{"id":843,"date":"2013-05-27T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/?p=843"},"modified":"2013-05-27T11:00:37","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T15:00:37","slug":"players-of-the-week-may-20-26-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/2013\/05\/27\/players-of-the-week-may-20-26-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Players of the Week: May 20-26 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

RotoValue makes it easy to see player statistics for any date range, so today I’m going to link to recaps of the week for three different league configurations.
\nFirst, 5×5 Mixed:
\nhttp:\/\/www.rotovalue.com\/cgi-bin\/Search?year=2013&league=4&start_date=20130520&end_date=20130526<\/a>
\nMVP:\u00a0Mike Trout<\/a>. Trout hit .462 with 2 HR, 10 runs scored, 7 RBI, and 4 SB. Trout had a relatively slow start (.261 in April), but since May 1st he’s been the most valuable player in fantasy baseball. Miguel Cabrera still has more overall value YTD, but Trout contributes in all 5 offensive categories, and could still wind up as the seasonal MVP.
\nTop Pitcher:\u00a0Max Scherzer<\/a>\u00a0won both his starts, fanning 13 batters in 14 innings, with a microscopic 0.643 WHIP and a 1.29 ERA.\u00a0Patrick Corbin<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Alex Cobb<\/a>\u00a0also won twice, with strong peripheral numbers, but Scherzer edges them both out. Honorable mention goes to\u00a0Anibal Sanchez<\/a>, who had a no-hitter broken up in the 9th inning, settling for a 12-strikout, 1-hit shutout, easily the dominant performance of the week. But when other pitchers get two wins with good ERA\/WHIP, even a perfect game is not going to be as valuable.
\nNL Only 4×4:\u00a0http:\/\/www.rotovalue.com\/cgi-bin\/Search?year=2013&league=24&start_date=20130520&end_date=20130526<\/a>
\nMVP:\u00a0Andrew McCutchen<\/a>\u00a0hit .400 with 1 HR, 3 RBI, and 3 SB, edging out\u00a0Dan Uggla<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Domonic Brown<\/a>\u00a0for the top spot. It was an odd week, in that none of the top average hitters of the week had more than 4 RBI. Uggla’s 8 was the second-highest total, but he only hit .250. Domonic Brown had 7 RBI and a .348 average. McCutcheon’s 3SB tied for the league lead with teammate\u00a0Starling Marte<\/a>.
\nTop Pitcher:\u00a0Patrick Corbin<\/a>\u00a0continued his breakout year, following a stellar complete game 3-hitter with 10 strikeouts with a gritty win to go to 8-0 on the year. His starts combined for a 2.40 ERA and a 0.867 WHIP. Runner-up was\u00a0Aroldis Chapman<\/a>, who went 4-4 in save chances, giving up just 2 hits and 1 walk in 4 innings, with 9 strikeouts.
\nThe 5×5 NL<\/a>\u00a0had\u00a0Freddie Freeman<\/a>\u00a0(.310, 2 HR, 8 R, 9 RBI, 0 SB) as the MVP of the week, as he led the league in both runs scored and RBI. Corbin was still the top pitcher, but\u00a0Stephen Strasburg<\/a>\u00a0had two better starts overall (1.20 ERA), and 16 Ks in 15 innings, but despite 7 innings of 1-run ball, he got a no-decision against the Giants, and thus had only 1 win on the week. Counting strikeouts as a category did move Strasburg ahead of Chapman in overall value.
\nFor this week format didn’t matter nearly as much in the AL, as Trout was by far the most valuable batter in both the 4×4<\/a> and 5×5<\/a>\u00a0AL-only leagues, with Scherzer clearly the top pitcher in both formats. Cobb (1.82 ERA, 0.682 WHIP, 10 K) was closer to Scherzer in the 4×4 format, where strikeouts don’t count. Also posting two strong wins were\u00a0Jerome Williams<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Bartolo Colon<\/a>, each posting a 1.29 ERA, but both had a relatively high 1.214 WHIP to rank well behind Scherzer and Cobb.
\nTrout’s 5 category dominance made him easily the most valuable player, but\u00a0Chris Davis<\/a>\u00a0(.480, 4 HR, 7 R, 6 RBI, 0 SB) did have a fine week also, held back in comparison by his lack of SB and fewer runs\/RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RotoValue makes it easy to see player statistics for any date range, so today I’m going to link to recaps of the week for three different league configurations. First, 5×5 Mixed: http:\/\/www.rotovalue.com\/cgi-bin\/Search?year=2013&league=4&start_date=20130520&end_date=20130526 MVP:\u00a0Mike Trout. Trout hit .462 with 2 HR, 10 runs scored, 7 RBI, and 4 SB. Trout had a relatively slow start (.261… Continue reading Players of the Week: May 20-26 2013<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,6,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}