Worth the Slip or Great Pick?

Jake Peavy has been a fantasy stud. A pitcher you can almost always rely on to carry your pitching staff to a league title. However, most leagues are seeing Peavy fall to the middle rounds, or even later rounds depending on the league’s depth. Supposedly, everyone is afraid that Jake Peavy can’t possibly put up [...]

Blue Jays Make an Under the Radar Signing

The Blue Jays hired sabermetrics expert Tom Tango as a consultant. I think this is a good move for the Blue Jays. This move should make them more competitive in the AL’s toughest division.

Rangers look to fill utility role with addition of Blanco

Andres Blanco’s skill-set isn’t very unique, but he fits into a nice role in Texas. He will be a reserve off the Ranger’s bench in 2010, if his health permits. Blanco has spent his Major league career with the Royals and Cubs until just recently being traded from Chicago for a player to be named [...]

Tony Boy’s 15 Fantasy Guarantees

Tony Andracki Bringingheat Lead Journalist Tommy: Let’s think about this for a sec, Ted. Why would somebody put a guarantee on a box? Hmmm, very interesting. Ted Nelson, Customer: Go on, I’m listening. Tommy: Here’s the way I see it, Ted. Guy puts a fancy guarantee on a box ’cause he wants you to feel [...]

Division Realignment

Anyone 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, [...]

Volquez’s road to health

With his monumental upside still intact, Edinson Volquez is working hard to get back to his 2008-form. The former “uber-prospect” from the Rangers minor league system was a major force to be reckoned with in his first full-season as a part of the Cincinnati Reds rotation. After getting moved from Texas to the Reds in [...]

Barometer In Seattle

In 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 [...]

Need for speed? Get it cheap

With most fantasy drafts already completed, or soon to be underway, many owners will find themselves lacking in a particular category. If that category is speed, the below three players are cheap, highly reliable options to solidify your steals, and can often be found on most waiver wires. Don’t start trading away your pitching and [...]

Joe Mauer, Minnesota Twins ink blockbuster deal

Let all the rumors cease. Let all the skeptics be silenced. And let all front offices sigh with disappointment. Joe Mauer is staying in Minnesota—for a long time. In a massive eight-year, $184 million deal, the 27-year old catcher is slotted to spend presumably the rest of his playing career in the Twin Cities—the deal [...]

Washington adds his name to Mt. Rushmore of sports screw-ups

Rangers manager Ron Washington has tested positive for cocaine. Everybody who was somewhat sober on St. Patty’s Day remembers the day-long coverage of it. Yeah, OK, there have been countless other screw-ups in sports lately. Tiger Woods is the obvious headliner. Mark McGwire, Alex Rodriguez, the list goes on and on. But who would have [...]

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