Fantasy
I think it's time I posted a little story about my fantasy baseball team. Starting out the season I had one of the most promising teams. A great draft left me in prime position to take the league by storm...unfortunately, injuries and poor play has left me in the pool basement. However, some shrewd moves have kept me in the race with 3/4 of the season left.
The disappointments on my team include Richie Sexson (waived), Todd Helton, Cliff Floyd
(waived), Lyle Overbay, Victor Martinez, Jorge Cantu (injury) and Eric Chavez. Now it's expected that some of these players aren't going to play up to their potential, but at the same time it's expected that someone will surprise. Out of my hitters, not one of them has done well. Sexson had 39 home runs last year with 130 RBIs, Floyd had 32 homers and 100 RBIS....Helton and Chavez were picked by many to have MVP type seasons, while Jorge Cantu is just getting off the DL...last year he he had over 30 homers and 117 RBIs. Nobody has done anything yet.
Luckily for me built my team around solid pitching which has been solid. After drafting Johan Santana, Jake Peavy, Roy Oswalt and Scott Kazmir, I only have Kazmir left on my roster.
Luckily I was able to trade the other 3 pitchers with catcher Victor Martinez for pitcher Jason Schmidt, Curt Schilling, Alex Rios, Vlad Guerrero and Jorge Posada.
Santana was straight up for Vlad.
The other deal was criticised by most people in my league for apparent unfairness. The most vociferous of the bunch was Jason Botelho (although later followed by other owners). The deal from my end was Peavy, Oswalt, Victor Martinez and David Weathers (who was waived) for Schilling, Schmidt, Rios and Posada.
I'm certainly glad I didn't listen to the critics. I won the deal hands down as of right now. My new pitchers - Schilling and Schmidt - have a collective 4 wins, 40 k's, a combined, 2.19 ERa and 0.95 WHIP. The pitchers I traded have a combined 1 win, 37 k's, a combined 3.93 ERA and a 1.16 WHIP.
One analyst had this to say about Schmidt - "Giants ace Jason Schmidt struggled out of the gate, allowing four or more earned runs in three of his first four starts. Since then, he's been unstoppable. He's allowed two or fewer earned runs in seven straight starts, reducing his ERA to 2.70 and picking up five wins over that period."
The catchers seem to be a wash with neither of them producing big numbers, however the deal's real steal (besides the great numbers of the pitchers) seems to be Alex Rios. He's currently ranked as the 16th best fantasy player out there and 3rd best outfielder.
Other shrewd pickups have included Brandon Phillips at 2nd base - currently the 5th ranked 2nd baseman, Orlando Cabrera - the 6th ranked shortstop and third baseman Casey Blake was is hitting .330 and was leading the league in hitting for some time.
I am slowly catching up on the hitting categories, which is a long term project, but with any luck, I'll get there.
posted by The Vitamin's Blog @ 7:37 a.m.
4 Comments:
are u kidding with this post??? best draft??? you named 8 guys that aren't performing from that draft...that isn't a promising draft, that is what they call a bad draft....and oh yeah...i think the one thing gord forgot to leave out from this post....HE IS IN DEAD LAST by a long, long shot!!!
He says he's still in it 3/4 of the way in??? i think when he fell on his shoulder and passed out from the pain...he lost part of his mind.
LAST PLACE PEOPLE...remember that!!
let's be clear here...cockandballs likes to talk about the truth and yet he leaves it out of his last statement.
yes, he did hit a homer off the great jimmy key...but jimmy was throwing lob balls for batting practice....however, immediately after that home fun, jimmy key said and i quote 'now i pitch you seriously, and we will have a real at bat....to which cock said yes. So cock and balls stepped it, kicked some dirt for his back foot, jimmy stared him down and said he knows cock likes the inside pitch...lets bust one in on the first pitch to his hands...sure enough...1 pitch, 1 pop up to first!!
that is jimmy 1...cock 0
ps....jimmy then went on to strike out the skip on rising fast ball on a 3-2 count that skip couldn't keep up with!
Well Jimmy did impress the Skip by mixing in some junk, he wanted to get the Skip to chase the high hard ones but the Skip wasn't gonna play his game. When the count was full, Jimmy put it all on the line and the Skip, like 'Mighty Casey' swung and missed. The Skip lost this round, but did he really? Or did he just get one of his boys to step up and prove his worth. Like a true Leader the Skip made sure he got the best out of his player and if it mean sacrificing some of his own pride he showed that he is willing to do it.
btw..Gord is 55 pts behind first place.
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