Cody Anderson took a perfect game into the 7th inning yesterday and ended up with a line of 8 IP, 1 ER, 2 baserunners, 2 Ks, and his ERA is at 0.57 thru two starts. The Indians staff just keeps getting sexier. Now their rotation is Cody, Corey, Danny, Trevor and Carlos. Sounds like a boy band, K-Nudo. Only Cody doesn't strike out as many -- he's the sensitive one. Anderson has an interesting backstory. He's from Idaho, and he signed with the Tribe out of a junior college for $250,000. Imagine that. One day, Anderson's asking ma if they have to eat potatoes yet again for dinner and saying a lot of "Aw, geez," then he signs for a quarter of a million dollars, which is more than the state economy of Idaho. Suddenly, he was able to purchase the state of Idaho and all its trout. (I have no idea if they have trout there, but Guy Fieri seems to stop at a Diner and/or Drive-In and/or Dive at least once a week in Idaho for trout.) "Aw, geez, ma, I have to pay to pave highways now? Money is evil!" As for fantasy, Anderson's not quite as big city-ish. He has very few Ks thru two games, but he does throw hard-ish (93 MPH fastball) with a decent slider, and he also has decent control. His minor league numbers portend a mid-rotation guy at best and he's not at his best yet, so there's still room to grow, but I'd let him grow on someone else's team in mixed leagues. If you wanna check the Stream-o-Nator on him, go for it, but outside of AL-Only leagues, I wouldn't own him yet. Just as I wouldn't eat trout from Idaho. Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
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