Welcome to our weekly round-up of the BaseballGB Fantasy League competition. This is a mixed Head-2-Head league involving BGB writers and readers.
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| Â | R | HR | RBI | SB | AVG | OPS | W | SV | K | HLD | ERA | WHIP | Score |
| The Wright Stuff | 30 | 4 | 21 | 4 | 0.224 | 0.709 | 2 | 1 | 56 | 2 | 3.76 | 1.22 | 2 |
| Weston-Super-Sox | 27 | 5 | 21 | 5 | 0.243 | 0.719 | 4 | 1 | 39 | 4 | 3.07 | 1.2 | 8 |
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| Â | R | HR | RBI | SB | AVG | OPS | W | SV | K | HLD | ERA | WHIP | Score |
| Okajima’s Fire Bet | 38 | 6 | 28 | 4 | 0.315 | 0.866 | 2 | 4 | 33 | 1 | 2.93 | 1.05 | 5 |
| BD Yankees | 28 | 13 | 26 | 5 | 0.26 | 0.896 | 4 | 5 | 37 | 3 | 4.79 | 1.51 | 7 |
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In the matchup of Yankees fan v Red Sox fan, it was the New Yorkers who came out on top 7-5. The Yankees had seven different players homer at least once and Desmond’s three steals came in handy. The pitching staff took four of the six categories thanks to Cain, Soriano, Street and Rivera. The Bet had plenty of runs from Rasmus, while Freese and Ethier also had big weeks. Bell and Halladay helped the pitching staf take ERA and WHIP.
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| Â | R | HR | RBI | SB | AVG | OPS | W | SV | K | HLD | ERA | WHIP | Score |
| Beck ‘Nams (GB) | 25 | 3 | 16 | 6 | 0.259 | 0.647 | 1 | 3 | 40 | 4 | 4.86 | 1.36 | 5 |
| daebhid2 | 19 | 8 | 21 | 2 | 0.204 | 0.652 | 3 | 1 | 42 | 0 | 4.76 | 1.33 | 7 |
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Dave just got the better of JJ 7-5 in another close matchup. In the end it was the pitchers who made the difference, as Jon Lester’s nice week helped Dave take wins, strikeouts, ERA and WHIP in very closely fought categories. Some guy named Pujols also had a big week with the bat. Fuentes and new Twins closer Capps helped JJ take saves, while Adams had two holds and Bourn was the star hitter with eight runs and five steals.
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| Â | R | HR | RBI | SB | AVG | OPS | W | SV | K | HLD | ERA | WHIP | Score |
| The Cheddar Chasers | 29 | 11 | 32 | 4 | 0.325 | 0.983 | 1 | 3 | 23 | 1 | 5.4 | 1.55 | 7 |
| Iron Men | 23 | 4 | 19 | 1 | 0.251 | 0.711 | 7 | 4 | 27 | 0 | 2.25 | 0.86 | 5 |
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Matt’s Chasers provided a clean sweep of offensive categories on the way to a 7-5 win against Iron Men, with Tulo, Stubbs and Sandoval all having multi-homer weeks. A hold from Meek proved vital, as Iron Men took the five remaining pitching categories thanks to Pineda, Weaver, Marcum and Valverde. The stingy ERA and WHIP from Iron Men’s staff was very impressive.
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| Â | R | HR | RBI | SB | AVG | OPS | W | SV | K | HLD | ERA | WHIP | Score |
| stevenston angels | 23 | 7 | 26 | 6 | 0.254 | 0.758 | 3 | 1 | 50 | 2 | 3.48 | 1.2 | 6 |
| Redbacks | 26 | 5 | 26 | 4 | 0.2 | 0.57 | 3 | 2 | 31 | 1 | 1.99 | 0.91 | 4 |
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Talking of impressive ERA and WHIP, Redbacks also put up stingy numbers, but a lack of offense cost them in a narrow 6-4 loss to the Angels. Johnson, Pavano and Davis all contributed to a sub-2.00 ERA and sub-1.00 WHIP, but lost out to the strikeouts of Lee and Hanson. Bautista and Alexei Ramirez provided power and speed as the Angels took four of the six offensive categories.
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| Â | R | HR | RBI | SB | AVG | OPS | W | SV | K | HLD | ERA | WHIP | Score |
| Orpington Isotopes | 23 | 3 | 22 | 3 | 0.234 | 0.693 | 3 | 1 | 55 | 0 | 3.74 | 1.37 | 4 |
| Pretzel Vendors | 23 | 3 | 24 | 3 | 0.243 | 0.665 | 1 | 4 | 44 | 4 | 4.47 | 1.35 | 5 |
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My Isotopes suffered another defeat, this time losing 5-4 to the Vendors in one of the closest matchups I can remember. Neither side could be separated in runs, homers and steals, with the Vendors taking RBIs by two and average by nine points thanks to Beltre’s big Sunday. The Vendors’ bullpen of Wilson, Clippard and Sipp also collected four saves and four holds. My pitchers managed to take wins, strikeouts and ERA thanks to Kershaw and Chacin. The return of Sizemore and Ubaldo cannot come quickly enough for my team.
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| Â | R | HR | RBI | SB | AVG | OPS | W | SV | K | HLD | ERA | WHIP | Score |
| SWAT* | 30 | 6 | 28 | 8 | 0.291 | 0.827 | 0 | 4 | 21 | 0 | 3 | 1.41 | 5 |
| Bonestalkers | 30 | 5 | 29 | 11 | 0.275 | 0.792 | 4 | 3 | 43 | 0 | 4.56 | 1.4 | 5 |
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Last, but by no means least, we have a 5-5 tie in the matchup between SWAT and Bonestalkers. SWAT had the edge in homers, average and OPS thanks to Castro and Posey, but Bonestalkers had the edge in RBIs and racked up 11 steals thanks to Reyes, Michael Young and CarGo. The pitching stats saw Bonestalkers take wins and strikeouts thanks to Myers, while SWAT had the edge in saves and ERAÂ thanks to Walden, Marmol and Zimmermann. Just 0.01 separated the teams in WHIP.
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The Week Three fixtures are as follows:
Sox (1st) v Fire Bet (5th)
Vendors (2nd) v SWAT (3rd)
Bonestalkers (4th) v Chasers (7th)
Stuff (6th) v Redbacks (12th)
Beck ‘Nams (8th) v Isotopes (10th)
Daebhid2 (9th) v Angels (13th)
Iron Men (11th) v Yankees (14th)
