I took Gagne early in the draft. What a disaster.
Same for Matsui.
Soriano is great when he’s playing but he aint helping now.
Anyone else wanna complain?
Troy Tulowitski.
2007 - .299 avg, 24 HR, 99 rbi, 7 sb
2008 - .166 avg, 3 HR, 16 rbi, 1 sb, 2 stints on the DL, the last one becuase he gashed his hand breaking a bat on the dugout steps after getting pulled from a game.
I’m having a unbelievably good year and all my sleepers are lighting it up. I had 9 All Stars and am solidly in first place, however I drafted Corey Patterson in the middle rounds to lock up the SB category for me and fill in at CF but his .225 OBP just couldn’t be tolerated. He had a outstanding spring but really collapsed around the middle of May.
I suppose when my biggest complaint is Corey Patterson “disappointing” I should count myself as lucky.
Why, Travis Hafner? Why, why, why did I believe in you?
You’re a designated hitter with 34 hits, Travis. It seems to me - and I’m not a big leaguer, so take this, y’know, with that grain of salt - that when you’re only job on the team is to hit the ball you should… y’know, hit the fucking thing once in a while. Just sayin’.
I’ve got several disappointments on my team; Joe Borowski was a huge letdown, Edgar Renteria has, like the rest of his Tiger team, not lived up to potential. But probably my biggest disappointment is Jake Peavy. He isn’t doing butt terrible but last season he was the type of reliable that kept me in it even when some of my other pitching would drag me down in ERA and WHIP. He is not on his game this season as far as I’m concerned.
To flip this, I did happen to draft Josh Hamilton as the very last pick of our fantasy draft, mainly because I’m a huge Reds fan and I figured why not snag him just in case.
My biggest disappointments have all been injury-related: Alfonso Soriano, Jorge Posada, and John Smoltz have all spent huge chunks of time on the DL, and Posada is looking increasingly like he can’t hit for power anymore. The worst part of the Posada thing is that while he was on the DL, I picked up Ryan Doumit from the scrap pile as his replacement. THEN, Doumit got hurt, and with (at the time) Soriano, Posada, Smoltz, and Josh Willingham all still on my roster and all injured, I had to drop one of the catchers for a replacement.
I dropped Doumit and kept Posada, which deep in my soul I knew was the wrong decision, but there you have it.
The implosion of the Padres and Rockies is responsible for my other two big disappointments, Trevor Hoffman and Brian Fuentes.
Gah. What an awful fantasy year.
Let me count the ways that my public H2H team has let me down.
Robinson Cano (4th)
Roy Oswalt (7th)
Aaron Harang (8th)
Paul Konerko (9th)
Brett Myers (10th)
I didn’t draft a single good pitcher; it’s astounding how bad I did.
Out of my 21 picks…the only players who remain on my team are my picks in the 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, and 12 rounds. And I just re-added that 12th round pick (Jim Thome).
I’m in 7th place with a hodge-podge group of pitchers. As much I hate streaming, it might be the only feasible strategy down the stretch for me to make the playoffs. Right now, I’ve got Nolasco, Bush, Kuroda and Pelfrey as starters and Wilson (SF), Torres, Marte, Franklin and Broxton as closers. That doesn’t inspire fear in anyone.
I can handle my ass getting handed to me in the SDMB league because I realize that I’m not as knowledgeable as the people around here but 7th in a public league is crap.
Yeah I wasted a 5th round pick on Hafner. Played like crap for a month then got hurt. Thanks guy.
Wow, people actually think JoBo is good enough to draft? You should have done a little research first by asking the people of Cleveland what we thought of him. (Answer: fuck that guy!)
Hafner is indeed quite disappointing. I’m sure he’s ruining fantasy teams everywhere, as well as contributing to ruining the Indians’ year.
I think both he and JoBo went on the “DL” this year not because they had actual problems but because they sucked and their feelings were hurt. I think Borowski was getting booed by his last few games. Let’s hope that Pronk gets “happy” sometime soon…and good riddance to Jobo!
You can’t sneeze at 45 saves.
ERA and WHIP be damned.
I actually had little faith in JoBo but like Kid_A said, he had 45 saves last year and that’s all I cared about. In that regard, huge disappointment.
I don’t know that 6.5 points is solidly in first place…
But think where you’d be if you had drafted Ian Kinsler or Chipper Jones instead of Roy Oswalt in the fourth! Or even better, considering your offense, Joe Nathan or K-Rod…
In that league, no-one’s killing me… taking Prince in the first round instead of Ryan Braun in retrospect isn’t looking so hot. The rest of my top picks are working out OK. Jarod Saltalamacchia in round 9 was what is politely known as a “reach”.
In other leagues, Tulowitzki’s been a killer for sure. Robby Cano, doncha know, has barely shown a pulse.
Solidly enough for now! I was actually referring to my cushions in the offensive categories which are pretty substantial considering we are halfway through the season. Are you suggesting that I’d prefer Kinsler over Uggla at 2B? I don’t think so. I’m actually not too concerned about Oswalt. He had a terrible start but has been really good over the last 6 weeks or so in spite of battling a abductor strain. He’s rate stats have dropped steadily since May and there’s no reason to think he won’t have a strong second half and even if he doesn’t he’s still on pace for 15 wins and 200 Ks.
Mookie Wilson is killing me.
Well, at the beginning of the season my starting rotation consisted of Ben Sheets, Erik Bedard, Roy Oswalt, Ted Lilly, and Matt Cain. I auto-drafted and took Bedard in the 3rd and Oswalt in the 7th. Lilly and Cain don’t bother me too much but Bedard (and the rest of the Mariners) has been quite the disappointment. I still have him (he’s on the DL) but have dropped Oswalt (couldn’t trade him for shit) Lilly, and Cain. My rotation is now Sheets, J. Duchscherer (free agent), K. Lohse (free agent), E. Santana (free agent) and S. Marcum (free agent now on the DL) and my starting pitching kicks ass.
I took a flyer on Bonds early on. I am mow petitioning our comish to see if I can get bonus points for prison time.
Fantasy baseball has dry fucked me all this year. It hurts.
Jeff Francis, Oliver Perez, and Dontrelle Willis, oh my. I wasn’t really expecting much from Perez or Willis, but I thought Francis was primed for a breakout year. It has turned out to be quite the opposite.