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Rotoman Major League Baseball : Fantasy : Ask Rotoman
They come out every Wednesday, like clockwork.
If you want to participate shoot me good questions. I particularly like those that reference the poetry of Joni Mitchell, the plangency of Lou Reed or the candor of the Moldy Peaches, but I’m also open to suggestion. Suggest on.
Major League Baseball : Fantasy : Ask Rotoman
A friend wrote in today and asked if I was still writing the Ask Rotoman column. Seems he’s always checked it out from the links here at Ask Rotoman, and I neglected to blog it last week (I’ve been sucked into a vortex of child care and the NFL the last two weeks). This issue of Ask Rotoman is a classic, so if you missed please check it out, especially if you want to know why it might be a good idea to trade Mr. Pujols for Mr. Prior.
ESPN.com – MLB – Detroit Scores 17!
You know we’re into the season when a 6-6 raises Carlos Pena’s AVG to only .236.
As for me, I had KC’s best pitcher in the game, which is some small comfort.
Sports: AL: Controversial call saves K.C.
Jeremy Affeldt’s first save wasn’t exactly a beauty, but if you were struggling with him as a starter I guess it was alright.
Jose Offerman has never gotten quite enough credit for the things he did well because the things he did poorly were so visible. Like, for instance, getting a stupid amount of money from a small-market franchise. As if that was Jose’s fault.
His problem was that he didn’t hit enough to be a first baseman, but couldn’t field well enough to play second base. I mention this now because he played his third game this year at second for the Twins tonight, and only made two errors.
What Jose did well was take walks, and it’s the reason he’s had a long and varied career (as if that was a good thing).
In addition to being a bad fielder Jose was a bad baserunner. In a way, you could call Offerman a spry Dave Magadan. But I’m not sure why you would want to.
Will he have value this year if he qualifies at second base? All I can say is, more value than when compared to first basemen, but not really. No homers, no steals, a bad batting average. On base percentage is his best category. As Variety says frequently about oddball movies with no commercial potential: Could work in specialty situations.
ESPN.com – MLB – Boomer and the bar stool: Wells explains injury
The funny thing is Boomer has so innoculated himself to these sorts of problems it doesn’t matter how ridiculous the explanation is. But you have to wonder why it took days to come up with the gnarly barstools (and why call them that while they’re in kitchen?).
At least he’s not taking steroids.
Major League Baseball : Fantasy : Ask Rotoman
Everytime I turn around there’s another Ask Rotoman column out there. This one evaluates Preston Wilson and suggest ways to recover from catastrophic injury. Like Marcus Giles or Troy Glaus.
ESPN.com – MLB – Crack-ed up: No more Cracker Jacks for Yanks
This was inevitable when the Yanks canned “Take Me Out To The Ballgame” in favor of “God Bless America.”
Without Rafael Furcal and Marcus Giles, with a bruised Andrew Jones and a barely back Chipper Jones, with the oft-injured JD Drew and the positively ancient Julio Franco in the lineup, along with some lesser names, Big Unit didn’t vanguish Murderer’s Row.
But that’s usually the case with no hitters. There are always big hitters missing from the lineup, or bad teams on the field. And it doesn’t diminish the achievement one bit.
One wonders about sending Eddie Perez to hit for Mike Hampton (and one also says: This is the best right-handed pinch hitter you’ve got?). Career wise Perez’s OPS has been .79 of league average, while Hampton’s has been .68. I guess I’m with Bobby Cox on that one.
Major League Baseball : Glausy News
There isn’t an estimated time of return, but whenever it is it will be too late to salvage this season for Glaus owners. He and Mark Prior were the guys before the season I warned about, who I then went out and got on my teams. The prices, it seemed, made it worth the risk. Now I’m not so sure.