Monday, June 27, 2011

Fantasy Help Please! Mid-Season MLB Awards and Biggest Winner/Loser Returns

Stat of the day from my friend DiamondDocs: Adam Dunn vs. lefties update: 1-for-53. .019 average, .175 OBP, .019 slugging percentage. Well good thing I dropped him about a month ago after I had traded Trevor Cahill for him straight up. Stupid.

So my fantasy team is scuffling here and I think the best thing for me to do is get some opinions from people. My team is as follows:
C- J.P. Arencibia TOR
1B- Adrian Gonzalez BOS and 1B/OF- Michael Morse WAS
2B-Brian Roberts BAL (DL), 2B/OF- Dustin Ackley SEA, 2B/3B/OF- Ryan Roberts ARZ,
SS- Troy Tulowitzki COL
3B- Mike Moustakas KC, 3B/2B/SS- Maicer Izturis LAA
OF- Jay Bruce CIN, Shin Soo Choo CLE (DL),  Colby Rasmus STL, Mike Stanton FLA, Seth Smith COL
2 Utility spots
Categories- Runs, HRs, RBIs, SB, AVG., OPS.

SP- Jered Weaver LAA, Justin Verlander DET, Jon Lester BOS, Jhoulys Chacin COL, Max Scherzer DET, Shaun Marcum MIL and John Lannan WAS (Spot start)
RP- John Axford MIL, Joel Hanrahan PIT, Jordan Walden LAA
Categories Wins, Saves, K's, ERA, WHIP

I'd love any advice, opinions and trade options I could target out there. Steals and Avg seem to be my worst categories. 

I'll stay on the baseball theme and discuss a few mid-season awards since the All-Star game and unofficial middle of the season is a few weeks away.
American League:
MVP- Adrian Gonzalez BOS .361 AVG., 56 Runs, 114 Hits, 16 Home Runs, 71 RBIs, 1.026 OPS
Adrian has been absolutely on fire the last month and a half leading the Red Sox from the basement into contention in the AL East. Leads the league in AVG., Hits and RBIs. 
Cy Young- Justin Verlander DET 10-3 Record, 124 K's in 128.2 Innings, 2.38 ERA, 0.84 WHIP
Tough choice but Verlander has thrown a no-hitter and almost threw another one in the next start, he has been dominant this season and his miniscule WHIP is evidence of his control. 
Rookie of the Year- Michael Pineda SEA 7-4 Record, 94 K's in 95.2 Innings, 2.45 ERA, 1.00 WHIP
Pineda has been phenomenal as a rookie, just blows people away and has learned on the job very well behind last year's Cy Young winner Felix Hernandez. 

National League-
MVP- Jose Reyes NYM .341 AVG., 61 Runs, 113 Hits, 3 Home Runs, 28 Stolen Bases, 32 RBIs, .899 OPS.
Reyes has been unbelievable even with all the distractions about possible trades and free agent signings. Leads the league in AVG., Hits and is 2nd in Steals atop a feeble offense.
Cy Young- Roy Halladay PHI 10-3 Record, 123 K's in 127.1 Innings, 2.40 ERA and a 1.03 WHIP.
Jurrjens gets honorable mention here, but Doc has been just dominant as usual. Nothing out of the ordinary here. 
Rookie of the Year- Danny Espinosa WAS- .242 AVG., 67 Hits, 14 HRs, 47 RBIs, .788 OPS.
Tough call here, no one has been outstanding but Espinosa has some pop for a young 2B and the Young Nats are going to be powerful very shortly. Honorable Mention-Darwin Barney CHC

And to bring back player of the night/weekend!

Biggest Winner of the Weekend: Very tough to say this weekend, Women's World Cup kicked off, the US Men's Soccer team lost in the Gold Cup Final to Mexico, College World Series set its final 2 in Florida and South Carolina, Kurt Busch got his first win of the year at Sonoma and Wimbledon finished up week 1. Oh and of course MLB regular news and NBA/NHL trades swirling everywhere. So to define one as the biggest winner, I'll take the easy out this time and say it's us the sports fans. Every major sport (save American football) was in some sort of action this weekend (Friday night counts too) and really entertained us and captivated our attention.

Biggest Loser of the Weekend: This seems pretty easy, nothing can top El Tri (Mexico's national team)'s celebration on American soil as they came from 2 goals down to defeat the US 4-2 in Pasadena, CA for the Gold Cup Final. Tim Howard's outbursts about the disgust of the trophy ceremony in Spanish only left more to be angry about as American soccer fans. Poor showing throughout by Bob Bradley's club.

Photo of the Day: This Thomas-as-sandman creation was seen at the Hampton Beach Master Sand Sculpting Competition in New Hampshire last weekend
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