2011 Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix: The Streak Continues, Carlos Zambrano Suspended & More
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Carlos Zambrano has been suspended from his team for 30-days without pay after giving up five home runs, throwing at Chipper Jones and announcing that he was retiring. If only the Cubs were so lucky. Big Z has been a pain in the ass for years, whether it be showing up an opposing player after a strikeout or berating his own teammates. He deserved to be out of the league years ago. He is the type of poor example that has twelve year old kids taunting each other after a home run. The baseball world is better without him in it.
Jorge Posada made the most of his playing time with a six RBI outburst in the Yankees victory against the Rays.
Dan Uggla stretched his hitting streak to 33 games and bumped his batting average all the way to .232. If he continues this through the end of NEXT season he might reach .300. But, this week has been a particularly hot week, he is batting .444, 3 home runs and 6 RBI's. His hitting streak has not exactly ignited the Braves as they are 19-14 over that stretch.
The Reds put up a seven spot in the "HR" category during a 13-1 drubbing of the Padres. The biggest stars of the day were Miguel Cairo (4 RBI's) and Ryan Hanigan (5 RBI's). The not-star of the day, Tim Stauffer, after giving up nine earned runs over three innings.
Top pitchers throwing Sunday are Roy Halladay, Shaun Marcum, Dan Haren, and Ryan Vogelsong. Vogelsong's magic might slowly be wearing off. His ERA has risen more than half a run since the middle of June and he's coming off one of his worst outings of the season. Maybe we'll see if he is in it for the long hall, or if, his miracle run is slowly coming to an end.
A player that probably deserves to be in that list of top pitchers is Hiroki Koroda. His 7-14 records is ghastly, but his ERA is just over 3.00. In the last three weeks he has been even better with a 2.45 ERA, but once again, the wins just are not there with a 1-3 record.
Great week offensively for a couple of brewers, Prince Fielder (.545, 3 home runs, 10 RBI’s, 1.638 OPS) and Yuniesky Betancourt (.462, 6 RBI’s, 1.021 OPS) rank one and two in batting average over that span, respectively.
The always dangerous Tim Lincecum showed why he is a two-time Cy Young winner in striking out ten on his way to a three hit, ten strikeout victory. When he is on, there still is not a better pitcher in the game.
Jorge Posada made the most of his playing time with a six RBI outburst in the Yankees victory against the Rays.
Dan Uggla stretched his hitting streak to 33 games and bumped his batting average all the way to .232. If he continues this through the end of NEXT season he might reach .300. But, this week has been a particularly hot week, he is batting .444, 3 home runs and 6 RBI's. His hitting streak has not exactly ignited the Braves as they are 19-14 over that stretch.
The Reds put up a seven spot in the "HR" category during a 13-1 drubbing of the Padres. The biggest stars of the day were Miguel Cairo (4 RBI's) and Ryan Hanigan (5 RBI's). The not-star of the day, Tim Stauffer, after giving up nine earned runs over three innings.
Top pitchers throwing Sunday are Roy Halladay, Shaun Marcum, Dan Haren, and Ryan Vogelsong. Vogelsong's magic might slowly be wearing off. His ERA has risen more than half a run since the middle of June and he's coming off one of his worst outings of the season. Maybe we'll see if he is in it for the long hall, or if, his miracle run is slowly coming to an end.
A player that probably deserves to be in that list of top pitchers is Hiroki Koroda. His 7-14 records is ghastly, but his ERA is just over 3.00. In the last three weeks he has been even better with a 2.45 ERA, but once again, the wins just are not there with a 1-3 record.
Great week offensively for a couple of brewers, Prince Fielder (.545, 3 home runs, 10 RBI’s, 1.638 OPS) and Yuniesky Betancourt (.462, 6 RBI’s, 1.021 OPS) rank one and two in batting average over that span, respectively.
The always dangerous Tim Lincecum showed why he is a two-time Cy Young winner in striking out ten on his way to a three hit, ten strikeout victory. When he is on, there still is not a better pitcher in the game.
Written by Chris Summers exclusively for www.thefantasyfix.com.
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