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2010 Fantasy Baseball: 3rd Basemen Rankings
Posted by Chris Cwik in Baseball, Fantasy on January 26, 2010
Can David Wright rebound?
It only took 535 plate appearances from Alex Rodriguez to make him the number one 3rd baseman in 2010. While A-Rod’s last two seasons have not been up to par, no one has been able to overtake the Yankee in the past few seasons. David Wright was the likely candidate to usurp Rodriguez, but a power outage in 2009 has Wright’s status in limbo. Evan Longoria, Ryan Zimmerman, and Mark Reynolds all had breakout seasons; but need to show consistency to overtake A-Rod next season. There are many players that have question marks coming into the 2010 fantasy season, but 3rd base offers some solid depth to those who wait.
The Heartbreaking Story Of A Fantasy Baseball Owner
Arizona Diamondbacks' closing pitcher Juan Gutierrez
This baseball season, being the arrogant prick I was, I decided to participate in seven fantasy baseball leagues thinking I could manage them all. Great joke on my part.
5 had money involved and
2 were just glorified mock drafts
Among those 5 leagues, I paid attention to each of them and each has their story this season.
I participate in a league which has a 12 players kept, minor league players, salary capped offseasons and a $250 entry fee for each team. A payout structure that pays owners per category win during the season and a playoff payout by position finished.
I have a co owner Mark, and this is our second year in the league. We took home first during the regular season and second during the playoffs last year. We made a good amount of money, so we signed up for year 2. The offseason had trades made nearly every day, salary money and draft picks being swapped so much it was hard to keep track of anything.
This season was mundane, we finished 4th, the first week of the playoffs was a breeze for us. We re-matched with the champ from last year in the semi-finals this past week. By Wednesday, our team was down 0-10-2, and not ANY category was close. Free agency was frozen and our only shortstop, Edgar Renteria was out for the season. I threw my hands up and said we were done.
I didn’t check until Saturday, when I did, I found out we had pitched 26 consecutive scoreless innings and his starters, 7 starts maximum, got rocked. Our offense batted lights out, and conversely his fell off the face of the earth. We entered Sunday down 5-6-1, with nearly every category up for grabs and we held the tiebreaker. This could have been one of the greatest comebacks fantasy baseball comebacks I have ever been a part of.
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