ROTISSERIE: NL-TOUT—Trading Aces

Like many “expert” leagues, there’s generally been little trading over the years in Tout Wars, particularly in its "Only" leagues. I’ve been in the NL-only league going on 15 years, and in many seasons there has only been a couple of trades all year.  So it was not surprising to me that Lenny Melnick decided to use his trading partner—that would be me—to announce a major trade on his Sunday morning radio show. After all, it’s not all that often that a top starter has been traded in the NL-only league, let alone two aces in one deal. So Lenny wanted to proudly announce his acquisition of both Zack Greinke and Stephen Strasburg (as well as José Reyes) in exchange for Javier Báez, Eugenio Suárez, and Ian Desmond.

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