Fantasy Baseball Week 6

Flashback to last week - there was little hope for the Toucans. They were renamed the Toucans Of Failure in a sad attempt to jump start the team to produce.

Unlike another team that we religiously follow that continues to disappoint us, the Toucans rebounded with a strong week against the renamed squad Tigers Of Cereal. Previously known as Satans RH Man, the Tigers tried to mock our clever puns. But in the end, the Toucans won 8-3-1.

Offensively the Toucans won every category but stolen bases. The offense was back, as seen from the 335/479 slash line (OBP/Slug). The offense was carried by 1B Joey Votto, who has won Dusty Baker over despite his constant need to clog the bases. I guess Dusty has accepted the walks if it means he'll continue his ridiculous HR rate - he's hit 7 HR in 107 AB.

Funny enough, neither of the players I added on offense did much to help. Brad Hawpe was a useless 261/409. Cust helped a bit in boosting my OBP and slugging, as he hit 542/471 - but he showed very little power.

The pitching for the week was pretty solid too. Ervin Santana has been an absolute monster this year, and this week he threw 14.2 innings, with 16 K's, 1 W, 1 QS, a 3.07 ERA and a dominating 0.95 WHIP.

Here are the standings as of today:

Rank		Team	W-L-T	Pct	GB	Last Week	Waiver	Moves
1.		Bluebird Banter	44-25-3	.632	-	9-2-1	9	18
2.		Base Belong to Rios	42-26-4	.611	1.5	3-9-0	7	5
3.		Mop Up Duty	36-30-6	.542	6.5	9-3-0	6	6
4.		Mockingbird	36-32-4	.528	7.5	7-4-1	14	11
5.		The Huck Fleners	34-30-8	.528	7.5	4-7-1	13	14
6.		Mulliniks' Staches	37-34-1	.521	8	9-3-0	11	10
7.		Tigers Of Cereal	33-32-7	.507	9	3-8-1	10	12
8.		I'm On My Couch	34-34-4	.500	9.5	8-4-0	1	14
9.		ShaveThoseSideburns	31-32-9	.493	10	3-9-0	8	3
10.		Toucans Of Failure	32-34-6	.486	10.5	8-3-1	4	38
11.		The_Reverend	30-35-7	.465	12	1-8-3	2	2
12.		Tao of Stieb	28-35-9	.451	13	8-1-3	12	12
13.		Born to Ghostrun	25-41-6	.389	17.5	2-9-1	3	9
14.		Swayze4Life	24-46-2	.347	20.5	4-8-0	5	9

We're still 10.5 GB of first, but the goal in head to head is to get into the top 6. So with only 2.5 games separating the Toucans from a playoff spot, we're not out of it yet!

This week the Toucans face off against The_Reverend. It looks like Reverend has a very strong pitching staff, so we'll need to come out ahead in the offensive categories and hope to sneak by on the pitching.

Twitchy.