{"id":891,"date":"2013-07-01T08:21:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T12:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/?p=891"},"modified":"2013-07-01T08:21:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T12:21:57","slug":"2-good-2b-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/2013\/07\/01\/2-good-2b-true\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Good 2B True!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jason Kipnis<\/a>\u00a0is this week’s fantasy MVP after a monster week. Kipnis hit .478 with 3 HR, 9 R, 10 RBI, and 2 SB, earning $77.60 in the shallow 5×5 Mixed League<\/a>. He’s on a 12-game hitting streak that has raised his season average to .299, and is now the 10th most valuable batter<\/a> in that format.
\nChase Utley<\/a>\u00a0earned $65.80 in the shallow mixed league for batting .400 with 4 HR, 11 R, 5 RBI, and 1 SB, the second highest price of the week, yet interestingly he also ranked second in the two NL-only formats I’m tracking, much deeper 4×4<\/a> and 5×5<\/a> leagues. The NL-only MVP in both cases was\u00a0Hanley Ramirez<\/a>, who hit .455 with 2 HR, 5 R, 8 RBI, and 3 SB. These stats earned $62.24 in the 4×4 league, $57.20 in the 5×5 NL-only, and $59.79 in the mixed 5×5. Utley’s stats earned just $50.38 in the 4×4 format, where his 11 runs scored don’t matter, and $57.10 in the NL-only 5×5. How is Ramirez worth relatively more in a deeper NL-only league than Utley?
\n In the NL-only league, Ramirez’s 3 SB tied for the league lead on the week, meaning nobody had more value in SB. In the mixed league, however, his 3 SB was only tied for 3rd best, trailing both\u00a0Rajai Davis<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Leonys Martin<\/a>.
\nWhile last week<\/a> a pitcher was the overall MVP, this week, the best pitcher, Jeremy Hellickson<\/a>, ranked\u00a0just 10th overall in the 5×5 mixed, with a $41.43 RotoValue. Hellickson won both his starts, striking out 10 while posting a 0.69 ERA and 1.077 WHIP over 13 innings. Hellickson earned $35.19 to top the\u00a04×4 AL only<\/a>\u00a0pitcking list, and $30.16\u00a0to top 5×5 AL<\/a>\u00a0pitchers. Interestingly new Red Sox closer\u00a0Koji Uehara<\/a>\u00a0was the second best AL pitcher in both formats, earning $33.86 in 4×4 and $27.02 in 5×5 after a week with 3 saves and a win in 4 appearances. Uehara fanned 7 in his 4 innings of work, with a 2.25 ERA and a 0.00 WHIP.
\nThe top NL pitcher depended on format, with\u00a0Gio Gonzalez<\/a>\u00a0edging\u00a0Stephen Fife<\/a>\u00a0in the deep 5×5 NL-only<\/a>\u00a0league. Gonzalez had 2 wins, 11 Ks in 13.33 innings, with a 1.125 WHIP and a 1.35 ERA to earn $32.61, while Dodgers’ rookie Fife fanned 8 in 13.67 innings with a 0.805 WHIP and 1.98 ERA to earn $32.47. In the more shallow 5×5 mixed league, those stats earned Fife $40.67, ahead of Gonzalez’s $39.89, and just behind Hellickson, as Fife’s very low WHIP was worth relatively more than Gonzalez’s better ERA. Yet both Fife and Gonzalez took a back seat to\u00a0Kenley Jansen<\/a>\u00a0in the NL-only 4×4<\/a> format. Like Uehara, Jansen had 3 saves and a win in 4 appearances, with 6 strikeouts, a 2.25 ERA, and a 1.000 WHIP in 4 innings. In the 4×4 AL, that earned $33.19, ahead of Fife’s $32.72. Gonzalez’s edge in strikeouts didn’t count in 4×4, so he slipped to 4th best NL pitcher in that format with a $29.09 RotoValue, dropping behind the Marlins’ Steve Cishek<\/a>, who notched 3 saves in 3 perfect innings to earn $30.32.
\nThe week’s best start belonged to\u00a0R.A. Dickey<\/a>, who fanned 6 in a 2-hit shutout against the Rays, walking just 1, to give him a 0.333 WHIP and 0.00 ERA. That one start earned $29.02 in the AL-only 4×4, 3rd best in the league, but just $23.04 in the 5×5 AL-only, good for 6th best. Quantity typically trumps quality, especially in a 5×5 league.
\nWhile he didn’t win the weekly MVP,\u00a0Miguel Cabrera<\/a>\u00a0had the second-best AL-only week for batting .417 with 5 HR, 7 R, and 7 RBI to earn $49.94 in 4×4<\/a>, $48.64 in AL-only 5×5<\/a>, and $60.73 in the mixed 5×5. The triple-crown winner may not have won any weekly fantasy awards lately, but he’s the current YTD leader in all three formats I’ve been tracking ahead of \u00a0Chris Davis<\/a>.
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Jason Kipnis\u00a0is this week’s fantasy MVP after a monster week. Kipnis hit .478 with 3 HR, 9 R, 10 RBI, and 2 SB, earning $77.60 in the shallow 5×5 Mixed League. He’s on a 12-game hitting streak that has raised his season average to .299, and is now the 10th most valuable batter in that… Continue reading 2 Good 2B True!<\/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\/891"}],"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=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}