The Rattles Ring - Fantasy Baseball Minor League Report
by Captain D Bag on Apr 15, 2009 9:29 PM EDT
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PrintBudd By Proxy 7, For Scherzer 2
DbacksSkins 4, dance with girls 3
Snyders Nutty Budeez 6, Grace’sFlask IsEmpty 3
UofA Astronauts 3, Funny team name 5
The Wind Farm 6, Pelham Plumbers 3
NiceCrispyBacon 4, Arizona Monsoons 5
Merly Mammals 2, The Nashville Nasty 5
Byrnes When I Peavy 2, Team Awesome 6
Week 1 Results
Budd By Proxy 7, For Scherzer 2
A close match with several categories decided by just a few digits, Budd took of in Power (9 HR) and K’s (42) with Scherzer posting 4 quality wins in pitching.
DbacksSkins 4, dance with girls 3
With ties in HR, RBI and Wins, the speed for Skins (5 SB and 7 R from Chone Figgins) gave Skins the edge on Offense, and quality Performances by Qualls and Weaver kept the ERA low enough to pull out a win. A bullpen the Mets would envy (With K-Rod, Jenks and Seattle’s Morrow) posted 6 total saves.
Snyders Nutty Budeez 6, Grace’sFlask IsEmpty 3
The Budeez had an impressive pitching week with 6 wins (Halladay and Guthrie posting 2 each) along with a solid performance at the plate gave The Budeez a win. Hamilton and Doumit as well as a impressive contribution from all the offense shown some light for those with an empty drink.
UofA Astronauts 3, Funny team name 5
The Astronauts were flying high on R’s, RBI (57, including ten by Detroit’s Cabera) and K’s, but ties in HR (14 each) and W’s (2) created the perfect storm for a failure to launch. Funny team name blazed by with SB’s, a solid .310 team AVG, and a combined pitching staff line of 2 SV, 2.81 ERA and 1.06 WHIP.
The Wind Farm 6, Pelham Plumbers 3
One of the tightest matches of the week, Wind Farm was lights out in pitching to take 4 of 5 categories, including 2 saves by Fernando Rodney and 20 K’s by Johan Santana. Pelham had an impressive week from Hanley Ramirez (4 R’s, 2 HR, 9 RBI) and Aaron Hill (2 R’s, 2 HR, 8 RBI) to lead to wins in those categories.
NiceCrispyBacon 4, Arizona Monsoons 5
5 saves a piece leading to a unbelievable tie, The Monsoons stormed through on the back of Yankees RP, 1B, LF, CF, RF and Bat Boy Nick Swisher (7 Runs, 2 HR and 9 RBI) and a strong wing and 11K’s from Ryan Dempster. Rough opening week starts by Perez put The Baconator in the hole, but San Diego MVP Gonzalez and perennial All-Star McCann kept them alive in the triple crown categories.
Merly Mammals 2, The Nashville Nasty 5
Ties in Runs (37) SB (4) and W (3), The Nasty took the triple crown on the back of (sigh) Troy ‘Boy’ Tulowitzki and New York’s Delgado. Mammals 42 K’s topped out the match and some impressive Save efforts (3 total) were hurt by Grant Balfours 20.25 ERA.
Byrnes When I Peavy 2, Team Awesome 6
The Greatest team name EVA ran wild (3 SB from Elsbury and Winn each) but couldn’t overcome the offensive output (40 R, 13 HR and 43 RBI) of Albert Pujols, Garrett Atkins and Nelson Cruz. Heath Bell’s 3 Saves and 0 ERA helped anchor a win.
Rank Team W-L-T Pct GB 1. Budd By Proxy 7-2-1 .750 - 2. Team Awesome 6-2-2 .700 0.5 3. The Wind Farm 6-3-1 .650 1 4. Snyders Nutty Budeez 6-3-1 .650 1 5. The Nashville Nasty 5-2-3 .650 1 6. Funny team name 5-3-2 .600 1.5 7. Arizona Monsoons 5-4-1 .550 2 8. DbacksSkins 4-3-3 .550 2 9. dance with girls 3-4-3 .450 3 10. NiceCrispyBacon 4-5-1 .450 3 11. UofA Astronauts 3-5-2 .400 3.5 12. Grace'sFlask IsEmpty 3-6-1 .350 4 13. Pelham Plumbers 3-6-1 .350 4 14. Merely Mammals 2-5-3 .350 4 15. Byrnes When I Peavy 2-6-2 .300 4.5 16. For Scherzer 2-7-1 .250 5
This Week:
Budd By Proxy vs DbacksSkins
For Scherzer vs Team Awesome
Snyders Nutty Budeez vs dance with girls
UofA Astronauts vs Grace'sFlask IsEmpty
The Wind Farm vs Funny team name
NiceCrispyBacon vs Pelham Plumbers
Merely Mammals vs Arizona Monsoons
Byrnes When I Peavy vs The Nashville Nasty
Fox Saturday Baseball Game of The Week: The Wind Farm vs. Funny team name, two teams off to solid starts looking to establish themselves from the pack.
Sorry if it's a little ugly, i'm working on my formatiing and know I was behind this week.
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Tidied it up a bit. :-)
The league table is the trickiest bit, but you should be able to copy it wholesale off the Yahoo! page and then paste it into a story and it’ll keep the table. The only thing you may need to do beyond that is tidy up the HTML in the column headers, and maybe make the table border=3 cellpadding=3.
"Win, or die" -- Marquise de Merteuil
Wooh, game of the week!
It’s a big start for The Wind Farm- hope I don’t blow it. I mean, this game isn’t going to be a breeze..
"You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.
Go Budeez!
Majors here I come…!
"I'm very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany." - Ron Burgundy
"I'd rather hit than have sex."- Reggie Jackson
"Obviously your not a golfer." - The Dude
However,
I’m particularly annoyed to be a game behind soco’s team.
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by DbacksSkins on Apr 16, 2009 12:22 PM EDT up reply actions
Especially,
since soco set the record for quickest person to completely abandon his team (David Price has started both weeks).
In the future soco, if you want to make a joke on DbackSkins’ expense can you not do it in a league that other people were hoping to take seriously. Especially in a H2H format – a few delinquent owners can really tilt the results as the season goes on.
I'm glad
to see that there are actual people that get on this site a lot in the league. I thought that the majority of people are just lurkers that came out to get a team.
"I always think one step ahead, like a carpenter....the builds stairs"
No,
that the Major League. The Minor League is mostly regulars. ;-)
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I'm in a market for an outfielder,
potential trading chits include Kevin Kouzmanoff and Mike Jacobs. If anyone is interested, let me know.
wow
really?! I know that Kouz Kouz is my favorite 3B, besides, obviously The Mad Scientist, I don’t think i would do what.
"I always think one step ahead, like a carpenter....the builds stairs"
No.
No.
Spilborghs, I would (Damn you still for snatching him off the waivers before me! [Damn me even more for misspelling his name during the draft and thinking that he had already been drafted. {Damn you most Melky Cabrera for your all-around suckitude)]). But definitely not Byrnes, who aside from sucking would also require me to start hoping for Melvin’s continued lineup insanity.
Of course, I doubt you were being serious.
Aww, c'mon.
As the Snakepit’s favorite visitor from Purple Row, it’s only fair. ;-)
I wasn’t being serious. Unless you said yes, in which case I would have done it. (Side note: Coincidentally, I now have two OFs with their own TV shows.)
If you want a Rockie, I’ll trade you 3Bs straight up? Kouz for Ian Stewart?
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by DbacksSkins on Apr 16, 2009 10:27 PM EDT up reply actions
I want an outfielder,
I like Stewart a lot and have him in a different league, but it’s also an OPS league where I have a top three second-baseman (Uggla) that I can move should Stewart get a starting job. But in this league with no meaningful positional scarcity to speak of (aside from catcher), Stewart just ain’t worth the gamble.
Maybe if one of my middle infielders go down, but sure as hell not now.
Probably agree,
but Stewart also has the benefit of position flexibility, so he gets more playing time than most bench guys.
Plus, Clint Hurdle might possibly be the only manager more totally insane than BoMel.
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Agree,
except that in Hurdle’s case that insanity takes the form of “Clint Barmes, starting second baseman”, which isn’t exactly a point in Stewie’s favor.
His only real value comes when used as a second-baseman. As a third baseman his upside this season is pretty much Kouzmanoff with a handful more runs (thanks to a superior lineup).
His only real value comes when used as a second-baseman. As a third baseman his upside this season is pretty much Kouzmanoff with a handful more runs (thanks to a superior lineup).
Heh…. you could be talking about Bonifacio here, too.
By the way…. now that Bonny’s starting for the Fish, why the heck don’t they move Bonny to 2B and Uggla to 3B?? Or would that just make too much sense….
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Nah,
this is just the usual Bonifacio cycle. He’s with a team and for some reason teams just abandon the scouting report. Now they’re starting to realize that if you don’t throw Boni a strike he’ll still hack at everything at get himself out.
He’ll eventually settle in at around a .270 average with little patience and even less power. There are too many good hitters in that lineup to justify him hitting first. They’ll move him down to the seventh or eighth spot and the runs will come down as well as the stolen bases since teams don’t like running in front of the pitcher.
You really think
he hits as high as .270 this year?
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by DbacksSkins on Apr 17, 2009 10:03 PM EDT up reply actions
I
love kouz. don’t know why. perhaps that it’s the fact that the FIRST PITCH HE FACED IN MLB, HE HIT IT FOR A GRAND SLAM?! or as we know it….he swatted the salami…..
"I always think one step ahead, like a carpenter....the builds stairs"
Shhhh!
Don’t talk about swatting the salami. There might be children reading this blog.
Yeah… the NL West had A LOT of good rookies that year, didn’t it?? Kouz, Toolo, Ubaldo, CBY, Special K, Timcecum, Micah, etc.
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I thunked
kouz wasn’t a rookie last year. his debut was in sept of 2006. so he’d be a rookie in 07 i’m guessing. but yes Special K and Timcecum r gooder
"I always think one step ahead, like a carpenter....the builds stairs"
Not in this league
but still…. I hate when people don’t check their damn fantasy leagues, I have a trade proposed to a guy:
Kouzmanoff, Jay Bruce, Stephen Drew
for
Ellsbury, Headly, Tulowitzki
I know it’s a stretch, but having 3 young guys in there from my team, i’d think that he would consider it…… it’s a keeper league btw
"I always think one step ahead, like a carpenter....the builds stairs"
By those rules,
I may need to bench Oliver Perez before I get kicked out…
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So
are we only allowed to set our roster a week ahead of time? I haven’t played fantasy baseball in years, but I remember being able to set my roster the day before or every morning.
What? neh-are you se-no! No! I hh I I don't even't know what you're sayinhow whatdoyou whatdoyou talking about you want me to go away? I I I I can't no! I can't I can't just leave I - ...you can't leave me!
you normally can
but in this league once you set it for monday, it stays that way for the rest of the week. so you have to plan ahead and see the match-ups throughout the week if you’re planning on doing good. I don’t really like it, but them are the rules.
"Score some damn runs, or the baby pandas die"
we need
to start a petition, cause I have 2 minutes every night to change up my roster, all you really need to check is your rotation, and if you really want to, then take 10 min every night to see if people like Jason Werth are batting against lefties (he destroys them). I don’t know why they set it up like that. Next season we should have the majors and minors switch to daily line-ups
"Score some damn runs, or the baby pandas die"
Daily lineup switchers
In a weekly H2H league are terrible. Each week you should have to set your team and ride it out with them for good or bad. I wouldn’t play in a league that encourages players to sit their pitchers over the weekend to keep from losing a couple categories.
Also, anything that limits my need to continually stream pitchers is a plus in my book.
nah
I much rather prefer the other way, because I (apparently not reading the rules, thinking it’s just like any other league) drafted a bunch of SPs because it’s the only thing i really change day-to-day, so you get more K’s and IP, though in some cases your ERA and WHIP might be wack
"Score some damn runs, or the baby pandas die"
Ain't happening
Don’t have enough time to pour over lineups like that on a daily basis AND run the site. I barely manage to glance at my team weekly. It will be weekly lineups forever.
"Win, or die" -- Marquise de Merteuil
by Jim McLennan on Apr 25, 2009 6:38 PM EDT up reply actions
I wouldn't mind
setting pitching lineups for the week but setting batters at LEAST twice a week….
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