Are You Ready For Fantasy Baseball - 2009?

I don't really have anybody that anybody would want to give up at this juncture, though a couple of pitchers are negotiable.

But I am hurting badly for catchers. My one really good guy is on the disabled list for at least three or four months and my No. 2, really really marginal at best, was thrown out of the game today for arguing with the umpire. And No. 3 I drafted out of desperation never gets to play.

All I can hope for is that everybody else bats 400

I thought I just saw one C of interest, considered him, whoever it was, but I like my catchers. Sorry re name, but data flits past me re stats or situation rather fast.

Catchers are just lousy this year, it seems. Sigh.

So it would seem except my guy who got hurt was really good. But.....

To add insult to injury one of the guys I had sitting on the bench today hit .333 and the other two on the bench hit over .600

Catchers. Ain't to many decent ones out there. I found one, owned by a mere 1% of all Fantasy players. He had a HR and 2 walks today. Go figure.

yeeeeesss. I am sticking with my projections. But I do play you next week, so any mayhem I can cause in your head is good.

That might have been the one I noticed.

It does, he has him and I want him.

He's a middling SS, and you want him bad enough to trade an outstanding OF in Carlos Beltran, the guy you drafted in Round 2, owned in 99% of all leagues, and who is having a fine season so far? Greene, in contrast, was drafted in Round 18, and is a so-so SS, owned in only 43% of leagues.

Anyone else want to trade an elite player? I have some crappy players on my team that I'm willing to part with. Let me know.

... And I'm curious how that trade negotiation went. McG wasn't happy with getting just Carlos Beltran for Greene -- after all, he's only hitting .400 so far this year -- and demanded you throw in another OF to sweeten the deal?

How did I become a badguy in this?

MM offered me a trade and I accepted, done deal. Now bugger off and go fight for justice and liberty. I didn't really want Matsui, MM offered him. I expect I will be dropping him once the trade is made.

And at the end of Week 3:

STATS - WEEK ONE - ENDING 4-12-09

1---fbaezer---PremiataForneriaM---14-4-1---.763
2---MysteryMan---firefighters---13-3-3---.763
3--- Ossobuco--- Desert Sandpaws--- 11-5-3--- .658
4--- Foxfyre--- Hoot Owls--- 10-7-2--- .579
5--- RealJohnBoy--- Rappin Rednecks--- 11-8-0--- .579
6--- Gargamel--- The Tubas--- 9-7-3--- .553
7--- Alex240101--- The Bay Herons--- 8-7-4--- .526
8--- George & Rhys--- IpswichStableHands--- 7-8-4--- .474
9--- Jespah--- Boston Skinny Pups--- 7-9-3--- .447
10--- ElStudHoncho--- Geriatric Gerbils--- 7-10-2--- .421
11--- Pantalones--- The Lushies--- 8-11-0--- .421
12--- Ticomaya--- Ticomaniacs--- 5-11-3--- .342
13--- JpinMilwaukee--- Can of Corn--- 3-13-3--- .237
14--- McGentrix--- Skoalmen--- 4-14-1--- .237

STATS - WEEK TWO - ENDING 4-17-09

1--- fbaezer--- PremiataForneriaM--- 26-9-3--- .724
2--- MysteryMan--- firefighters--- 21-11-6--- .632
3--- Alex240101--- The Bay Herons--- 17-11-10--- .579
4--- Ossobuco--- Desert Sandpaws--- 18-13-7--- .566
5--- Foxfyre--- Hoot Owls--- 18-15-5--- .539
6--- George & Rhys--- IpswichStableHands--- 16-14-8--- .526
7--- RealJohnBoy--- Rappin Rednecks--- 17-16-5--- .513
8--- Jespah--- Boston Skinny Pups--- 14-14-10--- 487
9--- ElStudHoncho--- Geriatric Gerbils--- 15-16-7--- .487
10--- Gargamel--- The Tubas--- 15-16-7--- .487
11--- Ticomaya--- Ticomaniacs--- 10-18-10--- .395
12--- McGentrix--- Skoalmen--- 12-21-5--- .382
13--- Pantalones--- The Lushies--- 13-23-2--- .368
14--- JpinMilwaukee--- Can of Corn--- 7-22-9--- .303

STATS - WEEK 3 - ENDING 4-26-09

1--- fbaezer--- PremiataForneriaM--- 39-13-5 .728
2--- Foxfyre--- Hoot Owls--- 29-18-10 .596
3--- George & Rhys--- IpswichStableHands--- 26-19-12 .561
4--- MysteryMan--- firefighters--- 27-20-10 .561
5--- Ossobuco--- Desert Sandpaws--- 26-20-00 .553
6--- Gargamel--- The Tubas--- 26-21-10 .544
7--- RealJohnBoy--- Rappin Rednecks--- 26-22-9 .535
8--- Jespah--- Boston Skinny Pups--- 21=22=14 .491
9--- Alex240101--- The Bay Herons 20-22-15 .482
10--- McGentrix--- Skoalmen--- 20-29-8 .421
11--- Pantalones--- The Gushies--- 21-31-5 .412
12--- ElStudHoncho--- Geriatric Gerbils--- 19-29-9 .412
13--- Ticomaya--- Ticomaniacs--- 15-28-4 .386
14--- JpinMilwaukee--- Can of Corn--- 12-33-12 .316

Everybody is still jockeying for position, and it is easy to see that one week's glory can quickly become the next week's ashes and vice versa. I expect we will see a lot of changes over the coming weeks. I think we can agree that the one change every would like to see is in PremiataForneriaM. That would be everyone but PremiataForneriaM of course.

It is interesting to note that JP has been improving every week and, if that cntinues, he will almost certainly break out of the bottom.

You didn't. I was being sardonic.

Almost a certainty since he is playing the Not-Yet-Ready-for-Prime-Time Ticomaniacs this week.

Yet another party for Premiata (and I must say that last day Bobby Seay move worked perfectly).

So much for Sunday afternoon projections

Well you got some of it right.

The Owls are pretty unpredictable though. Short squatty birds tend to be that way.

fbaezer, did you feel the earthquake this morning? Our news said it swayed tall buildings in Mexico City.

Yes, I felt it precisely while I was home at my computer seeing how the Baseball Fantasy Week ended.
Went to the backyard with wife and daughter to wait for it to end.
But 6.0 is quite manageable over here.

Would have made top news, but the flu epidemic buries everything.

Sure glad all is well, but the flu epidemic is something. Stay well!