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A Bad Day

Monday was a great day for the Miami Carlins. When I used the word good it was a true understatement. 123 points in one day is tremendous. Yesterday was the opposite. The offense performed average, but the real problem was in the bullpen. Joe Nathan and Grant Balfour who I praised the day before both blew saves and earned losses. Nathan contributed -7 points with Balfour upping him with -10. Even worse news, Francisco Rodriguez was traded to the Baltimore Orioles where he will not be a closer. What’s happening to the Carlins bullpen?

Team Gold managed to catch up a lot yesterday. Newly acquired Jose Fernandez who was acquired for Giancarlo Stanton beat Miami Carlin pitching Jhoulys Chacin. The news gets worse too. Impending suspensions to Carlins players Nelson Cruz and Jhonny Peralta could ruin the team. Cruz is the team’s main power threat while Peralta has done more than asked after filling in for the disappointing Starlin Castro.

The only advice I have for fantasy baseball owners when it comes to this steroid mess is to trade away every Hispanic player you can. The majority of the names linked to steroids have been Latino. Ryan Braun who saw the fist come down on him for the rest of the season is of course an exception. Braun clearly has no Latin blood in him. I heard he’s a terrible dancer.

ryan-braun-biever2(Ryan Braun doing the only dance he knows, the Macarena)

This extended week’s score still sees the Miami Carlins leading 264-205, points added from early games today.

A Big Day

Yesterday was a big day for the Miami Carlins. After a poor pitching performance by team captain Jordan Zimmermann, the rest of the team decided to get some retribution. Andrew McCutchen and Jayson Werth both hit two home runs, Yu Darvish came off the disabled list and pitched well, and Matt Moore earned a 35 point shutout. The offense put up a total of 51 points while the pitching contributed 72 for a total of 123. As we sit right now, the Miami Carlins lead Team Gold 238-122.

Nelson Cruz and Torii Hunter also hit home runs yesterday with Joe Nathan and Grant Balfour earning clean saves.

The Carlins have used 8 of their 14 starts this week while Team Gold has only used 4. The lead we have still looks to be large enough to ride onto victory. This week of course takes place over the course of 10 days and there’s plenty more baseball left to play. I feel almost every day I have some cliche phrase like that to say. There is nothign else here to report other than everything went right for the Carlins yesterday.

matt moore smile(It’s good Matt Moore has such a thick smile. Any thinner and his eyebrows would be larger than his grin)