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	Archive 01	50		2005/06/03, 04:38 am
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Wandy R. found reality tonight, and the damage could have been a LOT worse, with a lot of the runs unearned. Uggla has been amazing for a guy literally off the garbage heap in both real baseball and fantasy. Arroyo is a guy I'd trade ASAP myself, but he's pitching out of his mind.

I wouldn't worry about Helton, Crawford or Abreu. Those guys are money in the bank.

Aah, interleague play. I haven't used any (tm) Fooledagain1's patented charts on this, but has always 'seemed' to me that there was more offense in the interleague games.

Re: this year's general trends so far, 35+ y.o. veteran pitchers w/ great control have been really kicking ass so far. AKA, Glavine, Mussina, Moyer, etc. IMO, the ones that HAVEN'T (BRadke, Lieber) are guys that are worth buying low for. Unless their arms are FALLING OFF they're due to pick things up.

Interleague play, logically speaking, shouldn't generate more run production when those games are played in NL parks.

The NL home games are played without a DH, surely an automatic out for the AL teams with hurlers not used to batting.

Those automatic outs are inning killers in innings 2, 4 & 6 when the pitcher, if going good, doesn't figure to get pinch hit for.

Logically speaking ... (didn't stop the Dodgers from getting the most hits in their LA history last night with 25 hits in a 16-3 rout over the Angels).

I think it's just something about pitchers facing hitters they're unfamiliar with, though conventional wisdom is that pitchers have the advantage in such situations. I don't know if this has ever been charted or not, just what my preception ws in years past.

Oh, and of course games using a DH will result in more offense.

Got my trade thru-- sending arroyo off for sheffy Sheffy's gonna get it going and I picked up arroyo off the waiver at the beginning of the year... sweet!

DM, I have Sheffield on my team and he scares the shit out of me. While he's played hurt the last several years and starred, he's supposedly got a BROKEN hand right now, something that would DL him for 4-6 weeks if he has surgery to correct it. Something you would obviously think he would do once he decides he can't stand the pain. But right now the cortisone shot is apparently working, so who knows how long he can stay on the field?

I would generally agree that selling high on Arroyo is a good idea, but he's been awesome so far, and his last start was one of the best of his career, so who knows, maybe he's really good enough to survive pitching in the Cincy launching pad?

I made a trade myself this week in my lifer/keeper league: Jonny Gomes and Edgar Renteria for Ben Sheets and John Smoltz. I needed pitching DESPERATELY, and while I hate giving up Gomes in a keeper league, IF Sheffield puts up his normal numbers and IF Griffey and Rolen stay healthy and IF Aubrey Huff's not FINISHED and IF Brad Hawpe's for real, I actually had the luxury of trading Gomes.

I didn't think Gomes would play this well so far, and he's actually disappointed in SB's, where I was excited thinking he'd get double digits on the go-go Devil Rays. But the way he whiffs, he should be lucky to hit .270 this year. And like I said, I needed the pitching.

Oviously Sheets is a gamble, but in a keeper league, I was all over him, as long term, his value in a 5x5 league should easily match Gomes' if he's not stealing bases or hitting for average.

We have a midseason draft in my league for all rookies that didn't have 20 games or 20 IP last year, and my pitching has been SO bad (ERA over FIVE, thanks to El Duque teasing me with K's. DOH!!!) that I'm jockeying for the #1 pick. A couple days ago even the #2 pick wouldn't have been bad, as I'd have gotten either Verlander or Hamels, but now Hamels is hurt already and he may not get to 20 IP in the next 3 weeks to be eligible anyway. Might get stuck with Hanley Ramirez, and I already have a huge glut at SS anyway, even after trading Renteria.

My pitching staff (we must have 6 starting pitchers) come 7/1 could look like this, if all goes well:

SP Pedro
SP CLEMENS
SP Sheets
SP Smoltz
SP AJ Burnett
SP Verlander
RP Nathan
RP Mike Gonzalez (got him in a trade for Freel)
RP ATL closer

Now THAT staff sure looks a lot better than the CLOWNS I'm starting right now! Who knows if it's good enough to make up for two full months of SHIT I've put forth so far. If our season went all the way to 10/1 I'd like my chances of doing well in the final talleys, but we end on Labor Day to make way for football.

Sheffy is a risk as always, but I don't think the yanks would clear him if his wrist was in that bad of shape. Also, he isn't known to play thru a lot of pain so I'm banking on him being relatively ok. I like Arroya from the sox (great guy), and do like the reds and mets in the NL, but Arroya is nowhere as good as his record form what I saw in Boston. He's good mind you, just far from dominanting.

Also, I'm +62 in innings pitched and still have 3 good starters so the downside of the trade is nil.

Sheffy is a risk as always, but I don't think the yanks would clear him if his wrist was in that bad of shape. Also, he isn't known to play thru a lot of pain so I'm banking on him being relatively ok. I like Arroya from the sox (great guy), and do like the reds and mets in the NL, but Arroya is nowhere as good as his record form what I saw in Boston. He's good mind you, just far from dominanting.

Also, I'm +62 in innings pitched and still have 3 good starters so the downside of the trade is nil.

The current lineup after my waivders, trades, etc looks like:

Lineup: Fri, May 26 Sat, May 27 Sun, May 28 Mon, May 29 Tue, May 30 Stat Sub NavigationStats Split Stats Extras Today Last Week Last Month 2006 Season 2005 2004 Batting
Pos Batters Edit Opp Status H/AB R HR RBI SB AVG

J. Mauer (Min - C)
T. Helton (Col - 1B)
2B D. Uggla (Fla - 2B)
3B E. Chávez (Oak - 3B)
SS J. Rollins (Phi - SS)
OF C. Crawford (TB - OF)
OF B. Abreu (PHIL - OF)
OF G. Sheffield (NYY - OF)
UTIL B. Roberts (Bal - 2B)


Pitching
J. Beckett (Bos - SP)
K. Rogers (Det - SP)
T. Glavine (NYM - SP)
SP W. Rodríguez (Hou - SP)
SP F. García (CWS - SP)

RP C. Cordero (Was - RP)
RP J. Isringhausen (StL - RP)
P T. Gordon (Phi - RP)
P A. Benítez (SF - RP)
P B. Wickman (Cle - RP) -
BN E. Gagne (LAD - RP) DL


believe it or not, the only weak part in production is HR and avg. I'm entrenched in 2nd, but 6 behind 1st thus far. Sheffy needs to ding a few.

DM, solid team for a yahoo league. I'm sure you're just GIDDY about Crawford's last couple of games. He's packed a MONTH's worth of production into one series!

I'd say your starting pitching is weak, however. Wandy R.'s a mirage, and Kenny Rogers will soon be giving you nothing but the occasional W and innings with no K's. I'd be shopping an excess closer (or two) and one of those starters for a SP upgrade to a REAL stud -- Smoltz is a guy I'd be looking for, personally, or see if you can get Sheets or Prior or Clemens CHEAP and then hope for the best.

Brian Roberts is a weak UT in a yahoo league, especially when you already have speed to burn with guys like Crawford, Abreu and Rollins. Better off with a power hitter there, either a corner IF or a OF. Chipper Jones is a good trade target there, IMO. That guy always puts up numbers when healthy.

BTW, re: Joe Mauer, I've tried several times to get him in my keeper league. If he stays healthy and stays a catcher, he might be a true STUD there. Right now, though, he's just a good hitter for average in a weak lineup. But still, 550 AB's with a .300+ average is solid for a catcher.

Ya roberts was my 2B, but when he went limp I opted for uggly uggla. I would deal him, but he's got limited value. Meanwhile I'm a little defensive with 2B cuz it's only a matter of time before uggla comes back to where's he should be at.

As for SP, I would agree it is a risky lineup, but comprised of decent talent (i.e. beckett and garcia). I think Rogers had found his own in DT and between glavine and Roddy I expect the mixed decent outing with getting shelled. Not much improvements avail. via the wire as of now, but I'm always on the watch.

yanks lose to the royals--- now that is FUNNY

Shit, perhaps they could buy david wells from us to help 'em out

Clemens FINALLY signs. My fantasy team's pitching outlook just got a lot better.

Now to get his fat ass on the field and hope Sheets and Burnett can manage to get/stay healthy for a few months.

I guess he lost his courage with old age as he passed up going back to boston. What a joke-- coming back for what? to help a .500 team become a +5 team.... ohh ok rog-- u came back to play in a game with your son. Pleaseeeeeee.

You are correct sir ! He took the safe course . 12 million bucks with NO pressure. He ain't gonna save the Stros and everyone knows it. In Boston the spotlight would be squarely on him and he would be expected to deliver the World Series.

The Rocket has become the Roman Candle.

However, I can't say I would pass up an easy 12 mill myself . Would you ??

It's a popular dead horse among sports writers today to say that the Astros are going nowhere this year. Maybe they're right, but recent history shows they shouldn't be popping off like that.

A year ago at this point there was serious talk that the Astros were going to trade Clemens to the Yankees because the team was circling the drain in the standings. They got WHITE HOT and ended up in the World Series. This Astros team is no better or worse than they were last year and if the Mets win the NL East, there is no team that's even decent in the NL that threatens keep them out of a wild card spot (though you gotta like the Braves chances).

Pedro gives up 10 runs in 6 starts in May and ends the month 0-1 in the W-L column due to lack of run support and bullpen support.

"In Boston the spotlight would be squarely on him and he would be expected to deliver the World Series."

I'm not sure I would go that far, but imagine a rotation of Shilling, Beckett, and Clemens (in that order). It would of also been great to see roger come back home and go out with a B on his cap.


"I can't say I would pass up an easy 12 mill myself . Would you ??"

No, I guess I woudln't. And if I was a GM, I woudn't pay that price for a possible 8-10 game winner either.


Pork-- yes, it's amazing the lack of run support. I think the mets have a very nice lineup, but part of it is he's going up again some very hot pitchers as well.


I'm sure you guys saw Rog on espn-- what's up with that? he looks like he just go back from Iraq in both looks and attitude. Guy takes 1/2 the year off, gets 12 mill, and says, "I have nothing to prove, it's not like I have to come back or want to come back, but I'm committed."

Rog, lay off the booze bro!

A fading Schilling, chronically underachieving Beckett and part-time geezer Clemens sounds about as imposing as the Yankees' current rotation. Nothing like the Schilling/Pedro combo 2 years back or Schilling/Big Ugly combo in AZ before that.

Roy Oswalt is a much better horse to ride at this point.

perhaps you will think different when the bosox are crowned champs later this year... ( no im not wagering on that!)

DAMN-- here I am in my hotel, fresh brew on ice, getting ready for the game and BAMMMMMM --- some lightning and now NO satellite signal! ARGGGGGHHHH. This sucks! Mavs don't let me down!

Dirk meet Shaq n' Dwayne. Ohh ya, that's next week.

I wonder if I can get arroyo back ?????


Speaking of yanks, man they are dinged up. First hideko, now sheff, jeter ailing, rivera sore, damon a hobbled. This team is falling apart at the seams. Amazing they have the record they do! perhaps age has finally caught up with them.

Ya think ??? That and a few "Roids" over the years I'll wager . 1 unit to get 1.005 units

The Yankees are "banged up" because their roster is filled with old geezers. The Dodgers have 11 players on the DL this year, mostly geezers, as well.

All those Yankee 'geezers' played at a pretty high level last year and have been mostly remarkably durable throughout their careers. The Big Ugly's the only TRUE geezer on that team.

Someone dropped Sexton in my league and I picked him up and dropped uggla-- Sexton is now my util man (roberts moved up to 2nd). Richie came through and dinged 2 HRs in his roster debut, which was enough to slide me into a tie for 1st

Once uggla clears, I'll pick him back up as a backup to roberts and dump garcia, whose whip/era is not getting it done (+ i'm +76 in IP). Sheff moved to the DL.

Porker, very true and they are still putting up pretty damn good #s. I can't think of many teams that have as many people out and still win games. Thank AROD and Giambi. Speaking of Giambi, what a turn around-- this guy was in the scrap pile 1/2 way thru last year and heading for the minors. And guess what, ole man randy is starting to wake up. This upcoming boston-ny series should be interesting.

Screw Prince Fielder. Joe Mauer's a year older, plays a REAL defensive position and with 3 more hits tonight is hitting over .380.

Wow, since I last posted, I catapulted into first place by a wide margin. Some recent waiver wire trans have been working out well...


C J. Mauer
1B T. Helton
2B D. Uggla
3B Er. Chávez
SS J. Rollins
OF B. Abreu
OF Á. Ríos
OF C. Crawford
Util R. Ibañez
BN R. Sexson
BN A. Huff
- - - -
Pitching
SP T. Glavine
SP K. Rogers
RP C. Cordero
RP J. Isringhausen
P T. Gordon
P B. Wickman
P A. Benítez
BN D. Lowe
BN J. Beckett



Picked up Sexton and huff (huff must wake up eventually I figure) and Lowe on the wire. Lowe bolster my SPs after giving away arroyo. I dumped sheff-- Imho he's done for the year. Bad timing. I'm first by 9 points now helped by Rollins knocking the leather off the ball of late and helton coming alive. Chavez has yet to pick it up tho.

That lineup is being carried by Mauer and Rios, but they both look like the real deal, so should be smooth sailing for you on offense. You certainly have SPEED to burn, and might consider downgrading SB's for better starting pitching. Your SP's pretty much SUCK, and you could really use a STUD.

BTW, Aubrey Huff is a shit sucking squirrel! Ask me WHY I think that?

I got Cole Hamels and Jered AAA Weaver and Raul Ibanez today to prop up my 9th place team. Also get Clemens and Burnett back this week, for whatever that's worth. Am not worthy of 1st place, as that guy's got one of the best teams my league has ever seen on offense, but am only a couple hot weeks out of 2nd, and my pitching may have just got GOOD.

Joe Mauer 5-5 tonight leaving him at .389 just days before July. As a CATCHER. Un-frickin-believable.

And then Liriano dominates and wins tonight tonight to go 8-1. I remember well "Fernando-Mania" in LA 25 years ago, but Liriano has had just as good a start to his career as Fernando had, and has a HELLUVA lot better stuff. The guy looks like a left-handed Pedro in his prime right now, and he's got less than 100 IP in the big leagues. PHENOM is an understatement.

The Twins look like a pretty damned good team to me right now, but they're buried in the standings already behind Detroit and the White Sox. If they were in the NL they'd be at least as good as the Cardinals as the 2nd best team in the league behind the Mets. But instead they're in the AL and they're also-rans...

Oh, and re: my team: Burnett's 2 starts since coming off the DL have me VERY excited about the 2nd half of the season. STUDLY starting pitching can give me a huge boost in the standings, and both he and Clemens have looked great so far. Now I need Sheets to get his ass back and healthy and I'll have FIVE frickin' aces (Pedro and Smoltz are the others).

Can't find where I commented about scoring being up in Inter-league games, but yesterday's scores were like football scores! My fantasy baseball team's hitters took full advantage, as the 14 of them combined for 23 HR's and SIXTY RBI last week. Led by the immortal Miguel Olivo, of course!

Well, him and old man Griffey...

Porker's team now in 2nd place after a disastrous April where his team couldn't hit water if they fell out of Kurt Bevacqua's boat. My pitching has been frickin' insane so far, though, with Hamels, Smoltz, Sheets, Burnett, Rich Hill and the GOOD Weaver. Oh, plus Nathan, Hoffman, and FLA's closer of the week.

Porker also gets a lottery ticket this week, as he just traded Brad Hawpe for Corey Patterson and the rights to either 1) Dice-K, 2) Lincecum (guys who only create trade bait amongst the staff already mentioned), or, 3) Hunter Pence, who since my keeper league has to start two CF's, is like Jesus on Red Bull for my hitting/CF starved team. I've been drooling over Lincecum for the last month, but all the smart guys in Fantasy baseball would take the underachieving Dice-K, and I NEED (and really like) Pence, who looks like a 20 SB guy to go along with obvious power and surprising BA so far.

After a 3 save night (including Hoffman's 500th!), I'm temporarily in 1st place. Still agonizing over who to take in our mid-year draft. I NEED Pence, don't need a pitcher, but small sample sizes can really skew the numbers for a guy that's been in the majors for a MONTH. A year ago I was in LOVE with Matt Kemp, and he went into the tank after a few week hot streak.

Maybe I'll just flip a coin...

STAT GEEK!!



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Stat geek can make a couple month's pay if his current luck lasts for 3 more months. Stat geek usually gets this lotto ticket for free because even his pedestrian efforts are > than the average player in an actually decent top-heavy keeper league where stats geek has rather mediocre keepers.

But most of all, stat geek wants to know the general long-term stats over the next 3-5 years of Pence vs. Dice-K vs. Lincecum.

I think that pitchers are a crap shoot. Hitting statistics are much more reliable and easier to predict than pitching. There are too many variables, (injuries, age, stupidity, changing strike zones, etc.) to be able to accurately predict future pitching. Today's stud is tomorrow's dud. Clemens is a perfect example. I gave his ass up as dead 7 years ago - too old, bad teams, etc. Guess I didn't hit that one out of the park!

One year, I actually came in second in my league by carrying two starters, two closers and five middle relievers. (And two of my "middle relievers" actually picked up 12 saves for me!) I was just trying to meet the minimum innings pitched requirements and was relying solely on a STUDLY hitting team. It's tough to be competitive in Wins and Strikeouts doing this, but I dominated the other categories (WHIP, ERA and Saves)! In a 4x4 league this would even be a better strategy. And the beautiful thing is that middle relievers are CHEAP! All that extra cash goes into the offense.

I quit playing in my leagues when I moved to Mexico. You know what I miss the most? Opening up the sports sections and pouring over daily box scores. So there's a little stat geek in me as well.

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I'm pretty sure I'm taking Pence, for all the reasons you mention, plus the fact I'm desperate for hitting and sitting pretty with pitching and have shorn just about every sheep in the league in trades already, so they're terrified to trade with me. But I'm very nervous about Pence's value being inflated short-term stats. If he was a .280 hitting 20-15 guy he wouldn't have nearly the value in my league as a 20 game winning 220+K pitcher like Dice K is sure to be. But a .350 hitting 35-40 HR guy that can (really, apparently) run? I wanna buy THAT!

Being a stat geek means zero when you are in a competitive fantasy league with other stat geeks. At that point, you need lots of luck and a little strategy. Injuries plays a huge factor in the leagues, especially baseball where you dont have unlimited transactions(or at least any reputable league doesnt have unlimited transactions)

The point about injuries is a great one. I noticed that the guys who won the leagues I played in, were the guys whose teams had the fewest injuries. My teams, after a four-year stint in second place in one league, tended to yo-yo up and down the standings on a yearly basis, largely due to the number of injuries I had to deal with.

The biggest problem, if you play "true" rotisserie style baseball, is that once you fill out a 12-team league, the picking for your ultra teams are pretty slim. If someone goes down, you're screwed unless you are really lucky and "discovered" some diamond-in-the-rough player who blossoms into a major league stud overnight. Don't laugh, that's how I "found" Mariano Rivera back in the day. He was a $2.00 ultra pick-up for me one year and became the Yankees closer the next. Just dumb luck on my part as I happened to see his name in some stat geek magazine, needed a guy and blurted out his name.

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Somebody made me an offer I couldnt' refuse today, and I traded that "rookie" pick (and ends up also the rights to Kelly Johnson, who I didn't think would slip to me) plus a few other prospects (Kotchman, Kemp, K. Matsui) for Chase Utley and Rafael Furcal. After YEARS of fruitlessly pursuing trades in this league, my last two deals the past 2 weeks were guys coming to ME and I just accepted what they were offering. Looks like I may be a contender this year after all!

Re: injuries, yeah, they SUCK, but in leagues where you have a bench, it always amazes me how people who are usually pretty good at picking starters can have such little clues at what a good player for a bench spot looks like. In my league every guy getting 500 at bats is usually on a roster, no matter how many times over that guy has proven he's SHITTY. I'd rather load up on guys wit h TALENT that are waiting for the right opportunity. EA's example of Mo Rivera a decade ago is a good one. This year, I have about another month to wait for Ryan Doumit to become catcher eligible, but when he does, he's gonna make a quality keeper even if he's only a 300 at bat guy. If he gets to 550+ next year, he's gonna kick ASS. WAY, WAY better bench spot filler for me than some clown backup catcher like Rod Barajas.

Of course if you have limited bench spots or are in non-keeper leagues, the dynamics become a little different.

Re: getting guys "on the fly", this year I've gotten a TON of production off the waiver wire: Reggie Willets, Dan Johnson, Kevin Gregg, Kaz Matsui, Victor Diaz are the most prominent examples. I've also been lucky that a guy in my league goes CRAZY over hot players, and offers real value in return for the usual flashes in the pan. That's how I turned a bunch of speculative lottery tickets into Utley/Furcal.

BTW, Alex Gordon went ahead of Dice-K in my keeper league rookie draft tonight. Talk about BLIND faith!

Since I trade my picks, all I was able to get was Gathright, newly back from the minors. Hopefully the sad-sack Royals will keep playing him and let him run wild.

Shit, I wish I was in a keeper league. Look at the team I drafted last year on the post dated April 2, 2006. The guys in my league laugh and always say that I pick my players a year too early and that I am the official scout. They basically just draft who I drafted the year before.

Today was almost the greatest game in the history of the sport: Dustin McGowan threw a 1-hitter, a clean liner with 0 out in the 9th, and Frank Thomas had 2 AB's to try and hit his 500th HR after hitting 499 earlier in the game. Still, amazing drama. I got McGowan for free off the waiver wire, and was looking to car bomb his ass after he got rocked earlier this week. He's in my lineup because AJ Burnett's hurt (more Dusty Baker-esque abuse, throwing 350 pitches in 3 starts!) and he had 2 starts this week. Thank god the 2nd start was waaaaaaay better than the first!

There's a very real possibility I'm naming my first child Corey Patterson.

3 SB's in two days from ex-catcher Josh Willingham have been nice too!

My fantasy baseball team is a wet dream or two away from a 1st place title, this weekend ends our season as football is starting next week. After being sorta comfortably in 1st place all summer, I got passed like I was standing still about 10 days back when the 3rd place team's offense caught fire (basically he's got David Wright, Magglio and a recently hot Tejada, and NOBODY else) and passed the teams asleep at the wheel (often not hard to do, even in my keeper league).

My pitching has been dominant almost all year, but injuries to Smolts, Sheets, Burnett, and now Hamels have bit me in the ass, and despite getting lucky on some of their replacements, like McGowan and Billingsley, every point is vital now, and I still might not recover from them missing about 1/2 a seasons worth of starts between them. Live by a chronically sore-armed pitcher, die by one, I guess (but aren't they ALL???).

The 1000 bucks I'd win for winning the league would be a HUGE windfall for me, but who needs a free ticket to SE Asia, right?

I finished 3rd, 6 points out of 1st. I was 1.5 points behind the team that wone after last night's games. Needing lots of hits, I was certainly NOT happy that Utley, Willingham, Guillen, Patterson and Conor Jackson ALL got the day off today, but that's the way the mop flops.

The difference between 1st and 2nd in my league was INSANELY close, .5 points separating the big cheese from basically winning 100 bucks and a free entry next year. The winning difference ended up being ONE stolen base and ONE RBI. Over 22 weeks of baseball and thousands of games, that is simply incredible.

My football draft is tomorrow PM. I basicaly have no picks in my keeper league draft, so gonna have to bet on my underachieving keeper RB's (Norwood, LenDale White and Cadillac) to actually turn into studs.

I get a little sick watching Devil Rays games these days. Two of my worst fantasy baseball decisions ever were to trade Carl Crawford in his 1st full year in the majors, and then this spring I didn't keep B.J. Upton.

In mid-2003 I traded Crawford for the immortal Hee Seop Choi. Crawford was hitting about .250 at the time with 1 HR (despite being 6'2", 220, something I knew very well at the time), and the guy NEVER walked and OBP was a scoring category in my league (we now use OPS). He was KILLING ME. Hee Seop had just had a month where he hit like 8 HR's and was on pace for 100 BB's.

Upton was abysmal last year, had a shoulder injury that zapped ALL his power. He also was only qualified at 3B, I already had Zimmerman at 3B, the D-Rays had a high $$ Japanese import at that postion, the OF was FULL, and it looked like B.J. was gonna be playing Left OUT again in mid-March.

Who knew that two Devil Rays would be among the brightest keepers in all of the sport?

BTW, the same guy took advantage of both of these mistakes. He fleeced me for Crawford, and then drafted Upton WAY high this year in our leftovers draft when nobody else even rally wanted him.

He's also the guy who got rookies Texeira and Peavy from me for Josh Beckett. Seemed like a good idea at the time.

I'm pretty good at fantasy sports, I know what I'm doing, and always pretty damned well on top of things. But THIS GUY, he's fucking King Midas! Every move he makes is a winner. He just won our baseball league for the 4th year in a row.

I am about to win my 5th fantasy baseball in league in 7 years. I wouldnt even follow baseball were it not for Fantasy leagues. Basically pays for a mongering trip each time I win. For some reason I am snake bit in Fantasy Football and have won only twice due to constant injuries on my first and second roung picks.

My fantasy baseball league ended tonight, and, as usual, a late season disappointment is the end result. My team was pretty good all year, but a hitting slump late doomed me.

The guy that won got uber-lucky, IMO, picking up Ervin Santana and Cliff Lee in April and riding their inSANE seasons to an even better season than my carefully cultivated staff delivered. Santana's ERA was 5.76 last year and Lee's over 6. Lee went NINETEEN AND TWO for a mostly crappy Cleveland team.

Blazers, if your fantasy baseball winnings make you serious coin, PLEASE invite me to be in your league next year? I could use the extra scratch...

Currently in 2nd place after being in first the entire year. Couple guys made some pickups.

Just did my draft in Vegas for football. Thats the draft that gives big winnings.

What has happened to A-Rod the greatest player ever!

ARod? He hit #548 tonight.

He's getting old, though, turned 33 a few weeks back...

Jeter only needs 345 more to tie Arod!!! And only two more to make in into double figures this year!

Care to guess how many Grand Slams Jeter has had in his career? Arod has 16.

Oh, and that was Arod's 30th this year, 12th time in 13 seasons he hit 30+.

Dustin Pedroia hit #16 tonight for the Red Sox and they're looking to build a statue for the little faggot!

345/8 = about 83 more years?

So if Jeter plays til he's 115 or so and Arod drops dead tomorrow, maybe he'll catch him?

ARod ties Mike Schmidt with number 548.

Every time Mike gets passed his mid season retirement speech comes to mind. My memory is fuzzy, but I recall WGN carrying it live and breaking into a Cubs a game with Harry and Steve Stone getting really choked up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOPLJQuVm_I

Have some tissues handy if you watch.

ARod also just blew by Rogers Hornsby, Harmon Killebrew, and Al Kaline in career RBI. Passing Rogers Hornsby and Tim Raines in runs scored this last month too. Totally sick player..

I will be happy to see Bonds get passed by ARod.

(Message edited by keeper on September 02, 2008)

ARod is great in fantasy baseball, but I have never seen a "superstar" like this who can't come through in the clutch. How many meaningless homers does he have this year when the Yanks are up or down by 5? I remember when I was at the ALDS here in Detroit in 06' and Joe Torre had him 8th in the lineup. I'll guarantee Miggy Cabrera will never hit 8th in 1 game in his career!

This year A-rod is batting .242 with runners in scoring position.



Since game 4 of the 2004 ALCS he has stranded all 38 runners that have been on base when he has come up to the plate in the post season.


He is average at best when there is something at state. The Yankees are stuck with him for what ...another 9 years.

Ernie Banks (( The PREVIOUS all time SS HR king...)) made the postseason 1 friggn time in 20 years? How many WS did Ted Williams or Willie McCovey or Walter Johonson win again???

Again, muy confused by why one would be "stuck" with a player that has the top 5 OPS this year and in the history of the sport for his career?

And does anyone on earth CARE that Jeter actually MAKES MORE FUCKING MONEY THAN AROD AND WAS WASHED UP 6+ YEARS AGO AND ISNT WORTHY TO LICK THE SWEAT FROM HIS JOCK?

Jeter has a history of delivering in the post season....what about A-rod?

A quite ancient history.

David Eckstein does too. So fucking what?

Pick 3 for the next 3 years (the medium run), pretty standard 5x5 keeper league:

a) Sheets
b) Broxton
c) mark reynolds
d) scott baker
e) carlos pena
f) raul ibanez
g) conor jackson

I PICKED b, e, g. Je ne regrette rien!

The healthy castoffs (minus sheets) went in the first 2 rounds of my keeper league draft this weekend. I got Sheets as like the 250th overall pick, and if he does ANYTHING this year, that's a total windfall.

My (pick challenged) draft boiled down to taking flyers on potential lottery picks:

Mike Aviles
Billy Butler
Sheets
Headley
Josh Anderson
Andrew Miller
Clay Buchholz
laird
C. Guzman
nyjer m.
konerko

My league has a early june draft for last year's leftover rookies. Rules say 20 games for hitters, 20 ip for pitchers:

2007 roll call:

Pence
Dice-K
Hamels
A. Gordon
Josh H.
Kelly Johnson (keeper league, remember)

Enough folks up for a little Hombre '09 baseball?

I just created a place holder league with the draft set for Saturday.

http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/register/tos?league_id=277616&password=p2p

In order to join the league, follow the link above or go to game front page, click the "Sign Up Now" or "Get Another Team" button and follow the links to "Join a Custom League". When prompted, enter the League ID# and password below.

League ID#: 277616
Password: p2p

Hopefully, we'll get enough...

As I'm bored, I'm in.

EA

I signed up.

Why 4x4 with no runs or K's? If you don't like Runs, why not OPS?

Looking forward to making Blazers my fantasy bitch yet again!

It's not a matter of liking Ks (I do) or runs (less so), it's a matter of thinking w,s,era,whip is more important.

A case can be made for OBP tho at the expense of average. Change made.

(Message edited by donmarco on March 29, 2009)

bump.

Cum on Blazers, don't be a pussy.

Shit, are people really THAT afraid of me?

I'll open it up to the public the day prior.

I would talk shit with ya now, but with the drubbing you gave me last time, I'll save it for the field ;)

last call before going public.

Porker, it's now a 5 X 5 league per your request.

I guess I oughtta pre-rank my players, though may be up at this time of night AC time watching college basketball (assuming it's even ON in AC!) tomorrow.

The one auto-draft I've done so far this year was insanely good.

Yahoo mixed auctions have been my internet crack addiction for the last 10 days.

My strategy so far:

1) Nominate red sox and yankeees.
2) Nominate closers early and often, the worst the better
3) Endgame players are awesome if you don't shoot your wad early --

to wit: Encarnacion 1, Lawrie 30, Lind 1, Bautista 50. Romero 11, Morrow 3, And that's just the Jays!

Last year I won my ultra-competitive keeper league by a 1/2 point and things came down to the last Sunday night of the season (we stop baseball on Labor Day and have keeper football draft that day).

This year, I have a 25 point lead with 2 days to go. First time I ever won SB's in any league, and A. Rios/Segura combo have me 30+ in front of the pack in that regard. I got Segura in the equivalent of round 22 of a normal league.

My pitching will end up with the 2nd best WHIP/ERA in the history of our league... And finish 2nd in both categories to a team featuring Kershaw/FelixH/Harvey, that has possibly the worst hitting in the history of the league.