American League Home Run Chase 2009 - Graph of the Day
by Justin Bopp on Sep 10, 2009 10:03 AM EDT
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With Carlos Pena out for the season with two broken fingers, can Mark Teixeira take the AL Home Run Crown? Does Jason Bay make a run, or does Russell Branyan complete his unlikely season and put some distance in between himself and Nelson Cruz?
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I voted for Teixeira
(but I’m rooting for Nelson Cruz).
What can I say? I’m a sucker for people that I drafted on my fantasy team (and for whom I predicted success).
"What we do in life, echoes in eternity!"
Nobody cares about your fantasy team.
But I will say that having Branyan, Pena, and Aaron Hill on my AL-only team certainly helped the HR category.
Putting a money-line on Tex vs. Pena is an interesting question. I’d guess 50/35/15 Pena/Tex/tie.
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by Sky Kalkman on Sep 10, 2009 10:36 AM EDT up reply actions
My fantasy team would destroy yours.
You think Tex can’t get 4 homers in 3 weeks? He’s averaging around 1.46 per week.
x3 = 4.375.
Hell, this thing could actually be a tie after all. Might be fun to watch.
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by Justin Bopp on Sep 10, 2009 10:44 AM EDT up reply actions
I'll say Teixeira.
On May 27th, I blogged predicting that Teixeira would go .301/110/40/120. Who knows what his average clocks in at, but his pace for 104/40/123 is pretty damn close, so I’ll stick with my prediction and say he grinds out five more HRs.
And yes, those will be for my fantasy team.
by Bryan Everson (The Royalty of Roto) on Sep 10, 2009 10:58 AM EDT reply actions
yeah, but you probably drafted him a little higher than I drafted Cruz! (16th round)
:)
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by Justin Bopp on Sep 10, 2009 11:04 AM EDT up reply actions
True, true.
Well, actually we do an auction format, 21 players, $240 budget. I had my bargains in Adam Lind and Asdrubal Cabrera for a dollar =)
Cruz, though, phenomenal. I went out on some boom-or-bust picks, so I didn’t want to place my money on another on there, but it worked out.
by Bryan Everson (The Royalty of Roto) on Sep 11, 2009 3:08 PM EDT up reply actions
And I went to all that trouble of finding Tex hitting a weak grounder to 3rd, hoping I'd find your love.
Needless to say, I’m disappointed.
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Spiffy graph.
"Of course Kolby Rasmus was going deep! That’s what Kolby Rasmus does! You don’t give Kolby Rasmus second chances!" -Kolby Rasmus
Is it me,
or do those numbers look way down for this time of year?
I used to work with an old man that told me. Son, every workplace has a dumbass, if you don't have one where you work, then I'm afraid you're it.
In the senior circuit
it goes:
1. Albert Pujols, STL 47
2. Mark Reynolds, ARI 41
3. Prince Fielder, MIL 38
4. Ryan Howard, PHI 38
5. Adrian Gonzalez, SDG 37
which is probably more what you would expect.
by Tommy Bennett on Sep 10, 2009 6:29 PM EDT up reply actions
NL HR Chase coming next week.
I figured we could let Albert go for 50 first, and maybe Fielder and Howard can sort themselves out.
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Branyan is out indefinitely with a herniated disk.
Could come back around the 15th, but it’s no sure thing that he’ll play again this year.
Now the only thing stopping a Cruz/Bay showdown is Teixeira getting in an unfortunate accident
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