Plain Vanilla 5/10/20 DH League Chat

Are you kidding me?!?

I get stuck in a "random" division with J-Pav and DJ?

Ouch. It's going to be a brutal division. I saw you two in the league, but figured, at worst, I'd get one of you in my division.

Yeesh.

East division is interesting. Hitters' parks. Also funny how HAL "randomized" the only 2 Chase BP into the same division. Will be interesting to see how bbfan's and my strategies perform...

Yeah, the East got the hitter's parks for sure.

The other divisions aren't so "one way" although the west does have three low HR parks.

We get underway tomorrow night!

Tough start for the Roadrunners:

Lost two guys in the first game - Cabrera and S. Rodriguez
Lose one game at least in part because of an error by Trout and a 1-5 bphr
Lost the other in part because of a 1-8 hr.

Oh well, a long way to go and we did manage to win the first one.

We made some last minute moves which should make the top of the pen stronger but at the expense of our bench. Hopefully I don't rue that decision.

With all the pitchers parks I was surprised to see all the "1" rated shortstops available when I was putting my team together last night. I think they were all still out there. Not sure I've ever seen that before.

Brandon Crawford had a busy first series in my sweep of Winning Inc. Three doubles, a triple, two homeruns and three errors and an eight for twelve start.

wow, I predict that if Crawford provides that type of offense all season you will win a lot of games!

(You might win a lot of games anyway )

Well DJ, I'm sure you're not too happy with me tonight. Trailing 3-0 we score Five runs in the bottom of the 9th due to a 1-8 HR (fly out the rest) that gave us two and then we rolled three straight on our cards capped by a 3-4 straight shot by Fielder. Ouch for you, but we'll take it!

Would love for J-Pav to check in. It would be interesting to know why he has an all RH toration and only one LHRP on a team in Safeco. Interesting.

WOW.

This is NOT the way to start a series

TOP OF INNING 1
0 E.Young Jr 3-10 HBP b-1 F9
SUBSTITUTION at PR: Kelly Johnson
INJURY: E. Young Jr for 15 more games
0 1 D.Dejesus 1-2 HBP 1-2 b-1 F9
SUBSTITUTION at PR: Eduardo Nunez
INJURY: D. Dejesus for 15 more games

Lose my 1-2 hitters in the first 2 ABs of the game AND roll a 20 for BOTH OF THEM in the injury determination. That's HORRIBLE luck.

then we ended the series by losing Wright in the second inning for HIS max of 3 games. Wow.

Well, so far we're 7-7 with those guys missing so luck has been on our side.

It was nice tonight to see Lohse get his ERA under 5 and go the distance in a 2-1 win.