trades

i've made a lot of trades this year, some good, some bad.

04/19
freel for towers and baez
B-
towers has been horrible so far. baez is a good reliever. freel wouldn't have played much on my team, so it didn't hurt much to lose him.

04/22
nate robertson and david eckstein for shawn green.
C-
nate robertson has apparently learned to pitch this year, and eckstein has more runs created than shawn green. crap.

04/25
jamie moyer for haren, wilkerson, duchschurer, and prospect larry broadway.
A
a great trade, especially since it gives me haren next year for less than two bucks, it'd be an a+ if i hadn't had to take on so much salary.

05/01
garret anderson for shannon stewart
B
had to dump some salary.

05/06
brandon phillips and wilkerson for soriano.
A-
good trade, but wilkerson's improving and phillips may have a good season.

05/11
soriano for josh barfield's five year contract
C+
matsui got injured. the division leader got a ridiculous trade for brad penny. i wanted my mommy. i made this deal for the future. hopefully barfield will be worth $15 over five years.

IBL Raindogs Hitters

ok, alou, ibanez, wilson have been great. matsui and giles slow starting. currently disappointed in my team's performance.

Alou, Moises LF SF 116
Ibanez, Raul LF SEA 109
Wilson, Jack SS PIT 106
Biggio, Craig 2B HOU 100
Cedeno, Ronny SS CHC 81
Matsui, Hideki LF NYY 80
Phillips, Brandon 2B CIN 73
Lowell, Mike 3B BOS 75
Overbay, Lyle 1B TOR 74
Matthews, Gary CF TEX 70
Johjima, Kenji C SEA 66
Ramirez, Aramis 3B CHC 72
Inge, Brandon 3B DET 65
Giles, Marcus 2B ATL 66
Wilkerson, Brad B. OF TEX 54
Green, Shawn RF ARI 48
Piazza, Mike C SD 47
Encarnacion, Juan RF STL 34
Matheny, Mike C SF 25
Payton, Jay LF OAK 7

14% through the season??? simple hitters projections

that's about right and i'm not that excited about the team right now. While Ortiz, Cabrera and Felipe Lopez are cruising, Teixeira and Pierre started slow, Polanco has only one extra base hit and one walk (yes, all he hits are singles and his BA=SLG=OBP, practically). Injuries robbed me of Crisp and Kinsler...oh well, my pitching was the best in the league as of yesterday. Good enough for 7th place and 90 points back...

i need to get a middle infielder to sub for hardy or polanco...

Ortiz, David DH BOS 648
Nevin, Phil 1B TEX 592
Lopez, Felipe SS CIN 520
Cabrera, Miguel M. LF FLA 591
Teixeira, Mark 1B TEX 465
Nady, Xavier RF NYM 457
Pierre, Juan CF CHC 412
Johjima, Kenji C SEA 304
Hardy, J.J. SS MIL 277
Polanco, Placido 2B DET 263
Kinsler, Ian 2B TEX 162
Crisp, Coco CF BOS 113

2006 keepers, etc.

17 days til the rook2 draft.

who to keep for this season? ortiz, teixeira and cabrera are musts. pedro is too, even with the toe problem, as i read somewhere, his resting now will pay off for his arm later in the season.

that leaves the last spot open for adam dunn or felipe lopez or to drop them both and have replace them with a draft pick. i'm leaning towards lopez, cuz there are plenty of hitters and i think all the infielders better than lopez will be kept.

i have two other teams this year. we've got a slow draft going in one, and an auction draft is supposed to be starting today in the other.

2005 final points

ortiz 614 A
teixeira 575 A
cabrera 489 A-
dunn 475 A-
floyd 462 B+
lopez 442 A-
biggio 414 A-

pedro 594 A
webb 514 A
haren 485 A
burnett 476 A-
hermanson 342 C (Turnbow may have put me in second)

late pickups:
adams 303 B+
castillo 302 C
giambi 363 B
inge 305 B
freel 264 B-

dropped:
stewart 306 C
chavez 406 B-, oops, should've kept him
piazza 232 C-

biggest mistakes: dropping chavez, taking hermanson instead of say Turnbow or Wickman
good moves: good keepers (pedro, teixiera, cabrera); good first pick Ortiz; getting biggio, lopez, floyd, haren

after week 15

current "simple" hitters projections:

Ortiz, David DH BOS 624
Teixeira, Mark 1B TEX 573
Cabrera, Miguel M. RF FLA 511
Dunn, Adam LF CIN 478
Floyd, Cliff LF NYM 465
Biggio, Craig CF HOU 451
Lopez, Felipe SS CIN 449
Stewart, Shannon LF MIN 416
Erstad, Darin 1B ANA 404
Castillo, Luis 2B FLA 352
Piazza, Mike C NYM 296
Freel, Ryan P. 3B CIN 293

about halfway

keepers:
teixeira, nice.
cabrera , solid.
pedro, wow.
(my droppers, guillen: good idea, harden: good pitcher got injured, mulder: having a disappointing year)

picks:
ortiz, good pick.
chavez, i dropped chavez after two crappy months...the next week he had 42 fantasy points...
kerry wood got injured.
dunn's done okay, as expected lots of homers, lots of strikeouts.
vidro started hot then got injured and i dropped him.
piazza wasn't a great next pick, but he's done okay.
miles didn't work out.
burnett, good pick.
bartlett, remember him?
webb, nice pick.
bagwell...gone.
foulke. gone.
crosby injured, dropped, now on fire.
escobar gone.
preston wilson gone.

draft score: 9 dropped, 6 kept...

it appears i had a fairly bad draft, and perhaps now the ship has finally been righted???

my better pickups:
biggio, good old guy, finally qualified for MI again.
floyd, good old guy.
stewart, not that old .
f lopez, having a breakout season...
hermanson, decent reliever, lots of save opps.
l castillo, good enough.
freel, finally qualified for MI.
haren, hopefully a good 4th or 5th starter.

hopefully with haren and wood's return, i finally have a pitching staff...

current "complex" projections:
Teixeira, Mark 1B TEX 543
Ortiz, David DH BOS 550
Cabrera, Miguel M. RF FLA 518
Floyd, Cliff LF NYM 481
Dunn, Adam LF CIN 465
Lopez, Felipe SS CIN 453
Biggio, Craig CF HOU 437
Stewart, Shannon LF MIN 442
Castillo, Luis 2B FLA 415
Freel, Ryan P. 3B CIN 380
Piazza, Mike C NYM 330

Martinez, Pedro SP NYM 635
Webb, Brandon SP ARI 489
Burnett, A.J. SP FLA 456
Haren, Dan SP OAK 407
Arroyo, Bronson SP BOS 376
Hermanson, Dustin RP CHW 356
Kazmir, Scott SP TB 283
Wood, Kerry SP CHC 215

hitters in week 10

our hitters projections have changed drastically. mostly for the worse...biggio is the most obvious decline...teixeira the best improvement...

our concerns, i guess, are castillo and piazza...

Teixeira, Mark 1B TEX 609
Ortiz, David DH BOS 543
Stewart, Shannon LF MIN 469
Cabrera, Miguel M. RF FLA 460
Dunn, Adam LF CIN 448
Floyd, Cliff LF NYM 446
Freel, Ryan P. 3B CIN 404
Biggio, Craig CF HOU 402
Lopez, Felipe SS CIN 397
Piazza, Mike C NYM 308
Castillo, Luis 2B FLA 293