Baseball

The Yanks got rained out??  

f**king rain.  

3 hours until 1st pitch for the Tigers and Royals.  Woo-hoo.  Time to "Play Ball".  Go Tigers!!!!!  Looking forward to their 1st win out of a hundred or so more on their way to their return visit to the World Series.  Or at least another season of good baseball in the Motor City, after so many, many years of little league baseball (and that is an insult to the little leaguers).

My fantasy team:

C - Joe Mauer
1B - James Loney
2B - Orlando Hudson
3B - Miguel Cabrera
SS - J.J. Hardy
LF - Pat Burrell
CF - Grady Sizemore
RF - Jeff Francoeur
Util - Ryan Zimmerman
Util - Frank Thomas
BN - Jason Giambi
BN - Luis Castillo
BN - Mike Napoli
DL - Curtis Granderson
DL - Moises Alou

SP - Brandon Webb
SP - Roy Oswalt
SP - Chris Young
RP - Joe Borowski
RP - Troy Percival
P - Fausto Carmona
P - Chien-Ming Wang
BN - Ubaldo Jimenez

darkmatter wrote: He signed a three year $45 mil extension... though $15 mil a year is waaaaaay too much for a closer in my opinion....  I don't see the sense in paying a closer $10+ mil (even that's a lot) when he's only going to pitch one or two innings a game, even if the end of the game is so important.  But salaries a league-wide problem that's not about to go away.

I agree that closers are incredibly overpaid.  Billy Beane and the Oakland A's realized this, so they went about developing their own closers by taking solid but not overpowering pitchers and putting them at closer, then selling them for massive amounts of dough once they racked up 30 or 40 saves.  It's a brilliant strategy. 

He signed a three year $45 mil extension... though $15 mil a year is waaaaaay too much for a closer in my opinion....  I don't see the sense in paying a closer $10+ mil (even that's a lot) when he's only going to pitch one or two innings a game, even if the end of the game is so important.  But salaries a league-wide problem that's not about to go away.  

I know the Tigers put Fransisco Rodney on the DL, he was supposed to be their set-up man.  Joel Zumaya is out until midseason because of a serious elbow or shoulder injury he suffered when moving furniture during the wild fires in California I think.  They have some great starting pitching though... Verlander, Bonderman, Rogers, Robertson, Willis.  The only thing about their starting pitching they'd have to worry about is consistency, especially with Bonderman and Willis, who fell apart last year.  But still, they have a great team.


Edited by darkmatter - March 25 2008 at 13:24

from what I understand.. .the Tigers are having (had) a lot of problems with injuries in the middle relief.. and how many more innings has Todd Jones got left in him.. he must be as old as I am hahahha.  I love the Tigers and they will score a HELL of a lot of runs.. but suspect they will be like the Yankees of the last couple of years...will score enough to win a lot of games... but come playoff time (if they make it)  the pitching weaknesses will do them in .. in the end. 

 ^ rooting hard for the Tigers... but man... the Indians look like a winner this year.  Have a big edge in pitching it appears.

I never cared for this sort of sport, but I do master the bate since 15 or so...