Fantasy Baseball Final results

The Major League Baseball regular season is about to wrap up, but the fantasy season for our baseball league ended last weekend.  Overall, for the injuries and weak performances of some players through the season, the Coca-Cola Kids ended strong.  They won the opening week of playoffs in the quarterfinals 11-8.  

Then, in the semifinal matchup, the Coca-Cola Kids were annihilated by the eventual league champions 14-4.  The funny thing about that matchup is that the Kids actually had a pretty good week.  As a team, they batted .288 with 8 Home Runs and 30 RBI.  The pitching staff matched the good week of offense posting a 2.81 ERA in 41.2 innings with four wins, three holds, and 47 strikeouts.  The eventual champs had a better week, a much, much better week.  In comparison, they batted .347 with 8 Home Runs and 29 RBI.  They scored 48 runs compared to 29 by the Kids.  Pitching is where the eventual champs ruled however, they posted a 2.09 ERA in 43 innings with three wins, one save, and 55 strikeouts.  They had five quality starts to the Kids' one quality start.  The Coca-Cola Kids were simply outmatched.  

The semifinals really fired up the Kids in the finals.  The Kids took on the regular-season champs for the third-place matchup.  The Kids won 10-8.  It wasn't as strong a week as the semifinals, but it was enough for third place.  Not a bad finish for the only team in the playoffs with a sub .500 record (185-188).  The Kids are happy with the third-place finish but are overall disappointed with the effort through the season.  

The owner of the Coca Cola Kids has some decisions to make over the off-season.  Who to keep, who to trade, who to cast off.  The league has a keeper rule for up to four players.  Who will the Kids go with?  They have a strong outfield with Reynolds, Robert and Castellanos but the consistency with Abreau and Bryant are hard to let go.  Maybe the Kids will go with youth in Bichette, Hayes, and Mondesi.  It is a long off-season made a little easier gazing upon that third-place trophy, but there are decisions to be made.