8 teams 29 rounds MI CI 1 C, 3 OF's, 2 UT, 

6x6 HR, RBI, SB, R, Hits, OPS

W, L, ERA, WHIP, Saves, K's

we also have keepers but are complicated but explains why i took montero and heyward

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Took over a new yeam in a keeper league this year. Previous owner sold his possible keepers for quantity to make a run, made the playoffs but didn't make it to the top of the mountain and bailed. So I had no keepers worth having. I got the four extra picks for not keeping any players. Do you think I'll be able to compete or will I be packaging for keepers before the trade deadline and building for 2011. It's a 12 team H2H typical 5x5 +OBP and WHIP.

C-Victor Martinez{1st}

1st-James Loney

2nd Gordon Beckham {3rd}

3rd-Mark Reynolds{1st}

SS-Alexia Ramirez

LF-Adam Lind

CF-Michael Bourn

RF-Nick Markakis

OF-Julio Borbon{CF LF}

BN-Ian Stewert{2nd and 3rd}

BN-Matt Weiters{C}

BN-Travis Snider{LF RF}

BN-JJ Hardy

P- Clayton Kershaw

P- Tommy Hanson

P- David Price

P- Brian Matusz

P- Mat Latos

P- Edwin Jackson

P- Ben Sheets

P- Chris Tillman

P- Hiroki Kuroda

P- Trevor Cahill

P- Brad Bergeson

RP- Bobby Jenks

RP- Leo Nunez

RP- Joba Chamberlain

I hope its ok that i publish this here....

Hello to all my fellow Bravos fans, i have 2 fantasy leagues i wanna fill.... i need active owners for a 12 team league and a 16 team league. if interested Emali me at... dtnord@sio.midcol.net or leave your email here. 

12 team settings

http://games.espn.go.com/flb/leaguesetup/settings?leagueId=44699

16 team settings

http://games.espn.go.com/flb/leaguesetup/settings?leagueId=45711

Here are a two questions in one post.  I'm part of a Dynasty League, and I've listed my team below.  The league is hosted by Yahoo and there are no contracts or anything on the players (i.e. no dollars involved).  Most offensive and pitching stats matter, so this isn't your standard 5x5 league.  Anyway, here are my questions:

1. I was offered Albert Pujols for Hanley Ramirez, Chris Carpenter and Matt Wieters, which I declined.  I countered replacing Wieters with Posey, and he declined.  He then emailed me saying that he would do Pujols for HanRam, Carpenter and Pena.  I don't want to do that, but am considering making a counter-offer of Pujols for just HanRam and Pena, which I doubt he'd accept.  Thoughts?  Even if I was to do this trade, I'd have to shift Stewart to MI and put Gordon or Alvarez at 3B, and then next year I'd be screwed at MI (once Stewart loses 2B eligibility).  I'm not too concerned about this right now, but it's a thought.
   
2. Aaron Harang, Erik Bedard and Ervin Santana are all available right now on the FA market.  I wouldn't mind having one of these guys on my team, but I have no idea who I would drop to make room.  Thoughts?
   

Here is my team:

C    Matt Wieters (Bal - C)
1B    Lance Berkman (Hou - 1B)
2B    Dan Uggla (Fla - 2B)
3B    Ian Stewart (Col - 2B,3B)
SS    Hanley Ramirez (Fla - SS)
CI    Carlos Pena (TB - 1B)
MI    Jose Reyes (NYM - SS)
LF    Carlos Lee (Hou - LF)
CF    Cameron Maybin (Fla - CF)
RF    Justin Upton (Ari - RF)
OF    Jay Bruce (Cin - RF)
UTIL    Bobby Abreu (LAA - LF,RF)
UTIL    Nelson Cruz (Tex - RF)

BN    Pedro Alvarez (Pit - 3B)
BN    Alex Gordon (KC - 3B)
BN    Buster Posey (SF - C)
BN    Travis Snider (Tor - LF,RF)

SP    Chris Carpenter (StL - SP)
SP    Matt Garza (TB - SP)
SP    Jake Peavy (CWS - SP)
SP    Rick Porcello (Det - SP)
SP    Rich Harden (ChC - SP)
RP    Jose Valverde (Hou - RP)
RP    Chris Perez (Cle - RP)
RP    ---
P    Chad Billingsley (LAD - SP)
P    Brian Matusz (Bal - SP)

BN    David Price (TB - SP)
BN    Johnny Cueto (Cin - SP)
BN    Chris Tillman (Bal - SP)
BN    Scott Kazmir (LAA - SP)

I've finished up my starting pitcher rankings over the span of two posts.

You can find 1-25 here and 26 through 75 here.

I also posted my thoughts on a mock auction that I participated in earlier in the week here as well.

Commentary is always welcome.

What do Matt Kemp, Tim Lincecum, and Troy Tulowitzki have in common? None of them qualify for this list of the Top 25 best fantasy cogs under the age of 25.

Using the cut-off date of Opening Day 2010 as our guide, we poured over every roster and checked the age of every fantasy relevant player on every MLB team. After excluding everyone with a DOB that ends in 84 or later, here are the results. MLB Fantasy Prospects presents to you a keeper-league owner’s best friend: The Top 25 Under 25.

I don't know if he has been talked about yet or not so I will just post this.  I am in a keeper league for this year and was going to keep Reyes but now I am not sure since he has another injury concern with his potential thyroid problem.  I am now debating on whether I should just stick with Reyes and hope it doesn't affect him this year or if I should keep Pablo Sandoval instead.  I know Sandoval will most likely still put up good numbers even with the Giants offense still sucking and it pains me to say that because I'm a Giants fan and was hoping they would score more then 2 runs this year.  So I was wondering what you guys thought about it and had advice on you I should keep for the season.  It is a custom league and counts steals and OPS as well as HR, RBI, BA, and Runs scored.

Yes this is dredging the bottom of the barrel, but in an NL Only 5x5 roto league, who do y'all like the best for this year? for long term?

Felipe Paulino, Kyle McClellan, Jaime Garcia

-Felipe has talent, but needs work on control. May or may not have a rotation spot.  I read that he got serious with training and preparations in the off-season, but it looks like he hasn't pitched in a game yet this spring.

-McClellan has broke into the majors as a decent reliever and is transitioning to SP.

-Garcia is battling McClellan for the 5th SP in StL.  Has talent, but recovering from TJS.  Both Garcia and McClellan looked good Sunday.

Based on talent/potential I like Paulino and Garcia's long term potential the best, but I'm also looking at contribution this year.

thanks

I've played fantasy baseball for many years. (My first team's rotation featured rookies Jason Bere and Aaron Sele. Jay Buhner and Mo Vaughn anchored my lineup.) But I haven't played it well since 2003 or 2004. My excuse? Kids. No, it's not that I fill my rosters with unproven youngsters. It's that my wife and I have too many. Too many to allow me the time necessary to have success in a competitive fantasy baseball league.

I've thought about hanging up my fantasy spikes but I really like playing it -not to win necessarily- but really just to keep an eye on good and great players from around baseball. Players like Adrian Gonzalez or Josh Johnson who of course come up on the Reds' schedule sporadically throughout the summer but then seemingly disappear. I like knowing about those guys and I like being able to talk to other baseball fans about those guys. So I play fantasy baseball. And I'm gonna continue to play. ...As long as at least a few of you folks wanna play in my new league: S(a.N.D)B.O.K.X. Fantasy Baseball.

The SAND is the tautologically redundant part of the acronym: Simple (And Not Difficult)

The BOKX explains just how simple (and not difficult) this league's scoring system will be: Based Only on Ks (strikeouts) and Xs (extra base hits).

* * * This league's scoring system has two only statistics: strikeouts and extra-base hits.* * *

Hopefully, this keeps things simple (and not difficult) and will thus require only a few minutes each week to seek out good hitters and good pitchers to replace not-quite-as-good pitchers and not-quite-as-good hitters.

We'll probably use only players from the National League and unless things change for some reason, it'll be a points league. It's gonna be on Yahoo! so it'll be free and unless things change for some reason, we'll just be playing for bragging rights (and something to do). I've had some help from Red Reporter's sabermetric higher-ups and I think I know how to weight things so that the NL's good, better and best strikeout pitchers are going to be worth roughly what the NL's good, better and best sluggers will be worth on draft day. But I've never seen or heard of a league like this so I don't know quite what to expect and if anybody can think of any reason that this format might go beyond just being quirky and we'll like end up ripping a hole in the space/time continuum, help us out, eh? So, if you wanna play and/or if you have any questions, let me know below. I have the draft set for Wednesday, March 31st at 8:30pm EST. This may change but I think we'll need to settle on a date and a time and I think we'll need to do it sooner rather than later.

I'm gonna go ahead and post an email address so that if there are any lurkers who wanna let me know that they want to play they don't necessarily have to create an SBNation account in order to do so. Just let me know what you're thinking: SANDBOKX.at.Gmail

Here's the facts

League: 16 Team Dynasty

Current OF: Matt Holliday, Justin Upton, Ichiro

Team Projection: Should be a contender until 2012 after which i have to deal with Aram, Rollins, Wieters, Gallardo and others as FA

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