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oh golly if we added khalil greene we'd have the best lineup in the history of the game!

seriously, I have no clue what he was trying to do.

The Titans have a case of Marinelliitis where they only recognize FAs that used to play for the Colts. Better team to emulate than the Bucs though.

hamilton = jason bay

thats a shame

using college stats to gauge a running backs talent level?

I've always liked Lloyd. He and Matt Jones are the only receivers in the league who are more adept at one-handed catches than two-handed catches.

if you mean soto and towles, i'd do it. otherwise, there's probably not decent options out there.

wow it really doesn't take much to offend people these days.

OBP punishes players for productive outs

Lowrie's more 2B than SS.

No, it's just a standard C, 1b, 2b, ss, 3b, lf, cf, rf, util offense and sp, sp, sp, rp, rp, p, p pitching. McCann, Pena, Drew are just bench players on my roster (Pena will likely DH but you get the point). I can't say why some of the players were ignored, but the ADPs were definitely affected by the dynasty league setting, only being a 10-team league and also that the categories aren't 5x5: R, HR, RBI, SB, K, BA, OBP, SLG & W, L, SV, K, ERA, WHIP I'm guessing Pena fell because of the strikeouts and fears of regression? RF is incredibly deep, but Hawpe slipping that far was a big shock, and I don't think catchers were properly valued. I already had drafted Mauer, but I didn't want another owner to luck into McCann with a late pick. He's great trade bait for me now. As for the dynasty part, I had kept Gallardo for lack of better options, so he was technically "drafted" within the first 5 rounds, as were 20 other pitchers, many of who don't normally warrant such draft position. So that played a part in other players slipping below where you'd accept them. I had a few gambles in waiting on guys pay off well, and a couple didn't. I lost out on Kemp and Bonderman by waiting too long.

OK so I just drafted for my keeper league turned dynasty league and am estatic with the results. 1st 5 rounds of the draft were for the keepers, 3 offense & 2 pitchers. Rounds shown in parentheses, keepers denoted by italices: C - Joe Mauer(6), Brian McCann (10) 1B - Albert Pujols, Carlos Pena (12) 2B - Brandon Phillips SS - Rafael Furcal (8), Stephen Drew (23) 3B - Ryan Zimmerman (9), Alex Gordon (14) LF - Matt Holliday, Carlos Gomez (17) CF - Chris B. Young (7), Cameron Maybin (15) RF - Brad Hawpe (20), Jeremy Hermida (13) SP - Johan Santana, Yovani Gallardo, Tim Lincecum (11), Matt Cain (16), Clay Buchholz (18), Dustin McGowan (21) RP - Joakim Soria (19), Brian Wilson (22) I was thrilled to have Lincecum, McGowan, Hawpe, Soria fall as far as they did. McCann I'll probably trade for a kings ransom to the poor sap that drafted Johjima. I'm leaning towards doing a Cain for Raffy Soriano swap, since I'd rather not have two Giant pitchers on the same roster, with the league counting W & L, those categories will be too badly sabotaged. And a top flight closer is the only thing I seem to be missing. As it stands, my team entered into the adjusted league settings in Meph's spreadsheet I'm projected for 92 pts- 1st place by a scant margin. But the oldest player on my roster is 30, so I have a good core to start with for the next few seasons.

the upshot is that Juan Gonzalez is more likely now to get a roster spot and steal ABs from players who are less awful.

bonderman's problem is the 1st inning. he's the new john burkett.

that situation's even murkier than minnesota's CF vacancy. what do they have, 5 guys vying for the spot with Nix, Stewart, Baker, Young, Barmes? what a mess. as for Phillips, I know the projections are down on him, but I'm still bullish. they're factoring in the last 3 years of performance with which the first two were highly unimpressive before a breakout and I don't think they properly weight the breakout year. Carlos Pena is another example of this, where I like him to be a .550 slugger this year, and he's floating around .500 or slightly less in the few I've seen. I'll go to war with these two guys, they're too talented to regress that much.

what a difference a good glove makes. if he plays great defense he might be worth a $70m contract from the Angels.

It'd be much easier to fix if I weren't excel-[expletive] and had to input each "=RANK(H,H:H)", individually, throwing the specific row number into each equation. But I'm 20% done, so it shouldn't be too much longer. individually? if i'm understanding you correctly, you can more quickly accomplish this. hover your mouse over the lower right hand corner of the cell so you get a + showing as your cursor, and click and drag downward to as many cells you want have that formula copied to (it adjusts the formulas to associate with cells in the same row). or you could just double-click when you get the + showing and it will copy down as far as there are cells populated adjacently.

It'd be much easier to fix if I weren't excel-[expletive] and had to input each "=RANK(H,H:H)", individually, throwing the specific row number into each equation. But I'm 20% done, so it shouldn't be too much longer. individually? if i'm understanding you correctly, hover your mouse over the lower right hand corner of the cell so you get a + showing as your cursor, and click and drag downward to as many cells you want have that formula copied to (it adjusts the formulas to associate with cells in the same row). or you could just double-click when you get the + showing and it will copy down as far as there are cells populated adjacently.

the o dog - 42.7 warp3 in 3031 pa miguel cabrera - 39.2 warp3 in 3072 pa true story

i like milledge a little better. they're similar but he'll have marginally better numbers across the board.

Fredric Sjostrom, David LeNeveu and Josh Gratton for Al Montoya and Marcel Hossa. What's the point for Sather to make this deal? other moves Marc-Andre Bergeron to Anaheim for 3rd rounder Brad Stuart to Wings for 2nd & 4th Matt Cooke to Caps for Matt Pettinger Tuomo Ruutu to Canes for Andrew Ladd Adam Foote to Avs for cond. 1st Sergei Fedorov to Caps for Theo Ruth Ruslan Salei to Avs for Karlis Skrastins

Good thing. Malkin could use a scorer on his wing to help him break out of his slump. But seriously, that's a ton for a rental. They can't possibly afford to extend him with new Crosby and Malkin (and Fleury?) deals upcoming these next couple years. Now every penalty will result in a goal with Malkin-Sid-Hossa-Gonchar-Whitney PP.

Yao-ch

Isaiah Thomas or Matt Millen: who gets lifetime contract first?