How many times will it happen?
There’s always that guy in the draft that you want, but you
are scared to waste an early pick on him.
I know I wasn’t alone about Cody Bellinger. I wanted to get
him, but a few things factored in.
One, I had Eric Hosmer at first and I didn’t necessarily
need a replacement right away.
Second, and the biggest reason why he didn’t go No. 3
overall was the fact that Adrian Gonzalez was a road block at first base. He
wasn’t projected to come up until midseason at the earliest. At one point, the
best chance for him to have a fantasy impact was for the Dodgers to trade him,
and they kept saying they weren’t going to do that.
So alas, I let him go for a different bat that had similar
franchise eligibility in our league, but was going to play from day one.
Of course, injuries can’t be expected, but injury or not,
how the heck were the Dodgers going to keep him down? I would bet good money
that if Gonzalez was at first and Bellinger was still in the minors right now,
the Dodgers would be in third place.
With his 21 homers and 47 RBIs in 51 games, you have to
believe there would be a few games they would not have won. He has a 2.1 WAR on
offense and they have a half-game lead on the Rockies and one-game lead on the
Diamondbacks. It's not a crazy assumption.
He’s one of the most exciting bats in the game aside from
Aaron Judge, who literally just homered — off my pitcher — as I type this.
The Dude has been loving his rookie first baseman and he’ll
be happy to get that Rookie of the Year award at the end of the season — he has it locked up, right? His
team seems to be falling back a bit here as a whole, but no matter what happens
this season, the future is bright for Lebowski.
BENCH BOMBERS
The N.J. Bombers had quite the week launching 23 homers.
Yes, 23. … That is if you take the benched homers and combine them with the
homers his starting lineup hit.
In total, his starters beat his bench 12-11. The bad part to
this is, the Outs hit 13 to win the matchup that counted.
Three of those benched homers came from the Korean wonder
Eric Thames. He had four total last week, which made me have to check and see
if he had a four-game series against the Reds. He did not, so I'm guessing he learned how to hit them against other teams finally.
That was just one of 14 categories that the Bombers lost to
the Outs, who all of a sudden is catching fire and making his upward ascent in
the National League — and he’s doing it all without Mike Trout and Madison
Bumgarner. Scarier times are coming.
The Bombers wasn’t the only team leaving bombs on the bench.
Crox, who lost homers by five, had 10 on his bench, including four from Keon
Broxton, two from Trey Mancini and one from Mike Zunino.
Why do I pick those three guys out? Well, one was a keeper
of mine and the other two were on my roster at some point this season.
Yes, Gina, it’s all about me.
Except when it’s not.
Cheese Steaks, who lost 10-9 to Crox, won the HR category
thanks to Edwin Encarnacion who found his long-lost parrot. He took it for a stroll
four times last week, and in the last 30 days, there have been 10 round trips
and 23 RBIs with a .363 average for Encarnacion. He’s only batting .262 on the season after
this run, having watched his average rise from .246 to .262 in the last 10 days.
If the Steaks plan to hold on to the top spot in the NL,
he’ll need that parrot to stay close to Edwin. Perhaps a leash is needed?
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