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This Tout Wars FAAB Links for August 1!

Mastersball on all the week’s moves here.

Mini FAAB Reports for July 18!

A second FAAB run, three days after the last, but there is still action, especially for a man named Pomeranz. Todd Zola and his henchmen at Mastersball have comments on five leagues.

Mike Gianella tackles the Pomeranz issue, too, with charts, plus all the other moves in Tout AL and NL, with some mixed league discussion too at Baseball Prospectus.

Jeff Erickson Tops Tout Daily Field with Strasburg and Pham!

The top two Tout Daily teams last night rostered Stephen Strasburg and Thomas Pham, and when the two players combined for 32 points those teams gained an edge. (Only Hector Santiago (18) and Chris Taylor (18) scored more points on the night, and no team owned them both.)

But after that the two leaders went about accumulating points in different ways.

Winner Jeff Erickson also got strong contributions from Paul Goldschmidt, Randal Grichuk, Stephen Piscotty, and Jonathan Villar. Of this group only Piscotty was owned by more than 5 percent of RTSports.com teams last night.

Jeff also had no players who scored a zero, and got double-digit points from the night’s most expensive pitcher, Madison Bumgarner, even though he failed to win his game.

The second place finisher, Eno Sarris, did get a win from his second pitcher. But Carlos Carrasco only scored .66 more points than Bumgarner.

Sarris also suffered from a no-point night oh-fer from Travis d’Arnaud, but still finished a solid second because of strong performances by Yasiel Puig, Travis Shaw, Howie Kendrick, and Addison Russell. Only Kendrick was owned by more than two percent of RTSports.com owners.

The rest of the night’s results sent the Period 4 competition topsy turvy, as only Todd Zola and Bret Sayre repeated in the Top 10 from the previous week.

Todd Zola, with Gene McCaffrey, Steve Gardner, and Lenny Melnick getting ready for the 2015 Tout NL auction.

Zola, the only player to finish in the Top 10 all three weeks so far, has a huge lead on the whole field, leading Erickson by 16 points and ahead of the rest of the pack by 23. You can see the whole leaderboard here.

While anything can happen, the final week of Period 4 looks to be a battle among Zola, Erickson, and Mike Gianella, Howard Bender, Eno Sarris, Tom Kessenich, Brian Walton and Derek VanRiper for the three Golden Tickets.

Of that group only Jeff Erickson and Brian Walton already have tickets into the Tout Daily Finals, on August 26th. Check back next Friday to ToutWars.com for the Tout’s picks for that night, and Saturday morning for the Period 4 final results.

Tout Wars All Star Break FAAB Commentaries.

From the crew at Mastersball, notes on five Tout Wars leagues.

Mike Gianella’s FAAB Notes at Baseball Prospectus are up. They’re presently behind the paywall, but they’re usually available for everyone. I’ll let him know and we can hope they’ll be available later.

The Tout Wars FAAB Reports for June 20!

Mastersball has commentary about five leagues, plus Todd Zola’s wisdom about each.

Mike Gianella has wisdom about Tout AL and NL FAAB moves for the week, and dabbles in the mixed player pool via the LABR pickups.

Tout Wars June 13 FAAB Report Reports!

The fellas over at Mastersball survey the week’s moves in five leagues, and live to tell about it. Big purchases? Tim Anderson, Danny Duffy, Carlos Estevez, James Paxton, Matt Garza, Daniel Mengden, Zack Godley. Plus a Tout AL blockbuster trade involving first division teams. Teams are making their moves.

Mike Gianella covers Tout AL and Tout NL moves, with some commentary about mixed pricing, too, over at Baseball Prospectus.

Links to May 30th Tout Wars FAAB Reports!

Point/counterpoint and lots of opinions about this week’s FAAB pickups in the five Tout Wars Leagues, from Mastersball.

Mike Gianella takes a whistle-stop tour through Tout AL and NL FAAB transactions this week, with a sidetrack to LABR mixed. Welcome to the five and dime, Pat Dean! Pat Dean!