NLD Twenty-Nine!

[joethejet]

Darn it, we lost two tonight despite scoring 13 to 8. Got all our breaks in one game. :(

Oh well. Hopefully we can take the next series. Just hoping to get back to . 500 at this point.

Silver, you made some moves. Any comments on them?

Jet

[bigmahon]

[quote:5c719b0d55="joethejet"]
Ok, Silver and DT, what do you think of the team now?[/quote:5c719b0d55]

I'll just keep my thoughts to myself then. I guess you only want to hear from the 'experts'. :lol:

[joethejet]

Big M,

would LOVE to hear your thoughts. You didn't say as much or as recently as Silver and DT. So sort of slipped my mind. Please do tell! :D

Actually, anyone that would like to chime in, I would like to hear your opinions. That's what makes this fun even when your team blows.

Comments on other teams would be fun too. Who's surprising you in their success or lack thereof? You guys can all sound off before I put out the ratings and we'll find out how poorly my ratings match what reality is. ;)

Jet

[bigmahon]

Actually Joe, virtually all of the recent commentary about your team has come from me! D-T's contribution was a 5 word revision of his prediction for your team, and Silver said nothing more than "I think the trade makes you better". Thus my post.

But nevermind! 8-)

[joethejet]

Fine, you're going to make me beg. So.....come on Big M, tell me, tell me, tell me please!!!! :D

Jet

[Detroit-Tigers]

[quote:e60277bb0b="bigmahon"]Actually Joe, virtually all of the recent commentary about your team has come from me! D-T's contribution was a 5 word revision of his prediction for your team, and Silver said nothing more than "I think the trade makes you better". Thus my post.

But nevermind! 8-)[/quote:e60277bb0b]

Fine here is a few more words. It is worse than I thought- not a lot you can do once the season has started. Without giving away all my secrets...

1- You are over invested in pitching, Wilson is a waste for you, that would have much been better spent on a high OBP LH bat
2- Besides Pujols, I don't like any of your big bats in your park.

So I expect your pitching to be league average, but your hitting in the lower third, which puts you just under 500.

[joethejet]

DT,

Interesting. Thanks for your thoughts. Not surprising your disdain for pitching given the teams you've put together in the NLD! ;) I usually try to stay right around 30 mil on pitching.

Both you and Silver don't like Wilson in my park. I like that he's a 2/6 and is pretty good both ways and is priced decently. He's pitching like garbage so maybe you're right. (8/15 save chances and a 6.33 ERA) I don't think anyone would expect him to be THIS bad in AT&T however. I probably over value his 2/6.

I find your comments on my offense interesting. Earlier you were saying it's a hitter's park team. Do you think the offense will be poor because of the park or the players (or both?) and, have you looked at some of the offenses in this league and the pitcher's parks they are playing in? I think the ratings will have me higher than the bottom 1/3, but that doesn't mean they're right! Then again, I didn't draft Werth but took him in waivers when I knew I had to do something. Took Hunter because the other CFers were gone and took Uggla cuz I needed something v LHP with all the LHSPs in our division. So, maybe I agree with you. ;)

I think that we match up pretty good in a park that favors RHB's. Werth and Hunter are backwards and Uggla crushes LHP. I hate the bottom of our lineup v RHP however. They aren't all that strong. Not nearly enough OB or power there. That was a function of dealing Tulo. Might try to upgrade over Fontenot, but not sure I can make enough of a difference to have an impact. And He's played well so far. (crossing fingers)

Tonight we got totally lucky against you at least in game 3. We're without Werth (3 games), Hunter (1) and Zaun (2) and we manage to win AND score 9 runs! Our bottom 4 were:
Kelly
Fontenot
Paulino
MIlledge

Against Mejia as the starter. In a way we were lucky that Kuo came in, but it took a Pujols HR and somehow Alvarez tripling off of Kuo before we cashed in on an Uggla 3 run HR. Six runs in the last 2 innings! That's some hot rolling in the last two and adequate bullpen work including two shutout IP from Wilson (amazingly enough!)

I appreciate your comments. I'll have to analyze this team a bit more and see what else I could have done.

Jet

We love your park, that's for sure. It has treated us well. Maybe you're right about this being a hitter's park team.

[joethejet]

Big M, You're right of course, all the recent commentary was from you. I guess I was thinking about how the comments from Silver and DT started it off. My Bad.

Come on, I need you to tell me that DT is wrong about my team! :)

Anyone else want to take a shot at my team? I'm in dead last so it's a great time to!

Jet

[joethejet]

Hey DT,

Do you think the moves I eventually made were better for me than our almost trade?

A side question for you guys, when is the cutoff for 10% moves, is it after game 78 or after game 81?

Jet

[Jeepdriver]

Variable - games 1-41: 5%, games 42-80: 10%, games 81+: 20%