Comments on: 2010 Cubs Fantasy Baseball Preview

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:21:39 +0000

@Brian: Of course we don't know how often the Padres will actually have a lead so that a reliever can get Hold...

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:20:16 +0000

@Steve: Haha I'll keep that in mind on draft day.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:17:11 +0000

@Brian: One good thing is, Holds guys are not hard to find. For example, The Padres have a factory that produces them in a basement beneath Petco.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:14:37 +0000

@Grey: Yeah, unfortunately no one is opposed to it, so I'll look at it optimisticly and feel a little better having my closers handcuffed.

By: Grey

Grey — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:47:22 +0000

@Brian: I don't like playing holds. As a stat, it's a bit arbitrary.

By: Bad Kermit

Bad Kermit — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:58:54 +0000

@sean: Totally fair point. My negging of Soto was just to cover my ass if he flops again. I really do think he'll have a rebound year, but if he doesn't, I already gave you three reasons why he didn't! Now, no one can be mad at me! Hooray!

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:02:06 +0000

@Grey: A guy from a league I’m organizing (not the one on here) has suggested we add total bases and holds to our H2H categories. Total bases I’m cool with, but holds?

Never played in a league with holds and wonder if you have. If so, how is it? … waste of roster space? Does making Angel Guzman enter the fantasy baseball conversation push it a little too far?

By: The Dude

The Dude — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:10:38 +0000

@Tony: I’m with you on the skewed Yahoo rankings. It’s ridiculous. Here’s a Yahoo Mock I did last night. I’m actually a little annoyed at a couple of my own picks (AJ, DiceK), but couldn’t resist them for the rounds I got them in. At the end there were so many players left that I wanted but were undrafted I didn’t know what to do with myself. Liriano went undrafted, several closers went undrafted. I later went back and looked at Yahoo’s rankings and found that many of the guys on Grey’s top 300 are ranked 1000+ by Yahoo.

1. Evan Longoria (TB – 3B)
2. Prince Fielder (Mil – 1B)
3. José Reyes (NYM – SS)
4. Félix Hernández (Sea – SP)
5. Nick Markakis (Bal – OF)
6. Josh Hamilton (Tex – OF)
7. Adam Dunn (Was – 1B,OF)
8. Carlos Peña (TB – 1B)
9. Julio Borbón (Tex – OF)
10. Ian Stewart (Col – 2B,3B)
11. Brian Wilson (SF – RP)
12. Jake Peavy (CWS – SP)
13. Huston Street (Col – RP)
14. A.J. Burnett (NYY – SP)
15. Jonathan Sánchez (SF – SP)
16. Miguel Montero (Ari – C)
17. Frank Francisco (Tex – RP)
18. Phil Hughes (NYY – SP,RP)
19. Daisuke Matsuzaka (Bos – SP)
20. Chris Davis (Tex – 1B,3B)
21. Octavio Dotel (Pit – RP)
22. Jason Frasor (Tor – RP)
23. Juan Pierre (CWS – OF)

By: Grey

Grey — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:19:46 +0000

@matthole: re: Reyes -- Seems unlikely. re: catcher -- 10 to 15th.

By: matthole

matthole — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:16:01 +0000

Also heard on baseball tonight that jose reyes may bat 3rd w/beltran out