NFBC Stuff and Junk

[DOUGHBOYS]

364 Days out of the year, we know that Adeiny Hechevaria will suck.
He's a Seis De Mayo hitter.
Hechevaria is the type of hitter that would have been great for an all-FAAB team.
I contend that if I could choose the best stats from FAAB players each week, that I can beat the first place team in an NFBC league with my best of the worst players from the FAAB heap. But, I don't know if we have the know-how to make such a thing happen.
It sure would be fun to follow.

Yesterday, Justin Ruggiano may have had a day that no other ball player has ever had. I don't have the technology at my disposal to prove it (Help Russel! ), but Ruggiano had two home runs, a stolen base, went three for three, and got hit by a pitch in his other two at bats. That's a day.

Some site said that Allen Craig is a 'buy low' candidate.
Holy cow.
Winning a league where Craig is a 'buy low' candidate is like beating a seven year old in 'Trivial Pursuit'.

Marcell Ozuna went 4-5 on Sunday, with three runs and three rbi.
I would love to see stats on how much more FAAB is spent on a player who had a great Sunday. It's impossible, I know.
But, I knew I wouldn't be bidding enough on Ozuna or Dirks to win them yesterday.
When FAAB players have an excellent Sunday, better ramp up the bids.

Halladay owners had to both feel sorry for Roy Halladay and themselves yesterday. Halladay was facing a team he would normally eat for breakfast yesterday.

I saw a post the other day, where a fella said he 'price enforced' FAAB bids.
Now that, made me chuckle.
I've never done that. Either I like or want a player or I don't. And for that matter, I don't care where each player goes if not on my team.
This is where we have to count on luck. You see, we don't know who our friends or foes are going to be in the standings till September.
Let me show an example of how price enforcing can mess with karma.....
I have plenty of speed on my team and I price enforce Dee Gordon at $100 and win him. I don't use him much since I've got Al Escobar, Gyorko, and Kipnis up the middle.
Now, we fast forward to the end of September. Our team is neck and neck with Team B.
In steals, our team has clinched first place.
Team B is fighting for every steal they can get, Sixth in the category. Seventh in the steals category is a team who is down in the standings, but right behind team B in steals. We price enforced Gordon away from this team who had the second best bid at $95.
Not only did we essentially waste $100 of FAAB, we took away steals from a team we need to over take a team we are contending with at the top of the standings.
Damn us!
I do not screw with karma.
Price enforcing is not good unless there is a cat and mouse game among leaders at the end of the season.

No offense, but I find the weekly NFBC newsletter as worthless. I'm guessing like me, most look it over and delete.
Most of the things in the newsletter are things that have already appeared on the Boards.
I would love to see more than just a newsletter.
Something like updates with stats about drafters and players.
Something we can look forward to. Maybe it can be the precursor to a magazine or something that deals specifically about NFBCplayers and happenings.

[Navel Lint]

Yesterday, Justin Ruggiano may have had a day that no other ball player has ever had. I don't have the technology at my disposal to prove it (Help Russel! ), but Ruggiano had two home runs, a stolen base, went three for three, and got hit by a pitch in his other two at bats. That's a day.

It was a day that I'm sure Ruggiano will never want to forget, and a day that Halladay wishes he could forget.

I have to make one correction, Ruggiano went 2 for 3, not 3-3; but it was still a rare combination of events.

Obviously, hitting two HR's and getting a SB in one game is not that unusual, it's happened 448 times in the past 100 years. Not as many times as I would have guessed off the top of my head, but still a lot.

Of course, the key part of Ruggiano's day was 2 HBP's

Of the 448 players that have hit 2 HR's and stole at least 1 base in a game, 16 of them have been hit by at least 1 pitch, a much lower number than I would have guessed. Of the 16, you could make a case for several players as to whom had the better day. The one I would like to point out is the game Roberto Alomar had on June 6th, 1993. Alomar was 4 for 4 with 2 runs scored, 2HR's, 5 RBI, 1SB, and 1 HBP in five plate appearances.

The question is though, have any of these 2HR/SB/HBP guys been hit more than once in a game. Well, obviously Riggiano, because it just happened yesterday, but it also happened one other time.

On May 31st, 1971, Don Buford playing for the Baltimore Orioles was 2 for 2 with 2 HR's, 3 RBI, a SB, 1BB, and 2 HBP's in the second game of a Memorial Day double-header against the Chicago White Sox.

Buford went: HBP - HR - BB - HR - HBP(SB) - and then when his turn at bat comes up in the 9th inning Earl Weaver lifts him for a PH

NO player has ever gotten 2HR's, a SB, 2 HBP's and 3 hits, so we still have that to look forward to

[Edwards Kings]

Buford went: HBP - HR - BB - HR - HBP(SB) - and then when his turn at bat comes up in the 9th inning Earl Weaver lifts him for a PH

Lifts him for a pinch-hitter?! After that game? That is amazing to me. Kind of like lifting a pitcher 8 2/3 of the way through a perfect game.

What did Earl say to him..."Grab the pine, kid. You are cold and we need a hit!"

Or was he worried he would be a head-hunt?

Not expecting an answer, but if I had had that kind of game, it would take a shotgun to keep me from that final AB.

[DOUGHBOYS]

Thanks Russel.
I'm guessing Baltimore was either far ahead or far behind when Weaver pinch hit for Buford.
Thanks again....