Wednesday, May 09, 2012  05/09 (Hamilton) Quickie  Josh Hamilton
is on my fantasy team and yet I am near the bottom of the league
standings -- I should take a lesson from the Rangers: Hitting is
great, but great pitching matters just as much (particularly
when you play in a 5x5 head-to-head league).  My favorite
Hamiltonian stat: There have been fewer players (16) to hit 4 HR
in a game than there have been perfect games (21).  Should the
Rangers (over)pay him? When healthy, he is clearly worth the
kind of money that has been given to Prince Fielder and Joey
Votto. But he is 31, he averages less than 120 games per season
and he's got some mileage on his baggage car.  I could see the
Rangers being willing to give him more money per year for less
years -- I could also see a team with cash and a sense of
urgency giving him even more (if not for the Nats' brutal deal
for Werth, they could have been huge players, I think).  The
Rangers have a lot of money. They have a willingness to spend
it. They have a wide-open