Running Fantasy Baseball thread

[outofplace]

Start Phil Hughes for the next 4-6 weeks and you'll be 0-15

Yeah, I need to find a DL replacement for Hughes. Sucks.

Just not Greinke...that's twice now he has poisoned my ERA, dammit!

 

[leo1]

i replaced jim edmonds in my outfield with josh willingham last night at 7 p.m. just in time for willingham's 5 RBI.

damn edmonds. i can't say i expected much but i don't know how much longer i can carry him on my bench.

i am also desperate for production at catcher. i drafted mike napoli who i expected would hit about .225 but 20-30 HRs. wrong, so far. so i start napoli every day even though he doesn't play much (so he doesn't hurt me, just doesn't help). i'm thinking of picking up miguel olivo or possibly mike redmond who has suddenly become the twins' regular DH. but redmond's only a .350 hitter when he plays part-time. any catcher suggestions out there?

 

[outofplace]

i replaced jim edmonds in my outfield with josh willingham last night at 7 p.m. just in time for willingham's 5 RBI.

damn edmonds. i can't say i expected much but i don't know how much longer i can carry him on my bench.

i am also desperate for production at catcher. i drafted mike napoli who i expected would hit about .225 but 20-30 HRs. wrong, so far. so i start napoli every day even though he doesn't play much (so he doesn't hurt me, just doesn't help). i'm thinking of picking up miguel olivo or possibly mike redmond who has suddenly become the twins' regular DH. but redmond's only a .350 hitter when he plays part-time. any catcher suggestions out there?

Willingham was still available? Nice.

Does anybody have Ron Paulino? I know some people might have bailed after his bad start, but the kid can hit. Hard to say who else without seeing your waiver wire. I recently picked up Johnny Estrada, but he was probably taken in many leagues.

 

[PhilaYank36]

Who has been the biggest bust so far? I have to say Lance Berkman. The guy has nearly single-handedly sunk my season.

 

[zeke12]

Gary Sheffield and David Wright have been killing me.

But then, I reached for both of them.

 

[outofplace]

Who has been the biggest bust so far? I have to say Lance Berkman. The guy has nearly single-handedly sunk my season.

Carlos Delgado has been worse, though he's not as high a pick. Ryan Howard has been pretty lousy, too, and he went ahead of both of them in most leagues.

 

[Guy_Incognito]

Who has been the biggest bust so far? I have to say Lance Berkman. The guy has nearly single-handedly sunk my season.

Soriano
HM:
Berkman, Sheff, Delgado, Tex, Zambrano, Rivera, Howard - top of my head.

 

[CradleRobber]

Who has been the biggest bust so far? I have to say Lance Berkman. The guy has nearly single-handedly sunk my season.

Soriano
HM:
Berkman, Sheff, Delgado, Tex, Zambrano, Rivera, Howard - top of my head.

Ryan Zimmerman.

 

[leo1]

i replaced jim edmonds in my outfield with josh willingham last night at 7 p.m. just in time for willingham's 5 RBI.

damn edmonds. i can't say i expected much but i don't know how much longer i can carry him on my bench.

i am also desperate for production at catcher. i drafted mike napoli who i expected would hit about .225 but 20-30 HRs. wrong, so far. so i start napoli every day even though he doesn't play much (so he doesn't hurt me, just doesn't help). i'm thinking of picking up miguel olivo or possibly mike redmond who has suddenly become the twins' regular DH. but redmond's only a .350 hitter when he plays part-time. any catcher suggestions out there?

Willingham was still available? Nice.

Does anybody have Ron Paulino? I know some people might have bailed after his bad start, but the kid can hit. Hard to say who else without seeing your waiver wire. I recently picked up Johnny Estrada, but he was probably taken in many leagues.

estrada - nice. i just checked and he's available. not sure how i overlooked him on the waiver wire. paulino is taken by the one idiot who always picks pirates because he's from pittsburgh (he's the only guy who plays this way - everyone else is pretty serious; it's a long-term keeper league).

actually willingham was on my bench all along. i've been alternating him in with griffey but had originally had edmonds in the lineup last night thanks to the marlins' off day monday and nearly forgot to get him out of there.

usually when a guy has a huge night i've left him on my bench.

 

[leo1]

Who has been the biggest bust so far? I have to say Lance Berkman. The guy has nearly single-handedly sunk my season.

Soriano
HM:
Berkman, Sheff, Delgado, Tex, Zambrano, Rivera, Howard - top of my head.

Ryan Zimmerman.

david wright?

 

[outofplace]

i replaced jim edmonds in my outfield with josh willingham last night at 7 p.m. just in time for willingham's 5 RBI.

damn edmonds. i can't say i expected much but i don't know how much longer i can carry him on my bench.

i am also desperate for production at catcher. i drafted mike napoli who i expected would hit about .225 but 20-30 HRs. wrong, so far. so i start napoli every day even though he doesn't play much (so he doesn't hurt me, just doesn't help). i'm thinking of picking up miguel olivo or possibly mike redmond who has suddenly become the twins' regular DH. but redmond's only a .350 hitter when he plays part-time. any catcher suggestions out there?

Willingham was still available? Nice.

Does anybody have Ron Paulino? I know some people might have bailed after his bad start, but the kid can hit. Hard to say who else without seeing your waiver wire. I recently picked up Johnny Estrada, but he was probably taken in many leagues.

estrada - nice. i just checked and he's available. not sure how i overlooked him on the waiver wire. paulino is taken by the one idiot who always picks pirates because he's from pittsburgh (he's the only guy who plays this way - everyone else is pretty serious; it's a long-term keeper league).

actually willingham was on my bench all along. i've been alternating him in with griffey but had originally had edmonds in the lineup last night thanks to the marlins' off day monday and nearly forgot to get him out of there.

usually when a guy has a huge night i've left him on my bench.

Glad to help. Estrada's kind of easy to forget, but he can hit, he's in a good lineup and a good hitter's park.

 

[outofplace]

Proof that some of us should not play fantasy baseball. Oliver Perez had been cut in one of my leagues. I considered picking him up earlier this week and when I saw he had 10 strikeouts and had given up only two hits through five today against the Marlins I decided to grab him. We do pick-ups in that league by emailing everybody in the league.

No sooner do I hit send, then the next four runners reach base on two walks a hit and an error and suddenly he is out of the game. Sometimes, I think these guys should pay me not to pick them up. It's not the coincidental bad turns of fortune that make me think fantasy baseball is bad for me, it is the fact that I actually, even for a moment, think that my picking a guy up in some fantasy league really does mess him up.

These are the moments that I truly appreciate my wife for the kind, PATIENT, woman that she is.

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

Gary Sheffield and David Wright have been killing me.

But then, I reached for both of them.

You'll enjoy this past week for Sheffield. He has his average over .200 now with a four-hit game today. Also hit another homer.

It's only one series, but it's the best he's looked at the plate this year. Good signs.

 

[zeke12]

You saying he's crept over the Punto line?

 

[outofplace]

Gary Sheffield and David Wright have been killing me.

But then, I reached for both of them.

You'll enjoy this past week for Sheffield. He has his average over .200 now with a four-hit game today. Also hit another homer.

It's only one series, but it's the best he's looked at the plate this year. Good signs.

Sheffield will be fine. As long as he's healthy, he'll hit.

 

[Guy_Incognito]

Gary Sheffield and David Wright have been killing me.

But then, I reached for both of them.

You'll enjoy this past week for Sheffield. He has his average over .200 now with a four-hit game today. Also hit another homer.

It's only one series, but it's the best he's looked at the plate this year. Good signs.

Sheffield will be fine. As long as he's healthy, he'll hit.

We keep sayaing that about alot of players, and in his case, I happen to agree. But for all of them the day will come when that's no longer true, and we'll all be saying it anyway.

 

[Songbird]

NL-only 5x5 leaguer here. Been in 3rd place for about 2 weeks, the highest I've ever been this late in the season. Only 10 points out of first. Solid pitching, fair-to-middlin' hitters. I like my chances this season.

 

[outofplace]

NL-only 5x5 leaguer here. Been in 3rd place for about 2 weeks, the highest I've ever been this late in the season. Only 10 points out of first. Solid pitching, fair-to-middlin' hitters. I like my chances this season.

Isn't May 2 a tad early to be talking about "this late in the season?"

 

[Songbird]

Exactly, outofplace.

 

[outofplace]

Gary Sheffield and David Wright have been killing me.

But then, I reached for both of them.

You'll enjoy this past week for Sheffield. He has his average over .200 now with a four-hit game today. Also hit another homer.

It's only one series, but it's the best he's looked at the plate this year. Good signs.

Sheffield will be fine. As long as he's healthy, he'll hit.

We keep sayaing that about alot of players, and in his case, I happen to agree. But for all of them the day will come when that's no longer true, and we'll all be saying it anyway.

I'm starting to wonder about Carlos Delgado a little bit. He's only 34 (35 in June), not ancient by baseball standards, but old enough to start to decline and some guys go down fast.