Doug Fister and "When Looking for Free Agents"

**UPDATE* FIster will be returning to the mound this Saturday for the red-hot Mariners who have just won their 6^th straight game.

Being in the “prospect” slot made it easy to drop him from my team because my core pitchers had been set with Francisco Liriano, Mike Pelfrey, Phil Hughes  and strikeout men Zach Grienke (used to be a win guy too) and Tommy Hanson (who is racking up wins in ATL but has had two blowup starts.

Plus Fister would not show up as a top ranked pitcher on the free agents list because he hadn’t recorded many wins. And I’m right as it stands today he is still on the free agents list in my fantasy league and I plan to pick him up today for Saturdays start. To make room for Fister I plan on dropping Trevor Cahill , young ace for the Oakland Athletics.

**Cahill has been strong in all of his latest outings, however, before Fister hit the DL had the league- leading WHIP (Walks plus Hits/ Innings Pitched) and sported strong ERA.  With the Mariners getting hot I want Fister on the mound for my fantasy team. **

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Guerrero's hit gives Rangers 11th straight win - Yahoo! News

Vladimir Guerrero had 13 walk-off hits in his career until last nights at bat.


Vladimir Guerrero who has changed the complexity of the Rangers lineup ripped a line drive to left field to send the go ahead run (SS E. Andrus) home in the bottom of the ninth inning Thursday night against the Pittsburgh Pirates for a 6-5 win.


Rangers started the game with a 4-0 deficit in the first inning. Throughout the course of the night thanks to some key performances, the Rangers rallied back

Ranger's third basemen, Michael Young had a run scoring triple in the bottom of the seventh inning to secure another spot in Ranger's History. With his 45th, Michale Young set the record for Most Career Triples in Ranger's History.

Hot hitter, Josh Hamilton went 3 for 4 with a run scored and a stolen base while the Ranger's slugger 1B Justin Smoak tacked on 2RBIs.

Guerrero, the hero of last nights game, scored for 2 runs and grabbed his only RBI on the 2-out hit in the bottom of the ninth.


***Once again a stat that keeps flying under the radar is how many the Ranger's are leaving on base. In Thursday night's game, the Rangers left eight men on base. This 3-game series vs. the Pirates the Rangers Team LOB was 5 in the first game and Team LOB was 13 in the Wednesday's game ***


3-GAME SERIES VS. PITTSBURGH PIRATES

Texas Rangers
Team LOB -  26 Total

(5) game 1
(13) game 2
(8) game 3

In other Rangers News,
 Rangers general manager Jon Daniels paid off a bet with E. Andrus and added blonde highlights to his brown hair on Thursday. Daniels had accepted a dare from Andrus to dye his hair if the team's winning streak reached ten.