IAFB DAY

Cliff Lee
.33 Copperfields (open spot)
.25 Bulls (open spot)
.24 Red Hots (Hoffpauir, J.)

Bud Norris
.16 Revenge (Shell)

George Sherrill
.16 Rebels (Burke, C.)
.12 Kenndoza (open spot)
.08 Red Hots (Hoffpauir, J)
.07 Revenge (Blanco)
.06 Clowns (Bowker)

Ryan Garko
.15 RedHots (Hoffpauir J.)
.12 Bulls (open spot)
.10 Kenndoza (open spot)
.07 Rebels (Scales)
.06 Clowns (Bowker)

Ben Francisco
.08 Rebels (Scales)
.08 Kenndoza (open spot)
.06 Clowns (Bowker)
.05 Bulls (open spot)

Scott Rolen
.24 RedHots (Maloney)
.18 Kenndoza (open spot)
.09 Bulls (open spot)
.08 Clowns (Bowker)

Jeff Clement
.06 Clowns (Bowker)
.06 Bulls (open spot)

Sean Gallagher
.05 Bulls (open spot)

Clayton Richard
.06 Clowns (Salazar)
.05 Bulls (Rohrbough)

Joe Biemel
.07 Copperfields (Burgess)

Wladimir Balentien
.06 Clowns (Diaz)

. . . 'Til I Say It Is!

Proving it's not over 'til it's over (did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?) the Copperfields pulled off a couple of last minute deals in their effort to overtake the DoorMatts and Kenndoza Line.

In an interesting trade between the current third and fourth place teams, the Copperfields traded Mike Stanton (.10 Mx), Miguel Montero (.01 10+), Wil Ohman (.05 11+), Matt Stairs (.05 11+) and the all important Rotation Picks from the 2nd and 7th rounds to the Bulls for Jason Werth (.32 11+), Jason Kendall (.01 11+), Joel Piniero (.05 11+), Kevin Gregg (.02 09) and the 12th and 16th pick of the Bulls.

The Copperfields also picked up some more offensive power by dealing with Moore Better.

The Copperfields traded Mike Cameron (.15 11+), Mitch Stetter (.05 11+) and Angel Villalona (.05 Mx) in exchange for James Loney (.10 09!) and Scott Hairston (.02 11+).

FAAB Update

Since I'm sure Rich is in the process of shifting into vacation mode, I thought I'd post updated FAAB balances as we head toward IFAB Day on Saturday.


Ruffins .79
Bulls .70
Revenge .54
Rebels .48
Kenndoza Line .48
Red Hots .44
Copperfields .40
DoorMatts .30
Clowns .18
Moore Better .12

The deadline for submitting IFAB Day bids is 3:00 PM Central on Saturday.

In 1st and Determined to Stay There

The Kenndoza Line and Red Hots shook hands from across the standings on a deal earlier tonight.

Shoring up their offense, the Line acquired Cub Killer Carlos Lee. The Red Hots looking to build a small dynasty in the future acquired Pedro Alvarez, Gaby Sanchez and Alcides Escobar.

The make room on his roster, the Red Hots released Micah Owings and Drew Sutton.

Clowns/DoorMatts deal

Showing that he wasn't going to stand idly by, the DoorMatts got involved in the Trade Dance by swapping middle infielders with the Clowns. The DoorMatts sent team favorite Ryan Theriot and his expiring contract to the Clowns for slugging, cement gloved Dan Uggla.

Correction from the Front Office

In a previous post I mentioned that anyone acquired via the FAAB that had a salary of .25 or higher came with some restrictions. Those being: 1) must be kept going into next year's draft or else the team cutting the player loses half the salary (rounded up) off their $2.60 budget and, 2) the player could not be traded.

Seems I was half right. Point #1 is valid, but Point #2 apparently was a fabrication in my mind. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say the player cannot be traded. But if there is a trade, the acquiring team has to abide by the restrictions in Point #1.

So the good news is you still have six days left to make a proposal to MooreBetter and get Matt Holliday.

Man, David sure made this Commissioner thing look easy for 25 years. Sorry for the confusion.

Happy Holiday, ding-ding-ding

Matt Holiday
MooreBetter .50 (Jeffriess)
Dem Rebels .43 (Burke, C.)
Copperfields .39 (Open Slot)
Kenndoza Line .33 (Kinney)
Red Hots .32 (Owings)
Clowns .28 (Nieve)

Julio Lugo
Copperfields .24 (Open Slot)
Kenndoza Line .11 (Kinney)
Dem Rebels .05 (Scales)
Clowns .05 (Marson)

Steve Pearce
Kenndoza Line .06 (Kinney)
Clowns .05 (Marson)
Red Hots .05 (Castro)

Rafael Betancourt
Clowns .05 (Nieve)

Oscar Salazar
Clowns .05 (Marson)