Its sad when two of my better pitchers (Hudson, Webb) are getting completely raped by the pitcher I added as a spot start (kenny rogers). In a 16 team competitive roto league I would've been +7 or 8 if not for my shitty pitching tonight.

6/17/2008 11:33:16 PM

Ahaha my team hit 8 homeruns in 2 days....Braun 2, Giambi 2, Hamilton 1, Beltran 2, Rollins 1

WTF happened to Webb? Glad I didn't trade Johan for him, and yes I was actually considering it.

6/18/2008 12:14:36 AM

2 HRs for me, Hamilton and A-Rod...my opponent had Braun (2)

6/18/2008 2:24:04 AM

gotta love the DBacks puttin in their closer Brandon Lyon tonight when they were down 10-1. Lyon gives up a bomb and leaves with a 54.00 ERA. That killed my team ERA...


What is the deal with Nady. Does he go to the DL? Does he go into a slump?

6/18/2008 2:36:10 AM

speaking of team ERA, i played Colon this week! luckily my opponent had Webb and Randy Wolf

6/18/2008 2:39:33 AM

Loving the Giambino right now

And I watched Morrow for first time last night...he is really good

On my TWW team, I have two closers with some of the best stuff in the league in Morrow and Soria, but they don't get many saves because they play for shit teams

Then on the other end of the spectrum I have Todd Jones, who I'd have a fucking heart attack every time he went into the game if I was a Tigers fan

6/18/2008 10:40:56 AM

^I got Morrow too. He's been lights out.

Quote :

"gotta love the DBacks puttin in their closer Brandon Lyon tonight when they were down 10-1. Lyon gives up a bomb and leaves with a 54.00 ERA. That killed my team ERA... "

same thing happened to me

Quote :

"2 HRs for me, Hamilton and A-Rod"

my opponent had hamilton and A-Rod



[Edited on June 18, 2008 at 11:22 AM. Reason : yo]

6/18/2008 11:21:33 AM

fatass Bartolo Colon is back on the 15-day DL...anybody watch his at-bats versus Hamels? Colon is out with a bad back that he pulled on some wild whiff swings of some Hamels' changeups...one of the swings actually made his batting helmet fall off

Eric Byrnes should be back early next week with fresh hamstrings

6/18/2008 11:25:59 AM

so who should I drop Bartolo for? a couple SPs available:

Jon Lester
Justin Masterson
Ricky Nolasco
Manny Parra
Jon Sanchez
Derek Lowe
Jamie Moyer
anybody?

6/18/2008 12:48:31 PM

Milton Bradley not in the starting lineup tonight...hope yall planned on that

6/18/2008 7:37:36 PM

i'd get lester, masterson, or moyer.

right now i have lester and moyer on my squad and they're both solid.

6/18/2008 7:54:46 PM

Sanchez is a pretty solid pitcher and has put 4 or 5 quality starts together and gets pretty good strikeout amounts too.

6/19/2008 12:55:58 AM

somebody just dropped Lohse?

6/19/2008 1:20:45 AM

fucking a, torn on this trade

I give up Josh Hamilton

I get in Johan Santana in return


this feels like it should be a no brainer, but Hamilton has been an absolute beast for me this year, plus he's from Raleigh so I have a vested interest on how well he's doing [no homo]

what do you think

6/19/2008 3:14:44 PM

Hamilton will play in ~5x more games than Johan

i mean going into the season you wouldve thought Johan > Hamilton as a no-brainer but I too have had The Natural for most of this season and I wouldn't really give him up for anybody (except A-Rod but I already have A-Rod)

6/19/2008 3:16:24 PM

yeah, thats exactly my frame of mind right now

just something about giving up a guy I picked in the 15th round for arguably the best pitcher in baseball has a nice ring to it

6/19/2008 3:19:41 PM

there's a reason why i traded him

6/19/2008 4:51:51 PM

...hope? guesses? predictions?

i take it you mean a reason why you traded Hamilton, or Johan?

6/19/2008 4:53:11 PM

he traded Johan to the guy whos trying to trade him to me

6/19/2008 4:57:05 PM

oh haha nice...i mean johan is awesome, and on top of that he's a left hander, and on top of that, he gets to pitch to an opposing pitcher a couple times per game...but he just isnt as good as he was a few years ago, and even though the mets had a great comeback against the California Angels last night (where K-Rod's streak of 25 CONSECUTIVE SAVE CONVERSIONS was snapped) i just dont have faith in the Mets...havent since the end of last year

6/19/2008 4:59:38 PM

Aaron Harang is removed from my team....I have had enough.

What a piss-poor outing from him today against the Dodgers.

But Joba had a great start, just wish the Yanks could score when he pitches just a little bit.

6/19/2008 5:10:20 PM

i traded him bc i watched him pitch a game where he looks to be laboring a little more with his hard breaking stuff and he's losing velocity (albeit 2-3mph)

the recipe for a arm injury

6/19/2008 6:14:04 PM

I'm getting a little fed up with Milton Bradley literally getting hurt every 2 days....I think I am going to unload him for maybe Vlad or someone close while Bradley has good value.

6/19/2008 6:56:20 PM

God, you know the Blue Jays are close to the bottom when Prince fucking Fielder gets an INSIDE THE PARK HOMERUN, he had to pause at second to get his breath

6/19/2008 7:17:11 PM

ahahahaha thats true



btw i finally took the ichiro trade. i had been debating it for a while, but with the dude willing to let me sub in cj wilson i was happy.

so i get ichiro (please start hitting) and jared weaver ugh

for quentin, cj wilson and casilla


if ichiro doesnt start hitting i'll be fucked, as im already short on power

[Edited on June 19, 2008 at 7:48 PM. Reason : .]

6/19/2008 7:40:06 PM

it's about time Dye

6/20/2008 8:54:38 AM

Quote :

"I'm getting a little fed up with Milton Bradley literally getting hurt every 2 days"

hasnt he only missed ~4 games this year? granted 2 of them were the last 2 days

6/20/2008 9:55:54 AM

Yeah but he has came out early of numerous games and I know an injury and a trip to the DL are coming soon....it is predestined with him.

6/20/2008 11:12:56 AM

based on past years i agree but im still optimistic about him this year...although the confrontation and emotional breakdown regarding the Royals announcer didnt surprise me one bit

still though, he leads the league in OBP and all his AVG, RBI, HR and R are very solid...i think he might miss this weekend's series with the Nats since its at Washington and hence no DH spot

6/20/2008 11:22:57 AM

Quote :

"i traded him bc i watched him pitch a game where he looks to be laboring a little more with his hard breaking stuff and he's losing velocity (albeit 2-3mph) the recipe for a arm injury"

He's fine. He is a notrious slow starter. His career ERA coming into this year in April/May was over 4.00... his velocity always starts off slow. I can see where the concern lies, but as someone who has seen his every start, his breaking stuff is still sharp and the velocity has touched 94-95 when needed...

6/20/2008 12:55:02 PM

well...he got off to slow starts in 04 and 06 and then balled out by the end of the year...in 05 and 07 he was a lot more consistent throughout the season...my main hesitation with Johan is watching a guy who never lost more than 6 or 7 games in a season lose 13 games last year while allowing career highs in homeruns against and batting average against...granted your W-L record is greatly dictated by your run support and defense, but he just doesn't seem as dominant as he was a few years ago

he's still a baller but i think by the end of the year a couple NL pitchers with better numbers will be Webb, Peavy, and my main man Edinson Volquez...although Peavy is also not nearly as dominant this season as he has been in the past, and Webb has been sucking it up his last half a dozen or so starts

6/20/2008 1:17:36 PM

Santana has been everything I expected to this point. His ERA is just a tick above 3.00 and he's already thrown 100 innings.

He has given up 1 or fewer ER in 5 starts. He is 1-2 with 2 no decision in those starts. That is why you can't look at W/L. He started off giving up too many HRs (though all but 1 or 2 were bases empty) but he's only given up 1 in his last 5 starts.

I don't particularly like the "quality start" stat but it's 6 or more IP and 3 or less ER. Santana has done that in 12 of his 15 starts and in none of those starts has he given up more than 4 ER.

Further, before his hiccup in L.A. (and there was A LOT going on that night/day with the team) he had given up 2 ER in his last 3 starts combined.

He's getting stronger and I expect his ERA to finish in the mid 2.00's...

6/20/2008 1:31:55 PM

i still like him and wish him the best and like i said W-L can be misleading, but look at his first few years as a Twins starter compared to last year...the W-L difference is staggering...also since we're talking fantasy baseball, a pitcher who goes 17-6 is a lot more valuable than one who goes 14-12 with all the same other stats...but maybe getting rid of Randolph will inject this team with some new life, seems to be working so far

6/20/2008 1:35:39 PM

Anybody got any recent news on Chris Young (Padres)? He's been out since Pujols drilled his face and broke his nose with a line drive

6/20/2008 5:11:54 PM

I was wondering that myself the other day......latest news I could find was from about a week ago where he had just started playing catch so he's at least after the allstar break away if not more. I'm hanging on to him too but might decide to drop him if someone comes along that can help me right now.

6/20/2008 6:39:02 PM

if chase headley is avaliable, id pick him up, got him before his first start and hes out to a near jay bruce type start, not quite, but 2 bombs in first 3 games

6/21/2008 9:26:10 AM

^^he's having nose surgery on June 30th, but apparently he's going to pitch some simulated sessions BEFORE the surgery to reduce the amount of warmup / rehab starts after surgery...said he'd probably be back in the rotation around the All Star Break

6/21/2008 4:47:33 PM

my DL troubles continue

Soriano
Putz
Victor Martinez
Bedard out with back spasms

and Marcum goes on the DL today

I have not been 100% healthy at anytime this year. I had Victor Martinez go down the 2nd game of the season and it went downhill from there.

At one point early in the season I had 5 people on the DL.

Somehow I am still in 2nd place (soon to be 4th places after a terrible week).

6/22/2008 12:05:13 AM

Bronson Arroyo effectively killed peoples pitching ratios for the week

10 earned runs in 1 inning

thats a cool 90 ERA

guy in our tww league already dropped him lol

6/25/2008 1:46:08 AM

my entire team has been ice cold for the last three weeks

when I say ice cold, I mean that the .268 my team hit last night was the best hitting night in weeks

to bad my opponent hit ~.530 last night

6/25/2008 7:41:28 AM

^^yeah, I'm glad I was part of his record breaking performance

I was on the verge of dropping him last week, but figured I'd give him one more start

SMART MOVE

6/25/2008 9:45:00 AM

when i turned on the Reds game yesterday and it was the 2nd inning and it was a blowout, I figured it was either Homer Bailey or Bronson Arroyo pitching since they are both jokes

6/25/2008 10:02:01 AM

im having trouble on the corners. right now i have aubrey huff playing 1st (eligible at 1B/3B) and eric chavez playing 3rd (i'm an A's homer). 8man league.

FA's:
Cantu (1B/3B)
Crede (3B)
Lowell (3B)
Gordon (1B/3B)
Blake (1B/3B/OF)
Longoria (3B)
Glaus (3B)
Encarnacion (3B)
Iwamura (2B/3B)
Keppinger (SS/3B)
others...

thoughts? drop both huff and chavez for a couple others? hold on to huff while he plays in wrigley all weekend?

[Edited on June 25, 2008 at 11:28 AM. Reason : keppingers back?]

6/25/2008 11:26:53 AM

I like Cantu

.284, 14 HRs

6/25/2008 11:29:55 AM

I have Lowell as my 3B and he's been pretty consistent all season

I dont know what it is about that guy, but he is usually good for an RBI or two every game

6/25/2008 11:30:46 AM

JJ Hardy, Chipper Jones and Yunel Escobar out of the starting lineups today in the afternoon ATL MIL game

whoops i guess i'm a few minutes late since the game already started

[Edited on June 25, 2008 at 1:11 PM. Reason : .]

6/25/2008 1:11:32 PM

what do ya'll think about jerry hairston jr? he's back off the DL and was putting up good numbers before he went down. he is also eligible at just about every position.

6/26/2008 11:42:56 AM

Got offered Miguel Cabrera and Vlad for Giambi and Braun.....not sure I want this....I am countering with Giambi and Carlos Lee.

6/26/2008 7:49:03 PM

Hamilton back in the lineup tonight but got hit on the hand in the 1st... Day-to-day again


Russell Martin got his 5th start at 3B tonight which should make him eligible in most leagues at 3rd.

6/26/2008 11:27:56 PM

^^Anyone???

Vlad/Giambi are playing DH and Braun/Cabrera are playing 3rd for each of us....

6/30/2008 1:32:23 AM