Housekeeping

looks like sanchez is going to be late again...a few months

"The Boy", comment posted 3/26/07

Yep, that seems to be the case. Dirty has a hairline fracture in his shoulder, a possible after-effect of the original injury. Assuming the surgery and rehab goes well, and that Dirty is on time for all of it, he could be back in AUgust, around the same time as Pedro. I'm not gonna hold my breath. Not that I don't have faith in Dirty, it's just you don't know what is going to happen.

So, our pen wil now rely more heavily on Heilman (he of the balky elbow), Joe Smith, The Show, Park (who better get out of the habit of hanging breaking balls, or the fans are going to break his), PedroDos and whoever else Omar is able to pull off the scrap heap. Is it time to panic, no. Is it time to be a little concerned, yes, since the hope was that Dirty would be back in April or May. Losing him will hurt. Let's hope Mota can come back and be effective without the benefit of needles.

In other news, the Islanders are still struggling to make the playoffs. Seven games left, and it is a tough road, playing mostly other playoff teams the rest of the way. This will be the time for them to show what they are made of. Ricky has been great since his return. Now, the offense needs to start scoring some damn goals.

Finally, this past weekend saw the second Fantasy Baseball draft of my life. Last year was year one, and I did not do too well. I did have Reyes and Wright, but too many other guys who were streaky. Plus, my pitching sucked, escpecially once Glavine and Duque went down in August, as I lost a couple of weeks for not meeting the minimum innings. So what did I do differently this year? Not much. Here is the roster for "Looper is a Douche", which I will probably change to "In Omar I Trust".
Note this is a head to head non-keeper league with 21 rounds of drafting. Not an auction. I picked 6th out of 12.

Hitters - Runs, HR's, RBI, Steals, K's, BB, AVG, SLG

C - Mike Piazza (a late round pick)
1B - Delgado
2B - Dan Uggla
3B - Joe Crede
SS - Miguel Tejada
OF - Carlos Beltran (my First round pick)
OF - Rocco Baldelli
OF - Pat Burrell
Util - Prince Fielder
Bench - Bengie Molina
Bench - Aubrey Huff

Pitchers - Wins, Saves, Holds, K's, ERA, WHIP

SP - Roy Halladay
SP - Jeremy Bonderman
RP - Brad Lidge
RP - Jason Isringhausen
P - Dontrelle Willis
P - Scott Linebrink
P - Oliver "Coop's Fav" Perez
BN - Brad Penny (only for games not at Shea)
BN - Pedro Feliciano
BN - Mike Pelfrey (Last pick for me)

These are my guys. I'm not too happy with my closers, but the pickings were slim. I don't have a lot of speed, so steals will be a category I won't win.

That's all for today. Be back tomorrow with the Weekly Observations.