[/qb]UFS NFBC injuries: 7
BAM: 1
Incidentally, aside from Sheets my team was the picture of health last year. [/QB][/quote]
Congrats! You win the May Injury scoreboard!!
FYI... I have 10 teams this year (7 in top half of league, including both LABR and NL Tout). Odds are one is going to have injury problems. I'll take 1 of 10 any year!! That would be called baseball. Not one injury in NL Tout all year.
There are 90 players on the DL right now in MLB. 52 after the start of the season and that doesn't count anyone already back. Cantu and Matsui have never been injury problems. Last week, my average league put 15-17 players on DL. Normal is 4-8. Brutal week.
And to take a fave post from one of my NFFC/NFBC friends I play blackjack with....
NFBC Championships:
Zaleski 1 ($8k against cream of NFBC crop)
Bjoke 0
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With all that injury knowledge you have, please explain why Sheets in first in 2005, Harden in second in 2006?
Nevermind, I already know you won't answer that.
Hideki Matsui
Hideki Matsui
Wow, you have a lot to say for a guy who's never looked anywhere but up at me in a competition. Are you forgetting that I'm 239 spaces ahead of you in the NFBC and well ahead of you in the satellite as well? No need to check: yep, I beat you last year, too, Sheets or no. When you have ten teams, chances are you'll win one sooner or later. Sorry.
Sheets' concern last year was his back and I predicted correctly that he wouldn't have problems with it again. As I mentioned in the other thread, I've learned since then that he is injury prone (due to plain old bad genes, probably) and he's subject to relapse of the ear thing, which no one knew he would be, regardless of whether you try to sound smart about it. Harden has yet to have an injury from actual pitching and that's worth something. He's also probably in the best shape of any pitcher in baseball. Some are suggesting it might actually help him to add body fat. He, like Sheets, has good mechanics and one of the best health staffs in baseball. That said, I don't think he is a perfect bet on health (and I don't have him in the main event) more than any pitcher and I don't think I am immune to injuries, but I am able to avoid them to some degree and I understand that that is a skill.
Now, I have to go running and I'll probably get an injury because as a human being, I'm no less injury prone than KGJ.
[ May 17, 2006, 07:51 PM: Message edited by: bjoak ]
Sheets' concern last year was his back and I predicted correctly that he wouldn't have problems with it again. As I mentioned in the other thread, I've learned since then that he is injury prone (due to plain old bad genes, probably) and he's subject to relapse of the ear thing, which no one knew he would be, regardless of whether you try to sound smart about it. Harden has yet to have an injury from actual pitching and that's worth something. He's also probably in the best shape of any pitcher in baseball. Some are suggesting it might actually help him to add body fat. He, like Sheets, has good mechanics and one of the best health staffs in baseball. That said, I don't think he is a perfect bet on health (and I don't have him in the main event) more than any pitcher and I don't think I am immune to injuries, but I am able to avoid them to some degree and I understand that that is a skill.
Now, I have to go running and I'll probably get an injury because as a human being, I'm no less injury prone than KGJ.
[ May 17, 2006, 07:51 PM: Message edited by: bjoak ]
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