The Ding Dong Challenge: Ozzie Albies shows up in a big spot

Welcome to the Ding Dong Challenge, a game were we try and correctly predict who will hit the most home runs in a given week, keep score throughout the entire season and win a free, awesome t-shirt. Here’s last week’s report card and this week’s list of “elites”. If you want to play, just pick one player from the “elites” and two players from the “everyone else” category (which is just everyone who’s not elite), then list your team in the comments. The sooner you create your team, the better as you only get the homers from when your team is posted till the end of the week.

Blessed be Ozzie! I’m back in the running after a very solid performance from Albies knocking three dingers last week. Yet again I should’ve gone with Mookie instead of Martinez but still, I’ll take at least the one dinger from J.D.

Jose Ramirez let both Mark and Feslenraster down in a big way as the only elite selected to not knock a homer this week. Mark got big help from his bench though with Jose Abreu showing up in a big spot and Sixtus74 in his first week of action getting solid production across the board.

Here’s what the perfect lineup from last week could’ve looked like:

Elite: Didi Gregorius (4)
Everyone Else 1: Joey Votto (4)
Everyone Else 2: Gary Sanchez (4)

Bring on Week 3!

Anyone not on this list is an Everyone Else. Reminder: you pick one Elite and two Everyone Else each week so choose wisely! Leave your team in the comments if you want to play this week (and feel free to leave your twitter handle as we’ll give a shoutout each week to the previous week’s winner).