THE JON: Founder and the most successful fantasy baseballer in the group. Favorite players owned, Vladimir Guerrero, Ichiro, Johan Santana and Roy Halladay. 
He loves you and he loves fantasy baseball. Favorite team, the Red Sox. Spends his day drawing hearts around Mr. David Wright and Mrs. Newspaperman Wright. 
THE OZ: Has been a buster ever since winning TheBaseballStars inaugural season. Favorite team, the A's. Best keeper, Alex Rodriguez. 
FREESANJOSE: The sworn enemy of The Jon, FreeSanJose is the most versatile of the group when it comes to team strategy. Favorite team, the A's. Best keepers, Chase Utley and Ryan Howard. 
POIDOG: Makes the playoffs every year. Has never won a title. Favorite team, the A's. Best players, Jake Peavy and Miguel Cabrera. Still crying over the Dan Haren trade. TheBaseballStarsNote: We will look at the players that have been disappointments on our respective teams. Obviously Newspaperman has no disappointments because he is the Michael Jordan of baseball. We start off with PoiDog and find out the event that made him the miserable Fukudome that he is. Enjoy.
The Jon was talking about karma recently and I guess I shouldn’t be surprised to get mine. As an A’s fan, it’s in my DNA to hate the Dodgers. Not just because they are from SoCal, but because of the worst highlight in the history of baseball, that old gimp limping around the bases at Dodgers Stadium after going yard while a bunch of front-running fans wet themselves and danced around like little girls. Suffice to say that it scarred me for life about as much as the infamous Roger Craig fumble against the New York Giants that prevented The 3-Peat but that is a subject for another blog.
But in fantasy sports, you have to take the guy who is going to produce even if you hate him or his team, unless it’s Barry Bonds, and this year I had to make an executive decision. I drafted Russell Martin.
Martin looked to be the second or third best catcher and going nowhere but up. While that could still happen, he has thus far been my biggest disappointment. Currently, he is 3 for 29 on the season (that’s a .103 batting average) with 4 runs, no homers, 3 RBI and one measly steal at the end of two weeks.
Full disclosure here, I still think it was a good value pick for where I got him. He came to me in the 8th round (round three but we had 5 keepers) in a draft where I had strong pitching and no first round pick. I took him instead of the crop of second and third tier outfielder that were available. Better off rolling with Martin and catcher and taking the chance that Shane Victorino, Carlos Gomez, Justin Upton, Nick Swisher and Ken Griffey Jr. can hold down my outfield than to nut up for someone like Jeff “Freedom” Francoeur and have to look at Bengie Molina or AJ Pierzynski in my catcher spot all year.
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Roger Craig and those stupid sweeps they ran 400 times in a row for no gain.
You play to WIN the GAME.
PoiDog is that you whistling at Russell Martin at the end of that clip?
Nice not so subtle dig at my team. Pick any one of your outfielders and compare them against Franceour, combine his stats with Martin, and I’ll combine with whoever ends up being my catcher and let’s see who has the better outcome. Care to make a wager?
I don’t even think PoiDog is aware enough to know who is on the other’s teams. That would require the whole act of thinking.