Fantasy Baseball Dugout

In December, 2007, the Marlins and Tigers made a blockbuster trade that sent pitcher Dontrelle Willis and Miguel Cabrera to the Tigers.  In return, the Marlins picked up Cameron Maybin–a young centerfielder with a ton of talent and potential. Maybin, just 21-years-old, will get his chance to show what he can do this season as [...]

While they aren’t calling it “MLB Open” like they did last year, MLB.com is once again offering free head-to-head fantasy baseball leagues with a $10,000 grand prize in 2009. 2009 fantasy baseball on MLB.com is pretty straight forward: League Sizes: 8-team, 10-team, 12-team Game Format Options: Head-To-Head Points Playoffs: Top 4 Teams / 2 Weeks [...]

Who will be the Phillies # 5 starter? There’s no doubt who the first four will be.  Cole Hamels proved himself to be one of the main money pitchers in the MLB last year.  Then, there’s Brett Myers who came back with a vengeance after being demoted to the minors in mid-season.  There’s ageless Jamie [...]

Somehow we missed the biggest news to come out of Baltimore Orioles camp last month while they were busy making all those trades with the Chicago Cubs. Second baseman Brian Roberts got married. To that news, Fantasy Baseball Dugout is proud to announce the latest entry into our upcoming 2009 Baseball’s Hottest Wives contest – [...]

Kris Benson, husband of pitcher Anna Benson, has signed a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers.  He will be in major league spring training camp today. Benson has seen his better days.  After starring at Clemson, Benson was the first pick in the 1996 major league draft.  He was also the Dick Howser award winner [...]

Manny Ramirez is not in Dodger camp and Juan Pierre may be the only one happy about it. Pierre is a lifetime .300 hitter and the active major leaguer with the most career stolen bases with 429 lifetime.  In 2007, Pierre was the hardest player in baseball to strikeout at just 5.5%.  His 64 stolen [...]

Ichiro Suzuki participated in a bullpen session during practice for Team Japan last week. Ichiro threw 56 pitches, including 21 curve balls, in the bullpen session.  Team Japan manager Tatsunori Hata said he might use Ichiro in emergency situations during the three week long World Baseball Classic.