The league scoring is standard 5x5, except we use onbase percentage rather than batting average.
The Randy Randos trade:

Brandon Phillips
Hunter Pence
Desmond Jennings
Blow Me Where the Pampers Is trade:
Matt Holliday
Alex Rodriguez
Jimmy Rollins
Here is a transcript of a few back and forth emails or league message board posts. Names may be changed to protect the guilty. (Please keep in mind, the following is extremely childish. Thanks.)
From Us:
I would like to officially challenge the Randy Randos and
Blow Me Where the Pampers Is trade.

weren't being lazy, he'd be able to trade each of those guys
individually for a better bounty than Desmond Jennings and
no-one else worth keeping.
Josh (Pampers), I'm sorry, but your response of "have a nice
season" showed that you're throwing in the towel way before
the trade deadline.
Why wouldn't you at least try to shop these guys around a
little? Buchholz is hurt. Phillips and Hunter Pence are
average, to slightly above average, at best.
It tilts power in the league unfairly, unjustly, and un-you
know it's not right-ly.
This sets a bad precedent to try and trade for any teams top
3 picks by offering one good keeper and a few other okay
guys.
From Randy Randos Management:
This deal was negotiated at arms length. I received two players that have serious injury risk attached to them, in Arod and Rollins. In addition, Rollins, while drafted in the first 3 rounds, is nothing more than an 8th round pick. If the Yankees get any distance in the standings, which is possible, he will begin to rest on a regular basis. As for Holiday, while over the last two and half weeks, he's played expceptionally well, overall he has been very mediocre...I have him in another league so I can personally attest to that.

You want to cry, go ahead, but this deal wasn't him folding over...he got very very good players in return.

That'll be the day.
Looking at their 3 year averages, shows Arod as the 3rd best player in the league, Holliday as 4th, and J-Ro as 14th.
Arod "resting" is when he's the DH.
Your Phillips numbers are skewed, as can be expected. He's more likely on pace for less than 20 Homers, less than 20 SB's, and he's only OBP'ing at .350, not .370. In fact, Phillips' 3-year avg OBP is .326. Regression strongly suggests that he'll have a poorer 2nd Half as he trends towards that average.
Hunter Pence is just okay. He's like David De Jesus, in that he has some pop and some speed, but not a lot of either. His lineup table setting and protection blows, on the Astros. Oh yeah, and his OBP is .316.

Buchholz is not close to being Jon Lester. Plus, he's on the DL.
Stop arguing as if this is the best Richman could do. He could have actually gotten 3 really good potential keepers, and I protest the unfair shift in league balance this off the level trade has caused.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
This story will continue, as the league commissioner has yet to respond. We also expect Randy Randos Management to respond at least one more time.
The only way this trade is fair, is if the team giving up the better players gets to receive cash compensation when the other team gets paid for winning cash in the league.
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