7/20 Recap - New Guys Go for 6

With the 1st time ever being picked in RTTC this week, Jacoby Ellsbury put up a 6 pointer with 2 hits-both being solo HRs...What a nice pick by Ryan Smith, not sure how he pulled that one off?

Jess Kapcar with the nice pick of rookie and recent RTTC addition, Dustin Ackley who also had 6 points..2/4, HR and 3RBIs...

Others-
Granderson and Han-Ram also went yard - 11 people picked one of those 2...

7/19 Recap - Full of Duds

Not much positive action I see from last nights games...looks like 0 HRs were hit combined by all 53 of us..I don't track stats daily, but I have to believe that doesn't happen often...

Yesterday's Top RTTC Duds

Prince Fielder - 0/5 , 2 Ks, GDP
Adrian Gonzalez - 0/4, 2 Ks, GDP
Joey Votto - 0/4, 3 Ks

Week 15 Results

Sorry for the mess up yesterday, the "last 7 days stats" on MLB.com Fantasy for some reason was counting July 14th games twice, very strange...so i guess just a good reminder to always double check what your stats are in case their is a mess up...so the revised week 15 SOTW are...

STUDS OF THE WEEK - Doug Krauss, Derek Meek

Both of these guys get their 1st SOTW of their careers...Markakis was the man for Doug and Hanley Ramirez for Meek as they both pulled in 12 pts in the 4 day week, which would equal 21 pts during a normal week, which sounds about par for the course...Doug is having his best success this year on the BA side of things where he is at .285 and definately capable of making a run there...look for him to start picking all high average guys in the 2nd half...Meek (and his silent "partner" Shipley) are probably having their best success in HRs where they are only 6 back from 3rd place right now....so there is plenty of time climb the board...Congrats on the $25 each....(Google Pic - Double D)

DUDS of the WEEK - Tim Guelde, Kyle Krauss, Krista Krauss

Rough short week for these 3...Tim and Krista went with A Gonzalez who went 1 for 15, and Kyle went with C Pena who also went 1 for 15...Of the 3, Kyle is in the best shape overall being in the top 10 in HRs and RBIs, but any more weeks like this and the SOTWs will be the only way to get some cash...Tim has had a forgettable past month and half as he has 3 Duds in the last 6 weeks, and now finds himself 2nd to last in BA...speaking of slumping bad....Krista has 7 pts in the last 3 weeks!...I think that is karma for talking trash at home to me throughout this whole season...live and learn KJ...

MLB VS RTTC - Where we rank

BA

RTTC - W Rychener - .324
MLB - J Reyes - .354

HR

RTTC - D Rychener - 28
MLB - J Bautista - 31

RBI

RTTC - D Riether - 79

MLB - A Gonzalez - 77

Week 14 Results

The MLB All Star break is finally here, so we are off until Thursday when action resumes for Week 15...Week 15 will be a short week that only lasts 4 days, so around 15 points should have a good chance at the SOTW...Here is what happened last week...

STUDS OF THE WEEK - Rossi, C Jones

It is fitting that these 2 finished off the 1st half with the SOTW as they both are now tied for the most this season with 3 each. They picked Aramis Ramirez and he put up 20 pts... Rossi is the current $ Leader so far with $85 in the bank, overall though his numbers are just a little bit better than average, but he is still capable of getting a top 3 finish in 1 of the categories. Jones has been absolutely on fire in the past 6 weeks...In that time he has gotten 3 SOTWs, 10 hits: 5 different times...batting .409 with 17 HRs and 43 RBIs...his first 8 weeks he was .251 with 5 HRs and 28RBIs...Last years MVP is looking to make it back to back this year...Also he is pissed that he got snubbed from this years All Star Game...(Google Pic - RJ3)

DUDS OF THE WEEK - Leonard, Price

The tough luck losers of week 14...They went with Braun last week who got a total of 0 at bats....ouch...It is always tricky when there is a Sunday injury and he doesn't go on the DL...not much you can do about it. Leonard has had a fairly average year so far and this is his 2nd DOTW...Price is having a good season and is only 1 of 10 players currently batting over .300, and is in the top 15 in RBIs...Regroup over the break fellas...

2011 RTTC $$ Leaders

27 of the 53 players have at least 1 SOTW this year, thus are on the $ board...here are the leaders that are over $50...

1. Rossi - $85

2. Wyse - $50

3. Smith - $50

4. Zeitz - $50

5. Palumbo - $50

6. Sigler - $50

Week 15 picks due Thursday at 5PM...Those of us that are not all stars, enjoy your 3 day vacation..

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...