Bored

Doug Davis

Well that's it, Stanford's bubble has probably burst as the committee just isn't going to take a team who played as poorly as they did the last month of the season. Oh well next year was supposed to be the year they would get back to the tournament anyways and I think expectations just got a little high after the UCLA win but they've really done nothing of note since. There is an outside chance if enough of the other bubble teams drop by tommorrow they could slip in as a 12 seed but they'll be easy pickings, especially if Lawrence Hill can't go. Having your leading scorer leave injured in your final game also isn't going to help them in the eyes of the committee.

I can not fucking believe that UCLA lost to Cal. They'll stay out West but after losing to NIT bound Washington and no where bound Cal in their last two games they may have cost themselves a #1 seed. Damn Stanford better win tonight and save their tournament chances. I don't even want to think of Cal possibly making a shocking run to win the conference tournament.

Mark Kotsay is having back surgery and will be out for two to three months. Definitely for the best as he played all last year with the bad back and became a liability in center. This will shift Bradley to center to full-time for now and pretty much guarentees that Ryan Goleski will make the team.

After the shocking performance of the #16 seeds in the first round, no reason to expect that to change as they now get lesser competition in the 2nd Round. The '88 Pirates continue their Cinderella run by taking care of the '89 Cubs in five games to advance to the Sweet 16. In fact no series in the N.L. East Quarters went further than five games with the '88 Mets sweeping the '82 Cardinals thus knocking off the lone World Champion remaining in the region/division. Stat lines I throw in are combined for the first two rounds as I couldn't get seperate stat lines for each round. Well I could have but I wasn't Bored enough to do so. I'll get more detailed with these once I get down to the regional/division finals. (16) 1988 Pittsburgh Pirates def. (9) 1989 Chicago Cubs 4-1 Game 1: Pirates 5, Cubs 1 Game 2: Pirates 3, Cubs 1 Game 3: Cubs 2, Pirates 0 Game 4: Pirates 2, Cubs 0 Game 5: Pirates 8, Cubs 4 Bobby Bonilla: 14-38, 11 RBI Doug Drabek: 3-0, 1.14 ERA (4) 1985 St. Louis Cardinals def. (12) 1981 St. Louis Cardinals 4-1 Game 1: '85 Cardinals 8, '81 Cardinals 5 Game 2: '81 Cardinals 9, '85 Cardinals 5 Game 3: '85 Cardinals 3, '81 Cardinals 0 12 innings Game 4: '85 Cardinals 5, '81 Cardinals 3 12 innings Game 5: '85 Cardinals 7, '81 Cardinals 4 Willie McGee: 17-50, 2 3B, 2 HR, 8 RBI, 6 SB John Tudor: 2-0, 1.42 ERA (14) 1980 Montreal Expos def. (6) 1983 Philadelphia Phillies 4-1 Game 1: Expos 9, Phillies 6 Game 2: Phillies 4, Expos 3 11 innings Game 3: Expos 5, Phillies 4 Game 4: Expos 5, Phillies 2 Game 5: Expos 4, Phillies 2 Andre Dawson: 15-42, 4 HR, 11 RBI Scott Sanderson: 3-0, 2.63 ERA (7) 1988 New York Mets def. (2) 1982 St. Louis Cardinals 4-0 Game 1: Mets 7, Cardinals 3 Game 2: Mets 5, Cardinals 4 13 innings Game 3: Mets 6, Cardinals 5 Game 4: Mets 7, Cardinals 5 Lenny Dykstra: 17-43, 2 HR, 10 RBI David Cone: 3-0, 2.08 ERA N.L. East Semi-Finals (16) '88 Pirates vs. (4) '85 Cardinals (14) '80 Expos vs. (7) '88 Mets Up Next: A.L. West Quarterfinals

Ronny Paulino - C

From Deadspin, thru Style.com, Syraucse, Florida, Ohio State, and Arizona are supposedly going to be wearing these uniforms during the conference championships. Um, yeah.

I find it hilarious that ESABCPN's first primary game is a 53-0 blowout in the 3rd quarter.

Stanford picked the wrong time for six players to get food poisoning as they drop one at home to Arizona and have now lost five of eight. 10 wins in a Top 3 conference might be enough but if they get bounced in the 1st round of the conference tournament they might be heading to the NIT.

Hey if the '87 Mariners can beat the '89 A's, why not the '86 Indians beating the '84 Tigers? Well it happened thus meaning the '88 Dodgers were the only #1 seed to get out of the first round and they had to go to seven games to do so. The top half of the bracket in this region/division has been blown wide open as every lower seed won while on the bottom half three of the four higher seeds advanced. We had our second sweep as the '80 Yankees dusted off the '80 Orioles including an 18-0 thrashing to close the series. (16) 1986 Cleveland Indians def. (1) 1984 Detroit Tigers 4-2 Game 1: Indians 4, Tigers 1 Game 2: Tigers 9, Indians 3 Game 3: Indians 2, Tigers 1 Game 4: Tigers 7, Indians 2 Game 5: Indians 11, Tigers 7 Game 6: Indians 4, Tigers 1 Joe Carter: 12-25, 4 2B, 7 RBI (9) 1988 Boston Red Sox def. (8) 1987 Detroit Tigers 4-1 Game 1: Red Sox 4, Tigers 2 Game 2: Red Sox 10, Tigers 2 Game 3: Red Sox 4, Tigers 0 Game 4: Tigers 10, Red Sox 2 Game 5: Red Sox 10, Tigers 5 Mike Greenwell: 7-19, 3 HR, 6 RBI (13) 1987 Toronto Blue Jays def. (4) 1982 Milwaukee Brewers 4-3 Game 1: Blue Jays 4, Brewers 3 Game 2: Brewers 1, Blue Jays 0 Game 3: Blue Jays 8, Brewers 5 Game 4: Brewers 4, Blue Jays 1 Game 5: Blue Jays 4, Brewers 3 Game 6: Brewers 11, Blue Jays 3 Game 7: Blue Jays 4, Brewers 3 Tom Henke: 3 Saves (12) 1985 New York Yankees def. (5) 1981 New York Yankees 4-1 Game 1: '85 Yankees 14, '81 Yankees 12 Game 2: '81 Yankees 8, '85 Yankees 2 Game 3: '85 Yankees 10, '81 Yankees 4 Game 4: '85 Yankees 5, '81 Yankees 4 14 innings Game 5: '85 Yankees 4, '81 Yankees 0 Don Mattingly: 9-26, 3 HR, 13 RBI (6) 1980 New York Yankees def. (6) 1980 Baltimore Orioles 4-0 Game 1: Yankees 3, Orioles 2 Game 2: Yankees 5, Orioles 4 Game 3: Yankees 9, Orioles 5 Game 4: Yankees 18, Orioles 0 Graig Nettles: 6-16, 3 HR, 7 RBI (3) 1986 Boston Red Sox def. (14) 1982 Baltimore Orioles 4-1 Game 1: Red Sox 3, Orioles 2 Game 2: Orioles 4, Red Sox 0 Game 3: Red Sox 6, Orioles 1 Game 4: Red Sox 6, Orioles 3 Game 5: Red Sox 3, Orioles 2 Jim Rice: 9-19, 3 2B (10) 1989 Toronto Blue Jays def. (7) 1985 Toronto Blue Jays 4-2 Game 1: '89 Blue Jays 6, '85 Blue Jays 5 10 innings Game 2: '89 Blue Jays 5, '85 Blue Jays 4 Game 3: '85 Blue Jays 5, '89 Blue Jays 4 12 innings Game 4: '89 Blue Jays 4, '85 Blue Jays 3 Game 5: '85 Blue Jays 6, '89 Blue Jays 4 Game 6: '89 Blue Jays 3, '85 Blue Jays 2 10 innings Nelson Liriano: 8-21, 4 2B (2) 1983 Baltimore Orioles def. (15) 1981 Milwaukee Brewers 4-3 Game 1: Orioles 4, Brewers 1 Game 2: Brewers 3, Orioles 2 14 innings Game 3: Orioles 3, Brewers 0 Game 4: Brewers 5, Orioles 1 Game 5: Orioles 5, Brewers 4 Game 6: Brewers 4, Orioles 1 Game 7: Orioles 2, Brewers 1 11 innings Storm Davis: 2 CG, 1 SHO, 14 K, 0 BB A.L. East Quarterfinals Match-ups (16) '86 Indians vs. (9) '88 Red Sox (13) '87 Blue Jays vs. (12) '85 Yankees (6) '80 Yankees vs. (3) '86 Red Sox (10) '89 Blue Jays vs. (2) '83 Orioles Up Next: N.L. East Quarterfinals

Jhonny Peralta

Adam Wainwright

As many of you know the TSM Fantasy Baseball Draft is currently going on. I personally don't really even like playing fantasy baseball that much as I never want to be on those people rooting for players on the team who's playing against their favorite team. Because of this I never play for money as I have enough things to worry about than if Brett Myers gets 10 strikeouts and smacks his wife three times so I can win my game that week. This is the 4th year of the league with it being the 2nd year of the current incarnation run by MJ Styles. The first two years of the league were run by Lightning Flik and in those two years I had one of the best teams in the league, reaching the championship game both years although losing the title both years. I had Albert Pujols and Bobby Abreu both seasons and all was right with the world. But when Lightning Flik left the board, I think at least, the league was rebooted and all keepers were gone. No biggie but when I drew the 17th pick in the draft order I knew there'd be no Pujols left for me and I proceeded to draft one of the worst teams in the league, finshing 15th out of 20 and not even qualifying for the consolation bracket. Here's a recap of my terrible draft from last year. Feel free to point and laugh. 1. Carl Crawford - (Final Yahoo Ranking: 20th, 89 R, 183 H, 18 HR, 77 RBI, 58 SB, .348 OBP) This is another reason why I don't really like fantasy baseball is that because of stolen bases a player like Crawford is a superstar in fantasy baseball. He's a good player no doubt but no one would ever think of Crawford as one of the elite players in baseball. 2. Rich Harden - (Final Ranking: 379th, 46.2 IP, 4 W, 0 SV, 46 K, 0 HLD, 4.24 ERA, 1.22 WHIP) I didn't follow Rule #1 of fantasy sports: Don't draft players from your favorite team. Harden certainly has the talent of a pitcher to be drafted this high and I gambled on him finally having an injury free year and lost badly. I did end up keeping him as I had hardly any players worth keeping but we were required to keep four so maybe Harden will finally pitch 200 innings this year. And maybe the Royals will win the World Series. 3. Chad Tracy - (Final Ranking: 175th, 91 R, 168 H, 20 HR, 80 RBI, 5 SB, .343 OBP) Ugh. I had a hard on for Tracy going into last season as I was convinced he'd have a breakout year and plus he also had eligiblity at three positions. Had a decent year but no where near a 3rd round pick. 4. Brett Myers - (Final Ranking: 73rd, 198 IP, 12 W, 0 SV, 189 K, 0 H, 3.91 ERA, 1.30 WHIP) This was one of my few solid picks as based on the Yahoo rankings he ended up being worth exactly a 4th round pick thus I ended up having to keep him almost by default. 5. Bobby Crosby (Final Ranking: 613th, 42 R, 82 H, 9 HR, 40 RBI, 8 SB, .298 OBP) I forgot one of my own rules here: If ESPN "experts" are really high on a player assume he'll be terrible. Now I didn't think Crosby was going to emerge as an MVP candidate like some did but I definately thought he'd continue to improve. Not only was he hurt, he was also terrible when he was in the line up. 6. Derrick Turnbow (Final Ranking: 428th, 56.1 IP, 4 W, 24 SV, 69 K, 4 HLD, 6.87 ERA, 1.69 WHIP) Maybe I should just stop this entry because this is getting embarrasing. I should have listened to those who thought Turnbow's excellent 2005 season was a fluke and boy were they right. This pick pretty much killed me in the saves category all year as I never found a decent closer. 7. Brian Giles (Final Ranking: 216th, 87 R, 159 H, 14 HR, 83 RBI, 9 SB, .374 OBP) Because of the park he plays in Giles isn't a very attractive player in fantasy baseball but he had an outstanding 2005 season so I was happy when he fell to me but his OBP dropped 49 points in 2006. I actually have drafted him again this year hoping he'll have a bounce back year but I'm probably going to be wrong on that as he just turned 36 last month. 8. Placido Polanco (Final Ranking: 430th, 58 R, 136 H, 4 HR, 52 RBI, 1 SB, .329 OBP) This seemed like a good pick at that time as Polanco had emerged as one of the better second basemen in baseball the previous couple of years but he had a terrible year offensively in 2006. 9. Michael Barrett (Final Ranking: 317th, 54 R, 115 H, 16 HR, 53 RBI, 0 SB, .368 OBP) Barrett was having a good year for a catcher, and became one of my favorite players for punching A.J. Pierzynski, but he missed the last month of the season due to injury. 10. Nick Johnson (Final Ranking: 120th, 100 R,145 H, 23 HR, 77 RBI, 10 SB, .428 OBP) The best pick I made in the draft and even it came back to haunt me. He of course suffered an ugly broken leg injury with about a week left in the season and is likely going to start this year on the DL but because my team was so terrible I decided to keep him in spite of this. 11. Brad Radke (162.1 IP, 12 W, 0 SV, 83 K, 0 HLD, 4.32 ERA, 1.41 WHIP) Because he retired I don't know what his final Yahoo ranking was but it couldn't have been very good as Brad went out at the right time. 12. Scott Linebrink (Final Ranking: 235th, 75.2 IP, 7 W, 2 SV, 68 K, 36 HLD, 3.57 ERA, 1.22 WHIP) One thing I really dislike about this league is the inclusion of the completlely irrelevent Hold statistic being included. I let Linebrink go at some point because I think I was desperate to fill the other numerous holes on my team due to injuries that I abandoned Holds. 13. Carlos Silva (Final Ranking: 375th, 180.1 IP, 11 W, 0 SV, 70 K, 2 HLD, 5.94 ERA, 1.54 WHIP) Another terrible pick. Silva had made a living off never striking out anybody but never walked anybody either but the never striking out part bit him in the ass finally last year and I didn't wait too long before releasing him. 14. Dan Johnosn (Final Ranking: 693rd, 30 R, 67 H, 9 HR, 37 RBI, 0 SB, .323 OBP) Yet again not following Rule #1 but even I wasn't as high on Johnson as some A's fans but I figured this was a low risk pick here and boy was I wrong. 15. Brian Anderson (Final Ranking: 664th, 46 R, 82 H, 8 HR, 33 RBI, 4 SB, .290 OBP) Gambled on a rookie here and once again was wrong as Anderson was not ready yet to hit MLB pitching. 16. Dave Roberts (Final Ranking: 146th, 80 R, 146 H, 2 HR, 44 RBI, 49 SB, .360 OBP) Hey a decent pick, imagine that. 17. Luis A. Gonzalez (7 R, 36 H, 2 HR, 14 RBI, 1 SB, .269 OBP) Picked purely because he was eligible at a ton of positions and had been halfway decent offensivley but was just awful in 2006. Don't know his ranking because he's now in Japan. 18. Jason LaRue (Final Ranking: 762nd, 22 R, 37 H, 8 HR, 21 RBI, 1 SB, .317 OBP) Seemed like a decent choice as my back up catcher but not even close. 19. Jeff Franics (Final Ranking: 285th, 199 IP, 13 W, 0 SV, 117 K, 0 HLD, 4.16 ERA, 1.29 WHIP) Pretty good pick here as him and Myers were the only pitchers I could rely on all year. 20. Todd Coffey (Final Ranking: 285th, 78 IP, 6 W, 8 SV, 60 K, 15 HLD, 3.58 ERA, 1.44 WHIP) I was hoping Coffey would emerge as the Reds primary closer but never happened. Because I had so little to work with going into this year I already hate the look of my team this year so far. I'm counting on Ryan Zimmerman emerging as a superstar this year but given how things went last year I'll assume he'll do a good Bobby Crosby 2006 impression.

Coming out April 24th: Ehhh, Game 1 was the only real thriller so the only reason to put this out is to have Reggie's three consecutive homeruns on DVD. As you can see since it was a six game series, Game 5 of the ALCS is in the collection. Since they put out three sets last year of N.L. winners last year and the first two this year are from the A.L. I'm going to guess the 1985 World Series will be next or possibly the 1993 World Series. Obviously the 1991 one is going to wait with the 1987 set being released next month.

Everyone says this but that really was going to be my pick. Oh well. Brian Giles

Hey it's the one year anniversary of my blog...um, yay? I've been putting off several ideas such as a list of the Top 100 players of my "baseball lifetime" (1986-present) and also the Top 50 Oakland A's of all-time, shrunk from 100 since realizing that the list would be populated with guys who played two years or less with them. So I figured I'd do my biggest staple of my blog over the past year and that was the Award Redos. I originally was going to do the 1991 A.L. MVP but then rememebered, I already did it. But in that entry after I gave Frank Thomas both the 1991 and 1992 awards I wondered if the Big Hurt should have won four straight MVPs? So now to find out if his first real MVP should have been his 3rd overall. There was zero controversy for the 1993 A.L. MVP as Thomas won it unanimously. Typically when a player wins an MVP unanimously he probably was at the very least a deserving winner and certainly it was no exception here. Although he didn't lead the league in any major category he was in the Top 10 in Average, Runs, OBP, SLG, Homeruns, RBI, Walks, and Total Bases while helping the White Sox to their first division crown in 10 years. Since there was no real race there was no other players considered serious contenders. The defending champion Blue Jays were loaded with stars with Paul Molitor and John Olerud finished 2nd and 3rd in the voting repsectively while Robert Alomar finished 6th. Homerun champ Juan Gonzalez and Ken Griffey Jr., who had his first big homerun year with 45, rounded out the Top 5. Actual Results 1) Frank Thomas 2) Paul Molitor 3) John Olerud 4) Juan Gonzalez 5) Ken Griffey Jr 6) Roberto Alomar 7) Albert Belle 8) Rafael Palmeiro 9) Jack McDowell 10) Carlos Baerga 11) Jimmy Key 12) Joe Carter 13t) Jimmy Key 13t) Jeff Montgomery 15) Kenny Lofton 16t) Chris Hoiles 16t) Tony Phillips 18) Mo Vaughn 19t) Don Mattingly 19t) Cal Ripken 21) Alex Fernandez 22t) Greg Gagne 22t) Duane Ward 24t) Kevin Appier 24t) Cecil Fielder 24t) Randy Johnson #10 .289/.432/.474, 101 RC, 147 OPS+, .343 EQA, 56.7 VORP, 25 Win Shares #9 .310/.416/.585, 100 RC, 163 OPS+, .340 EQA, 60.4 VORP, 26 Win Shares #8 178 ERA+, 2.30 K/BB, 1.11 WHIP, 82.7 VORP, 27 Win Shares #7 .332/.402/.509, 131 RC, 142 OPS+, .325 EQA, 69.9 VORP, 29 Win Shares #6 .326/.408/.492, 118 RC, 140 OPS+, .323 EQA, 75.3 VORP, 30 Win Shares #5 .295/.371/.554, 123 RC, 150 OPS+, .327 EQA, 59.2 VORP, 31 Win Shares #4 .310/.368/.632, 120 RC, 169 OPS+, .339 EQA, 67.8 VORP, 31 Win Shares #3 .309/.408/.617, 146 RC, 172 OPS+, .343 EQA, 86.4 VORP, 29 Win Shares #2 .317/.426/.607, 144 RC, 177 OPS+, .356 EQA, 79.0 VORP, 32 Win Shares #1 .363/.473/.599, 156 RC, 185 OPS+, .372 EQA, 92.2 VORP, 37 Win Shares THAT'S WHAT YOU GET YOUR TRAITOR!!! Olerud had flirted with .400 for a little while as he was hitting .402 on August 1st but he tailed off after that and with the Blue Jays being loaded he couldn't garner a first place vote. He was better than Thomas across the board and was the easy pick here for me. If he could kept his chase for .400 a little longer he might have given Thomas a run for the MVP but maybe the writers thought he looked too much like a retarded kid running out to the field with his helmet on.

Ray Durham

For those who couldn't wait for Spring Training to start, here's your huuuuuuuuge top story today. A-Rod says he's not as close with Jeter as he was Wake me when the regular season starts.

Well a lot of the sites listed haven't update this week. For the ones that look they are updated through yesterday only one of them still had FSU in the tournament.

Found a little site that updates daily the various bracket projections that are out from 30 different websites. The Bracket Project

Now for the final region/division in the tournament, the A.L. East. The East features just two World Champions but is loaded with great teams who came up just short of winning their division. During the 80's seven of the nine normal pennant chases in the division were decided by three games or less. Of course given how this tournament has gone the '86 Indians will probably win the region as they get in as the only Indians team of the decade to have a winning record. #1 1984 Detroit Tigers (104-58, defeated San Diego 4-1 in World Series) OPS+: 114 (1st) ERA+: 112 (1st) DefEff: .713 (3rd) Best Player: Alan Trammell Best Pitcher: Willie Hernandez #2 1983 Baltimore Orioles (98-64, defeated Philadelphia 4-1 in World Series) OPS+: 111 (2nd) ERA+: 108 (3rd) DefEff: .705 (5th) Best Player: Cal Ripken Best Pitcher: Scott McGregor #3 1986 Boston Red Sox (95-66, lost to New York 4-3 in World Series) OPS+: 107 (t-3rd) ERA+: 106 (5th) DefEff: .686 (12th) Best Player: Wade Boggs Best Pitcher: Roger Clemens #4 1982 Milwaukee Brewers (95-67, lost to St. Louis 4-3 in World Series) OPS+: 121 (1st) ERA+: 95 (11th) DefEff: .702 (9th) Best Player: Robin Yount Best Pitcher: Pete Vukovich #5 1981 New York Yankees (59-48, lost to Los Angeles 4-2 in World Series) OPS+: 107 (t-3rd) ERA+: 124 (1st) DefEff: .721 (3rd) Best Player: Dave Winfield Best Pitcher: Goose Gossage #6 1980 New York Yankees (103-59, lost to Kansas City 3-0 in ALCS) OPS+: 112 (1st) ERA+: 109 (t-2nd) DefEff: .699 (t-6th) Best Player: Reggie Jackson Best Pitcher: Tommy John #7 1985 Toronto Blue Jays (99-62, lost to Kansas City 4-3 in ALCS) OPS+: 104 (t-4th) ERA+: 128 (1st) DefEff: .724 (1st) Best Player: Jesse Barfield Best Pitcher: Dave Stieb #8 1987 Detroit Tigers (98-64, lost to Minnesota 4-1 in ALCS) OPS+: 114 (1st) ERA+: 106 (4th) DefEff: .705 (3rd) Best Player: Alan Trammell Best Pitcher: Jack Morris #9 1988 Boston Red Sox (89-73, lost to Oakland 4-0 in ALCS) OPS+: 114 (1st) ERA+: 104 (t-4th) DefEff: .693 (t-12th) Best Player: Wade Boggs Best Pitcher: Roger Clemens #10 1989 Toronto Blue Jays (89-73, lost to Oakland 4-1 in ALCS) OPS+: 105 (2nd) ERA+: 105 (5th) DefEff: .704 (t-5th) Best Player: Fred McGriff Best Pitcher: Tom Henke #11 1980 Baltimore Orioles (100-62, finished 3 games behind New York) OPS+: 107 (t-4th) ERA+: 109 (t-2nd) DefEFf: .709 (2nd) Best Player: Al Bumbry Best Pitcher: Steve Stone #12 1985 New York Yankees (97-64, finished 2 games behind Toronto) OPS+: 112 (1st) ERA+: 109 (3rd) DefEff: .710 (t-4th) Best Player: Rickey Henderson Best Pitcher: Ron Guidry #13 1987 Toronto Blue Jays (96-66, finished 2 games behind Detroit) OPS+: 104 (t-3rd) ERA+: 121 (1st) DefEff: .712 (2nd) Best Player: George Bell Best Pitcher: Jimmy Key #14 1982 Baltimore Orioles (94-68, finished 1 game behind Milwaukee) OPS+: 108 (4th) ERA+: 101 (7th) DefEff: .719 (2nd) Best Player: Eddie Murray Best Pitcher: Jim Palmer #15 1981 Milwaukee Brewers (62-47, lost to New York 3-2 in ALDS) OPS+: 107 (t-3rd) ERA+: 88 (14th) DefEff: .705 (10th) Best Player: Cecil Cooper Best Pitcher: Rollie Fingers #16 1986 Cleveland Indians (84-78, finished 11 ½ games behind Boston) OPS+: 109 (2nd) ERA+: 90 (t-12th) DefEff: .695 (10th) Best Player: Joe Carter Best Pitcher: Tom Candiotti A.L. East 1st Round Match-ups '86 Indians vs. '84 Tigers '88 Red Sox vs. '87 Tigers '87 Blue Jays vs. '82 Brewers '85 Yankees vs. '81 Yankees '80 Orioles vs. '80 Yankees '82 Orioles vs. '86 Red Sox '89 Blue Jays vs. '85 Blue Jays '81 Brewers vs. '83 Orioles

Stanford crushed Oregon 88-69 as the Ducks have now lost 6 of their last 8 and are now very much on the bubble.

I just noticed you left Nick Johnson off the keeper list. I picked him in Round 10 last year. Yes I kept a guy with a badly broken leg who will likely start the year on the DL, that's how pathetic my team was.

Takashi Saito

The biggest shock of the tournament so far...a #1 seed advances! Unfortunately it had to be the '88 Dodgers. We had our first sweep of the tournament as the '80 Astros made easy work of the '82 Braves. The '89 Giants nearly blew a 3-0 series lead but pull it out in seven over the '89 Padres. Plenty of upsets as usual as the #12, #13, and #15 seeds all advanced. (1) 1988 Los Angeles Dodgers def. (16) 1982 Los Angeles Dodgers 4-3 Game 1: '88 Dodgers 4, '82 Dodgers 2 Game 2: '82 Dodgers 3, '88 Dodgers 0 Game 3: '88 Dodgers 7, '82 Dodgers 4 Game 4: '88 Dodgers 4, '82 Dodgers 1 Game 5: '82 Dodgers 4, '88 Dodgers 1 Game 6: '82 Dodgers 3, '88 Dodgers 1 Game 7: '88 Dodgers 10, '82 Dodgers 0 Orel Hershiser: 3-0, 1.13 ERA (9) 1987 San Francisco Giants def. (8) 1983 Los Angeles Dodgers 4-1 Game 1: Giants 5, Dodgers 0 Game 2: Giants 3, Dodgers 1 Game 3: Giants 9, Dodgers 1 Game 4: Dodgers 10, Giants 8 12 innings Game 5: Giants 8, Dodgers 2 Candy Maldonado (SF): 9-21, 2 3B, 2 HR, 7 RBI (13) 1985 Cincinnati Reds def. (4) 1984 San Diego Padres 4-1 Game 1: Reds 6, Padres 3 Game 2: Reds 4, Padres 3 10 innings Game 3: Padres 5, Reds 1 Game 4: Reds 3, Padres 1 Game 5: Reds 4, Padres 0 Tom Browning: 2-0, 1.20 ERA (12) 1980 Los Angeles Dodgers def. (5) 1986 Houston Astros 4-2 Game 1: Astros 6, Dodgers 0 Game 2: Dodgers 7, Astros 1 Game 3: Astros 4, Dodgers 2 Game 4: Dodgers 3, Astros 2 Game 5: Dodgers 4, Astros 2 Game 6: Dodgers 11, Astros 3 Steve Garvey: 11-24, 3 2B (6) 1985 Los Angeles Dodgers def. (11) 1981 Cincinnati Reds 4-1 Game 1: Dodgers 4, Reds 2 Game 2: Dodgers 5, Reds 4 Game 3: Dodgers 9, Reds 8 11 innings Game 4: Reds 5, Dodgers 0 Game 5: Dodgers 9, Reds 0 Bill Madlock: 9-21, 5 RBI (3) 1989 San Francisco Giants def. (14) 1989 San Diego Padres 4-3 Game 1: Giants 5, Padres 1 Game 2: Giants 3, Padres 0 Game 3: Giants 11, Padres 3 Game 4: Padres 7, Giants 2 Game 5: Padres 6, Giants 2 Game 6: Padres 5, Giants 2 Game 7: Giants 8, Padres 0 Rick Reuschel: One-hitter in Game 2 (7) 1980 Houston Astros def. (10) 1982 Atlanta Braves 4-0 Game 1: Astros 6, Braves 3 Game 2: Astros 3, Braves 2 16 innings Game 3: Astros 12, Braves 6 Game 4: Astros 2, Braves 0 Joe Morgan: 3 HR, 5 RBI (15) 1983 Atlanta Braves def. (2) 1981 Los Angeles Dodgers 4-3 Game 1: Dodgers 4, Braves 3 Game 2: Braves 8, Dodgers 7 Game 3: Braves 5, Dodgers 1 Game 4: Dodgers 6, Braves 5 10 innings Game 5: Braves 3, Dodgers 0 Game 6: Dodgers 7, Braves 2 Game 7: Braves 6, Dodgers 1 Bruce Benedict: 15-25 (.625) N.L. West Quarterfinal Match-ups (9) '87 Giants vs. (1) '88 Dodgers (13) '85 Reds vs. (12) '80 Dodgers (6) '85 Dodgers vs. (3) '89 Giants (15) '83 Braves vs. (7) '80 Astros Up Next: A.L. East