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John Pausma of Tinley Park, Illinois currently leads the NFBC Primetime in the race for that $100,000 grand prize. John is an veteran of our contests who won the $50,000 grand prize in the NFFC Online Championship in 2010. We'll talk with John about his current baseball success tonight on the STATS Fantasy Advantage at 10:30 pm ET on SiriusXM Fantasy Sports Radio 210/87. We look forward to showcasing John's talents to the rest of the fantasy audience.

We also will preview the NBA Draft at 10:15 pm ET with Justin Termine of SiriusXM NBA Radio and ask him about LeBron James' impending free agency. At 11 pm ET, we'll have Colts' WR Griff Whalen on the show. Griff played at Stanford with Andrew Luck for four seasons as a walk-on and he followed Luck to Indianapolis where he made the team as an undrafted free agent. There's a good story there and we'll explore it tonight. Should be fun.

We'll also look at this week's NFBC winning FAAB bids and preview next week's top free agents. Join us tonight at 10 pm ET for two hours of fun on SiriusXM Fantasy Sports Radio.

congrats john. hard to believe you are leading -being from chicago- and with all those great east coast players in that league. some of them look to be 50 points behind you- you must have cheated.

headhunters wrote:congrats john. hard to believe you are leading -being from chicago- and with all those great east coast players in that league. some of them look to be 50 points behind you- you must have cheated.

John was great on the show last night and we thank him for joining us. You are correct, John is leading the overall competition from a league that included heavyweights like Jeff Dobies, Shawn Childs, Glenn Lowy, Eric Heberlig, Bob Particelli, Michael O'Brien and others. That really is a stacked lead and John is not only leading it but leading the overall competition from that league as well.

We didn't get to all of our STATS baseball tid-bits last night, so we'll post some of them here. Enjoy.

1) Devin Mesoraco has homered in five straight games, tying a team record held by five others (Kluszewski 1954, Crowe 1957, Bench 1972, Griffey Jr. 2003, Dunn 2008).
2) Clayton Kershaw’s no-hitter last Wednesday night was the sixth all-time with at least 15 strikeouts, and the only one of those featuring no walks. He’s the first pitcher to follow up a no-hitter with eight or more scoreless IP since Tommy Greene with the Phillies in May 1991.
3) Jose Altuve of the Astros leads the AL in both hits (107) and stolen bases (27). The last five AL players to finish a season leading the AL in both categories were Alfonso Soriano (2002), Ichiro (2001), Kenny Lofton (1994), Rickey Henderson (1981), and Bert Campaneris (1968).

Jose Abreu has 22 home runs now. How does that rank historically for rookies before the All-Star break?
Most HR by Rookie Before All-Star Break, MLB All-time
Player Season HR
1 Mark McGwire, 1987 Oak, 33
2 Al Rosen, 1950 Cle, 25
3 Jose Canseco, 1986 Oak, 23
4 Jose Abreu, 2014 CWS, 23
5t Bob Allison, 1959 Was, 21
5t Dave Kingman, 1972 SF, 21
5t Albert Pujols, 2001 StL, 21

Casey McGahee is on pace to drive in more than 100 RBIs but hit fewer than five home runs. How often has that happened in MLB history?
There have been 59 seasons all-time with 100+ RBI and fewer than five home runs; 35 of them occurred before 1900, and all 59 occurred before 1945 (the last was Billy Herman in 1943).

Greg Ambrosius wrote:

headhunters wrote:congrats john. hard to believe you are leading -being from chicago- and with all those great east coast players in that league. some of them look to be 50 points behind you- you must have cheated.

John was great on the show last night and we thank him for joining us. You are correct, John is leading the overall competition from a league that included heavyweights like Jeff Dobies, Shawn Childs, Glenn Lowy, Eric Heberlig, Bob Particelli, Michael O'Brien and others. That really is a stacked lead and John is not only leading it but leading the overall competition from that league as well.

We didn't get to all of our STATS baseball tid-bits last night, so we'll post some of them here. Enjoy.


2) Clayton Kershaw’s no-hitter last Wednesday night was the sixth all-time with at least 15 strikeouts, and the only one of those featuring no walks. He’s the first pitcher to follow up a no-hitter with eight or more scoreless IP since Tommy Greene with the Phillies in May 1991.

Bill James has a pitcher stat called 'Game Score'
Points are given for outs recorded and strike outs, taken away for hits/walks/runs allowed.

Kershaw had a Game Score of 102 that night. It's the second highest Game Score of any 9 inning complete game in the last 100 years.
It's a better score than any other Perfect Game/No-Hitter ever thrown.
For comparison, Lincecum's two no-hitters had a Game Score of 92 yesterday and 96 last year.

Go Pausma!!! It's nice to see a "good guy" winning!

Gekko wrote:Go Pausma!!! It's nice to see a "good guy" winning!

Not only good guy, but quietly one of the best.....

Navel Lint wrote:

Bill James has a pitcher stat called 'Game Score'
Points are given for outs recorded and strike outs, taken away for hits/walks/runs allowed.

Kershaw had a Game Score of 102 that night. It's the second highest Game Score of any 9 inning complete game in the last 100 years.
It's a better score than any other Perfect Game/No-Hitter ever thrown.
For comparison, Lincecum's two no-hitters had a Game Score of 92 yesterday and 96 last year.[/quote]

It's interesting that Lincecum's Game Score from last year would be higher than his Game Score from yesterday. Didn't he throw like 148 pitches in that no-hitter last year? And didn't he walk just one guy yesterday? It seems like yesterday's performance was better than last year's.