Sunday Best–October 4th, 2009

Hitters				Pitchers
Pujols	99.8	Cardinals		Greinke	88.2	KC
Mauer	89	Twins		Carpenter	69.2	Cardinals
Hanley Ramirez	80	Florida		Sabathia	58.1	Yankees
Jeter	67.6	Yankees		Lester	55.6	Red Sox
Utley	62.9	Phillies		Jimenez	50.2	Rockies
Tulowitzki	60.8	Rockies		Jered Weaver	49.5	Angels
Youkilis	52.9	Red Sox		Wolf	49.2	Dodgers
Kemp	50.4	Dodgers		Happ	47.5	Phillies
Morales	39.9	Angels		Baker	32.2	Twins

The best hitters and pitchers on each playoff team, and the best hitter and pitcher not in the playoffs, by VORP. I flipped a coin for Minnesota/Detroit and Minnesota won. I’ll rescan on Tuesday if the coin flip proves wrong.

The Angels don’t have a single hitter over 40 VORP, but they have ten over 15.

I don’t have a single card of A.J. Happ, but I rode him pretty hard as a free-talent pickup in my Roto league. I will commemorate him with a purchase from Sportlots.

The Week’s Best

The best baseball and baseball card blog articles of the week (as voted on by a panel of one):

JayBee Anama displays some hard-to-find inserts from 2k6.
Dinged Corners goes off topic, and I gotta feeling it’s gonna be good good fun.
Mark’s Ephemera decorates a man-cave.
Night Owl breaks out the blender to relieve some stretch-drive frustration.