Playoffs!

I saw an advertisement yesterday for the "there's only one October" campaign. They mentioned how pitching can be so nasty during the playoffs for some odd reason. It got me thinking to how the platform for traditional stats changes during September too.

Think about it. This week in my league we have the two lower seeds beating the higher seeds. Teams that are out of it are starting to give prospects a look. Teams (ok just the Angels) that have locked up the division and a home series are resting stars. The contending teams are relying on their stud pitchers more.

Basically what to take from all of this is that changes are happening more rapidly now than they would have say a month or two ago when all teams had the responsibility to give equal effort and play among their best players. Now that has changed and if you can get the young guys like David Price or the veterans with something to play for like Jim Thome you have to do it because they are more apt to perform for you versus say Jake Peavy who's team is really just hoping to have him healthy next year.

If on the other hand your league (like mine) locks roster moves for the postseason then I hope you had planned for this moment two weeks ago. Otherwise you'll have changed your lineup for 20 weeks only to come up short at the most crucial time against a manager that you were better than for 20 out of 22 weeks. It is a shame, but that's the beauty of fantasy baseball.