I should be upset that I lost to Billy Drakeley, but I am not that upset. Do you know why?

BECAUSE THE BOSTON RED SOX JUST SWEPT THE NEW YORK YANKEES AT FENWAY PARK!!

THEY KICKED THE YANKEES ASS ON FRIDAY, THEN DEICDED TO MAKE IT DOUBLE THE PAIN ON SUNDAY WITH A SWEEP TAKING PLACE ON A DOUBLE-HEADER.

THE RED SOX ARE NOT GOOD, BUT NEITHER ARE THE YANKEES. IT FEELS GOOD REMINDING YANKEE FANS OF THAT.

Now, let’s get into week eleven.

WEEK ELEVEN: June 12 – June 18

Tell you what, Billy and I did really fucking well in this category this week. Both of our teams raked. I was able to win this category but I needed three different players getting 11 hits in order to pull it off. Alex Verdugo went three straight games with two hits each, and Atlanta teammates Orlando Arcia and Ozzie Albies each had 11 base knocks. Billy had the top hit performer of the week with Michael Harris III going 15-for-27. Justin Turner also had 10 hits getting el feugo for the Red Sox. Ryan McMahon of Colorado had 10 hits for Billy, four of which came against the Red Sox.

The slimmest of margin. For the second straight week I went into Sunday night baseball hoping that the Red Sox players on my roster could get me over the hump. Verdugo did his best scoring four runs on Sunday over the course of two games, but in the end my team came up one run short. Arcia had nine runs scored for myself, and Albies had seven. Drakeley had three players with six of more runs scored, but it was his depth that helped him carry this category by one. Eight players for Billy had three or more runs scored. Meanwhile I had some key players fumble the bag; Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had six hits and two walks but no runs scored and Elias Diaz reached base nine time but scored only once.

The slimmest of margins, again. Billy won runs by one, and he wins home runs by one. McMahon hit two home runs on Sunday, and Harris II hit one, which means that one game that featured the Braves and Rockies resulted directly in me losing two categories. FUCK. Albies had three home runs for me, and Harris had three for Drakeley. Turner had two for Boston, including a grand slam. Paul Goldschmidt had two dingers, along with Brandon Nimmo and Spencer Steer.

Billy Drakeley had 23 RBIs last week as a team. This week he had 50. Drakeley led the league this week in runs batted in for only the second time this season. Drakeley had a week this year where his team had 13 combined RBI. In the extended week one matchup, Drakeley’s team had 36 RBI. it is just the luck of fantasy baseball and sports in general. Billy sets a new season high in runs batted in. Turner had 10 RBI for Billy and the Red Sox, aided heavily by a grand slam against the struggling Yankees. Harris II also had nine RBIs. Ozzie Albies led my team with 10 RBI.

I distinctly remember the moment I knew I lost this category. I was on my way home from Emma’s dad’s boat in the passenger seat with the windows down. I am scrolling twitter catching up on the day and I see some tweet about how Rodriguez has 15 stolen bases now. I am curious as to why someone made this a big deal, and it was because Julio hadn’t stolen a base in two weeks…until he stole three over the weekend. I just started bumbling curse words stuck in Stamford, CT traffic.

Billy wins the on base percentage category with his second best OBP clip of the season, .3846. That is the second best of the week. My on base percentage was .3763, third best of the week. Despite me losing this category, I became the leader of the league in OBP. Means nothing for my regular season record. Billy had two players with more than a .500 OBP; Harris had 15 hits, no walks, and a .536 clip. Jorge Soler had only five hits…but he had 10 walks. That’s a .556 clip for the Miami Marlins outfielder. Dare I say I got fucked by Ella De La Cruz who had only a .217 OBP over the course of the week.

I tried to hard to win this category on the last day. I grabbed Braxton Garrett of Miami and Louie Barland of Minnesota. I just tried to stockpile Ks. I was getting in a good position, thinking that with three starters going I could get above whatever line Drakeley drew. Spoiler alert, I was wrong. Charlie Morton delivered eight strikeouts, but Jon Gray had two strikeouts. He went 2.1 innings, allowing six earned runs, and striking out two. Fine. I can tie the category. But NOPE. Devin Williams of Milwaukee appeared in relief and strike out two. Fine, maybe I’ll have my reliever hop in for a save. But wait, Camilo Doval is coming in only for two outs? Why not three? He struck out only one so I would lose this category by one? Great. Love it.

Much like I was trying to chase strikeouts, I was trying to chase wins as well. Billy had four wins heading into Sunday, and I had two. You know, I just need to have two of my thee starters win. Morton got the job done (rather ineffectively), and then Gray pooped the bed. Oh, and remember that Varland guy I picked up? He allowed six earned runs…and went only 4.1 innings. Two of my three starters didn’t even get across the five inning threshold. George Kirby, Bryce Elder, Aaron Nola and Hunter Greene had wins for Drakely.

Billy got two saves from Milwaukee’s Devin Williams despite him having an 18.00 ERA and a 3.50 WHIP. Will Smith of Texas had a save for me, and Doval of San Francisco continues to deliver with three saves. It is a category I am not going to touch. I am okay with what I have.

I won the ERA category, but I did not deserve to. The winning ERA in this matchup was 4.841, which objectively is gross. Luckily for me, Billy’s pitchers decided to vomit on themselves even worst with a 5.301 ERA. Kirby was great for Drakeley with six shutout innings, and Elder surrendered just one run over six innings. That isn’t bad, but then you get to Bobby Miller of the Dodgers who finished the week with a 11.12 ERA. There were some who were nearly as bad, and one who was worse. I mentioned Williams earlier, and I will say again that the reliever had an ERA of 18.00. My team’s ERA was pretty decent before Sunday, but after Morton, Varland and Gray combined to allowed eight runs in 11.2 innings. Very bad.

Yet again, I win the ERA battle but I lose the WHIP battle. How is this so possible? Do my pitchers just walk so many more people? Do they let up dinkers during rallies and not home runs? I wish I could explain this rationally, but instead I am just getting frustrated. Like how does Bobby Miller have an ERA of 11.12 lead to a WHIP of 1.76. I have someone with a 5.40 ERA but its a WHIP of 2.00. Or I have a 2.25 ERA but a WHIP of 2.00? I just don’t understand.

I am not going to look at anyone else. I know in my gut that it’s Justin Turner who is the MVP for Billy this week. If you are the leader of my favorite team and you helped lead them to a sweep over the rival…and you helped someone to a fantasy baseball win…you get my vote. Turner was second on Billy’s team in hits, runs scored and home runs. He had a matchup best 10 RBI.

Honestly hard to pick an LVP for Billy because he did a really good job suffocating me in all categories. But if I had to pick one, if would be Marcus Semien of the Texas Rangers; he went 4-or-31 and finished the week with a 1.76 on base percentage.

Ozzie Albies of Atlanta let my team with 11 hits, seven runs scored, three home runs and 10 RBI. He was hands down my best hitter of the week, and with my pitching kinda sucking, Albies is an easy MVP choice for me.

Last week Jon Gray had a complete game, one run, 12 strikeouts effort. This week he had a 2.1 inning, six earned runs and only two strikeout effort. I would have loved a win and a few more strikeouts to tie or win more categories, but unfortunately he was an LVP because he gave his worst outing of the year.

MVP TRACKER: Albies (1), De La Cruz (1), Mullins (3), Goldschmidt (2), Soto (1), Street (1), Verdugo (1), Walls (1)
LVP TRACKER: Albies (1), Casas (1), Gausman (1), Goldschmidt (1), Gray (1), Peralta (1), Soto (1), Sale (1), St. Louis Cardinals (1), Walls (1), Wisdom (1)

WEEK ELEVEN SCOREBOARD

  • Billy buried me. I thought I had a bit of momentum of not sucking, but Drakeley comes with his best margin of victory of the season and his first win since week six.
  • Bove earns the series split against Vaghi with a 6-5 victory in week 11. Neither team had great pitching weeks…both teams with an ERA over five.
  • And down goes number one. Jack List suffers his first loss since week four. Eric wins it 7-4-0 due in large part to the final day: Eric’s team had 13 hits, 5 runs scored, a HR and 9 RBI while Jack’s team went 5-for-36.
  • DiMaio pulls the clean sweep in the hitting categories, and it wasn’t close except for steals. Huntley saved some face with the pitching categories.
  • Michaud wins his second straight taking down Michael Kenney, 8-2-1. Michaud almost swept the pitching category but credit to Kenney for having Raisel Iglesias strike out the side in his appearance for the Braves.

WEEK ELEVEN STATISTICS DEEP DIVE

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  • I led the league in hits for a week for the first time ever. Tough lough for Drakeley.
  • DiMaio and Michaud are now tied with having had the best week in home runs. DiMaio tallied a league best 16 this week.
  • Huntley had the fewest home runs in a week for the first time ever.
  • Huntley has now tied with Kenney for have the worst runs batted in total for a week.
  • Vaghi, with his 11 stolen bases, was the leader in the clubhouse (with List) for the first time ever.
  • DiMaio led the week in on base percentage for the first time.
    • DiMaio set a new season best for a week with his 0.4053 OBP this week.
  • Eric, by winning the wins category over Jack, has now tied him in terms of best of the week in that category.
    • Eric led the way in terms of the WHIP category as well, for the first time ever.
  • Huntley’s three home runs this week is the lowest put up by anyone for a single week this season.
  • DiMaio set a new lowest benchmark possible with a 1.740 WHIP this week.
  • Four of the winners this week lost last week; the only one that extended their winning streak was Michaud

WEEK 12 MATCHUPS

  • Vaghi needs to get back on track and no better team to go against than my own. He has to be licking his chops.
    • According to the season stats, Vaghi should win this matchup, 6-5
    • Vaghi took me down in week three, 6-3-2. Was tighter than I would have thought, but pitching was all Vaghi.
  • Eric with a strong outing after getting blitzed by Kenney showed fortitude while Bove eked by Vaghi. Bove may be the most dangerous spoiler team.
    • According to the season stats, Eric should win this matchup, 10-1
    • Eric fucking dominated Bove, 8-1-2. The only category Eric lost was OBP. He had .2879…and Bove was lucky to win with .2888
  • Billy coming off his best hitting week of the season is going up against DiMaio who leads the league in three of the hitting categories.
    • According to the season stats, Billy should win this matchup, 8-2-1.
    • Drakeley won his second straight match in week three against DiMaio. Drakeley posed a sub three ERA and a sub one WHIP.
  • We have the top ranked team, the big dawg, going up against the hottest team in the league in Michaud. Justin has won eight categories now two weeks in a row, so we will see if he can gain any ground on Jack.
    • According to the season stats, Jack should win this matchup, 7-4
    • Jack List beat Michaud more than Eric beat Bove. The final score was 9-1-1. The only category that Michaud won was his best category, home runs.
  • Is Huntley going to make a move? Mike is bouncing back and forth every week it seems like while Andrew seems resigned to the seventh hole.
    • According to the season stats, Kenney should win this matchup, 7-4
    • Michael Kenney skated by Huntley in week three, 6-5. Many of the categories were close. Only non-negotiable were Huntley leading in runs batted in and saves.

OVERALL STANDINGS

  • No change as to who is the top dog. Jack still leads the league but his lead over the second place has shrunken from 10 games to now single-digits.
  • Eric movies into second place, and Micheal Kenny fell from the silver medal position all the way to sixth place.
  • Dimaio vaulted himself back into the playoff picture, pushing himself into third place.
  • And would you look at Michaud, grasping his way to fourth place.
  • Vaghi and Kenney were in the playoffs last week, but not more.
    • It is incredibly tight between the third and sixth place team; all are separated by 2.5 games or less.
  • Huntley stays in seventh place and Bove sticks with ninth.
  • I am back in the cellar making friends with the daddy longlegs. I am back with the lowest rent room after Billy was there last week.
CATEGORY LEADERS (Including Ties)
  • DiMaio: Hits, Runs, Home Runs, Runs Batted In (4)
  • List: Steals, Earned Run Average (2)
  • Eric: Wins (1)
  • Huntley: Saves (1)
  • Kenney: Steals (1)
  • Michaud: Home Runs (1)
  • Stanko: On Base Percentage (1)
  • Vaghi: Walks/Hits Per Inning (1)

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