MAAAYYYYYYBBEEEEEEE…..!!!!
No, seriously, we may or may not be back, but we do think that we are at least going to give an effort next week towards starting up the B-Flow again because goddammit I think it would be fun. And admit it, if you’re one of the 3 people who have RSS feed and got this message, so do you!!!! We will focus still on gambling, hypothetical gambling of course, within the context of baseball (as it is in season), and fantasy baseball which is where this whole silly thing started. The Flow has lot’s of opinions and few mediums to express said opinions, so let’s heat it back up!! I promise if you read this every day your fantasy baseball team will improve. I promise.
First of all, if you clicked beyond the jump on this post you are crazy, but if you did, you will…. …. … be disappointed. Because the only thing I want to do here is acknowledge the impetus behind the return of the B-Flow. Side note: Yes, I will do my damndest to involve Fatso in every post I can.
While in a semi-drunken stupor late this evening, I decided to click on my own fantasy baseball team. Sparing you details about who is and who isn’t on the team, allow me to note that the following gentlemen were starting on 96% of fantasy teams Yahoo-wide: Miguel Cabrera and Matt Kemp. Now, I am no fantasy genius, despite what I may at times attempt to portray (after all I drafted Jeremy Hermida for 2 straight years… maybe this year he – just stop.) but anyone who has Miguel Cabrera and/or Matt Kemp and is NOT starting them is either a) insane or b), and more likely, not actually playing or starting anyone. Can Yahoo work on adjusting that? I mean even accounting for people in 2 team leagues sitting Kemp against Lincecum (yes, this scenario is made up) Mr. Kemp should not be seated 1% of the time much less 4%. WHO SITS MY BOY MATT KEMP!?!??! That’s basically what this has come down to now that I have attempted to take a sober re-read of the preceding paragraph.
Other quick hits that you should know and are probably more interesting than anything to this point so Brandon and …. and nobody else will get these nuggets of fun info:
1) If your fantasy stud is hitting .240 after 20 games, relax. If he is hitting .340, similarly, relax. Did you know, and I’m sure if you thought about it you did, that it only takes 5 hits called errors + unreal web gems + other quirky anomalies per 100 AB’s to shift a BA 50 freaking points??? So really your “stud” at .340 on May 1 is probably, intelligently speaking, only a couple of hits better than my “bum” at .240 on the season. If both are predicted to hit .290 for fantasy purposes we can use sloppy math and assume values are relatively equal still – allowing for the fact that 1 month is unlikely to change our perception of “true value” of the players – and that this presents an excellent opportunity to smoke someone on a trade opportunity.
2) Lance Berkman’s season is in big trouble. Trust me. I read a lot of injury blogs you don’t know exist. And I know what surgeries lie ahead and what they mean.
3) Reverting back to (1), be careful if that first month that is “irrelevant” is actually confirming prior suspicions of decline. Like if Brian Roberts doesn’t steal a base.
4) Edinson Volquez will be back by August 15. He will not have command until 2011.
5) Ted Lilly is ridiculously underrated. Ignore the “setback” he just had, it’s NBD, get him now.
6) Pay attention to Josh Hamilton’s advanced hitting data. Seriously. Take a trip to FanGraphs.com, and follow it. He needs to not swing at pitches out of the zone, swing at ones in the zone, and make contact when he does swing more than he has been in recent trending.
7) Finally, I give you a list of players I own on all 3 of my fantasy teams. I see websites doing this all the time to signify dudes they value more than most dudes value said dudes. Dudes. Regardless, I actually think this exercise has merit, so here you go: Brett Anderson, Francisco Liriano, Colby Lewis, Clay Buchholz, Carlos Beltran, Frank Francisco.
Here are the dudes I have on 2 teams: Matt Kemp, Colby Rasmus, Ian Stewart, Mike Gonzalez, Billy Wagner, Adam Jones.
ENJOY!!! And I promise we’ll write something intelligent next week. We may even use SQL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
