One guy I have in my head-to-head fantasy baseball league who is killing me is Chris Davis. We all joke that guys like Ryan Howard and Jack Cust are basically "Three True Outcomes," namely, during a typical AB, they'll walk, strikeout, or homer, and not much else. Well Chris Davis is just like that, only without the walks. Maybe we'll have to make up a new moniker for him - Two True Outcomes.
Davis has basically been the ugliest player in the league. In just 108 at-bats, he's struck out a mind-boggling is-that-a-typo 50 times. He's hit 9 home runs and just 13 singles. He has made contact with about 57% of the pitches he's swung at, which would be a shitty contact rate in the Little Leagues, much less the big leagues. You know how as a kid you'd throw a tennis ball up in the air to yourself and then wind your whole body up to hit the ball as far as you could and you fell down after swinging? That's this guy every time he comes up to the plate. What an asshole. My league penalizes strikeouts, and I also own Ryan Howard and Alfonso Soriano, so needless to say, I've punted that category out of necessity.
On the other hand, what can you say about Albert Pujols that hasn't been said already? The man was simply born to play baseball--he has more home runs (13) than he does strikeouts (11)! A player like him comes along once per generation. I consider him peerless in the sport today. There are guys who hit for more power, there are guys who hit for a better average, and there are guys who are better fielders, but nobody puts it all together quite like Pujols does.
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