Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Fantasy Baseball Buy/Sell Candidates 2010


"Who is Rommie Lewis?"

BUY! LF Delmon Young - MIN - 9% owned - People seem to have forgotten about this number 1 pick. He was number 1 for a reason: He has all the tools. He only hit 14 home runs last year, but he only had 395 at bats! That's only 40 more than Pirates' utility-man Delwyn Young. And Delwyn Young hit .266. Delmon hit .284. Of the Youngs, only Michael had a better batter average last year. Drop your starting left fielder and pick him up immediately.

SELL! SP Roy Halladay - PHI - 99% owned - The Cy Younger was traded to Philadelphia over the offseason and I'm skeptical that he can reproduce the numbers of his last 8 seasons as a Blue Jay. The impact of moving from such a clean, utopian metropolis to the dirty diggs of Philly can have a negative effect on the pitcher. His career 3.23 ERA at the Rogers Center is drastically better than his career ERA of 3.64 in other stadiums. I'll take a 3.23 pitcher 1st any day, but a 3.64 pitcher? No Way! I'm going to get a few skeptics out there who will ignore me and pay good money for Halladay to anchor their fantasy rotation this year. I, however, am gonna take a holiday on the ace this year.

BUY! 1B Albert Pujols - STL - 99% owned - For those of you who don't know, Albert Pujols may be the best hitter in baseball. If you pass on him, you might be passing on the easy road to a fantasy league victory. He was scratched in a recent Spring Training game due to back stiffness. Take advantage of fidgety fantasy owners who see this as a sign of an injury-riddled season. However this may be an omen of good things to come. If you take a look at his career stats you'll see that the least amount of games he's ever played in a season was 149. In that year he hit a career-high 49 home runs. He's a machine who doesn't miss games and the less games the guy plays, the more home runs he hits! What're you sitting around for? Get this guy on your team!

BUY! RP Rommie Lewis - TOR - 0% owned - I know what you're thinking. "Who is Rommie Lewis?" I'll tell you who he is: sleeper closer candidate of the year candidate! He's so unheard of, he's not even available in the waiver wire yet. But the guy is leading the MLB Spring Training in saves with 2. And closer candidates Kevin Gregg (5.40 Spring ERA) and Jason Frasor (8.31) aren't putting up too much of a fight. Drop that platooner you have at the bottom of the bench and pick up Rommie as soon as he's available.

Brook Close to Being Worst Son of All Time

by Brook Lopez's Mother

My son Brook is on thin ice. All he needs to do is pick up the phone and call me once by the end of the season to avoid being the worst son of all time. Considering how often he has remembered to call me lately though, I doubt he'll avoid that dreaded moniker.

I suppose Brook is too busy to remember to call his mother 3,000 miles away. I see him on television doing his dunks and what have you. Sometimes though, all he does is sit on the bench with a towel over his face. First of all, the cameraman can't see his handsome face if he hides it. Second, while he's doing nothing at all would it kill him to pick up the phone and call his mother?

Who used to always drive him to basketball practice? Who used to do his laundry so he always had a clean uniform (even though he already knew how to do it himself)? Who paid for his tuition at Stanford, even though a certain someone dropped out after his freshman year? And who reminded him to register for the NBA Draft?

I'll tell you who: me.

And let me tell you another thing, being an NBA mom is a thankless job. Imagine having two sons who are both seven feet tall come home every summer and do nothing but eat and lay around the house all day. Someone has to clean up after them. Someone has to shop to find clothes that still fit them.

I would expect this kind of behavior from Robin, but not Brook.