Hope You Find Your Paradise

This week’s music: Goodbye Stranger by Supertramp

My Take: Welcome to the week of Greg. Greg had 4 players in the week’s top 10 (Pedroia, Holliday, McCutchen, Perez) and 6 in the top 20. Greg has nearly caught me in runs, has caught me in average, and setting a tough pace in most other stats (both Pitching and Hitting). If the Dwellers keep up this type of play, they may need to move out of the basement and into attic.

Pitching is ridiculous. You really can’t look solely at player rankings because it is too volatile from week to week. Neftali Perez went from being Greg’s worst pitcher last week (#1369) to his best this week (#8). Johan Santana has been Dad’s worst pitcher the last 2 weeks and still has a 2.76 for the last month (which is lower than Dad’s team ERA for the year). Finding good pitchers and knowing when to hold and when to drop has to be based more on long term stats than anything else. Unfortunately, this means you’re likely to ride a bad pitcher for too long, hoping he can right the ship or waiting to see more conclusively that he just doesn’t have it. If you have a secret to pitchers, I’d love to hear it because they are killing me.

Next to Greg, outfielders ruled the week. 5 of the top 10 players in the league were outfielders.

Last Week’s Batting Hotties: (according to Yahoo!)
   Hello and BaZambo: Josh Hamilton-OF (#2 for the Week)                                   

H/AB	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS
16/27	6	1	6	2	.593	1.422

  Basement Dwellers: Dustin Pedroia-2B (#1 for the Week)

H/AB	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS
12/23	9	1	5	4	.522	1.339

  BeanBallers: Jose Reyes-SS (#10 for the Week)

H/AB	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS
9/27	8	2	5	1	.333	1.061

  Monroe Struts: Carl Crawford-OF (#5 for the week)

H/AB	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS
9/21	9	1	3	3	.429	1.381

  Free Agent: Manny Ramirez-OF (#4 for the Week)

H/AB	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS
9/21	7	3	6	1	.429	1.355

Last Week’s Batting Notties:
  Hello and BaZambo: # 1356 Vernon Wells (2/23, 2R, 1HR, 1RBI, 0SB, .087, .342)
  Basement Dwellers: #1480 Chase Headley-3B,OF (0/19, 1R, 0HR, 0RBI, 0SB, .000, .136)
  BeanBallers: #1483 Jorge Cantu-1B,3B (0/17, 0R, 0HR, 0RBI, 0SB, .000, .150)
  Monroe Struts: #881 Mark Reynolds-1B,3B (2/17, 2R, 1HR, 2RBI, 0SB, .118, .505)

Last Week’s Pitching Hotties:
  Hello and BaZambo: Felix Hernandez-SP (#36)

IP	W	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9	QS
9.0	1	0	1.0	0.67	9.0	1

  Basement Dwellers: Neftali Feliz-RP (#8)

IP	W	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9	QS
4.0	0	4	0.00	0.00	15.75	0

  BeanBallers: Josh Johnson-SP (#9)

IP	W	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9	QS
15.0	1	0	1.20	0.73	9.6	2

  Monroe Struts: Billy Wagner-RP (#73)

IP	W	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9	QS
4.0	1	3	0.00	0.75	11.25	0

  Free Agent: Scott Baker-SP (#15)

IP	W	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9	QS
7.0	1	0	0.00	0.43	15.43	1

Last Week’s Pitching Notties:
  Hello and BaZambo: #1484 Roy Halladay-SP (14.0IP, 0W, 0SV, 5.79 ERA, 1.50 WHIP, 8.36 K/9, 1QS)
  Basement Dwellers: #1510 Matt Garza-SP (1.1IP, 0W, 0SV, 47.25 ERA, 7.50 WHIP, 13.50 K/9, 0QS)
  BeanBallers: #1472 Johan Santana-SP (13.0IP, 1W, 0SV, 5.54ERA, 1.38WHIP, 2.77 K/9, 0QS)
  Monroe Struts: #1463 Mike Pelfrey-SP (7.0IP,0W, 0SV, 6.43 ERA, 1.43WHIP, 2.57 K/9, 0QS)

Graph Time!