Week 6 REVIEW

Week 6 Review:

Snot on the Ball (or whatever the team name is today) DEF Swine Nine 5-4.
In the game of the week, Snot battled Swine down to the last inning of the week, and was able to come out with the narrow victory. Had Joe Nathan been able to secure one more strikeout against the Red Sox, they would have won 5-4, but Manny Ramirez’s groundout lost the game for the sox and swine. Snot’s stellar lineup management was able to secure 5 HR’s from his bench for the week, but Swine’s limp bats couldn’t take advantage.
> Player of the Week: It would have been Joey Votto had Snot actually played him this week, but since he didn’t, we’ll give it to Hanley Ramirez: 8/0/2/3/.471. Had Swine won the week, this would belong to Cliff Lee, who has just had his contract with the devil ratified by the players association.
> Dud of the Week: Snot had some hurlers get shelled, but we’re going to slap this tag on Curtis Granderson. 0/0/2/1/.125. If he’d have had an awesome week, it still may not have changed much, but this keeper had a brutal week, striking out with reckless abandon.

Jobu’s Hats for Bats DEF Bob’z Boyz 5-4
Bob’z Boyz had their best week of the season so far, and only losing by 1 is certainly a step in the right direction for this rookie owner, but Jobu’s power, speed, and saves led the way. BB swept all the pitching % categories, and was one run away from knotting up the week, so he has that going for him… which is nice. Jobu led all teams with 14 homers this week, but most of them must have been solo shots as BB won RBI by 7. Both of these teams are still currently cellar dwellers in their respective divisions, but Jobu has 2 wins in a row and BB is steadily improving, so 4th place is certainly not out the question!
> Player of the Week: Lance Berkman. The player of the year so far (and still on a 9th place team…) he continued his MVP season winning runs and average for Jobu all by himself: 10/2/5/2/.682
> Dud of the Week: Barely eking out Casey Kotchman is Melky Cabrera. Hey, at least he had an RBI: 0/0/1/0/.158

Bounty Hunters DEF Legends 6-4
The surprise team of 2008 continued its winning ways by downing their hated rival Legends for the 2nd week in a row behind fairly poor offensive production, mediocre pitching, steals and saves. Luckily for Boba Fett, Legends were just less mediocre enough. Ichiro and Michael Bourn combined for 8 steals for BH, besting Legends entire roster total of 7. There was a highlight for Legends as they destroyed the 2008 record for fewest RBI in a week with 21. All in all, both teams were lucky to play each other this week. There were a combined total of 15 batters who hit less than .211 for the week. It wasn’t pretty, but Bounty Hunters will take the W. Legends will seethe and burn for revenge until week 15.
> Player of the Week: Legends had some quality starts from Josh Beckett and Eddy Volquez, but we’ll give the award to Ichiro. 5/0/1/4/.360. Dwayne Chapman would like to see maybe a bit more oomph from Ichiro, but you can’t complain about the runs, steals or average.
> Dud of the Week: So many options, but we’ll go with Mike Cameron for these numbers: 0/0/1/1/.063. That’s a lot of 0’s. There were 3 0/4 nights and one ‘night off’. 1-21 streaks will do that. Free Gabe Kapler!!

Papi’s Space Cadets DEF Karma Chameleons 7-3
PSC won their first match of the season by handling KC over a variety of categories. Karma was able to snag steals, wins and saves, but that was all as the wrath of Youk was unleashed. Outside of Jose Reyes’ 3 steals, KC was done in by the lack of production from his superstars. Prince, Reyes, Chipper, Pena combined to be… not so good. Do your own math. Nothing else was especially remarkable about this matchup besides Brad Lidge’s 22.50 K/9. That averages out to 22 and a half strikeouts per 9 innings! Wow.
> Player of the week: Kevin Youkilis was ridiculous. 8/5/10/1/.375. The steal of the draft so far with both CI eligibility is dwarfing the production of his teams namesake so far.
> Dud of the week: Kyle Loshe had a worse era and whip, but Sidney Ponson’s week was an across the board abomination. 10.13era, 2.25whip and 1.69K/9. The scourge of Aruba turned his 2 above average starts into SP brutality for KC’s rotation.

Regulators DEF L.L. Longball 9-1
In the 2nd biggest whoopin this season (behind Snot’s week 2 9-0 victory against Jobu), the Regulators got back to their 07 ways by knocking off the division leading LL Longball in a contest that could have easily been much closer than it was. Dan Uggla made a valiant effort to save HR for Longball, but they fell just short in the money categories: HR/SB. Carl Crawford stole the SB category with a magnificent 4 steals to close out the week. Longball had a chance late Sunday night to tie or take the lead in those 2 categories if Delmon Young could come through, but he couldn’t. Because he stinks.
> Player of the Week: There were some stars on both sides, and Crawford was a dynamo starting on Thursday, but this award goes to Ian Kinsler: 7/1/4/2/.379
> Dud of the Week: Brad Penny was close, but we’re giving this to youngest player ever to be past his prime, Miguel Cabrera: 1/0/0/0/.182.