Trade Deadline Week

Welcome all to one of the most exciting parts of the year for Fantasy Baseball players. The deadline, as you should know, is this coming Thursday. Teams at this point have a pretty good idea whether they are buyers or sellers, and many big names have been floated around. I'd like to open a competition to our readers:

Which of the following players will be traded, and where will they end up?

The rules are simple. Out of the following list of twenty players, predict where ten of them will be come Friday. We've seen Sabathia and Harden move, but will Burnett or Bedard join that list? Now that the Pirates are in sell mode, will they part with Jason Bay, the face of the franchise? Scoring is as follows: One point for predicting if the player moves, one additional point for predicting where he moves if you think a trade is coming. For example, if you think the Braves will hold on to Teixeira, and he stays, you get one point. But if you think he will get traded to the Yankees, and he does, you get two points. You would also get a point if you predicted he would get traded to the Yankees, but he gets traded to the Angels instead, since you successfully predicted his move.

Whoever gets the most points will be praised by all. Also, you will have the opportunity to post your current Fantasy Baseball roster with any concerns you may have, and at the very least Pete and I will help (and other readers probably will also).

So who do I want you to predict?

• Mark Teixeira
• Matt Holliday
• Brian Fuentes
• Raul Ibanez
• Jason Bay
• Adam Dunn
• Randy Winn
• Brian Roberts
• Jack Wilson
• Adrian Beltre
• Gerald Laird
• Casey Blake
• Gary Sheffield
• George Sherrill
• A.J. Burnett
• Huston Street
• Bronson Arroyo
• Vicente Padilla
• Jarod Washburn
• Greg Maddux

Good Luck!