Fantasy Baseball Dugout

We don’t normally scout the Japanese baseball leagues for hot baseball wives, but Saeko Darvish caught our eye. Darvish is the wife of Nippon Ham Fighters’ pitcher Yu Darvish.

In an e-mail sent to their e-mail database around 4:30 EST today, the Sporting News announced that they will no longer be offering fantasy games, including 2010 fantasy baseball. According to the e-mail, this decision comes “due to a shift in our core business strategy,” said Publisher Jeff Price in the e-mail. The removal of [...]

The Tampa Bay Rays may be outside favorites to return to the World Series this year, but the names that decorate their roster aren’t likely to sneak up on anyone in a fantasy baseball draft. Of all the players on the Rays who will play significant roles in the success of fantasy baseball owners this [...]

Below is our first 2010 review of the top three hitters and pitchers in each standard 5×5 fantasy baseball category during 2010 Spring Training. Judging a hitter or pitcher on Spring Training performance is difficult because both hitters and hurlers tend to face some competition that won’t make an Opening Day roster. Spring Training stats [...]

Fantasy Baseball Auction Leagues take fantasy baseball to a higher level than traditional draft leagues.  There’s an extra degree of strategy that doesn’t exist in a traditional draft league. In auction leagues, you can’t simply grab one of the magazines at your local newsstand and follow its recommendations, because there is no upfront, defined strategy. [...]

Placido Polanco is a natural number two hitter.  Over his career, Polanco has struck out just once per 17.5 at bats which ranks him first among active major leaguers in being most difficult to strikeout.  Polanco’s contact ability is a great addition to a powerful Phillies lineup that can hit for power, but also strikes [...]

by BallparkBob Everybody is looking for a sleeper in their fantasy baseball draft.  Whether you win the fantasy baseball league or not, having bragging rights for finding that rookie sensation is a nice consolation prize, even if you don’t end up winning the pennant. While finding that unknown diamond in the rough is great for [...]