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Humberto Quintero was promoted earlier this season to ease Brad Ausmus slowly aside, but an appendicitis waylaid him for a spell. He returns with a vengeance tonight. This guy can get on base now, and he will eventually hit a lot. Whether all that comes together in the second half is unknown, but if you’re looking for an unknown catcher with potential, HQ is your man.
This year’s football magazine is out and in stores, graced by a spectacular photo of LaDainian Tomlinson and Jenny Perez’s usual crackerjack design. JD Bolick is also putting together an online companion to the Guide. As you know we’ve been fitfully trying to figure out how to complement the magazines online without starting yet another pay service.
In baseball my projections and prices for mlb.com, which are available for free because baseball pays, have to suffice. In football JD is testing the waters with this fashionably=beta product. Please weigh in on the new football discussion board.
Yahoo! Sports – MLB – Box Score – Brad Penny Freakout
Apparently he got a little peeved and tossed his helmet. That doesn’t make him any less of a pitcher.
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The new one was posted yesterday, but I was asleep so the link comes now. Hank Blalock for Adrian Beltre? Pleese. When you have too much offense, jettison Justin Morneau, maybe. More talk about Placido Polanco, Bret Boone, and some other second basemen. And advice about rescinding done deals that injuries undo. Read ’em and weep.
Yahoo! Sports – MLB – Zack Greinke
All the rosy pre-season forecasts for Greinke talked about his preternatural maturity. But a look at his game by game stats shows a pitcher losing his edge, falling apart really, perhaps because no matter what he did early in the season he didn’t win.
There is a reason that we talk about a pitcher’s confidence. It is an integral part of his ability to do what’s right, even though it doesn’t always work out. If you know you’re doing well bad things can happen and you simply shrug. But when bad things happen over and over you lose that insulation, you press, or you recoil, and trouble seeks you out.
The Royals should be doing everything they can to protect Greinke now. Maybe letting him take his lumps makes sense, but I kind of doubt it. He’s got to get back to that place he was early in the year, when he was pitching like everything was okay (because he didn’t yet know how badly his team stunk).
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Was it a mistake to drop Jorge Cantu? Is it worth picking up Orlando Hernandez? There is a hat trick of questions about Javier Vazquez and Matt Morris and Travis Hafner, among others. And, of course, there is Randy. What’s up with him?
Major League Baseball : Fantasy : Ask Rotoman
The new one went up yesterday, with some thoughts about Scott Rolen and Melvin Mora, Aramis Ramirez for Carlos Lee (with some sides), a tasting menu of deals (some involving AJ Burnett), and thoughts about young pitchers who may or may not be ready yet (including Zack Greinke).
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Just a few days after Carlos Beltran got a non-anabolic steroid injection (cortizone) and said he felt better than he had all year he swiped two bases. It’s impossible to say how long the effect will last but now is the time to hope with good reason that Beltran goes nuts.
Tim, an occasional contributor to the Ask Rotoman Discussion Board, has decided to start his own Blog.
I visited when there were more posts than visits, so to my mind he’s still figuring out what he has to offer that others don’t. It looks to me like an interest in strategies is what sets him apart from many fantasy blogs. And he’s a competent writer who makes it easier to read what he writes than harder.
You, if you decide to visit, can tell him what you like and what you find lacking. It’s a bold move to set up your own fantasy info shop. I wish Tim the best of luck.
My wife’s new book is called Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash. She followed the various streams of rubbish and waste from our house to their resting places, which turned out to be a pretty fun way to explore the very real problems we have with landfills, hazardous waste and recycling, to name just a few.
If you’re interested you can find out more at the website linked to above, and you can buy a discounted version there from Amazon, too. I’m biased, of course, but I’ve read the book four times and thoroughly enjoyed it each time. She is a wonderful story teller and guide.
