Hanley Ramirez is a first overall pick no matter what. It's a no brainer. He's a perennial 25/30 shortstop with 30+ HR, 50 SB upside. He's also a walking force who is entrenched in the #3 hole of a very offensive lineup, which should retain his R rate and only increase his RBI chances.
BUT SERIOUSLY. WHAT THE FUCK.
Hanley is hitting .241 right now, largely fueled by a BABIP that is 70 points below his lifetime average. Furthermore, Hanley's K rate is actually better than the previous two seasons and his LD% is a full 5% higher than last year. Fucking bad luck is fucking pissing me off right now. HanRam's two CS to his one sucessful SB is incredibly frustrating, as were his struggles against the National's pitching staff last week. I know that Hanley is a lock for a .300/30/30/100 R season just as Carlos Lee is a lock for a .300/30/100 season (fucking Carlos Lee is also struggling with the rest of the Astros right now), but it's still frustrating to see good ratios go unrewarded and ridiculous levels of inconsistency plague my fantasy team. Some combination of Mike Napoi, Joey Votto, Dan Uggla, Hanley Ramirez, Ryan Zimmerman, Denard Span, Manny Ramirez, Carlos Lee and Nelson Cruz are hitting .269 with 18 HR (T-6th in league). May Matt Kemp be my savior (funny story - I traded for Matt Kemp at 3 am and thus wasn't able to use him in my line up the day he hit 2 HR (1 GS)...fuck!).
Sample size, sample size, sample size. FUCK!
yes, you drafted the best possible team in the history of the universe and it is just pure luck that you havent clinched the season title in mid April. How dare they not be perfect when you spend 10 hours a day researching and proposing insanely unfair trades. eerrrrgggggggg
ReplyDeletehey hey now, i make very fair trade offers. I can't help it that i need to make irrational offers to a certain irrational owner in our league who doesn't the fuck know how to value players based on in season performance and potential.
ReplyDeleteHis logic is "if he was ever on waivers, he sucks and has no value" which is the most profoundly stupid logic ever. I was willing to go as far as to trade Beckett or Uggla for Roberts before the season. You can't ask me to give up Haren for Roberts and say "they have similiar ADPs, it's fair" and expect me not to reply with a giant brain fart that consists of no more logical trade offerings. Take note of that, sir.
Cause no one else is having ridiculous problems with my trade offers. I just made you the sizemore offer to see if you were getting desperate :)
ReplyDeletei really dont have time to talk right now.
ReplyDeleteI have a prob with your trades.
span for Lowe? retarded
span for bedard? retarded
span and uggla for sizemore? retarded
I never offered Span 4 Bedard! I traded him to youuu
ReplyDeleteNo one cares about YOUR fantasy league!
ReplyDeleteOh, I'm going to win because I'm first... in Mid-April... after two weeks of play!
Wanna hear something else frustrating? I drafted Bengie Molina in a team that has AVG and OBP. In the first week (its a head to head league): Molina had a AVG of .300 and a OBP of .280!
Now I know Molina isn't going to really help me in OBP but fuck that's ridiculous.