Monday 29 April 2013

Fantasy Focus Baseball : Who's Hot

In this league,
I'll show you the hottest player on each team and a hot free agent




#1 Jordan Zimmerman - All About Cards
Win-Loss : 4-1
IP: 36
K's: 19
ERA: 2.00
WHIP: 0.86

#2 Justin Upton - ICBC
AB: 88
Hits: 27
Runs: 21
HR's: 12
RBI's: 18
SB: 3
BB: 13
AVG: .307

#3 Chris Davis - Flying Fish

AB: 86
Hits: 30
Runs: 16
HR's: 9
RBI's: 28
SB: 0
BB: 14
AVG: .349

#6 Bryce Harper - SportsCardRadio.com
AB: 86

Hits: 31
Runs: 18
HR's: 9
RBI's: 18
SB: 1
BB: 13
AVG: .360

#7 Adam Wainwright - GI Joe's

Win-Loss : 4-1
IP: 37.1
K's: 37
ERA: 1.93
WHIP: 0.99



#8 Miguel Cabrera - AngloPhillie All Stars

AB: 96

Hits: 36
Runs: 18
HR's: 3
RBI's: 26
SB: 1
BB: 11
AVG: .375

#10 Nate McLouth - FREE AGENT

AB: 74

Hits: 26
Runs: 21
HR's: 1
RBI's: 7
SB: 8
BB: 14
AVG: .351

#11 David Wright - Trojan Horses

AB: 81

Hits: 25
Runs: 14 
HR's: 2
RBI's: 19
SB: 6
BB: 19
AVG: ..309

#26 Carl Crawford - MojoBreak.com

AB: 88

Hits: 27
Runs: 20
HR's: 4
RBI's: 6
SB: 4
BB: 9
AVG: .307

As you can see Mojobreak can pick up a few key Free Agents.
-
Martyn







Tuesday 23 April 2013

$75 Million Franchise

If you had to put a 25 man roster together salary for this year $75,000,000.00

Who would you pick?
Maximum 3 from a single team.

Here's mine!

Saltalamacchia



Line Up


C Jarrod Saltalamacchia
Age: 27
Bat/Throw: S/R
Salary: 4,000,000.00

1B Allen Craig
Age: 28
Bat/Throw: R/R
Salary: 1,750,000.00


2B Daniel Murphy
Age: 28
Bat/Throw: L/R
Salary: 2,925,000.00


Longoria


3B Evan Longoria
Age: 27
Bat/Throw: R/R
Salary: 2,500,000.00


SS Jed Lowrie
Age: 29
Bat/Throw: S/R
Salary: 2,400,000.00

Car-GO

LF Carlos Gonzalez
Age: 27
Bat/Throw: L/L
Salary: 7,930,000.00


CF Jacoby Ellsbury
Age: 29
Bat/Throw: L/L
Salary: 9,000,000.00


RF Travis Snider
Age: 25
Bat/Throw: L/L
Salary: 505,000.00



Line Up Total Cost -
$31,000,000.00

On Bench?

Bench

C Jason Castro
Age: 25
Bat/Throw: L/R
Salary: 497,000.00

CI Mitch Moreland
Age: 27
Bat/Throw: L/L
Salary: 503,000.00


MI Donovan Solano
Age: 25
Bat/Throw: R/R
Salary: 492,000.00


OF Starlin Marte
Age: 24
Bat/Throw: R/R
Salary: 500,000.00


OF Aaron Hicks
Age: 23
Bat/Throw: S/R
Salary: 490,000.00


UT Pete Kozma
Age: 25
Bat/Throw: R/R
Salary: 490,000.00

Bench Cost-
$2,972,000.00


Pitching
Starting Rotation

Kershaw

SP Clayton Kershaw

Age: 25
Bat/Throw: L/L
Salary: 11,750,000.00


SP Clay Buchholz

Age: 28
Bat/Throw: L/R
Salary: 5,750,000.00


SP Justin Masterson

Age: 28
Bat/Throw: R/R
Salary: 5,688,000.00


SP Paul Maholm

Age: 30
Bat/Throw: L/L
Salary: 6,500,000.00


SP Matt Harvey

Age: 24
Bat/Throw: R/R
Salary: 499,000.00


Starting Rotation Cost-
$30,187,000.00



Bullpen

2011 Bowman Chrome Draft Orange Refractors #92 - Tony Watson/25 - Courtesy of COMC.com
Your Setup Guy?


LRP Brian Duensing

Age: 30
Bat/Throw: L/L
Salary: 1,300,000.00


RP Paco Rodriguez

Age: 22
Bat/Throw: L/L
Salary: 492,000.00


RP Ryan Mattheus

Age: 29
Bat/Throw: R/R
Salary: 505,000.00


RP Jim Henderson

Age: 30
Bat/Throw: L/R
Salary: 492,000.00


SU Tony Watson

Age: 27
Bat/Throw: L/L
Salary: 506,000.00


CP Huston Street

Age: 29
Bat/Throw: R/R
Salary: 7,000,000.00


Bullpen Cost-
$10,295,000.00

Total Cost-
$74,464,000.00

Monday 22 April 2013

The Real McCoy #3

Here's a card,
sent by Ian @ All About Cards,

It's 2011 Panini Totally Certified #24



A nice looking card.


I have the Gold as well, view my McCoy's so far here.

-
Martyn

Pack Ripping: 2013 Baseball Finally : Heritage

Here what I got in my pack


9 cards - 1964 Design




1st Card - Dusty Baker #207



2nd Card - Mike Olt / Jurrickson Profar RC's #261



3rd Card - Madison Bumgarner #137



4th Card - Ike Davis #44



5th Card - Daniel Hudson #141



6th Card - Chris Carpenter #75



7th Card - Matt Cain New Age Performer #NAP-MCA



8th Card - Andrelton Simmons 22



9th Card - Joel Hanrahan #239

Not bad pack?

-
Martyn

Sunday 21 April 2013

Pack Ripping: 2013 Baseball Finally: Gypsy Queen

Once again thanks to Ian,
Here's the 6 from a pack of GQ.




1st Card - Francisco Liriano #227


2nd Card - Brandon Phillips #194



3rd Card - Rick Ferrell #213 (SP)


4th Card - Lance Lynn Mini #279


5th Card - Warren Spahn #348


6th Card - B.J. Upton #342

All in all a nice pack,
With a Short Print.

-
Martyn

Saturday 20 April 2013

Pack Ripping: 2013 Baseball Finally : Opening Day

Here's the break down of a packet of Opening Day.



1st Card Ben Zobrist #178
2nd Card Allen Craig #211
3rd Card Sergio Romo #129



4th Card Opening Day Stars
Evan Longoria #ODS-7







5th Card Adeiny Hechavarria RC #101
6th Card Trvor Cahill #75
7th Card Evan Longoria #200

-
Martyn

Friday 19 April 2013

Pack Ripping: 2013 Baseball Finally Part 1

I've opened my 1st pack of 2013 Topps Baseball,

Many thanks to Ian @ All About Cards

Here's the inserts

Red Border (Target?)



A standard Parallel not numbered

Calling Cards


 Nice looking cards


Chasing History FOIL




A lot better looking than the regular

Chasing History


Chasing The Dream


Is there a theme?

1972 Mini's



I like em, but isn't there a set called "Heritage"?

CUT To The Chase



Die Cuts

Emerald


non numbered parallel

Gold


/2013

-
Martyn

Sunday 14 April 2013

On This Day: April 15th

On April 15th,



1865 - Abraham Lincoln  Dies.
The 16th President of the United States of America dies after being shot the night before.



1912 - RMS Titanic sinks.
On it's maiden voyage between Southampton, England & New Yrok City, USA.
Only 711 of 2,227 passengers survive.

Scan from Fuji


1947 - Jackie Robinson debuts.
The Rookie of the Year, makes his debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers breaking the colour barrier,
Now every MLB player wears his #42 on this day every year.


Don't buy "The Sun" Newspaper

1989 - Hillsborough Disaster.
24,000 Liverpool football fans went to watch a soccer game in Sheffield against Nottingham Forest,
96 of them did not return alive. Sparking over 20 years of public inquiry. The disaster changed the way stadia, police and crowds are dealt with.

-
Martyn