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Fantasy Baseball Chat
« on: April 09, 2007, 09:49:21 AM »
Ok, so I know a few of you are in fantasy baseball leagues... if you find a sleeper, share him here so the rest of us can pick him up.

It's a week in and I just dropped Zumaya and picked up Torres from Pitt.  I can't believe no one else from my league picked up Torres.

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Re: Fantasy Baseball Chat
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2007, 10:07:25 AM »
Zumaya's not really going to be a factor in fantasy right now unless Jones falls apart or your league scores holds.  That's a good move, since I don't see Jones falling off unless he gets hurt - he only blew 5 saves all of last year, and he's 3/3 so far this year.  For all we fans bitch about him, he's been one of the bright spots in our bullpen.  I swear to god we have some of the worst middle/late relievers in the league.  Grilli, Mesa, Rodney get the fuck off my team.

In my news, I moved up to first in my league this weekend, thanks to Pudge Rodriguez and Vernon Wells.  Also, I'm doing my best to stack my pitching roster with relievers, since they pitch so often.  If I could grab a Papelbon or Jones or Hoffman I'd be a very happy man.

Here's my roster.  It's a little Tiger heavy but what do you expect :)
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C   Jason Kendall (Oak - C)
1B   Derrek Lee (ChC - 1B)
2B   Ian Kinsler (Tex - 2B)
3B   Adrián Béltre (Sea - 3B) (Please god let them actually play sometime)
SS   Carlos Guillén (Det - SS)
OF   Carl Crawford (TB - OF)
OF   Vernon Wells (Tor - OF)
OF   Curtis Granderson (Det - OF)
Util   Iván Rodríguez (Det - C,1B)
BN   Hank Blalock (Tex - 3B)
BN   Josh Willingham (Fla - OF)
BN   Corey Patterson (Bal - OF) (I accidentally drafted him and he's going to be replaced after today)
                    
Pitching
SP Tom Glavine (NYM - SP)
SP Cole Hamels (Phi - SP)
RP Francisco Rodríguez (LAA - RP)
RP Bob Wickman (Atl - RP)   
P Dan Haren (Oak - SP)
P Kelvim Escobar (LAA - SP)
P Matt Capps (Pit - RP)
BN Daisuke Matsuzaka (Bos - SP)
BN Jon Garland (CWS - SP)
DL Freddy García (Phi - SP)
I'm also starting a money league next week or so ($50 buyin, $1 per trade, 12-15 guys).  Hopefully that goes well.

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Re: Fantasy Baseball Chat
« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2007, 11:32:02 AM »
Capps or Torres.... I had Capps early on but dumped him.  I recently picked up Torres... both seem to be cranking about the points, so who knows?

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Re: Fantasy Baseball Chat
« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2007, 12:29:36 PM »
Let's see... both Capps and Torres were drafted in my league, so no chance there. We also only have 10 transactions for the entire season (starting tomorrow), and the way I play is generally to make a decent amount of transactions since I don't follow baseball enough anymore to know people. That means that unless I drafted a great team I will suck. My ace pitcher is Chris Carpenter. I've already forgotten to set my lineup on more than one occasion.

This is going to be a long season.

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Re: Fantasy Baseball Chat
« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2007, 12:32:33 PM »
i should make a FB team to play against u guys and see if i win without watching knowing or caring about baseball.
hey ethic if you and i were both courting lily allen..... oh wait, which one of us has a relationship that lasted more than the bus ride home?

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Re: Fantasy Baseball Chat
« Reply #5 on: April 10, 2007, 12:39:29 PM »
Holy Fuck!

I didn't realize that you guys are talking about Salomón Torres. That guy lost the 162nd game of the season to the frickin Dodgers back in 1993 (I think) meaning the Giants ended up with only 103 wins and lost the division (no wild card in those days) to the Braves who had 104 wins. That year the Giants had a huge lead in August but the Braves fought back and went ahead with a week or so left, then the Giants won the first 3 games in LA to have the chance to force a one game playoff, but Dusty Baker sent out the rookie Salomón Torres in the must-win last game of the year, and he gave up like 7 runs and that was it.

Fuck you Salomón Torres. I'm glad you're not on my fantasy team.

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Re: Fantasy Baseball Chat
« Reply #6 on: April 10, 2007, 12:55:12 PM »
Do you guys use any other websites?  I wish Yahoo would show whether a pitcher was starting or not from the team view.

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Re: Fantasy Baseball Chat
« Reply #7 on: April 10, 2007, 01:00:42 PM »
> My ace pitcher is Chris Carpenter.

Chris "I have bone chips in my elbow" Carpenter?

edit: I'm going to use Sportsline for my money league, I'll let you know how that is.

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Re: Fantasy Baseball Chat
« Reply #8 on: April 10, 2007, 01:15:07 PM »
Yes, Chris "Fuck you charlie" Carpenter.

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Re: Fantasy Baseball Chat
« Reply #9 on: April 11, 2007, 12:38:23 PM »
Mark DeRosa... Yahoo reports a ton of people are adding him.  Thoughts?

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Re: Fantasy Baseball Chat
« Reply #10 on: April 13, 2007, 03:04:03 PM »
Looks like I'm not the only one who remembers that about Salomon Torres:

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=kurkjian_tim&id=2835951&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab3pos2

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Re: Fantasy Baseball Chat
« Reply #11 on: April 23, 2007, 01:43:24 PM »
Had my money draft Saturday.  Ended up with
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Reyes
Grady Sizemore
Joe Nathan
Brian McCann
Rob. Cano
Smoltz
Sabathia
Konerko
Felix Hernandez
Nomar Garciappara
H Matsui
Freddy Sanchez
Francisco Cordero
Cuddyer
Hank Blalock
Granderson
Moises Alou
Richie Sexton
Buerle
Randy Johnson

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Re: Fantasy Baseball Chat
« Reply #12 on: April 24, 2007, 09:53:24 AM »
You fucking double talker.  Bash me for picking Alou/Garciaparra in my league and then you go and pick them up.

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Re: Fantasy Baseball Chat
« Reply #13 on: April 24, 2007, 09:56:40 AM »
Alou was a garbage time pick and I actually got Nomar by accident.  I just called them old, I didn't call them bad ;)

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Re: Fantasy Baseball Chat
« Reply #14 on: May 02, 2007, 09:22:06 AM »
Booya... made a few moves and I'm jumping up in my league... went from 10th to 6th in about a week and I'm still climbing fast.

latest lineup:

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C Jorge Posada
1B Nomar Garciaparra
2B Chase Utley
3B Melvin Mora
SS Álex González
IF Orlando Hudson
LF Barry Bonds
CF Kenny Lofton
RF Vladimir Guerrero
Util B.J. Upton
BN Casey Kotchman
BN Moisés Alou
BN Darin Erstad
BN Chris Duncan
BN A.J. Pierzynski

Pos Pitchers
SP Jamie Moyer
SP John Maine
SP Curt Schilling
SP Nate Robertson
SP Erik Bedard
RP Chad Gaudin
RP Kyle Lohse
BN Shawn Hill
BN Liván Hernández
BN David Weathers
DL Micah Owings
DL Josh Johnson
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