No Simpatico and Simpatico
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 9:40 am
I'm positive that some players are out to get us. Just as I'm positive that some players love us.
I never draft Gavin Floyd. I had him one year and he drove me crazy.
I would pitch him at home against easy matchups and he'd get hit like a whack-a-mole. I'd bench him against the mighty Yankees or Red Sox, and he'd throw the game of his life. Soon, it got to be a running joke with myself, that whatever Floyd did, it would piss me off.
So, I vowed to never draft Gavin Floyd again. Him and me just don't get along.
I've always been intrigued by Jake Arrieta. Every once in awhile, he'll have a game so good that we'll say, 'Aha! He gets it!'
Then come the free agent bids and like this week, an easy matchup at home vs. the light hitting Nats.
And Arrieta blows up.
Arrieta has done this to owners more than just a few times.
I've learned.
Until Arrieta strings together four or five good games, he'll go on being an NFBC tease.
Chad Gaudin was Jake Arrieta before Jake Arrieta came along. Gaudin would flash great games, then suck on fantasy teams.
This year, he did string together some good games and helped his owners. Then, a bad game, followed by a good game, followed by a bad game, followed by injury.
Gaudin helped his owners for awhile. Something that Arrieta aspires to doing.
On a side note, Gaudin was arrested during the off season for groping a woman on a gurney in a Las Vegas hospital.
It makes the mind race, no?
I picture Gaudin starting his day in need of female companionship.
Going to the grocery store, he hits on a woman at the Produce, and she says no.
So, he hits a bar, try's his best line on a woman there, and she says no.
Drunk and slovenly from the bar, he goes to a Vegas Brothel, the woman answers the door, looks at him, and she says no.
Gaudin goes to the hospital, sees a sedated woman on a gurney, gets his grope on, and she screams, "NO!"
A bad day for Chad Gaudin.
Since, I picture Gaudin swearing to keep away from women, staying in hotel rooms by himself with Captain Jack.
So, I was wildly amused when Gaudin's injury was announced as 'carpal tunnel'.
Barry Zito and I have been simpatico until the second half of this year where he's no good to anybody. Zito pitched well at home against opponents he was supposed to beat. After aces, we like reliability in our pitching. Zito was one of those guys that the off season guys warn us about, but could be very beneficial to a fantasy team.
Taking up the slack for Zito is Eric Stults this year. I love him on my team. Stults promises to pitch well at home and blow on the road.
During the off season, writers will come out with the high E.R.A. stuff and complain that he doesn't strike out enough batters, blah, blah, blah.
For my fantasy team, Stults has a 2.67 E.R.A. and close to seven strike outs every nine innings. Not many aces even have those numbers.
Stults is a 'King of his domain' type guy. We just have to have the fantasy fortitude to know that, and to bench him, even if he's on the road against a team like Houston.
There is a 12 team league team that Roger Martin and I share. We're doing well and this week, in an effort to put more speed in the lineup, we benched Chris Davis. It worked well, as Daniel Murphy stole two bases.
We had a choice of benching Davis, Cabrera, or Freeman. Picking Davis because he was going against the toughest pitchers and even Freeman and Cabrera had stolen bases in the past.
So, of course, Chris Davis steals a base last night.
This is when we picture him on third base, texting us with a message, "Should have started me, DUMBASS!"
Accompanied by a picture of his middle finger.
Somehow, players just know.
One year, on the final day of the season. I needed a few good WHIP innings to pass somebody for third place and cash in a Main League.
I had started Alfredo Aceves, not because he was pitching well at the time, but also, it seemed that whenever I started him, he would get an unexpected Win or Save or do SOMETHING that would reward me for starting him.
Aceves and I were Buds.
Simpatico.
And in that last game of the year, when he was called from the bullpen, I just knew I had third place wrapped up.
Aceves pitched three flawless innings.
Love that guy.
Red Sox fans may not like him, but I'd like to meet him and give him a pat on the back, not telling him what it was for.
In the end, there are some pitchers I never touch.
And then some, that seem to find their way to my roster each year. We have to know who we are compatible with and who were not.
If we don't do that, we'll end up with very bad fantasy teams.....and develop carpal tunnel.
I never draft Gavin Floyd. I had him one year and he drove me crazy.
I would pitch him at home against easy matchups and he'd get hit like a whack-a-mole. I'd bench him against the mighty Yankees or Red Sox, and he'd throw the game of his life. Soon, it got to be a running joke with myself, that whatever Floyd did, it would piss me off.
So, I vowed to never draft Gavin Floyd again. Him and me just don't get along.
I've always been intrigued by Jake Arrieta. Every once in awhile, he'll have a game so good that we'll say, 'Aha! He gets it!'
Then come the free agent bids and like this week, an easy matchup at home vs. the light hitting Nats.
And Arrieta blows up.
Arrieta has done this to owners more than just a few times.
I've learned.
Until Arrieta strings together four or five good games, he'll go on being an NFBC tease.
Chad Gaudin was Jake Arrieta before Jake Arrieta came along. Gaudin would flash great games, then suck on fantasy teams.
This year, he did string together some good games and helped his owners. Then, a bad game, followed by a good game, followed by a bad game, followed by injury.
Gaudin helped his owners for awhile. Something that Arrieta aspires to doing.
On a side note, Gaudin was arrested during the off season for groping a woman on a gurney in a Las Vegas hospital.
It makes the mind race, no?
I picture Gaudin starting his day in need of female companionship.
Going to the grocery store, he hits on a woman at the Produce, and she says no.
So, he hits a bar, try's his best line on a woman there, and she says no.
Drunk and slovenly from the bar, he goes to a Vegas Brothel, the woman answers the door, looks at him, and she says no.
Gaudin goes to the hospital, sees a sedated woman on a gurney, gets his grope on, and she screams, "NO!"
A bad day for Chad Gaudin.
Since, I picture Gaudin swearing to keep away from women, staying in hotel rooms by himself with Captain Jack.
So, I was wildly amused when Gaudin's injury was announced as 'carpal tunnel'.
Barry Zito and I have been simpatico until the second half of this year where he's no good to anybody. Zito pitched well at home against opponents he was supposed to beat. After aces, we like reliability in our pitching. Zito was one of those guys that the off season guys warn us about, but could be very beneficial to a fantasy team.
Taking up the slack for Zito is Eric Stults this year. I love him on my team. Stults promises to pitch well at home and blow on the road.
During the off season, writers will come out with the high E.R.A. stuff and complain that he doesn't strike out enough batters, blah, blah, blah.
For my fantasy team, Stults has a 2.67 E.R.A. and close to seven strike outs every nine innings. Not many aces even have those numbers.
Stults is a 'King of his domain' type guy. We just have to have the fantasy fortitude to know that, and to bench him, even if he's on the road against a team like Houston.
There is a 12 team league team that Roger Martin and I share. We're doing well and this week, in an effort to put more speed in the lineup, we benched Chris Davis. It worked well, as Daniel Murphy stole two bases.
We had a choice of benching Davis, Cabrera, or Freeman. Picking Davis because he was going against the toughest pitchers and even Freeman and Cabrera had stolen bases in the past.
So, of course, Chris Davis steals a base last night.
This is when we picture him on third base, texting us with a message, "Should have started me, DUMBASS!"
Accompanied by a picture of his middle finger.
Somehow, players just know.
One year, on the final day of the season. I needed a few good WHIP innings to pass somebody for third place and cash in a Main League.
I had started Alfredo Aceves, not because he was pitching well at the time, but also, it seemed that whenever I started him, he would get an unexpected Win or Save or do SOMETHING that would reward me for starting him.
Aceves and I were Buds.
Simpatico.
And in that last game of the year, when he was called from the bullpen, I just knew I had third place wrapped up.
Aceves pitched three flawless innings.
Love that guy.
Red Sox fans may not like him, but I'd like to meet him and give him a pat on the back, not telling him what it was for.
In the end, there are some pitchers I never touch.
And then some, that seem to find their way to my roster each year. We have to know who we are compatible with and who were not.
If we don't do that, we'll end up with very bad fantasy teams.....and develop carpal tunnel.