With spring training winding down, teams are scrambling to finalize their rosters to “Go North” for the upcoming season. Likewise, fantasy owners have to make decisions on keepers, and who to target based on what has taken place in the Grapefruit and Cactus league action. This brings me to the annual “who are these guys” list of [...]
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Ready for launch on the 2011 season
Posted in MLB, National League, Spring Training on March 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I used the Rick Wolf/Glenn Colton auction draft model
Posted in fantasy, Hitting, LABR, MLB, National League, Pitching, Rotisserie, Rotoworld on March 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The League of Alternate Baseball Reality (LABR) includes experts from the fantasy sports industry. The Rick Wolf and Glenn Colton ownership team has 3 championships in ten years in the NL only league. I looked at the Wolf/Colton roster composition , and decided to use their model as I approached the Carolina Baseball League (CBL) Auction draft (03/13/2011). [...]
XM Baseball Sport Radio
Posted in American League, Around the Web, fantasy, Minors, MLB, National League, Rookies, Rotisserie on March 8, 2011 | 5 Comments »
After being on Sirius a few years ago, I finally made it back to Satellite radio. This time on the XM wing of the company. XM 175: http://www.facebook.com/MLBNetworkRadio http://www.Twitter.com/MLBNetworkRadio First Pitch Weekdays 7 am – 10 am ET Jim Memolo and Rob Dibble Power Alley Jim Duquette and Kevin Kennedy Weekdays 10 am – 2 pm ET Inside [...]
Prospect Grand Prix 2011
Posted in Around the Web, Minors, MLB, Opening Day, Prospects, Rookie Of Year, Rookies on March 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Unless your name is John Orelud, each baseball player has to go down to the minor leagues, and work his way up the food chain. It is not an easy journey for a player trying to force his way onto a major league roster. Every step along the way, the minor league players performance [...]
Logic Restored For Mets
Posted in Mets, MLB on October 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Mets didn’t just make a regime change on Friday with the hiring of Sandy Alderson as their new general manager. The Wilpon’s have brought on board what will amount to a installing a complete new blueprint on how the organization moves forward. It will consist of a team of a thinkers led by Alderson [...]
Deep League NL Prospects 2010
Posted in Minors, MLB, Prospects on April 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Each year I read all the minor league resources I can get a hold of. A comprehensive list of web sites on the minor league players to know is sure to include Prospect Junkies, MLB Fantasy Prospects , Prospect Insider , Project Prospect , Rays Prospects ,Mets Minors , Braves Minors ,Scouting Book and Johns [...]
Opening Day Cheers and Jeers
Posted in American League, MLB, National League, Opening Day on April 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It was opening day for the 2010 season for a handful of teams. Let’s not get carried away with success with one day of statistics, as we all remember the “Emilio Bonifacio” on the highlight reel last opening day. He brought back memories of Tuffy Rhodes with his offensive outburst, only to be a footnote [...]
Projected NL Central 25 Man Rosters
Posted in Albert Pujols, Astros, Brewers, Cardinals, Cubs, MLB, National League, Pirates, Reds on April 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The final rosters do not have to be finalized until Sunday afternoon, but looking at what we know today, here’s how I see it in the NL Central: Pos Cards Astros Pirates Cubs Brewers Reds C Molina Towles Doumit Soto Zaun Hernandez 1B Pujols Blum Clement Lee Fielder Votto 2B Schumaker Matsui Imamura Fontenot Weeks [...]
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 [...]
