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Giving: Billy Butler
Getting Heyward, Cudyer and Johnathan Sanchez

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Pitching wise I have Broxton and Wandy. Now normally I’d never ever keep a closer but I think I want Broxton for 3 reasons. First, everyone in my league undervalues pitching. I know I can get solid pitching with my picks. Second, Broxton has no real competition and he’s on a solid team. Yes, he could get hurt (and weighing 300 lbs can’t help) but he should be as close to a guarantee for a closer as their is. Third, last year in my league the team with the most saves had 147 and the team with the most wins had just 101. Now, I know 3 closers can eat up most of the 147 but the variance between a good and an average closer can be 25 saves (50 vs. 25). The difference between a good and average pitcher is only 7-10 wins (20 vs. 13-10). To me keeping Broxton (especially with his K rate) makes sense. But please talk me out of keeping a closer!

White Sox outfield prospect Jared Mitchell underwent surgery to repair a torn tendon in his left ankle on Tuesday.
The surgery was called a success — as they all are — but the 21-year-old is expected to miss the entire 2010 season. He’ll begin rehabbing in approximately 4-6 weeks. Mitchell suffered the injury while making a spectacular catch last Friday. It’s a tough blow for Mitchell, who was selected by the White Sox in the first round of last year’s First-Year Player Draft. He was recently ranked as the organization’s No. 1 prospect by Baseball America.

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I’ve mocked a number of times there, always using the Razzball 300 and positional rankings, often employing Rudy’s BRAN-strategy. Each and every time, ESPN ranks my team as the worst (or 2nd worst) of the draft. Which I take a great sign (see below).

Speaking of mocking, anyone seen ESPN’s “Mock 2.0″ piece by Cockcroft? This stuff mocks itself… from Christopher Harris taking Lincecum with his first pick and Crawford with his 2nd. Or Nate Ravitz taking Mauer in the 2nd round and Ichiro in the third. Or Karabell taking Pedroia in the 3rd and then Phillips in the 4th?

@grandysdandy: It’s a bit much, but I could see it if you really needed power. Probably wouldn’t though at this point.

would you trade bell/span for lind/correia?

@Tom Reale: Kemp side… Beckham side.

#2 Beckham for Vlad

@NoonTime: I think I linked to that at some point last year. It’s catchy!

Here’s my OF: Werth, Lind, Pence
Utl: Damon, Quentin

What do you guys think… Also in response to my earlier post, beltre was dropped for fowler… And weeks was dropped for chen Ming Wang …. Crazy I know… 14 team league

@matthole: He’s not near them in steals. Longoria is 10 could be 15. Zimmerman is 5.

Longoria – 100/36/115/.280/10
Wright – 100/25/110/.300/17
Zimmerman – 105/30/110/.295/5

so that’s utley, prince, miggy, holliday, and lester.

so it kinda comes down to sizemore, ellsbury, and votto. in a vacuum and given the values, i’d probably prefer votto, but you do have 2 stud 1Bs. i’d consider keeping votto over miggy, but that’s kinda your call. we’ve seen miggy do it for years though at times we wonder if he cares, votto has less track record and hasn’t hit his max potential yet (though for those of you wondering, votto and miggy are essentially the same age born in 1983…amazing considering how long miggy has been in the majors). sizemore has the injury questions, and as stated, i’m a sagnof guy, so ellsbury wouldn’t be attractive to me.

personally, i would try to sell off ellsbury as a great value keeper to someone in your league in exchange for some draft pick improvements or something.

@Beau: Sounds fine that way too. Load up the team with top tier talent.