AA Texas Trade Thread -- JUNE / JULY

Cory's Crew sends Justin Verlander and Carlos Marmol to 5280
5280 sends Miguel Tejada to Cory's Crew

5280 sends Ryan Howard and David DeJesus to Blue Stop Signs
Blue Stop Signs sends Joe Nathan and BJ Upton to 5280

5280 trades Kevin Youkilis and Scot Shields to Titans2
Titans2 trades Jonathan Papelbon to 5280

Titans2 needed offensive help and holds.
5280 is leading the league in holds with 72 and Titans2 has 5 points with 27 holds.

5280 pairs Papelbon with Nathan, M. Gonzalez and T. Jones to try and move up in saves as he has just 39 and the upper tier in the league are currently in the 80s and low 90s.

80's and 90's....WTF.....do they have 7 closers?

I like the Papelbon side here - only b/c he has a tremondous value on the trade market and I would flip him with a quickness....You can def. package him and get more than Youk and a MR (MR as JUST MR - you can get holds on the wire all season).....Sorry Titans but you lost this one...

I expect to make up at least 5 points in the standings just on saves alone with my current group.

# of saves by position
93 -- F. Cordero, B. Wilson, R. Franklin, J. Rauch, B. Jenks
88 -- J. Valverde, J. Soria, K. Wood, S. Torres
85 -- K-Rod, T. Saito, B. Shouse, D. Marte & (Papelbon)
76
64
59
49
41 5280 -- J. Papelbon (28 ), J. Nathan (27), T. Jones (17), G. Balfour (3), M. Gonzalez (3), JP Howell (2), J. Broxton (0-Saito out until late August)
35
31
19
10

Wow it is weird how leagues are so different...I have a 10 in save in PCL with 68....

Mmm we have a tiers of 3 at 80's then 70/60s then 45's. I got a raw deal with some injuries, then ended up stashing the whole Brewers bullpen on my team when Gagne was junking it, trade for Rauch when I originally had Cordero. I am pretty thankful to have 6 points for saves.

DAnnino hogged all the closers in our league...he starts about 7 a day.....the rest are really evenly distrupted so we are tightly bunched....iam up by about 10 on the next guy....

Now Jon Rauch has gone to be set-up man for the D-backs, my sacrifice of Dan Uggla looks even worse, and noone wants to trade $*&#ing closers!!!

Did someone already grab Hanaran or Rivera?