Well just want to congradulate you on defeating me this prior week in
our head to head matchup. Your team is really struggling with
Batting Average and OPS, but otherwise, your team is very strong and
rebounding from a slow stretch of games, youve just got the wrong
opponent this week in Evan/ASAP505. His team is probably the
hottest of the league so he'll be tough to take down, but youre nose
and nose right now...
Stepping away from fantasy baseball and looking into reality--
That AL West is really weak, I think SEA actually still has a chance to
win it, even if they are 6 games under 500 right now. They just
need their heart of the order to come to life, it seems like one of the
weaker hearts of the batting order in baseball since Sexson and Beltre
have come off to very slow starts. Ibanez and Jose Lopez, though
both look excellent and you can never complain about Ichiro. Very
young pitching staff though, and thats a cause for concern, especially
with a new catcher who has to learn English or some form of team
communication with his pitchers, because the catcher is the most
important player of the game. Johjima is terrific but he has to
overcome those language barriers. I hope he does. OAK and
LAA are both underachieving tremendously. And TEX theyre doing
well but that lineup can get awfully cold awfully fast and their
pitching staff is relying too heavily on young guys to lean on
experience like Millwood and Padilla. So the division is up for
grabs for now.
The NL west looks like the exact opposite, which is funny because last
year THEY were the ones who were all struggling. COL has a young
and surging team, I expect them to cool off due to inexperience.
SF despite all the Barry talk and an inconsistant lineup has a strong
pitching staff and a great ballpark to pitch in, so theyre tough to
beat. SD is surprising me, they arent a power hitting club but
they have some good bats to drive in runs the old fashioned way and
some strong K pitchers leading the way with Young and Peavy. LAD
top to bottom looks the best of the lot though. I love what
theyve done with that order even with Kent out. Nomar is quickly
becoming the comeback player of the year (better than Thome!) and their
pitchers have been strong enough to support their batters. I just
like what theyve got going there.
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