First of all, I was going to say congrats to the semi-finalists, but before that... SCREW YOU TERRY COLLINS FOR PH'ING FOR JASON BAY. ALL I NEEDED (i think) WAS A MOTHER EFFING BASE KNOCK FROM JASON EFFING BAY.
My season's over, but Shin-Soo Choo's is not. We have two quality match-ups between (Thank you for) Go(-ing) Home Zito (and enjoy cooking those omelets) and WSChamps1908 AND Manny (beating) Mommy (Doug's creation, not mine) and BustHerPosey. How close were the play-in match-ups? Good Wood and Raging Right Now needed one HR from Starlin Castro and one (maybe two) more hits from Jason Bay, respectively to move on. Plus, if Castro went yard, ESPN wouldn't have lost their minds about the Sunday Night Baseball game going way too long and delaying Boomer's rumblin-stumblin-bumblin NFL highlights.
If the week ended today, TYFG-ingHZ and Manny would advance to the championship. WSChamps needs a whole lot of pitching help and BustHerPosey needs runs, RBIs, wins, and saves. Unlike in years prior when the championship match-up was 14 days, this year's championship will be decided in 10 days. Just be aware (to whoever advances) that you will only get 7 moves TOTAL (not 7 per week). You're effin welcome.
I'll do a quick revisit of my draft analysis. Not gonna boast, but I was almost spot on.
Good Wood- Called his draft good (if not great) and a playoff bound team. He made the playoffs. My best pick (Jered Weaver) was pretty much lights out all year long. I was flat out wrong on @JoeyBats19. He'll be a 1st round pick next year for sure.
BustHerPosey- My dubbing of his best pick (Matt Kemp) will finish in the top 2 of NL MVP voting. It took a while, but Jaime Garcia hit his sophomore slump wall (4.60 ERA, 1.57 WHIP Post-AS Break). Phil Hughes was awful.
WSChamps1908-Brian Roberts has been on the DL basically all year. Ian Desmond was dropped (JJ Hardy was a great pick-up by the way). Gio Gonzalez was the A's lone all-star selection.
Repeat-Well the Giants are not going to Repeat. Lester lowered his ERA for the 3rd straight season.
GoHomeZito- Pablo missed a month due to a hamate bone fracture, but he's been great. I didn't really go out on a limb w/ GHZ's draft, but he made moves. A lot of them.
Manny-I called his draft the best. If he wins the league, small victory for me. Ichiro's BA is in the .270s. I swung and missed on his best pick (it's clearly Ellsbury, wait could be A-Gonz, wait could be Kinsler...oh that's why I called his draft the best).
Me- I reached for Chris Young. He sucked in the 2nd half. Also wrong on Tabata. I did guess correctly on Reynolds' HR total. If only he hit .250...
bombers28-I was wrong on Granderson and somewhat on Hanson. I correctly called Shields as a post-hype sleeper.
Justin's Juicers- I'll call the Upton-Braun deal a wash. Upton's been that good.
Bi-Winning-What happened to Heyward? And what happened to his team?
Huff's Thong Drawer- Maybe Pete knew something I didn't. He drafted a back-up catcher because he knew Posey would get hurt in May? McCutchen's been awful in the 2nd half. I'm going to postulate that he's been playing through an injury. Like everyone in September.
Nobody Cares-Best pick Kimbrel. Boo ya.
