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05 Jul 2009 |
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| For awhile there was a discussion among fans who was better - Bruce Springsteen or Bob Seger. Of course, Springsteen is now in his fourth decade of commercial and critical success while Seger is just glad that Chevy has finally stopped using his song in their ads. Be that as it may, I heard Against the Wind on the radio and thought it fit good with fantasy baseball.
But it was long ago
The fantasy baseball season is long. It is not a sprint, but rather a six-month grind. One month you are riding high and the next month you are scanning the waiver wire hoping to find something worthwhile among the scraps. At the end of April the following players were doing great and if your fantasy team had them, you were enjoying the view from the penthouse. You loved having these guys on your roster and you were laughing at the people who had Lance Berkman or B.J. Upton or Justin Verlander on their squads.
Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends And then May and June came and your stars and pseudo-stars crashed and burned. Who were these guys who looked so good the first month of the season and now looked like they belonged on the discount shelf at Woolworth’s? Deadlines and commitments And then the painful realization that your first and second-round picks, the guys who got you to first place at the end of April, were now performing so poorly that it was an open question if they should even be automatic for your lineup week in and week out. Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then If only we could turn back the clock to April when these guys were on top of the world. Instead, I present the Top 10 Against the Wind Fantasy Players. Stats are through Friday night’s games. 10. Kyle Lohse
April – 3 W, 1.97 ERA, 19 K, 1.031 WHIP
Since – 1 W, 6.66 ERA, 20 K, 1.479 WHIP
To be fair, Lohse has been out since going on the DL June 4th with a shoulder strain. Still, I could not pass up the poetry of a guy with a 6.66 ERA. 9. Ian Kinsler
April - .322-7-20-18-7
Since - .235-12-31-38-9
Kinsler is likely to make the All-Star team but his AVG has taken an 87-point hit since the first month of the season. 8. Adrian Gonzalez
 April - .333-9-20-19-1Since - .236-15-30-29-0
After homering in five straight games in the middle of May, Gonzalez has done even worse. Since May 16, his fantasy line is .221-9-21-21-0 in 43 games. That’s still an impressive HR total but the R and RBIs are nothing special and the AVG is poor. Basically, he has been doing his best Dave Kingman imitation for seven weeks now. 7. Nick Swisher
April - .312-7-19-21-0
Since - .201-7-21-21-0
Paid great dividends for the Yankees in April and then regressed to his awful numbers from a season ago in Chicago. 6. Wandy Rodriguez
April – 2 W, 1.69 ERA, 27 K, 1.031 WHIP
Since – 5 W, 3.89 ERA, 68 K, 1.465 WHIP
He was doing great until the third week of May. In his last seven starts, Rodriguez has a 2-3 record with a 5.53 ERA and a 1.648 WHIP. 5. Kevin Youkilis
April - .395-5-15-20-1
Since - .265-9-32-29-3
When he went on the DL after May 4th with a strained oblique, Youkilis had a .393/.505/.719 line. Since being activated those numbers have been .254/.385/.493 4. Evan Longoria
 April - .369-6-24-17-1Since - .262-10-39-28-1
Through his first 30 games, Longoria was in the running for best fantasy player in the game. Since May 10th, the Rays’ third baseman has a .239-5-19-18-0 fantasy line in 46 games and 185 PA. Longoria has been slowed since early June by a sore hamstring. April - .365-7-22-15-1
Since - .260-2-25-16-0
A sore wrist and bouts with dizziness have drive down Cantu’s numbers since his scorching hot start. 2. Johan Santana
April – 3 W, 1.10 ERA, 44 K, 0.949 WHIP
Since – 6 W, 4.39 ERA, 60 k, 1.407 WHIP
In his last nine games Santana has a 5.43 ERA. And that is with five Quality Starts in the stretch. 1. Armando Galarraga
 April – 3 W, 1.85 ERA, 24 K, 1.233 WHIPSince – 2 W, 6.71 ERA, 31 K, 1.719 WHIP
This has to be the least-surprising fade on the list. Still, I have no doubt that some fantasy owners out there were bemoaning the fall of their ace and putting it in the same category as Santana.
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Tags: Nick Swisher Emilio Bonifacio Evan Longoria Johan Santana Kevin Youkilis Adrian Gonzalez Jorge Cantu Ian Kinsler Wandy Rodriguez Armando Galarraga Kyle Lohse
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