Current Position: 3rd, 81.0 points, 18.5 out of first
FAAB Budget: $100
Notable Drops: Travis Snider, Omar Infante, Mitch Moreland, Jake McGee, David Hernandez, Wilton Lopez
Notable Adds: Logan Morrison, Matt Joyce, Johnny Damon, Ian Stewart, Vincente Padilla, Aaron Crow, Mark Melancon
Trades: Johnathan Broxton for Matt Thornton, Jon Lester for CC Sabathia and Leo Nunez
Notes: My above average 4-6 section of my pitching staff has been excellent, carrying me to 17 wins with a 2.94 ERA and 1.24 WHIP over 238 innings. Chacin and Marcum have made me look smart, and with Morrow now off of the DL and showing no signs of rust I should be able to push my K/9IP even higher than the 8.1/9 that it sits now.
The batting has been disappointing to say the least. Despite extremely well balance R-RBI numbers I drafted several players who have experienced power outages, most notably Carlos Gonzalez. Hopefully his recent performance (6/13 in his last 3 games, with 2 HR) is the sign of a turn around. Aubrey Huff and Carlos Santana have been merciless batting average assassins instead of the .280-.290 bats I'd projected them for, and my overall average is a putrid .256, netting me only 1.5 points in that category. There's hope though, as almost all of my underachieving bats show little drop in their skill sets, and should help me make a run in HR and AVG in the remaining 3/4 of the season. The one adjustment I felt I needed to make, swapping out Lester for Sabathia and Nunez, I wrote about earlier and still feel very confident that it was a clear win for me. Sabathia has been his reliably excellent self in 4 starts since he was acquired, and Nunez has been a godsend to my bullpen, netting me almost 4 points by himself in saves. With either Padilla or Kuo taking over in LA and Melancon poised to do the same in Houston I could be fielding 4 closers (a significant advantage over the Yahoo average of 2.5 per team) within a week, and though I only have 4.5 points in saves currently, I'm only 7 saves back from adding 6 more points there.
Overall I'm happy to be in third this early into the season, and to have hit on many of my sleeper picks, but it's looking more and more like it will take well over 90 points to win the league, and I'm not sure if I can get many more than 90-92 points from my roster. The top two teams just have too large of an advantage with their stacked keepers and are already starting to pull away from the pack. Then again, my goals this season were a top-3 finish and to boost my kept 6, and with many top prospects yet to be called up I'm in very solid positioning to do both.
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