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I'll be here for another hour taking questions if anyone else wants some advice on their team. I want to make this league compe ive
yeah catchers are thin but only mauer and vmart play everyday. Those are the only guys who are in the lineup everyday. Other catchers sit out atleast once a week, and even when they play, most don't offer more than 15 homers and a .250 batting average. Nothing you can't find off waivers whoever you need one
I'll be here for another hour taking questions if anyone else wants some advice on their team. I want to make this league compe ive
True but I got both catchers late.
fyi I wasnt asking for advice at all. I know what im doing and going to prove it to everyone.
you should start shopping your power for speed, or someone who can play 3rd
Its early in the season, calm down there buddy. I wont even think about trades for at least a month or so.
well that is why I'm a champion and you are a perennial .500 team
wait till you win something first.
Ok ill bite, why should I trade some power for speed. You know SB's dont mean to me especially with being caught counting against you now.
you have ALOT of power, but not much speed. Especially with net steals, you only are going to need a few each week to win a category. Also, while power gets you runs and rbi as a secondary stat, you will get more runs with speed because of where most speed guys hit in the lineup.
If I were you, I would shop some of that power for atleast one speedster. Look at Whott's outfield. He will win stolen bases each week, but he will never win homers or RBI's, you and him are natural trade partners. Same with you and Mel. Slayer has a bad 1st base option, and you have an abundance of first basemen..again, natural trade partners.
Says the man who beat me the only time we met in the playoffs
Especially down the stretch, I look at your team to make adjustments. Like last season, the only reason I picked up Jim Johnson was with you in mind. I probably had an advantage on wins and strikeouts because I had more starters. But you were probably going to win era and whip if we met. I was hoping that I might steal one category because you had an advantage in hitting. And then hopefully, it would all come down to saves.
Anyway, Alamo whupped my ass so it was all academic. But anyone that knows better knows that they will have to handle the screwballs to win our league.
You definitely had the edge in starting pitching last year, especially by seasons end when I was hoping to avoid you in the playoffs. I spent the entire season trying to match your SP. And I don't think my my offense was beating yours either...not in HR and RBI. At the beginning of the season you might have trying to match up with me, but by the end of the season I was trying to match up with you.
and then Alamo got us both.
With an autodraft.
have you ever considered autodrafting? I don't think autodraft would take Lance Berkman in the 6th roundSays the man who beat me the only time we met in the playoffs
You definitely had the edge in starting pitching last year, especially by seasons end when I was hoping to avoid you in the playoffs. I spent the entire season trying to match your SP. And I don't think my my offense was beating yours either...not in HR and RBI. At the beginning of the season you might have trying to match up with me, but by the end of the season I was trying to match up with you.
and then Alamo got us both.
With an autodraft.
Have you ever considered doing the exact opposite of what you think you should do?
Nice of you to take time to post by the way, I figured you would be sifting through the mul ude of trade offers for Strassburg
good one.
did you see Berkman and Kinsler are headed towards their second homes...the DL....next stop, glue factory
I'm projected to win this league by 12 games already, without anything from strasberg. That how far ahead I am at this point. Anything I get from him is just icing on the cake.Have you ever considered doing the exact opposite of what you think you should do?
Nice of you to take time to post by the way, I figured you would be sifting through the mul ude of trade offers for Strassburg
"With the 62nd pick in the 2010 fantasy draft...Screwballs selects.......Lance Berkman!"
"With the 134th pick in the 2010 fantasy draft...Screwballs selects.....Alfanso Soriano!"
"with the 84th pick in the 2010 fantasy draft...Screwballs selects....Brian Fuentes!"
Are you really this much of an idiot?
here is Whott's fans watching while he drafts Lance Berkman in the 6th round
Between Ricky Weeks, Lance Berkman and Ian Kinser, your team might spend more days on the DL than it hits home runs
I will admit though Whott, if this was 2004 you would have an awesome team with Pudge Rodriquez, Derek Lowe Lance Berkman, Casey Blake and Soriano.
Sucks for you 2004 was 6 years ago....along with most of your teams primes
I will admit though Whott, if this was 2004 you would have an awesome team with Pudge Rodriquez, Derek Lowe Lance Berkman, Casey Blake and Soriano.
Sucks for you 2004 was 6 years ago....along with most of your teams primes
Yes I should have gone for a sure thing at c like yourself. I have my reasons for picking Pudge.
man crush?
ironically, ESPN just wrote an article about how Berkman could be a steal (along with Kinsler) in drafts this year. Though, I don't think they are saying you "steal" Berkman in the 6th round, and Kinsler in the 1st.
http://insider.espn.go.com/sports/fa...all&id=5043679Many fantasy baseball drafts will be held this weekend, and when the last piece of news you've got on a player is that he'll miss the first part of the season with a disabled-list stint, that tends to drastically alter his value. However, in the case of Houston Astros first baseman Lance Berkman, the fact that he'll miss some time with a knee injury doesn't scare me one bit. On the contrary, I'd call this DL stint somewhat welcome news.
What would you have rather have -- from a real or fantasy baseball sense -- a player who performs at a far lesser level through an injury or someone who gets proper rest and comes back strong? I've watched way too many players over the years play through injury and see their batting average drop like a rock. Or in the case of Mike Lowell in 2005, the injury affects the player for the duration of the season.
People, a baseball season is six months long, and fantasy championships are not won or lost in April. From the players I've spoken to over the years, the season is more taxing than anyone can imagine. Bodies break down. I've come to work with broken bones, pulled muscles and the like, but I don't need to throw a baseball 100 times with velocity, or swing a bat and run the bases. When you're hurt, you need to heal. I'd prefer Berkman to do this off a baseball field, so when he comes back he's ready to hit like the Berkman we remember from 2008. You remember that fellow, right? He hit .312 with 29 home runs and 106 RBIs, and that was with a poor second half in which he batted .259 with only seven home runs. Berkman was streaky last season, as well, though not to the same degree. It's pretty easy to speculate that he's been playing hurt at times the past few seasons.
First base is the deepest position in fantasy baseball this season, so one might wonder why it's worth it to mess with an older player (Berkman is 34) coming off spring arthroscopic knee surgery. The thing is, when most people think this way, it creates extraordinary value when everyone avoids the player. Berkman had loose cartilage removed from the left knee March 13, and generally it takes players two to four weeks to get back to speed. And this isn't someone we'd call a speedy player in the first place, which is good news for the recovery. We know Berkman can be productive, and this DL stint should help him immensely.
Berkman is currently being selected in the ninth round on average in ESPN live drafts How much further will he drop this weekend? A season ago, Berkman was the No. 13 player in ESPN drafts -- not at first base, but overall -- and as usual, I fail to see what has really changed in that time. Berkman did hit 25 home runs in 2009.
Injury often creates value, and I suspect we're going to see DL'ed players come at a far lesser price in the coming week, with Ian Kinsler, Cliff Lee, Brandon Webb among them. It's not that I look to draft injured players, but it's about selecting players at the right time. I trust that Berkman remains a special hitter, one coming at a discount, and that's the right time to pounce. Plus, it's nice to know the player has that asterisk up front, helping lineup maneuverability. That's better than him hitting .150 for two weeks as an active player.
Incidentally, the Astros aren't going to panic about how to replace Berkman, knowing it's a short-term problem. Geoff Blum likely will man the position in the interim. You don't really want him in fantasy baseball. I'd kind of like to see what Chris Johnson -- a third baseman, really, but Pedro Feliz won't be sitting -- or Chris Shelton could do at the plate for a few weeks, but I'm guessing the Astros go with a combination of Blum and Jeff Keppinger. Awesome!
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