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Extreme Keeper Basketball Teams

2 Teams are left in our final Extreme Keeper League.

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Unfair Trading, Help?

Fantasy Trade Questions: Ask the Staff
Question from: Russ Smith

Question - Dear Sir:

Please give me an opinion on the following:

The league I am in is not a keeper league. It is Roto/points. AL only.

Last year, Owner B traded with his close buddy, Owner A, in what I thought, a questionable trade. (Owner A got Baez from Owner B for Richard Harden at the trade deadline. Owner A won the title--he got extra saves because of it. Harden at that time had a torn oblique. I complained about it. It fell on deaf ears. At the winter meetings this year it was brought up. Owner B played stupid about it. (a very odd behavior, I thought).

This year, 2 weeks before the trade deadline, owner A gives Garko to Owner B for sore arm Liriano. Then on September 3, the trade deadline for our league, Owner A trades Carlos Lee to for Owner B for sore arm Mariano Rivera. (Then Owner A cut Rivera 1 week later!) Those 2 trades beat me up bad, I was on my way to a title. I lost to Owner B by 1 point for the title. Owner A was in last place most of the year (that's how he got Lee & Garko).

I think its bad when I'm the only one that sees an owner trading 2 unhealthy players for 2 clean-up hitters, who hit in hitters parks.

2 sore arms? And nobody sees this but me? It's clearly a pay back from last year, or owner A is the stupidest owner ever. By the way, Owner A won the league in 2004 & 2005.

Also, it getting more difficult for me to converse and make trades, particularly owners who know and work with owner A, don't e-mail me back, and I even suspect some blocking is going on when I talked to another owner, I suspected owner A was talking him out of my offers, yet that same owner makes trades with everybody else with no problem. Seems fishy to me.

There is no formal trade approval in our league, something I have been suggesting, and that has fell on deaf ears.

Please give me your comments. Tell me what you think.

Thank you. If you have any recommendations for leagues next season, please provide me with one. Thank you.

Russ Smith

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Can Keep 5 Players?

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Question from: Rocco 4133

Question - I'm in a 12 team league with 5 keepers. Can you advise me who you would keep.

Here are my top 10. Thanks!

Johan Santana
Chris Carpenter
Joe Mauer
Alfonso Soriano
Aramis Ramirez
Brian McCann
Stephen Drew
Delmon Young
Troy Glaus
Richie Sexson

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6 Player Keeper League?

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Question from: Joe

Question - Hey guys, This is my first year in a keeper league. I won the league this year (yay!) but now am stuck with the keeper decisions (yay?) and your help would be appreciated. This is a 10-team league with 6 keepers. It's pretty deep, though roster size will probably be expanded next year. My squad looks as follows:

C-V. Martinez
1b-LaRoche
2b-Uggla
3b-Beltre
SS-Hanley Ramirez
OF-Manny, Vlad, Crawford
Util - Cano, Delmon Young

Pitchers
Santana, Weaver, Sheets, Hill, Young, Bonser, Trevor Hoffman, Torres

I was thinking of keeping Vlad, Manny, Crawford (trades brought Vlad and Manny to my squad) along with Santana and V-Mart. For the final spots Im debating Hanley and Jered Weaver. Any ideas, suggestions, etc? Is Manny not going to be Manny anymore? Is Cano worth it in such a shallow position? Should I not keep 3 OFs since its so deep or since all are likely first round draft picks (as is Johan) am I set?

Thanks for all your help and for reading my email.
-Joe

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5 Player Keeper League?

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Question from: James

Question - Of the following guys, which would you suggest that I keep in a normal 5x5 head to heard fantasy league? We get to keep 5 guys at any position.

Michael Barrett
Derek Lee
Jeff Kent
Chone Figgins - qualifies at 2b, 3b, lf, cf, and rf
Edgar Renteria
Adam Dunn
Torii Hunter
Gary Matthews Jr
Emil Brown
Brian Giles
Barry Bonds
Frank Thomas
Randy Winn
Jose Vidro
Kenny Lofton
Willy Taveras

Felix Hernandez
Gil Meche
Trevor Hoffman
Taito Saito
Brian Fuentes
Rich Harden
Andy Pettitte
Josh Johnson
Chris Capuano
Livan Hernandez

Thanks for you help,
James

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