Alex Ferreyra is playing a season of fantasy baseball with just Latino players. You can read his original article here, and send him tips on players or comments about how he screwed up his team here.

When I was picking players in the latter rounds of my draft, I thought I’d be picking up guys who would help me out later on in the year. Now, I’m talking post-All-Star break. A perfect example is Tampa Bay third baseman Evan Longoria, who rumor had it, was being kept in the minor leagues because the organization (which was called the worst-run ever by The Sporting News) didn’t want his arbitration clock to start until next year. And by keeping him in the minors for a certain amount of games, even after tearing AAA-ball up last year and having a hole at the hot corner befitting of a rising star, the Rays delay paying him big money or shipping him off for another year.

Funny how injuries change things.

Rays third baseman Willy Aybar got injured last week, and the calls for Longoria were so deafening that the team had no choice but to call him up—and the 22-year-old hasn’t disappointed in his couple of games up. In three games, he’s hitting .444 with a home run, and he’s looking like the second coming of last year’s NL Rookie of the Year, Ryan Braun. Yes, it’s early, but chat boards are buzzing of the arrival and some are looking for him to his just north of .300 and between 25-30 home runs. Not bad for a guy I picked up in the 17th round.

More importantly, however, is that this allowed me to make a trade offer to finally get my token non-Latino fantasy player Jusin Morneau off my team. The Twin was raking, hitting three home runs in his last eight games, but no one was biting at my trade requests. Three of my leaguemates had caught on to what I was doing (thanks to the big mouth commish), so they were trying to fleece me. But in a last minute trade, I was able to get the Cubs’ Aramis Ramirez for Morneau and Adrian Beltre.

While it is a bit of a lopsided trade benefiting the other side, with both hitting relatively well, I think the fact I could never play Morneau makes it palatable. So with the trade, my big hitters are Aramis Ramirez, Hanley Ramirez (who hit in 10 consecutive games and is blazing through the NL), Alex Rios, Carlos Lee, Bobby Abreu and Longoria, who hopefully continues this hot start.

Unfortunately, my pitching staff is nowhere near as good. The sight of those two little red letters “DL” next to four of my pitchers last week made me cringe. I had Matt Garza, Pedro Martinez, Rafael Soriano and Yovanni Gallardo all Scarlett Lettered and unable to perform, leaving me with only Carlos Zambrano, Bronon Arroyo and Oliver Perez to play for me. Yeah, that didn’t end so well.

Perez gave up eight runs in six innings on Sunday and Arroyo couldn’t stop giving up home runs. I picked up Joakim Soria to fill in the reliever spot Soriano left to go bleed and cry to his mommy, and Edinson Vólquez to hopefully fill in for Martinez. Gallardo comes off the DL this week, so I’m feeling a bit more confident with the starting rotation of Zambrano, Vólquez, Gallardo, Perez (ok, not him) and Soria as my reliever. I’m out of bargaining chips, so this is the team I have to go to war with. Let’s hope it doesn’t get much messier than my 5-6-4, 9th place showing this week.