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.
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 AL 7/27 Swat
GREY
Rel Mills. $Claim R Rowland Smith ($19. Next Moyer 6 Peterson 5 Sheehan 2. Vickery: $7)
BERRY
Rel R Hill. Claim C Meredith.
PETERSON
May not reclaim Matt Harrison, who is still on the 15 day DL.
DL Westbrook. $Claim Matt Palmer ($1. Next: $0. Vickery: $1)
Res Wise. Activate Gordon.
Cut Cunningham, if necessary.
WALKER
Rel W Balentien. Res Anderson. $Claim C Gimenez ($4. Next: Collette $4. Vickery: $4)
Res Linebrink. $Claim J Sowers ($1. Next: $0. Vickery: $1)
MOYER
Res Cormier. Act Ryan Perry.
SHEEHAN
Rel Dellucci. $Claim B Wallace ($1. Next: none Vickery: $1)
COLLETTE
$Claim M Saunders. ($24. Next: Siano 20, Grey 19, Peterson 15, Erickson 15, Michaels 7, Berry 6, Moyer 6. Vickery: $21)
COLTON
Res Griffey. Activate K Millar.
Res Brignac. Claim Valencia.
Res Olsen. Claim Coke.
CUTS: Olsen, Crowe
ERICKSON
Res Kotsay. $Claim E Peterson ($13. Next: Colton 4, Sheehan 1. Vickery: $5)
Res C Davis. $Claim D Barton ($7. Next: Sheehan 2, Colton 2. Vickery: $3)
Res Millwood. Claim Tony Pena.
CUT: Kotsay
SHANDLER
Res WOod. Cut Freel. $Claim LaRoche ($69. Next: Colton $60, Collette 32, Peterson 25, Moyer 21, Siano 20, Grey 19. Vickery: $61)
Res Mazzaro. Act Laffey.
SIANO
Cut Salazar. Act C Guillen.
MICHAELS
losing bid
Tout Mixed 7/27 Swat
trades:
Petera trades Oswalt and Ross and $3 FAAB to Schechter for Damon and Jones (sounds like a law firm).
FAAB:
Dennis
Matthews $1 (41 vickery)
Kastner
Pearce $5 (12 vickery)
Liss
Laffey $6 (7 vickery)
Melky $5 (9 vickery)
LaPorta $4 (7 vickery)
Hoyos
Park $1 (3 vickery)
Clippard $1 (3 vickery)
Delwyn Young $2 (3 vickery)
Pliml
Gomes $1 (15 vickery)
Moss $1 (1 vickery)
Staman $5 (7 vickery)
Petera
M. Saunders $1 (8 vickery)
Karabell
Lugo $8 (7 vickery)
Coste $1 (7 vickery)
Schechter
Gutherie $1 (4 vickery)
Salfino
VandenHurk $4 (6 vickery)
French $4 (5 vickery)
Behrens
Cahill $1 (17 vickery)
Van Hook
Hart $1 (2 vickery)
Roberts
Dillard $2 (4 vickery)
Rowand-Snith $1 (3 vickery)
Tout NL 7/27 SWAT
A. Trades
– HERTZ trades Joe Blanton, $15 FAAB; ZOLA trades Dexter Fowler, Luke Gregerson.
B. 60-day DL Redemption:
– KREUTZER cashes in on Anibal Sanchez – originally $3, but after the All-Star break, so half-value. All fractions rounded up – so he gets $2 in return.
C. Free Agents
WILDERMAN
– Picks up Matt Holliday for $94 (Wilderman 94; Ravitz 42; Kreutzer 54; Lombardo 89; Cockcroft 94; Pianowski 25); drops Greg Norton.
WALTON
– Picks up Julio Lugo for $30 (Ravitz 27; Hertz 14; Leibowitz 13; Lombardo 29; Pianowski 25; Walton 52); drops Joe Beimel.
HERTZ
– Pick up Matt Daley for $0; drop Oscar Salazar
– Pick up Alex Cora for $1 (Hertz 3; Leibowitz 0); drop Anderson Hernandez.
– Pick up Tyler Clippard for $5 (Hertz 5; Kreutzer 0; Lombardo 0; Pianowski 1 (cont); Walton 4); drop Yusmeiro Petit.
– Drop Garrett Mock as result of trade.
LEIBOWITZ:
– Pick up Cory Sullivan for $0; DL Jordan Zimmermann.
LOMBARDO:
– Pick up Luis Rodriguez for $0; drop Jordan Schafer.
– Pick up Kevin Hart for $0; drop Jason Motte.
– Pick up Livan Hernandez for $0; drop Mike Ekstrom.
MELNICK:
– Pick up Jhoulys Chacin for $0 (Melnick 0, Walton 0); DL Manny Corpas.
PIANOWSKI:
– Pick up Ramon Vazquez for $0 (Wilderman 0; Leibowitz 0; Pianowski 0); fills open spot.
– Pick up Jose Lobaton for $0; DL Ramon Hernandez.
– Pick up Chan Ho Park for $1; drop Jeff Karstens.
– Pick up Rick VandenHurk for $1 (Wilderman 0; Kreutzer 0; Pianowski 6); fills open spot.