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Yeah, Mojo badmouths the Rocket again this week.
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Oh man, the Yankee fans let me have it. Words like “jealous”, “hater” and many others that I can’t type here on this family oriented article. But I stand by what I wrote. I love Roger Clemens in fantasy circles. I recommend everyone out there that can get him, do so. Blow your FAAB wad, scoop him up if you can grab minor leaguers now or trade for him if he is already owned. I did, as you will see in the Jocks & Jokes section below.
But in the real world baseball scene he is a total and unequivocal sell out, plain and simple. He took the highest offer with total disregard to anything else. And when you don’t need the money; that is called being a total sell out.
I am sorry that is how it has to be fans, but I pull no punches in the Rosin Bag.
Weekly Mojo: How to get out of Last Place
Far too often I play in leagues where the team in Last Place at the end of May gives up. They look at their team full of injuries and under performers and start posting about “next year” and “slow starts”. Then they make an awful trade to hook up a buddy and disappear from the boards forever. It’s sad, really.
Well it doesn’t have to be that way. You can get out of last with some creative thinking. Here are my three best suggestions.
- Offer the guys not performing for close to what their value would be if they were performing. There is always some guy in the league that will take the chance on them heating up. In last place, you can’t afford to wait for that to happen. Albert Pujols is killing teams right now. If you are sitting in last with him right now, TRADE HIM! Trade him auction style on your league board and take the best offer you get for him.
- Drop dead weight. Don’t sit on guys doing nothing for you that you had listed as sleepers at your draft. Newsflash, Jorge Cantu is not going to help you get out of last place. Drop him fast and any others like him and scoop up that guy you never heard of that is on a twelve game hit streak. You may just strike gold.
- Punt something. Forget balance when you are in last place. You are just balancing junk! Trade all your closers and forget saves. Trade your speed guy and say goodbye to steals. It is tough to win when you punt something, but you can get real value for Stolen Bases and Saves and they can help you improve in more than just one category if traded properly.
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We pimp J.J. Hardy here so much we should drive by his place and get our cut. |
Jocks & Jokes
JOCKS
J.J. Hardy (SS, MIL) – I have personally been waiting for Hardy to show what he can do for three years now. I keep picking him in the late rounds of drafts, bidding on him cheap late in auctions and grabbing him off the free agent wire early in the season. Each and every time I get my heart broke, usually by an injury. Well, this year Hardy is looking healthy and is smashing the ball. He is a league leader in home runs and runs batted in. At this point even if he did get hurt I already got more out of him than I got the other two years combined. Pray he stays healthy and hot with me every night though just in case.
Reggie Willits (OF, LAA) – Just as pink is the new red; Reggie Willits is the new Chone Figgins. He can spray the ball all over the field and use his speed to advance himself. I do not see him batting as high as he is so far, but a .300 plus Batting Average seems plausible and he could touch 30 steals this year if he stays on track.
Justin Germano (SP, SD) – I keep hearing that Germano may be pushed into the pen or even *gasp* back down to the minors, I am hoping he gets the chance to stay up in the Bigs and shine. He was dominating down in Triple-A and has looked real sharp up in the Show so far. Petco Park is a great place to learn your trade and I will continue to roll the dice on him until he proves me wrong.
JOKES
Josh Hamilton (OF, CIN) – This one goes out to every single owner, in every single league I am in that was lucky enough to have Hamilton for his hot streak that now thinks I am dumb enough to trade for him and trade a lot while he was in a 1-for-23 slump. This is just the beginning of the end for this guy and I urge you not to go down with him. There is always a Cinderella story to come out of nowhere and get hot and stay hot all year, but this guy is going to turn into a pumpkin real soon.
Bobby Abreu (OF, NYY) – I traded Abreu for Aaron Rowand and Clemens a few weeks ago. My league almost vetoed it and really let me have it on the boards. Rowand hasn’t been that great since the trade and Clemens has yet to prove he is still, well, Roger Clemens but so far I am more than happy with it. Abreu is hitting an ugly .169 with only one, ONE! Homerun. Some would consider him a good buy low player right now, but I think that oblique injury he had in the spring is still bothering him and unless he hits the DL to take care of it, it could be a real bad year for him in 2007.
Ervin Santana (SP, LAA) – Santana was a great pick in this years draft for many teams. He looked like he was primed for a big year and a very strong career. Then 2007 walked up and slapped him right in the face. His ERA is a whopping 5.51 now and there is talk floating around that he may lose his spot in the rotation soon. I would play his splits for now and only start him at home and keep your eyes on the news wire.
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