Month: April 2011

By Dalton Del Don After an 0-for-5 game Wednesday, Hanley Ramirez’s average is down to .197 on the year, and he’s yet to homer and has been caught stealing as often as he’s been successful (three). As someone who was drafted as a top-three pick in almost every fantasy league, I’d be stating the obvious…

By Dalton Del Don It’s easy to say Jose Tabata is playing over his head and unlikely to finish with his current .303/.410/.500 line, but fantasy owners have to be excited in what they have nevertheless. Maybe the spring training stories about him bulking up over winter should have been taken more seriously, as he’s…

By Dalton Del Don WESTERN CONFERENCE SPURS over Grizzlies 4-1. NUGGETS over Thunder 4-2. MAVERICKS over Trail Blazers 4-3. LAKERS over Hornets 4-1. EASTERN CONFERENCE BULLS over Pacers 4-0. MAGIC over Hawks 4-0. CELTICS over Knicks 4-1. HEAT over 76ers 4-0. ROUND TWO SPURS over Nuggets 4-3. LAKERS over Mavericks 4-1. BULLS over Magic 4-3.…

By Dalton Del Don It sure was nice to see Tommy Hanson deliver seven scoreless innings Tuesday, because his start to the season was becoming a bit worrisome. Not so much the 6.00 ERA but the continued downward trend with his strikeout rate. After posting a 9.2 K/9 through July last year, Hanson fanned just…

By Dalton Del Don As someone who owns Ubaldo Jimenez in WCOF, watching his first start of the season was a brutal experience. It’s never fun getting burned in ERA right out of the gate (don’t panic Cole Hamels owners), but that was far from the biggest issue here. After his fastball averaged 96.1 mph…

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