Two pitchers who give fantasy owners absolute fits with their inconsistency pitched gems on Thursday. In New York, Oliver Perez was his usual self in big, important games. Oliver went 7.2 innings, allowed just one run, and struck out 12. He has been great his last five times out now, and perhaps he will be the pitcher we thought he could. Hey, he…
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Did you all miss me? I hope so. Only four games tonight, so not too much to report on.
Oakland traded Joe Blanton to the Philadelphia Phillies on Thursday in exchange for three prospects. The prospects are supposed to be good, but they are in A and AA ball, so don’t expect them to have any fantasy relevance this year…
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Carlos Pena is continuing to turn around his horrible start of the season. Pena connected on his 14th homer today at Yankee Stadium, and it was his third in the past six games. He has also driven in nine runs in that span and raised his average ten points. He obviously can’t reach last year’s career stats, but he…
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I know Troy Tulowitzki has been frustrating fantasy owners everywhere. They have got to be hoping that his homer on Sunday is the start of him getting his form back. Tulowitzki was 1-3 with this second home run of the season, which was his first since returning from the DL. You can’t expect him to repeat last season’s statistics, but this guy’s…
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In the first game of what might go down as one of the strangest doubleheaders in MLB history, Carlos Delgado set the Mets’ franchise record for RBI in a game with nine. This was quite a feat since he had only 35 the entire rest of the season. Delgado had a two-run double in the fifth, a grand slam in the…
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I would like to start out tonight by welcoming the NEW (and second) member of the Fighting Chance Fantasy Sports Team. Andy Houle will bring a number of things to the table. One, he is a great fantasy player. He has been playing in leagues with me for about eight years now, and has been my stiffest competition. His opinions and knowledge are very respectable…
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Jason Isringhausen has been removed as the Cardinals closer. At his own admission, he has been horrible of late, and he doesn’t want the ball in the ninth inning until he can get those issues straightened out. Manager Tony LaRussa said that Ryan Franklin and Russ Springer would get the save opportunities. Saturday night the save went to Franklin as he pitched a one hit ninth inning. It is…
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