8/1 Recap - Cabrera Crushin'

Stud of the Day - Asdrubal Cabrera (Evgeni Malkin look-alike)

He was only picked by Krista Krauss, as she said "He will be big for the Tribe this week during a rough stretch in Boston and Texas...can't go against the Tribe this week"... (even though she didn't watch a single pitch last night)...anyways he went 3-5 with 2 HRs and 4 RBIs...nice 9 pointer to start the week there KJ...

Week 17 Recap - BAs Going Up

Big week for alot of players raising their average...11 of the 26 players picked this week had at least 10 hits...The top dogs were...

STUDS OF THE WEEK - Burger, Williamson

These guys both went with Adrian Gonzalez who went 14/27 with a HR and 8 RBIs (23pts)...That shot Burger up 18 pts to .300 and is now in the top 10, definately with a shot to finish high in BA...he is also tied for 6th in RBIs now...big moving week for CB...Willie shot his avg up 16 pts to a respectable .276, He still has some work to do there, but he is only 8 RBIs back of 3rd place with 77, which is easily reachable...Congrats on the $25 each fellas...it can go towards each of your wedding plans....(Google Pic - WB)

DUDS OF THE WEEK - M Badenhop, Sigler

Not very often will the guy you picked hit .333 for the week and still be the dud...B McCann went 2-6 this week, but then got hurt, so this is a tough luck pick for sure...It is the 2nd time this year that Badenhop has gotten the early week injury...Of the 2...Sigler has the best shot in BA, as he is currently in 9th place at .301, up from .300 last week...Not too bad of a dud week at all

Doppelgangers of the week:

Josh Wyse - .272, 29 HR, 79 RBIs

Curtis Granderson - .269, 28 HR, 78 RBIs

Todd Guelde - .281, 20 HR, 73 RBIs

Troy Tulowitzki - .289, 20 HR, 73 RBIs

7/28 Recap - Slow Day

Fairly quiet day yesterday as far as RTTC picks go...

Miguel Cabrera was 2/5 , HR, RBI...Tigers trying their best to keep the Indians in this ALC race...Punches only player to choose him this week

Also with HRs yesterday:

Braun
Pedroia

Look for Mike Stanton to be a hot pick the rest of the way..he is tied for 2nd in HRs in the NL and has only been picked in RTTC 4 times this year...

7/27 - Upton Scorching

Stud of the Day - Justin Upton - 2/4, 2 HRs, 2 RBIs
This dude has been as hot as anyone in the game for the past 2+ weeks...he is batting over .300 now and has 20 HRs...he will be a hot pick the rest of the season...

Other top performances -
Ellsbury and Pedroia both - 3/4, HR, 2 RBIs
Papi 1-4 but is was a grand slam...RBI record could be in jepardy this week
Mauer - 2/4, HR, 2 RBIs..Mauer's 1st HR of year!
Ackley - 3/5, 3 RBIs...this guy will be playing for a long time...

7/26 Recap - Biiiig Papi

Stud of the Day - Papi -

David Ortiz who went 4/5 with 5 RBIs for a crazy 9 pts...That has to be the most pts we have had someone have in 1 day without hitting a HR...Papi was picked by 5 different players this week...I love that pic of him above w Pierce, Allen and Garnett...looks so little

Others -

Pedroia - 4/5, 1 RBI

R Howard - 2/4, HR, 2 RBIs

7/25 Recap - Be Like Mike

Stud of the Day - Michael Young - 3/5, HR, 3 RBI - 7 pts

The rich got richer last night...All Star Chris Mathews is the current BA Leader and is now at .328 after he was the only player to pick Young this week...Unofficially he has about a 20 pt lead in BA now and if he widens the gap more this week, Week 17 could be the week that makes Mathews some $$ at the end of the year...

(Side note) - Any Rangers player would have been good last night as they had 27 hits and 20 runs...

WEEK 16 RECAP

It was a rough week for many of us as only 14 players actually improved thier batting average..what a good week to win the SOTW for...

STUD OF THE WEEK - Ryan Smith

Big week for Smitty as not only does he win it all by himself, but that everyone else struggled so much that he now finds himself in 3rd place in BA at .309 ...He went with Jacoby Ellsbury, who was a 1st time RTTC pick and he went 12-26, with 3 HRs and 7 RBIs (22pts). This was his 2nd solo SOTW in the past 5 weeks, and now finds himself as the current 2011 money leader at this point. Congrats Smitty on your winnings...aka diaper stash...(google pic - 2 smitty)

DUDS OF THE WEEK - Emmons, Salvatore

This was the 1st DUD for both of these guys this year...They each only got 2 pts this week going with BJ Upton and Adam Dunn...Dunn has just been awful this year...he went 2/12 this week and that RAISED his season average..He is probably hitting his 6th grade weight...At least most of the rest of league had a bad week as well..so could have been worse for these 2...

HOT - last 3 weeks

BA - Smith - 25/66 - .379

HR - Smith, C Jones - 6

RBI - Riether - 16

NOT - last 3 weeks

BA - Leonard - 5/33 - .152

HR - Krista Krauss - 0

RBI - Bindel, Leonard - 3