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I have had a couple AAA SP sitting on my bench all season and I see that in every period they are being started. I was hoping to review a couple teams that are starting intentional Blanks in pitching. Input from the owners of these teams would be great.

sheep- i noticed that also. in our league an owner picked up gallardo and started him. pretty sure that was on purpose- because the only other 2 pitchers he had to put in were on dl. the other reason would be you have a pitcher you don't want active - because he is pitching on road against yanks- so you do this. i think mostly it is because so many players are on dl.

hahaha that would be me... ya see, I screwed up in my FA conditional bids, assuming I would get either Mike Gonzalez or Jeremy Accardo and I didn't, and after them I had a conditional bid for Gallardo and got him.. leaving me with less than 9 healthy pitchers in the majors, thus I saw a better chance of Gallardo being called up and starting than of Dotel/Hughes coming off the DL... I hope to avoid this situation in the future, but it could also be useful if you don't want to start a questionable starter so as to keep ERA/WHIP down