After fans long awaited opening day, the first series of the season came and went in the blink of an eye. It’s full steam ahead for the fantasy baseball season and despite having completed just three games, owners are beginning to get a sense of how their team is going to shape up. The off-season [...]
If you play fantasy baseball in a points league it is only the third day of the season, and if you are a Yu Darvish of the Texas Rangers owner you are already pissed off. That’s right, instead of looking at the positive from Darvish’s almost perfect game on Tuesday night, let’s look at what [...]
Yu gotta be kidding me… It took just one crack of the bat to let down every Texas Rangers fan in the world on Tuesday night. But not starting pitcher Yu Darvish. After tossing a perfect game through 26 batters, Astros’ shortstop Marwin Gonzalez smacked a ground ball up the middle to end Darvish’s historic performance with two [...]
Over the last decade, there have been some very successful baseball players to come from Japan with big fantasy baseball impacts. Players like OF Ichiro Suzuki, OF Hideki Matsui, SP Daisuke Matsuzaka, and SP Hiroki Kuroda have all come to the MLB to put up very respectable numbers. The most recent example would be Texas Rangers’ Yu Darvish. Darvish [...]
The Milwaukee Brewers quietly signed outfielder Norichika Aoki last season to a team friendly two-year deal. Aoki had played his entire career in Japan for the Yakult Swallows of the Japan Central League, where he was a career .329 hitter. The 31-year old’s venture to America was overshadowed by the signings of pitcher Yu Darvish and [...]
The Fantasy Baseball season may have abruptly come to an end for many owners. However, this is the perfect time to go the fantasy baseball award winners and final thoughts for the 2012 season. American League Awards: AL MVP: OF Mike Trout, Los Angeles Angels AL CY Young: SP David Price, Tampa Bay Rays AL Rookie of Year: OF Mike [...]
Every Sunday I’ll be giving my preview for the week ahead for Fantasy Baseball. I’ll be taking a look at which players have performed the best over the past week, who you should avoid, the best games of the week, and some key two start pitchers to stream. Two start pitcher: Clayton Richard – He’s by [...]
The key to winning in Fantasy Baseball is being able to adapt in the middle of a season. Lance Berkman goes down with an injury? Albert Pujols unexpectedly can’t produce? You better be able to find a replacement, and fast. The easier choice is going with the veteran, but the best play is sometimes the [...]
Every Sunday I’ll be giving my preview for the week ahead for Fantasy Baseball. I’ll be taking a look at which players have performed the best over the past week, who you should avoid, the best games of the week, and some key two start pitchers to stream. Streaming Two Start Pitchers: Erik Bedard – [...]
In part one of our series, the focus was on rounds 1-5 of a Yahoo Fantasy Baseball public league draft. The first few rounds are fairly straight forward, and a lot of the picks aren’t remotely shocking. However it’s in these rounds that fantasy teams really start to separate themselves from the pack, and a [...]
