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Rotoman PSSL – Puget Sound Sports League Baseball Multimedia
This is an fantasy league website, though the link above takes you to the multimedia page, which features an excellent collection of video clips from baseball history. The site also has nice links to home town newspapers and other fantasy information, but it’s the video you’ll get a kick out of.
Yahoo! Sports – MLB – Brad Radke
I’m sure everyone is all over this, but dammit it’s important. Brad Radke had walked four hitter until his next to last start. Now he’s walked five in his last two starts, pretty much screwing the possibility that he’d end up with more wins than walks.
He’s hurting, and while he claims he’s going to be able to pitch through it, the numbers don’t lie. The glorious run is over.
Mike Fenger dug out the big file of minor league games played. It has the breakouts by level for each player. It doesn’t have the cool aggregated OPS that the original file has, so we’ll leave them both up here.
Bookmark them if you think you might need them.
Auction Players – Home of the Fantasy Sports Gavel
I probably should have mentioned this a week ago, but I’m shy. Thursday night at 8pm I’m chatting at this site. I’m guessing it will be like an Ask Rotoman column, only it will move faster and my typos won’t be fixed as often.
Unless I’m missing something Baseball America no longer has 2004 minor league games played by position listed on their web site. You can (and should) buy the BA Almanac, which has all records by team for all minor league players and teams last year, but it does seem it would be easier to just open a file that has minor league GP info in it.
Here is a link to such a file. I won’t vouch for the accuracy. Certainly players in the low minors aren’t included here, so if someone has the almanac and it shows additional games, go with that.
But for a down and dirty quick look, this is the info I have on hand. So now you do.
Major League Baseball : Fantasy : Ask Rotoman
The newest column, like clockwork. Who do you like: Bigbie, Gomes or Johnson? Is it worth trading Johan Santana for upgrades at two positions? Why does my team stink? More on Contract Years and why they don’t mean much.
The Swift Report: Aniston to Vanity Fair: No Goodwill for UN Ambassador Jolie
The goal is to provide news or, more often, commentary on the news. That’s what I do here.
But sometimes the news needs no comment. I have no idea what the Swift Report is, but the idea that it is covering the differing opinions of Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie about the United Nations is, at least, delicious.
But has nothing to do with baseball.
This is an amazing record, featuring guests I know like Flaco Jimenez and David Hidalgo and other Mexican-American greats I don’t, about the so-called urban renewal project in Chavez Ravine in the early 1960s that created Dodger Stadium.
Bitter and angry but equally life-affirming and rocking, it deftly explores the ways poverty and wealth, neighborhoods and baseball twist into a thicket of conflicting meanings that challenge each of us to come to grips with the contradictions between having too much when there are some who want. Even 40 years after the ballpark was built.
If I give the impression this record is anything less than beguiling, let me correct that. A wonderful survey of California and authentic versions of Mexican musical styles, with some nods to California jazz and soft rock. And it’s about baseball!
Major League Baseball : Fantasy : Ask Rotoman
Thoughts about Victor Martinez, a weird league in which Scot Shields is the most valuable reliever, debunking the myth of the salary drive again, and some thoughts about those closer situations.
Yahoo! Sports – Fantasy – The Skinny: Anticipated debuts: “Andy Marte, 3B, Atl – Chipper Jones has opted against surgery, meaning he may return to the Atlanta lineup by the end of July. Marte will continue to split time with Wilson Betemit, but neither has long-term value now that Chipper’s season appears to be saved.”
This analysis is totally wack.
I have no idea if Marte can hit now, but if he gets six weeks to show us what he can do, doesn’t that matter? Good? Bad? You have to bet on it. I’d stay away, but I wouldn’t be surprised if i was wrong.
And Wilson Betemit, a former top prospect who didn’t show much the last couple years, is playing like a major leaguer now, at least in the situations he’s been inserted into.
How do these machinations change fantasy leagues? Indescribably.
Ry Cooder’s Chavez Ravine