First, let's start off with today's standings. Although they're easily accessible, it is nice to have for reference throughout this post.
Spencer had an off week offensively, only scoring 20 runs and driving in 22, but he did manage to steal 6 bases., including 3 by waiver-wire all-star Carlos Gomez. Although my team didn't pick up any points in stolen bases, I opened up a larger lead thanks to Carl Crawford (3 SB) and Ian Kinsler (4 SB, and now on pace for 45 for the season). Mark had a big week offensively, led by Sizemore (6 R, 3 HR, 6 RBI) and Josh Hamilton (4 R, 1 HR, 8 RBI), who continues to drive in runs at a preposterous rate and is now on pace to drive in 173. A terrible pitching week, which included an increase of 0.57 in ERA and a full tenth of a baserunner in WHIP kept Mark from gaining any ground on the leaders. One caveat about the rate stats is that because I'm not keeping track of IP and AB you can't make direct comparisons between teams with the weekly changes. For example, if my batting average increased by .001 (to .252) and Spencer's dropped by .001 (to .275), he actually had a higher batting average in the last week than I did. This effect should diminish as the season progresses, but for now we can't make direct comparisons. 
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See this type of stuff is super helpful. It's ridiculous that yahoo can't do this. I knew that my offense was blowing but looking at it over a week's time makes it even clearer. Of course it doesn't help that I'm throwing up 2-3 fewer starters with random hamstring injuries, but we'll see if my lineup gets better or worse with my trades - I'll need a Hafner miracle.
Pretty clear divide now between the top 3 and the bottom 3. We'll see if Mark makes a run now that his pitchers are getting healthy
Thankfully, both Harden and Bedard pitched beautifully on Saturday. I absolutely need these guys to be on the top of their game for me to make a run at the leaders. Even though my SO/IP is low, I think it will pick up with Harden and Bedard both healthy now.
I'm going to try and add in IP and AB totals once a week to keep better track of the rate stats, and identify whether or not folks are having shitty weeks because of injuries.
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