Week 5 MSSSMRMoW

A Harmony Intradivisional matchup is week 5's Mike Shaw
Subaru Super Mo Replay Matchup of the Week

This matchup features all kinds of fantasy goodness and fantasy awfulness and a whole slew of players who went down with injury sometime during the week (mostly over the last weekend).  Both teams are fighting for position within the division, with John's MWP Masters trying to keep pace with the Backyard Allstars for first and Zach trying to keep from falling too far behind his brother for the third and final playoff spot in Harmony. 

Team	R	RBI	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	W	K	ERA	WHIP	QS	SV+H	Score
Zach's Team	19	16	2	0.260	0.312	0.449	3	24	4.22	1.22	2	3	5
MWP Master's	12	14	3	0.208	0.263	0.322	3	54	3.73	1.13	4	6	6

Alvarez mashes, and has awesomely hillarious
eyebrows

We will start with the good:

C Mike Zunino (Zach Attack) - 400/471/600 3R 4RBI
3b Pedro Alvarez (MWP) - 381/480/524 2R 4RBI
OF Tacoby Bellsbury (MWP) - 444/500/667 3R 3RBI 2SB

SP Tim Hudson (Zach Attack) - 1W 6K 2.08 ERA 0.58 WHIP 1QS
SP Jose Fernandez (MWP) - 1W 18K 1.20 ERA 0.87 WHIP 2QS
SP Johnny Cueto (MWP) - 1W 10K 2.25 ERA 0.50 WHIP 1QS
RP KRod (MWP) - 3K 0.00 ERA 1.00 WHIP 3 SV+H

Zunino was a waiver wire pick (dropped Saltalamacchia) up who has come on very strong for Zach.  Alvarez was acquired in a trade for Joe Nathan (since dropped by Les Moles) and Bellsbury was won for $50 at auction.  I criticized all 3 moves at the times they were made.  Go me!  Fernandez and Cueto continued their rediculous seasons, as did K Rod.  Hudson turned back the clock in his 1 start this week, but he has been better more often than not so far.  Those are really all the good performances from either team this week

Dom Brown might have been a better punter
this week.

The Bad (I hope you have some time):
1b Brandon Belt (Zach Attack) - 118/167/353 2R 1RBI
3b Pablo Sandoval (Zach Attack) - 118/211/118 1R 0RBI
1b Freddie Freeman (MWP) - 087/160/087 0R 1RBI
ss Ben Zobrist (MWP) - 111/111/185 2R 0RBI
OF Dominic Brown (MWP) - 083/083/167 1R 0RBI
OF Evan Gattis (MWP) - 100/143/250 1R 1RBI
2b Jason Kipnis (MWP) 000/167/000 1R 0RBI  and a trip to the DL on Friday with a strained oblique

SP Jeff Samardzija (Zach Attack) - 4K 4.76 ERA 2.12 WHIP
RP Sergio Santoa (Zach Attack) - 2K 54.00 ERA 6.00 WHIP
SP CC Sabathia (MWP) - 9K 9.35 ERA 2.31 WHIP over 2 starts, neither quality
RP Kenley Jensen (MWP) - 0K 6.75 ERA 3.00 WHIP 2 SV+H

 Check that.  MWP had 5 hitters under .111 for the week!  With out Tacoby, this team would have become the first one to hit under the Mendoza line for an entire scoring period.  I can't even begin to disect which one of these hitters was the worst.  Kipnis would be the obvious choice, but he left Tuesday's game and didnt return to the lineup all week.  Hes out 3-5 weeks, so he really only got 1 and a half games to hit in before getting hurt.  An asshDLe for sure, but not a week long, average crushing Rob Deer.  My vote goes to Freddie Freeman for his .087 avg and slug%.  Sergio Santos deserves to be sent back to whatever circle of hell the Toronto Blue Jays found him in.  Wait, didnt Santos come from the Sox on the South Side?  Sounds about right.

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The injured:
2b Kipnis (MWP)
OF Ryan Braun (Zach Attack) - Strained Right Oblique - Injured on the 27th of April, hits the DL on May 3rd.  The Brewers are jerks.
SP Hyun-jin Ryu (MWP) - Left shoulder stiffness - He is being examined by Dr. Neal El Attrache (or Kahlid El Amin) who will decide his fate. Injured the 27th, hit the DL May 2.  The Dodgers are jerks.







The Awesome:

Go Cainer.  Not to be confused with Kaner.

SP Matt Cain (Zach Attack) - Cut finger - Injured 4/24, hit DL 5/4.  The Giants are jerks. Or maybe they couldnt stop laughing.  The report is that Cain cut himself on his right index finger with a kitchen knife while he was making himself a pregame sandwich.  Now, I dunno about you all, but I am picturing him trying to cut off the crust of the sandwich, because really, you dont need to cut a sandwich in half.  Just eat the damn thing.  Also, anyone who remembers me cutting a piece of my thumb off while cutting up fruit back in college and then ducktaping it back on...F you guys, this is totally different.