It’s lonely on this pitcher’s fantasy baseball bandwagon. Join me?
It's happening again.
In our work chat room, Nicholas Minnix, my informed but unwittingly cruel colleague, brandished the name of a certain erratic starting pitcher that has teased fantasy baseball players for years. Naturally, we soon threw around some positive aspects that, in a perfect world, could prompt this pitcher to rebound from another dismal season.
"... just hate seeing ALL THAT TALENT wasted on a 5.00-plus ERA," Minnix said of this arm. "Actually, with a normal HR/9 last year, he'd have been aight ..."
"His tombstone is going to read 'THIS is the year, I can feel it.'"
Nick was leading us down a dark path. Either way, I'm now stuck traveling that road of redemption for ... Tap your mouse here for more »
Who are Yu … Darvish?
Hope Yu is more like Lewis ...
Imports always feature more allure - bootleg concerts, beers, women ... there's just something untapped about them we desire to explore. If some reports hold up, the fantasy baseball world might get another one next season: Japanese pitcher Yu Darvish, who has posted a torrid career for the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters and is considered by many the best hurler prospect ever in his country. Commence the hype machine. While watching him pitch, it's hard to pause it.
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Nick Swisher still a slick outfielder pick
Nick Swisher best exemplifies why I prefer to wait on outfielders in a mixed draft. Lookie: 25-plus dingers, 80-plus RBIs, 85-ish runs - one of a bunch of options in the late rounds that can help fill out the most abundant offensive position. Tap your mouse here for more »
Carl Crawford and more Hot Stove sizzles
The Boston Red Sox's latest coup came in the form of speedy outfielder Carl Crawford.
Maybe Fenway Park knocks off some homers, but the rest of his fantasy contributions should remain stable. Tap your mouse here for more »
Adam Dunn and Jose Lopez find new launch pads
Not a bad place for Adam Dunn to wind up, eh? Well, it doesn't really matter where you go when you have that pop, anyway.
He'll have a better surrounding cast with the Chicago White Sox, even if Paul Konerko signs elsewhere. Hello, runs boost. The 31-year-old has stable power indicators and can still take a walk like few others. As long as you can deal with the corrected BA at around .260, buy away. Tap your mouse here for more »
Fantasy Baseball Face-to-Face: Phil Hughes
Hey, Phil Hughes. Not Philip, I get that. How ya doin'? Ah, right, it's Game 6, and you just got the hook. So the rest of the New York Yankees are probably as nervous as I am.
Now that you're on the pine, I want to chat a sec, K?
I don't like your four-seam fastball. Opponents do, though.
There. I said it. People say, quick like a Band-Aid, right? Tap your mouse here for more »
MLB League Championship Series previews
Will this year's Fall Classic be a 2009 rematch ... or Bud Selig's worst nightmare?
Sorry, there are no polls available at the moment.
The 2010 League Championship Series pit the defending pennant winners against two upstarts.
Are you ready for some … more baseball? OK, so there's football, too
I worry often about the New York Yankees rotation when I'm off the fantasy baseball clock - oh, wait, that never really happens, does it?
Anyway, even as fantasy football season is starting (shameless plug for our Draft Guide - last-minute folk - and Week 1 rankings), don't forget about fall baseball: Tap your mouse here for more »
Another Deep Thought by Tim McCarver
Tim McCarver, always a bastion of intelligent discussion, let loose another gem last week that won't be repeated in this space. However, a response - and another opportunity to bash McCarver - is necessary.
Sticking with relevant analogies and facts, New York Yankees management isn't writing Joe Torre out of their history books. They're moving on, especially since he's managing elsewhere in the bigs, on a team that they almost met in the World Series last year. Heck, they just played him a few weeks ago, and the YES Network certainly didn't dismiss the past. Tap your mouse here for more »
Welcome to the Javier Vazquez Support Group
So you drafted Javier Vazquez, too. Welcome.
This is a safe zone. We're all friends here. There is no judgment. Only consolation and the search for answers. My story starts off like everyone else's. Tap your mouse here for more »
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