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Official MLB 2012 Season Thread

Sabermetrics? Fuck sabermetrics. The new shit is Toastermetrics. Listen up.

I did some re-tweaking on my fantasy team yesterday to imporve my picthing because I'm trying out new strategies to get a feel for everything because this is my first year. I've been playng around with spot starts in the past few weeks with guys like Jeff Samarzjia and Dan Bard, but I made a game of it today.

I did some research and picked up Wei-Yin Chen, Wade Miley, and Derek Lowe for todays match ups. I already had The Freak and David Price on my team already going today, along with my three closers Janssen, Kimbrel, and Aceves. I literally got to a point where I got all 8 pitching spots filled for the day, and since we do day to day line up changes and scoring, I can drop the "bumb starters" and pick up some other spot starter matchups for tomorrow.

Anyways, ya boy made some very educated spot start moves and they payed off. With 2 games still left to be finished, my line is 3 Wins, 0 Saves, 22 K's, a 2.13 ERA (Damn you Lincecum), a WHIP of 1.05, and 5 quality starts on the night. Fucking Derek Lowe threw a shutout, Chen shut down the Yankees, Price gave up 3 but got me a quality start, all 3 closers were used though I picked up no saves. I even did not do all that bad on offense even though my offense has been crap the entire season, as I pulled in a .364 AVG, 7 Runs, 3 HR, 5 RBI's, 1 SB and OBPS of 1.097. Not all to spectaular, but far beter than what I have been pulling in.

So I guess my life story will now be made into a Bennett Miller film staring Antwon Tanner as me and Craig Ferguson as my nerdy yet highly lovable computer geek friend which helps me to find the best match ups in the seemigly discarded waste bin which is the Free Agent pool.

See you guys on the big screen.


Edit: Oh, and instant replay subtracts from the human side of the sport. Do we really want out sport to be like football where every catching play is looked at to see EXACTLY how many feet were in play before the guy ran out of bounds and even that is subjective at many times? If we computerized the game, the whole human component is lost and we become too mathmatical and robotic. If you made the play that close that no one can tell the correct answer with the naked eye, does it really need to have cameras to break down the play to one one millionith of an inch to get the call "right"? I just see it as subtracting from the fun of baseball...
 
moi said:
I swear I had a transaction cap weekly to stop streaming..? I know there's a total cap, hm
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You made a permanent one! It's the reason I didn't stream half the guys that ButteredToast did when I originally planned on it.

Also yours truly is fairly clear at the top of the rankings now and a good quarter or so of the season has passed ;). My slash line today for instance is as follows:

  • 19/42 Hitting
  • 8 Runs
  • 4 HR
  • 14 RBI
  • 2 SB
  • .452 AVG
  • 1.340 OPS
Everyone thought I'd be screwed when I spent most of my budget at the start of the auction, but looks like barring multiple catastrophic injuries that I should finish in the top 4 at least (and hopefully stay at number 1).
 
There is only a cap of 75 moves in a season, which is far more than enough for my strategy. I don't plan to do it forever, but if I pick and choose my spots, I can give myself an advantage. I'm playing by the rules and using everything I was given.

You're just made you didn't pick up D Lowe. :D

Edit: Stall, you really do have all of us beat pretty bad. But hey, my goal is not to really win, but to not embarace myself my first time out...
 
moi said:
I think the thing that Mr. E most understated is the importance of management. Big spending allows teams to take more risks, but it really is up to the team to have it pan out. Let's look at the payrolls from last year, shall we?

Code: 
Team	Payroll	Average
N.Y. Yankees	$201,689,030	$6,722,968
Philadelphia	172,976,381	5,765,879
Boston	161,407,476	5,978,055
Los Angeles Angels	138,998,524	4,483,823
Chicago White Sox	129,285,539	4,788,353
Chicago Cubs	125,480,664	5,228,361
New York Mets	120,147,310	4,290,975
San Francisco	118,216,333	4,378,383
Minnesota	112,737,000	4,509,480
Detroit	105,705,232	3,915,009

I count 3 playoff team! In the next ten, there are 3 more. And the next ten, two more.

Big spending can get you to the playoffs once if you just splurge, and are lucky. But it's pretty obvious that management is what drives the teams to become consistent winners.
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LOOOOL @ Minnesota

isnt half of that like.... Mauer, Morneau and Pavano?
 
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Who would have thought after just 16 games, Harper would have more HRs than Albert Pujol$. This kid is something alright. Also, who would have thought LAA would be back 7 games at this point, the nats are just a 1/2 game out, and Baltimore would lead the majors in Homers. What a season this has been so far huh
 
lol Rhymes of the Rays just got hit in the arm so hard that he had to get carted off. The forearm. I've never seen anything like that before on the baseball field. His wrist is probably shattered.

Also lol@ Red Sox pitching, 3 balks in one game
 
Well to be fair Baltimore had a whole lot of home runs last year too, but their pitching has actually been decent this year, and that's much more important to them.

anyway what's up with all these balks man, I mean the first one was definitely a balk, the second one was iffy but I didn't want to complain too much, and the third was just him moving a finger. Total BS.
 
JimBob said:
Well to be fair Baltimore had a whole lot of home runs last year too, but their pitching has actually been decent this year, and that's much more important to them.
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Where did this come from, left field?

By the way, did you know that this term orriginated to make fun of the idiot baseball fans in New York who would buy seats in left field when Babe Ruth was playing out in right field?
 
David Wright is playing out of his mind. Very happy for him as a person but kind of bitter that he didn't do this last year when I owned him in fantasy >.<.
 
The fact that Kate Upton is only 19 really puts into perspective how old I really am. :( Or Harper for that matter, damn why can't I be a multi-millionaire by now...

interleague rulz, except for the whole making my lovely NL teams use a stupid designated hitter
 
With Cody Ross out, that leaves the Red Sox on our 10th string outfielder.

I said that right. The Red Sox are on outfielder number 10 in the dept chart. Our starting outfield that sould be consisting of All-Stars Carl Crawford and Jacoby Ellsubry with a platoon of Ryan Kalish and Cody Ross now consists of career minor leaguer Dan Nava, Cubs reject Marlon Byrd, and average sould be AA prospect Che Hsuan Lin. Just look at this injury list in the outfield alone, in depth chard order...

Jacoby Ellsbury (60 DL)
Carl Crawford (60 DL)
Ryan Kalish (60 DL)
Cody Ross (Out for a month with a broken bone in foot)
Ryan Sweeney (Concussion, possible 7 DL)
Marlon Byrd
Darnell McDonald (15 DL)
Jason Repko (15 DL)
Dan Nava
Che Hsuan Lin

This is in just ONE POSSITION, and it's getting crazy. And this is not including Ryan Westmoreland who had brain surgury.

Look at the rest of these injuries on the 40 Man Roster...

Andrew Bailey (CL)
Bobby Jenks (CL/SU)
Chris Carpenter (RP)
Aaron Cook (SP)
Diasuke Matsuzaka (SP)
John Lackey (SP)
Kevin Youkilis (3B)

In total, that's 14 players with 6 former All-Stars missing from the Red Sox 40-Man roster.

And even with this, we are still 8-2 in our last 10 games while only being 5.5 back of first and 2.5 games back of a Wild Card spot. Can I get a whoooo-raaawwww or something?
 
Can people show some respect for the Cincinnati Reds now pl0x?

Won a series against the Yanks followed by a four game sweep of one of the best teams in baseball. Like a boss. Best bullpen in the MLB, one of the best defenses, a former and potentially future MVP, and a slew of probable all stars in Phillips, Cueto, Bruce.

/end fanboy rant
 
I enjoy the Reds. Chapman is looking like the real deal and I really like watching Stubbs play. My constant hoarding of him on several of my fantasy teams will pay off one of these days..
 
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