Biggest suprises on your team, thusfar

[DiamondDave]

about 1/8th of the season in the books..

What are the biggest positive and negative suprises on your team, in the early part of this season?

Baltimore's

Positive - Shane Victorino - Sharing HR lead in the AL, 6th in batting at .362, 2nd in OPS with a whopping 1.165, 9th in steals, 5th in RBI, and 1st in runs.... always a steady performer, but his HR ratings are now above his talent, and really performing in the #2 spot in Baltimore's potent lineup

Negative - Jason Stumm - Last year was amung the leaders in wins and ERA. This year 2-0, but with a horrid 6.38 ERA and 1.54 WHIP

[MarinersFan87]

San Diego

Positive - Ron Davenport and Julio DePaula - Davenport is hitting .338 and has driven in 13 runs from the bottom of the order. DePaula has a 2.89 ERA and 2 of his 3 starts were outstanding.

Negative - Wilson Betemit - A .293 OBP out of the leadoff spot, he has never had an OBP lower than .353 for me.

[HuskerFan2002]

Positive: 3B Ronald Guidi-The first sim of the year was amazing for this guy. 4HRs and 9 RBIs. One other guy I'd like to mention is SP Wes Obermueller. He finally got a win in his Houston career. In his career at Houston: 2-9.

Negative: C Javi Herrera-He's starting for the first time and hasn't been very impressive. A .154 AVG, 2 HR, and 3 RBIs. Maybe its just a slump in the month of April, but hopefully he'll bounce back.

[Hammer]

Positive - Chuck Tiffany
Negative - the remainder of the staff

[Slyder]

I cant really say theres been anything positive from my team. Those that have done well I expected as much from.

Negative- Except for Snyder I expected so much more from my staff.

[Porter]

Positives:

Jason Bartlett- Hes hitting .361 with 2 HRs, 6 RBIs, a league leading 11 doubles, and a 1.043 OPS.
Chris Kelly- Earned a starting spot, hitting .400 in spot duty.
Carlos Artilles- Sure hes only going 6 IPs per start, but he has a 3.13 ERA anda 1.09 WHIP, makes missing Brad Nelson a little less stressful.
Brad Lidge, Robert Amis, Trey Hodges, Ismael Valdes- if these 4 cant get the game to Nicolas who can?
Nick Johnson- the FA pickup is hitting over .300 with 5 HRs and 16 RBIs.

Dissapointments:
John Lackey, Ben Sheets- They better pick it up or its going to be a long season.
Alfonso Soriano/Jose Lopez- I didnt spend 16 M for medicore hitting.
Miguel Cabrera- Lost his job to journey man Chris Kelly
Lastings Milledge- His Average has to pick up.
Yoel Hernandez and Jason Anderson- Very close to become mopup relivers.

[Halladay_is_God]

Positives:
Mickey Ouimet, is a hitting a ton right now
Rene Reyes, hitting really good since put into the clean up spot
Luke Allen, same case as Reyens since i put him into the no. 2 spot he's been hiting better
Brad Thomas and Travis Sellers and Yates have kept the bullpen from going to hell

Dissapointments:
Brad Nelson, hitting a buck 61
Joe Crede only hitting .209
Jorge Nunez can't field the freakin' ball worth **** at SS (4 errors in 1st sim alone)
McGowan starting the years 0-3 with a ERA of 5.79, now Dustin is 1-4 with a ERA of 3.74
Odalis Perez gettig injuried for 3 weeks, its not like he was helping my team win games anyway
David Martinez and Scott Beerer so far have been bad

[Kingdom]

Detroit-
Goooooody
Ty Wigginton is on steroids.
Ryan Butt Itch has held up as closer.
Carlos Lee leading my team in power.

Ugly
Lee leading my team in power with an ugly batting average.
Mark Redman needs to retire right now.

[Cardinal Optimist]

Brandon Phillips. 7 Bombs

[MattyMo4Life]

KC Royals:

The good:
David Pahucki SP 4 GS, 2W-0L, 1.69 ERA
Wayne Ellerbe SP 6 GS 4W-0L, 1.96 ERA (Easily my Ace so far this year)

The bad:
The rest of my rotation, especially Cyr and Duckworth

[albbla2000mu]

Easy disappointment.......

Jeff Baker (6 contact, 10 power, 6 avoid Ks) .120-6-12 (.496 OPS)
Please wake up Jeff.

[Chesney]

Positive
Luckily we signed JD Drew as a back-up, because his 1.054 OPS has been a big plus since Kearns has been struggling.

Horrible
Austin Kearns has a .486 OPS, and needs to improve if the Mets are going to win their first division title this year.

[A's Baby Girl]

Positives:

That we actually made it out of April pretty decent at 13-14. And hey, we swept Baltimore!!!!!

Sean Rodriguez: Just became a 4.5 star player OVERALL. Thank you OOTP Currently batting .304/4/14. Top 10 in OPS

Matt Cepicky: Glad I made that trade with DET. Currently batting .272/5/28. Top 10 in RBI

Negatives:

The whole rotation, with the exception of Hudson

Furcal, tho it's not totally unexpected. He's getting kinda up there in age.

[Kingdom]

Positives:

That we actually made it out of April pretty decent at 13-14. And hey, we swept Baltimore!!!!!

Sean Rodriguez: Just became a 4.5 star player OVERALL. Thank you OOTP Currently batting .304/4/14. Top 10 in OPS

Matt Cepicky: Glad I made that trade with DET. Currently batting .272/5/28. Top 10 in RBI

Negatives:

The whole rotation, with the exception of Hudson

Furcal, tho it's not totally unexpected. He's getting kinda up there in age.

You can always thank me by sending #75 this way ;D

[A's Baby Girl]

You can always thank me by sending #75 this way ;D

Depends what you give me for him