Saturday, January 24, 2009

Baseball daily, first post

When you are a lifelong Texas Rangers fan, it's nearly pointless to have expectations of any sort, other than annual third place finishes (save for the 1996-2000 run of first round playoff exits).
So over the last decade, with the help of DirecTV, I've become a fan of other teams in addition to my hometown losers. Being self employed affords me the ability to watch games almost everday, and being on the west coast helps too. Early games generally start at 4pm on weekdays, and Dodgers, Giants, Dbacks, Mariners, Padres, Angels, A's, and Rockies games follow at least 2 hours later. There are also the monday morning and thursday afternoon getaway games, along with various other weekday games, every team has them, especially, and of course, Wrigley Field.
As a fantasy baseball player, I learned very early on that biases are of no benefit at all, so I try fairly hard to take away any favoritism or distaste when evaluating players and teams.
Watching so many games allows me to see things that do not show up in box scores: Chemistry, moving runners over, a speedy runner on first taking away the pitchers concentration or forcing him to throw less breaking balls, etc.
My goal is to show readers a few things: up and coming players, teams who seem to be gelling (as well as those who seem to have no ability to gel at all, see: Tigers, Detroit, 2008), roster moves and injuries, boneheaded managerial moves, as well as great managers (Gardenhire, Maddon, anyone not named Dusty Baker), and of course, statistical projections for fantasy purposes.
I will try to blog everyday, maybe not covering every game, but at many points covering every single team and probably just about every single starter or contriubtor for every team. Starting tomorrow I will evaluate the Angels and A's, and I will project 2 teams everyday for the next 2+ weeks. Comments are appreciated. thanks!

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