Week 1 Recap - Wyse Guy

Week 1 (and a half) is in the books and was the longest "week" in RTTC history. I really thought though there would be a lot more inflated stats because of that, but it wasn't too bad....No weekly records were broken except for the most at bats, which is now 42, by Ty Meyer...Now for the S+Ds...

STUD OF THE WEEK - Josh Wyse

The rookie went with Paul Konerko and he was 14/35, with 3 HRs and 11 RBIs, a total of 28 pts...This is the 2nd straight year that the 1st Stud is a rookie and wins it outright...The Prince Fielder Club just missed a share of the SOTW as they finished with 27 pts....step your game up....Wyse, congrats on the $50 start to your RTTC career...(Google Pic "wyse"- Rookies, this is also a tradition here at RTTC...whoever wins the SOTW I will just enter a part of their name into Google Images and post what appears...it is quite random, and I enjoy it)

DUDS OF THE WEEK - Glenn Badenhop, Matt Badenhop

This was mentioned last monday on the update that they both picked Longoria who got hurt in the 2nd game and finished the week 0-5...tough luck...Dud runners up goes to Chris Mathews who got only 2 pts this week..rough

Average - There are 8 guys currently over .400 to start the year, I say by week 3, there will be 0. There are 10 under .200...

HRs - Sunderman with an impressive 5 HRs in the 1st week...15 guys still looking for their 1st long ball...

RBIs - 7 guys over 10 already...3 (all mentioned in the Dud section looking to get numero uno this week...

We are off and running and don't be surprised by the Tribe start...I failed to mention last week why they would make the playoffs this year:

#1 - Orlando Cabrera has mad the playoffs the last 4 years....all with different teams

#2 - The last 5 times the ground hog saw its shadow, the Tribe has made the playoffs...I can't make that up....google it...

Good Luck in week 2, get picks in by 12:35PM EST...

4/8 Recap: Manny is Done

Stud of Day - Krista Krauss - 2/4, HR, 2 RBIs..via J Upton...as the D-Backs rail the Reds last night

Dud of the Day - Carlos Gonzalez owners - 0/7 w/ 3 Ks last night as the Rockies got walked off on by the fiesty Pirates...There were also 2 game cancellations last night too..thats never good...

Manny Done Being Manny....One of the most picked players in the first 2 seasons of RTTC has called it a career, instead of getting hit with a 100 game suspension...Say what you want about him, good or bad, for the most part, he made baseball fun...

4/7 Recap - Tulo Getting Hot

STUD OF THE DAY - DEREK MEEK + ANDRE PERROTTA - 2/3. HR, 2B, 3RBIs...They have 3 HRs and 6 RBIs heading into the weekend via (Tulowitzki)

DUD OF THE DAY - Broken Record....for the 3rd time this week...Rob Price...0/4, 2 Ks, Error....via P Alvarez...He has 10 Ks and 0 BBs so far this year..

0-6 Alert....Since 1900 only 6 teams have started 0-6 and even madeit back to .500 by years end....ZERO have made the playoffs....Not good news for the "best ever?"Red Sawx as they limp home today and face the Yanks fresh off the sweeping by the Tribe...

4/5 Recap - Royals Rolling

STUD OF THE DAY - TY Meyer- 3/5, HR, 2 2B, 2 RBIs...hitting .375 early on (Alex Gordon w the 1st place Royals)...

DUD OF THE DAY - Rob P. P. Diddy Price...again...0/4, 3 Ks, GDP (Alvarez)...forgetable start to the year for Diddy...

BROOKS STILL HOT - Mark Teixeira's got 4 HR and 10 RBI already in April...Yankee stadium plays like a wiffle ball stadium...

4/4 Review...Sunderman Cruz'n

STUD of the Day - Jessica Ceritelli...2/3, HR, 2 RBIs via A Soriano...

DuD of the Day - Rob Diddy Price...0/4, 2 Ks....via P Alvarez

Sunderman HR Watch---Nelson Cruz became the 3rd player in MLB history to HR in the first 4 games of the year...Cruz joined Willie Mays (1971) and Mark McGwire (1998) as the only players to go deep in each of their first four games of a season. Aww Sunderman

Week 1 Results..Just Getting Started

The opening weekend is in the books and we have some out to a fast start, and some that wish they could get a mulligan....BUT...it is a long long season, and things tend to average themselves out over the long run....So don't get TOOOO upset if you picked Longoria for the first week (which happens to be the longest week in RTTC history) , and he is now on the DL after putting up an 0-5 effort....(Ouch..the dreaded april oblique injury)...Lets take a look at the first update of the season...Remember Week 1 ends on April 10th, with Week 2 picks due the April 11th....

Greg Leonard out to a very nice start hitting .625..but that is only after 8 at bats....so chances are that will be down come next Monday...But he does have 10 "pts" already...(Rookies: When i refer to pts, that is how we come up with the Stud of the Week...Hits + HRs + RBIs = _ pts...On average last year.... a score of 18-20 pts would win the SOTW Pot)

Sunderman and Brooks both start the weekend off with 3 bombs each...lets see if they can beat the record of 6 in a week..if so there will be an *, especially if Sunderman breaks it....Only 41 more to break the season HR mark..

Brooks also leading the RBIs with 7....Brink is on his tail 6...Brooks is known to toss back a couple cold ones on Sunday nights and forget to make his picks on time monday morning...lets see if this hot start makes him more focused in 2011...

On the other end of the spectrum....

5 players still looking for their 1st hit....26 players looking for the 1st HR, and 19 looking for the 1st RBI....

I Got Screwed Award goes to: Both Badenhops....As rookies I am sure they just wanted to get a nice solid start with a very dependable player in Longoria....he gets 5 ABs then hurts his side...DL - 3 Weeks...rough start fellas....but look at the bright side...at least you won't go 1 or 2-20 which someone usually does per week...

Good Luck for the remainder of the 1st week of 2011....

4-2 Recap

Stud of the Day: ARod Owners...

2-3, HR, 2 RBIs

Dud of the Day: Ty Meyer

Alex Gordon went 0-4, K, GDP

Play of The Day: The mighty Greg Dobbs off K Rod...

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