Scrantonicity

Manager: Brandon M.

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First Season: 2003
Years in league: 8
Championships: 1
Top Four ($$$) Finishes: 4

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Summary:

Year

Team Name

Finish

2010

Scrantonicity

4th

2009

Scrantonicity

10th

2008

Scrantonicity

6th

2007

Scrantonicity

4th

2006

Bob Loblah’s Bombers

4th

2005

One and Done?

7th

2004

MVPujols

1st

2003

Jerricurl Wonderkind

5th

 


Scrantonicity’s Michael Scott Memorial Dundies (MVP):

2010: Roy Halladay- Big first year all the way around- Draft-day deal straight up for Tulo nets me the N.L. Cy Young and the first Scrantonicity no-hitter in the books.

 

2009: Albert Pujols- In a season where my offense kept me out of the basement, Pujols leads the way with yet another N.L. MVP season.

 

2008: Cliff Lee- Early season free agent pick up kept producing, won the AL Cy Young and unfortunately still Scrantonicity was a non-believer- he and his 0 keeper points were not kept in ’09.

 

2007: Brandon Phillips- my 19th Round selection came through with a Keeper worthy year.

 

2006: Ryan Howard- No Philly bias here- this was your N.L. MVP!

 

2005: Albert Pujols- Can you say three-peat?.

 

2004: Albert Pujols- A year worthy of naming my championship team’s name after him- MVPujols.

 

2003: Albert Pujols- My rookie year might have been Albert’s individual best.


 

Toby’s Teasers (Least Valuable Players):

2010: Kevin Youklis- I deal for this oft-injured superstar a week before he goes on the D.L. for the rest of the season- giving up Carl Crawford in the deal takes me out of the running for what could have been a championship year.

 

2009: The entire pitching staff- Cole Hamels, Dice K & Mike Pelfrey, in particular, wasn’t quite the impressive top of rotation starters that I envisioned them on draft day

 

2008: Carl Crawford- I once again make the Vogel swap, get the first pick of the post-keeper draft, clear Mr. Crawford’s keeper points, and he has his first dud of a season, stealing only 25 Bases and hitting only 8 Home Runs.  The worst part is that I chose to keep him over David Wright in a trade at one point.

 

2007: Rich Harden- Can you say DL?- 25 Innings doesn’t cut it for a fantasy starter

 

2006: Randy Johnson- Big Unit’s Big ERA- 5.00

 

2005: My bullpen combo of Keith Foulke, Jose Mesa & Jorge Julio- My 7th place demise should have been so obvious- who’s goes with this kind of bullpen?

 

2004: Andruw Jones- Tough to single anyone out in my championship year- Andruw definitely had an off year with only a .261 Avg and 29 taters

 

2003: Pat Burrell- Pat the Bat- as in he was holding the bat when strike three blew past him the whole season: .209 Avg


Creed’s Transactions of the Year (So good they might seem shady):

 

2010: Sorry Amato- early season deal where Scrantonicity received Chris Carpenter for Javier Vazquez never did balance out for the Yankee collector.

 

2009: Grabbing Troy Tulowitski in the 11th round is looking like a nice keeper worthy move going into 2010.

 

2008: Taking Cliff Lee from the Free Agent scrap heap, and watching him win the A.L. Cy Young.

 

2007: Scrantonicity gets Josh’s 1st overall pick for his 1st pick in exchange for a swap of subsequent 5th and 7th round picks.  Scrantonicity then allows Albert Pujols to drop as a non-keeper, selects him with the first overall pick- thus resetting his keeper points.