Look, I know we’re not friends. At least not true friends, we’re internet friends. You barely know me, I barely know you. We occasionally share drink recipes and quips about reality television. But you come here every week, you read the content on this site which means you do know something about me: my fantasy baseball abilities. I heard you snickering! But for cereal, it feels like you’re not listening to me. I know you’re not doing it on purpose. You wouldn’t flat out ignore me, would you? We’re not married so I don’t see why you would so I’m trying to figure out why Adam Lind is only 35% owned, with 27% of that ownership happening in the last week. I mean, I mentioned him quite clearly on this Razzball Podcast. You probably snickered then too. Admittedly, I didn’t think the kid was gonna stay this hot for this long. It’s getting to the point of ridiculousness on a grand scale but I am not gonna stop talking about him until he’s at least 50% owned. I’m serious, take this as a threat or he’s the Creeper of the Week for week 12 as well! But enough with idle threats – or are they? – I’m here to talk about why he’s a creeper for this week of the 2013 fantasy baseball season…
He’s hitting. Analysis done. You don’t need no more, son…or daughter…is that really the correct slang response there? I don’t feel like I can drop the mic after saying ‘whatchu want, daughter’. Four lady razzball readers, can you just roll with this minor case of misogyny so I don’t sound more ridiculous than I already am? I’ll take your silence as consent…no I didn’t mean it like that either! I have a meeting with HR in my future for sure now. Well if that’s the case, I better blabber about Lind while I can. Trust me when I say, I don’t think anyone thought they’d be talking about Adam in early June with how he started the year. On May 1st, Lind entered his game that day with a .244 average, a .311 slugging percentage and zero HRs. If he were a catcher or a good fielding MI, I could see why he’d stay on but he’s a DH. For those who don’t know what that is, it’s a Designated HITTER, which clearly Adam wasn’t doing a good job with. However, there was one stat that seemed out of line with his career arc to date that probably led to this offensive outbreak; during that same stretch, Lind also had a .397 OBP, an incredibly high walk rate that would rank 10th in the entire MLB if he had enough ABs to qualify. Well, we all know he’s hitting well now. After going 4/7 on Saturday – 3/3 of which were off of Yu Darvish – Lind is now up to a staggering .342 average and has hit 5 HRs and 9 doubles in his last 104 at bats. Prorate that over a a 550 ABs and you have about a 26 HR, 47 double season. Yeah but he can’t hit lefties. Well I hate to argue with you but he hit a HR off a lefty last week. Wanna know where he did that? In Petco Park. So two things to note about that there. One is that’s not the easiest park to hit one out in so the power threat is real. Secondly, he couldn’t play DH there, so the Blue Jays had to make room in their lineup, moving Edwin Encarnacion to 3rd to get him into that NL park to face a left handed pitcher. You know why Edwin’s nickname is E5, right? Exactly. That’s called faith y’all, something that you haven’t shown me since my first Lind call, clearly, due to ownership numbers. So I’m here to tell you to make up for that gaffe and solidify our internet acquaintance or we are through! Until next week, of course.
