MLB Umpire Joe West Complains of Slow Gameplay

MLB Umpire Joe West recently called out the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees for their slow pace of play. Here was his statement: “They’re the two clubs that don’t try to pick up the pace. They’re two of the best teams in baseball. Why are they playing the slowest? It’s pathetic and [...]

Fantasy Baseball Planning Part II

Last 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 [...]

Top 50 Fantasy Relief Pitchers

Tony Andracki Bringingheat.com Lead Journalist 1. Jonathan Papelbon BOS Relief pitchers is one of the toughest positions to rank, because preseason, it’s near impossible to tell who will be best when the clock strikes midnight because so many things factor into the final decision—ERA, saves, strikeouts, wins, etc. It’s too hard to decipher whether a [...]

Best of the Best Winner Take All Tournament: Championship Match

We’ve finally reached the finals of the team of the decade tournament. It’s been an exciting week coming up with the dream match ups, and we hope you’ve enjoyed reading them as much as we’ve enjoyed writing them. As you all know, this decade has seen it’s good and bad with it’s ups and downs, [...]

Brett and Tony’s All-Decade Team

Bringingheat’s All-Decade team of the ‘00s Tony Andracki Brett Rosin This past decade of baseball has been one for the ages. From record-setting personal seasons (Barry Bonds’ 73 home runs in 2001) to walk-off playoff game victories (See: David Ortiz circa 2004 or Luis Gonzalez in the ’01 World Series) and from the Mitchell Report [...]

Lackey Being Fitted for Pin Stripes?

John Lackey picked a heck of an offseason to become an unrestricted free agent. Being arguably the only ace type starter on the market, it’s pretty obvious he’s going to get an AJ Burnett like package or better, the main question is gong to be….who gives it to him? There’s a lot of hype out [...]

World Series Preview: Phillies vs Yankees

With the World Series set, it’s time to break down all of the positions to see who has the upper hand in the 2009 fall classic. Catcher Phillies: Carlos Ruiz. Carlos Ruiz is your prototypical defensive catcher whom you don’t really care about offensively, as long as he calls a good game for your pitching [...]