Friday, best day for Baseball

Pitchers
Josh Beckett- At Yankee Stadium and battling for first place this should be a great game to watch. Beckett has been 4-2 over his last eight starts, Boston fans hope he can continue that winning way tonight.

Manny Parra-He has a low-to-mid-90's fastball and very good command of all of his pitches. Brewers will be taking on Houston at home where Parra has been light out, he is considered there Number 3 behind CC and Big Ben.

Dan Haren-Haren has given up two or fewer runs in the last eight of nine starts and will be face the Giants on the road. He has struck out 59, walked 13 and posted a 1.29 ERA in the last 63 innings.

Joe Saunders- Tonight he will be facing the Baltimore Orioles, he enters tonight's games with a record of 12-5 and era of 3.05 . He is on a Angels team that going to take the West without a problem.

Gavin Floyd-Floyd lasted only 2.2 innings, allowing six earned runs and seven walks in his last outing. He will get Detroit tonight who has been pounding the ball lately, and Minnesota next after that. I would look to sell high on Floyd at this time.

Ryan Demptster- At home against Florida, he is 10-0 at home. Demptster is coming off a great road victory in his last start. Lets hope it continues tonight.

A Couple Pitchers to Watch

John Lackey- Every year there is a guy who is just low on the radar. Well this season its John Lackey. Angels are doing really well out in the West and he is not gettting alot of credit. He is 7-2 this season with a era of 2.58 and his whip is 1.2. He is a must start in every league, tonight he will get the Clevland Indians at home.

Tim Hudson-He will be on road tonight against Florida.

Clay Bucholz- Lester and Dice-K have been mowing down Mariners, lets see if the rookie can get back on track.

Ted Lilly-Since April he has posted a 3.99 era, but has looked good in his last start, striking out six and only allowing one run over 7 innings. He is on the road against Arizona tonight and if the games go anything like the last two nights he will need to have his A game to have a quality start.

CC Sabathia- Sabathia has won all three starts for the Brewers. The only concern is that he threw 110 pitches Friday night, after throwing 122 pitches in a complete game win over the Reds Sunday. Sabathia is really in a groove, but if he continues to throw this many pitches, will it take a toll on him in September?

Randy Johnson

Last night in the STRAIGHT UP REDIC LEAGUE, I took a huge gamble and it paid off. Picking up Randy Johnson the 44 year old left-hander from the Arizona Diamondbacks who entered the game with a 1.98 career ERA and 10-0 against Chicago. Going into the game I thought if he gets seven strikeouts and only lets up a couple of runs this is an OK start . It was a pitchers duel last night in Arizona, the Cubs Rich Harden looked great as well, striking out ten and only allowing 1 earned run through 8 innings. Not as good as the Big Unit, striking out four, only walking one batter and allowing no earned runs. The Unit Lasted 7 strong innings. In the top of the 8th inning the Diamondbacks brought Micah Owings out of the bullpen. For Owings owners, this is the end for him as a starting pitcher and look forward to Max Schererz being called up as soon as he is healthy. The Unit ended up with the win making that his 291st win of his career. His next start is Sunday against the SF Giants at home. This should be a good match up for the Unit as well.

Tuesdays Starters

Barry Zito- We all know about the 126 million dollars he is set to make over the next seven years, but he is playing the Nationals who has one of the worst lineups in baseball. Maybe this is the break out start this guy needs to get back on track

Jason Marquis-If it was anything like last night game should be another great pitchers duel. Between the Cubs and the Diamondbacks. A must start in any league.

Kenny Rogers-Detroit is starting to turn things around with run support behind him, Kenny should be one of those spot starts that you get a win out of on Tuesday.

Daisuke Matsuzaka- He should have a good outing against those struggling Mariners.

Johan Santana-He gets Philly at home. Even thought Johan has not had the stuff he normal give us fantasy owners, he still is a top starter and is a person who should be in your lineup every start.

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Looking Ahead to Monday

Ervin Santana- Big Erv going for his 12th win of the season at home against the Cleveland Indians. Should be a great start for Santana.

Scott Kazmir- With the start being Pushed back this week Fantasy owners will get two starts out of Kazmir. Rays are at home, when they are at home they are 38-15.

Homer Bailey-At home against the Padres. Can he come out and be the pitcher we know he can be.

Rich Harden- This will be his second start as a Cub against the Arizona Diamondbacks who are 28-20 at home and will have Randy Johnson on the mound. He had 10 k last time out but did not get the win but looked solid.

Jon Lester- Red Sox are just bad on the road 21-32. But against Seattle I think Lester should have a quality start.

Week 17 Lineup

Straight Up Redic- Menards Heynards!!!!!!!


1B-Fielder,Prince, MIL

2B-Weeks,Rickie-MIL

3B-Longoria,Evan, TB

SS-Cabrera,Orlando, CWS

C-Posada,Jorge, NYY

OF-Jackson,Conor, ARI

OF-Upton,BJ-TB

OF-Braun,Ryan J., MIL

P-Johnson,Randy, ARI

P-Parra,Manny, MIL

P-Gallagher,Sean,OAK

P-Gregg,Kevin, FLA

P-Hudson,Tim, ATL

P-Lincecum,Tim, SF

P-Kazmir,Scott, TB

DH-Rodriguez,Alex, NYY

Bench-Gary Sheffield,Joey Votto, Justin Upton, Shane Victorino and Keni Johjima
Pitcher Bench-Francisco Liriano, Kerry Wood and on the DL Adam Wainwright

Two Starts for Week 17

National League
Randy Johnson, Jorge Campillo, Rich Harden, Jason Marquis, Homer Bailey or Johnny Cueto, Kip Wells, Chris Volstad, Mark Hendrickson, Runelvys Hernandez*, Jason Johnson or Eric Stults, Seth McClung, Jeff Suppan, Johan Santana, Joe Blanton, John Van Benschoten, Paul Maholm, Josh Banks, Jake Peavy, Barry Zito, Joel Pineiro, Kyle Lohse, Jason Bergman

American League
Ervin Santana, Radhames Liz, Garret Olson, Jon Lester or Daisuke Matsuzaka* Javy Vazquez, Paul Byrd, Zach Miner, Luke Hochevar, Kyle Davies, Nick Blackburn, Sidney Ponson, Dana Eveland, Jarrod Washburn, Scott Kazmir, Andrew Sonnanstine,Eric Hurley, Luis Mendoza* Jesse Litsch, Shaun Marcum.