Top 10 first basemen with DH thrown in: 2009

So here is part two of the only fantasy baseball draft strategy guide you’ll need. Today is first base and DH. Why the combo? Because there are no good DH’s anymore. The days of Edgar Martinez are long gone. Great, adding Edgar Martinez to the post will probably spawn about three hits to this site for the whole year. Speaking of hits … guess who is the top first baseman? Albert Pujols … which of course brings us to his wife Deidre Pujols which will generate more hits than Edgar Martinez. For all of you coveters of another man’s wife here’s some pictures of her above … ummm let’s get started. So read on and good luck or Godspeed or something.

Rebuilding A Franchise: A rebuttal

Go ahead and read Newspaperman’s 1,000 word diatribe on how he rebuilt his team in our bush-fantasy league.
It is a study on what good fantasy managers do when their team sucks in a keeper league. Now Newspaperman’s case hardly ever happens. Newspaperman on paper had a viable list of keepers with the flagship being Chase Utley … but here’s the dealer. He was willing to trade Utley. Granted, it is well known Newspaperman sees The Jon as a hero, someone to emulate if you will and he went into this season by stealing The Jon’s mindset … blow your team the hail up. And it all started with his b.s. trade of Cole Hamels and Ryan Braun for a first round pick.

Rebuilding A Franchise: From First to Worst and Back … Hopefully

It started with a poor season.

For better or worse, the 2008 baseball season was a disaster for my squad in the SLO League, causing me to seriously consider blowing up the team that had led me to two titles. I’d entered the 2008 draft with what at the time was considered OK keepers — Chase Utley, Victor Martinez, Justin Verlander, Carlos Lee and CC Sabathia. But then things quickly started to unravel.

Fantasy baseball draft myths & advice: Done or Dunn?

There might not be another player in fantasy baseball that has such wide-ranging opinions.There are those that believe that he is an absolute albatross.
That simply by drafting him, you damn your team to an eternal hell of enduring rather lengthy droughts in exchange for some homers.
You know I’m not one of those people. I won a title with Dunn last year and will happily draft him if I get the chance this year.
Convince me otherwise.

Convince you not to draft a guy you already said you would draft? Look, The Jon has respect for what Dunn does.
He just gets drafted to high in a spot that is usually reserved for secondary fantasy producers. Dunn is a third option at best because of his up and down weeks of consistency. The only consistency the guy has is unpredictability. If you are drafting a team from scratch, you really need to be committed to offense to get the guy and can count on a rag-tag bunch of pitchers to be your staff.

Here’s the deal:

That’s Benito Teixeira, not Mark

I’m trying to wrap my head around the notion that Mark Teixeira might be a Red Sox soon. It seems almost too good to be true. Initially I thought the BoSox might be fine without him, but when it donned on me that this talented slugger is only 28years old and in the prime of his career, this suddenly became a must-have acquisition.
Teixeira in a Sox uni would make me very happy. While all of Red Sox Nation is forever grateful for Mike Lowell’s contribution to the ’07 title, the addition of Teixeira — which would result in Lowell’s departure via trade — could be a move that really turns the Sox into a force to be reckoned with for the next decade. If the Sox sign Tex, Boston could head into 2009 with Teixeira, Pedroia and probably Youkilis all locked up for the next half-decade.

Fixing the WordPress glitch

TheBaseballStars have fallen victim the copy from Word glitch. It seems if you copy content from any word processing program onto WordPress, your left side widgets go to the bottom of the page.

Hey, The Jon blames himself. The Jon probably did it when posting yesterday. Seeing how The Jon does not have time to clean up the HTML coding, The Jon will just post random stuff to get rid of the post messing everything up. Let’s start by talking about the hottest search on this site. Albert Pujols’ wife.

Nervermind Pujols has gone and solidified himself as the No. 1 pick in next season Fantasy Baseball draft. A high average combined with his power numbers can do that.

No it seems Pujols wife is getting all the attention. People do the search, get knocked to The Jon’s “On a mission from … Day 1” and then say “Aw damnit, where’s that 2002 Sports Illustrated swimsuit picture of her?” and then go somewhere else.

Look, The Jon can’t get that photo for you. SI has one of the best copyright laws out there and can sue The Jon for all of his $2,500.

The Jon can’t also tell you where you could find that photo. You could be married and The Jon doesn’t want a divorce on The Jon’s conscience. So instead here is the video and other photos … enjoy.

The worst thing of all of this is the appearance of Newspaperman on the youtube video. Here is what he wrote. Notice the wink smile face at the end.

there’s nothin hotterrrr than a christian baseball playerr (:
espically one that looks like that 😉

And what is with all of this Deidre love?
What about Deidre Hall?

She was on “Our House.”

On a mission from … Day 1

So in this week’s These things to be true, The Jon said The Jon would try to write everyday since this is now TheBaseballStar.com. So here we go and stuff. First up to bat is Adam Dunn, the most oxymoronic fantasy player of all time. He is the antithesis of the type of player The Jon drafts. Hitting in the .240s while being a league leader in homers with 32, he is everything The Greatness hates about risk/reward players. H2H league success is dependent on reliability, and Adam Dunn is not it.

Still, if you have the right team, Dunn could just very well be your team’s MVP. Confused? Well, let’s go down memory lane … as if you had a choice.

The Jon knows these things to be true: Week 16

The Jon was going to start with some weak writing about the shortened H2H matchups this week … it was something like this:

With the All Star break over, fantasy managers faced the worst matchup week ever: The some odd four days of games after the Midsummer Classic. Four days does not a good H2H week make or something. A lot of teams got helped by the fewer games with double-digit wins while other mangers got the flip side.

Man, that’s weak. So instead, take a look at the best play of the actual All Star game of Ichiro gunning down Albert Pujols. First of all, the ball looked foul and then when it came up fair with the perfect hop, there was no way Pujols was going to test Ichiro … but then you saw Ichiro’s bullet and knew Pujols was going for second.

The result was never in doubt … although Pujols did look safe. But The Jon is rambling, let’s talk baseball, shortened week and all.

Four Bagger: Enough is Enough, time for a change

In recent weeks I’ve noticed something that I do not like about the Four Bagger. That being that the weekly piece seems a bit forced, contrived and pretty much meaningless. I mean the whole point of writing the piece is to update you as to how I’m doing in my personal challenge, and to use the piece as an opportunity to analyze where I am with each team. And what I’ve found is that subtleties often are not noticed week by week, but rather on an in frequent basis. So from here on out I will plan on updating my progress on a monthly basis, but write a “Four Bagger” piece whenever I feel there is something worth noting in my pursuit to four titles in four leagues.

That said, the last two weeks have been an interesting, yet trying team for the No Gimmicks Needed and Newspaperman squads.

Another victim of the hype: Roy Oswalt

Francisco Liriano. Two seasons ago, he was the hottest pitcher in baseball and possessed the best slider in baseball.
The guy was real talk. Every pitch in his arsenal had that zip. That extra kick that hasn’t been seen since the 1999 version of Pedro Martinez.
And then it happened, the exploding arm trick. It seems Liriano’s best slider ever caused too much movement and he went this side of Tommy John.
of course the jon had him. He fell into the category of the rookie keeper in the jon’s SLO and San Jose league named after respective college alumnus. And this is where the sordid tale of the jon went against all of his natural championship instinct. The Jon has just pulled a deal in the SLO league to secure Liriano as one of his keepers. Oswalt was traded for an 8th round pick so Liriano could be a keeper. A bad deal all the way … or was it?