Note- this is a 12-team free 5x5 head-to-head Yahoo league
Three or four weeks ago, a manager opted to punt saves. He first posted that he was looking to trade his closers (Qualls, Lidge and another mediocre-at-best closer). Two days later, after nobody made a deal with him, he simply dropped his closers. I picked up Lidge off waivers a couple days later.
The team was already below .500 so punting a category was really silly I thought.
Shockingly, last week he put Adam Wainwright, Johan Santana, and three other SPs on the trade block. He then traded Wainwright for Pablo Sandoval and Matt Kemp. The trade was vetoed by league votes. One guy explained that he vetoed the deal as a "salvation veto". He felt the saves punter was further damaging his pitching staff by parting with Wainwright.
The trade was reworked to include Austin Jackson and it went through. Austin Jackson going to the team getting Wainwright was enough the second time around.
Now two days later, July 17, the guy dropped Scott Rolen. He just picked up Aramis Ramirez and traded for Sandoval, so he felt Rolen was useless. He dropped Rolen for Brian Matusz. He proceeded to drop Matusz this afternoon.
So to sum it up, he punted saves, traded away his best starting pitcher and dropped Rolen for a crappy starting pitcher who he only used for a one-game streaming purpose. LOL that Matusz got blasted today.
There's also this comment from the guy-
If this league had more categories like "quality starts" or "innings pitched," I probably wouldn't be doing some of this stuff. If there was money involved too, I would think things over differently. But there is neither. I still want to win, but I want to see what kind of results come from this. I think it may work, but who knows.
As for the trade, I think its very fair. I'm not a Dodgers fan, I don't like Matt Kemp, but when he was offered I looked at his numbers and liked what I saw. He's gonna give me more hr's and rbi's, but he is gonna be 2nd on my team in sb as well. As for Sandoval, I had him last year. I expect a big 2nd half. It's clearly a fair trade when half the people think he is getting a better deal and half think I am. Think about it. If anyone is interested in Scott Rolen, send me an offer.
I am wondering if I should lock this guy, replace him (I can contact Yahoo and have a friend or random person babysit the team the rest of the year), or just continue onward and pray he doesn't do anything else silly that will upset the competitive balance for the rest of us.
I do know for a fact that Rolen will not clear waivers. I find it to be gross negligence for him to have dropped Rolen for a crappy pitcher streamjob.
Three or four weeks ago, a manager opted to punt saves. He first posted that he was looking to trade his closers (Qualls, Lidge and another mediocre-at-best closer). Two days later, after nobody made a deal with him, he simply dropped his closers. I picked up Lidge off waivers a couple days later.
The team was already below .500 so punting a category was really silly I thought.
Shockingly, last week he put Adam Wainwright, Johan Santana, and three other SPs on the trade block. He then traded Wainwright for Pablo Sandoval and Matt Kemp. The trade was vetoed by league votes. One guy explained that he vetoed the deal as a "salvation veto". He felt the saves punter was further damaging his pitching staff by parting with Wainwright.
The trade was reworked to include Austin Jackson and it went through. Austin Jackson going to the team getting Wainwright was enough the second time around.
Now two days later, July 17, the guy dropped Scott Rolen. He just picked up Aramis Ramirez and traded for Sandoval, so he felt Rolen was useless. He dropped Rolen for Brian Matusz. He proceeded to drop Matusz this afternoon.
So to sum it up, he punted saves, traded away his best starting pitcher and dropped Rolen for a crappy starting pitcher who he only used for a one-game streaming purpose. LOL that Matusz got blasted today.
There's also this comment from the guy-
If this league had more categories like "quality starts" or "innings pitched," I probably wouldn't be doing some of this stuff. If there was money involved too, I would think things over differently. But there is neither. I still want to win, but I want to see what kind of results come from this. I think it may work, but who knows.
As for the trade, I think its very fair. I'm not a Dodgers fan, I don't like Matt Kemp, but when he was offered I looked at his numbers and liked what I saw. He's gonna give me more hr's and rbi's, but he is gonna be 2nd on my team in sb as well. As for Sandoval, I had him last year. I expect a big 2nd half. It's clearly a fair trade when half the people think he is getting a better deal and half think I am. Think about it. If anyone is interested in Scott Rolen, send me an offer.
I am wondering if I should lock this guy, replace him (I can contact Yahoo and have a friend or random person babysit the team the rest of the year), or just continue onward and pray he doesn't do anything else silly that will upset the competitive balance for the rest of us.
I do know for a fact that Rolen will not clear waivers. I find it to be gross negligence for him to have dropped Rolen for a crappy pitcher streamjob.
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