Friday's report

OVERALL STANDINGS

1. Misfits (Reid) 2782
    Back-to-back big days put Misfits in overall leady
2. Goatwhisperers (Arik) 2779
    Scoring has hit the skids in past few days
3. Upton No Good (Bill-Rich) 2732
    Finally, it appears Loney has returned to earth
4. Arbitration Losers (Tim) 2728
    Wells, Halladay power 59-point day
5. Pickle Bugs (Jon) 2642
    Hitting has gone quiet in past few days
6. Fresh Fish (Rick) 2634
    Solid week of pitching; hitting not so much
7. VC Appraisers (Kevin-Dave) 2575
   Eckstein is on the disabled list
8. Chico's Chuggers (Shawn) 2526
    Not much of debut for Volquez
9. Triple-A's (Ken) 2515
   Livan's 20 helps Triple-A's escape cellar
10. Pitch You Blockhead (Scott) 2497
     Imagine how bad week would be without KJ's bonus for cycle
   

Head-to-head scores

Arbitration Losers 149, VC Appraisers 126
Triple-A's 155, Pitch You Blockhead 99
Upton No Good 112, Gladstone Goatwhiperers 108
Fresh Fish 145, Chico's Chuggers 113
Misfits 149, Pickle Bugs 112

Player acquisitions

1B Travis Ishikawa, by Pitch You Blockhead (July #3)

Midweek replacement

On Saturday, Pitch You Blockhead placed C Ryan Doumit on disabled list, moved 1B Buster Posey to C, activated 1B Travis Ishikawa

Week 16 roster moves

Players acquired

OF Dexter Fowler, by Pickle Bugs (July #1)
OF John Jay, by Chico's Chuggers (July #1)
SP Edinson Volquez, by Chico's Chuggers (July #2)

Players released

2B Skip Schumacher, by Upton No Good
SP John Ely, by Upton No Good
C Nick Hundley, by Pickle Bugs
C Ronny Paulino, by Triple-A's
OF Jeff Franceour, by Chico's Chuggers
SP Jonathan Niese, by Chico's Chuggers

Week 16 active roster changes

UPTON NO GOOD: Benched SP Edwin Jackson and SP Jhoulys Chacin; activated SP Yovani Gallardo from disabled list; activated SP Ubaldo Jimenez

PICKLE BUGS: Benched OF Andrew McCutchen and SP Ted Lilly; activated OF Dexter Fowler and SP Anibal Sanchez

FRESH FISH: Benched 1B Troy Glaus and SP Derek Lowe; activated 1B Derrek Lee and SP Barry Zito.

VC APPRAISERS: No changes

GLADSTONE GOATWHISPERERS: Benched SP Cole Hamels; activated SP Ian Kennedy

ARBITRATION LOSERS: Benched 2B Freddy Sanchez, OF Andres Torres and SP Jon Garland; activated 2B Juan Uribe, OF Johnny Gomes and SP Randy Wells

TRIPLE-A'S: Benched 3B Casey Blake, OF Roger Bernardina and SP Vicente Padilla; activated 3B Placido Polanco from disabled list; activated OF Nyger Morgan and SP Livan Hernandez

MISFITS: Benched SP Kris Medlen; activated SP Hiroki Kuroda

PITCH YOU BLOCKHEAD: Benched OF Carlos Lee and SP Clayton Richard; moved SS Jerry Hairston to OF; activated SS Yunel Escobar and SP Carlos Silva

CHICO'S CHUGGERS: Benched SP Dan Haren; activated SP Edison Volquez

Week 15 emergency pitchers

PICKLE BUGS: Started SP Ted Lilly in place of SP Anibal Sanchez

CHICO'S CHUGGERS: Started SP Matt Cain in place of SP Mike Pelfrey