Archive for March 24th, 2010

Speaking of fantasy...

Fantasy baseball veterans are all too familiar with the concept of homers. No, not home runs – the guy in your league who will massively overpay for a player on his favorite team. There’s always at least one. More likely than not, you’re in a league with people who are Phillies fans like yourself, which makes the question of how to value our beloved Fightins’ players a tricky one.

Of course, you can also use known homer tendencies to your advantage. For example, a league I’ve been in since 2003 with a bunch of people I went to high school with is chock-full of Phillies homers. Knowing that, during our auction draft last night, I purposely nominated as many Phillies as possible. J.A. Happ went for a ridiculous $26 (by comparison, I landed Clayton Kershaw for $25 and Ricky Nolasco for $18) while I watched and laughed maniacally. Utley, Howard, Werth, and Hamels were under keeper protection, but I have no doubt that they would have inspired similarly insane bidding.

In this two-part series, I’ll be telling you what kind of fantasy contribution to expect from our red-pinstriped heroes in 2010, as well as what you should be prepared to pay – and when to say “Enough is enough,” and let some homer have his prize. After the jump…

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…this is a featured headline on their ‘Official’ homepage:

Francouer Walks Twice, Injures Hamstring, Pride. Mets Staff Says Out 2-26 Weeks

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The comments actually have people talking about how great a ballplayer he is.  Sure, if you compare Jeff Francoeur to me , he’s a damn good ballplayer.  When you compare him to say…I don’t know, actual major league players…he’s definitely well below average.  Mets+Jeff Francouer+website= Mega Fail

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I just ate a heaping mound of steamed broccoli with cheese sauce and the size of one of said broccoli was reminiscent of Placido Polanco’s huge dome. It was then I realized I still hadn’t done my WAR predictions for the line-up yet. So lets have at it, shall we?

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