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Paul Swydan

9:14

(also hanley)

Jeff Zimmerman

9:14

Hanley

Bones

9:15

Guys, please help me from making another bad trade. Should I move Machado, Holliday and Addison Reed For Cespedes and Trumbo. 11-team, 26-player, 5x5 rpto league.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:15

no, No, NO

Paul Swydan

9:15

I wouldn't. Machado is the best player in that deal by quite a bit, and Holliday should be about 85% of Trumbo.

MattyMo

9:15

If you could have Kerry Wood's career or Bronson Arroyo's?

Jeff Zimmerman

9:15

McCullers getting BABIP'ed to death right now.

Wood's

9:16

I would take a few peak seasons

Paul Swydan

9:16

Man that's a tough one. On the one hand, Wood had the far more memorable and better career. But Arroyo had a recognizable career, and he won a World Series in the absolute best way possible, and he does have some weird marketability to him thanks to his music. I'll still say Wood, but it's close.

MattyMo

9:17

I wish you guys did a podcast. Have you ever thought about it? You have a good ying yang duo combo team thing going on.

Paul Swydan

9:17

Oh god no, can you imagine, Jeff? You guys would get so sick of us bitching about our kids, you'd all tune out 10 minutes in. If that.

But I appreciate the compliment.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:17

We'd have to cut off the first 10 minutes everynight

Paul Swydan

9:18

Every night.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:18

Every month better

Nick

9:18

Any reason to worry about Darvish?

Paul Swydan

9:18

I mean, I'm sure we'll all worry about him the rest of his career, now that he's a TJ survivor. But based on his start last night? No.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:19

Besides that he's old, throws hard and recently had TJS? No.

Paul Swydan

9:19

Huh. He's already 30.

Keith

9:19

In this day and age,is it bad to put too much stock into analyzing and questioning lineups? I've got serious problems with Franklin Gutierrez hitti g

Jeff Zimmerman

9:20

I believe way too energy is wasted looking at lineups. It just doesn't really matter

Paul Swydan

9:20

I don't even need to know how this question ends. My philosophy on it is this - the ACTUAL decisions of lineups don't matter to the ACTUAL lineup, but if your manager can't get them right, it's a symptom of a worse decision he's going to make at a more critical time, and that is certainly concerning.

Keith

9:20

Hitting cleanup for the Dodgers tonight. Sorry-accidentally hit send early. Damn phone.

Paul Swydan

9:21

There's the rest of it, in case you were curious.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:21

I can now sleep tonight

Andrew

9:22

How differently do you handle the WW in leagues where there are no trades? FA for available players, 2-day waivers for those recently dropped.

Paul Swydan

9:22

Why would you play in a league without trades?

But I guess, to answer the question, I'd be a lot more aggressive on the wire if it was my only means of talent acquisition.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:23

It should be FAAB, $0 bids with victory

Erik

9:23

I just did my first fantasy draft over the weekend and I'm now after the fact wondering about strategy. (Probably should have done that first.) My teams looks ready to dominate every pitching category and lose every hitting category. Is that better or worse than being middle of the pack in every category?

Paul Swydan

9:24

I would say it's an OK strategy if the situation was the other way around - that you were going to dominate hitting and suck at picthing - because pitching is so fickle. It's much harder to predict who the good and/or healthy pitchers will be.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:24

I aim to be third in every category. Should be enough to win. If you aim for the middle, you will end up in the middle

#coppyandthewhosaysno

9:24

Hey guys. Do you think the no call on the Fowler slide last night signals that replay officials are going to be letting that go until someone breaks a leg again, or did they just miss it?

Paul Swydan

9:24

I didn't see it, but I'm inclined to not read too much into one play or game.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:25

Missed it also.

Commenter

9:25

Is Carrasco a bit overrated? Seems like he always struggles in tougher matchups.

Paul Swydan

9:25

I believe he is overrated in the sense that he never finishes a full season, and I am reticent to pay full market/draft round price for such pitchers.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:26

My only issue with him is durability.

Every pitcher will struggle against better lineups.

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