Fantasy Baseball-- Week 20

Asakusabashi is now in third place, and with pitching and breaks gets back into second. Ballywood is in second place, strategically positioned to regain first, if I make sure players actually play.

Streaming two starter Tim Stauffer (4 K, 13 ER, 11.700 ERA, 1.600 WHIP) played bad teams and still could not get them out. Alexi Ogando (2.2 INN, 6 ER, 20.250 ERA, 3.750 WHIP) also played a bad team, but at least was pulled quickly. Halladay (W, 4 K, ER, 1.421 ERA, 1.737 WHIP) in one start , H. Kuroda (W, 10 K, 2.025 ERA, 1.200 WHIP)
in two starts and B. Morrow (3 K, 5.143 ERA, 1.143 WHIP) in one start helped. The closers-- Feliz, Perez, Farnsworth (2W, 4S)-- pitched a combined 9 inning no-hitter, allowing just two walks, bringing some redemption. Rain cost Halladay a start. This week brings four two start pitchers to compensate. Henderson Alvarez, TOR, is added rather than Aaron Harang, as adding Harang before LAST weeks deadline gave no priority.

Pitching: K ERA WHIP W SV
Pace 45 ---- ----- 3.4 5
Starting Total 816 3.470 1.2654 61 80
7th 6th(-1) 9th(-1) 5th 5th(-2)
Week 19 33 4.828 1.3510 4 4
Current Total 849 3.511 1.2687 65 84
Place 8th(-1), 7th(-1), 9th, 5th , 5th

Kemp (0.3846, 2HR, 7R, 5RBI, 3SB), Granderson (0.3000,5,7,8, 0), Lawrie (0.3000, HR,2,5, SB) and Fielder (0.3182, HR, 4, 4, 0) were top Asakusabashi hitters.

Hitting: BA HR RBI R SB
Pace 12 43 45 8
Starting Total 0.2710 218 771 813 141
4th 2nd(-1) 2nd 1st 3rd(-1)
Week 19 0.2479 15 41 41 6
Current Total 0.2700 233 812 854 147
4th 1at (+1/2) 2nd 1st 2nd (+1/2)


Why is Ballywood strategically positioned? First, there are extra position players to make up missed games and hopefully get first place back in hitting categories. This is possible since SP are reduced as IP is 64 above pace. Second, ERA and WHIP should advance with Hernandez, Pineda, D. Hudson and C. Carpenter as the lone starters. Also, K should remain in first place as K/9 leads the league. Bourn (4SB), Howard (.400, 2HR, 8RBI), Victorino (.417, 7R) and closers (6SV, 15 K) led Ballywood last week.