June Already?

June 1st is approaching... In my opinion the begining of June is when you need to start closley examing your team and evaluating your strengths and weaknesses. Its time to cut those guys who you thought were sleepers at the draft, but havent yet panned out.

So far it has been a pretty tough year for me in particular. In my two fantasybaseballexpress related leagues i am in 5/12 and 11/13. The league i am in 5th in is the Superior Mendoza Swingers League which Mikey talked about on the last podcast. Until very recently i was holding down 3rd solidly. I took a very unique apprach to this league. I filled my pitching staff with mostly middle relivers. Im talking about guys like Jonathan Broxton and Manny Corpas, who have thus far panned out. I got Jose Valverde at a discout. I belive i didnt draft a SP until round 14. My current starters are Escobar, Burnett, Vazquez, and wandy Rodriguez. Im doing solid in ERA and WHIP as expected but im in dead last in K/W. Unless my hitting really picks it up, i will realize that my strategy failed and that its time to get some SP's.

The Fantasybaseballexpress Writer's League has been pretty interesting thus far. As i may have stated before i was watching 24 during the draft and therefore didnt draft as well as i would have thought. In short my offense is a mess. I'll leave it at this i have Konerko A.Jones Ensberg + (had) Barfield all starting for me. My pitching is pretty solid w/ Dice K Vazquez Harang J Sheilds + Gil Meche. I think as my players pick it up my team will go up the standings a little bit..


Dont Give Up On:

Chone Figgins: Hes making contact and has a high gb%. His luck will eventually reverse itself and he will start contributing.

Paul Konerko: I have no reasoning for this. Its just as simple as that given past history he has to turn it around very soon. Try to buy him low.


It may be time

Andruw Jones: He must be hiding an injury


Jack Cust: His contact% eventually showed itself. If you can get any sort of value for him get rid of him now

Hop on the Forums

I noticed that the forums are pretty inactive. I would like to encourage you all to sign up for them and start posting. We have a very effective/fun forum for this other podcast i listen to. Its great we have built a defined community. This is somthing i as well as Mike im sure would love to achieve for fantasybaseball express.

Thanks

Brett Myers (You Knew This Was Coming)

---After being bumped from the Philles rotation after just three bad starts Brett Myers notched his first save last night with Tom Gordon on the 15 day DL with a hurt throwing rotator cuff.

Though Myers was posting the best k/9 ratio of his career he was moved to the bullpen because of his loss of control as well as his 1.8 hr/9 rate. These stats have never been a problem for myers in his career, and theres no reason to belive that they should start now. However his stats in the bulpen have been better than ever. Myers is only 26. If Gordon is out for an extended period of time he could be an elite closer. But keep him anyway becuase i have a feeling we will see him back in the rotation.

--- It looks like Henry Owens is the real deal in Florida notching 4 saves since the removal of Jorge Julio. Taylor Tankersly looks like the set up guy. Forget about Julio...

--- There could be no better time to buy low on Mark Texiera hitting 3 HR in the last week while still keeping his stats dissapointing to an unaware owner.

-- One final note for today. Todd Lincecum will make his first Major league start tonight. The kid has amazing stuff. You could be looking at this years Dontrelle Willis so to speak. The game is supposed to be on ESPN tonight... Stay tuned...