The Scoop

By Dalton Del Don

If anyone is interested in joining the RotoScoop Invitational fantasy baseball league, there might be an opening or two due to time conflicts. Comment here or email me at seven3d@aol.com. The draft is tomorrow (Thursday) at 6 PST.

Ryan Braun’s intercostal strain has officially become a major concern. Considering it’s the same exact injury that limited him to a .208/.304/.356 line in September last year, his latest setback can’t be taken lightly. The fact it lingered after a full offseason of rest was worrisome in the first place. I just drafted him with the seventh pick in my main league and am already regretting it. I knew I should have went with Timmy.

It seems the popular thing right now is to call Matt Wieters overhyped. Well, allow me to let you in on a little secret, he’s become so overrated, he’s now officially underrated. Sure, he’s looking at 1-2 months in the minors to open the season, but we are talking about quite possibly one of the five best prospects of the decade. He’s the real deal, so feel free to reach.

I really don’t know what to make of Javier Vazquez – entering last year I strongly recommended avoiding him. The feeling being he was coming off a tremendous year with strong peripherals, but the strong K rate has always been there and a big improvement in strand rate was largely to blame for the better ERA – something I didn’t feel comfortable repeating. Well, he responded with another campaign with very good peripherals yet a 4.67 ERA (his strand rate dropped significantly). David Bush is similar, but Vazquez is the poster boy for “his ERA should have been better.” Despite a 7.99 K/9 and a 3.3 K/BB ratio for his career, his ERA is a pedestrian 4.32 over 11 seasons. He’s posted an ERA under 4.42 once over the past five years. The fact he struggles out of the stretch (opponents have hit 21 points higher against him with RISP than with the bases empty during his career) is obviously a problem, but it does also seem Vazquez has been unlucky. In fact, the difference between his FIP and ERA (-0.86) was the third highest in all of baseball last year. Moreover, Vazquez is now moving to the easier league with a move to Atlanta. He’s an extreme fly ball pitcher, and according to park factors, last year U.S. Cellular Field was the second most homer-prone stadium in baseball, whereas Turner Field was in the middle of the pack. Bottom line, Vazquez is extremely durable, has struck out more than 180 batters in four straight seasons, should be a help in WHIP and could vie for the Cy Young with the move back to the NL. However, don’t be surprised if you are throwing your arms up at the end of 2009 wondering why his ERA was so much higher than his peripherals suggest it should have been.

Do you realize the Tigers signed Dontrelle Willis to a three-year, $29 million contract last year when he was coming off a season in which he posted a 5.17 ERA, 1.60 WHIP and 1.7 K:BB ratio while in the NL? Put a fork in him – his career is over. That signing was dumber than Drew Peterson’s new fiancée, or the fact the Twins built a new stadium for $400 million and didn’t make it a dome.

Two quick recommendations: The first is “I Love You, Man,” and while not a true classic, I thought it was one of the funnier comedies that didn’t involve Judd Apatow in quite some time.  The second is a TV show called “Party Down.” It won’t be popular since it airs on Starz, and I can only vouch for one episode since it just started, but the series premiere was an A+.

If you’re in an NL-only format (or a deep mixed league), David Freese is fast becoming a legitimate option. An early Achilles injury during spring stopped him from being the obvious favorite to replace Troy Glaus at third base for the Cards, but he’s since recovered while Joe Mather has slumped badly. Freese has a .914 OPS throughout his career in the minors, including 26 homers over 464 at-bats in Triple-A last season. He’s a deep sleeper.

I find it absolutely laughable listening to people discuss Curt Schilling’s Hall of Fame credentials and bringing up wins as a reason why he shouldn’t be in. Longevity obviously matters but have we honestly not moved past such an archaic method of evaluating pitchers? Listening to the Michael Kay show, who I generally like actually, he said: “Aren’t wins what baseball is all about?” Umm, yes, but that’s an extremely poor correlation to pitching performance, obviously. Bottom line, we need to stop this numerology when it comes to evaluating careers – and especially when it comes to such an insignificant statistic such as “wins.” By the way, Schilling was one of the best postseason pitchers ever and had a 127+ ERA, so while I’m far from a study of the game and consider the guy a tool, he’s a pretty much a slam dunk.


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  1. Dreamweapon Avatar
    Dreamweapon

    No no no, I have been on about this for a long time, ever since I wrote a massive survey on the theoretical legal and legislative responses available to municipalities when threatened by an team owner seeking to move a team (or contract one, as Pohlad was attempting)–an open air park was the only sensible option. Anyone who hasn’t lived a full season in the far northern Midwest can’t understand this, but it’s like this: they barely have a summer. Seriously. That isn’t hyperbole, it’s fact. People up there live further north than like 80% of the population of Canada. Summers are 4 months, tops, and that’s if they get a lot of luck in May and September. Apart from that, they are stuck inside their homes or offices or cars or ice shacks. They don’t need or want to spend what few precious hours exist of their incredibly ephemeral summer cooped up any more than they have to. I am guessing you could conduct a poll of the Twin Cities metro area and 95% of fans would rather be outside even if it was 40 degrees with a stiff wind than trapped beneath a sarcophagus of steel and concrete. A retractable roof like Miller or Rogers would be just fine, best of all possible worlds, but it’s expensive, and the Scandies around there are civic minded and frugal and sober people (again, not an overstatement–3.2 beer, it’s wretched!), I’m sure they feel they spent more on Pohlad’s (or his estate’s) investment than they ever should have already. In some ways it’s a minor miracle the team is still there, but while a few games may have to be made up or moved (and really, Miller Park is THE de facto home-away-from-home for all the league’s weather refugees, and it isn’t THAT far away, fan support wouldn’t be a problem), the fans themselves will doubtless be happier for the switch.

    As to Boston’s Braying Jackass, I’ll put it this way: if Bert is not in Cooperstown, then there is no way on earth, in heaven or in hell, in this dimension or any other, in any conceivable universe, that Curt Schilling should be there.

    Matt Wieters is a 6’5″ switch-hitting catcher with a wildly successful college record in a major conference (where he doubled as his team’s closer), a 1.050 OPS in his pro career, power from both sides, and no questions whatsoever about his defense. Anyone doubting the guy is about to get their ass burned. He may well challenge Piazza for the record books when all is said and done, and if he’s not the unchallenged best offensive catcher of his generation, it’ll only be because Bryce Harper could in fact hang the moon. And if someone isn’t buying hype on a 22 yo, they shouldn’t be buying it on a 16 yo kid. Basically, for fantasy baseball purposes, Matt Wieters is supernatural. He will probably be a no-brainer first-round pick in redraft formats within three years, and if you subscribe to position scarcity methods of team-building, he is probably the one truly untradeable prospect in the game. Even among established players, I don’t think I would deal him for anyone but Hanley Ramirez.

  2. Dreamweapon Avatar
    Dreamweapon

    Also, can I just note that on Feb. 18 on this very site I said that Vazquez was “nothing more than a fraudulent cocktease….the upper middle class man’s Dave Bush”? At the risk of being personally immodest, you know what they say about great minds…. 🙂 Hate that guy. He’s had a long, long career now, with only a couple of standout efforts to show. He may be unlucky, but he seems to be unlucky an awful lot….it’s a bit of a trend by now. I hate to channel Denny Green (I do it so poorly, not being able to pull off that squeaky castrato), but by now, Vazquez probably is who we thought (and what his numbers said) he was. As a 4th or 5th SP, sure, fine, but woe to he who would run this guy as a front-of-the-rotation option. The Phils and Mets are going to light this cat up like a roman candle.

  3. Poincare Avatar
    Poincare

    First of all, I got both of your league invitations DDD, and you know I would love to join. But I’m already in one league with you, and in several others, plus I really have to work during the draft time–so I hope you’ll forgive me for declining the invitation. Maybe next season.

    There is no way I’m going to add anything to the Minnesota’s new stadium should have been a dome debate. What Dreamweapon had to say above says it all. It’s a pleasure to read your writing sir.

    Now, on to Curt Schilling for the Hall of Fame. I find myself agreeing with both of you. I probably dislike Curt Schilling more than either one of you guys, and I can tell neither one of you care for him much. That said, he was unquestionably one of the best pitchers of this generation–and of course the whole “bloody sock” game cemented his place in baseball lore forever. I saw a stat on ESPN’s ticker recently which said that Schilling is the ALL-TIME leader in post-season ERA (min. 15 starts) with a sterling 2.33 mark. That is just plain impressive no matter how you slice it.

    Here’s a comparison for you guys that are into baseball history. I see Schilling as this generation’s version of Juan Marichal. They looked very different on the mound for sure, so I’m not saying they’re similar at all in that way–but the results they got were quite similar. More importantly, both of them finished second in the Cy Young race multiple times without ever actually winning the coveted award. Marichal was overshadowed Koufax and Gibson. Schilling was likewise because of Clemens and the Big Unit. Marichal had to wait a few years to finally get in (I think he should have been first-ballot, but no point in quibbling about that now). I believe Schilling will also have to wait a few years, but his ultimate selection seems pretty secure to me.

    I completely agree with Dreamweapon that Blyleven should go in first, but how much respect can you really have for a hall of fame that inducted Freddy “bleepin’” Lindstrom over 30 years ago but hasn’t yet inducted Ron Santo or Ken Boyer. One that has Jesse Haines, Rube Marquard, and Eppa Rixey but doesn’t have Bert Blyleven, Tommy John, or Jim Kaat.

    You can look this one up: Bill Madlock’s career statistics are quite comparable to Lindstrom’s. His lifetime BA is six points lower, but if you adjust for the era they played in it’s pretty obvious that Madlock’s performance was more impressive. For what it’s worth if you neutralize their career stats on BaseballReference.com Madlock comes out nine points ahead. Also, Madlock had a longer career with almost 1000 more lifetime at-bats, more homers, twice as many steals, more runs scored, more RBI’s, you name it… Madlock also won FOUR batting titles; Lindstrom never led the league in anything except hits once (in 1928). As much as I like Madlock, however, he definitely is not, nor has he ever been, my idea of a Hall of Famer. It still deeply offends me as a baseball fan that Lindstrom was elected. The guy had only SEVEN seasons of more than 500 at-bats for Christ-sakes AND he never led the league in anything except hits once. How in the hell can somebody like that be a Hall of Famer?! I know Frankie Frisch is to blame.

    Two of my favorite players of the past 15+ years are Moises Alou and Kenny Lofton. Even though I’m certainly rooting for both of them, I don’t see either one of them as a Hall of Famer. It is a fact, however, that both were MUCH better players than Edd Rousch, Ross Youngs, Chick Hafey, and Lloyd Waner who have all been enshrined for decades.

    I guess my point is that while I agree with the message and spirit of Dreamweapon’s argument that Schilling shouldn’t be in unless Blyleven is in, I have to disagree with him about that being a legitimate reason to keep Schilling out of the Hall.

    I have a great deal of respect for you Dreamweapon, so I hope you don’t mind. It’s a pleasure writing with you guys.

  4. Donald Trump Avatar
    Donald Trump

    Obviously blyleven should and will get in. But if you are ranking the top 100 pitchers of all time, I think Schilling is ranked ahead of blyleven, he was simply a better pitcher.

  5. RotoScoop Avatar
    RotoScoop

    Dreamweapon – I stand corrected on the Twins stadium issue! Seriously, interesting perspective. But you really think they’ll only have to make up a “few games?”

    I don’t think Schilling’s HoF case should be based on whether Bert is in or not.

    I’m with you on Wieters.

  6. RotoScoop Avatar
    RotoScoop

    I think I’m more optimistic about Vazquez than you for this year, but his unluckiness has become a trend, agreed.

  7. RotoScoop Avatar
    RotoScoop

    Poincare – Good stuff. I also hate the argument about how many Cy Youngs Schilling won. First off, most of the time, I disagree with the voters and they base their decisions off terrible statistics such as wins. Moreover, like you said, it’s also dependent on who else pitched in the same league in any given season. Schilling should not be punished because his time frame happened to overlap some ridiculous Randy Johnson seasons, etc. Schilling had a 2.23 ERA during the postseason in his career.

  8. BSMaryland Avatar
    BSMaryland

    As an avid Orioles fan I’m obviously in love with Matt Wieters…. definite mancrush.

    But to say he’s a lock, sure thing, best prospect in a decade, might be going too far.

    All I’ll say is Alex Gordon was the first player EVER to win POY in college and POY in the minor’s in consecutive seasons. Suffice to say, he was a “lock, sure thing, best prospect in a decade” and he’s still learning.

    While I hope Matt doesn’t go through that, it is entirely possible there are a few bumps in the road.

  9. RotoScoop Avatar
    RotoScoop

    No prospect is a lock, and I can understand the prove it first mentality. And I can almost guarantee there will in fact be some bumps in the road. But I’m a believer in the hype here.

  10.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    Yes, Poincare, your command of reason is formidable. I can’t really say that any one guy’s unjust exclusion should be the basis for another’s, if only because the final result would be to compound the wrong in the first place. I think I was just using the discussion of a HOF candidacy in general as a rhetorical device to argue the point. Still, some part of me would still like there to be a seal of some sort on admission of similarly qualified candidates until the logjam with Blyleven (and probably John, as well; I’m less aware of his resume and will have to check it out when I have a few minutes, but I guess my general gut feeling right now is that he would be borderline on his own merits, but whatever the novelty value of it, some bump should be awarded for the importance of his trailblazing on the sports medicine front) was resolved, preferably with Bert’s admission. I know it’s not fair or even reasonable, and on balance I do of course agree with you and D, but that’s just my visceral response. It’s just so absurd, it basically reminds me of the hijinks with Art Monk’s candidacy for Canton. It took years for the asinine voters to finally break down and let him in–we’re talking about a guy who was, at one point in the early 90s, the NFL’s _All-Time Receptions Leader_ over Largent. I mean, a league that was around for what, 70 years at that point, and he turns in the record for career catches? Even if he was surpassed by Rice and Carter and whomever, how is that not an automatic first-ballot admission by itself? The guy was a three-time All-Pro and a big part of three championship teams, yet they dicked around with him like he was just some guy, because, what, he wasn’t flashy and simply had a long, consistent and outstanding career, if not individually MVP-worthy seasons? Same deal with Blyleven–like Monk, his career numbers and his all-time ranks make the case for his admission on their face, and, like Monk, he was named to multiple all-star teams and was a core component of multiple championship teams. Except, like Monk, rather than having a MVP (or CY) year or two to showcase to a brain-dead and out-of-touch slight majority of newspaper writers (in an news environment where the city daily is on the verge of extinction, mind you), he instead just turned in a very long, very distinguished career.

    But, enough about that. I’m glad you mentioned Lofton, there is another guy who is going to fall right into the black hole of the collective stupidity of the voters for the same reason guys like Blyleven and Monk. I can’t recall any of his numbers off the top of my head, but he’s been such a high-level, impact performer for so long (it seems like most of my life as a sports fan), a vital piece of so many quality teams, and such a skilled and consummate professional that my impression would be that he had a great resume. But yes, I would be surprised if he got a fair shake. Then again, there’s hope the composition of the BBWAA voting body will change for the better in the near term, perhaps getting younger and a little more sophisticated in their grasp of some of the newer metrics for player evaluation.

    Anyway, as you quite rightly said, Schilling, for his part, is a complete tool, but it’s hard to muster an effective argument against his admission. Ok, enough babbling, I haven’t had a redraft in like 13 months and the RSI one here starts in less than 90, I suppose I should go look at some rankings or something, ha. Ciao for now, thanks for the great discussion lads!

  11. Dreamweapon Avatar
    Dreamweapon

    I hate my computer, seriously. Six years old, which means it’s like a ’79 Pinto in IT terms. Well, this time it was actually the keyboard’s fault. Suffice to say, that was me.

  12. Dreamweapon Avatar
    Dreamweapon

    As far as Wieters, what fun is life if you can’t abandon your fear and caution at some point and embrace a player’s potential? Maybe he’ll disappoint, maybe he’ll get lit up by some moose like Adam Dunn in a collision at the plate and never come back the same, who knows, but from what I’ve seen (I’ve been following him for a while now, I drafted him in my keeper+prospects home league as a Jr. at Ga Tech, in the last round of our ’07 draft–first time anyone took a college player, now half the owners do), I’m satisfied he’ll be a star. I never felt the same way about Gordon (own him, still as a prospect, in the same league), even when he was named BA’s #1 guy, and I can’t really remember anyone saying he was the best of the decade (not that that even means anything, there have been so many “best of the decades” guys by now that a Top-10 list would have to fifty entries long). He was highly touted, for sure, and had plenty of accolades, but with Wright around, I don’t know if anyone felt like he had a great shot at ever being the best at his position or anything, whereas most scouts seem to feel that’s almost inevitable with Wieters. Even Gordon really hasn’t sucked, to be honest–his peripherals are going in the right direction, slowly but surely, and he was really rushed pretty badly. He might not ever “break out” to the ceiling that people were probably hoping for, but if he keeps progressing as he has, we might look up in a few years here and find out he has just kind of sneakily transformed into a star player. 30/110/15 from him at his peak wouldn’t surprise me much at all, and that would be pretty delicious stuff.

  13. Dreamweapon Avatar
    Dreamweapon

    A couple of things–

    1. My team sucks. Seriously. My offense is a who’s who of last year’s underperformers and injury-plagued. I am going to need a lot of luck, probably a collective +300 games played vis-a-vis last year for the same bats. Ugh.

    2. Yes, I think the Twins will only lose a few regularly scheduled games. Baseball is played in November in New York and Boston every year. It’s not cold that kills games, it’s precipitation. I don’t have the NWS figures at hand, but I’m guessing Minneapolis’ summer precipitation is especially different than St. Louis or Kansas City. They’re probably better off than Cleveland, as there is no lake effect (the Mississippi is big, but not that big, and the city wouldn’t be on the leeward side anyway even if it was). I suspect it’ll just be a comfort thing more than anything else. Having frozen near to death even at November games at Lambeau, yeah, it can get hairy that late in the year, but it’s generally ok. And if Al Gore is right the city will have the climate of Nashville by the time the stadium is halfway into its useful life anyway. 🙂

  14. Dreamweapon Avatar
    Dreamweapon

    “ISN’T especially different” make that…..this keyboard is killing me. Ah, loyal IBM click, you gave me 13 good years but it may be time to lay you to rest.

  15. Kritter Avatar
    Kritter

    Well, I guess my team has promise, but I did get some clunkers, oh well, thats what u get for having conflicts. Now I must show what I can do. Sorry to all for all the weirdness, hope we can all just have fun, let’s play ball…

  16. Stevie YaYo Avatar
    Stevie YaYo

    The pilot for “Party Down” was the bomb. And since it’s on Starz, maybe — just maybe — we’ll get some Lizzy Caplan True Blood-style action. Ah, who am I crappin’ — with my luck we’ll get stuck with Jane Lynch’s not-so-goodies. Truth be told, I’ll take all the Jane Lynch I can get — woman has found her niche.

    As for my team in the readers league — I accidentally punted 1.7 categories. Someone(s) will probably manage a worse batting average than my team, but my saves deficit may be insurmountable. Love love love my team’s power; might as well rename my crew The Three True Outcomes. I also came away with a much better/deeper crew of starting pitchers than I expected, though how much our lineup format will reward this remains to be seen. Ks and Ws, mine — ERA and WHIP, maybe not so much.

    Someone suggested we post our best and worst picks — hard for me to do, since so many of my guys went just around where they should in a draft that went 364 players deep. Jim Thome at the 214th pick should return good value if he plays 140 games; same with JD Drew at 240. Judging by the fact that I got him in the 10th round, maybe I pulled the trigger too early on Wieters. Maybe.

  17. Dreamweapon Avatar
    Dreamweapon

    Stevie, I’ll entertain a bet on Ws and Ks.

  18. Stevie YaYo Avatar
    Stevie YaYo

    I bet on pitching once. Once, and only once.

    What team are you anyway, DW?

  19. Donald Trump Avatar
    Donald Trump

    I am a little stunned that everyone is not discussing how amazing my team is. Maybe you are still in shock.

  20. Dreamweapon Avatar
    Dreamweapon

    Team Anemia, a/k/a Rocket Surgery

  21. Wichita Cowbells Avatar
    Wichita Cowbells

    Well, this was my first 13 team draft this year and all of my others have been 10 so all of my regular names on my other teams kept getting scooped. I think my best picks might be Ray and Gregg since they look to get the bulk of save opportunities (crossing fingers). I reached on Aviles I think, but I like his upside and in my other drafts he kept getting scooped. I am probably putting to much stock in Greene’s spring training and new settings. I think if he has a comeback year my team will have a shot. Milton Bradley is a bonafide injury risk. Just hoping for 120 games from him. My avg. looks ok with Pujols. Hoping Crawford boosts my SB numbers up since I’m thin there. Thin on SP so Peavy has to stay healthy! And I sure would like to see Penny win comeback player of the year!

    Good luck all!

  22. Stevie YaYo Avatar
    Stevie YaYo

    Yo Trumpie — what, you couldn’t get Rowand???

  23. Dreamweapon Avatar
    Dreamweapon

    So, I just heard that Tigers season ticket sales went from 27,000 last year to 15,000 this. Detroit’s economy already resembled a neutron star (a collapsed, dead remnant of a formerly bright body) since, well, shit, the riots of ’68 that the city never really came back from, but especially from the decline of the American auto industry starting in the 80s. This city has been on life support for decades, it makes Baltimore look like as vibrant and upwardly mobile as Shanghai.

    Meanwhile, the Tigers have $100M committed for next season to just nine guys. My question to you is, can this possibly be sustained in the face of what is pretty clearly the worst depression in 70 years? I think the obvious answer is no. So let me ask: who exactly is getting Miguel Cabrera? Boston? The Angels? The White Sox?

  24. Keith Avatar
    Keith

    When the A’s announce their sparkling new downtown San Jose stadium, after signing Holliday long-term, they’ll make a bid on Cabrera. Or not.

    I’m not sure how to feel about my team yet. I think I should have taken Rollins instead of Utley and hoped Utley or Kinsler would have slipped to me in the 2nd, though I doubt they would have. I’m not quite sure I buy Pedroia as a 2nd round pick…I’ll be interested to see if he can repeat last year.

    Speaking of Red Sox who I think had career years last year…I’m not thrilled with Youk. I was hoping to get him a round later when I’d feel better about him and wanted Victorino instead since I felt I needed the SB’s more. Damn lost connection and autopick. I did the same thing with Ianetta where I either wanted him or Sandoval a round later. I think I should have taken an OF’er instead of a reliever, as my 5th OF spot doesn’t look very pretty right now. 13 teams with 5 OF spots makes things get thin pretty quickly. My SP’s are pretty thin too, so I can’t say I feel that great about my team…I think it’s looking pretty mid-pack right now. In hindsight, having my RP’s being the strongest part of my team isn’t a great design (though it wasn’t exactly by intent).

  25. Kritter Avatar
    Kritter

    Just looking for a grade on the team I drafted today, 10 team league, think I did pretty well

    C – Doumit
    1b – D Lee
    2b – Utley
    3b – Chipper
    SS – Theriot
    OF – Markakis, Beltran, Victorino, Ibanez, Hawpe
    CI – James Loney
    MI – Jason Bartlett
    DH – (PLATOON) Giambi, Delmon Young, Willy Tavares (depending on my needs)

    SP – CC, Oswalt, Kazmir, Slowey, Harang, Big Unit
    RP – Valverde, Ziegler, Hanrahan, Street

    Also, if u have time of course, let me know where u feel I could improve myself, and where I did well, thanks all!!!

  26. The Jewru Avatar
    The Jewru

    I had mentioned the best pick, worst pick idea to get some conversation and perhaps some shit talking flowing.   My best pick was certainly Bobby Abreu at the end of the 7th round.   There may not be a safer fantasy asset in the game.   You can pen in a line of .300 20 100 100 20 with perhaps a chance for more steals considering the Angels propensity to run.    Bengie Molina in the 19th round is also a steal.  Certainly not glamorous but he drove in 95 runs last year which was 1st at the position and was tied for 6th in homers.   Did I mention he hit .292?  Ok enough blowing myself.

    My worst pick had to be Ichiro at the end of the 3rd.  Unless he rebounds to hit .340,  I basically played an awful high price for a 3 category player who hurts you in the other two categories.  I could have made up the 40 steals easily since we had 5 OF slot slots to fill.   BJ Ryan looks terrible.   I let the draft dicate my decision here and there were other closers I prefer in hindsight that went much later Kerry Wood and Chad Qualls being two of them.

    Overall I like my team and think I will finish in the top 5.  I will need a couple of breakthroughs from Gallardo, Kershaw, Gordon and Tulo to have a chance at championship.

    Schilling=Douchebag=HOF  This guy was a throwback horse although I suspect steroids in 2003 and 2004.    Braun’s strain made me pass on him, although I feel that he is capable of 45 homers if healthy.   The power his swing produces reminds me of Arod.  Well perhaps he cheats too.  Lol

  27. RotoScoop Avatar
    RotoScoop

    Dreamweapon – All good stuff here. I agree about Gordon eventually developing into a fine player. And of course, we are in accord regarding Wieters. I still need to go over all the teams in the RotoScoop Invitational (RSI), but I do know for sure it was a highly competitive draft.

  28. RotoScoop Avatar
    RotoScoop

    Stevie Ya Yo – We can only hope for a similar Lizzy Caplan fate in Party Down (and by that I don’t mean her dying). Party Down’s second episode wasn’t as good as the premiere but I’m still on board.

    10th round in a 13-team league seems right to me regarding Wieters. But we simply can’t let you win both football and baseball leagues. And I’m hurting worse than you with saves.

  29. RotoScoop Avatar
    RotoScoop

    Wichita Cowbells – Ray was a steal. And Gregg for that matter too.

  30. RotoScoop Avatar
    RotoScoop

    Interesting Detroit take Dreamweapon – my response? Those players stay put. Not because Detroit won’t necessarily be sellers – but because there will be no buyers whatsoever. The economy is that bad, and every team is feeling it.

  31. RotoScoop Avatar
    RotoScoop

    Keith – What’s your take on the A’s stadium issues? Is San Jose the answer? I wanted this Fremont park to already be half finished by now!

    Losing connection is terrible – very frustrating.

  32. RotoScoop Avatar
    RotoScoop

    Kritter – That team looks good. I’d say you could upgrade your SS/MI spots.

  33. Kritter Avatar
    Kritter

    I just missed out on Cabrera, and there were better guys at other spots between him and Theriot/Bartlett, so I went that way…

  34. Kritter Avatar
    Kritter

    That said, anybody I should consider???

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