Team MVP's - 1st Half

I decided to put together a list of who I thought was each teams MVP for the first half of this season. I am hoping that Jason can put together a Poll so that we can vote on it this week. There is a new feature that allows you to post polls to our blog but Jason has to add it. So get out and vote as soon as the polls open. Enjoy!

Hanley Ramirez - Poppers
14 Hrs, 35 Rbi's, 70 R's, 27 Sb's, .3314 Avg, and .926 Ops

Adrian Gonzalez - Diggleturb
14 Hr's, 52 Rbi's, 47 R's, .2639 Avg, and .809 Ops

Ryan Howard - Pickle Weasels
21 Hr's, 67 Rbi's, 39 R's, .2559 Avg, and .933 Ops

Brad Penny - Full Flannull
10-1, 116.2 Ip, 18 Gs, 2.391 Era, 1.191 Whip, and 48 K-Bb's

Ken Griffey Jr - Heaters
23 Hr's, 59 Rbi's, 49 R's, 3 Sb's, .2857 Avg, and .958 Ops

Brandon Phillips - Beaners
17 Hr's, 47 Rbi's, 60 R's, 16 Sb's, .2784 Avg, and .811 Ops

Jake Peavy - FKAky
9-3, 119 Ip, 18 Gs, 2.193 Era, 1.059 Whip, and 91 K-Bb's

Prince Fielder - Matt Utility Men
29 Hr's, 70 Rbi's, 62 R's, .284 Avg, and .996 Ops

Carlos Lee - Box Chowers
16 Hr's, 73 Rbi's, 48 R's, 6 Sb's, .2965 Avg, and .869 Ops

Russell Martin - Slumpbusters
11 Hr's, 60 Rbi's, 51 R's, 16 Sb's, .3062 Avg, and .865 Ops

POW Pitching: Week 14!

Congratulations goes out to Dustin for having a Baby Girl on Monday evening. Here name is Barretha Larkin Sculatti....ok her real name is Josephine June Sculatti but I wanted everyone to know how much Dustin loves Barry Larkin. Congrats!

This weeks Player of the Week for pitching is....Wandy Rodriquez.

Wandy Rodriquez - Box Chowers
1 Gs, 1 W, 9 Ip, 0 Er, 7 K-bb's, 0.00 Era, and .556 Whip

Noteworthy:
Ted Lilly - Heaters
1 Gs, 1 W, 7.1 Ip, 1 Er, 5 K-bb's, 1.227 Era, and 1.227 Whip

Chris Young - Utility Men
1 Gs, 1 Nd, 7 Ip, 0 Er, 9 K-bb's, 0.00 Era, and .714 Whip

Cole Hamels - Beavers
1 Gs, 1 W, 7 Ip, 1 Er, 8 K-bb's, 1.286 Era, 1.143 Whip

POW Hitting: Week 14!

This weeks POW for hitting goes to Hanley Ramirez of the Poppers. The guy went off this week, check his stats!

Hanley Ramirez - Poppers
3 Hr's, 6 Rbi's, 5 R's, 2 Sb's, .5238 Avg, and 1.660 Ops
DAMN!!! That isn't a typo in regards to his average and ops

Noteworthy:
Ryan Howard - Pickle Weasels
2 Hr's, 10 Rbi's, 2 R's, .280 Avg, and .829 Ops
Only bright spot on the PWs team this week, it had to be noted.

Adam LaRoche - Diggleturb
3 Hr's, 6 Rbi's, 7 R's, .3684 Avg, and 1.402 Ops
10 Hr's, 44 Rbi's, and 31 R since joining Team Diggleturb. One Dustin made the trade for LaRoche and Hart, people thought that he got the raw end of the deal. Guess who's laughing now!

Andruw Jones - Box Chowers
2 Hr's, 7 Rbi's, 8 R's, 2 Sb's, .381 Avg, and 1.291 Ops
Don't call me Andrew!

Garrett Atkins - Slumpbusters
2 Hr's, 8 Rbi's, 5 R's, .4091 Avg, and 1.213 Ops
He is staying hot...I still think Colorado is going to trade him by the end of this month.

Ryan Braun - FKAky
4 Hr's, 7 Rbi's, 6 R's, 1 Sb, .400 Avg, and 1.364 Ops
I was hoping he would win it this week but until I say Hanley's stats...well, I have to be bias.

WOW: Week 14!

Wow of the week for week 14. There were some pathetic stats put up by some teams this week and they are noted below. This weeks WOW goes to someone who got demoted to AAA this past week. Hopefully this will give him some time to fine tune his skills. This weeks loser is Carlos Quentin of the Slumpbusters.

Carlos Quentin - Slumpbusters
0 for 4, got demoted to AAA

Noteworthy:

Team Heaters
.230 Avg, .676 Ops, 4 Hr's
See below.

Team Diggleturb
.2389 Avg, .681 Ops, 5 Hr's
Dustin beat Todd with these stats but they ended up with a tie for the week.

Team Pickle Weasels
8.126 Era, 2.010 Whip
I had to laugh when I read this line. The Pickle Weasels got man handled this past week.

Rickie Weeks - Pickle Weasels
1 for 17, 6 K's, .0588 Avg, and .170 Ops

Jose Valentin - FKAky
2 for 18, 2 R's, 3 K's, .111 Avg, and .367 Ops

Justin Germano - Slumpbusters
1 Gs, 4 Ip, 1 L, 7 Er, 10 Hits, 15.75 Era, 3.00 Whip

POW half way mark?

Are people interested in seeing a POW for the first half of the season? If so, I will try to put something out after I get the POW for week 14 done. I should be able to get something out before Friday. School is keeping me busy with two midterms and a final in the span of 24 hours.

Week 14 Results

Oops. Got this one up late.

Team of the week was a tie between Andy's Full Flanull.


10.5 Andy's Full Flanull
1.5 Dan's Pickle Weasels


6.0 Todd's Heaters
6.0 Dustin's Diggleturb


3.0 Brian's Box Chowers
9.0 Prothero's Poppers


4.5 Calvin's Slumpbusters
7.5 Kelley's FKAKY


5.0 Matt's Utility Men
7.0 Jim's Beaners

POW Hitting: Week 13

If you haven't seen the movie Transformers yet...stop whatever you are doing and go see it immediately. It's FREAKING AWESOME!

Here are the nominees for Week 13's POW:

Carlos Beltran - FKAky
4 Hr's, 7 Rbi's, 5 R's, 3 Sb's, .2593 Avg, and 1.051 Ops
Low average hurts his chances this week.

Ryan Braun - FKAky
2 Hr's, 6 Rbi's, 6 R's, 2 Sb's. .3929 Avg, and 1.183 Ops
This guy is the future of MLB!

Chase Utley - Utility Men
3 Hr's, 8 Rbi's, 7 R's, 2 Sb's, .3448 Avg, and 1.187 Ops
Great all around performance by Utley this week.

Garrett Atkins - Slumpbusters
3 Hr's, 7 Rbi's, 6 R's, .2593 Avg, and 0.930 Ops
He is finally starting to heat up.

Carlos Lee - Box Chowers
3 Hr's, 10 Rbi's, 4 R's, 1 Sb, .3462 Avg, and 1.155 Ops

There were lots of great stats this week but a lot of them that weren't named had just ok stats, that is why they were left out. Plus I was crunched for time.

This weeks winner goes to Lance Berkman. The guy had an incredible week. Here are his stats.

Lance Berkman - Box Chowers
4 Hr's 10 Rbi's, 9 R's, .3214 Avg, and 1.317 Ops

POW Pitching: Week 13

This weeks winners of the Player of the Week award goes to Trevor Hoffman and Tim Lincecum.

Tim Lincecum - Slumpbusters
1 Gs, 7 Ip, 1 W, 0.00 Era, and .429 Whip, 12 K-Bb's

Trevor Hoffman - Utility Men
5 G, 5 Sv's, 1.80 Era, and .600 Whip

Noteworthy:
David Wells - Slumpbusters
2 Gs, 12.2 Ip, 1 W, .711 Era, and 1.342 Whip

John Maine - Utility Men
1 Gs, 8 Ip, 1 W, 1.125 Era, .500 Whip, and 8 K-Bb's

Tim Hudson - Pickle Weasels
1 Gs, 7 Ip, 1 W, 1.286 Era, and 1.143 Whip

Greg Maddux - Pickle Weasels
1 Gs, 7 Ip, 1 W, 1.286 Era, and .857 Whip

Jeff Francis - Beaners
1 Gs, 7 Ip, 1 W, 0.00 Era, and 1.00 Whip

Carlos Marmol - FKAky
4 G, 4.2 Ip, and 9 K-Bb.

WOW: Week 13!

I thought that I would do something different this week. I usually do the WOW last and it always shows up on the top of the blog page. So this week I am doing it last so that it doesn't over shadow the POW's.

This weeks nominee's (according to Andy) Everyone besides me!!!

But in reality here are the nominee's and the loser are Brain Fuentes and Adrian Gonzalez. Fuentes gets the award for temporarily losing his closing role. Here are there stats for this past week. Adrian gets the award for being in a horrible slump.

Brian Fuentes - Heaters
3 G's, 2 L's, 0 Sv, 2.1 Ip, 8 Er's, 30.848 Era, and 3.856 Whip
It seems like if you are a closer on Todd's team that you are destined to lose your closing position sometime during the season. (He got rid of Dan Wheeler at the right time, Thanks Todd!)

Adrian Gonzalez - Diggleturb
1 for 23, 1 Rbi, 7 K's, .0435 Avg, and .241 Ops
He has been in 4 for 47 slump of lately. Ouch!

Noteworthy Losers:
Armando Benitez - Pickle Weasels
4 G's, 2.1 Ip, 1 L, 7 R's, 6 Er's, 23.146 Era, and 4.286 Whip
Different setting and still sucking!

Taylor Tankersley - Pickle Weasels
2 G's, 1 Ip, 4 Er's, 36.00 Era, and 5.oo Whip
What is in the drinking water in Florida?

Rickie Weeks - Pickle Weasels
1 for 15, 1 Rbi, 1 Sb, .0667 Avg, and .367 Ops.
No comment here.

Homer Bailey - Diggleturb
2 Gs, 2 L's, 13 Er's, -5 K-bb's, 21.935 Era, 3.937 Whip
Looks like he might need to head back to AAA for some more seasoning

Sean Marshall - Slumpbusters
1 Gs, 1 L, 7 Er's, 27.00 Era, and 4.50 Whip

Baseball Video Games?

I was just curious if anyone has played any of baseball game titles that are out this year?

I have been playing MLB 2k7 for the PS3 and it is awesome. I havent had a chance to play MLB The Show 07 yet so I wanted to see if anyone else has. If so, is it worth buying or renting?

I am hoping that some day that they will incorporate fantasy baseball into one of the games. I think this would be a great feature. How cool would it be to track your fantasy team through your video game, like player updates and game lines??

Week 13 Results

Andy beat Jason to move into a tie for first. Jim lost so he stays in second. Dan won so he moves into a tie for second.

Team of the week: Brian's Box Chowers. 19 HRs, 53 RBI. Good all around. Close second was Kelley.


9.0 Andy's Full Flanull
3.0 Prothero's Poppers


4.5 Todd's Heaters
7.5 Dan's Pickle Weasels


5.0 Jim's Beaners
7.0 Dustin's Diggleturb


4.5 Calvin's Slumpbusters
7.5 Brian's Box Chowers


3.5 Matt's Utility Men
8.5 Kelley's FKAKY

Week 12 Results

Team of the week: Kelley's FKAKY. 15 HR, 51 RBI, 48 Runs, 1.048 OPS, .351 AVE, 9 SB. That is a great hitting week.


6.5 Andy
5.5 Dustin

4.0 Matt
8.0 Todd

8.5 Dan
3.5 Jason

8.0 Calvin
4.0 Jim

3.0 Brian
9.0 Kelley

WOW: Week 12!

This weeks loser goes to Dontrelle Willis (Aka Dtrain). It looks like he derailed this week.

Dontrelle Willis - Box Chowers
1 Gs, 1 Ip, 4 Er, 36.00 Era, 6.00 Whip

Noteworthy:
Hong-Chih Kuo - Poppers
2 Gs, 2 L's, 14.14 Era, 1.857 Whip
No relation to Calvin.

Paul LoDuca - Full Flannul
2 for 22, 3 R's, 1 Rbi, .091 Avg, and .223 Ops

Adam LaRoche - Diggleturb
2 for 23, 1 R, 2 Rbi's, .087 Avg, and .309 Ops

Josh Johnson - FKAky
1 Gs, 3 Ip, 7 Er, 21.00 Era, 3.667 Whip

Team FKAky Pitching Staff
6.655 Era, 1.732 Whip, 2 W's, 5 L's, 47.1 Ip

POW Pitching: Week 12

This weeks winner of the POW Pitching award goes to Carlos Zambrano. The guy has been lights out of lately. He needs to throw down more often.

Carlos Zambrano - Poppers
1 Gs, 1 W, 8 Ip, 11 K-Bb's (12 K's), 1.125 Era, .500 Whip
And I almost traded Zito for Zambrano during OSU's Super Regional. Why did I hesitate??

Noteworthy:
Brad Penny - Full Flanull
2 Gs, 2 W's, 15 Ip, 6 K-Bb's (9 K's), 1.200 Era, .867 Whip
Great performance this week by Penny. He need a few more K's to win it.

Tom Glavine - Full Flanull
1 Gs, 1 W, 8 Ip, 3 K-Bb's (5 K's), 1.125 Era, 1.00 Whip
You gotta love Tom Glavine!

Aaron Harang - Diggleturb
1 Gs, 1 W, 8 Ip, 5 K-Bb's (7 K's), 0.00 Era, .500 Whip
He lost out because he didn't strike out enough guys.

Ben Sheets - Diggleturb
2 Gs, 2 W's, 15 Ip, 5 K-Bb's (9 K's), 1.80 Era, 1.00 Whip
His low K to BB ratio hurt Ben this week.

Yovanni Gallard - FKAky
1 Gs, 1 Nd, 7 Ip, 6 K-Bb's (8 K's), 1.286 Era, 1.00 Whip
2nd career start. To bad he might be headed to the bullpen shortly.

POW Hitting: Week 12

Welcome to the latest installment of Player of the Week (POW) award. There was plenty of production this week which is always fun to see. I had to have some limitations this week or the list could have easily topped out at 20 guys. So I tried to keep it to guys that had over 2 homeruns and batted over .350 for the week. The only exception was for Ryan Braun who had only 1 homerun but stole 3 bases and hit an amazing .419 for the week. If he would had shown more power he would have been a shoe in but he loses out to fellow team Hunter Pence for Player of the Week award.

Hunter Pence - FKAky
3 Hr's, 7 Rbi's, 8 R's, 1 Sb, .462 Avg, and 1.44 Ops
His extremely high average and Ops won it this week for Hunter. It also helped out that he nailed three homeruns.

Noteworthy:
Corey Hart - Diggleturb
2 Hr's, 7 Rbi's, 11 R's, 3 Sb's, .407 Avg, and 1.096 Ops
Corey had 2/3rds of his teams homeruns (3 total). He was a close second with Braun. His runs and SB numbers were great for this week.

Ryan Braun - FKAky
1 Hr, 8 Rbi's, 6 R's, 3 Sb's, .455 Avg, and 1.32 Ops
Low homerun total hurt Ryan this week but his other stats were amazing.

Alfonso Soriano - FKAky
4 Hr's, 7 Rbi's, 6 R's, 1 Sb, .419 Avg, and 1.36 Ops
Third FKAky player listed.

Josh Hamilton - Box Chowers
2 Hr's, 4 Rbi's, 5 R's, .400 Avg, and 1.33 Ops
Crack kills!

Troy Tulowitzki - Pickle Weasels
4 Hr's, 7 Rbi's, 7 R's, 1 Sb, .360 Avg, and 1.37 Ops
Tulo could have won it with a few extra base hits this week.

Chris Duncan - Heaters
2 Hr's, 7 Rbi's, 2 R's, .444 Avg, and 1.399 Ops
I want Duncan back!

Eric Byrnes - Heaters
2 Hr's, 7 Rbi's, 6 R's, 1 Sb, .379 Avg, and 1.034 Ops
Better numbers than Pujols this week...Todd is starting to look like a roto genius!

Luis Gonzalez - Beaners
2 Hr's, 9 Rbi's, 7 R's, .391 Avg, and 1.266 Ops
Not bad for being 42 years old!

RIP!

If you watched the Beavers defeat the North Carolina last night, you are aware that Rod Beck passed away. No information has been given so it makes you think for the worse. Either way, the man will be missed.

WOW: Week 11!

This week's worthless of the week goes to a whole team. This week's loser is the Pitching staff of the Pickle Weasels.

Team Pickle Weasels - Pitching
37.2 Ip, 0 W's, 5 L's, 7.646 Era, and 1.832 Whip

Noteworthy:
Team FKAky - Pitching
40.2 Ip, 2 W's, 4 L's, 6.418 Era, and 1.402 Whip

Matt Morris - Poppers
1 Gs, 1 L, 4 Ip's, 8 Er's, 18.00 Era, 2.750 Whip

Dan Wheeler - FKAky
3 Gs, 2 Ip, 4 Er, 18.00 Era, 2.50 Whip, 1 L

Tim Lincecum - Slumpbusters
1 Gs, 1 L, 3.2 Ip's, 7 Er's, 17.18 Era, 3.00 Whip

POW Pitching: Week 11

This weeks winner of the POW for pitching was coming off a horrible start the week before, and was a noteworthy for worthless of the week (Week 10). This week's winner goes to Tim Hudson.

Tim Hudson - Pickle Weasels
1 Gs, 7.1 Ip, 0.00 Era, .409 Whip, 1 K-Bb
Nice rebound after that horrible week last week.

Noteworthy:
Ian Snell - Heaters
1 Gs, 1 W, 9 Ip, 0.00 Era, 1.00 Whip, 5 K-Bb's
SNELL!!

Carlos Zambrano - Poppers
1 Gs, 1 L, 9 Ip, 1.00 Era, .778 Whip, 1 K-Bb
Lost out on the no hitter and then ended up losing the game.

Jake Peavy - FKAky
1 Gs, 1 W, 7 Ip, 0.00 Era, .714 Whip, 5 K-Bb's
Another solid performance from Peavy.

Derek Lowe - Full Flanull
1 Gs, 1 W, 7 Ip, 1.28 Era, .714 Whip, 10 K-Bb's (11 K's)

POW Hitting: Week 11

There were some great performances this past week. This weeks winner goes to Corey Hart. The 2 stolen bases clinched it for Corey this week.

Corey Hart - Diggleturb
4 Hr's, 9 Rbi's, 5 R's, 2 Sb's, .322 Avg, and 1.124 Ops

Noteworthy:
Ryan Zimmerman - Pickle Weasels
3 Hr's, 7 Rbi's, 6 R's, .333 Avg, and 1.108 Ops

Adrian Gonzalez - Diggleturb
2 Hr's, 8 Rbi's, 6 R's, .363 Avg, and 1.436 Ops

Ken Griffey Jr - Heaters
3 Hr's, 7 Rbi's, 7 R's, .307 Avg, and 1.041 Ops

Chris Duncan - Heaters
2 Hr's, 9 Rbi's, 3 R's, .285 Avg, and 1.161 Ops

Brad Hawpe - Poppers
4 Hr's, 9 Rbi's, 6 R's, .304 Avg, 1.203 Ops

Matt Holiday - Poppers
2 Hr's, 7 Rbi's, 9 R's, .480 Avg, and 1.416 Ops

Garrett Atkins - Slumpbusters
3 Hr's, 10 Rbi's, 3 R's, .318 Avg, and 1.218 Ops

Adam Dunn - Full Flanull
4 Hr's, 8 Rbi's, 6 R's, .428 Avg, and 1.360 Ops

WOW: Week 10!

This weeks award is also a two player loser. The first goes to Freddy Garcia and his pathetic start and the other goes to Jason Bay for his lack luster performance. If it wasn't for the homerun that Bay got, he would have been the most worthless.

Freddy Garcia - Utility Men
1 G, 1.2 Ip, 1 L, 6 Er, 32.39 Era, 5.399 Whip

Jason Bay - Slumpbusters
1 for 19, .052 Avg, and .451 Ops, 1 Hr, 2 Rbi's, and 2 R's

Noteworthy:
Tim Hudson - Pickle Weasels
1 Gs, 2 Ip, 5 Er, 22.50 Era, 3.50 Whip, -1 K-Bb

Jon Rauch - Poppers
2 G, 1.1 Ip, 20.25 Era, and 2.251 Whip

Chris Duncan - Heaters
2 for 22, .090 Avg, .364 Ops, 1 Hr, 1 Rbi, 1 R

Jonathan, Broxton - Full Flanull
3 G, 1.2 Ip, 21.60 Era, 4.202 Whip, 1 L

Mark Reynolds - FKAky
2 for 20, .100 Avg, .293 Ops

Joe Smith - FKAky
3 G, 2.2 Ip, 13.49 Era, 4.499 Whip

POW Pitching: Week 10

The pitching for week 10 wasn't that great for POW nominees. There was a tie for POW for hitting this week. The first goes to Jorge Sosa for shutting down on of the best offensive teams in the league, the Detriot Tigers. The second award goes to Antonio Alfonseca for stepping it up as the Phillies current closer. Nice pick up Calvin.

Jorge Sosa - FKAky
1 Gs, 1 W, 8 Ip, 0.00 Era, .750 Whip, 3 K-Bb's

Antonio Alfonseca - Slumpbusters
4 G, 4 S, 4 Ip, 0.00 Era, .750 Whip, 1 K-Bb

Noteworthy:
Derek Lowe - Full Flanull
1 Gs, 1 L, 9 Ip, 1.00 Era, .444 Whip, 3 K-Bb's.

Kyle Lohse - Box Chowers
1 Gs, 1 W, 8.1 Ip, 1.08 Era, .960 Whip, 1 K-Bb

POW Hitting: Week 10

Sorry for the lateness for Players of the Week awards. And the winner is Albert Pujols. Congratulations and what a nice farewell present to the Heaters than giving them a POW award.

Albert Pujols - Heaters
4 Hr's, 9 Rbi's, 5 R's, .363 Avg, and 1.395 OPS

Noteworthy:
Miguel Cabrera - Poppers
3 Hr's, 7 Rbi's, 5 R's, .500 Avg, and 1.148 Ops.

Ken Griffey Jr - Heaters
3 Hr's, 4 Rbi's, 5 R's, .316 Avg, and 1.245 Ops

Ryan Howard - Pickle Weasels
3 Hr's, 6 Rbi's, 4 R's, .384 Avg, and 1.253 Ops

Lance Berkman - Box Chowers
2 Hr's, 7 Rbi's, 4 R's, .346 Avg, and 1.085 Ops

Luis Gonzalez - Beaners
2 Hr's, 7 Rbi's, 5 R's, .384 Avg, and 1.236 Ops

Alfonso Soriano - FKAky
3 Hr's, 5 Rbi's, 5 R's, .275 Avg, and 1.043 Ops

Week 11 Results

Team of the week: Matt's Utility Men. He hit .354 ave, .974 ops as a team and lead the league in 4 other pitching categories.



4.0 Calvin's Slumpbusters
8.0 Andy's Full Flanull

Andy dominated hitting and took a couple pitching categories to win the week.


6.0 Todd's Heaters
6.0 Prothero's Poppers

An exact pitching/hitting split. Jason took all the hitting, Todd took all the pitching.


1.5 Dan's Pickle Weasels
10.5 Dustin's Diggleturb

Dustin had some great hitting, but both were stinky at pitching. Dusty took ERA and OPS with a 5.74 ERA and a 1.61 WHIP.


4.5 Brian's Box Chowers
7.5 Matt's Utility Men

Matt dominated the averages and took a few other accumulated stats and took the week.


1.5 Kelley's FKAKY
10.5 Jim's Beaners

Kelley had a baaaad week. Jim took advantage and completely dominated.

Elijah Dukes one ups himself

From Rotoworld.com

Elijah Dukes was told not to show up at the ballpark Wednesday, with manager Joe Maddon characterizing it as a "personal day."

Alledgedly impregnate an underage girl and get a paid day off. What a strange world it is that we live in.

This is the same guy that had some issues with his wife. If you want to know more, there is a past post about it. This guy has to be the MLB version of Pac Man Jones.

Verlander's Final Inning

A-ma-zing.

POW: Week 10

Since I neglected studying while I attended the Super Regionals this weekend, I won't be able to the POW awards until later this week. I will get them posted as soon as possible though.

Until then please enjoy the Beavers POW for hitting: Darwin Barney and Joey Wong, and the POW for pitching is Jorge Reyes and Mike Stutes. Go Beavs!

Week 10 Results

Team of the Week: Prothero's Poppers. 8 category wins this week. I needed every one of them as Dustin had a great week also.


7.0 Todd's Heaters
5.0 Andy's Full Flanull

Zero wins on the week for both teams. Wild. Todd's 15 Hrs were huge this week.


2.5 Dustin's Diggleturb
9.5 Prothero's Poppers

This wasn't as easy as it looks


5.5 Kelley's FKAKY
6.5 Dan's Pickle Weasels

Kelley had the hitting, Dan the pitching. Pitching won.


4.0 Calvin's Slumpbusters
8.0 Matt's Utility Men

Close week despite the final score.


5.0 Brian's Box Chowers
7.0 Jim's Beaners

A dominating hitting performance for Jim wins the day.

WOW: Week 9!

This week goes to a guy who just turned 26 and celebrated his birthday by getting rocked and then he went on to rock his own teammate. All punk team for Carlos Zambrano this week!

Carlos Zambrano - Poopers
10.80 Era, 3.00 Whip, 5 IP, 1 Lose, 38 stitches to Barrett (not really sure about the number of stitches but thought that I would make it be something outrageous.

Congratulations!

Noteworthy:
Billy Donovan

POW Pitching: Week 9

This weeks winner goes to a reliever. I don't like giving much love to closers, since I don't have any quality ones. This weeks award goes to Francisco Cordero of the Full Flannulls.

Francisco Cordero - Full Flannull
4 G, 4 Sv's, 3.1 IP, 0.00 Era, .600 Whip and 4 K-BB's

Noteworthy:
Barry Zito - FKAky
2 GS, 2 W's, 13 IP, 0.00 Era, 1.308 Whip, 7 K-BB's (12 K's)
He walks way to many players causing his whip to be inflated. Great few weeks, his last three starts his era is around 0.45.

Brandon Webb - Poopers
1 GS, 1 W, 8 IP, 0.00 Era, .625 Whip, 7 K-BB's
I hate the Poopers this week so nothing will be said about Brandon Webb.

Randy Johnson - Poopers
1 GS, 1 W, 6 IP, 0.00 Era, .167 Whip, 6 K-BB's
I hate the Poopers this week so not much will be said about Randy Johnson. It would be interesting to see if they would ever allow him to pitch more than 60 pitches in a game.

Jeff Francis - Beaners
1 GS, 1 W, 7 IP, 1.29 Era, .857 Whip, and 5 K-BB's
STUD!

Chris Young - Utility Men
1 GS, 1 W, 7 IP, 0.00 Era, .714 Whip, and 6 K-BB's
Another great week for Chris Young.

POW Hitting: Week 9

This week's player of the week goes to a team that did a lot of talking up of his player. Besides his dad being a bum, this weeks player of the week goes to Prince Fielder of the Utility Men.

Prince Fielder - Utility Men
4 Hr's, 7 Rbi's, 5 R's, .391 Avg, and 1.517 Ops
This guy is TIED for the major league lead in homeruns along with Arod.

Noteworthy:
Russel Martin - Slumpbusters
4 Hr's, 6 Rbi's, 7 R's, .360 Avg, and 1.265 Ops
I always love when catchers go yard. I wanted to give the award to Russel this week but Calvin still could have won his matchup this week even without him.

Derrek Lee - Utility Men
3 Hr's, 6 Rbi's, 5 R's, .385 Avg, and 1.162 Ops
7 of the 10 Utility Men's homeruns were from Lee and Fielder. It's time to mix it up a bit.

Alfonso Soriano - FKAky
3 Hr's, 5 Rbi's, 7 R's, .464 Avg, and 1.357 Ops
Soriano had a great end to his week, going deep in three consecutive games and finished the week with a 5 for 5 performance.

Brad Hawpe - Poppers
2 Hr's, 5 Rbi's, 5 R's, .444 Avg, and 1.472 Ops
I hate the Poppers this week so nothing will be said about Brad Hawpe.

Dan Uggla - Beaners
3 Hr's, 7 Rbi's, 8 R's, .423 Avg, and 1.413 Ops
Great week for Uggla, any other week and he would have won it.

I would like to end with a baseball quote today.
"...remember the final two words in our National Anthem. 'Play Ball'." - Tom Brokaw

Week 9 Results

The team of the week was the Poppers as they won or tie for first in 6 categories! A good all around week for Jason, but the hitting led the way.


3.5 Brian's Box Chowers
8.5 Andy's Full Flanull

Oooo, what's that smell? Oh, it's the stinky hitting from both teams. Andy pulled it out with his pitching.


8.0 Jim's Beaners
4.0 Todd's Heaters

Jim knocks Todd into a tie for last place with Dusty. Bummer for Todd, he actually had a pretty good week. Jim just have a slightly better one. Jim is coming on strong. He's tied for second.


4.0 Kelley's FKAKY
8.0 Prothero's Poppers

Jason takes the week with huge hitting and takes just enough pitching to win.


7.0 Calvin's Slumpbusters
5.0 Dustin's Diggleturb

Wierd week for Calvin. Calvin rode his 19 HRs (whoa) to a victory and got out of the basement. The wierd thing was that with 19 HRs he hit only 36 RBI and he hit .240. Those must have been the only hits he had all week!


7.0 Matt's Utility Men
5.0 Dan's Pickle Weasels

Pitching won the week for Matt. Dan just needed to find a HR and a Save somewhere and he would have had the tie. Close week.


We are at the halfway point in the season. Here's how everything stands:

Seed   Team                  Win  Loss Tie  Pct
1      Prothero's Poppers    7    2    0    0.778
2      Jim's Beaners         5    3    1    0.611
3      Andy's Full Flanull   5    3    1    0.611
4      Dan's Pickle Weasels  4    4    1    0.500
5      Kelley's FKAKY        4    4    1    0.500
6      Brian's Box Chowers   3    3    3    0.500
7      Matt's Utility Men    4    5    0    0.444
8      Calvin's Slumpbusters 3    5    1    0.389
9      Todd's Heaters        2    5    2    0.333
10     Dustin's Diggleturb   2    5    2    0.333

Bad day

And I thought I was having a bad day...

Happy Birthday Zambrano!

Nothing says Happy Birthday then letting your Ace punch a teammate in the face! Instead of blowing out candles on a cake, he got to give stitches to someone's face...It must be some sort of culture thing. Either way...it's a meltdown!

This just in...

Poppers crushing FKAKY. More at 11.

In other news, the Beavs win the first game of the regional against Rutgers.

Beaver League Toolbar

I found this online toolbar maker thing and thought I'd try it out.



It works for FireFox and IE. The link to download is in the left side links on this page.

WOW: Week 8!

Worthless people tend to be relievers...This might be because if they get rocked they don't have the innings to help them out. Or they might just be over valued. Or they might just suck!

This weeks loser is Bret Myers. Starter turned reliever turned closer is still struggling and I believe that he is now on the DL.

Bret Myers - Full Flanull
.2 IP, 4 ER, 53.973 Era, 6.00 Whip (rounded up)

Noteworthy:
Khali Green - Full Flanull
0 for 15...no hits, no walks...0.00 Avg, and 0.00 Ops.

David Weathers - FKAky
1.1 IP, 1 L, 6 ER, 40.51 Era, 3.751 Whip.

Pat Burrell - Slumpbusters
1 for 16, .063 Avg, .348 Ops.

POW Pitching: Week 8

There was a lot of great pitching performances this week, so if your player was left out, I am sorry. This week's winner goes to a player that has been nominated almost every week but has failed to win the award more than once (Week 4). This weeks POW for pitching is Jake Peavy of FKAky.

Jake Peavy - FKAky
2 GS, 2 W's, 13.0 IP, .692 Era, .615 Whip, and 12 K-BB's (14 K's)
Has allowed 3 or fewer hits in 6 outings this year.

Noteworthy:
Micah Owings - Beaners
1 GS, 1 W, 9.0 IP, 1.00 Era, 1.11 Whip, and 7 K-BB's
This kid is going to be a stud one day. Hopefully he is listening to Randy Johnson for advice in his pitching mechanics. If he does, he will be getting better sooner than later.

Jeff Francis - Beaners
2 GS, 2 W's, 14.2 IP, 1.227 Era, .886 Whip, 4 K-BB's
Nice weeks performance. Has anyone told him that he still pitches for the Rockies???

Trevor Hoffman - Utility Men
4 Sv's, 3.1 IP, 0.00 Era, .90 Whip, 0 K-BB.
Same old Hoffman...this guy is going to pitch until he is 100 years old!

Chris Young - Utiltiy Men
1 GS, 7.0 IP, 1.286 Era, .714 Whip, 8 K-BB's (10 K's)
Another San Diego pitching stud. Maddux and Peavy are great mentors.

Sergio Mitre - Diggleturb
1 GS, 7.2 IP, 0.00 Era, 1.174 Whip, 7 K-BB's
Nice pickup for Dusty. Hopefully he continues pitching well and the Marlin's bats keep hitting.

John Smoltz - Box Chowers
1 GS, 1 W, 7.0 IP, 0.00 Era, 1.00 Whip, 5 K-BB's
200th Career Win! Instant Hall of Famer. 200 W's and 150 Saves....he is a shoe in!

Randy Wolf - Pickle Weasels
2 GS, 1 W, 13.0 IP, 1.385 Era, .846 Whip, 4 K-BB's
I hate the Dodgers but had to include him.

POW Hitting: Week 8

This weeks POW for hitting goes to Jason Bay. Jason was one of the reason's for Calvin's team upsetting the number one team this week. The Slumpbuster's also had a total of 8 guys over 6 Rbi's this week and that helped too. Nice work!

Jason Bay - Slumpbusters
2 Hr's, 10 Rbi's, 6 R's, .458 Avg, and 1.448 Ops

Noteworthy:
Adrian Gonzalez - Diggleturb
2 Hr's, 4 Rbi's, 5 R's, .500 Avg, and 1.533 Ops
Nice numbers this week, especially in average and Ops. He need a bit more production to win it this week though.

Alex Gonzalez - Beaners
3 Hr's, 5 Rbi's, 7 R's, .357 Avg, and 1.205 Ops
It looks like if your name ended with Gonzalez that you had a great week, minus Mike Gonzalez that ended up with season ending surgery.

Ryan Howard - Pickle Weasels
3 Hr's, 7 Rbi's , 5 R's, .333 Avg, and 1.444 Ops
Looks like Howard is heating up to his MVP caliber season of last year. Teams better watch out for him.

Carlos Delgado - Slumpbusters
2 Hr's, 6 Rbi's, 5 R's, .360 Avg, and .985 Ops
CARLOS!!!!!!!! This guy is finally starting to produce. Better late than never.

Morgan Ensberg - FKAky
3 Hr's, 3 Rbi's, 3 R's, .400 Avg, and 1.700 Ops
only reason why Ensberg didn't win this week was that he only started two games and had a total of 10 at bats. Hopefully Lamb will get benched more this coming week.

Week 8 Results

Team of the week: Jim's Beaners.

Jim had a crazy pitching week. 8 wins! And his ERA was 2.725 and WHIP was 1.128.


11.0 Jim's Beaners
1.0 Andy's Full Flanull


6.5 Kelley's FKAKY
5.5 Todd's Heaters


9.5 Calvin's Slumpbusters
2.5 Prothero's Poppers


3.5 Matt's Utility Men
8.5 Dustin's Diggleturb


3.0 Brian's Box Chowers
9.0 Dan's Pickle Weasels

Elijah Dukes

Not sure if you have heard anything about Elijah Dukes (He plays for Tampa Bay) but I guess he is running into some trouble with his wife. Here is a message that he left on his wife's voice mail. It has been edited...

"Hey, dawg," said an angry voice. "It's on, dawg. You dead, dawg. I ain't even bulls-------. Your kids too, dawg. It don't even matter to me who is in the car with you. N-----, all I know is, n-----, when I see your m-----f------- a-- riding, dawg, it's on. As a matter of fact, I'm coming to your m----- f------ house."

He also supposedly sent her a photo of a hand gun to her cell phone too. When he was asked about the situation before today's game he was quoted saying

"I'm just going to play ball, that's it, I've got to go. I've got a video game to finish."

We know were is priorities are...this is messed up! This has to be in the running for best quote for the year.

WOW: Week 7!

WOW wasn't done last week but Heath Bell (Utility Men) was the recipient of WOW for week 6. .1 IP, 54.05 ERA, 12.01 Whip

On to this week's nominations...I am not even going to look at the stats for this award this week. This week's loser is the starting pitchers for Team FKAky (minus Jake Peavy and Jason Hirsh). Here are their stats:

Chris Capuano
1 GS, 5.1 IP, 10.13 Era, 2.06 Whip

Braden Looper
1 GS, 4.0 IP, 15.75 Era, 2.75 Whip

Greg Maddux
1 GS, 3.2 IP, 17.18 Era, 3.27 Whip

Barry Zitto
1 GS, 4.0 IP, 15.750 Era, 3.25 Whip, -5 K-BB

POW Pitching: Week 7

This week's winner goes to the 55 year old Randy Johnson. Though he couldn't make it past the sixth inning in both of his starts, he still picked up two W's and struck out an amazing 19 guys, that is right, 19! He also walked ZERO batters! He now has 47 strike outs in 35.2 innings and only 7 walks. Congratulations. The trophy is in the mail! (no really trophy will be sent in the mail)

Randy Johnson - Poppers
2 GS, 2 Wins, 11.2 IP, 1.54 Era, 0.69 Whip, 19 K-BB (0 BB)

Noteworthy:
John Smoltz - Box Chowers
1 GS, 1 Win, 7 IP, 0.00 Era, 0.57 Whip, 6 K-BB

Roy Oswalt - Slumpbusters
1 GS, 7 IP, 0.00 Era, 0.86 Whip, 4 K-BB.

Tim Lincecum - Slumpbusters
1 GS, 7 IP, 0.00 Era, 0.43 Whip, 9 K-BB (10 K's)

POW Hitting: Week 7

This weeks POW for hitting goes to Aramis Ramirez. He had an amazing 11 Rbi's this past week and hit over 400. Congratulations to Aramis!

Aramis Ramirez - Pickle Weasels
3 Hr's, 11 Rbi's, 5 R's, .435 Avg, and 1.415 OPS

Noteworthy:
Brad Hawpe - Poppers
4 Hr's, 7 Rbi's, 5 R's, .300 Avg, and 1.367 OPS
Could have won if his average was a few points higher but it wasn't.

David Wright - Beaners
3 Hr's, 8 Rbi's, 5 R's, 2 Sb's, .333 Avg, and 1.298 OPS
Wright lost out this week since he had fewer Rbi's. The steals didn't play a huge factor in this weeks choice.

Ryan Zimmerman - Pickle Weasels
3 Hr's, 6 Rbi's, 8 R's, .310 Avg, and 1.113 OPS
Two studs from the PW's. He could have had one more noteworthy guy but I decided not to boast his ego to much.

Hunter Pence - FKAky
2 Hr's, 5 Rbi's, 5 R's, 1 Sb, .500 Avg, and 1.459 OPS
Hunter could have pulled off the award this week but an 0 for 4 on the last day lowered his average to just .500. Going into the final game he was batting .690.

Week 7 Results

The team of the week is Dan's Pickle Weasels. He had a huge hitting week and dominated Calvin.



8.5 Matt's Utility Men
3.5 Andy's Full Flanull

Matt is starting to turn things around. 2 wins in the last 3 weeks.


6.0 Brian's Box Chowers
6.0 Todd's Heaters

Brian shall be known as "Team Who Loves Ties". He has 3 ties this year already.


4.0 Jim's Beaners
8.0 Prothero's Poppers

Pitching gets it done this week as Jason puts up 78 IP, 6 W, and 39 K-BB.


5.5 Kelley's FKAKY
6.5 Dustin's Diggleturb

YES! Dusty gets the win! That moves him out of last ahead of Calvin.


2.0 Calvin's Slumpbusters
10.0 Dan's Pickle Weasels

Dan had 15 HRs, 49 R, and an .865 OPS en route to a total domination over Kuo and his Slumpers.

Old Roto Standards

I was bored this morning and I wanted to see how the old format rankings would be if we still went by them. I posted them on the google group site.

I think this link will work for it.

Here are the standings if we used the old format:
Box Chowers 92.0 - 1
FKAky 91.5 - 2
Poppers 79.0 - 3
Full Flanull 78.5 - 4
Beaners 66.5 - 5
Utility Men 64.5 - 6
Pickle Weasels 60.5 - 7
Diggleturb 55.0 - 8
Slumpbuster 38.0 - 9
Heaters 34.5 - 10

PoW Pitching!

And the winner is.....

Tom Gorzelanny (Andy's Full Flanull)
14.0 ip, 1 w, 8 k-bb, .64 era, .93 whip

Honorable Mention:

Brandon Webb (Prothero's Poppers)
9.0 ip, 1 w, 9 k-bb, 1.00 era, .78 whip

Randy Wolf (Dan's Pickle Weasels)
7.0 ip, 1 w, 11 k-bb, 0.00 era, .57 whip

Jake Peavy (Kelley's FKAKY)
7.0 ip, 8 k-bb, 1 w, 0.00 era, .71 whip

PoW Hitting!

Better late than never.

Ken Griffey Jr. (Todd's Heaters)
3 hr, 10 rbi, 1 sb, .375 ba, 1.202 ops

Honorbale Mention:

J.J. Hardy (Brian's Box Chowers)
4 hr, 11 rbi, .280 ba, 1.096 ops (Higher ba and he would have taken it.)

Alfonso Soriano (Kelley's FKAKY)
2 hr, 3 rbi, 4 sb, .345 ba, 1.062 ops (Lead off homeruns = low rbi's)

RJ

Ran-dy John-son! clap, clap, clap-clap-clap!
Ran-dy John-son! clap, clap, clap-clap-clap!

Aw yea!

6 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 9 K, 1 Win

Week 6

Crazy week this week as we had two ties and two 7-5 wins. It looked like all blowouts just a couple of days ago. Dusty and Brian get their second tie of the season, Jason gets back on the winning side, and Jim cruises in for the easiest victory of the week (8-4).

Team of the week:

Prothero's Poppers for taking first overall in 3 pitching categories and not having a last place finish in any other category. The 2.49 era and 0.98 whip was big this week.



5.0 Kelley's FKAKY
7.0 Andy's Full Flanull

This was a very close week. Andy seems to have a lot of these. They very nearly split the hitting and pitching categories evenly.


6.0 Calvin's Slumpbusters
6.0 Todd's Heaters

Calvin had one great day. Otherwise, it was a deadlock all week. A fitting tie.


5.0 Matt's Utility Men
7.0 Prothero's Poppers

Jason looked like he would run away with this week, but Matt made a huge last day comeback and nearly pulled out the tie. Jason's pitching and rbi lead was too strong in the end.


6.0 Brian's Box Chowers
6.0 Dustin's Diggleturb

Dusty had a great week in the averages (.305 ave, .821 ops, 1.13 whip), but couldn't beat the sheer number of HRs, RBI, R that Brian's team pounded out over the week.


8.0 Jim's Beaners
4.0 Dan's Pickle Weasels

Dan had an amazing week in a few things (14 hrs!) but couldn't get it all together, so Jim's good week overall took the prize.

Charts going into the weekend

Here are the week 6 charts going into the weekend:



Best games to watch are Calvin/Todd and Jim/Dan.

Week 5 Recap

Week 5 Recap

Here's what happened this week: I lost for the first time (ok, I got killed), Calvin and Dusty dug themselves a bigger hole, and we had another tie.

Teams of the week were too close to call. So everyone's a winner this week (almost). Best teams this week: Full Flanull, Box Chowers, Utility Men, and FKAKY.

I'm not sure if I'll do this every week, but I thought it would be cool to chart the points over the course of the week. That way we can see who made a dramatic comeback or just a good weekend. It's actually pretty cool. Too bad TQ doesn't do something like this (or give us a nice API to plug in to).



6.0 Andy's Full Flanull
6.0 Dan's Pickle Weasels

This was a cool tie. Dan took all of the hitting categories and Andy took the pitching ones. Still, Andy was 1 RBI from winning. Ouch.


7.0 Todd's Heaters
5.0 Dustin's Diggleturb

Dusty made a nice late week comeback, but couldn't quite pull it out in the end. Todd led all week and rode his week leading 7 saves in for the win.


10.0 Brian's Box Chowers
2.0 Prothero's Poppers

Jason started off super fast and fizzled after that. Brian had a super week all around hitting .327 / .865 with 50 runs. Meanwhile he also had a 3.10 / 1.140 pitching week with 28 k-bb.


2.5 Calvin's Slumpbusters
9.5 Kelley's FKAKY

Kelley had a great weekend and zoomed past Calvin for the win. Calvin's pitching is killing him. Of course, so was his hitting this week.


8.5 Matt's Utility Men
3.5 Jim's Beaners

Jim had a great pitching week, but so did Matt. Plus, Matt's hitting week was very good. This was much closer all week than the final tally.

Week 5 - Worthless of the Week

This weeks award goes to someone who has a bounty on his head for hitting Prince Fielder, this weeks loser is Matt Capps. Cecil Fielder was asked what he thought of the pitch that nailed his son and was quoted "I be going ta smoke him, an' dem eat him, git in muh ma (expletive) belly this (expletive)" Those are some strange remarks, thanks Cecil. (For the rated R version of his comment, add a word starting with the letter F for the first one, and the letter S for the second.)

Matt Capps - Pickle Weasels
3 G's, 1.2 IP, 16.20 ERA, 2.40 Whip and 10 game suspension.

Notheworthy:
Matt Cain - Heaters
1 G, 3.0 IP, 21 ERA, 4 Whip, and -2 K-BB's.

Andruw Jones - Box Chowers
1 for 21, .048 Avg, .248 OPS. (enough said)

Previous Losers:
Trevor Hoffman - Utility Men (Week 4)
Brett Myers - Full Flanull (Week 3)
Zach Duke - Utility Men (Week 2)
Jorge Julio - Pickle Weasels (Week 1)
Brad Lidge - Box Chowers (Week 1)

Week 5 - Pitcher of the Week

This week's pitcher of the week is provided by The Cream and the Clear lite, 100% satisfaction guaranteed or your money back.

This week I was threatened, they shall remain nameless, that if I didn't pick Brad Penny for pitcher of the week that all my future selections would be protested for ever. I believed I cracked under his pressure, here is this weeks pitcher of the week.

Brad Penny - Full Flanull
2 G's, 1 W, 13 IP, 0.00 ERA, 0.92 Whip, 14 K-BB.

Noteworthy:
Francisco Cordero - Full Flanull
4 G's, 3 Sv's, 3.1 IP, 0.00 ERA, 0.00 Whip, 4 K-BB.

Bret Myers - Full Flanull
3 G's, 2 Sv's, 2.2 IP, 0.00 ERA, 0.75 Whip, 2 K-BB.

Previous Winners:
Jake Peavy - FKAky (Week 4)
Cole Hamels - Beaners (Week 3)
Brad Penny - Full Flannel (Week 2)
Ted Lilly - Diggleturds - (Week 1)

Week 5 - Hitter of the Week

This weeks hitter of the week is sponsored by Big Papi's steroid shakes. Available in three distinct flavors, enlarged testes, big header, and chocolate. Offer vaild in the Dominican Republic only.....hmmm...steroids in a shake. (If you don't know what I am talking about check out Big Papis's article at ESPN.com.)

This weeks winner is the Prince of Fielder.
Prince Fielder - Utility Men
3 Hr's, 11 Rbi's, 6 R's, .360 Avg, 1.187 OPS. (also helped pay off part of his fathers huge gambling debt)

Noteworthy:
Shane Victorino - Box Chowers
1 Hr, 5 Rbi's, 7 R's, 6 Sb's, .417 Avg, 1.023 OPS. (One more homerun and Shane would have taken this weeks award. )

JJ Hardy - Box Chowers
2 Hrs, 9 Rbi's, 8 R's, .536 Avg, 1.424 OPS. (This guy is on fire, someone bring him back to reality)

Adam Dunn - Full Flanull
3 Hr's 7 Rbi's, 8 R's, 1 Sb, .296 Avg, 1.147 OPS. (only struck out 9 times though)

Ken Griffey Jr - Heaters
3 Hr's, 5 Rbi's, 5 R's, 1 Sb, .444 Avg, 1.346 OPS. (wrestling with kids on yacht - 0)

Alex Gonzalez - Beaners
4 Hr's, 6 Rbi's, 6 R's, .241 Avg, 1.037 OPS. (almost had more homeruns this week then the past two years combined, 5).

Benji Molina - Poppers
2 Hrs, 8 Rbi's, 3 R's, .500 Avg, 1.374 OPS. (20 atbats, really one great game but still enough to get noteworthy status)

Previous Winners:
Alex Gonzalez - Heaters (Week 4)
JJ Hardy - Box Chowers (Week 3)
Rickie Weeks - FKAky (Week 2)
Miguel Cabrera - Poppers (Week 1)

April Transaction Totals

Here are the totals as of April of the money spent on transactions so far.


Andy's Full Flanull - $6.00
Brian's Box Chowers - $9.00
Calvin's Slumpbusters - $9.00
Dustin's Diggleturb - $12.00
Jim's Beaners - $15.00
Kelley's FKAKY - $9.00
Matt's Utility Men - $6.00
Prothero's Poppers - $6.00
Todd's Heaters - $12.00
Dan's Pickle Weasles - $0.00

Worthless of the Week

This week's worthless of the week goes to Trevor Hoffman of the Utility Men. Even though he saved two games he got worked on Trevor Hoffman bobble head night. He ended up with a 20.25 ERA, 2 Loses and a WHIP of 2.25. He had a two game stretch where he gave up 6 ER's in 1.3 innings pitched too. That is an ERA of over 40 over those two outings.

Noteworthy:
Bob Wickman - Poppers
16.87 ERA. 4.50 WHIP, 2.2 IP.

Carlos Delgado - Slumpbusters
.091 Avg, .258 OPS, 2 hits in 22 ab's

Previous Worthless:
Brett Myers - Full Flanull (Week 3)
Zach Duke - Utility Men (Week 2)
Jorge Julio - Pickle Weasels (Week 1)
Brad Lidge - Box Chowers (Week 1)

Week 4 - Pitcher (Hancock) of the Week

I am thinking about renaming the Pitcher of the Week to the Hancock of the Week. This is in memory of Josh Hancock. Hopefully this isnt an objection to this. There were a lot of outstanding performances this past week but I am only going to mention two. If your feelings are hurt to bad.

This weeks winner is a dual winner between Jake Peavy and Jeff Suppan.

Jake Peavy - FKAky
2 G's, 14 IP, 1 W, 1.93 Era, 0.93 Whip, 21 K- BB (26 total K's).
Peavy stroke out nine consective batters in a row in his first game this past week. He ended up with a total of 16 in 7 innings. He followed that up by striking out 10 in his next outing. He almost averaged 2 strikeouts per inning last week. CRAZY INSANE! He even had a better ratio of K-BB's then half the other team's in our league.

Jeff Suppan - Box Chowers
2 G's, 17 IP, 2 W's, 0.53 ERA, 1.06 Whip, 6 K-BB
Didn't the Box Chowers get Suppan for a buck??? That is a nice dollar menu item.

Noteworthy:
(insert your game changing performance here)

Previous Winners:
Cole Hamels - Beaners (Week 3)
Brad Penny - Full Flannel (Week 2)
Ted Lilly - Diggleturds - (Week 1)

Week 4 - Hitter of the Week

I am going to start breaking up the Hitter of the week and Pitcher of the week awards to make it easier to read.

This week winner is Alex Gonzalez. Once you compare his stats against everyone else for the past week it is hard not to give it to him.

Alex Gonzalez - Beaners
3 Hr's, 6 Rbi's, 9 R's, .520 Avg, and 1.578 OPS.
Dang...quite impressive

Noteworthy:
Troy Tulowitzki (it took me four times to figure out how to spell his name) - Pickle Weasels
2 Hr's, 2 Triples, 6 Rbi's, 5 R's, .360 Avg, and 1.227 OPS
He also had an unassisted triple play last week which he didn't believe that he done it and that is why he was seen retouching second and then throwing to first. Quite funny if you got to witness it.

Barry Bonds - FKAky
2 Hr's, 5 Rbi's, 5 R's, .385 Avg, 1.538 OPS, (and maybe the most impressive stat) 12 BB's and 7 IBB's. Teams are starting to fear Barry. He is at 742 total homeruns for his career just in case you weren't aware.

Stephen Drew - Heaters
1 Hr, 7 Rbi's, 4 R's, .385 Avg, and 1.061 OPS
He had some clutch hits last week.

Andrew Jones - Box Chowers
2 Hr's, 8 Rbi's, 4 R's, .318 Avg, 1.110 OPS.

Previous Winners:
JJ Hardy - Box Chowers (Week 3)
Rickie Weeks - FKAky (Week 2)
Miguel Cabrera - Poppers (Week 1)

REEL BASEBALL

From the NYTimes:

REEL BASEBALL: 1899-1926

I know about as much about baseball as I do about quantum physics, but I found much of the material in this two disc-set, recently released by Kino, absolutely fascinating. Cinephiles who reflexively avoid sports movies (not the most distinguished of genres) will find “Reel Baseball: 1899-1926” a thinly disguised attempt to smuggle some lesser-known early films onto the DVD market. Baseball fans will be delighted by the dramatic presence of a young, slim Babe Ruth, playing an imaginary version of himself in the 1920 feature “Headin’ Home,” and by the great New York Giants manager John McGraw, playing himself in an excerpt from the 1917 Edison feature “One Touch of Nature.”

More here: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/movies/homevideo/01dvd.html

Week 4 Recap

Week 4 featured the first major match-up of the season when the two remaining unbeatens, Andy and Jason, faced off. In other news, Dustin nearly completed a comeback against Jim for the win, but had to settle for the tie as he gets some points.

TEAM OF THE WEEK

Prothero's Poppers.

Jason's team had the best totals in 5 categories this week. They would have beaten every other team this week.



4.5 Andy's Full Flanull
7.5 Prothero's Poppers

The matchup started off heated, but the Poppers simply wore the Full Flanull down as the week went on. It's tough to beat the team of the week.


7.0 Todd's Heaters
5.0 Dan's Pickle Weasels

Todd squeaked by on his pitching this week in a very close week.


6.0 Jim's Beaners
6.0 Dustin's Diggleturb

Dusty was hoping for his first win this week, but had to settle for his first tie. I thought he was destined for another L after Monday's pitching performance, but somehow he pulled it out.


2.0 Calvin's Slumpbusters
10.0 Brian's Box Chowers

Brain flexed his pitching muscles and swept pitching. Unfortunately, Calvin is still mired in a hitting slump, so he got killed this week. Time for a slumpbuster Kuo!


5.5 Matt's Utility Men
6.5 Kelley's FKAKY

Kelley overcame being last in the league for the week in 2 categories to pull out a win against the Utility Men. Matt had a decent week. Just a few more RBI and he would have had at least a tie.

Grease is the Word!

Some of you might be familiar with Greasemonkey, which lets you take javascript and have it applied to whatever page you want. Inspired by Jason, I wrenched up a script to automatically show the actual score right on the TQ Results page, like the good ol' days. While I was in there, I replaced the clutch... no, wait, that was John & Phil's suburu, no, while I was in there, I made it so that in each category, the better score is green and ties are blue. Also, for each matchup, the winning team name is bold. Gives a quick picture of what's going on.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Use Firefox
   
2. Go to Greasemonkey and click the Install Now button.
   
3. Restart your browser
   
4. Find the Greasemonkey script here: http://groups.google.com/group/Beaver-Roto-League/web/TQGameScore.user.js
   
5. When you click on the above, if all went well so far it should say, hey, that's a grease monkey script and give you an option to install it
   
6. After that, whenever you go to the summary results page it should show 7.5 - 4.5 or whatever instead of the lame 1 - 0
   
7. Let me know if it works!
   

Needless to say, it's pretty much of a hack job, and totally dependent on TQ not changing their page layout, etc. If they do, lord only knows what the page will look like after being greased.

SO, IF THINGS GO WRONG:

• There should now be a Greasemonkey selection from the Firefox tools menu. Go to "Manage User Scripts..." and disable or uninstall the TQGameScore script. Reload the results page.
  
• Or, click on the little Monkey face (bottom right on Firefox status bar) to disable Greasemonkey. Reload the results page.

Here's the before and after:

Huge matchup with the Full Flanal for the Poppers

The Poppers have the biggest matchup of the early season as they take on the only other 3-0 team in the league in the Full Flanal.

It's starting off quick for both teams in the first day. Both teams are hitting big and barely scraping by with their pitching.

The Big Unit is back and put up a sorry ass performance in game 1: 5.0 IP, 6 ER, 2.00 WHIP. At least he got me 3 K-BB.

Meanwhile, Kelly Johnson is looking like a nice keeper for next season. He's hitting like .500 over the last 10 days or so and already has 5 HRs on the season. Between him, Matt Holliday and Hanley Ramirez the Poppers are rollin!


And now a moment of silence for Mark Prior......


...BTW, who didn't see that coming?

And how does Jimmy Rollins have 8 HRs and Ryan Howard has 3 HRs?

PoW Week 3

Here are the players of the week for week 3, voted on by me!

Hitter:

J.J. Hardy (Box Chowers) He was the main reason for Brian pulling out a tie this week.
5 HR, 6 runs, 10 rbi, .290 ba

Honorable mention:

Carlos Beltran (FKAKY)
2 HR, 8 runs, 9 rbi, .424 ba

Moises Alou (Diggleturbs)
2 HR, 8 runs, 7 rbi, .520 ba

Alex Rodriguez
7 HR, 13 runs, 16 rbi, .438 ba


Pitcher:

Cole Hamels (Beaners)
9 IP, 13 k -bb, 1.00 era, 1 W

Honorable Mention

Francisco Cordero (Full Flanull)
4 IP, 3 k -bb, 0.0 era, 3 saves

Bob Wickman(Poppers)
3 IP, 1k -bb, 0.0 era, 3 saves

Tim Hudson(Pickle Weasels)
8 IP, 1k -bb, 0.0 era, 1 W

Week 3 Results

Week 3:


7.0 Andy's Full Flanull
5.0 Dustin's Diggleturb

Andy rode a sweet hitting week (+.300 ave) and split the pitching categories to pull out the close win.


7.5 Matt's Utility Men
4.5 Todd's Heaters

Matt pulled this win out...barely. Some big totals here. Both teams had 9 SBs, over 60 IP, and Matt had 10 HRs and 37 K-BB.


4.0 Dan's Pickle Weasels
8.0 Prothero's Poppers

Jason dominated hitting with a huge week despite Dan's big hitters.


5.0 Calvin's Slumpbusters
7.0 Jim's Beaners

Calvin lost this one in the pitching area. 6.1 ERA and 1.77 WHIP will do that to you.


6.0 Brian's Box Chowers
6.0 Kelley's FKAKY

They deserved to tie this one. Both teams had monster weeks. 10HRs each, over 5 W, and lots or R & RBI.

Weekend standings update

I wanted an easier way to calculate the points my team was up/down, so I created a spreadsheet connected to the "Previous Results" page on the TQStats site. You should be able to use the spreadsheet if you have Excel 2003 or greater. It's in the "Files" section of the Google Group. The file is here. You can refresh the data automatically by pressing the "Refresh All" on the External Data toolbar


Points going in to Sunday:

OVERALL
7.0 Andy's Full Flanull
5.0 Dustin's Diggleturb

4.5 Matt's Utility Men
7.5 Todd's Heaters

2.5 Dan's Pickle Weasels
9.5 Prothero's Poppers

4.0 Calvin's Slumpbusters
8.0 Jim's Beaners

7.0 Brian's Box Chowers
5.0 Kelley's FKAKY

Mid-Week Standings

Points as of Thursday:

OVERALL
6.5 Andy's Full Flanull
5.5 Dustin's Diggleturb

5.5 Matt's Utility Men
6.5 Todd's Heaters

1.5 Dan's Pickle Weasels
10.5 Prothero's Poppers

6.0 Calvin's Slumpbusters
6.0 Jim's Beaners

7.0 Brian's Box Chowers
5.0 Kelley's FKAKY

Oregon State Baseball Collection - OSU Library

I came across this the other day when I was at the library studying. I thought that it was pretty cool. It has Photographs, video, ephemera, essays and statistics documenting more than 100 years of OSU baseball players, coaches, and teams.

Here is the link.

Sanchez Salsa?

Want some salsa from your favorite fantasy player? How about Eckstien's O's cereal? Check out this site with all kinds of crazy sports themed products:

www.plbsports.com

BuckyBackers Blog

Remember Bucky Jacobsen? The Hermiston kid who had a few great months with the Mariners 3 years ago. His fan club has a blog updating his baseball exploits:

BuckyBackers.com

Beaner Pride

Well, I didn't have my best week. But even if I had, FKAKY would have kicked my ass from here to Cooperstown. One day I checked the stats and my guys were batting like .421, whoohoo! I switched to Kelly's team and his guys were like 17 for 32, let alone the other categories. Doh!

As far as the projections go, all I can say is thanks for the Bulletin Board material. Now that my players are over the shock they'll be more motivated than ever, starting already with Nady's 2 for 4 with an SB this afternoon.

Players of the Week: Week 2

This week was a strange week, there were a total of 9 games suspended because of rain, another game was suspended because of rain and darkness. So there were a lot of players that didn't see much action because of this, I have tried to look past those missed days in figuring out the Players of the Week for Week 2. Here they go.

Hitters:
HOW (Hitters of the Week): Week 2
Rickie Weeks - FKAky
3 Hr's, 5 Rbi's, 9 R's, 1 SB, .333 Avg, and 1.455 OPS.

Rickie had the advantage of playing a five games this week and he took advantage of those extra at bats in winning the POW for week 2. His 3 homeruns and 9 run scored separated him from the pack this week. Congratulations!

noteworthy:
Carlos Lee - Box Chowers
3 Hr's, 7 Rbi's, 4 R's, .389 Avg, and 1.310 OPS.

Chipper Jones - Poppers
3 Hr's, 7 Rbi's, 6 R's, .364 Avg, and 1.254 OPS.

Jimmy Rollins - FKAky
3 Hr's, 5 Rbi's, 5 R's, .333 Avg, and 1.190 OPS.

Barry Bonds - FKAky
2 Hr's, 5 Rbi's, 4 R's, .417 Avg, and 1.450 OPS. (4 games played)

Previous Winners:
Miguel Cabrera - Poppers (Week 1)

POW (Pitcher of the Week): Week 2
Brad Penny - Full Flannel
2 W's, 13.1 IP, 0.68 ERA, 1.05 Whip, -2 K-BB.

Pitching this week was horrendous and it made choosing a POW very easy. Brad Penny benefited from pitching two games and won both games in earning this weeks POW for Week 2. I almost gave it to Peavy though, it was a tough call but Penny's Era made up for the negative K-BB ratio.

Noteworthy:
Tim Hudson :
2 W's, 14 IP, 0.64 ERA, 1.00 Whip, 6 K-BB.

Jake Peavy - FKAky
1 W, 7 IP, 1.29 ERA, 0.71 Whip, 1 K-BB.

Rich Hill - Diggleturds
1 W, 7 IP, 0.00 ERA, 1.00 Whip, 1 K-BB

Derek Lowe - Full Flannel
1 W, 8 IP, 1.13 ERA, 1.13 Whip, 4 K-BB.

Ian Snell - Heaters
1 W, 7 IP, 1.29 ERA, 1.00 Whip, 2 K-BB.

Previous Winners:
Ted Lilly - Diggleturds - Week 1


WOW (Worthless of the Week): Week 2
Where do I start for this weeks category. I can't count the number of worthless outings from Starting Pitchers this week on two hands. This weeks WOW for Week 2 is Zach Duke.
Zach Duke - Utility Men
1 G, 1 L, 2 IP, 7 ER's, 31.50 ERA, and 4.50 WHIP.

I had to list the other SP that had horrible starts too. Clay Hensley had 2 horrific outings. There are in order by worst ERA. Enjoy!

Jason Schmidt - Beaners
1 G, 1 L, 2 IP, 5 ER's, 22.50 ERA, and 4.50 WHIP.

Bret Myers - Full Flanull
1 G, 1 L, 3.1 IP, 7 ER's, 18.90 ERA and 2.40 WHIP.

Chris Young - Utility Men
1 G, 1 L, 2 IP, 4 ER's (5 R's), 18.00 ERA, and 6.00 WHIP.

Scott Olsen - Slumpbusters
1 G, 1 L, 2.2 IP, 5 ER's, 16.87 ERA, and 3.37 WHIP.

Clay Hensley - Heaters
2G, 2 L's, 9.1 IP, 14 ER's (16 R's), 13.55 ERA, and 2.37 WHIP.

Carlos Zambrano - Poppers
1 G, 1 L, 4 IP, 6 ER's, 13.50 ERA, and 2.50 WHIP.

Jeff Francis - Beaners
1 G, 1 L, 5 IP, 7 ER's, 12.60 ERA, and 2.40 WHIP.

Ben Sheets - Diggleturds
1G, 5 IP, 7 ER's (8 R's), 12.60 ERA, and 2.20 WHIP.

Aaron Harang - Diggleturds
1 G, 4 IP, 5 ER's, 11.25 ERA, and 2.75 WHIP.

Roy Oswalt - Slumpbusters
1 G. 1 L, 5 IP, 6 ER's, 10.80 ERA, and 2.60 WHIP.

Previous Losers:
Jorge Julio - Pickle Weasels - Week 1
Brad Lidge - Box Chowers - Week 1

Week 2 Recap

Week 2 Results

6.5 - Andy's Full Flanal
5.5 - Calvin's Slumpbusters

In a classic head-to-head win, beat Calvin by winning all pitching categories and tying HRs. This was tied 6-6 going into Monday and Andy hit the HR to tie.


9.0 - Prothero's Poppers
3.0 - Todd's Heaters

The Poppers led all week despite horrid pitching performances by both teams. Albert Pujols picked the wrong week to slump for Todd and his offense couldn't get going either.


7.0 - Dan's Pickle Weasels
5.0 - Dustin's Diggleturb

In a battle of teams apparently trying to lose, Dan wins a close one. Weekly averages of .236 and .222, yikes!


10.0 - Brian's Box Chowers
2.0 - Matt's Utility Men

Between Brian's dominating pitching week and Matt's worst ever pitching week (6.00 ERA and 2.19 WHIP!!!) this one was over before it started.


11.0 - Kelley's FKAKY
1.0 - Jim's Beaners

Kelley would have beat everyone this week. Thus, the total domination. He may have blew his wad too early. Look at this line:

Kelley's hitting: 40 r, 14 hr, 36 rbi, 4 sb, .344 ave, 1.091 ops
Kelley's pitching: 46 ip, 5 w, 3 sv, 1.57 era, 1.07, 18 k-bb

WOW.



Click the "Weekly Recap" label below for previous weekly recaps.

Draft Analysis

It's a week after the draft and now we can sit back and look at the winners and losers in the draft. Of course most of this means nothing because anyone could get hurt, traded, or do better/worse than expected.

I have two sets of pre-season projections: ESPN and RotoTimes. I don't have projected $ values, but just looking at the projected stats will give us an idea of where teams are at (hitting heavy, pitching heavy, balanced, neither, etc).

Just a quick look at the standings using projected stats and assuming no changes, FA pickups, or any other risk gets us a general ranking of this:

        PLACE   STDDEV
Todd    1.25    0.50
Matt    2.00    0.82
Calvin  3.00    0.82
Jason   4.00    0.82
Dustin  5.75    1.26
Andy    6.75    1.71
Kelley  6.75    2.36
Dan     7.25    0.96
Brian   8.75    0.96
Jim     9.50    0.58

The surprise of the draft is clearly Todd who was consistently 1 or 2. Matt, Calvin, and Jason are a pretty solid 2, 3, 4. Then it gets crazy. Kelley is the most schitzo ranging from 5th to 10th. Basically, the middle is a toss up. The only thing fairly solid is that Brian and Jim are trailing the pack. I think Jim probably could have called that since he didn't pick up a 6th player until the 90th pick (53rd after keepers) and that pick was Mike Jacobs. Of course, these places are based off of category rankings. Anything could happen in a keeper league with playoffs.

It was an interesting draft. The keepers guaranteed that. Despite the extra money many teams had, there wasn't really much draft inflation. People weren't throwing their money around quite like I thought they would. Calvin probably had the most money to play with yet he waited a long time to spend money after his first 4-5 guys drafted.

The overall money split was 64% hitting to 36% pitching. That includes keepers. Thirteen players were over $30 including two over $40. There were 30 players that cost $1.


The Teams:

Todd's Heaters

Todd's draft can be summed up as Albert Pujols, Chris Carpenter, and guys Dan wanted. He's really hoping that "sophomore slump" thing doesn't exist because he has more than a few candidates. He also seems to like drafting players from his favorite team, the 1996 Mariners. Ken Griffey, Vizquel, and Moyer really skew the average age up a bit.

Balanced. Todd has a pretty balanced team. Generally decent at pitching and hitting. He's going to win SBs almost every week and probably get some serious runs because of that. His pitching is solid except that Chris Carpenter is hurt early.

Best Non-Keeper Value: Dan Wheeler, $6 (future Astros closer?)
The "what were you thinking?!?": Kerry Wood, $1. (injury waiting to happen)
Biggest risk: Ken Griffey Jr., $12
Breakout candidate: Anthony Reyes, $10

Matt's Utility Men

Matt wanted to spend money this season and he did. He had to wait 50 picks from the time he bought Jeremy Hermidia for $9 to start drafting his last 5 $1 players. I think he was napping between bringing up guys.

Balanced. His keepers really helped his pitching staff be in the top tier. Drafting Hoffman and Cordero will give him no worries on the closer front. The only question mark is Pedro who will undoubtable help Matt in the playoffs a ton. He's definitely more vulnerable in the first half of the season. His hitting will be fine if Reyes repeats his peformance of last season and Derrick Lee is good again. There's some big question marks on offense, but the anchors of Utley, Fielder, Lee, and Reyes should keep him consistent from week-to-week.

Best Non-Keeper Value: Pedro Martinez, $9 (depending on when he comes back)
The "what were you thinking?!?": Jeremy Hermidia, $9 (leaving him with $5 for 5 players 2/3 through the draft)
Biggest risk: Pedro Martinez, $9
Breakout candidate: John Maine, $10


Calvin's Slumpbusters

Calvin came in with the most money available with two keepers at $1 and a $2 keeper. He was throwing his money around early buying Bay, Delgado, Gordon, Lopez, and Oswalt. But I think he took on more risk than necessary. John Patterson, Ryan Dempster, Jim Edmonds, and a few others all have high probablilities of bombing/getting hurt. And they didn't come cheap either. So Calvin was left getting 5 for $5 at the end despite having so much money after keepers.

Balanced. Calvin is going to struggle with batting average and SBs against the top speed teams, but otherwise his hitting is solid. Especially of all of his keepers who were breakout guys last year continue what they did last season (which isn't a guarantee). Pitching wise Calvin will be solid if his pitchers do whats projected of them. After Oswalt there's not a lot of proven history. Patterson gets hurt and Wainwright, Chuck James, and Scott Olsen are either first time starters or are in the sophomore slump watch status. IPs will be and issue, but everything else should be good enough to win in any given week.

Best Non-Keeper Value: Ryan Dempster, $9 (assuming he closes all year)
The "what were you thinking?!?": John Patterson, $17 (great, but lots of injury risk)
Biggest risk: John Patterson & Jim Edmonds, $13
Breakout candidate: Adam Wainwright, $11


Prothero's Poppers

I had kept more "stars" than anyone else, thus had the least money at the start of the draft. This meant I wasn't in on any +$30 guys. Overall I think I drafted some good value and took on an acceptable amount of risk. My team is considerable younger than in years past. I did draft a few sentimental picks from the championship team from last year (Chipper, Nomar) to hang with my keepers.

Slightly Pitching-Oreiented. Other than the lack of saves which will keep me trolling the FA market all year, my pitching should win me plenty of games. Especially assuming Randy Johnson plays all year and is better than last season. This team was built on winning the averages (AVE, OPS, ERA, WHIP) and hoping the other stats fall into place. SBs will be a struggle, but the Poppers should compete in most hitting categories.

Best Non-Keeper Value: Josh Willingham, $16
The "what were you thinking?!?": Randy Johnson, $15 (too much for the risk)
Biggest risk: Randy Johnson
Breakout candidate: Kelly Johnson, $8


Dustin's Azzuri

Between Dusty doing Dan impressions and yelling at Jim, this draft was seriously entertaining. It appears Dusty's strategy for this draft was to draft as many potential keepers as possible. Should make for an interesting season if they all pan out or break out. My guess is a few will flame out and end up pissing Dusty off. He will need to spend his FA$ this season to plug holes as the season goes on. Dusty needs a team blog so we can continue the fun from the draft!

Pitching-Oriented. Dusty's pitching is simply more solid than his hitting. With the cheap keeper saves and the solid if not brilliant starters he should do well in pitching. Of course much of that depends on his ace, Ben Sheets, staying healthy. He will struggle to find SBs and all those young guys will kill his AVE and OPS. But he has a lot of guys that would be fun to have. And if Chris Young breaks out then Dusty may have his new favorite player (he looks and plays like Eric Davis).

Best Non-Keeper Value: Aaron Harang, $22 (Those K-BB make him valuable)
The "what were you thinking?!?": Kazuo Matsui, $7 (a little spendy for this never been)
Biggest risk: Ben Sheets
Breakout candidate: Pick 'em. Andre Either? Kouzmanoff? Chris Young?


Andy's Full Flanull

I think Andy is physically unable to draft power. The self proclaimed "Best Team Ever" isn't going to win a team HR derby competition. Andy ended up having a bunch of cash at the end of the draft, which of course isn't a good thing. If Andy drafted Luis Gonzalez he could have renamed his team to the "Has beens". Luis would fit right in with Helton, Shawn Green, Preston Wilson, Scott Hatteburg, and Paul LoDuca!

Pitching-Oriented. By keeping three starters he had a good base. Andy will need to win by taking the pitching categories (except saves) and hoping to take runs, AVE, and SBs on the hitting side. Andy may never win the HR, RBI, or OPS category all season. Andy should have picked up another closer and tried to get that last pitching category because his ERA and WHIP won't win every week.

Best Non-Keeper Value: Ryan Freel, $15 (SBs)
The "what were you thinking?!?": Shawn Green, $12 (he's no longer good)
Biggest risk: Todd Helton, $21 (another guy declining steadily)
Breakout candidate: Khalil Greene, $11


Kelley's FKaky

Kelley was on the fast track to spending $10 for 10 players at the end of the draft, but Dusty bailed him out by trading him some valuable cash with Weathers for Kouzmanoff. He was a big early spender nabbing Soriano ($40), Beltran ($39), and Peavy($27) for a pretty penny. He may have drafted enough talent to overcome his crazy keeper strategy. It's like he was throwing darts at a dartboard picking those guys :).

Hitting-Oriented. He's got some big names on the offense. Kelley could vastly improve himself with a few key FA pickups. Too many part-timers and guys not playing much doom his RBI, Runs and even HRs a little. But if he picks up some guys that play he'll be a force on offense. He should rarely lose the OPS category. On the pitching side, he's good enough to win most categories except maybe IP and Saves. If he didn't get Weathers in that trade he would not have had double digits in saves. Of course, even with Weathers he may not.

Best Non-Keeper Value: Dave Weathers, $6 (If he's the closer all year)
The "what were you thinking?!?": Ricky Weeks, $21 (i know...he's a keeper)
Biggest risk: Barry Bonds, $22 (just cause of his knee)
Breakout candidate: Chris Iannetta, $13


Dan's Pickle Weasels

Dan missing the draft - $0.
Dustin drafting for Dan - $0.
Many beers and shots of tequila - $10.
Listening to Dustin be "Dan" - Priceless

Hitting-Oriented. Dan probably has the best hitting team in the league. But his pitching is possibly the worst in the league. Of course, in head-to-head, that just may work. If Dan can get lucky on a few rookie pitchers in the FA market or make a key trade, he could be a force to be reckoned with.

Best Non-Keeper Value: Geoff Jenkins, $7 (off to a hot start...)
The "what were you thinking?!?": Jorge Julio, $17 (already lost his job)
Biggest risk: Armando Benitez, $7
Breakout candidate: Troy Tulowitzki, $12



Brian's Box Chowers

Brian stayed more sober this draft. Time will tell if it helped. It's definitely not as fun to yell "Sauza!", but it is fun to say. His draft strategy appears to be to load up on pitching that he can trade during the season.

Pitching-Oriented. If Lidge would have kept his job, he would have won saves every week. He still has 2 closers and another 2 guys who will get a few saves thoughout the season. Plus, he has a great ace in Smoltz and a solid 2-4 with Willis, Lowry, and Suppan. Unfortunately, the Box Chowers hitting resembles the Golden State Warriors of the late 80's. It's Berkman, Lee, and Andruw...and a bunch of guys who aren't going to help you win in the playoffs. If you've got hitting, expect a trade offer by June.

Best Non-Keeper Value: Noah Lowry, $8
The "what were you thinking?!?": Brad Lidge, $13
Biggest risk: Jason Isringhausen, $16
Breakout candidate: Shane Victorino, $7


Jim's Beaners

Former Champions Jim's Beaners are still trying to regain the magic of 2005. Jim looked a little shell shocked as he waited a loooong time to start drafting. Most of the studs were gone by then, but at least he has David Wright to keep him afloat. It will be interesting to see how the strategy to keep three RPs (1 closer) works out.

Hitting-Oriented. He is hitting oriented, but it appears his AVE and OPS could be bad. But he'll be good at everything else. Pitching will be an adventure. He's hoping Jason Schmidt is lights out for the Dodgers or else...

Best Non-Keeper Value: Aaron Rowand, $8
The "what were you thinking?!?": Oliver Perez, $9 (did you see his whip last season?)
Biggest risk: Cliff Floyd, $8
Breakout candidate: Cole Hamels, $19



Good luck for the season everyone!

My pitching is killing me...

...yet somehow I'm still leading Todd's Heaters 7.0 - 5.0 on the week.

Zambrano pitched so bad last night that sweet Lou Pinella blew a gasket in the post game interview (link). And Brandon Webb was doing his best Zambrano impression last night. At least he pitched 7 innings. My overall K-BB is -3!

You'd think with an ERA of 5.90 and a WHIP of 1.69 for the week there's no way I could win a single pitching category. Yet I'm still in it because Todd has a 5.66 ERA and 1.47 WHIP! Sad times people...

Week 1 Recap

Since TQStats no longer shows the points breakdown, I thought I'd try to record it on the Blog.

Week 1 Results

9.5 - Andy's Full Flanal
2.5 - Todd's Heaters

Andy dominated Todd in hitting sweeping all categories.


5.0 - Dustin's Diggleturb
7.0 - Prothero's Poppers

Jason eeked out a win in the first week despite having Randy Johnson in the lineup. The difference was somehow getting 6 wins (to Dusty's 4) with half as many IP.


3.0 - Kelley's FKAKY
9.0 - Dan's Pickle Weasels

Dustin is 1-1 in week 1 :). Hitting takes the week for Dan.


8.5 - Calvin's Slumpbusters
3.5 - Matt's Utility Men

Closer than the score indicates. Matt needed 2/3 IP, 1 SV, 2 HRs, and 1 W to win the week.


1.0 - Brian's Box Chowers
11.0 - Jim's Beaners

Dan Uggla who? Jim takes week one in a landslide.


Click the "Weekly Recap" label below for previous weekly recaps.

Kelley's team blog

Kelley is stepping up and making the league more interesting with his new team blog:

Beaver Roto League - FKAky Team Blog

Check it out!

Also, feel free to post your team thoughts here and tag then with your team name. Or create your own blog and I'll link to it here and put your feed on the left side with the other feeds.

Players of the Week: Week 1

I know that I always start this off but I tend to phase off after the second or third time of doing this. Hopefully this year will be different. If not, I might be asking others for help throughout the season.

Here are the players of the week for Week 1. Please note that Sunday April 1st and Monday April 2nd are not figured into the stats for some unknown reason by TQStats. So if the stats seem off that is why. Also note that I will try to keep the list to four people at each category (Hitters and Pitchers). So if you thought your player had a great week and isn't listed, it is because I narrowed it down to the top 4. I will also try to be bias too.

Hitters:
HOW (Hitter Of the Week)- Week 1
Miguel Cabrera - Poppers
2 Hr's, 7 R's, 7 Rbi's, .450 Avg, 1.438 OPS
It was a close call between Miguel and Eric this week. The astronomical Avg and OPS pulled Miguel away from Eric though. The 4 SB's from Eric could have won it for him but his Avg and OPS couldn't compete with Miguel.

Note worthy:
Eric Byrnes - Slumpbusters
2 Hr's, 4 R's, 5 Rbi's, 4 SB's, .300 Avg, .930 OPS

Geoff Jenkins - Pickle Weasels
3 Hr's, 4 R's, 6 Rbi's, .353 Avg, 1.330 OPS

Mike Jacobs - Beaners
2 Hr's, 8 R's, 4 Rbi's, .409 Avg, 1.344 OPS

Pitchers
POW (Pitcher Of the Week) - Week 1:
Ted Lilly - Diggleturds
13 Inn's, 1 Win, 12 K-BB's, 2.77 ERA, and 0.85 Whip
The K-BB ratio and low Whip won it for Ted this week. There were lower ERA's but the K-BB ratio played big in selecting this weeks winner.

Noteworthy:
Jake Peavy - FKAky
13 Inn's, 1 Win, 5 K-BB's, 0.69 ERA, and 0.92 Whip

Ian Snell - Heaters
13 Inn's, 0 Win, 12 K-BB's, 2.08 ERA, and 0.92 Whip

Cole Hamels - Beaners
13 Inn's, 0 Win, 11 K-BB's, 1.38 ERA, 1.08 Whip


WOW - (Worthless Of the Week) - Week 1:
This award goes to the two closing pitchers that lost or will be losing their job as closer.

Jorge Julio - Pickle Weasels
28.13 ERA, 7.50 WHIP, 1 L, 5 Er's, 1.2 IP's, 3 G's

Brad Lidge - Box Chowers
25.71 ERA, 7.14 WHIP, .2 IP's, 5 Er's

2006 Financial Results

Here's how the money shakes out this season and what to bring to the draft.


Winners:

--minus the 2007 entry fee (except Mike)--

1st: Jason - $228
2nd: Calvin - $73
3rd: Mike - $83
4th: Andy - $6


Non-winners (owes):

--2007 Entry Fee Added in--

5th: Matt - ($60)
6th: Jim - ($66)
7th: Dustin - ($66)
8th: Dan - ($50)
9th: Kelley - ($90)
10th: Todd - ($50)
11th: Brian - ($57)


So that's what to bring to the draft or PayPal me.

Curt Schilling's Blog

Curt Schilling has a blog. Pretty cool that a baseball "insider" would start something like this.

38 Pitches

Draft weekend set - April 7th

Keepers are due March 16th.

I'll have a list of the cash balance around that time as well.

Draft list for keepers

Draft list for keepers here:


Draft List