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Charging the Mound: What Didn't Happen At the Trade Deadline

Chris Liss

Chris Liss

Chris Liss is RotoWire's Managing Editor and Host of RotoWIre Fantasy Sports Today on Sirius XM radio.

Jeff Erickson

Jeff Erickson

Jeff Erickson is a co-founder of RotoWire.com and the only two-time winner of Baseball Writer of the Year from the Fantasy Sports Writers Association. He roots for the Reds, Bengals, Red Wings, Pacers and Northwestern University (the real NU).

-----Original Message-----
From: jeff@rotowire.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2012 1:41pm
To: "Christopher Liss"
Subject: Charging - Post Trade-Deadline Edition


Chris, there's plenty of analysis out there on all the trade deadline deals, so for the most part, I'm going to avoid doing that here, though if there's a trade that happened in the last two weeks that caught your eye, by all means, bring it up. But instead I'm going to focus on what did not happen, and see if we can tie that to our fantasy leagues.

Breaking Bad once taught us to take Full-Measures, not Half-Measures. Often that lesson is looked over in keeper leagues. If you're going to sell, you should sell anything not nailed down. Sell early, sell often, but don't just give up your own big sellable asset and call it a day. It's more true on the buyer side. It's one thing to believe that your team is strong enough to win right now and not make a big move, b

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