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View Ricky Romero vs. Batter Stats. Jeff Erickson looks through the week's best NL waiver options and highlights some top prospects who could soon get the call to the majors, including the Phillies' Nick Williams. Managers fret over high-leverage situations that demand the use of 'closers. Michael Rathburn looks at wOBA, which could help you put together a monster daily lineup. The rash of injuries in the Braves' rotation has opened up an unexpected competition this spring.
Now that spring training is in full swing, Brian Pelowski looks around the league at jobs that are up for grabs. Oh Ricky, Ricky, Ricky. Romero is an extreme, but also instructive example of why owners should almost never give pitchers contracts in fantasy baseball. And then it all fell apart in his fourth season Paulie Allnuts : there will still be some 2nd half jems out there,we just gotta find them.
Tony Y : Gets about a day off per week; maybe two, but as he continues to produce, should play every day. Each of us has at least a couple of holes that need to be filled. Suck My Wieters : i am fully on the randy wells train.
Paulie Allnuts : same night i dropped reimold,i thought inge was sliding back to his old ways and dropped him also,hence the slide of my own began,i went from 9 in ave to 3 in a week and a half. But Reimold is definitely way undervalued. He has 9 RBIs in the last month. I dropped Scott Baker after I went into a rage when he made his third bad start in a row.
This Jason Hammels fellow intrigues me. Perhaps if we called him No-Mold, it might double his ownership. Need trade help. I want to acquire Sabathia,S. Drew, Reynolds and Price. I was thinking of offering Sizemore,Ethier,Soria,F. Lopez,Wainright, is that enough? Ramirez probably gone. My other players Beltran DL , J. Upton acquired from this same guy months ago , Ordonez, Ankiel, C.
Young, D. SRM : I say no, but I may be stuck in the way back machine. I have a 17 hr lead over 2nd place. Pitching and Steals are 2 needed categories. Also who would you prefer from here on out. Wilson or J. I have Heath Bell as well in a 2 RP league. Doc : fox,miles,fontenot,aramis and lee,i dont see baker as any more than part time.
Steve : Thanks for the heads up. Rob : Thanks for the kind words. If impossible, Wilson. Ranking them Votto, Helton, Cantu, Lopez. Dingo : Not now. Guadin, Kuroda and Scherzer vs. Who to start?
Just need to pick up a random Util til CQ returns. I think it works out well. I have lots of room to gain on the pitching side and only lacking room on the SB side of offense. If you already have Hanley then Zobrist would never start for you anyways. If you have…Furcal…. Eric C. Yeah just take Votto I guess. Just got offered Cantu for my Cueto. I want to mention my Reimold struggles.
Back a few weeks ago, I was noticing he was sitting more than now when he was batting 7th and 8th. Anyway, each time I sat him, he would pinch hit a 3-run HR.
Results so far: Ortiz:. I dumped Kelly Johnson and picked up Kaz Matsui. Weekly H2H-Points league. I own Nathan, Soria and Nunez. Can only start two. Nathan is a no-brainer, obviously, but Soria has some tough match-ups next week, while Nunez has it much easier:. Soria: [email protected] , [email protected] Nunez: [email protected] , [email protected]. Any ideas on this? GTS : Yeah, with Stephen, been there for a few weeks now. Matsui will be there later if you need to switch.
Give him some love!! Phil : Is the tough love, Dr. Phil is famous for? We just mentioned him last week. Not much to say. So what are the thoughts on him? SSs suck. Worth a flier. Grey : Drew, Beckham, or Andrus while Alexei is out??
I drafted Drew and dealt with his early on suckfest before dropping him late may so i have a little resentment. Grey : Thanks. Point them out to me. My Sizemore for his Edwin Jackson? Its a keeper league.
Bedard coming back so I will have to drop one of my pitchers. I would like to try and move some pitching but nobody trades for pitching in my league. Doc : free gus dominguez the vanity fair article is a good read.
First, Brandon Morrow gives him a Brooks Baseball rundown of his decreased usage of the pitch last season. Jeff Sullivan of FanGraphs then showed how he really just had an uptick in sinkers during , with '12 around '09 and '10 levels. Finally, on Wednesday, Romero threw mostly sinkers during his Spring Training start to try and regain the feel for the pitch. As Sullivan pointed out, control was probably the biggest problem with his sinker.
Looking at heat maps, he missed with the pitch the same way each year, but he wasn't able to get the ball in the bottom half of the zone on his arm side. Until he throws the pitch for strikes again, it's not a viable weapon.
It is tougher for a hitter to get the barrel on a hard pitch coming into them, opposed to tailing away. Righties were able to go the other way with the sinker, hitting. The fear of hitting batters with arm-side two-seamers should not be such a deterrent from throwing the pitch, whether it's Romero or anyone else. However, when someone has such a sharp cliff dive in performance, it's about more than just one type of pitch.
I don't know how you could be confident when you're not having some success. It's the age-old question, what comes first? Everyone has theories and we brainstorm and we've had so many people come up with ideas. It's one of those things that he continues to work and pitch and hopefully at some point he's going to find it again. We all see the walks and this and that but they still feel like he's got a chance to turn the corner here and that's all that we can go off of. The thing that's difficult to assess about Romero's performance is that everyone -- including Romero, apparently -- is suggesting his problems are with his delivery.
In four starts with Buffalo, however, he's walked 20 batters in If you're not familiar with the Blass story, he was a World Series hero for the Pirates in , throwing two complete-game victories including Game 7. He won 19 games the next year but then suddenly developed a mental block in and couldn't throw strikes.
He walked 84 in That's how the term Steve Blass Disease was coined. It's unfair to Blass, now a long-time Pirates announcer. Former major league pitching coach Tom House called the affliction "The Creature.
I'm not saying there is some underlying psychological damage that needs to be repaired, just that at some point you do have to wonder. Romero always lived on the edge with his control as is. For now, he's trying to develop consistency in his mechanics.
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