As most of you have heard Albert Pujols has left the Cards for California. Most people thought even last night that Pujols was going to go to the Cardinals and seemed almost like a done deal. As the Angels have done before they came out of left field and sign him to a whopping 10 year 250 million dollar deal. He also got the no trade clause that he wanted as well. They also got maybe the best free agent pitcher out there as well in C.J. Wilson. Now this makes the Angels a fantasy juggernaut with a rotation that challanges the Giants and even the Phillies for best in the league. They also now have obviously an amazing offense, adding pujols makes everyone in the lineup better instantly. Depending on what they do we could see Mark Trumbo go to either 3rd base or possibly even left field like we saw a bit last year. Also Morales moving to DH with all his injury problems becomes a dream job for him. Real quick as well, now in St Louis Berkman will now probably move to 1st base and Allen Craig will more then likely be in right field. I am rather excited to see what Allen Craig can do with a full year of starting without worrying where playing time will come from. Will cover more baseball next week but now I want to get to what I wanted to talk about today.
The NHL has been very interesting this year for fantasy for most of us. If you put a top pick into a big time goalie you have been burned more times then not this year. There were 21 goalies ranked top 100 this year before the season started. 13 of those goalies now fall out of the top 100 and a lot of them are way out of the top 100. That has easily been the position that's burned people the most this year so far (I know its burned me bad). Majority of these guys are obvious buy low guys maybe the biggest one being Roberto Luongo. Other big buy low candidates I would see is Ryan Miller for sure and even Corey Crawford. Still a young guy Crawford has shown flashes of greatness, and the Hawks in front of him have struggle as of late on the defensive side. Things can only go up for that defense over the next couple months and for the rest of the season. Three names stick out at me that maybe will never get back to there higher draft picks that they were preseason. Jonas Hiller, Jaroslav Halak, and Cam Ward are the three guys I can see not getting back to the preseason hype. These three players are all in this situation for different reasons. Jonas Hiller has been dealing with injuries and bad play all year long so far. He got a little lucky that Dan Ellis went down so that helped him keep his job for now, but his time maybe running out with Ellis back and Hiller still playing bad not showing much improvement. Halak has Brian Elliot breathing down his back and taking starts away from him because Elliot is having a great year thus far. Then I get to Cam Ward who I invested a lot into, I am now feeling disgusted with myself for doing so. He has been pretty bad all year long but the fact that he has one of the worst defenses in front of him doesn't help. Cam ward has faced the most shots this year and that going to change through out the rest of this year. If Ward had a defense in front of him maybe he would finally be one of the best goalies in the league like people think. Until that happens only thing he will be doing for his fantasy owners is racking up the saves and sadly the goals against.
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