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Major League Baseball : Fantasy : Ask Rotoman
The new column is up, and it’s good. Okay, I’ll let you be the judge of that. But it does tackle Pedro Martinez’s workload, Korey Coskie versus Gody Jerut, first half busts gone wild, and legislating against dump trades. And please send in your questions.
Major League Baseball : Midseason Values
I got hung up on some technical issues with the midseason prices for mlb.com, so they didn’t get them until late Friday, which meant they didn’t get posted until this week. Sorry for the delay.
But you get single league and mixed league prices with comparable preseason bid prices (Derrek Lee was a bargain). Enjoy. Or Weep.
Yahoo! Sports – MLB – Box Score
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.
Major League Baseball : Fantasy : Ask Rotoman
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).
Major League Baseball : Fantasy : Ask Rotoman
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).
Yahoo! Sports – MLB – Box Score
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.