Not to be picky, but Trent Oeltjen was called up Justin Upton was put on the DL, not when Chris Young was sent down.

Corey—

You’re right; they made so many moves in a matter of days that I had my timeline a little backwards. The effect, however, is the same: with Young in AAA, Oeltjen can be expected to play nearly full-time (for now), while he had only a part-time gig before that move.

Rob—

I hadn’t thought about the connection among those three, but you’re totally right. You’d think the Twins would give those guys a longer look, but maybe they didn’t like Oeltjen’s Aussie accent.

And, as you say, they didn’t give up much in those three—Jones is hitting well, but he’s down from his stratospheric heights to a more expected .239/.327/.457 in August. I expect a similar fall to earth from Oeltjen and Romero.

MMS—

To me, it depends on how much you’re building for next year and how much you want to hold for this season. Bumgarner won’t likely give you too much this year, and Latos (as you point out) has only got 1-2 starts remaining.

Either is going to have tons more value down the road, but it doesn’t makes sense to cut (say) Ervin Santana, who’s going to help you this year. Jones is certainly slowing down, but do you want to put all your eggs in Kubel’s basket?

Meche wasn’t too impressive in his first start back, but he’s just clogging up a DL spot for you; activating or cutting him is not going to free up an active spot for you.

Jorge DeLaRosa is the weak link that I see, but (again) it depends on whether you’re building for the future or not. Your pitching is fairly solid for next year, depending on your keeper limit/budget, so you might have to hold off, unless/until you’re ready to toss your chances this year and build for next.

One of the hardest choices in fantasy can sometimes be standing pat—I’ve looked at plenty of potential pickups in my various leagues, and regretted being unable to pick them up, but I know that I can’t do it without cutting a more valuable guy. You can’t have everyone, so you may have to let Feliz and/or Bumgarner slip for now.

MMS - what are your other 2b options?

However, at this point in the in the season I avoid having guys from the same team on my roster.

I think Asdrubal Cabrera is far better than your other options, honestly.  Mea culpa on predicting his stealing too pessimistically in an early Waiver Wire writeup, but he’s running a decent amount now.  He plays everyday, has good batting average skills, a little pop, and has added speed to his game.  Still young enough that further steps forward won’t be a shocker.  It doesn’t seem that you need it, but the ss/2b positional eligibility is nice.  TT puts him at .281/.345/.409 with .4-3-3-.5 (HR-R-BI-SB) weekly, which isn’t bad at all.

I realize you have Nyjer already, but I’d consider Guzman as a second choice.  I hope I’m not contradicting something Mike wrote, but since the LASIK surgery, he’s been a different player.  He hit .328 (limited PT in 2007), .316, and .313 - slugging about .440 over that 3-season span.  That’s almost 1300 PA of .320 hitting with a .440 slugging%.  I am pretty sure we can safely assume that whatever was wrong with him in 2002-2006 was corrected.

Guzman suffers from “Schumaker Syndrome” (batting average is about all he brings), but unlike Skippy, he plays every day, and as bad as the Nats are, it’s not because they can’t score runs, so he has reasonable R/RBI totals for a tablesetter.  His TT is .308/.341/.433 with a weekly forecast of .3-3-2-.2

I’d trust Mike’s take on the Marlins’ plans better than my own here.  In discussing Coghlan v. Schumaker v. Kendrick, I had sort of assumed that Coghlan was due to lose significant playing time when Maybin was promoted, but obviously he’ll be harder to bench if he keeps hitting. 

I have to admit that I hadn’t taken a good look at Coghlan before as a prospect, despite him being a first-round pick in 2006.  I definitely think the current “True Talent” for him of .256/.331/.381 is decidedly on the pessimistic side.  When I replied about Schumaker/Coghlan/Kendrick earlier, I was relying on TT, but think it’s guys like Cantu and Hermida who really need to worry if Maybin is promoted.

So, I agree with Mike - put him up there with Asdrubal.  Messing with the Angels-go-round is fine for daily-move and AL-only leagues, but not for weekly-move mixed leagues.

Hmm well for now I’ve decided to go out on a limb and drop Meche, Garrett Jones (strikeouts are creeping up), and Kendrick while adding and DLing Aaron Boone (for mostly sentimental reasons) and adding Kevin Kouzmanoff (on fire and supposedly fully recovered from shoulder surgery) & Gorzelanny (who looked great today, had great numbers in his minor league stint and has a great schedule for the rest of the season w/ a good offense behind him). AC (Asdrubal) will be on my radar as well as Coghlan and either will get an add when Latos is dropped (barring a call up w/ starting status from Bumgarden).

Thanks for all the great advice!!!!