You have likely seen several references to this over the years, but the beginning of your fantasy season is not the time to overreact to daily developments on Major League fields. Patience is a virtue in many things but especially in early season roster management.
Sure you don’t like to see your hitters not providing at least some offense or your starting pitchers looking like the batting practice hurler, but the season is young and many players are still trying to get their timing down and adjust to the new season.
If you thought Fausto Carmona was a decent pitcher to roster in your league, then benching him for 10 runs given up in his first start took away the seven shutout innings next time out for your team. Nobody, repeat nobody is good enough to guess any given days results on a regular basis. The sewers of Las Vegas are littered with many who thought they could do it often enough.
I am not saying that fantasy owners should not be on top of emerging players or changes in lineups that need to be noted. Just be wary of cutting what have been and are likely to be again this year valuable players who happened to get off to a poor start. Cutting those players may well get you a double dose of the ughs as your former player coming to life on a competitors team is just as hard to watch.
Perhaps Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa summed it up best in his clip where the manager goes off after being asked about the Cardinals start. Link here for the text and link and have someone to commiserate with your team’s struggles.