Archive for April, 2010

Christie Brinkley: Baseball Fan

Friday, April 30th, 2010

To the best of our knowledge, supermodel Christie Brinkley has never been one of Baseball’s Hottest Wives.  To the best of our knowledge, Christie Brinkley has never dated Derek Jeter. That being said, we found a picture of Christie in a Red Sox jersey and thought that justified her inclusion on FBD.  Heck, who’s kidding, [...]

Fantasy Baseball Stats: Analyzing Net Stolen Bases

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

by BallparkBob Picking up stolen bases used to be easy.  Just look at the highest SB stat and you had your man. Active Lifetime Stolen Base Leaders 1.  Juan Pierre – 468 2.  Omar Vizquel – 389 3.  Johnny Damon – 375 4.  Carl Crawford -369 5.  Luis Castillo – 365 6.  Bobby Abreu – 351 [...]

Listen to FBD on ESPN Radio

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Listen to Fantasy Baseball Dugout editors Bob Bentz and Jonathan Bentz on Spadora on Sports and ESPN Radio from April 17, 2010.

MLB Player Twitter Ramblings: 4/12 – 4/16

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

Each week, we span the Twitterverse of active MLB baseball players to bring you the latest MLB buzz and ramblings being spit by some of the most socially active Major Leaguers in 140 characters. This week, we welcomed Angels outfielder @bobkellyabreu and Indians starter @dhuff11 to the MLB twitterverse. Of course, if you always want [...]

Yankees Playah Derek Jeter

Saturday, April 17th, 2010

Ever since we (ok, our female readers) named Derek Jeter the Hottest Baseball Player in the MLB, he seems to have found a new level of confidence. There’s no doubt that Derek Jeter knows how to pick it…and I don’t mean at shortstop in Fenway Park.  This guy has hit for the Cycle about five [...]

Week 1 MLB Power Rankings

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Fantasy Baseball Dugout is proud to have one of the six voting spots in Yardbarker’s Blogger Poll for MLB Power Rankings 2010. In addition to providing our insight on ranking each MLB team 1-30, we also monitor the AL West each week and drop a little insight on each team. See below for our week [...]

Strasburg, Chapman Debut

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Sunday marked the debut of two future fantasy baseball superstars. Stephen Strasburg made his long awaited debut for the Harrisburg Senators in front of a standing-room only crowd of 7,877 in Altoona.  Strasburg pitched 5 innings and struckout 8 Curve hitters (I wonder if they swung at “curves”?).  Strasburg also gave up 4 hits, walked [...]