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.
Category: AL
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 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 AL SWAT July 6!
GREY
Res C Gomez. $Claim S Hairston ($101. Next: Collette $43, Siano $27, Shandler $22, Erickson $11. Vickery: $44.
Rel Dusty Ryan. Rel Jakubauskas.
BERRY
nought
MOYER
RECLAIM X NADY $15 RECLAIM
Rel Willets. Claim Dellucci.
DL Wang. $Claim Carlos Torres. ($1. Next: none. Vickery: $1)
WALKER
RECLAIM M AVILES $18 RECLAIM
DL Iwamura. $Claim T Pena ($5. Next: none. Vickery: $1)
DL Beltre. $Claim J Bailey ($5. Next: Siano $3, Erickson $1, Colton $5. Vickery: $5)
Rel P Coke. $claim P Martinez ($1. Next: none. Vickery: $1)
Rel Andy Marte
PETERSON
Res Quinlan. Act Kendrick.
Res Clayton Richard. Act B Morrow.
Res Dewayne Wise. $Claim E Hinskey ($5. Next: $0. Vickery: $1)
Rel Quinlan.
SHANDLER
losing bid
COLLETTE
DL Slowey. $Claim M Lowe ($3. Next: none. Vickery: $1)
COLTON
Res Hopper. Activate J Hamilton.
Rel Redmond. Activate J Buck.
Res Millar. Activate Punto.
Rel Herges. Claim B League.
Cut Gathright, Crow, if necessary.
SHEEHAN
nought
ERICKSON
DL S Richmond. Claim J Bulger.
Res M Carp. $Claim C Woodward. ($5. Next: Siano $3. Vickery: $4)
SIANO
Rel T Sipp. $Claim L French ($3. Next: $0. Vickery: $1)
Rel Sowers. Activate E Santana.
MICHAELS
Rel Casilla.
On the Road, with Lawr
Can he drive and hold onto first place in Tout AL?
AL Tout Wars FAAB June 29, 2009
GREY
No claims
MOYER
No winning claims
BERRY
No claims
PETERSON
DL M Harrison. $Claim Tommy Hunter ($1. Next: none. Vickery: $1)
Rel A Figaro. $Claim Bruce Chen ($1. Next: none. Vickery: $1)
WALKER
Res Crosby. Rel Brignac. $Claim Iwamura ($2. Next: none. Vickery: $1)
Res Beltre. Rel O’Day. $Claim A Marte ($1. Next: none. Vickery: $1)
Res Nomar. Release Tony Pena. $Claim Ramiro Pena ($5. Next: none. Vickery: $1)
COLLETTE
Rel Dillon. $Claim C Ransom. ($4. Next: none. Vickery: $1)
RECLAIM Coco Crisp $17 RECLAIM
SHEEHAN
Res Holland. Rel Larish. $Claim C Perez ($11. Next: Colton 6, Peterson 4, Siano 2, Erickson 1. Vickery: $7)
Res Casilla. $Claim J Nix ($5. Next:Â $0. Vickery: $1)
COLTON/WOLF
Res Punto. $Claim Norris Hopper. ($2. Next: none. Vickery: $1)
Res Olson. Activate Delcarmen.
Cut Lews, Gathright if necessary.
SHANDLER
Rel W Abreu. Claim J Berken.
ERICKSON
Rel Pedro Martinez. $Claim Gio Gonzalez. ($5. Next: Walker 2. Vickery: $3)
Res Dotel, if necessary.
SIANO
Res Vargas. Activate Halladay.
DL E Santana. $Claim J Sowers ($1. Next: none. Vickery: $1)
Res Bruney. Claim T Sipp.
Res Cervelli. Rel Betemit. $Claim R Langerhans ($2. Next: none, but Coloton 2 superceded, Vickery: $1)
MICHAELS
No claims.
June 22 AL Tout SWAT
TRADE
SIANO trades Smoltz and Mathis to SHEEHAN for Saltalamacchia
GREY
Res. Davies. $Claim Brad Mills ($1. Next: None. Vickery: $1)
Res Teagarden. Claim D Ryan.
MOYER
RECLAIM Eric Chavez $3 RECLAIM
DL Casey Janssen. Res R Perry. Claim Joe Nelson
BERRY
Rel Nix. $Claim J Johnson ($3. Next: none. Vickery: $1)
PETERSON
Rel Barton. $Claim Quinlan ($1. Next: None. Vickery: $1)
Rel Berken. Activate M Harrison.
Rel Ohka. Activate Perkins
Res Cunningham. $Claim Dewayne Wise ($1. Next: none. Vickery $1)
Rel Sowers. $Claim Figaro ($5. Next: Walker $2, Grey $1, Shandler $1. Vickery $3)
WALKER
Res T Pena. $Claim Russ Adams ($17. Next: $0. Vickery: $1)
Res Okajima. Claim P Coke.
J COLLETTE
none
COLTON
Res Delcarmen. $Claim Accardo. ($11. Next: Berry $7, Moyer $3. Vickery: $8)
DL E Chavez. Activate T Crowe.
Res Punto. Activate Santiago.
RECLAIM Endy Chavez RECLAIM $1
Rel Jensen Lewis if necessary.
SHANDLER
DL K Escobar. $Claim Sean O’Sullivan ($1. next: none. Vickery: $1)
ERICKSON
Rel K Farnsworth. Activate F Francisco
DL D Span. $Claim M Kotsay ($11. Next: $0. Vickery: $1)
Rel Clete Thomas. $Claim M Carp ($13. Next: Peterson $11, Berry $5, Colton $3, Siano $3 Vickery: $12)
Res Tolbert.
SHEEHAN
Res R Ramirez. Act Smoltz
Rel Gallagher.
SIANO
Trade and losing bid
MICHAELS
Res Joe Inglett. Act Ryan Sweeney