I figured we could have a thread to last much of the season for waiver/keeper/trade advice solicitations. So let's see them!

I guess this thread isn't too active, but after playing fantasy sports for years, I'm finally taking the dive into baseball. I lost week 1, but it didn't help my opponent had an absolutely great week. was hoping to post my team and see if I could get a little advice on strengths, weaknesses, and the like.

I've already made a few roster moves, including trading brandon Phillips and josh Harrison for scooter Gennett, gio gonzales, and brandon crawford (and of course he promptly gets hurt). had to drop aybar to make it work. I recently dropped kolten wong for Jake lamb as don't think I'll be playing him much over Pedroia and gennett. lastly, I have a waiver claim in for Sano (which I believe processes in a couple hours if successful), dropping morales.

c r. martin
1 m. Cabrera
2 s. gennett
3 m. carpenter
ss b. crawford
2/ss d. Pedroia
1/3 j. lamb
utility k morales

of
trout
Braun
yelich
piscotty
Valencia

basically dropped my bench position players for more pitchers (tolleson, jeffress). my team was originally lacking in relievers so I wanted to try and beef that area up as my very early perception is pitching depth is more valuable than depth in position players.

bumgarner
archer
Tanaka
king Felix
jeffress
Gregerson
tolleson
Rosenthal
cisheck
iglesias
corbin
gio gonzales

I know it's early, and I'm not panicking, but with the likelihood of losing the 2nd week in a row, I'm curious as to what I can do better.

My team has been ice cold all week. ****

shameless bump looking for some advice to help my team that's now staring at 0-2 barring some truly great pitching tomorrow. to follow up on my previous post, I just replaced Valencia with g. parra

Yeah, I'm struggling too. It's at the point where generally, I'm hoping the guys pull out of the doldrums, but before too long I'm going to have to get active. Dixie, the names on your team are premier. I'm not really sure of any moves you should make right now.

Yes, on paper, your team looks solid. Some guys are just struggling right now...Crawford for example. But it's hard to dump guys like that.

I try to keep 2 or 3 scrubs on my team...so that I can claim other scrubs that are hot, rotate them in for my struggling starters, and dump them when the cool off for some other scrub that is hot.

Why are you so worried about going down 0-2?...or maybe 0-3 by now?

Maikel Franco for Lance McCullers?

Without knowing the teams what are your thoughts.

Personally, I take Franco. 3B isn't great and McCullers is all potential at this point if he ever gets healthy even.

Now, team 1 has -
3B - Frazier, Franco, Rendon
SP - Scherzer, Keuchel, Cole, Stroman, Verlander

Team 2 has -
3B - Arenado
SP - Iwakuma, McCullers, Liriano, Gio Gonzalez, Ventura

Does that change your opinion on Franco for McCullers? Fair? Unfair?

Adam Jones and Longoria or Maikel Franco and Story? Which side you taking?

Still fair just not as needed I suppose.