Fantasy Baseball Tonight 6/18

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Magglio Ordonezhas been benched indefinitely by manager Jim Leyland because of this ridiculous slump that he has been in basically all season long. You can expect him to do a lot more of what you see in the picture...watching.

Leyland was quoted talking about Ordonez swing saying: "I don't think he can figure it out. I don't know if anyone can figure it out."

OUCH! You don't think anyone can figure out what is wrong with his swing? Don't you pay a hitting coach to do just that? Bench Maggs until you see he's going to play again, and in 12 team leagues I would consider cutting him if there is something good on free agency.

Tommy Hanson had the best of his three outings on Thursday, although he still struggled with control. Hanson didn't allow a run in six innings and struck out two. Unfortunately, he did walk four guys.

I really expected his strikeout numbers to be better, but I am encouraged that he has been allowing fewer runs each time out. Hanson is one of the three best pitching prospects in baseball this year, and you need to continue to pitch him. He should get a little better each time out.

Joba Chamberlain was slightly above average again this time out against the Washington Nationals, and I am just not sure of what to expect of him going forward.

He obviously is not going to be the kind of guy he was when he was coming out of the bullpen a couple years ago. It seems that he doesn't go all out with his pitches in order to try to last longer into games. His velocity is not near what he showed out of the bullpen, and his effectiveness is the same.

He is still doing good, but a long way from great.

Luke Hochevar fooled us all. He had a good couple starts, and got many of us thinking that perhaps he could have turned a corner and was going to be good.

Oh no, slow down.

He allowed six runs over just four innings. I am glad that I didn't jump back on the Hochevar bandwagon, although I probably told some of you emailers that it was worth a shot with him. I figured against a weak hitting D'Backs lineup that he could succeed.

If you picked up Hochevar, I would hold him for one more start, unless you see something on the wire that could bring you stability.

He was a top prospect; maybe he can figure it out. Can you feel my confidence in him?

Chris Davis finally hit a home run tonight, much to the delight of my co-host Jeff Mans. Of course, it was his only hit of the game and he did strikeout two more times. That now brings him to 43 hits and 97 strikeouts.

I have officially jumped off the Davis bandwagon completely. There is still hope that when it heats up in Texas that he might too, but I can't keep this dead weight on my roster any longer.

Dontrelle Willis is headed back to the 15 day DL with an anxiety disorder, although I'm not sure how that qualifies him for the disabled list.

He had a few effective starts, but most of the time he was wild and erratic (which are pretty much the same thing).

Don't bother stashing him, if you have him. Send him packing.

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