Official 2010 MLB season/fantasy baseball thread

[spideyman]

clint out in the first round of the playoffs after 18 winning weeks in a row?

masters of evil holding 3 of 4 spots in the second round?

mekhi phifer getting bro raped in the opening round?

here’s how i see it all playing out:

#8 Crown J over #1 Nomar Mutants
#4 Master Baiters over #5 Mekhi Phifer
#3 i am queens boulevard over #6 Marcy Projects
#7 Fuck Nick Swisher over #2 I Trol U

#4 Master Baiters over #8 Crown J
#3 i am queens boulevard over #7 Fuck Nick Swisher

#3 i am queens boulevard aka rsigley over #4 Master Baiters 5-4-1

God my team is ass. this has been one terribad year for me. it’s all good though anything SRK fantasy is GG

[jae_hoon]

God I am raping this round lol.

[I_Am_Lothar]

My team put on its troll glasses for the first round.

imo.

[Carpet_Lint]

God I am raping this round lol.

Your reign of terror stops here, evil doer.

[Du_Fugitive]

You might want to have a word with Troy Tulowitzki about that Clint.

Anyway, if anyone wants keepers from my team, we can talk trades.
Carlos Gonzalez is virtually untouchable though

[rsigley]

yo du fugitive
why you suck at fantasy
lost in the first round?

[P.Gorath]

I’m in the final in my league (good advice last week!)

terrible hitting day today but i can recover

tomorrow i have the quandary of starting clayton richard or chad billingsley, who are up against eachother. I’m leaning heavily towards Richard because he cant have as bad an outing as he did last week, and the padres are still playing for something, unlike the dodgers.

[Du_Fugitive]

yo du fugitive
why you suck at fantasy
lost in the first round?

I’ve been already planning my keepers for next year.
I’ve had matchups against Devin Storm Chesser’s team like 7 times this year cuz he’s in the same division and Tulowitzki decides to go off and hit like 14 HRs in 15 games the past two weeks while my keepers decide to be hurt.

Make me offers folks, everyone’s up for grabs but Cargo

[rsigley]

yea you got it rough, tulo is unstoppable like a citizen echo drive watch or eli manning

[Du_Fugitive]

yea you got it rough, tulo is unstoppable like a citizen echo drive watch or eli manning

Tulowitzki last week - 9 runs, 6 HRs, 17 RBIs, .300 in a week.

Total Master Baiters offense last week:
36 runs 15 HRs 38 RBIs 6 SBs .2697

[jae_hoon]

My team is bipolar, from week to week you don’t know if they will play good or totally suck ass.

[P.Gorath]

tomorrow i have the quandary of starting clayton richard or chad billingsley, who are up against eachother. I’m leaning heavily towards Richard because he cant have as bad an outing as he did last week, and the padres are still playing for something, unlike the dodgers.

well that worked out quite nicely

[rsigley]

clayton richard has like a 37 ERA when i start him but a 1 ERA when i drop him
same goes for derek holland

[rsigley]

it sucks no one gets put on the dl in september

i could use a roster spot but if i drop josh johnson someone will pick him up as a keeper and i want to keep him

[dodgers2213]

ESPN’s Jim Caple says Run the most important stat…yea, w/e shit head

I love this part:

Caple: Batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, OPS, BABIP ? those statistics and others are great but they merely reveal how well a player performs in areas that ultimately produce runs. Since that’s the case, why not cut out the middle man and go right to the final product?

-rebuttal LOL: **Aaaargh because runs scored is extremely dependent on opportunity, context, and luck. Here: if runs are so awesome, you make a super-duper all-star team of the top ten players in runs scored as of today, Sept. 12. Surprise! Four of your guys are Brandon Phillips (.334 OBP), Rickie Weeks, Martin Prado, and Derek Jeter (.290 OBP on the road!!!).

Also, it seems like you have no idea what BABIP is, do you, Jim Caple? That’s totally understandable ? it’s not like you’re a fucking senior writer for ESPN who is posing as a baseball statistics professor for Hot Stove U. writing an article about baseball statistics.**

really enjoying this Fire Joe Morgan reunion

[ckrazy]

Apparently Ichiro got 200 hits again.

[Warpticon]

I didn’t even know about the return of FJM. So glad I read this thread.

[Carpet_Lint]

I also like that Stat Geek article by Jerry Thornton that they had as well. Just a really creepy article, even before they got to it.

And of course, Jim Caple’s insane runs article…staggering in how bizarre it was to witness. What was that strange RBI vs. runs discussion he has with himself midway through? THEY ARE BOTH MEANINGLESS, YOU ARE A PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL WRITER, WHAT IS GOING ON

Also, originally posted on March 11th…

Can’t wait to watch Jose Bautista and his career .329 OBP batting lead-off, and seeing Vernon Wells and his limp dick 88 OPS+ drive him in from the clean-up spot.

WELCOME TO THE CITO GASTON EXPERIENCE EVERYONE

Today Jose Bautista has hit his 50th home run and Vernon Wells is currently sporting a 125 OPS+, third most productive season of his career, best since 2006.

Turns out I know shit about baseball.

[rsigley]

what’s interesting is he’s the first person to do it since 2007

it seemed like everyone was hitting 50 hrs but i guess that was a lie

1. 73 - Barry Bonds (2001)
2. 70 - Mark McGwire (1998)
3. 66 - Sammy Sosa (1998)
4. 65 - Mark McGwire (1999)
5. 64 - Sammy Sosa (2001)
6. 63 - Sammy Sosa (1999)
7. 61 - Roger Maris (1961)
8. 60 - Babe Ruth (1927)
9. 59 - Babe Ruth (1921)
10. 58 - Jimmie Foxx (1932), Hank Greenburg (1938), Mark McGwire (1997), Ryan Howard (2006)
11. 57 - Luis Gonzalez (2001), Alex Rodriguez (2002)
12. 56 - Hack Wilson (1930), Ken Griey Jr. (1997 and 1998)
13. 54 - Babe Ruth (1920 and 1928), Ralph Kiner (1949), David Ortiz (2006), Alex Rodriguez (2007), Mickey Mantle (1961)
14. 52 - Mickey Mantle (1956), Willie Mays (1965), Jim Thome (2002), George Foster (1977), Mark McGwire (1996), Alex Rodriguez (2001)
15. 51 - Ralph Kiner (1947), Willie Mays (1955), Cecil Fielder (1990), Johnny Mize (1947), Andruw Jones (2005)
16. 50 - Albert Belle (1995), Brady Anderson (1996), Jimmie Foxx (1938), Sammy Sosa (2000), Prince Fielder (2007), Greg Vaughn (1998)

god bonds sosa and mcgwire were so broken

[Carpet_Lint]

In hindsight…those are just such ridiculous numbers now, they make very little actual sense to me now. So hard to imagine a guy hitting 50+ now, it’s nuts.

1950’s - 2
1960’s - 3
1970’s - 1
1980 to 1994 - 1
1995 to 2005 - 15
2005 to 2010 - 6

Hmm…

Wow, Ryan Howard hit 58 home runs in 2006…? I have zero recollection of this.

EDIT: Holy shit, and so he did.