Players of the Week for week 7

Hitting:

Jason Bay, Jim's Beaners

7 runs, 4 hr, 12 rbi, .357 ave, 1.24 ops


Pitching:

It's a tie:

Carlos Zambrano, Jason's Poppers
2 wins, 2.40 era, 0.867 whip, 15 ip, 12 k-bb

Jamey Wright, Matt's Utility Men
2 wins, 15 ip, 2.40 era, 1.067 whip, 6 k-bb


Worthless of the Week:

Edwin Encarnacion, Todd's Heaters
0.174 AVE, 1 RBI, 3 Runs, 23 AB's

David Bush, Utility Men
2L, 10 IP, 9.9 ERA

AND...

Dan's entire team for getting the first huge loss to the average team!

White Sox and Cubs brawl

Here it it is. The Basebrawl in South Chicago...

Bonds 714...

POTW Week 6

OK, so this is based off of the nominations only:

Hitter:

Jason's Poppers
Nomar Garciaparra, LAD
.464 ave, 1.46 ops, 3 hr, 9 rbi, 7 runs


Pitcher:

Dan's Pickle Weasels
Tony Armas Jr, WAS
13 ip, 0.69 era, 2 wins, 0.615 whip, 7 k-bb


Jim wins the Worthless of the Week award (in his own words):

WOW - Worthless of the Week: J. J. Hardy: 0 for 11 with a walk. .000
AVG, .083 OPS

WOW2: Scott Mitre --- threw 3 pitches, got pulled and went on the DL

WOW3: Woody Williams --- pitched 1 inning then ripped his calf running the bases

Best baseball blog

This blog gets a vote for the best baseball blog I have seen, it is updated every day, and the guy who does it must spend lots of time researching and digging up stats.

http://plunkbiggio.blogspot.com/

An interview with Fantasyland author Sam Walker

This is a great article / chat with the author of Fantasyland. It's a good read and makes me want to read the book now!

Fantasy Baseball - RotoTimes.com

Nate Ravitz: One of the things I found really interesting about the book was the lengths you were willing to go to try to win, and one of them was obviously your front office. But one tactic you employed at the draft is something I’ve dubbed the “cleavage gambit,” so maybe you can tell our readers about that.

Sam Walker: Well, Christine Price is a friend of mine, and she’s a yoga instructor and a model and actress. Part of our draft strategy was to load up on top pitchers, and we wanted to accomplish it early before anyone figured out what we were doing. So we tried to figure out a way to distract the other touts during the draft and came up with Christine. So I brought her in as a videographer, and she wore tight jeans and a low-cut shirt. It basically worked well, as everyone’s attitude and demeanor changed as they knew that every move they made might be judged by this beautiful woman in a roomful of fantasy experts.

Nate Ravitz: There are a lot of funny quotes in the book about how the other touts reacted to Christine. But draft day wasn’t the only time you went above and beyond normal fantasy effort. You also spent some time trying to coach up your own players. Did it work?

Sam Walker: Well, of course, none of the players were taking much of what I said to heart. But I did catch Jacque Jones and Josh Phelps sort of talking to themselves about some of the problems they were having on the field. But I did try to keep their spirits up in a number of ways, whether it was handing out team jerseys or buying Bill Mueller a six pack of Schaffer, which was his favorite college beer.

But I did feel that I had a little bit of an effect on some of the managers. I remember talking to Tigers pitching coach Bob Cluck about Jason Johnson, who always seemed to fade in August and September. I had some stats about Johnson’s pitch counts, which had been excessively high the year before. And Cluck took me in to show it to Alan Trammell, and they basically told me that they weren’t going to let Johnson throw more than about 105 pitches anymore, or at least not two starts in a row.

Freakin' hilarious. Now I know what the Jack and Mike in Brazil were all about. Damn distractions!

Pitcher of the week, week 4

I'm going to go out on a limb and say Bronson Arroyo is the winner of the Pitcher of the week for week 4.

Bronson Arroyo, 2 wins, 17 ip, .5 era, 12 so, .58 whip

If anyone elses pitcher did better speak up or forever hold your peace.

Player of the Week (POW): Week 4

I was attempting to do the Player of the Week awards for this past week but i cant figure out how to view last weeks stats. I was slammed with studying yesterday for a midterm that I had and I was planning on doing them today (Wednesday) but our TQstats isnt very user friendly and wont allow me to view last weeks stats anymore.

Sorry for slacking off! if anyone has any nominees please nominate them. If I cant figure them out, I wont be doing them this week.

Kelley

John Hunt baseball blog

Ol’ John Hunt is an Oregonian writer these days but still talks about baseball. He’s got a blog here:

John Hunt Blog

For those who don't remember USA Today's Baseball Weekly, John was a Fantasy baseball god about 6-8 years ago. His blog is pretty interesting so far.