Meatloaf Baseball

With the number one pick in my National League draft I chose Ryan Braun. He wasn't playing up to his previous standards, then he was hurt, and then he was suspended. In the fourth round I picked Jason Motte as my only closer. He missed the entire season and I was unable to acquire another closer and finished with only five saves. That sums up my whole season. I finished in eighth place in the twelve team league.

My three mixed league teams came within half a point of a gold metal hat trick.

I joined a keeper league in its ninth year last season and finished a respectable fifth. This year with Trout, Harper, Stanton, Goldschmidt, Ryan Zimmerman, and Greinke returning, I lost by that half point. I tied the first place team in strikeouts. For those of you who don't speak rotisserie baseball, that means if my pitchers had  gotten 1284 strikeouts instead of 1283 over their 1310.2 innings, I would have won the title. Next year Yasiel Puig will likely replace one of those guys. I could have added CarGo also, but when he was dropped, I had a brain fart just like I did when I bet into Mac's flush.

Last year I won a first year keeper league by 2 points. This year I stretched my margin of victory to 4.5 points. I brought back Cutch, Cabrera, Pedroia, and Bautista and next year will be keeping Crush Davis and maybe Gerrit Cole (he did shut down the Cards today). As you can guess from that lineup I lead the league in runs, homeruns, and rbi's by a large margin. That made up for pitchers' terrible rate stats and k's.

In my auction league I also had an all hitting no pitching team, despite having Price and Lee on my staff. For most of the season I was first in all offensive categories except homeruns. I eventually got some pitching and my early hitting numbers held up despite season ending injuries to Kemp, CarGo, Wright, and Mauer.

In the two leagues I won, I was never in first place until the last two weeks of the season. In the league I lost, I was in first from August 12 until 3 days left in the season.

I don't have the strength to speak on the Cubs season. So in summing up the baseball season I'll just say, "Go Pirates!"

ps. The post is named after the band not the food.