RELIEVERS: Trade exercise (part 2) and BPVs over 200

So this week, let's finish off our problem and get back to who has the top bullpen skills over the past month.

The problem, you will recall, is a quick look at buy/sell of saves with two months (now about six weeks) to go. Here was the situation in LABR-NL as of August 1:

LABR-NL          Sv active RPs (on August 1)
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Moyer            49 L.Garcia, Oh, Maurer, Neshek
Colton/Wolf      48 Rivero, Nicasio, Rodney, B.Hand, P.Maton, T.Watson, J.Barrett
Karabell         45 Knebel, J.Johnson, Rosenthal, Morrow, M.Montgomery
Carty            41 Holland, Treinen
Gardner          40 Madson, A.J.Ramos, A.Reed
Walton           38 K.Jansen, Neris, Ziegler,...

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