Alfonso Soriano: Fantasy-viable once again?

If you’re in Chicago, you know quite well of Soriano’s loud and floundering season in 2009. Some fans yelled that he was merely underperforming, although the logic of the matter was that Soriano dealt with lingering injury problems all year. It was a major outlier on his career of above average to very good offensive [...]

Is Ryan Dempster Underrated?

Ryan Dempster made the conversion from closer to starter for the 2008 season. This conversion was a success as he won 17 games with an ERA of 2.96. He followed up his 2008 season by posting an ERA of 3.65 for 2009. In 2009 he proved his season in 2008 was no fluke. You would [...]

Matt Holliday’s Impact

When Matt Holliday signed with the St. Louis Cardinals, almost every fan and baseball pundit more or less crowned the Cardinals as repeat champs of the National League Central. While I have to give the preseason edge to the Cardinals, I think this division shakes out to be a lot tighter than what most people [...]

Tony’s Top 10 2009 Fantasy Busts

Every season, there are always surprises in the MLB. The 2007 Rockies, 2009 Ben Zobrist, the 2008 Cubs getting swept out of the playoffs. All things nobody could have predicted to perfection. However, not all surprises are good and if you took any of these 10 guys on this list, chances are, you were cursing [...]

Money Not Well Spent

Vernon Wells signed a seven year $126 million dollar deal in December 2006 coming off a season where he posted an OPS of .899. The move was questionable at the time and it’s looking worse every day. This contract is arguably the worst in all of baseball. If I were the GM of a baseball [...]

A Plea for Milton Bradley

Milton Bradley has certainly been one of the most controversial Cubs players in recent memory. If you listened to media and fans you would think Bradley is the worst player on the team. If you look deeper into his numbers you would see that Milton was far from the worst player on the team in [...]