Week 20 (Playoffs, Week 2) Transactions and Lineups

Considering it's a key week in three playoff battles, it's a quiet day in FBLG Blogland.

Players acquired

• Goldschmidt Happens sign SP Braden Shipley (August move #2).

Players released

• OF Ichiro Suzuki
• RP Jonathan Papelbon

Trade

• Hundley Eyes trade C Welington Castillo to Goldschmidt Happens for OF Gerardo Parra.

Players unprotected/available to be stolen

• none on Fresh Fish
• 3B Aaron Hill (Rookies) 
• 3B Jung-Ho Kang (The Lumbar Yard)
• OF Michael Conforto (Goldschmidt Happens)
• 2B Kelby Tomlinson (Misfits)
• none on LG&M
• SP Matt Cain (PYB)
• IF/OF Kike Hernandez (Arbitration Losers)
• 3B/SS Jhonny Peralta (Hundley Eyes)
• none on Retire 21

Please email the commish by first pitch Saturday to change your unprotected player.

• OF Melvin Upton Jr. (LY), SP Jeff Locke (Rookies) and C Cameron Rupp (Rookies) are also available to be stolen after spending four weeks on the bench.

Lineup changes

• Fresh Fish: None.
• Rookies: None.
• The Lumbar Yard: Bench SP Jeremy Hellickson; activate SP Homer Bailey.
• Goldschmidt Happens: Bench C Miguel Montero; place SP Michael Wacha on DL; activate C Welington Castillo, OF Jorge Soler and SP Braden Shipley.
• Misfits: None.
• Lawyers, Guns & Money: Bench SS Eduardo Nunez; place OF Giancarlo Stanton and SP Adam Conley on DL; activate SS Addison Russell and OF Odubel Herrera.
• Pitch You Blockhead: Bench SP Tyler Chatwood; activate from DL and place on bench OF Peter Bourjos; activate SP Christian Friedrich.
• Arbitration Losers: Bench 3B Jedd Gyorko and OF Curtis Granderson; place SP Zach Eflin on DL; activate from DL and place on bench 3B Jose Reyes; activate SP Gio Gonzalez, 3B Matt Duffy (from DL) and OF Joc Pederson.
• Hundley Eyes: Bench SP Zach Davies; activate SP Jerad Eickhoff.
• Retire 21: Bench SP Tyler Anderson; activate SP Drew Pomeranz.