Miss Match Up Mashup: 2010 MLB Midseason

By Spezzal Teams Playa


This report may be a week late, and a Miggy short, but if our league boasted an All-Star Game at the midway point, it might look a little something like this.

Okay, so not really an All-Star Game per se, but rather the usual Stars-versus-Scrubs format first popularized last season with the Most Offensive Line / Pitchers Worth a Thousand Words versus No Offense Man / Belly Itcher awards.

So check out where your best players rank among the league's best, as well as where your worst mistakes rank among everyone else's biggest flops.

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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	144	Victor Martinez	C/1B	Bos	Muff Divers	33	98%	227	34	66	9	37	20	1	1.000	.995	3	341	23	-	.291	.843
1B	14	Albert Pujols	1B	StL	Hell Lions	1	99%	248	39	76	15	50	52	6	.667	.996	62	637	65	-	.306	.974
2B	3	Robinson Cano	2B	NYY	Deadwood	28	98%	270	52	99	14	49	21	2	.500	.997	51	144	216	-	.367	1.023
3B	10	Kevin Youkilis	1B/3B	Bos	Bastards	27	98%	237	58	74	14	47	47	2	.667	.998	51	544	56	-	.312	1.026
SS	34	Hanley Ramirez	SS	Fla	Bastards	2	99%	252	38	72	11	40	33	12	.750	.966	33	90	165	-	.286	.862
LF	6	Carl Crawford	LF	TB	Sunnyvale	20	98%	264	56	81	7	38	26	24	.774	.986	0	139	7	7	.307	.859
CF	4	Josh Hamilton	LF/CF/RF	Tex	Golden Carp	75	95%	270	48	91	16	52	19	5	.833	.985	1	130	4	4	.337	.981
RF	8	Alex Rios	CF/RF	CWS	Bastards	142	92%	240	46	76	13	37	20	20	.769	.994	1	170	1	1	.317	.935
	BN
BN	9	Vladimir Guerrero	RF	Tex	Stittsville	145	93%	251	41	82	15	57	15	4	.571	.900	0	17	1	1	.327	.920
BN	15	Ryan Braun	LF	Mil	Deadwood	5	99%	273	44	83	10	45	26	11	.917	.990	1	99	3	3	304	.861
BN	16	Joey Votto	1B	Cin	Colt 45	23	97%	238	42	74	14	43	37	7	.636	.996	44	497	62	-	.311	.955
BN	17	David Wright	3B	NYM	Dakota Magic	16	98%	251	35	71	12	53	37	12	.706	.960	18	44	148	-	.283	.877
BN	18	Torii Hunter	CF	LAA	Bastards	73	94%	246	42	72	12	50	28	6	.462	1.000	0	159	1	1	.293	.895
BN	28	Martin Prado	1B/2B/3B	Atl	Perrysburg	287	87%	298	51	101	6	30	21	2	.400	.994	42	129	198	-	.339	.850
BN	76	Derek Jeter	SS	NYY	Deadwood	35	98%	293	43	83	8	39	20	7	.700	.983	41	77	155	-	.283	.759
BN	159	Miguel Olivo	C	Cld	Bastards	369	74%	172	29	52	9	30	18	4	.571	.992	2	344	30	-	.302	.897
	DL
DL	39	Troy Tulowitzki	SS	Cld	Perrysburg	12	97%	235	47	72	9	34	25	7	.778	.985	55	124	201	-	.306	.877
DL	149	Kendry Morales	1B	LAA	Golden Carp	38	56%	193	29	56	11	39	12	0	.000	.996	35	435	25	-	.290	.833
DL	151	Nelson Cruz	RF	Tex	Golden Carp	63	96%	107	19	35	10	34	15	7	.778	.985	1	65	1	1	.327	1.134

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	1	Ubaldo Jimenez	SP	Cld	Isle Wynn	71	98%	101.1	14	13	-	-	-	-	88	2.44	7.82	5.773	3.197	1.15	1.00
RP	29	Billy Wagner	RP	Atl	Lightning Bolts	181	89%	29.1	-	5	14	16	12	-	43	3.58	13.19	5.216	3.682	1.23	0.99
RP	32	Jonathan Broxton	RP	LAD	Fowl Play	82	98%	29.1	-	3	16	18	14	-	42	14.00	12.89	7.670	0.920	0.92	0.95
RP	42	Tyler Clippard	RP	Wsh	Koo Koo Roos	249	68%	43.2	-	8	1	6	-4	14	52	3.06	10.72	5.565	3.504	1.65	1.01
RP	48	Jose Valverde	RP	Det	FatMonkeyButz	119	95%	30.1	-	1	16	17	15	-	27	2.25	8.01	2.967	3.560	0.59	0.73
RP	62	Carlos Marmol	RP	CC	Bastards	118	96%	31.2	-	2	13	16	10	-	58	3.05	16.48	4.263	5.400	1.71	1.07
RP	73	Rafael Soriano	RP	TB	Franconia	147	93%	25.2	-	2	16	17	15	-	24	4.80	8.42	5.260	1.753	1.40	0.78
	BN
BN	78	Brian Wilson	RP	SF	CT Defenders	127	95%	29.2	-	2	19	21	17	-	42	4.20	12.74	7.888	3.034	2.12	1.21
BN	5	Adam Wainwright	SP	StL	CT Defenders	61	98%	109.0	13	10	-	-	-	-	101	3.48	8.34	6.606	2.394	2.23	1.00
BN	7	Josh Johnson	SP	Fla	Chesapeake	69	98%	100.0	13	8	-	-	-	-	98	3.77	8.82	6.480	2.340	1.80	0.98
BN	13	Roy Halladay	SP	Phi	STL Birds	15	99%	115.0	12	8	-	-	-	-	98	6.13	7.67	8.452	1.252	2.43	1.08
BN	19	Matt Cain	SP	SF	El Paso	96	96%	100.0	12	6	-	-	-	-	68	2.27	6.12	6.480	2.700	2.16	1.02
BN	23	Colby Lewis	SP/RP	Tex	Chesapeake	343	71%	93.2	9	7	-	-	-	-	90	2.73	8.65	6.053	3.171	3.07	1.02
BN	25	Jered Weaver	SP	LAA	Bastards	108	95%	94.2	12	7	-	-	-	-	107	4.65	10.17	7.796	2.187	3.04	1.11
	DL
DL	131	Doug Fister	SP	Sea	Deadwood	337	34%	69.2	7	3	-	-	-	-	32	3.20	4.13	7.364	1.292	2.45	0.96
DL	191	Tim Stauffer	SP/RP	SD	El Paso	378	4%	23.1	0	2	-	-	-	0	19	4.75	7.33	6.943	1.543	0.39	0.94

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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	1234	Kelly Shoppach	C	TB	CT Defenders	1139	1%	27	2	6	0	2	7	-	-	1.000	0	49	4	-	.222	.648
1B	1016	Todd Helton	1B	Cld	Fowl Play	204	29%	214	24	52	2	12	32	-	-	.993	66	493	41	-	.243	.659
2B	1156	Ryan Rayburn	1B/2B/CF/RF	Det	Perrysburg	1053	1%	96	9	18	1	13	8	-	-	.962	8	48	27	1	.188	.589
3B	1482	Dayan Viciedo	3B	CWS	Chesapeake	1474	3%	4	0	1	0	0	0	-	-	1.000	1	0	1	-	.250	.500
SS	1172	Juan Castro	2B/SS	Phi	CT Defenders	1198	0%	108	7	24	0	12	4	-	-	.961	17	33	91	-	.222	.515
LF	1236	Robb Quinlan	1B/LF	LAA	Dakota Magic	1249	0	33	4	4	0	2	2	2	1.000	.986	6	69	1	-	.121	.353
CF	1162	Mike Cameron	CF	Bos	Isle Wynn	230	11%	78	10	20	0	2	8	-	-	.964	0	53	1	1	.256	.654
RF	1155	Jose Tabata	LF/CF/RF	Pit	Colt 45	1265	4%	40	6	9	1	2	4	2	1.000	1.000	0	23	0	0	.225	.670
	BN
BN	1160	Matt Tolbert	2B/3B	Min	Hell Lions	1164	0%	44	4	10	1	8	4	0	.000	.976	5	13	28	-	.227	.627
BN	1180	Ben Francisco	LF/CF/RF	Phi	Bastards	1037	1%	67	5	15	0	6	5	2	1.000	1.000	0	23	2	2	.224	.577
BN	1218	Josh Reddick	LF/CF/RF	Bos	CT Defenders	1338	0%	17	2	3	0	2	0	1	1.000	1.000	0	15	0	0	.176	.529
BN	1380	Jason Castro	C	Hou	Sunnyvale	1440	0%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
BN	1499	Pedro Alvarez	3B	Pit	STL Birds	1505	15%	16	1	1	0	2	2	-	-	.929	1	3	10	-	.063	.283
BN	1500	Brendan Harris	2B/3B/SS	Min	Deadwood	1147	1%	108	11	17	1	4	9	-	-	1.000	9	34	61	-	.157	.446
BN	1504	Chris Davis	1B/3B	Tex	Muff Divers	1095	4%	48	2	9	0	1	5	-	-	.991	12	103	6	-	.188	.556
BN	1508	Bryan Petersen	LF	Fla	El Paso	1514	0%	16	1	1	0	0	1	-	-	1.000	0	1	0	-	.063	.181
	DL
DL	1202	John Baker	C	Fla	CT Defenders	1068	3%	78	7	17	0	6	9	-	-	.988	1	152	9	-	.218	.589
DL	1216	Coco Crisp	CF	Oak	STL Birds	1146	1%	6	0	2	0	3	0	0	.000	1.000	0	6	0	0	.333	.750
DL	1239	Brian Roberts	2B	Bal	FatMonkeyButz	44	70%	14	1	2	0	0	2	2	1.000	1.000	2	6	4	-	.143	.464
DL	1450	Carlos Beltran	CF	NYM	STL Birds	161	62%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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	1026	Kevin Millwood	SP	Bal	Stittsville	794	11%	96.2	7	1	-	-	-	-	78	2.69	7.26	10.707	2.700	5.12	1.49
RP	968	Tony Sipp	RP	Cle	Bastards	864	0%	23.0	-	0	0	1	-1	6	25	1.39	9.78	9.783	7.043	7.04	1.87
RP	985	Juan Gutierrez	RP	Ari	Deadwood	852	1%	23.2	-	0	1	3	-1	5	21	2.10	7.99	11.408	3.803	8.37	1.69
RP	987	Blake Hawksworth	RP	StL	CT Defenders	803	0%	32.0	-	1	-	-	-	3	22	1.69	6.19	13.219	3.656	5.63	1.88
RP	989	George Sherrill	RP	LAD	Sunnyvale	290	5%	17.2	-	0	0	2	-2	1	10	0.63	5.09	11.208	8.151	6.62	2.15
RP	995	Randy Williams	RP	CWS	Golden Carp	976	0%	24.0	-	0	0	1	-1	1	22	1.05	8.25	12.750	7.875	4.88	2.29
RP	999	Sean White	RP	Sea	Dakota Magic	815	0%	16.2	-	0	0	3	-3	2	5	0.56	2.70	13.500	4.860	7.56	2.04
	BN
BN	1003	Chad Gaudin	SP/RP	NYY	El Paso	984	0%	29.1	-	0	-	-	-	1	30	2.73	9.20	12.273	3.375	7.36	1.74
BN	1073	Nick Blackburn	SP	Min	Franconia	268	18%	76.0	7	6	-	-	-	-	24	1.26	2.84	12.434	2.250	5.80	1.63
BN	1137	Ian Snell	SP	Sea	Lightning Bolts	1109	0%	46.1	1	0	-	-	-	-	26	1.04	5.05	11.655	4.856	6.41	1.83
BN	1141	Wandy Rodriguez	SP	Hou	Colt 45	79	61%	75.3	6	3	-	-	-	-	52	1.53	6.21	11.350	4.062	6.09	1.71
BN	1179	David Huff	SP	Cle	Bastards	1097	1%	70.0	4	2	-	-	-	-	34	1.13	4.37	11.314	3.857	6.04	1.69
BN	1189	Ryan Rowland-Smith	SP	Sea	Dakota Magic	208	19%	61.2	2	1	-	-	-	-	25	0.89	3.65	11.530	4.086	5.98	1.74
BN	1514	John Lannan	SP	Wsh	Koo Koo Roos	1064	1%	75.0	5	2	-	-	-	-	24	0.69	2.88	12.480	4.200	5.76	1.85
	DL
DL	1183	Gil Meche	SP	KC	Lightning Bolts	1075	1%	48.2	2	0	-	-	-	-	30	0.88	5.55	10.356	6.288	6.66	1.85

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

John Lannan

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Which means the winner of the first half, and your newly crowned Miss Match Up is:

[drum roll ....]

Ubaldo Jimenez

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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%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
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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
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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
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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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The Top Ten List: Films About America's Pastime

By Chris Barrymore


As I am admittedly a bit more out of my element with anything other than fantasy hockey, at least from a statistical and/or historical aspect of the sport, I hesitate to comment on the All-Time Teams series or some of the other player-to-player comparisons on this blog. While they do make for interesting reading, I am simply not qualified to strongly agree or disagree.

At the same time, I strive to be an active member of the posting community, and I hereby offer a more pop culture themed Top Ten List.

There are likely some obvious films I have missed, or perhaps some older classics that I haven't gotten around to seeing yet, but off the top of my head, these are the baseball films I remember best, and therefore they make my top 10 list. Hit me up in the Comments section with some of your favs that didn't make my List.

I present them to you in chronological, rather than the traditional numerical order:

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The Bad News Bears (1976) starring Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neil, Vic Morrow

A slim, pimply-faced teenager named Roger Ebert said this at the time, "Director Michael Ritchie has made a specialty of movies about competition. Downhill Racer, about Olympic ski champions, was his first film, and he also made The Candidate, about a political race, and last year's Smile, about a beauty contest. They're all three very good films - but The Bad News Bears is, in a way, his most harrowing portrait of how we'd sometimes rather win than keep our self-respect. He directs scenes for comedy even in the face of his disturbing material and that makes the movie all the more effective; sometimes we laugh, and sometimes we can't, and the movie's working best when we're silent."




The Natural (1984) starring Robert Redford, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger

This was filmed mostly in Buffalo, where I was living at the time. It was a big deal since Buffalo rarely gets any Hollywood attention.




Brewster's Millions (1985) starring Richard Pryor, John Candy

Not entirely a baseball movie, but Richard Pryor was one of the funniest guys around. Toss in John Candy and you can't go wrong.




Bull Durham (1988) starring Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins

A somewhat younger and slightly less fat Roger Ebert than you're used to seeing today said, "Bull Durham is a treasure of a movie because it knows so much about baseball and so little about love. The movie is a completely unrealistic romantic fantasy, and in the real world the delicate little balancing act of these three people would crash into pieces. But this is a movie, and so we want to believe in love, and we want to believe that once in a while lovers can get a break from fate. That's why the movie's ending is so perfect. Not because it seems just right, but because it seems wildly impossible, and we want to believe it anyway."




Eight Men Out (1988) starring John Cusack, Charlie Sheen, D.B. Sweeney

Ebert's old partner Gene Siskel, who nobody had ahead of Roger in the death pools of the day, had this to say, "Eight Men Out is fascinating if you are a baseball nut ... The portrayal of the recruiting of the ball players and the tight fisted rule of Comiskey is fascinating ... Thumbs up!"




Major League (1989) starring Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Corbin Bernsen

The fine folks over at Variety had this to say, "Major League lacks the subtlety of Bull Durham or the drama of Eight Men Out, but for sheer crowd-pleasing fun it belts one high into the left-field bleachers."




Field of Dreams (1989) starring Kevin Costner, Ray Liota, James Earl Jones

Now that Ebert has gotten a little older, a little wiser, a little greyer and let's just say heftier, has his man-crush on Costner waned at all? Nope: "As Field of Dreams developed ... I found myself being willingly drawn into it. Movies are often so timid these days, so afraid to take flights of the imagination, that there is something grand and brave about a movie where a voice tells a farmer to build a baseball diamond so that Shoeless Joe Jackson can materialize out of the cornfield and hit a few fly balls. This is the kind of movie Frank Capra might have directed, and James Stewart might have starred in - a movie about dreams."




A League of Their Own (1992) starring Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Madonna, Jon Lovitz, Rosie O'Donnell

Because there really is no crying in baseball. Or fantasy baseball. Right Commish?




The Sandlot (1993) starring James Earl Jones, Denis Leary, a bunch of kids you never heard of

Now looking less and less like a white Cecil Fielder, and more and more like a white dude who just ATE Cecil Fielder, our friend Mr. Ebert had this to say, "If you have ever been lucky enough to see A Christmas Story, you will understand what I mean when I say The Sandlot is a summertime version of the same vision ... Neither movie has any connection with the humdrum reality of the boring real world; both tap directly into a vein of nostalgia and memory that makes reality seem puny by comparison."




Fever Pitch (2005) starring Drew Barrymore and a bunch of less attractive people

This one gets a free pass into the Top Ten because Drew Barrymore is in it. Not much of a Jimmy Fallon fan, but I would watch Barrymore do a mime act in the shoe section of Target if that's what her career leads her to.

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