The only way teams like Cleveland, Oakland, Rays can compete is do it this way and surprised not many more attempt it and take the chances on young prospects.

Next years young Tampa stars to get long extensions?

BJ Upton who will have 2 years+ ML service
Edwin Jackson who will have 3+

By the way, what a horrible loss today. Pelfrey throws a no-no into the seventh, and they lose. Pathetic. Howard Johnson has to go before Randolph.

All those great offensive stats have added up to a record of 20-19.

Maybe Ozzie Guillen could give Bobby Cox a few pointers on how to motivate his team.

The idea that Chuck James is the Braves fifth best starter is repugnant at best, in fact, it’s down right stupid.

Putting Chuck(HOMERUN)James on the mound this coming Thursday night in the Phillies bandbox home park against their lineup is a recipe made in H-E-L-L !

I’m anticipating fireworks and we are talking about baseballs flying over the fence. Chuck(homerun) James has given up at least one HR in 14 of his last 15 starts. In fact, his last two starts in Philadelphia have resulted in four HR’s in just over nine innings of work.

Why won’t the Braves call up Charlie Morton and what’s the justification for it, well here you go.

Whats the best team in the N.L.
Answer : The Diamondbacks.

Who is Max Scherzer,
Answer: the Diamondbacks first round pick from the 2006 draft. Why is he already in the big leagues, because they need him to help them WIN , NOW.

Scherzer has all of one full season of minor league experience. In fact, including his three collegiate seasons at Misouri, he has four years of pitching beyond high school consisting of 53 starts and 336 innings.

Why am I blathering on about him, you ask ???????

Because, by comparison, Charlie Morton(2002 3rd round pick)was pitching in the minors way back in 2002 when this kid was still in high school.

Morton has 86 starts, 564 innings, S-I-X , COUNT’EM OUT LOUD, S-I-X full minor league seasons and is currently playing number seven as we speak.

Morton is completely DOMINATING minor league hitters to the tune of 9 runs in 48 innings of work with 39 strike outs and 15 walks. His ERA is 1.69 in eight starts, he has pitched into the seventh inning during the last three starts and given up two runs in those twenty-one innings.

If the young 6-5 right hander isn’t ready for the big leagues, he never will be !

For Bobby Cox and Frank Wren to keep marching Chuck(HOMERUN)James and his ridiculous ERA of 7.58 out to the mound is A-S-S-I-N-I-N-E with pointed reference to the first three letters of that word because that is where Bobby Cox has his head right now.

If the Braves expect to win, then put the best pitchers on the mound. Otherwise, Cox is going to run this team right into the damn ground.

The Braves rank third in ERA at 3.61 in the ENTIRE MAJOR LEAGUES. Second in team BA at .284 and yet here we sit at 20-19. That my friends is the absolute definition of M-E-D-I-O-C-R-I-T-Y. And the blame for it falls squarely on the shoulders of Bobby Cox.

It could be that he got bad because of the fingernail issue. Remember Wang had a lot of trouble when his fingernail got messed up last year. It may affect his big curve ball, and if he has to lay off that pitch his others aren’t as effective.

Another thing is he tends to pitch “backwards”. Curves first then fastball. The league catches on to things like that pretty quick.

I think you’d better go out and work some overtime this week, becuase you’re gonna have to pay off that credit card bill somehow! Buying 2 fleeces of that quality can’t be cheap.

Trade #1:
I love Manny Ramirez this season. Now, I know his K’s are a bit high right now, but I think he will get this corrected fairly soon, and you aren’t paying for his past performance in this category. And yes, I understand that Morneau was the MVP of the AL just 2 seasons ago, and that Joba is a beast (especially with Holds as a category), but I favor the Manny side by a good margin. Morneau absolutely disappeared in the 2nd half for huge chunks last season (.247 avg with 7 HR’s), and I can’t forget that. To me, Manny is much more consistent. I expect Manny to hit about 20 points higher, hit 5 more homers, drive in 15 more runs, and have 100 points more in OPS. And getting back to Holds… Joba is a stud in that sense. However, is this is a weekly H-to-H league, it loses a ton of value. Holds are hard to come by. You can find 10 other guys on the WW that could give you 2 Holds in any given week. Sure, they wouldn’t be as dependable as Joba, but I’ll take that chance to swap Morneau for Manny. Call me crazy.

Trade #2:
Again, I think you fleeced your fellow opponent/manager, however, not as badly this time. I see that you took the opportunity to sell high on Granderson, and likely buy low on a slugger in Soriano who was coming off an injury. Since his return, Soriano has hit 4 HR’s and raised his BA by about 50 points. Granderson on the other hand, has lowered his BA 90 points and scored only 2 runs over that same span. Two! And he’s been striking out at an incredible clip, which your league penalizes. While I do think these players are comparable types, I just think Soriano will give you 10 more HR’s and 5 more SB’s.

Nice work, Soxfan! You have made Fleece Factor proud!

a. they’re paying him peanuts instead of a goldmine
b. hey, it’s Dodger Stadium not home run Arlington

still though, why they don’t give Hong Chih Kuo more shots is beyond me, all the kid do is strike everyone out and do the bat flip when he hits homeruns

I’d guess that if this was against the Mets though they’d definately start Kuo LOL

On the other hand, The Rays have already completed three game series sweeps against the Angels and Red Sox, two of the AL’s best.

Rays may actually be for Real here. They have 4 Solid SP, a good deep BP and a offense that finally is meeting its potential..