Utley, Fielder are already in

Haren, Carpenter, Reynolds, Markakis, Car Gonzalez, Franklin, Oswalt, Al Ram, Rajai Davis, Kubel, G. Jones, Aardsma

simple mistake he immediately corrected but still, I can imagine your mega face-palm upon reading it for the first time

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1) Player Rater scores:
Crawford – 12.13
Ellsbury – 12.09
Braun – 12.08

I think it’s fair to say the difference between the three players according to player rater is statistically insignificant, so the 1-2-3 ranking is not that meaningful; Braun is basically sharing the #1 spot with those other two.

2) Ellsbury/Crawford/Bourn stealing so many bases of course can win you just about as many roto points in the scheme of things as a Kemp/Braun well rounded type, which I think ESPN’s rater is accounting for. I would just concede that it’d be up to you to make the trades/draft picks to make sure you had the power to complement them, and that thus that little extra flexibility might give Braun/Kemp a slight edge in convenience.

I don’t think this means Crawford/Ellsbury is as valuable going forward, because there’s less room for stat growth in a lot of these steals guys and their steals could have easily topped out this year, but in terms of measuring the impact they had on teams THIS year, I think the Rater is decently accurate.

Thanks for the help this season, you were entertaining as well.

March Grey pretty much destroyed July Grey this year. But then again, in fantasy baseball, March is championship month, so overall I’d say 2009 Grey had a great season.

@Elijah: That’s awesome!

@big o: The problem with setting goals like that is people play in a wide array of leagues. A 12 team’s goals are different than a 10 team or a 15 team. Also, if I said 120 saves, that means on average out of, say, 10 leagues. In some leagues 120 gets you 1st place and in others it gets you 5th place, can’t expect anyone to know every league. But with all that said I can do something along those lines.

at the beginning of the year , i asked you to give me a target for saves . the number you gave (120) was good enough for 3rd place in my most important league .
121 would have netted me 2nd place , and 126 … 1st .

i asked the same of another , (perhaps one of the “industry’s” most respected authorities) , for stolen bases and home runs .

the target # that he gave me for sb’s (165) would have netted me
4th place …. 161 was 7th place , and 181 was 2nd place .

now to be candid , his philosophy (/caveat) is that you don’t have to win EVERY category … but you must be competitive …. no punting .

for home runs , the target i was given was 225 .
225 was 11th place !!
10th place was 255 …. 300 would have tied me for 4th /5th .
309 was 1st place .

i have provided all these numbers as my way of saying
that i want YOU to set my draft goals for me , this winter .

last year was my 1st foray into 5×5 ‘s .
the most important thing that i learned was
finding out who i want to listen to .

so , if you could do this ….. fit this type of article into your plans ,
i would be most appreciative .
and , as always ,
thanking you , in advance .

The umpires were terrible tonight. It didn’t make much of a difference in the end though. I would have taken CC out after the 7th inning, gotta trust Gaudin going two innings for you there.

@Steve: Ha!

@Grey: Beat you to it!

Took me 13 minutes to figure out how to switch from Blue Ray to network TV…………..then when i finally got the baseball game, Casey Casum gave me a long distance dedication from a dead chick on my surround sound…………

man, I get stoopider every time I buy something

I refuse to waste my dollar so I watched it for all those deprived children in New Zealand who are just now getting Telletubbies in Beta…………….