Bad Starts

Maybe two weeks have gone by already. Maybe three, if you count Japan. But, as I have done previous years, I will take a look at the last seven days.

First, a look at the standings, which are not pretty:

Team	Place	Points	Pts Behind	Last Week Place	Last Week Points	Last Week Pts Behind
Yakking Muggers/Ottoneu	12	695.7	754
Darfish/CBS money	6	68	24.5
MooreOns/Yahoo Winners	9	56	42
Adho Mukha/Yahoo	4	75.5	5.5

Now, a look at the hot players of the last seven days. Look at the performances of Matt Kemp and Matt Cain. It could be worse:

Hitter	Team	Rank	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG
Jayson Heyward	MooreOns	13	6	2	3	1	0.421
Brett Lawrie	AM, Darfish	84	2	1	4	1	0.364
Matt Kemp	Darfish	1H	7	4	8	0	0.546
Ian Desmond	Yakking Muggers	50 pts	5	1	3	0	0.343
Hanley Ramirez	Yakking Muggers	50 pts	3	1	5	1	0.375

Pitcher	Team	Rank	W	SV	K	ERA	WHIP
Matt Cain	MooreOns	6	1		11	0.00	0.11
Ricky Romero	MooreOns	57	1		5	1.08	0.60
Jim Johnson	MooreOns	99		2	1	0.00	1.00
Brandon Beachy	Adho Mukha	50	1		9	0.75	1.00
Grant Balfour	Adho Mukha	98		1	4	0.00	0.75
Cole Hamels	Darfish	22P	1		19	3.65	0.57
James Shields	Yakking Muggers	51 pts	1		5	2.25	0.88

Here is an in depth look at CBS League performance, as this for the money. Points are shown following results for each category:

Week	BA		HR		RBI		R		SB
1 and 2	0.2115	2	2	1	17	2	22	6	8	12
3	0.2584	7	8	5	30	4.5	36	2	8	10
Total	0.2411	2.5	10	4	47	5	58	5	16	11.5

Week	K		ERA		WHIP		Win		SV
1 and 2	31	7	2.776	10	1.0654	9	2	8.5	2	8
3	62	11	3.954	5	1.4697	2	4	10.5	4	7.5
Total	93	10	3.541	9	1.3279	6	6	9.5	6	7.5

I would like to add power to this team, but kind of believe it might already be there. At least, it is there compared to waiver wire alternatives. Ike Davis, Adam Lind, Mitch Moreland, Kevin Youkilis and Giancarlo Stanton are all good bets to break out soon. The speed of Dee Gordon and Emilio Bonofacio has certainly shown. Pitching, assuming Matt Moore and Yu Darvish are not actually walk machines, should be dominating. Darvish at Detroit is too risky given that Yu calculates he can get every batter out, thus chooses to walk too many of them, and will choose to strike out Delmon Young with Cabrera and Fielder on base. Moore, Hamels and Hudson have nice match ups, so the urge to add two-starters to go with Bedard and Hanson is resisted. Bartolo Colon was added for two starts in week 5. John Mayberry faces San Francisco's pitching and San Diego's park, so is benched. Closers are clogging the roster as Hector Santiago and Santiago Casilla were added to go with Marshall, Motte and Lidge. Farnsworth on the DL is tempting to drop.