Lawr Michaels has a ways to go to get to first place in Tout AL, which doesn’t bother him at all. Read about it here.
This week’s Mastersball FAAB Report: July 23!
In which we learn just how much Francisco Cordero is worth to Tout Warriors.
Mastersball FAAB Reports: July 16
Rob, Brian and Zach survey a quiet week of FAAB purchases as Mastersball.com.
Wise FAAB Management
Brian Walton takes a look FAAB spending patterns at KFFL, and talks to Steve Gardner (with the hammer) and Mike Gianella (with bupkis) about their FAAB strategies in Tout NL this year.
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Fred’s Flurry!
Two weeks ago 2012 Tout Mixed champ Fred Zinkie was in second place, one point behind Cory Schwartz. Some might have feared messing up a good thing, but not the indefatigable Fred. Since then he’s made six trades, and in this piece he explains what, how and why.
Mastersball July 9 Tout Wars FAAB Report
Read Rob Leibowitz, Brian Walton and Zach Steinhorn about this week’s FAAB bids in Tout AL, NL and Mixed Leagues here.
Midseason Reports
Derek inventories his Tout Mixed team at the halfway mark, on the Rotosynthesis blog.
Zack Steinhorn has his own thoughts over at mlb.com.
A Significant Trade in Tout Mixed
This morning Fred Zinkie traded Dan Haren and Gaby Sanchez to David Gonos for Adrian Gonzalez and Josh Thole. Zinkie immediately released Thole.
This is a classic deal between someone in the scrum at the top (Zinkie) who can dump an underperforming starting pitcher and underperforming hitter to an also-ran (Gonos), who is nearly 60 points off the pace and hopes to catch lightning in a bottle, twice.