I'm back

I said I'd be back today and I'm back. I am happily watching my brand new special edition of Major League. What a great movie. Charlie Sheen, unlike Tim Robbins, could actually throw the ball and looked like a real pitcher. OK onto the other positions. But before I do another great outing today by Josh Beckett. I can't tell you how important it is for him to get off to a great start this year. If the Red Sox staff can develop the the cockiness they need early they should be scary. Dice-K is going lead the league in wins this year and if the Red Sox can hit at all they'll be in the playoffs but I degrease finally, for further proof of how good the movie I saw this weekend,Grindhouse, was take a look at the new Rolling Stone cover below.



Awesome!

Now onto the shortstops.
Stephen Drew
Orlando Cabrera

This was a tough position for me this year and I don't know why. There were tons of great shortstops out there and I took a pass on almost all of them. The shortstops I ended up with the most on my teams were Stephen Drew and Orlando Cabrera. I wanted Jose Reyes going into every draft I went into. I got him once. I didn't want to overvalue Hanley Ramirez because I felt he was going to drop off from his great performance from last year. I've had Jeter a couple of times over the past few years and he's fine, but maybe because he's a Yankee he's just not fun for me. So my shortstop drafted was usually Stephen Drew. Drew had a great callup to the majors last year hitting .316/.357/.517 with 25 extra base hits in 200 at-bats. Drew has a boatload of upside so I guess that's what I'm taking the chance on. I thought about possibly taking Julio Lugo but it turned out to be there was a Red Sox fan that took him in every one of my drafts. So what did I do I took the shortstop that everyone in Boston still loves. Orlando Cabrera. People may not remember how good a season he had last year driving in 72 runs and stealing 28 bases.

David Wright
Mark Teahen
Alex Gordon

Um so where is the mystery here. I guess there is none. Wright's a great player with power, speed and defense. Well so are Teahen and Gordon. I'm in two keeper leagues and I've kept Wright for years now. I interviewed Wright when he was in the minor leagues and this kid, at that time, just was a major leaguer and you knew it. There was going to be absolutely awesome and there was no stopping him. And there hasn't been. Chalk up another awesome season for Wright. Who's the player Wright is most often compared to? That would be the younger version of himself Kansas City Royals' third basemen Alex Gordon. Like Wright, Gordon is going to be am absolute star, barring injury. I wouldn't be surprised if he 25-30 homeruns this year. So if I think that why would I also pick Kansas City's Mark Teahen the player that Gordon
replaced? Because he's in the outfield this year. And he's still third base eligible. And because he lead in home runs. And because unless you have someone pretty smart in your league he's probably sitting on your waiver wire as I write this.

Grady Sizemore
Barry Bonds
JD Drew

Some big names here. I love Grady Sizemore. It astounds me that most people have no clue just how great this kid is and is going to be. The guy had 92 extra base hits and stole 22 bases. He plays great defense and he hits at the top of the lineup in front of Travis Hafner and Victor Martinez. This is an early comparison and I don't know if it's entirely just but Sizemore reminds of......Dale Murphy, the two time NL MVP. He's a quite guy who just performs every aspect of the game correctly. He's awesome. Now onto the not-so awesome other members of the outfield. I hate Barry Bonds. I hate him. I read the awesome Jeff Pearlman book "Love me, Hate me : Barry Bonds and the making of an Anti-Hero,". If I had to guess I'd say probability 98.999 % of that book is right on. I have as much doubt that Barry Bonds knowingly took steroids as I do that Pete Rose bet on baseball. I hate him. But seven homeruns this spring and no one in fantasy wants him. The guy can hit. He could always hit. He can still hit. Healthy he could hit 35 HR's. Here's the thing for me I could have had A-Rod in a couple of drafts but I wanted nothing to do with him. Why? Because he's a whinny little pampered b-----. I make the most money of anyone in major league baseball, I'm the most talented player in the history of baseball but New York fans and Derek Jeter don't love me anymore. So despite what I knew was going to be an MVP caliber season I passed. Bonds at least Doesn't seem to care about what anybody thinks. And he doesn't play for the Yankees. Which brings us to the Red Sox egmatic outfielder JD Drew. Even Red Sox fans are down on him. But I'm betting he at least starts off having a good season. Enough so people start to change their opinion on him and settle down at which point he'll tank. But I do have to say that Theo is a pretty smart guy so many he can stick for the whole season. Tomorrow I'll wrap up with pitchers and get onto to Dice-K mania.