The Jon knows these things to be true: Week 9

At the beginning of the season, this is how The Jon’s offense walked into a weekly matchup. The squad was stacked with Jorge Posada, Adrian Gonzalez, Placido Polanco, Rafael Furcal, Chipper Jones, Ichiro, Vladimir Guerrero, Magglio Ordonez and Curtis Granderson.
After three weeks of no RBI futility, The Jon’s team heads into a matchup like this:

But instead of Chip and Dale, uhhhh …

It’s more like Vlad and Granderson.

Losers.

But enough of the bleeding heart routine, lets talk fantasy baseball.

The Jon knows these things to be true: Week 2

Should The Jon’s Panzer Dragoon edit have his finisher as the Fish Stretch Sleeper or the Super Rana? This is what the Jon could be deciding right now instead of serving The Jon’s loyal readers with another edition of “The Jon knows these things to be true.” It is probably a good thing The Jon isn’t playing Fire Pro Wrestling returns. When The Jon gets anal retentive about finishers in video games, it isn’t a good thing.

PoiDog knows of this. The Jon has called PoiDog many a time during WWF No Mercy’s heyday for the N64. “Hey PoiDog. Do you think my Cools edit would be better off with a Forward Front Russian Leg Sweep?”

The Jon’s a loser. let’s talk fantasy baseball: Week 2. Shall we?

Hey, look it’s Opening Day. Or is it?

So this is what the American Pastime is all about, eh? Waking up at 3 a.m. Pacific time to see the first official games of the Major League season? Call me a selfish baseball fan, but this still does not really mark the beginning of the season.

Daisuke to have 3 starts in opening week?

Ever imagine a starting pitcher having three starts in any given week of fantasy baseball? If this were the 1950s or 1960s, then it’d be common place. But in this day and age of the five-man rotation? Yeah, it’s possible.

The Jon’s five most overrated players

Fantasy baseball writers like to feel special. They like to make bold predictions of players that will breakout so they can puff out their chest and tell a faceless community that they told you so. You won’t get that from The Jon. What you got here is a champ. The Jon gets results and trophies. With top three finishes for the past 5 seasons and a championship just this past year, The Jon doesn’t need bold predictions. Just results. So without further to do, here are the five most overrated players this season.

Carl Crawford: It’s a broken record. Check out this sight long enough and you will know the quasi-love-hate relationship The Jon has for Carl Crawford.

Newspaperman’s Top 5 fantasy prospects

So you’re looking for this season’s version of Ryan Braun, huh? I know how it is. Braun, a relative unknown to the casual baseball fan, burst onto the scene last year and manhandled major league pitching. He likely led your arch rival to a league title, or a playoff berth anyway, and now he’s being chosen in the top three rounds of many fantasy drafts. Some publications have even projected Braun to hit 40 homeruns this year and chosen him to supplant David Wright as fantasy’s third best third sacker. (I aint buying that). That said, you’re probably looking for the “next best thing,” the prospect that will be overlooked on draft day because no one knows him. Here is a list of five prospects that should have immediate fantasy impact.

No longer Twins Territory

So, The Jon has heard a couple Red Sox fans trying to justify the fallout from The Johan Santana deal. One of the great arguments was that they are happy to keep Jacoby Ellsbury and Jon Lester. The Red Sox told the Twins that they wouldn’t package those two guys together. As if those guys were the future of the franchise.

Granted Ellsbury had 41 hits in 33 games for the Red Sox and all signs point to him being one of the brightest stars in the game, but this is Johan Santana. Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz can carry an offense that has a pitching staff of Santana, Josh Beckett, Curt Schilling, Daisuke Matsuzaka and Tim Wakefield.