It’s been a fairly flat couple of weeks, slipped back to 9th but still in touch with 7th and 8th places, 6 and 3 points ahead respectively. The All Star Game took a big piece out of last week and the week before was a week where nothing of significance was achieved. Quite pleased with myself for ending up with three closers, none of which are named Gagne, and it must be admitted none of which may have the job to the end of the season, Saito has gone down for the Dodgers and Broxton seems to have inherited the role, at least he got the save last night, Gonzalez pending the return of Soriano and Morrow pending the return of Putz, still I’ll take them where I can get them though I have a long way to go to make up points in SAVES but if they continue to perform well I might make some progress in WHIP. Harang has gone to the DL and opened up a roster spot, I’ve picked up Ricky Nolasco for a couple of spot starts recently and whilst he lost to the Philies last night I might hang on to him rather than put him back into the free agent pool. Spot started Buehrle last night for a win but not had much recent joy pitching and ditching. I’ll give Harang a couple of starts on his return from the DL but if there’s no improvement I’ll drop him.
Picked up Delgado and he has been in for most of the last couple of weeks and been doing very nicely thank you, Giambi has definitely cooled off for the moment. AVG looks like the place I can target a few points with a number of teams not too far ahead. As I have a bit leeway in power numbers I’ve picked up Kaz Matsui to see if he will give me some AVG and RUNS and whilst he has a few SBs for the season, he’s not been stealing recently so may be looking elsewhere.