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Here are all 21-pitches Brandon Belt saw in a single plate appearance in all its glory pic.twitter.com/R1h9OFMNB8
— Jesse Foster (@Jesse__Foster) April 22, 2018
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Jeurys Familia has been absolutely brilliant to begin the 2018 season. Coming into Saturday’s games he had allowed 0 ER on 5 H with a 13/5 K:BB ratio over 11.1 IP. But as in life, all good things must come to an end at some point. Familia was summoned in the eighth inning with two outs and a man on third. The Mets had already allowed two runs in the inning (Ramos/Blevins made appearances), hence the decision to not mess around and bring Familia in. He would make quick work of Preston Tucker – striking him out on four pitches. He came back in for the ninth inning with the Mets continuing to cling to a 3-2 lead. He walked the lead-off man – Dansby Swanson – on four pitches, and fell behind Johan Camargo as well.
Life is full of guarantees… death, taxes, and Fernando Rodney finding himself on the closer hot seat. Its only April baseball and yet here we are again. Rodney fialed close it down Friday night with just a one-run lead. He would cough this one up in a fairly strange sequence of events.
The Roto Riteup hopes you always keep things simple!
The @Pirates turned your standard 1-3-4-2-5-8-7 double play. pic.twitter.com/qXgKxNkLSA
— Cut4 (@Cut4) April 21, 2018
The first few weeks of the season often produce entertaining statistical extremes. Wild ERAs, over-the-top “on pace” numbers, and inflated ratios that give us a sensible chuckle as we collectively understand the lack of truth they hold.
Often among these novelties are the early league-wide leaderboards. I elected to pull up the 2018 strikeout leaders and here is what you’ll see:
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It’s Scherzer v. Kershaw Day!!!
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: Hellloooooo!!! Lots of good arms going today, but nothing tops Scherzer v. Kershaw! |
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: It’s 4/20, either talk about Wander Javier’s high upside or GTFO Paul. |
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: Who? |
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: Need to cut someone soon to make room for guys coming off the DL. Should I dump Marwin Gonzalez or JBJ in 5×5 roto? |
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: Marwin’s positional flexibility keeps him ahead of JBJ |
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: Drop gattis for kurt suzuki or is tyler flowers gonna make that a bad idea? |
I’m going over hitters who are getting regular at-bats who I didn’t consider rosterable in the preseason. It’s now time to see if I missed anything.
Everyone missed on Villanueva to start the season. He got no prospect love anywhere and the only preseason profile I found called him a “utilityman”. I don’t like to miss this badly on a player and set up a filter to find these gems. I’m not sure I can.
To start with, he had a decent Triple-A season hitting .296/.369/.528 and continued the results in the majors.
Ottoneu has historically offered four different formats (two total points linear weights based, one traditional 5×5, and one saber-oriented 4×4), but this year head to head was added as an option for points leagues (think of your typical fantasy football league). You can read more about the format here, but today I wanted to highlight some of the rules that differ between ottoneu head to head and the standard points formats, and some strategy ideas driven by those differences.