One thing I learned from watching a few games on TV these past few days is that North Korea's soccer side could stand to learn something from its government about defense.
Other than that, we'll go strictly baseball for today...
Phil Hughes is being skipped this week. Yep, nice of the team to let us know right after the deadline passes for weekly lineups. The team is trying to limit the innings on his young arm, there is no injury. However, it could happen again.
Mike Stanton hasn;t mashed a home run in every at bat like some thought he would, but he has already stolen three bases in 11 games with zero caught stealing attempts.
Nick Markakis is hitting for ZERO power. What happened? He's usually a second half guy, and looks to be getting it going. He's got 10 hits in his last eight games.
Another guy that I would expect to have a large second half is CC Sabathia. He looked just filthy against the Mets this weekend. He's been known to go off in the second half. Ditto the offensive hero in that game...Mark Teixeira. He has three homers in his last six games.
By the way, if you want a reminder about why not to draft guys that start slow, look at Teixeira. You have just suffered through a half season of garbage and are most likely thinking of selling in a keeper league because you are too far behind. Trade for these guys, don't draft them.
Adam Jones has two homers and 11 hits in his past seven games. I like him in the second half too.
Outside of Liriano, you can't rely on any of the Twins starters in mixed leagues. I know Baker just K'd 12, I know Pavano is a solid pitcher, and I know Slowey has been very useful at times. However, all are too inconsistent. Baker and Slowey meltdown as often as they produce, and Pavano doesn't produce the K's.
Every day I think Corey Hart can't keep it up, he drives in three more runs.
Cheers,
TFAM
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