I know Sveum said he’s not making any changes but managers have been known to say things like than and then send players down to triple-A the next day.

Presumably now is great time to stash Wood in one of my open DL spots.

Thanks — assuming you mean hold Shaw and Crain rather than make a move for Bastardo or Holland.

Regarding Zimmerman’s potential DL stint — which of these available 3rd Baseman do you prefer?

Danny Valencia – leaning this way.
Ian Stewart – still cant figure out lefties> gave him a test run last week in my UTIL slot over Lind and he failed miserably.

sorta wishing Middlebrooks was gonna get a sneaky call up for the Sox (who promote their young at a very slow pace) and become my short term salvation.

Gio and Garza highlight my 14 team league staff, so banking heavy on the kid, and hes delivering. I know you loved him too, so hip hop hooray for us (assuming you own a few shares)!

As I related in post no. 27 above, Yu’s been getting squeezed. For how bad for both him and some other Rangers SPs, see:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/dailypitch/post/2012/04/yu-darvish-texas-rangers-strike-zone/1

Lastly, here’s that long stride, and some words on the difference between Derek Holland and Yu Darvish:

http://www.bbtia.com/home/2012/4/25/the-arrogance-minus-the-fear.html

Speaking of knowing he’s going to dominate, in a blog post by the one fellow on ESPN NY trying to excuse and/or exculpate the New York Money Is No Object Yankees for not making a serious run at Darvish, well, we get treated to an after Irabu and Igawa meme…. But no one dominated the NPB like Darvish, not even Matsuzaka:

http://www.japaneseballplayers.com/en/player.php?id=ydarvish
http://www.japaneseballplayers.com/en/player.php?id=matsuzaka

For a bonus freebie, for Grey, my g-rated turning Japanese motif took another hit, what with Wada coming down with ligament damage there in the elbow, but at least our man up there in Seattle has started his own campaign re another relevant soul:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/thehotstoneleague/2018008342_never_mind_john_jaso_free_hasa.html

Dice-K was surely the better pitcher in Japan than Iwakuma, but at least Hisashi put up a 1.87 ERA there in 08 (and then went on lead the way for Team Nippon in the 09 WBC, topping both Darvish and Dice-K, and so starting the championship game and ending the tournament with 20 IP and a 1.35 ERA. But instead of seeing if ole Hisashi can transfer his groundball machine game to the US of A, Eric Wedge, lost soul that he is, treats us to Kevin Millwood surrendering lead after lead. Perhaps after a few more starts and Millwood’s ERA ballooning to some number over 10.00, we might see Hisashi in the M’s rotation.

For another bonus freebie, for Grey, there was that discussion we had re Lind, Freeman, Kipnis and Mets Murphy. I dumped Murph though he’s since been recalled, what with Zim deciding that healthy is a status he’d rather not be, but Lind is simply stinking up the joint. And if Freeman keeps it up, you’re going to owe him one heckuva an apology. The good news is that despite the stench of Lind and Zim deciding to fall in love with injury, well, not that team but 5 other teams are off to a rousing pitching start this week, what with Bumgarner, Darvish, Johnson, Gio, Kuroda and Worley doing their thing. Now back to Lind, can’t recall the soul’s name, but there was that Copperhead Democrat that Lincoln banished to the Confederacy during the US Civil War (how’s that for extraordinary rendition). Wondering whether Obama can do something similar to Lind, say banish him to the Great White North, as then I’d have to drop his putrid fantasy self….Oh, and did I mention that on those 5 teams, starter no. 7 is Grey’s favorite fantasy pitcher, Mr. Ugh, Yei-Win Chen? How do you not draft a guy with “Win” in his name? I translate his name as You Win Chen, and that’s good, ’cause I like winning, and I like You Win Chen telling me that I’m going to win.

Darvish had excellent control last night pitching out of the stretch full-time (didn’t see any of his other starts where he pitched from the wind up). He’s got this quick “wrist flip” in his delivery to go along with nice speed and eye level changes that had the Yankees looking silly most of the night. Not only that, he pitched into the 6th without throwing any real heat, and then he started rolling off 95-97 mph fastballs to Jeter out of nowhere. In summary, he looked legit to me.

Grey mentioned that you think Trout will be up sooner rather than later. Made me wonder where you stand on Trout vs. Harper as a “stash as a keeper, but it’d also be nice to get some stats this year.”

He’s my catcher in a 14-team 6×6 roto league, which makes him by far my weakest starter. I’ve tried hard to upgrade to someone with more power, but haven’t found any takers no matter how hard I push. Do I need to keep trying? Is there a bigger hole to fill?

(I know I have plenty of speed and need power, pitching’s OK except I need holds. I was hoping I could answer the power need with a slugger like McCann but it’s not to be)

My roster is
C, OF Doumit
1B Votto, Gamel
2B Aaron Hill
SS Elvis
3B Zimmerman
2B/3B/SS Aviles
1B/2B/OF Kendrick
OK McCutchen, Rasmus Bourn, Boesch

SP Beachy, Cahill, Scherzer, Bumgarner, Anibal, Latos
RP Casilla, Balfour, Aceves, Shaw, Marmol

DL Chris Young, Fister

Many thanks!

All of them can be team controlled for the next 2-3 years.

Rickie Weeks/Buehrle for Cozart/Lincecum

My Pitchers:
Cain, Gio, Lohse, Buehrle, Vogelsong, Cishek, Casilla, Westbrook, Hernandez

Hitters:
(C) Ruiz/H. Sanchez (1B) Carlos Lee (2B) Weeks (3B) Pandaval (SS) Clint Barmes (2B/SS) Manny Burriss (3B/1B) Juan Francisco (OF) Giancarlo, Bruce, Ethier, Nieuwenhuis, Parra (UTIL) Campana

(DL) Freddy Sanchez and Torres

What do you think? Is there a remote chance Weaks turns this around and hits 20HR? Too much to ask him to add Daniel Murphy to this deal?

*Also, what the heck is going on with Juan Francisco? No trust in him at all while Glass Chipper is gone?