Saturday Recap & Father's Day Preview

Hector Noesi actually looked pretty good to start the game on Saturday. He had a very clear plan the first time through the lineup, getting ahead of hitters on strike one, sitting about 92, and then attacking very aggressively once getting to two strikes, dialing it up to 94-95, going up and in on righties, and sweeping his breaking stuff everywhere. At first he only allowed a few unlucky hits on weak contact that went for no damage. Then the fourth inning was a combination of poor control by Noesi, atrocious defense (a Leury Garcia error and a Dayan Viciedo-it-wasn't-called-an-official-error-but-he-messed-up) meant the Royals would put up a 5-spot. Danny Duffy was on his game and that was far more than he would need.

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Trying To Rebound From Guthrie - Lineups & Preview 6/14

Friday the 13th is supposed to be unlucky. Jeremy Guthrie destroys the White Sox. One had hoped that these two things together would cancel each other out and Chicago would once again pull to .500. Those hopes were immediately dashed as Quintana started the game by allowing five straight hits, and the game was instantly out of reach. Jeremy Guthrie, who has been coasting with a K-rate below 5 for years now, struck out 9 batters and easily protected the lead he was staked.

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Nick & James' Fantasy Island

In an effort to spread our wings, Nick Schaefer and James Fegan have decided to get together periodically to discuss issues in fantasy baseball. Or more specifically, what issue James is having with fantasy baseball. In today's episode, James interrupted Nick's Saturday afternoon with his girlfriend to scream in panic about him about losing his matchup with Chuck Garfien.

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