2012 Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix 8/2: Braun smacks 29th… what steroids?
No, just kidding, I hate steroid discussions and drug testing discussions in general. Nothing is worse than MLB's ridiculous, revisionist crackdown and all the wasted ink on the “steroid era” and the Mitchell Report. What I do want to discuss though, is the courier who had Braun's urine sitting in his fridge for a whole weekend. Say you are a huge Brewers fan and you happen to be friends with this courier and he lets it slip that he has this sample at his house; don't you immediately race over there to at least look at it? Admit it, you'd probably smell it too. I'm a Red Sox fan and I'd be fascinated by David Ortiz's piss. Or Manny's. Oh man, that would be amazing. I imagine Manny's has a very aloof hue. I'm sure we are at the point where an Angels superfan would take a sip of Mike Trout's sample. I'm fascinated by that underreported part of the story. Did this courier just go about his business that whole weekend? You can't get your hands on memorabilia like that and not at least have a viewing party.
Remember Brett Wallace, the former Cardinals stud prospect who ended up going from St. Louis to Oakland to Toronto to Houston in the span of 2 seasons, then dropped off the face of the Earth? He's up with the Astros big league club and he might be worth a look in deep leagues. Wallace is a AAA stud whose never hit in the show. Perhaps bouncing around the big leagues delayed his development. Houston is in full rebuilding mode and will probably give Wallace a long look through the remainder of 2012. All of which is a big buildup to saying he was 3-4 on Wednesday night with 2 HR and 3 RBI.
Anyone want a slugging Canadian, signed to a contract that extends out to the Big Rip, because the Reds ain’t need Joey Votto. Cincinnati beat the Padres 6-4 to push their record to 63-41, best in Major League Baseball. Since Votto’s injury on July 15th, the Reds are 13-3, including a 10 game winning streak. Wednesday’s win was keyed by Ryan Ludwick, who was 3-4 with a HR and 4 RBIs on the day.
Jake Peavy went 8 IP, with 1 ER and 8 K, in the White Sox 3-2 win over the Twins, for the best pitching performance in the majors Wednesday night. Matt Holliday remembered how nice it is to hit in Coors, leading the Cardinals to a 9-6 win, going 3-4 with 2 HR and 5 RBI. Hunter Pence was 0-4 with 2 Ks in his San Francisco debut and Shane Victorino was 0-4 with 1K in his LA debut, both earning a sad trombone sound effect from me, just now. Oh crap, trade them back.
Link of the day:
Check out Jonah Keri’s breakdown of the trade deadline for the American League:
then, tweet at him and ask him to please change his twitter icon. Now that Bob Odenkirk is actually on Twitter, Jonah's Saul Goodman icon really confuses me.
Written by Ryan Coombs exclusively for TheFantasyFix.com. Follow Ryan on Twitter @RMCoombs.
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