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I hate to do it, but I am officially throwing in the towel on my 2009 fantasy baseball season. In the league I joined with my buddies from Philly (which I absolutely hate the rules of) I am just getting destroyed. Part of this is because I don’t like setting lineups day-to-day and part of this is because I have gotten injuries to my top 3 picks (Reyes, Beltran and Quentin as well as Volquez one of my top pitchers). That league has been done for awhile, but I wasn’t ready to quit on my keeper rotisserie league. We have been hanging around in 12th for most of the season, but have been right near the middle in most categories. Our pitching was starting to come around and we were climbing in most of the categories. The only thing that was hurting me was my offense. We were last in batting average which affected us right down the line in all the other hitting categories. I threw in the towel this week after Johnny Cueto gave up 9 runs in 0.2 innings thus ruining all the upward momentum I had in pitching and I just didn’t see a way to dig myself out of this even deeper hole. So, it’s over and I am having a firesale for next year. I’ve traded Felix Hernandez (*tear*) and am going to trade a few of my other good pitchers for next year’s offensive core.
The only question I have to ask myself is: why did this happen? Did I draft bad? Did I misevaluate talent? I think I did a pretty good job really. I just blame these guys.
JJ Hardy: Projection 270/24/75 On Pace 220/17/62
Chris Davis: Projection 265/31/100 On pace 200/29/64 (demoted to AAA)
Corey Hart: Projection 21 steals/21 HRs/85 RBIs On pace 9 steals/19 HRs/66 RBIs
Jeff Clement: Projection 274/329/424 Actual 0 games played
I really don’t have answers for the JJ Hardy situation and the Corey Hart thing, that’s just a deal with a new manager. I get it. Tough breaks, these things happen. Beyond that I might put a little too much faith in young people. Davis was hot at the end of last year, but he couldn’t make the necessary adjustments to pitchers and I was relying on him for some serious power numbers. Clement can hit, but he can’t catch so they don’t know what to do with him. I get it.
I just wish I had drafted Russell Branyan like I wanted to.
