So some funny things from this weekend. AJ is getting praised for what was not actually a good game but one where at least he did not implode and meanwhile Bill Madden of the Daily News is crying “The sky is falling” as Phil Hughes had one really bad outing. He even provides some humorous facts to back it up. After all Hughes ERA “shot up” from 3.83 to 4.19 in the second half last year. Rarely have I seen a .36 rise in ERA = doom.
Is there any panic in the Boston papers yet or Madden the lone idiot putting too much on an opening weekend?
I don’t know about the Boston papers, but I did see a couple of idiots on ESPN doing “sky is falling” pieces on the Red Sox last night. Seriously, people, it’s three games in April. The Red Sox will be fine, Phil Hughes will be fine, just relax.
ESPN is good enough. I would gladly trade ‘Phil Hughes is a problem’ for ‘Red Sox are doomed’ but I find both unlikely and impossible to predict on the opening weekend sample. I mean I also don’t think Teix is likely to hit 162 homers either.
I remember when the Yankees started the season 0-4 and everyone was baying for blood. They went 114-44 the rest of the year. So yeah, the first series doesnt mean a lot.
Ha-ha. I don’t give bad Bengals advice, at least not when it comes to fantasy football. I do pretty well in my leagues precisely by avoiding having too many Bengals players on my fantasy rosters!
Wood is legit and he’s only going to get better. Johnny Cueto might be worth keeping an eye on once he gets healthy. Arroyo is pretty good at eating innings and always posts a decent WHIP and ERA. Homer Bailey is still a big question mark and he’s hurt right now too. Edinson Volquez is so damnably inconsistent. He’ll walk three in a row and then strike out three in a row.
As I see it, the only Reds worth having in fantasy baseball would be Joey Votto, Jay Bruce, Travis Wood, Drew Stubbs, perhaps Francisco Cordero, Brandon Phillips and the catcher Hanigan. There’s probably a couple more that could emerge as the season wears on, but those are the best of them right now.
Hernandez and Hanigan are both good batters and are average defensively. Hernandez was the guy that had four hits (including the walkoff three run homer to win their opening day game) on Thursday and Hanigan is Arroyo’s guy, so they always split time, which I guess isn’t really all that great from a fantasy perspective.
It makes sense if you think about it in terms of just letting momentum work for you. I don’t want to be that third base coach who has to get him to slow down.
One of them was when Alex Rios inexplicably decided the ball was dead. You kind of had to see it to understand, or else just know Alex Rios is an airhead.
