All you have to do is watch the guy hit. It ain’t steroids that are causing those no doubt home runs. It’s squaring up on the ball with the sweet spot.

At this point, there should be no doubt of Bautista’s value. Grey’s just been hurt too many times so he thinks it’s inevitable that he’ll get hurt again.

Believe in love again, Grey!

@Long Bawls: Awesome!

@MKEeast: Oh yeah…

Beyone awesome.

Waino: I’m gonna throw the nastiest curveball I have ever thrown…if he hits it, I’ll tip my cap, but if not we’re going to the Series

If I keep reyes and upton both then it would cost a 3rd and 4th round pick. Basically picking between Reyes and hamels unless I’m missing something. Thoughts? Thanks!

Neil Walker and Luke Scott, Olsen-twins-style, sharing the role of Luke Skywalker

Garrett Jones as Han Solo Home Run (ironically, he tried out for the part of R2D2)

Derek Jeter as Dexter Jettster (hey, I had to look it up)

Jayson Werth as Chewbacca (with significant contract dispute because he read it as Chew Tobaccy)

Joba Chamberlain as the fatter half-brother of Jaba the Hutt

Prince Fielder as Princess Pad Me Any More And I Won’t Reach My Shoelaces

Juan Pierre as an Ewok (changed, last year, to EWon’tWok)

Jar-Jar as himself

Okay, I’m ready for the season to start.

Im in the same boat, i want to keep Votto/Latos, but wanted to see if i was thinking right. Doesnt make sense to downgrade a pitcher to go from votto to pujols right?

@Wake Up: Are you Mike Stanton?

@Justin: I think the trade makes no sense.

@Big Magoo: No problem.

A gets: Votto, Latos
B gets: Pujols, CJ Wilson

League uses the standard 5 cats, plus BB and XBH for hitters, and L for pitchers. 16 team league w/ 16 keepers. I would be giving Votto/LAtos and my current keeper pitchers are Kershaw, Hamels, Lester, Cain, Latos.

What do u think?

You make it sound as if he’s never really flashed much power. He’s hit 14 HR in 439 major league PAs, which is about a 20 pace over a full season. 4 of those came during a September callup in 2010, and then he hit zero in the first half of 2011 while playing sporadically and shuffling between the majors and minors. Then he hit all 10 over his final 235 PAs once he started playing every day (thanks to injuries and the Beltran trade), which is more like a 25 HR pace. If that was out of context with his minor league production, I might agree with you that it looks like an abberation. But he also hit 33 HR over 652 PAs across Double-A and Triple-A, 27 of which came over 455 PAs in Triple-A, during which time he had roughly a .430 wOBA and 170 wRC+ (again, keeping in mind the IL is not the PCL, which the 170 wRC+ accounts for). Yes, he was 24 and 25 in Triple-A, which is on the old side, but its not completely past prospect age and those are some gaudy #’s.

Duda was a prospect I’d been following for a while. I’d always felt if he could ever tap into his size and hit for some power, he’d have a shot at a nice career, thanks to his solid walk and contact rates. I was just about to give up on him before he had a strong second half in Double-A in 2009, and he’s basically been on a tear every since. And it may seem a bit homerish to pimp him, but FWIW, I’m not optimistic at all on guys like Daniel Murphy and Ruben Tejada (my money is on Reese Havens eventually playing 2B for as long as he can stay healthy–much more complete skillset, problem is he’s made of glass). Murphy is deep mixed league MI schmohawk fodder, while Tejada is the same for NL-Only.

IMO, an opstimistic projection for Duda would be .285-80-25-90-3, while the one you have here is more about where I’d expect projections to land. Even if its tough to project more than 20 HR, he’s a much safer AVG and even R play than a lot of the other no-speed OF sluggers ahead of him. That means solid floor, and the power potential also means high ceiling. He’ll probably be on nearly all my 5OF teams.

@bfeels: McCutchen, Granderson, Lawrie, Price, Uggla…

@Tony: Yeah, more desirable in a format unlike yours.

Stop taking notes on everything i say.

Go WPA

In my league its 10×10 H2H. I put a premium to guys that hit for average seeing how we count singles, dubs, trips and HR’s plus walks and K’s tally, stanton hitting 40 bombs would be great, but at a 2nd round price tag? and he might K 175-200 times and bat .250? I dont know if I could swallow it, i’d have to pair him with a pedroia or something to balance out the K’s lol. I think he’s more desirable in a Roto format.

I should have added Uggla to my list above. So the 5 to keep are…

McCuthcen
Granderson
Lawrie
A-Rod
Stubbs
Uggla
Price
Axford

McCutchen
Granderson
Lawrie
A-Rod
Stubbs
Price
Axford