Happy Opening Day, fellas! Good luck this year.

Sign of things to come?? I clicked on StatTracker and BL and JL were tied for 1st place with 1 point each due to having their having starting pitchers in the early games.

I can't take sitting here rooting for CC and the Yankees. Please make me offers for these damn Yankees!

Or you could just complete your set and I'll trade you Rivera.

If I did that, then I'd know I'm living in the bizarro world.

Good start from my #1 pick, Poo-holes: 0/5 with 3 GIDP for -3 ... plus -17 from a reliever

I'll give you Teixeira for Pujols.

How many yankees will you give me for Reyes?

I don't know. I'd have to think about it.

You might have did me a favor drafting Reyes right before me because I got Teixeira instead. As much as I like Reyes, he's a risk health wise and will likely be playing somewhere else before the season is over.

And so it begins... start the negotiations by talking down about the player you really want

Seriously, if you offered him to me for Teixeira, I don't know if I'd do it.

Considering my SP haven't won a single game, and my RP have blown 1/2 their saves, I'm amazed that I'm 1st place, not last.

You can thank Teix for that!

Pretty much...

I thought Teixeira didn't hit in April?

Wow. I'm pleasantly shocked to see that nobody picked up Angels' new closer Jordan Walden.

I don't know anything about him, so it's probably a good pickup for you, knowing you and seeing you happy about it. I personally wouldn't be very excited about having any reliever in that awful Angels bullpen.

He throws 100mph, and strikes out well over 1 batter per inning. He was on my list of sleepers that I had even before he was a closer. I almost drafted him in the late rounds. I tried to pick him up this afternoon using my phone when I heard the Angels made him their closer, but my phone wasn't cooperating. I assumed he'd be gone tonight, but nobody took him.

The game owes me 8 points for Broxton's save in the suspended game yesterday.

Wow, I had no idea how much I cursed this guy 16 big pts from the #1 draft pick, but lost most of the 44 pts from mostly-benched Howie Kendrick

At least you 1st pick is playing. Mine is out for for at least 3 weeks, and the rest of my team stopped hitting.

If you're talking about the April 9th game, looks like you received 5 pts for Broxton's save/work.

"5"? I thought he pitched a 1,2,3 12th to pick up the save. I'll have to check.

Edit: It looks like it gave me 6. He gave up a hit and BB.

Commissioner's Note
As a reminder, Games Started will be limited to 162 games as in previous years. As you all know, this is tracked manually and you all have to keep track of the pace of your games started. Once someone gets to 162, I will bench all your starting pitchers.

WHAT?!!?!?! /pitchforks and torches

Get him! Get Him! GET HIM!

BTW, I made a suggestion to Yahoo to add the option to limit starts to 162 games so we don't have to do it manually anymore.

Looks like those of us, including myself, that thought Bautista couldn't repeat last years stats and skipped over him for 3 rounds in this year's draft, are going to be proved wrong:

"RF Jose Bautista has been carrying the Blue Jays offense this season. After hitting a homer and drawing two walks in four plate appearances Monday, he is leading the AL in batting average (.364), on-base percentage (.517) home runs (eight) and walks (21). Over the past six games, he is batting .530 (9-for-17) with one double, one triple, five home runs, five RBI, nine walks and 11 runs."

yeeaahh.....

I would've lost big bucks if someone had called me on a bet regarding this guy. now I'm already using him to death in the BBC daily game.

My pitching is god-awful right now. With CC, Lincecum, and Carpenter at the top of my rotation, and 5 closers, I didn't expect this.