I’m going to start this article by saying that I don’t condone some of the comments Milton Bradley has said towards the Cubs or Cubs fans. However, he does have a point with some of the things he has done and said. He’s already been ejected from two spring training games, showing that he either [...]
TweetAnyone who has followed baseball at all in the past decade probably knows about the growing disparity between the finances of the richest teams and the of the poorest teams. This problem is easily seen in the American League East, where you have the Red Sox and Yankees who have huge budgets, and the Rays, [...]
TweetIn the past 20 years, statistical analysis of baseball has been progressing at a fast pace. Bill James published his Baseball Abstracts starting in 1977 and ever since then, Sabermetrics has taken off. Back then, James relied on a calculator and a pen and paper to do his calculations, and the application of the information [...]
TweetOkay, so if you haven’t heard, there is a rumor from an “inside” source in the Phillies organization that there have been front office talks about trying to trade Ryan Howard for Albert Pujols. These talks are rumored to only be only taking place in the Phillies front office, and they apparently haven’t approached the [...]
TweetIn 2009, the Yankees and Red Sox reached the playoffs for the 9th and 6th time, respectively, since 2000. This year is shaping up to be very similar, leaving the Rays, Blue Jays, and Orioles on the outside looking in. While both teams will likely end up in the playoffs, it still begs the question: [...]
TweetAll across baseball there are teams with undecided fifth starters. I’m going to give a rundown of the battles to keep an eye on. Los Angeles Dodgers Last year’s NL West champs have a bunch of guys fighting for a spot in the rotation. Eric Stults, Charlie Haeger and Carlos Monasterios all pitched in the [...]
TweetLast week, the Cardinals finally signed Felipe Lopez to a 1 year deal worth 2.2 Million dollars if he achieves all of the required incentives. This move is a logical, if unspectacular one for the Cards who now have a plethora of middle infielders. Lopez joins Brendan Ryan, Skip Schumaker, and Julio Lugo. With Ryan’s [...]
TweetOne of the keys to filling a good roster on draft day is participating in mock drafts. They will help you figure out exactly what kind of lists you’ll want to have in order to effectively draft the players you want and need. For this draft, I used a tiered list of each position and [...]
TweetLast week, I posted Fantasy Baseball Planning Part I, where I laid out some of the tools and methods to use for a fantasy draft. In Part II, I’m going to go a little more in depth. Positional Scarcity If you’ve looked at a list of players at all this offseason, you’ve noticed that there [...]
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