Week 2 Fantasy Review

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NowWhat Boghogs (2nd place 145 points, .5 points out of 1st place, Last week: 1st) [20 team mixed roto league, standard scoring]

Not a lot of change here, still lagging behind in power, still middle of the road whip and era, nice K’s and runs. I am still liking this team overall, though the offense could stand to start clicking more. Only 3 people on this team batted higher than .250 in the last 7 days (Starlin Castro has been scorching, with his .536, 7 runs, 1hr, 5rbi, and 2 steals in the last week). John Buck has been particularly brutal (.111, 2 runs, 1 rbi).  Dan Haren has continued to be every bit the ace I expected him to be, Hochevar and Gorzelanny were solid, and Dempster has continued to get K’s and allow hits in bunches. I am still expecting Dempster’s era and whip to come to 3.85 and 1.30ish levels. Jason Marquis is looking good as well, though Nathan losing the closer gig is going to hurt. A league this deep has most people with save potential already snatched up, but hopefully Soria can hold down the fort there until Nathan gets it back.

Tattoine Jawas (1st place 86.5 points, Last week: Tied 1st) [11 team roto mixed keeper league, net steals and obp instead of steals and avg]

I am still puzzled with the lack of anything good to say about this team in the net steals department. Excepting Aaron Hill of all people (who is starting to heat up and is inexplicably 7 ahead of Andrew McCutchen in the net steals category). He has 6 steals in 16 games this year while having a total of 8 in 296 games over the last two years. I have no idea what to make of this honestly. Pretty much everything is going fairly well here, and Randy Wells should start throwing soon and hopefully the pitching will improve when he gets back. Pablo Sandoval hasn’t been batting well over the last week, but half of his hits were home runs over the time period, so it could be worse.

Krikkit Kobolds (1st Place 75 Points, Last Week: 4th) [Standard 10 team roto mixed league]

Everything that was true of this team last week is still true, but none the less, things are going better. Drew Stubbs and Justin Upton are the resident hot bats here (Each hit 2 home runs and is batting .360 ish in the last week, Smoak is also heating up), and Mike Napoli didn’t manage a hit over the last week. Michael Bourn swiped 5 bags and scored 8 runs. Liriano and Helleckson have both been pretty bad in the rotation, but Danks was solid and of course Haren was a stud as noted earlier.

Generic Generics (4th Place overall, 3rd place division, 25-12-3, .5 games out of first, Last Week: 4th/3rd) [14 team mixed weekly head to head 10X10 league]

I played the first place team here, and was able to get a game closer, so it was a good week here. The top 4 teams in our division have better records than the first place team in the other division. The K to BB ratio is another area where having Dan Haren has been absurdly helpful (7 to 1 for the last week 13.5 to 1 for the season). James McDonald was very bad, and Ted Lilly has not been as good as I would have anticipated. This team may have been the most offensive (in a bad way) from a batting average perspective, with 5 people batting below .200 for the last week and another at .208. Jay Bruce is getting it together though.

Deathhill Deathmoles (2nd place, 818 points, 44.75 points out of 1st place, Last Week: 3rd) [14 team NL Only total season points league]

I am finding this league to be working out much better than I could have hoped. Marcum performed nicely in his lone start. Not much for me to add here.

Vogosphere Vogons (Tied 7th place, 92.5 points, 31.5 points out of first place, Last Week: 5th) [10 team AL only 9x9 roto league]

This is my one team that doesn’t look like it has the chops to compete. I am not sure where to begin, though getting some holds would be a nice start. I have the only team in this league without one. This team is just mediocre and I plan on looking at the waivers and maybe exploring some trades.

Thanks for reading.

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