Contrarian, although your analysis on matters in this game are pretty much always on point, and I definitely respect your knowledge. However, if you will note, I was referring to "underperforming" players, i.e., players who are hitting or pitching "poorly" in relation to their normalized numbers and their histories. And looking at the players you listed, without knowing which versions of the players you had, the dollar cap, or the type of pitching they faced, the only player from that list that jumps out at you as PERHAPS underperforming is maybe Lary. But as I clearly noted in my post, they don't ALWAYS continue to underperform. I merely pointed out that from my experience, they'll do so more often than not. If you disagree, I understand and still acknowledge that you're much more knowledgeable than me with this game. But, respectfully speaking, if you recall, we were recently in a league together and you were in my division with what appeared to clearly be a playoff team in my opinion. However, you finished about 14 games behind me because you had a few hitters who weren't living up to their billing. And instead of cutting your losses and dumping them to try catch me before it got too late, you held onto them, perhaps believing they would suddenly turn into Superman when they weren't doing it all season. As I said, there's no disrespect intended. I was just pointing out a prime example that sometimes you have to dump players in order to compete.