March Madness Round 3 - Bracket 2 - REVISED LEAGUE

[Semper Gumby]

For the most part, we are a fickle bunch of managers.

So far, Eddie Murray has been hired / fired / hired and now fired. Arguably, he had a few ABs but not nearly enough to call Ol Eddie a loser but he sits once more on the FA list.

Cooper and Mattingly - hired and fired but the injury revealed both players' worse season (beats not knowing which card and managing blind). Butler found himself another gig -

Pedro received close to 100 PAs but he barely out HR'd Kal Daniels despite having 2xs the PAs. Of course, he found himself a new gig and in a bigger park. For Pedro's price and mystery performance, I'd hire Mattingly instead.

We had a few SPs and RPs hit the heap with less than 10 innings of work and some rarely get employed again.

Here is to Comer (10 innings then unemployed) and Goose (1 inning then unemployed) coming through for me. Perhaps both Comer's and Goose's cards are the worse of the deck but under 10 innings for a pitcher to prove himself is a little harsh. :shock:

[hechojazz]

We sure are fickle...if you peruse the transactions wire, you'll see multiple occasions where a team drops a guy then picks him right back up again...just seeing other managers churn through the available untouched free agents tempts one to take a stab at trying to improve at a so-so position, before someone else gets a guy who could turn out to be a difference maker. When has enough pain been inflicted by that left fielder, that end of the rotation pitcher, that all glove-no stick infielder? Could it simply be just ballpark effects? If so, you're still stuck in your ballpark. But if you drop what's-his-name, and he winds up hitting cleanup for another team, well...

So I'm happy I resisted the early impulse to shed Ryan, as he's been pitching well of late. And I'm resisting the urge to dump Durham, though he's been putrid. A partial injury reveal for him indicates I've got '84, '87 or '85 (his 2nd, 3rd or 5th best years). But he's hitting WAY below even that 5th year. Gotta come around sometime, right? He's hitting so poorly, I can't begin to sort through those three possible years. I'd hate to drop him and see him pick it up elsewhere and prove to have his .876 or .872 OPS year. It's a mystery...

Meanwhile, I head into Kingdome tonight against dem Pants Kissers. Burns and Hoyt are two of the guys I'm starting tonight. They've got three starts between them for me so far, each one excellent (19.1 combined IP, one ER)...but as they say, here's where the rubber meets the road! I told the bullpen to put their crash helmets on!

:twisted:

[Rigged Splits]

Don't worry hecho, lately my guys couldn't hit their way out of tear-away pants, but, if I were you I'd drop any pitcher if he gives up a homer to Murphy. I don't know what to do with Pasqua, I've got his 86 or 91 card and he's hitting about .175.

[Jablowmi]

i have 79/80 lynn (probably 80) and he still can't hit. hate fred lynn.

[hechojazz]

Screw Leon Durham too...finally shed him...good riddance. And I was so happy to have landed him as my first waiver pick too. Gonna use .75 Bergman as a defensive replacement for Kruk/Deer at 1B, and see how well I can absorb their dreadful defense. Upgraded the pen with Alejandro Pena. I'll keep my fingers crossed that my offense will not continue to sputter along.

Oh, and the rubber certainly did meet the road at the Kingdome last night. Burns and Hoyt had pitched 19.1 combined IP, with only one ER going into the night there...now they've pitched 31 innings with 11 earned runs! Oh well...so much for Cy Young.

:roll:

[Semper Gumby]

The name of my bullpen and starters.

More like, chuck, duck, twist, and chuck again

[hechojazz]

HAL's mendacity knows no end...Jablowmi picks up Carmen Castillo. In his second AB of his first game for him, he gets a 15 game injury! And the injury reveal only tells him it isn't '89 - the middlin' year of the five. Don't that just #@*%?

:twisted:

[Jablowmi]

Yes, I smell a Manny-type deal with Castillo. Doesn't like the clubhouse. Strange luck with injuries so far. Gamble gets hurt and reveals his monster season. He comes back and got so excited that he went out for another 15 (still waiting). Lynn gets hurt and reveals one of his top 2 OPS seasons, but can't hit. Plus, with Raines and Gwynn, I really don't need another leadoff type, which Lynn's 80 season seems to be.

I'm glad (I think) to finally be playing outside of my division. Could be good for the ERA - 4 of the top 5 offenses reside in the small-park Central.

Great competition, once again.

[Rigged Splits]

Anyone fool enough to take a chance on Dale Murphy has a very short window of opportunity to make a trade. Maybe Hershiser too.

[Semper Gumby]

Sometimes you just need to toss the cards in and wait for a new hand.

We'll see if this next batch of pitchers can keep a job.

Sorry to see Browning leave but his card felt very wrong in this division considering Higgie is pitching tough.

Had to cut the strings with Fisk (can't I ever get an early year with Carlton?????).

Davey C had to take a seat too. I'll try my buddy Ozzie for the $.75m knowing I'll get a tad more speed and a better mouth in the clubhouse.

Not sure about Davis as a long-term player but he can catch in the bullpen with all the warming up my dogs will need to do this next 1/4 season.