Baseball 2012

[CountDeMoney]

OK, fags.  Rate my ESPN league team.  Hawt or nawt?

C   Joe Mauer, Min C
1B   Prince Fielder, Det 1B
2B   Brandon Phillips, Cin 2B   
3B   Aramis Ramirez, Mil 3B   
SS   Dee Gordon, LAD SS    
2B/SS   Neil Walker, Pit 2B   
1B/3B   Mark Teixeira, NYY 1B   
OF   Jacoby Ellsbury, Bos OF   
OF   Matt Holliday, StL OF   
OF   Michael Cuddyer, Col 1B, OF   
OF   Carlos Lee, Hou 1B, OF   
OF   Delmon Young, Det OF
UTIL   Alfonso Soriano, ChC OF
Bench   Carlos Pena, TB 1B
Bench   Will Venable, SD OF   

PITCHERS      
P   Jon Lester, Bos SP
P   Adam Wainwright, StL SP
P   Huston Street, SD RP
P   Kyle Farnsworth, TB RP
P   Brandon League, Sea RP
P   Ryan Dempster, ChC SP
P   Colby Lewis, Tex SP
P   Frank Francisco, NYM RP
P   Randy Wolf, Mil SP   
Bench   Brian Wilson, SF RP

[derspiess]

OK, fags.  Rate my ESPN league team.  Hawt or nawt?

C   Joe Mauer, Min C
1B   Prince Fielder, Det 1B
2B   Brandon Phillips, Cin 2B   
3B   Aramis Ramirez, Mil 3B   
SS   Dee Gordon, LAD SS    
2B/SS   Neil Walker, Pit 2B   
1B/3B   Mark Teixeira, NYY 1B   
OF   Jacoby Ellsbury, Bos OF   
OF   Matt Holliday, StL OF   
OF   Michael Cuddyer, Col 1B, OF   
OF   Carlos Lee, Hou 1B, OF   
OF   Delmon Young, Det OF
UTIL   Alfonso Soriano, ChC OF
Bench   Carlos Pena, TB 1B
Bench   Will Venable, SD OF   

PITCHERS      
P   Jon Lester, Bos SP
P   Adam Wainwright, StL SP
P   Huston Street, SD RP
P   Kyle Farnsworth, TB RP
P   Brandon League, Sea RP
P   Ryan Dempster, ChC SP
P   Colby Lewis, Tex SP
P   Frank Francisco, NYM RP
P   Randy Wolf, Mil SP   
Bench   Brian Wilson, SF RP

Needs more Cardinals.


Anyway, yokels here in Cincy are congratulating each other on the Votto deal.  We'll see how happy they are next year when ticket and food prices go way up, and then the next few years that follow as the team struggles to pay his quarter of a billion dollar contract.

The silver lining for me is that it makes it nearly impossible to keep that jaggoff Brandon Phillips in Cincy.

[sbr]

OK, fags.  Rate my ESPN league team.  Hawt or nawt?

C   Joe Mauer, Min C
1B   Prince Fielder, Det 1B
2B   Brandon Phillips, Cin 2B   
3B   Aramis Ramirez, Mil 3B   
SS   Dee Gordon, LAD SS    
2B/SS   Neil Walker, Pit 2B   
1B/3B   Mark Teixeira, NYY 1B   
OF   Jacoby Ellsbury, Bos OF   
OF   Matt Holliday, StL OF   
OF   Michael Cuddyer, Col 1B, OF   
OF   Carlos Lee, Hou 1B, OF   
OF   Delmon Young, Det OF
UTIL   Alfonso Soriano, ChC OF
Bench   Carlos Pena, TB 1B
Bench   Will Venable, SD OF   

PITCHERS      
P   Jon Lester, Bos SP
P   Adam Wainwright, StL SP
P   Huston Street, SD RP
P   Kyle Farnsworth, TB RP
P   Brandon League, Sea RP
P   Ryan Dempster, ChC SP
P   Colby Lewis, Tex SP
P   Frank Francisco, NYM RP
P   Randy Wolf, Mil SP   
Bench   Brian Wilson, SF RP

Head to Head or Roto?

I would never pick Lester because I refuse to use that high a draft pick on a pitcher.  I would rather see another bat where ever you got him (I'm guessing 3rd round, after Fielder and Tex?).  I'm also not a huge Randy Wolf fan, doesn't strike out enough hitters but considering where you likely got him he is fine.

Other than that I think it looks good, nice mix of power and speed and likely didn't overpay for any pitching other than Lester.

[sbr]

Needs more Cardinals.


Anyway, yokels here in Cincy are congratulating each other on the Votto deal.  We'll see how happy they are next year when ticket and food prices go way up, and then the next few years that follow as the team struggles to pay his quarter of a billion dollar contract.

The silver lining for me is that it makes it nearly impossible to keep that jaggoff Brandon Phillips in Cincy.

Even though I am a fellow Cards fan I like to see Cincy lock Votto up, but these 10 year contracts are getting out of hand.  Unless the Reds do something to significantly increase revenues Votto is going to be 25% of the Reds payroll for the next decade.  As much as I like Votto I don't like him nearly that much.

[derspiess]

Even though I am a fellow Cards fan I like to see Cincy lock Votto up, but these 10 year contracts are getting out of hand.  Unless the Reds do something to significantly increase revenues Votto is going to be 25% of the Reds payroll for the next decade.  As much as I like Votto I don't like him nearly that much.

I'll never admit it to my family/friends here who are all Reds fans, but Votto really is a great guy (for a Canadian ).  But yeah, where's the money gonna come from?  The Reds have a strong following here, but if they jack up ticket prices and don't create some success, they may alienate their fan base as bad as the Bengals did in recent years.

I can take my kid to a Reds game for less than $20 between the two of us, including food (helps that I already have a parking spot).  It'd be a shame to lose that. 

[CountDeMoney]

Head to Head or Roto?

I would never pick Lester because I refuse to use that high a draft pick on a pitcher.  I would rather see another bat where ever you got him (I'm guessing 3rd round, after Fielder and Tex?).  I'm also not a huge Randy Wolf fan, doesn't strike out enough hitters but considering where you likely got him he is fine.

Other than that I think it looks good, nice mix of power and speed and likely didn't overpay for any pitching other than Lester.

Standard roto scoring.  And I scored Lester in the 6th round, if you could believe it.  Randy Wolf was there in the 24th round, so I took a flyer on him.  Figure at 24, it's all upside.

The only arm I think I really reached for was Brian Wilson in the 7th, yes, twitchy shoulder and all.

[CountDeMoney]

Needs more Cardinals.

Wainwright better be all that and a bag of chips this year.

[Ed Anger]

The problem I see is that you are playing fantasy baseball.

[CountDeMoney]

The problem I see is that you are playing fantasy baseball.

Yes, I can see how antsy you must be, as it is a long time to wait for Bengals training camp.  There, there.  There, there. 

[sbr]

Head to Head or Roto?

I would never pick Lester because I refuse to use that high a draft pick on a pitcher.  I would rather see another bat where ever you got him (I'm guessing 3rd round, after Fielder and Tex?).  I'm also not a huge Randy Wolf fan, doesn't strike out enough hitters but considering where you likely got him he is fine.

Other than that I think it looks good, nice mix of power and speed and likely didn't overpay for any pitching other than Lester.

Standard roto scoring.  And I scored Lester in the 6th round, if you could believe it.  Randy Wolf was there in the 24th round, so I took a flyer on him.  Figure at 24, it's all upside.

The only arm I think I really reached for was Brian Wilson in the 7th, yes, twitchy shoulder and all.

Yeah I should have known Lester wasn't a 3rd round pick.  6th round sounds better but still too early for me personally.  I am in two leagues this year, in the normal one my first pitcher was Wainwright in the 9th round.  In my keeper league I had 7 players on my team before I took a pitcher, Cory Luebke.  That may have been a reach but I was picking 1 out of 16 and couldn't afford to let any more pitchers go before I got one.

EDIT:  Both my leagues are H2H though, it is a little easier to win with medicore pitching in that format.

I do like the way you stocked up on RPs, good roto strategy.  Ride them and get a good lead on saves while keeping your innings and ratios low, then stream SPs late in the season to catch up in the counting catagories you are doing poor in while others are against the innings cap and trying to figure out the next Blue Jays closer to get 4 saves before his elbow explodes.

[jimmy olsen]

Red Sox are already snakebit! 

[katmai]

Baltimore Orioles lose to community college team

[sbr]

http://m.yahoo.com/w/sports/home/news/article?offset=0&urn=urn%3Anewsml%3Asports.yahoo%2Cap%3A20050301%3Amlb%2Carticle%2Cap-reds-votto%3A1&.ts=1333589285&.intl=us&.lang=en

Votto's contract is actually 12 years, and he is 28 now.  That's insane.

[Valmy]

Baltimore Orioles lose to community college team

Alot of Orioles players were playing for the CC team but still....ugh.

[CountDeMoney]

Baltimore Orioles lose to community college team

After 14 years of 0-fer-Infinity, you think that even makes the sports pages here anymore?