The at-bats are starting to even out, except for Spencer, who is about 200 AB behind everyone else. If you're wondering why my average is so low, I'm in the middle of the pack for number of hits, and 50 at bats ahead. So, I just need all of your teams to go 0/40 for the next couple of days.
Thanks to Casilla being on the DL and Andrew plugging in Octavio Dotel into his starting lineup, the projected IP are starting to come down. Although Andrew is currently in 4th place for strikeouts, the table shows that he simply didn't draft enough high strikeout pitchers, and Mark and Spencer could end up passing him. Mark is also starting to catch up in projected IP. Of course, he's in a bit of a weird position projection wise as all of his starters pitch on the same day. His projected IP will shoot up, then slowly decrease, and then spike up again, so I'm not sure what day would probide the most accurate projection, but I only update the IP, AB, and H counts on Fridays, so we're just going to go with that.
At the current pace, I'll end up leading Ks. Of course, that could easily change now that I don't have Matsuzaka, but my K/9 is starting to pull away. Assuming that Matsuzaka isn't hurt for a significant period of time (and looking now, he just went on the 15 day DL, good thing Clay is ready to come back), and Spencer can catch up in IP, Spencer could come from behind and give Caleb some trouble in strikeouts.
Also, I can't quite figure out why Luke is leading in Ks right now, but doesn't lead in projected Ks without the IP limit. It must have something to do with the way Yahoo calculates the projected IP limits.
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for those keeping track, with hafner officially on the DL, in one week i will have 5 "active" players now on the DL - sheffield, figgins, dice-k, percival, and hafner.
Absolutely absurd. This has to be some sort of record.
By the way guys, I don't know if he said anything to anyone, but Luke is on an aircraft carrier somewhere between Hawaii and Hong Kong right now. He'll be back in about 3 weeks. I don't know if he'll be able to check in on his lineup in the meantime, we'll see, but he almost definitely won't be doing email.
Sad that I am so far behind someone who isn't even currently paying attention.
As for the projections, it's pretty clear to me that AVG and Ks are gonna be the major speed bumps in my way. Cabrera's new pitching style has resulted in fewer strikeouts this year (and yes, Bill, ineffectiveness in his most recent start). That plus Verlander's suckitude really put a crimp on my plans to win Ks this year. I'm hoping to get some consistent use of Greg Smith to bring the K rate up. I might just be boned for average.
I'm not worried about the inning limits, and I won't start worrying until July or August.
If anyone has a home remedy for Carpal Tunnel, Hank Blalock and I would both really appreciate it.
Strike that, it's too late for Blalock. Just had surgery, out for another month. Balls.
He just left yesterday, and set his lineups before he went. But yeah, he's been swamped this year, and hasn't been around much.
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