Evan Hitsem Long-oria

Last nights top RTTC pick was Evan Longoria, who went 3/6, HR, and 4 RBIs...good for an 8 pointer...The Rays beat up on the Twins 12-5 and quietly have the 3rd best record in the AL..too bad they are in the AL East, behind both the Sox and Yanks...

Biederstedt, Cowan both picked Long-gone-goria this week...

7/5 Recap - Grandy Man Edition

Granderson was 3-6 with 2 HRs and 3 RBIs last night as the Yanks spanked the Tribe 9-2...He has 25 HRs on the year now...only trailing Bautista who has 28...

Dave Krauss, Lyndsay Jones, Derek Meek all picked the Grandy Man this week..he also had a HR on Monday, so you could be looking at the week 14 Studs right here...lots of ball left though this week...

2011 RTTC ALL STAR SELECTIONS

We are at the offical RTTC season halfway mark...13 weeks down, 13 to go...but in the last 13 weeks we will have 2 shortened weeks...Week 15 will after the MLB ALL Star game and will only consist of 4 days, and Week 26 will only be a 3 or 4 day week as well...but anyways, there is still lots of cash to be handed out with the SOTW plus the 9 year end spots...Onto the mid-year awards(which mean nothing, just pride baby)

1st Half Stud - Dan Rychener - .323 - 25HR - 62RBIs - "190 pts"

It will be hard to keep that pace up for the 2nd half...or will it?? Dan, it is your MVP trophy to lose...

1st Half Dud - Eric Krauss - .231 - 8HR - 38RBIs - "107 pts"

I would like to think it will be hard to keep this awful pace up as well...wow, talk about getting lapped by the field..I have 61 hits this season...17 players have at least that many RBIs!!!..SMH

1st Half Rookie of the Year - Todd Sigler -.321 - 18HR - 62RBIs - "183 pts"

Todd has had a great 1st half and is in good position to place in all of the top 3's...unless he switches his focus to one category????

2011 RTTC All Star Selections:

(in paranthesis denotes # of All Star selections in career)

Top 5 in each category make all star team:

BA

Mathews - (2)

W Rychener - (2)

D Rychener - (2)

Sigler

Brink

HR

D Rychener - (2)

Cowan

Wyse

Sunderman - (3)

T Krauss - (3)

RBI

Graven - (3)

Curlis

T Krauss -(3)

Pennington

Zeitz

Riether - (2)

Congrats to all of you except Sunderman...

See ya June...

The week 12 consensus picks strikes....Troy Tulowitzki with only 1 hit last night, but he made it count as it was a 3 Run Homer...He also drew 2 BBs , but the Rockies blew the lead that Tulo gave them as they lose in 10 innings to the hated White Sox...

Remember that Monday is a holiday, so you may not be around to check email..get your picks in ASAP so you are not late. have a great weekend!

6/29 Recap - Mets Beat Miggy

Stud of the Day -

Miguel Cabrera - 2/4, 2HR, 4RBI...nice little 8 pt performance by Miggy...he was picked by 6 people this week...The Tigers have given up 30 runs to the Mets in the past 2 days...good thing they have the best pitcher in the game going today in Verlander, otherwise Miggy would need about 4 bombs...

Week 13 Preview

With only 1 week left before the RTTC All-Star selections are made, lets see who can make a push to be in the top 5, of 1 of the 3 categories and be named and all-star (which means nothing by the way)

-28 different picks this week, I think most of the year

-Tulo was the top pick getting snagged 7 times

-Miguel Cabrera was 2nd most with 6

-Josh Hamilton had 4 picks

New to the RTTC Board-

Melvin Emanuel Upton AKA - BJ which stands for "Bossman Junior", because his Dad was called Bossman...really...I can't make that up...He joins his bro Justin on the RTTC board, and are the only 2 players related on the board...I think, although there are tons of Cabrera's and Gonzalez's, etc??

6/27 Stud

CARGO - 2/4 - 2HR - 2RBI....not a bad start, I would say

Week 12 Recap -

It was a big week for the Batting Averages for a lot people...There were 26 different players picked this week and 10 of them hit over .300 for the week...which brings us to the to pick of the week...

STUD OF THE WEEK - RYAN SMITH

Just over a week ago a quote from Smitty that was based off his RTTC struggles..."Man, I am about done with RTTC...that game is dumb"...well maybe he should say that every week, as he went 13/27 with 4 HRs and 9 RBIs...26 pts...via M. Young...In the past 2 weeks he has raised his AVG 36 pts and now is over .300 and in great shape...Speaking of "Young"...Smitty is about a month-ish away from having a couple of young ones as he and his wife are expecting twins...Hope the $50 will buy some nice diapers..Congrats - (Google Pic - Dirtball (in Honor of Punches))

DUD OF THE WEEK - JESS KAPCAR

Jess went w B Gardner this week and he did dissapoint by getting only 3 hits...The first week back from her honeymoon to boot, ouch...talk about back to reality quick..oh well I am sure the beach was well worth it...but time to refocus, beacuse the honeymoon is over...Overall, she is still in good shape, as she is in the top third of each category still...

WHO'S HOT/NOT - LAST 3 WEEKS

BA

HOT - Zeitz - 32/74 - .432
NOT - Todd Guelde - 13/72 - .181

HR

HOT - Zeitz - 8

NOT - WRychener, Perrotta - 0

RBI

HOT - Zeitz - 27
NOT - Perrotta, Carroll - 5

I think it is safe to say the Zeitz is enjoying a nice little run here...This is the last week to make your all-star push...