Category: NL

Tout Wars NL Lineup is Set!

With the draft slated for 2 pm on March 28th, the 13 teams of Tout Wars NL are set.

This year’s competition is joined by Larry Schechter, three time Tout Wars Mixed winner, Chris Liss, last year’s Tout Wars Mixed champ, and Mike Gianella, 2009 CBSsports NL AL Experts League champ.

They join last year’s Tout NL winner Brian Walton in battle with two-time champ Scott Wilderman, and TWNL vets Nate Ravitch, Todd Zola, Lenny Melnick, Phil Hertz, Cory Schwartz, Tristan Cockcroft, Peter Kreutzer, and Scott Pianowski.

The Tout NL draft will be live-blogged on toutwars.com.

For the NL, the games begin April 5th.

The winners!

There is more to be said about the Tout Wars winners than will be said in this post. You can read some of it in The Fantasy Baseball Guide 2010. Surely Lawr and Brian will write about it at CREATiVESPORTS.com, and Chris will write about it at Rotowire.com. The fact is this:

TOUT WARS WINNERS

AL: Lawr  Michaels, Creativesports.com

NL: Brian Walton, Creativesports.com

Mixed: Chris Liss, Rotowire.com

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.

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.

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.

NL Leader Talks but Doesn’t Brag

Brian Walton is doing just fine in NL Tout. He’s got a comfortable, if not insurmountable, lead, and he’s playing the game very well.

Although he doesn’t write about his fantasy teams much, at midseason he took a breath and gave a peak at what is going on in his head. Not surprisingly, his rooting interests often conflict.