As the draft season gets started, everyone is making their preparations to be as they call “in the money”. There is no exact science on how to get ready, but here is some advice from Chris Liss on “How I Get Ready for My Drafts”: filing every player into a by-position spread sheet. When I [...]
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Expert Advice From LABR folk
Posted in Around the Web, Rotisserie on March 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
LABR 2010 is Here
Posted in Around the Web, Rotisserie on March 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The 2010 LABR (League of Alternative Baseball Reality) drafts are taking place this weekend in Arizona. Yesterday, the American League branch of the LABR took place. Today, the National League does its auction draft. I tracked the results of the 2009 draft as various precincts began reporting the results. I will do the same this [...]
NL LABR Sandlot Shrink (Bob Radomski) Draft Results
Posted in Around the Web, Rotisserie on March 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Sandlot Shrink is represented by Bob Radomski in the NL LABR. Bob Radomski represents the company in USA Today’s LABR league and also helps with the “Ask the Experts” column and the mock drafts. He has participated in numerous fantasy and rotisserie contests and leagues in various formats since 1989, winning several of them. [...]
AL LABR Sandlot Shrink (Larry Schechter) Draft Results
Posted in Around the Web, Rotisserie on March 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The Sandlot Shrink is represented by Larry Schechter in the AL LABR. In 2004, Larry began contributing to the Sandlot Shrink (www.sandlotshrink.com) as a baseball writer, “ask the experts” panelist, and representing them in the Fantasy Sports Trade Association (FSTA) expert’s league. In 2005, Larry won a triple crown of sorts, by winning the FSTA [...]
Things Going Wright
Posted in Around the Web, Mets, Minors, Prospects on March 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As the Mets had one of their worst offensive seasons in team history in 2009 scoring only 671 runs, with only 95 HRs. As, compared with 799 runs and 172 HRs the previous year. We have former Mets executive Tony Bernazard to blame, but when David Wright goes yard to the right side for the [...]
Spring Numbers Kick In
Posted in Around the Web, MLB on March 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Heyward turning heads but will Braves learn from 2009 with Jordan Schafer? Wren: “It’s not how he performs, necessarily, here that’s going to determine whether he’s on this club or not. It’s, if at the end of spring training, collectively, we all feel like it’s the best thing for him and the organization. And if [...]
Get Your Baseball Publication Here
Posted in Around the Web, MLB, Projections, Rays, Sabermetrics on March 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Those of you who have been following my site for a while know I am big time into fantasy baseball. In past years, my favorite resource for getting ready for the draft and the baseball season is USA Today’s must see LABR draft issue. The LABR issue comes out in late March. Until then, there [...]
Names to Know 2010 Edition
Posted in American League, Around the Web, Minors, MLB, National League, Opening Day, Projections, Prospects on February 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Each year, USA Today comes out with their 100 names you need to know for the upcoming season. The list is different from typical prospect lists. Its typically a good resource for fantasy leagues, as these are players who have a good chance to make contributions for the upcoming season: These aren’t necessarily baseball’s 100 [...]
Learning new tricks
Posted in Around the Web, Astros, Defense, MLB, Sabermetrics on February 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Each year, on the internet and in the blogosphere , through the use of collaboration, new ideas and methodologies are brought to the forefront. It was most recently, I learned about Chris Dial’s OPD . That came about after I was searching for 2009 PMR data, and was surprised to see that they were not [...]
New Year 20-10 Tape Measure Blasts
Posted in Around the Web, Free Agent Signing, Sabermetrics on January 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Over the Christmas holidays, the N.Y. Mets unwrapped their Bay City Rollers gift. When one looks back at Jason Bay’s resume, you have to like his numbers. HR: 2nd in AL 36 TOB :13th in AL with 245 TB 15th in AL with 285 OPS: 8th in AL: 921 On the defensive side of the [...]
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