Miss Match Up Mashup: April 2010 MLB Edition

By Spezzal Teams Playa


Last season, our baseball league ran a regular rundown of the best performances of the week. The feature was called Most Offensive Line and highlighted the best five bats, according to our league settings. I teamed those picks with the best five arms (Pitchers Worth a Thousand Words), the worst five arms (Belly-Itcher Citations), and the worst five bats (No Offence Man Citations).

I had started by publishing nightly reports of these 20 players, but found that it was too much of a commitment, so I dropped them to a weekly basis.

This year, I thought it would be easier to only feature about 11 or 12 players and once again attempted to provide nightly reports on these stars, in a feature I called Box Score'd. When that again proved impossible (duh), I decided to come up with a monthly report. Since a once-a-month article didn't seem like much work, I decided that it'd spotlight 70 players and got to work on constructing a table.

Well that was like, almost three days ago.

Now that I've finally figured out how to use this internets, I present to you a new feature which purports to answer the question of what would the most lopsided Matchup have looked like if, ya know, we played monthly Matchups and stuff.

So I gathered the best April performers and placed them on the All-Star Team, then gathered the worst performers and called their group the Bad News Bears. Think of it like a Harlem Globetrotters versus Washington Generals lineup card. From there, I crowned one of the All-Stars the winner of this digital pageant (basically, the Player of the Month), while also singling out the worst performer of all.

• Phase 1: Have a look to see where your guys rank
  
• Phase 2: Spot the buy-low targets
  
• Phase 3: Profit
  

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MLB All-Stars

Lineup	Rank	Player	Pos	Club	Owner	ORank	Owned	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	BB	SB	SB%	FPCT	DPT	PO	A	OFA	AVG	OPS
C	120	Miguel Olivo	C	Cld	Bastards	479	64%	55	10	16	5	13	4	1	1.000	1.000	0	115	13	-	.291	.933
1B	9	Miguel Cabrera	1B	Det	Stittsville	11	98%	96	16	33	5	25	13	0	.000	.991	27	214	14	-	.344	1.042
2B	1	Robinson Cano	2B	NYY	Deadwood	43	98%	85	21	34	8	18	6	2	.500	.991	17	40	74	-	.400	1.201
3B	5	Evan Longoria	3B	TB	Isle Wynn	7	98%	88	22	30	5	18	10	3	.600	.944	8	22	45	-	.341	1.002
SS	25	Derek Jeter	SS	NYY	Deadwood	34	98%	94	14	31	4	18	3	3	.750	.975	12	32	47	-	.330	.875
LF	3	Ryan Braun	LF	Mil	Deadwood	5	99%	93	19	33	5	20	12	6	1.000	.974	0	37	1	1	.355	1.011
CF	6	Vernon Wells	CF	Tor	Franconia	185	93%	92	20	31	8	16	8	1	1.000	1.000	1	55	1	1	.337	1.113
RF	7	Matt Kemp	CF/RF	LAD	FatMonkeyButz	6	99%	97	20	27	7	20	8	3	.375	.981	0	53	0	0	.278	.879
	BN
BN	11	Paul Konerko	1B	CWS	FatMonkeyButz	277	73%	74	13	22	11	21	15	0	-	.994	15	158	10	-	.297	1.197
BN	14	Kelly Johnson	2B	Ari	Sunnyvale	889	75%	80	17	25	9	18	13	0	-	.976	11	29	53	-	.313	1.154
BN	17	Carl Crawford	LF	TB	Sunnyvale	19	98%	89	17	30	2	13	9	7	.700	1.000	0	40	4	4	.337	.941
BN	19	Colby Rasmus	CF/RF	StL	El Paso	190	80%	65	19	21	6	12	17	3	.600	.976	0	39	1	1	.323	1.171
BN	21	Jose Guillen	RF	KC	Colt 45	963	82%	92	14	28	7	19	3	1	1.000	1.000	0	2	0	0	.304	.946
BN	24	Mark Reynolds	1B/3B	Ari	Isle Wynn	38	97%	79	18	19	7	21	14	1	1.000	.967	2	22	36	-	.241	.909
BN	31	Alex Gonzalez	SS	Tor	Isle Wynn	1095	67%	97	14	28	7	19	3	1	1.000	.965	21	31	79	-	.289	.946
BN	123	Jorge Posada	C	NYY	Isle Wynn	165	92%	58	11	18	5	12	7	0	-	.981	0	102	3	-	.310	1.032
	DL
DL	15	Nelson Cruz	RF	Tex	Golden Carp	63	96%	62	12	20	7	17	10	5	1.000	1.000	1	43	1	1	.323	1.177
DL	179	Manny Ramirez	LF	LAD	Fowl Play	89	93%	41	7	17	2	12	9	0	-	1.000	0	17	0	0	.415	1.159

Lineup	Rank	Player	Pos	Club	Owner	ORank	Owned	IP	QS	W	SV	SVOP	NSV	HLD	K	K/BB	K/9	H/9	BB/9	ERA	WHIP
SP	2	Tim Lincecum	SP	SF	Franconia	14	99%	35.1	5	4	-	-	-	-	43	6.14	10.95	5.604	1.783	1.27	0.82
RP	29	Tyler Clippard	RP	Wsh	Koo Koo Roos	254	50%	18.0	-	3	0	1	-1	6	23	2.56	11.50	3.500	4.500	0.50	0.89
RP	46	Matt Capps	RP	Wsh	Muff Divers	434	79%	13.1	-	0	10	10	10	-	15	2.50	10.13	8.100	4.050	0.68	1.35
RP	51	Mariano Rivera	RP	NYY	FatMonkeyButz	83	98%	9.0	-	0	7	7	7	-	9	4.50	9.00	3.000	2.000	0.00	0.56
RP	52	Kevin Gregg	RP	Tor	Fowl Play	394	72%	11	-	0	6	6	6	1	14	14.00	11.45	4.909	0.818	0.82	0.64
RP	65	Leo Nunez	RP	Fla	Sunnyvale	195	84%	9.1	-	1	4	5	3	-	10	2.00	9.64	.964	4.821	0.00	0.64
RP	67	Carlos Marmol	RP	ChC	Bastards	119	96%	11.2	-	1	3	4	2	-	22	4.40	16.97	5.400	3.857	0.77	1.03
	BN
BN	4	Ubaldo Jimenez	SP	Cld	Isle Wynn	71	98%	34.1	5	5	-	-	-	-	31	2.21	8.13	5.767	3.670	0.79	1.05
BN	8	Roy Halladay	SP	Phi	STL Birds	20	99%	40.0	4	4	-	-	-	-	33	11.00	7.43	8.100	0.675	1.80	0.98
BN	10	Barry Zito	SP	SF	Perrysburg	452	80%	35.1	5	4	-	-	-	-	24	2.18	6.11	5.094	2.802	1.53	0.88
BN	12	Adam Wainwright	SP	StL	CT Defenders	61	98%	38.0	5	4	-	-	-	-	30	3.75	7.11	6.158	1.895	2.13	0.89
BN	16	Francisco Liriano	SP/RP	Min	Muff Divers	1021	86%	29.0	4	3	-	-	-	-	27	2.70	8.38	5.586	3.103	0.93	0.97
BN	18	John Danks	SP	CWS	Dakota Magic	111	93%	29.0	4	3	-	-	-	-	26	4.33	8.07	5.897	1.862	1.55	0.86
BN	71	David Aardsma	RP	Sea	Chesapeake	271	88%	9.2	-	0	8	9	7	-	11	3.67	10.24	3.724	2.793	2.79	0.72
	DL
DL	149	Brett Anderson	SP	Oak	STL Birds	123	79%	23.0	3	1	-	-	-	-	17	4.25	6.65	7.826	1.565	2.35	1.04
DL	190	Chris Young	SP	SD	STL Birds	345	23%	6.0	1	1	-	-	-	-	5	1.67	7.50	1.500	4.500	0.00	0.67
DL	192	Jorge De La Rosa	SP	Cld	Perrysburg	193	69%	23.0	1	3	-	-	-	-	26	2.00	10.17	7.826	5.087	3.91	1.43

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Bad News Bears

Lineup	Rank	Player	Pos	Club	Owner	ORank	Owned	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	BB	SB	SB%	FPCT	DPT	PO	A	OFA	AVG	OPS
C	1433	A.J. Pierzynski	C	CWS	Hell Lions	334	27%	65	4	11	0	4	3	0	-	1.000	0	141	6	-	.169	.429
1B	1093	Matt LaPorta	1B/LF/RF	Cle	FatMonkeyButz	1116	4%	60	5	13	0	1	6	0	-	1.000	13	8	6	0	.217	.538
2B	1406	Ian Kinsler	2B	Tex	CT Defenders	16	98%	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	-	1.000	1	4	2	-	.200	.400
3B	1283	Pedro Alvarez	3B	Pit	STL Birds	1399	2%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
SS	1393	Brendan Ryan	2B/SS	StL	Dakota Magic	751	3%	67	5	12	0	4	9	0	-	.978	14	24	63	-	.179	.515
LF	1104	Matt Diaz	LF/RF	Atl	Koo Koo Roos	332	3%	46	2	9	0	2	2	1	1.000	.941	0	16	0	0	.196	.490
CF	1408	Ben Francisco	LF/CF/RF	Phi	Bastards	340	1%	18	0	4	0	1	1	0	-	1.000	0	5	1	1	.222	.578
RF	1174	Michael Stanton	RF	Fla	STL Birds	1384	3%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	BN
BN	1095	David Ortiz	1B	Bos	Muff Divers	125	51%	56	5	8	1	4	7	0	.000	-	-	-	-	-	.143	.524
BN	1314	Brett Wallace	3B	Tor	Dakota Magic	1407	1%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
BN	1407	Jayson Nix	2B/3B/SS	CWS	Colt 45	1073	0%	15	1	3	0	0	0	0	-	.923	0	6	6	-	.200	.400
BN	1415	Garrett Anderson	LF	LAD	Fowl Play	450	1%	41	2	5	1	4	2	0	-	1.000	0	10	1	1	.122	.379
BN	1439	Dioner Navarro	C	TB	Koo Koo Roos	1069	1%	44	4	6	0	2	4	0	-	.989	0	81	7	-	.136	.367
BN	1442	Julio Lugo	2B/SS	Bal	Koo Koo Roos	1020	1%	28	2	3	0	0	2	1	1.000	.974	5	17	20	-	.107	.274
BN	1448	Randy Wynn	LF/CF/RF	NYY	Franconia	225	9%	13	0	1	0	0	0	0	-	1.000	0	7	0	0	.077	.154
BN	1449	Eric Byrnes	LF	Sea	CT Defenders	1090	0%	28	1	3	0	0	6	1	1.000	1.000	0	24	0	0	.107	.444
	DL
DL	1114	Mike Cameron	CF	Bos	Isle Wynn	230	16%	30	2	7	0	0	5	0	-	.964	0	26	1	1	.233	.694
DL	1353	Carlos Beltran	CF	NYM	STL Birds	159	68%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
DL	1131	Coco Crisp	CF	Oak	STL Birds	1043	1%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
DL	1208	Freddy Sanchez	2B	SF	Bastards	266	11%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
DL	1232	Jose Morales	C	Min	Hell Lions	1198	0%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Lineup	Rank	Player	Pos	Club	Owner	ORank	Owned	IP	QS	W	SV	SVOP	NSV	HLD	K	K/BB	K/9	H/9	BB/9	ERA	WHIP
SP	1462	Nick Blackburn	SP	Min	Franconia	274	17%	23.2	1	1	-	-	-	-	7	0.88	2.66	12.541	3.042	6.85	1.73
RP	978	Trevor Hoffman	RP	Mil	Perrysburg	253	72%	9.0	-	1	3	7	-1	-	5	1.60	5.00	15.000	3.000	13.00	2.00
RP	979	Rafael Perez	RP	Cle	Colt 45	981	0%	7.0	-	0	-	-	-	-	5	1.00	5.55	15.429	6.429	5.14	2.43
RP	987	Jason Frasor	RP	Tor	CT Defenders	276	21%	9.2	-	0	3	5	1	2	13	1.63	12.10	15.828	7.448	8.38	2.59
RP	1023	Randy Williams	RP	CWS	Golden Carp	677	0%	9.2	-	0	0	1	-1	-	9	0.64	8.38	10.241	13.034	4.66	2.59
RP	1026	Danys Baez	RP	Phi	Lightning Bolts	451	1%	9.0	-	0	0	2	-2	2	4	0.80	4.00	10.000	5.000	9.00	1.67
RP	1032	Nick Masset	RP	Cin	Fowl Play	323	3%	10.1	-	2	-	-	-	1	17	2.13	14.81	14.806	6.968	11.32	2.42
	BN
BN	1463	John Lannan	SP	Wsh	Koo Koo Roos	462	3%	27.2	2	1	-	-	-	-	10	0.67	3.25	11.711	4.880	5.53	1.84
BN	1464	Kyle Kendrick	SP/RP	Phi	Muff Divers	749	1%	23.2	1	0	-	-	-	-	12	1.20	4.56	11.028	3.803	7.61	1.65
BN	1465	Josh Beckett	SP	Bos	Muff Divers	88	96%	28.2	2	1	-	-	-	-	20	1.54	6.28	11.616	4.081	7.22	1.74
BN	1466	Rick Porcello	SP	Det	Stittsville	140	63%	24.2	1	2	-	-	-	-	16	2.67	5.84	14.959	2.189	8.03	1.91
BN	1470	Jake Peavy	SP	CWS	Fowl Play	138	80%	28.2	1	0	-	-	-	-	22	1.10	6.91	10.047	6.279	7.85	1.81
BN	1473	Gil Meche	SP	KC	Lightning Bolts	887	1%	18.2	0	0	-	-	-	-	12	0.80	5.79	13.018	7.232	10.13	2.25
BN	1053	Scot Shields	RP	LAA	Colt 45	613	0%	6.0	-	0	0	1	-1	0	5	0.63	7.50	12.000	12.000	10.50	2.67

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And the player adjudged to have hurt his owner more than any other, singled out as the Great Goat is:

Gil Meche

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Which means the winner of the month and your newly crowned Miss Match Up is:

[drum roll ....]


Robinson Cano

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