich Hill should be in the rotation now? No one. Guzman has a 95+ fastball with plenty of movement, excellent breaking stuff and good command. All he needs is more experience pitching to major league hitters, just like Hill.

That's what's happened that last three years. Why should that change now? 300m reasons, I suppose. :D

I get this awful feeling that when the bats wake up, they'll do all of their scoring in one game and then go back to hitting nothing the next day.

I hear tell they're not very fond of you, either !! :wink: Haha.

Forgot to cover second? I missed it reading through this thread. let the ball trickle off his glove into the OF no runs should have scored I was referring to the DeRosa ground ball where he looked to 2nd, but threw to 1st and the runner scored from 3rd. Was Cesar not covering 2nd for the DP opportunity?