It’s a dogfight in AL Tout, and the dogs are mlb.com’s Mike Siano and creativesport.com’s Lawr Michaels. Rare is the day that both don’t spend some time in first place. Both will be blogging here, their darkest deepest thoughts. Maybe even murderous thoughts, now that I think about it. Follow the evidence here.
Category: About Tout Wars
Lawr’s Weekly Hot Sheet in a Pennant Race
Lawr Michaels, of creativesports.com, and Mike Siano, of mlb.com, are in a neck and neck race to win Tout Wars AL this year. Lawr writes in this column about thinking, too little and too much, while trying to do the right things to win.
Brian Walton: FAABing Juan Guttierez, a tale of two championships
Tout NL Leader by a lot writes at creativesports.com about why football just isn’t that important to him right now.
Brian Walton: 2008 Was a Disaster!
Brian Walton explains why his 2008 season was such a mess, and suggests why that matters now.
Why First-Place Lawr Michaels Traded CC Sabathia…
He explains the Tout AL action.
TOUT Mixed 7/20 Swat
one trade
Cushing gets Stephen Drew and Rich Harden
Roberts gets Jose Valverde, Dexter Fowler, and Jack Wilson
FAAB
Dennis
Conrad $1 (vickery 50)
Karabell
Smith $13 (vickery 19)
Kastner
Rzepcyzinski $1 (vickery 12)
Duncan $0
Liss
Pedro $4 (vickery 7)
Carroll
Cedeno $1 (vickery 1)
Patton
Latos $12 (21 vickery)
Pliml
Sadowski $1 (vickery 20)
Mack
Carmona $1 (vickery 7)
Hoyos
Stauffer $1 (vickery 9)
Roberts
Schmidt $1 (vickery 4)
Cushing
Niese $0
TOUT AL 7/20 Swat
GREY
no
BERRY
losing bid
MOYER
Res R Johnson. Act D Navarro
PETERSON
Res Fields. Act Wise
Rel Chen. $Claim J Westbrook ($1. Next: none. Vickery: $1)
WALKER
$Claim M Grudzielanek. ($10. Next: Berry $1. Vickery: $2)
Res B Lyon. Claim Yu-Te Ni.
$Claim R Quinlann ($1. Next: $0. Vickery: $1)
Res Balfour. Activate B Colon.
REL: Pedro Martinez. Tony Pena (SS), M Redmond.
COLLETTE
Rel M Lowe. $Claim R Ramirez ($5. Next: $0. Vickery: $1)
Rel W Ramirez. $Claim J Hannahan ($6. Next: Sheehan $2, Vickery: $3)
Rel M Joyce. $Claim A Marte ($2. Next: none. Vickery: $1)
COLTON/WOLF
Res Accardo. $Claim D Baez ($2. Next: none. Vickery: $1)
Cut Hopper.
SHEEHAN
Res Buck. $Claim D Dellucci ($1. Next: $0. Vickery: $1)
Res Mijares. $Claim F Carmona ($2. Next: none. Vickery: $1)
Rel Betancourt
SHANDLER
Rel Berkan. Act Poreda.
Res Freel. Act DeRosa
Cut Barrett.
ERICKSON
DL Meche. Claim D Oliver.
MICHAELS
No
SIANO
DL Zumaya. Claim Seay.
Res Langerhans. Act Hunter. REL M Ramirez.
Rel Gimenez. Act C Quentin.
TOUT NL 7/20 Swat
1. Trades
No trades this week.
2. Free Agents
HERTZ:
– Picks up Augie Ojeda for $1 (Hertz 2); drops Jeremy Reed.
– Picks up Oscar Salazar for $1 (Hertz 5); drops Chan Ho Park.
KREUTZER:
– Picks up Adam Rosales for $0; drops Juan Castro.
– Picks up Nick Stavinoha for $0; drops Matt Maloney.
– Picks up JD Martin for $1(Kreutzer 1); drops Edward Mujica.
– Picks up Chris Coste for $1 (Kreutzer 2, Wilderman 0); drops Tim Redding.
– Picks up Jon Rauch for $1 (Kreutzer 2); DL’s Scott Olsen.
– Picks up Josh Whitesell for $1 (Kreutzer 24); drops Corey Patterson.
LEIBOWITZ:
– Picks up Kevin Frandsen for $3 (Leibowitz 3; Hertz 2); drops Tony Clark.
– Picks up Mat Latos for $5 (Walton 2; Leibowitz 7; Hertz 4); drops Brian Bogusevic.
LOMBARDO:
– Picks up Alberto Arias for $1 (Lombardo 1); drops Diory Hernandez.
WALTON:
– Picks up Joe Beimel for $0; DL’s Pedro Martinez.
WILDERMAN:
– Picks up David Ross for $0; drops Mitch Stetter.
– Picks up Greg Norton for $0; drops Nick Evans.
– Picks up Luis Ayala for $1 (Wilderman 2); drops Aaron Heilman.
ZOLA:
– Picks up Tyler Clippard for $1 (Zola 1; Hertz 0); DL’s Corey Wade.