Comments on: UmpBump’s Week 7 Fantasy Results http://umpbump.com/press/2008/05/19/umpbumps-week-7-fantasy-results/ In-your-face baseball commentary Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:17:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Scott Ball http://umpbump.com/press/2008/05/19/umpbumps-week-7-fantasy-results/comment-page-1/#comment-55754 Scott Ball Tue, 20 May 2008 00:47:20 +0000 http://umpbump.com/press/umpbumps-week-7-fantasy-results/#comment-55754 My squad cruised to another dominant win this week (9-2 over Freebase My Balls), lead by Lance Berkman, Carlos Quentin, Edinson Volquez, and my bullpen... but that's exactly what I have said for about four weeks straight now. No, far more interesting this week to discuss, in my opinion is a trade I proposed that brought up quite a debate on the league message boards. I sent Edinson Volquez and Ryan Church to croutchyoldman (Larry, I think?) in return for Prince Fielder. This led to cries of outrage from certain members of the league as to the one-sidedness of the trade; some called it veto-worthy while others did not believe it to even be lopsided. Here are the facts: Volquez has 7 W, 62 K, 1.23 ERA, and 1.27 WHIP, good for the 14th ranked player in Yahoo while Church has put up 32 runs, 9 HR, 34 RBI, and .379 OBP, good for the 13th highest ranked player in Yahoo. Both players I picked up off the free agents, but both are playing ridiculously well. Prince Fielder has 20 runs, 6 HR, 24 RBI, and a .372 OBP, and is the 168th ranked player on Yahoo. He, however, I believe was a late first round pick. So is this unfair? I call it a classic sell-high, buy low. I didn't think either Volquez or Church would be worth more than they were worth at the moment, so I wanted to capitalize. Larry shipped out the under performing Prince for two guys who could possibly both end up out-producing the vegetarian first basemen. Was this not a fair trade? Did anyone win? Anyway, I don't think I would have minded much if the trade was vetoed... with this scariness about Jake Peavy's elbow, I don't know if trading away Volquez was a good idea for my extremely weak starting pitching staff. HOT: Berkman (seriously, look at this guy's numbers over the past month... it's sick), Quentin, Volquez, Jon Rauch, Brandon Lyon. NOT: Jake Peavy (well, at least he apparently has an excuse), Derek Lowe, Brad Hawpe My squad cruised to another dominant win this week (9-2 over Freebase My Balls), lead by Lance Berkman, Carlos Quentin, Edinson Volquez, and my bullpen… but that’s exactly what I have said for about four weeks straight now. No, far more interesting this week to discuss, in my opinion is a trade I proposed that brought up quite a debate on the league message boards. I sent Edinson Volquez and Ryan Church to croutchyoldman (Larry, I think?) in return for Prince Fielder. This led to cries of outrage from certain members of the league as to the one-sidedness of the trade; some called it veto-worthy while others did not believe it to even be lopsided. Here are the facts: Volquez has 7 W, 62 K, 1.23 ERA, and 1.27 WHIP, good for the 14th ranked player in Yahoo while Church has put up 32 runs, 9 HR, 34 RBI, and .379 OBP, good for the 13th highest ranked player in Yahoo. Both players I picked up off the free agents, but both are playing ridiculously well. Prince Fielder has 20 runs, 6 HR, 24 RBI, and a .372 OBP, and is the 168th ranked player on Yahoo. He, however, I believe was a late first round pick. So is this unfair? I call it a classic sell-high, buy low. I didn’t think either Volquez or Church would be worth more than they were worth at the moment, so I wanted to capitalize. Larry shipped out the under performing Prince for two guys who could possibly both end up out-producing the vegetarian first basemen. Was this not a fair trade? Did anyone win?

Anyway, I don’t think I would have minded much if the trade was vetoed… with this scariness about Jake Peavy’s elbow, I don’t know if trading away Volquez was a good idea for my extremely weak starting pitching staff.

HOT: Berkman (seriously, look at this guy’s numbers over the past month… it’s sick), Quentin, Volquez, Jon Rauch, Brandon Lyon.

NOT: Jake Peavy (well, at least he apparently has an excuse), Derek Lowe, Brad Hawpe

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]]> By: Kirk http://umpbump.com/press/2008/05/19/umpbumps-week-7-fantasy-results/comment-page-1/#comment-55753 Kirk Mon, 19 May 2008 21:48:25 +0000 http://umpbump.com/press/umpbumps-week-7-fantasy-results/#comment-55753 I lost 5-7 this week, yet I still feel happy about my team's performance, especially the offense. Ania's deeper bench made the difference in the match-up; however I was finally able to move out of the cellar in a few cats, so the Revenge are ready for a surge. Papi, Zimmerman and Howard all had strong weeks. Can Cano be next? Please? On the pitching side, Ania's love affair with Fausto Carmona proved fruitful as he helped her maintain a hard to beat ERA of 2.77 and WHIP of 1.09. My guys couldn't overcome some bad games by my Cleveland relievers, not to mention Maddux and Erv getting hit around. Saves, K's and K/BB continue to be my strongest categories. This week I hope to rebound, but it will be tough going against the InjuryReport juggernaut. HOT: Howard, Zimmerman, Ortiz, and Randy Johnson NOT: Iannetta, Granderson, Okajima, Betancourt, and Maddux (note that I dropped and then re-added Maddux in hopes he'll fare better this week) I lost 5-7 this week, yet I still feel happy about my team’s performance, especially the offense. Ania’s deeper bench made the difference in the match-up; however I was finally able to move out of the cellar in a few cats, so the Revenge are ready for a surge. Papi, Zimmerman and Howard all had strong weeks. Can Cano be next? Please? On the pitching side, Ania’s love affair with Fausto Carmona proved fruitful as he helped her maintain a hard to beat ERA of 2.77 and WHIP of 1.09. My guys couldn’t overcome some bad games by my Cleveland relievers, not to mention Maddux and Erv getting hit around. Saves, K’s and K/BB continue to be my strongest categories. This week I hope to rebound, but it will be tough going against the InjuryReport juggernaut.

HOT: Howard, Zimmerman, Ortiz, and Randy Johnson
NOT: Iannetta, Granderson, Okajima, Betancourt, and Maddux (note that I dropped and then re-added Maddux in hopes he’ll fare better this week)

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