Todd Helton is a fantasy baseball machine. Of all players currently active in MLB, he has the highest career batting average. Only Hall of Fame inductee Tony Gwynn has a higher career average since World War II. Todd Helton holds virtually every Colorado Rockies offensive record, serving as the first "great" player on the expansion Rockies.
One might be tempted to take points off from Helton's 11 years of service with the Rockies for the fact that he performs at Coors Field. While the thinner air in the Mile High City might inflate Helton's home run totals somewhat, Todd's hallmark is his contact numbers, not his power numbers.
Whatever the case, fantasy owners aren't going to grouse about artificially inflated numbers due to a ballpark. Those are the kind of advantages those of us in fantasy baseball exploit.
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The nickname Kaká, from his native Portuguese, is pronounced as it is spelt. The accent would signify that the stress is on the second syllable. In Italian, the language of his current team, the phonetic equivalent is written as Kakà, which is used for Italian television graphics. However, the player's shirt name is spelt KAKA' (with an apostrophe, rather than an accented 'A') for both Brazil and Milan. An internet discussion forum explains the nickname as a commonly used shortened form of "Ricardo" in Portuguese. Kaká is supposed to have got his nickname because his little brother Rodrigo could not pronounce the word "Ricardo" when they were young. Rodrigo called his older brother "Caca\ Kaká suffered an accident when he made a faulty jump off a diving-board, resulting in a vertebra fracture. This could have meant the end of his football career, but he believes that Jesus allowed him to recover and become the successful footballer he is now. When AC Milan won the Serie A title in 2004, Ricky, as he is called by his team-mates, sported a shirt with an "I Belong to Jesus" slogan. He also points his fingers to the sky as a sign of thanks every time he scores, for apparently the same reason. Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite (born April 22, 1982 in Brasília, Brazil), simply known as Kaká, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Brazil and the Serie A club A.C. Milan. He is one of the budding young stars in world football.
Family
Kaká's younger brother Rodrigo Izecson Dos Santos Leite, known as Digão, followed in his brother's footsteps and is currently on loan with Serie B team Rimini, after having spent some time in the AC Milan youth squad.
Nickname KAKA
Family
Kaká's younger brother Rodrigo Izecson Dos Santos Leite, known as Digão, followed in his brother's footsteps and is currently on loan with Serie B team Rimini, after having spent some time in the AC Milan youth squad.
Nickname KAKA
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