- The Twins have won 37 of their first 48 home games. It’s the best start at home by a team since the 1998 Yankees went 40-8.
- Jose Canseco had another run-in with police this week after winning the home run derby at the Golden Baseball League’s inaugural All-Star game. Several hours after Canseco won a $250 cash prize in the contest, Chico police officers found him outside his Oxford Suites hotel room early Wednesday morning in a heated argument with a woman. Officers found the room, where the two were staying, had been damaged. Neither person was arrested.
- According to Baseball Prospectus, the list of the most abused pitchers in baseball this year goes as follows: Livan Hernandez is first, Jason Schmidt is second, followed by Aaron Harang, Carlos Zambrano, John Smoltz, Barry Zito, Dontrelle Willis, Bronson Arroyo, Curt Schilling and Brett Myers.
- Josh Beckett has allowed 27 homers this year, a career-high. His previous high was 16 with the 2004 Marlins.
- Sunday’s win improved the Twins’ record to 63-1 when leading after eight innings this season. They’re also 257-3 when leading after the eighth since the start of the 2003 season.
- Robby recently did an excellent job of pointing out the ridiculous quality of Sports Illustrated’s recent foray into the fantasy sports industry. Well, I didn’t want ESPN to feel left out; after all, we here at RotoScoop do not choose favorites when it comes to shoddy fantasy football rankings. Other than the laughable ranking of Tony Gonzalez ahead of Antonio Gates, I won’t nitpick too much with Bristol’s rankings. My main criticism is that they probably should have spent a little more time analyzing teams starters (DeShaun Foster ranked ahead of Reggie Bush, Willie Parker, Brian Westbrook, Julius Jones, Kevin Jones and Chester Taylor is a tad suspect) and less time on teams third, fourth and fifth stringers. I’m all for a thorough job, but come on, do 115 RBs really need to be listed? What about 150 WRs? I mean, I couldn’t believe that LeRon McCoy was ranked No. 140, ahead of No. 142 Skyler Green. The 77 TEs were absolutely necessary, however. When a guy who played in all 16 games and amassed 1 reception for 1 yard last year isn’t the last player on the list, it’s probably time to focus your resources elsewhere.
- My favorite part of ESPN’s fantasy coverage has to be the mock draft. It’s tough to take Bill Simmons (The Sports Guy), who is one of my favorite writers, seriously after seeing him take a kicker in round eight.
- In hindsight, I probably should have blown all of my FAAB on Jered Weaver instead of Cole Hamels. Oh well, at least I referred to Francisco Liriano as “THE steal of fantasy baseball drafts” before the season. You win some, you lose some.
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