Chronicling a Fantasy Baseball Season, Part III: Week 2 Review

Explosive Renteria 7

Ruppert Mundys 5

(W my prediction – Explosive Renteria)

Well, I got my first win of the young season in week 2, though it was not all that impressive at the dish. The Exploxive Renteria’s followed up a league leading .308 AVG in Week 1 with an anemic .204 AVG in Week 2. The few hits we had in week 2 were timely, though, as we led the league in RBI with 37. We also ran a little bit this week, with a league leading (tie with haveyouseenmywiender) 9 SBs. Still, we’ve got to pick it up offensively. Cargo didn’t have his best week as he hit only .250 and the rest of my team pretty much sucked at the plate as evidenced by a team high .257 AVG from Hunter Pence.

We pitched really well though with Josh Johnson leading the way. JJ flirted with a no-no against the Braves last week and finished with a 0.00 ERA, 0.55 WHIP and 11.50 K/9. On a side note, it’s tough watching your fantasy ace pitch against your favorite team. Jhoulys Chacin also chipped in a complete game shutout. I would like to bump up my save total of 2 a little bit, but I can’t be too displeased with what we’ve got going on the hill right now.

Still, we’re sitting in 7^th place on the young season and we need to string together a few good weeks in a row.

Turns out BobbyJ actually made the right call starting Aaron Hill over Howie Kendrick as Hill posted a .368 AVG and 3 SBs. BobbyJ’s two Cardinals, Pujols and Rasmus, put up big weeks as each scored 10 runs and put up over 1.00 OPS marks.

Purple Tigers 6

Gangstas 6

(L my prediction – Gangstas)

This was a close matchup with the Purple Tigers taking 5 of 6 hitting categories and the Gangstas taking 5 of 6 pitching categories. Purple’s MVP was Jay Bruce, who had a 6/2/3/0/.350/1.085 (R/HR/RBI/SB/AVG/OPS) line for the week. Dr. Dunk’s MVP was Tommy Hanson, who got a W, 14 Ks, a 2.25 ERA, 1.08 WHIP and 10.50 K/9.

Dr. Dunk spent Sunday afternoon cussing both the league commissioner and Yahoo! for not allowing him to set his lineup on Monday morning. With Jose Tabata in his lineup instead of Ryan Raburn, Dunk wins SB and takes the matchup 7-5. As it is, Dunk settles for a tie and still has Tabata – a fact I still lament.

Big Time Timmy Jim 7

Let Timmy Smoke 4

(W my prediction – Big Time)

Michael Young hit .522 and Justin Upton was the 6 category player he ought to be (7/2/4/1/.364/1.227). Together they carried Big Time’s offense, which led the league with an impressive .326 AVG and .864 OPS. Smoke’s offense pretty much sucked as he hit even less than Exploxive Renteria (.201). Brian Wilson damn near won saves against the rest of the league all by himself (haveyouseenmywiener had 5 saves as a team, Brian Wilson had 4 by himself).

Big Time didn’t lose a single hitting category, but tied Smoke with 5 HRs. Smoke won 4 pitching categories including a league leading 6 saves and 48 Ks. Big Time continues to put up very good K/9 numbers and this will be something to watch.

Tacoby Bellsbury 3

Action Jacksons 9

(W my prediction – Action Jacksons)

Joey Votto (4/0/2/2/.429/1.110) and Drew Stubbs (4/2/6/2/.360/1.025) carried Action Jackson in Week 2. Mike Napoli (0/0/0/0/.000/.125) pretty much sunk Jacob all by himself, though Starlin Castro tried to make me eat my words for picking him so high. His line (7/1/5/2/.536/1.266) was one of the best of the week.

Neither team pitched all that great, so I’m not going to bother to comment.

Carry on Heyward Son 3

Wuertz Case Scenario 8

(L my prediction – Heyward Son)

Anyone who has Matt Kemp (5/2/8/2/.520/1.386) and Tulo (7/4/8/0/.519/1.680) on the same team is bound for success. Heyward Son ran into some pretty tough luck with Liriano (12.60 ERA, 1.80 WHIP) and Gallardo (11.81 ERA, 1.88 WHIP) having exceptionally shitty weeks. That allowed Wuertz to post a 4.85 and win ERA by .03 and post a 1.50 and win WHIP by .06. Still, Wuertz swept the hitting categories and hit .307 as a team. That’s not bad at all.

Lobster 2

Haveyouseenmywiener 9

(W my prediction – wiener)

There’s really not a lot to say about this matchup. Walter’s squad put up some good pitching ratio numbers, but not very good counting numbers. Lobster has some work to do. Good thing he had A Rod (3/1/4/0/.545/1.716) or things would have been ugly – uglier.