Week 10 Preview

Only 19 different players picked this week...one of the lowest totals of the year....

Two guys from Texas recently off the DL were the 2 most picked players this week:

J Hamilton - 7

N Cruz - 6

M Kemp - 6

R Braun - 5

Last Night's Top Performer:

Nelson Cruz was 2/4 with 2 HRs and 4 RBIs...always good to get the week off to a good start...this guy seems to hit HRs in bunches, so expect more from him this week...Cowan is one of the 6 to pick Cruz, and now has 19 HRs on the year tied w/ Wyse...

**There were no late picks this week: Wyse picked Bautista, C Jones picked Kemp and Perrotta picked Bruce...just missed their emails**

Week 9 Results

Big week for many of you out there...and some bad luck out there as well...

STUDS OF THE WEEK - Punches, Stout, Banks, Cowan, Price, C Jones, G Badenhop

One of the biggest weeks of the year as these guys all went (before this week struggling) Al Pujols...All he did was go 12/27, 5 HRs and 10 RBIs...including walk off bombs Saturday and Sunday...This is Banks, Stout, and Badenhop's 2nd SOTW of the year...Stout has now taken over the BA lead at .327...Cowan is now 2nd in HRs at 17....and Stout is now 4th in RBIs with 49...C Jones may be getting his MVP form back from last year as he doubled his HR total this week to 10....Congrats on the big week and the $7.14...lunch is paid for today...(Google Pic - Super 7)

DUDS OF THE WEEK - Burger

One of the couple of people who got hurt by some bad luck this week was Burger...In the first AB of the week from Soriano, he pulled his quad and finished the week at 0/1....The Monday injury strikes again...Tim Guelde and Doug Krauss also with some bad luck with Holliday and Kubel...at least hey got some hits first....its a part of the game, and nothing you can do about it...

How We Stack Up vs MLB Leaders

BA

RTTC Stout .327

MLB Bautista .348

HR

RTTC Wyse 19

MLB Bautista 20

RBI

RTTC Curlis 55

MLB A Gonzalez 50

June 1 Update - Summer is Here

The Memorial Day weekend was a busy one for this guy, so sorry for the lack of posts in the past 5 days...Week 8 saw Rossi take down SOTW honors all by himself, his 2nd of the year....and Ty My and Lynds Jones (2nd of year) were the 2 duds...

Week 9's popular picks are Pujols, and Bautista chosen 7 and 6 times respectively....

Tweet of the week... Todd Guelde ( @tguelde) is already counting his money from this weeks Stud of the week...he picked J Upton this week, and after his Monday performance, he simply wrote " Justin Upton #SOTW"...lets see if he can do it for the rest of the week...Pressure on Guelde

We are pretty much at the 1/3 mark of the season, since the all star week is short and this year week 26 will be short...lets take a look at a few things....

Whos HOT?

Last 3 weeks - Dave Krauss 55 pts - .385, 6 HR, 19 RBIs

Whos Not?

Last 3 weeks - L Jones, Roach, Doug Krauss, Banks, Ty My, Smith all with only 21 pts...

Trending Up...Finkes...He started the season at .143, but every week, he has slowly climbed up, and is now at a respectable .265

Trending Down...Zgela...He started at .455 in week 1, but since, has slid a lil but every week and is now sitting at .261

HR Streak...Only Emmons and Wyse have HR'd every week this season so far....how long will that last?

RBI Streak...Burger is the only player with at least 4 RBIs in each week....no wonder he is in 2nd place in RBIs...On the other end of the RBI spectrum....Doug Krauss has only had 2 weeks with 4 RBIs...and only has 12 for the year...doubtful he will reach his career average 104 RBIs this year...in order to do so, he will need 5 per week from here out...thats rough (google pic - 1/3 done)

5/25 Recap

Stud of the Day - David Rossi

Rossi with a big day going with Carl Crawford, who went 4/4, HR, 2 RBIs as the Sox roughed up the Tribe...Crawford is starting to heat up, he is still only batting .229 for the year, but in the past 7 days he is at .370 with 2 HRs and 6 RBIs...he is due to start playing well again..

5/24 Recap - A CarGo Sighting

Stud of the day - The 3 Carlos Gonzalez Owners....

The Rockies split a double header with Zona and CarGo had quite a day, going 3/8, 2 HRs and 4 RBIs....After a breakout season last year finishing 3rd in the MVP voting, CarGo has been fairly quiet thus far in 2011...thru yesterday he is hitting .251...so expect CarGo to be a solid pick for the rest of the RTTCers...

Week 8 Preview

No surprise here as Jose Bautista was the consensus pick this week as 9 players picked him...and he HR'd in his first AB...

Ryan Howard was picked 7 times...and Adrian Gonzalez was picked 5 times...

Only 21 different players were picked this week...

**Brooks got his pick before the start of the Brewers game last night and picked Braun, just will not be eligible for SOTW**

Week 7 Recap

Not very often does the concensus top pick of the week ened up being the SOTW, but this week that is exactly what happened...

Studs of the Week - Stout, Da. Krauss, Kapcar, R. Jones, Price, Pennington, Finkes, Perrotta

These 8 all went with Adrian Gonzalez who has been absoultely nuts in the month of May...Last week he was 13/27 with 7 RBIs (20pts)...This may be the first time ever that the SOTW did not hit any HRs...Each of the 8 Studs all on average raised their BA about 40 pts...Also this was the 1st SOTW for all 8 players getting them a pay out of $6.25 per....Congrats on the big week...(Google Pic - Elite 8)

Duds of the Week - Biederstedt, Banks, Brink

The not so killer B's this week all went with V Martinez and he did not deliver as he only got 3 hits in 19 at bats for a total of 3 pts....Of the 3, Brink is having the best year so far and is now under .300 for the first time all year at .295...

STAT THAT MAY ONLY AMAZE ME:

Since week 3, E Krauss (ME) has only 14 hits total...the SOTWs had 13 this week....unreal...and a side note the STL Cards "big 3" has just killed me this year going 9/66 .136 total when I picked them.