4/22 cheering-venting & Humber...........oh the Mariners

[ayebatter]

Ok, who drafted closers in the 1st 10 rounds
Guerra - 7
Perez - 6
Johnson - 6
League - 5
Rodney - 5
Balfour - 4
Rodriguez - 4
Capps - 4

on to the match-ups

AL
Texas Rangers at Detroit Tigers
(R) Colby Lewis (2-0) vs. (L) Drew Smyly (0-0)

Minnesota Twins at Tampa Bay Rays
(L) Francisco Liriano (0-2) vs. (R) Jeff Niemann (0-2)

Toronto Blue Jays at Kansas City Royals
(L) Ricky Romero (2-0) vs. (L) Danny Duffy (1-1)

Baltimore Orioles at LA Angels of Anaheim
(L) Wei-Yin Chen (1-0) vs. (R) Dan Haren (0-1)

Cleveland Indians at Oakland Athletics
(R) Justin Masterson (0-1) vs. (R) Tyson Ross (0-0)

Chicago White Sox at Seattle Mariners
(L) John Danks (1-2) vs. (R) Kevin Millwood (0-0)

New York Yankees at Boston Red Sox
(L) CC Sabathia (1-0) vs. (R) Daniel Bard (0-2)

NL
San Francisco Giants at New York Mets
(R) Tim Lincecum (0-2) vs. (R) Dillon Gee (1-1)

St. Louis Cardinals at Pittsburgh Pirates
(R) Kyle Lohse (2-0) vs. (L) Erik Bedard (0-3)

Miami Marlins at Washington Nationals
(R) Josh Johnson (0-2) vs. (L) Gio Gonzalez (1-0)

Los Angeles Dodgers at Houston Astros
(R) Chad Billingsley (2-0) vs. (L) Wandy Rodriguez (0-2)

Cincinnati Reds at Chicago Cubs
(R) Johnny Cueto (1-0) vs. (R) Randy Wells (0-0)

Colorado Rockies at Milwaukee Brewers
(R) Jeremy Guthrie (1-1) vs. (R) Yovani Gallardo (1-1)

Philadelphia Phillies at San Diego Padres
(R) Joe Blanton (1-2) vs. (R) Anthony Bass (0-2)

Atlanta Braves at Arizona Diamondbacks
(R) Randall Delgado (2-0) vs. (R) Ian Kennedy (2-0)

[footballisbetter.com]

Marlins vs Nationals rained out

Sunday's game between the Marlins and Nationals has been postponed due to rain.
A makeup date has not been announced yet. Scheduled starters Josh Johnson and Gio Gonzalez will presumably be bumped back to Tuesday.
Source: Joe Frisaro on Twitter Apr 22 - 10:24 AM

[whodtthr]

I am rolling out Bills and Duffy.........On the fence with Sabathia. Him and Boston dont mix well

[Grounded Polo]

My closers on 1 team were Madson/Santos/Myers, didn't spend a top 10 pick and completely blew it anyway.

I'll be paying attention to Duffy's start, love the velocity and strikeouts but 98% strand rate, look forward to seeing how he shakes out.

[kab21]

228.83 to 228.83 heading into the final day. Will haren and Bass outpitch CC, Romero and Blanton?

[saemick]

Got stuck playing against the team who has Verlander's 2-start week... So, now I'm looking at a spot start or 2 today. Who do you guys like of:

Niemann (TB) vs. MIN
Blanton (PHI) @ SD
Bass (SD) vs PHI
Ross (OAK) vs CLE

[daullaz]

Got stuck playing against the team who has Verlander's 2-start week... So, now I'm looking at a spot start or 2 today. Who do you guys like of:

Niemann (TB) vs. MIN
Blanton (PHI) @ SD
Bass (SD) vs PHI
Ross (OAK) vs CLE

If you can go with two, I'd go Blanton/Bass and call it a day.

[wrveres]

NL only trifecta going today.
Wandy, Delgado, and Blanton.
I'm really worried about Blanton of course, because if he has another bad start today, that'll be two in a row and I'll probably have no chance at winning this season.

[saemick]

Got stuck playing against the team who has Verlander's 2-start week... So, now I'm looking at a spot start or 2 today. Who do you guys like of:

Niemann (TB) vs. MIN
Blanton (PHI) @ SD
Bass (SD) vs PHI
Ross (OAK) vs CLE

If you can go with two, I'd go Blanton/Bass and call it a day.

Thats kinda what I was thinking myself. If you had to pick 1 tho, who?

And to vent a little, I HAD Gio going today, but with that game getting PPD, I'm left with the above and the choice of starting Bard vs the Yanks

[kab21]

Got stuck playing against the team who has Verlander's 2-start week... So, now I'm looking at a spot start or 2 today. Who do you guys like of:

that's nothing. I play in a 24 team league and in one of the matchups (4 total) I'm up against a 2 start Halladay and Verlander. This league also caps the # of SP'ers that you can use each week at 5 so any 2 start pitcher is a big advantage.

I pick Blanton out of your list.